Remembering her frustration that night and fearing he'd subject her to that again, she wriggled her hips against him.
He growled low at her ear, "Do you want more?"
"Y-yes."
"Go tae your hands again...let me give it tae you."
As soon as she did, he clutched her hips, slowly withdrew, then eased deeper within her. She cried out, this time in pleasure. When she arched her back and worked her knees wide again, he groaned her name in answer, but his voice had changed. Still as deep but guttural, grating. Almost...snarling.
Another thrust inside her, this time more forceful. Groans, growling. Hers as well?
Thoughts were growing dim as the pleasure increased. Each measured withdrawal made her whimper, each time his skin slapped against hers as he bucked into her made her cry out for more. Her lips curled when the air charged with electricity, and she gloried in the sky, in the scents, in Lachlain wedged deep inside her. He stretched down over her back, and she felt his mouth on her neck. Felt his bite, but not like hers, not piercing the skin, but she reveled in it as if she'd accomplished it.
"Going tae come so hard," he snarled against her skin, "you'll feel it like a thrust of my cock."
She climaxed once more, screaming in ecstasy to the sky, throwing her head back to his shoulder, wanting his mouth at her neck.
"Ah, God, yes," he yelled, then returned to his bite... She did feel him ejaculate, forcefully, pumping his seed so hotly inside her.
Yet when he was finished, he didn't stop thrusting.
He'd come harder than he ever had, but felt no relief. If anything, the need intensified. "I canna stop."
He tossed her to her back, pinning her hands above her, still driving into her. Her hair fanned out, haloing her head, and the scent of it exploded within him. He swayed from the power of it. He was claiming her. At last. He was inside his mate. Emmaline. He gazed down at her face. Her eyelids were shuttered, her lips glistening. So beautiful it pained him.
The moon, completely risen now, fired light, casting silver over her body as she writhed beneath him.
Any control he'd had was disappearing, an animal feeling of possession taking its place.
Possession. Claim.
He could feel the moon on his skin as he never had before and his thoughts came frenzied, ungovernable.
But she'd run from him. She'd thought to leave him. Never.
Control slipping...Christ, no, he was...turning, fangs sharpening. To mark her flesh. Claws to seize her hips when he spent into her body over and over.
Possess her completely.
She was his. He'd found her. He deserved her. Deserved to have everything he was about to take from her.
Plunging into her soft, giving body with the moon at his back. Pleasure as he'd never known.
Make her surrender everything.
Licking, biting, suckling her, slaking his lust on his mate. Unable to tamp down yells, growls, his need to taste her wet flesh. Too rough with her. Needed to f**k her harder. Couldn't stop driving into her.
With the last of his will, he shoved himself away from her.
Her claws rent the ground in frustration, her hips undulating for him. "Why?" she cried.
"Canna hurt you." His voice was not his own.
"Please...come back inside me."
"You want this? Like I am?"
"Yes...need you...exactly as you are. Please, Lachlain! I feel it too."
The moon had claimed her too? At her words, he gave himself over to it.
His vision went hazy, seeing only the silver of her eyes as they stared up into his and the attracting deep pink of her plump lips and ni**les. He stalked over her, caging her in with his body, compelled to lean his head down to tongue and suck her ni**les, then take her mouth. He clutched her from beneath, holding her in place as he rose up on his knees. "Mine," he growled with a brutal thrust.
As though out of his body, he heard the low, guttural sounds erupting from his chest, the snarls that accompanied each frenzied thrust. Her br**sts bounced, and his eyes were riveted by the tight, hard points, wet from his furious suckling. He felt her claws dig into his skin as the pressure in his c**k built and built. Her head thrashed.
"Mine..." She thought to leave him? He f**ked her with all his strength.
She accepted it, trying to meet him.
He cupped the back of her neck, yanking her up to him. "Surrender to me."
Her eyes flashed open when she came again. Dazed. Mirrors. He could feel her squeezing around his cock, milking him.
When he followed, yelling out, his seed shot from him, pumping into her...hot...relentless. All he comprehended was that she arched her back and spread her legs wider for him as though she loved the feeling of it.
At moonset, when she could come no more, she fell limp. With a last shuddering groan he fell on top of her, but it wasn't uncomfortable.
Finally he planted a knee and raised up, turning her to face him. He lay on his side and brushed her hair from her lip. Now that the night's frenzy had passed, she felt an overwhelming joy that he'd claimed her, as if she'd waited as long as he had.
She turned to her back and stretched, gazing up at the sky, then to the trees just beyond them. The grass was cool beneath her and the air was as well, but she felt burning hot. As if her eyes couldn't stray for long, she turned back to stare up at his face once more. She felt connected to everything, as though she belonged, a feeling that had always eluded her.
Contentment surged through her, and she wanted to weep with relief that he'd caught her and still wanted her. She found she couldn't stop touching him, as if she feared he would disappear, and wondered how she could possibly have acted cruelly toward him.
She recalled that she'd been angry with him and had run, but couldn't quite recall why. She could never stay angry with a man who was looking at her like he was.