Luna Hunted
Chapter 9

Kara

“You wanted me,” Titus said with all his alpha arrogance.

D*mn him, he was right. I wanted to either k!ss him or slap the self-satisfied smirk off his face. Maybe I’d do both.

“You were also using me.”

“I was not.” I folded my arms over my ch3st.

“You were.”

He copied my stance. “You understood I was an alpha. You knew once I claimed you, I’d be within my rights to fight for you. You also understood if Garth trespassed on my land, I had double the reason to kill him. You used me to kill Garth.”

I ran my warm tongue over my frozen l!ps. He was right. I had used him. But what he didn’t realize was that if this was my only reason, I would have sought an alpha years ago.

“Go ahead and run, Kara. It’s what you’re good at.”

“Maybe I will.” I dropped my arms.

“Go right ahead. I’ll just chase you.”

“Like Garth did?” I choked out.

“No, nothing like Garth,” he said. “I won’t chase you for years to torment you. I’ll chase you to catch you.

To show you what it means to be my mate. And you’ll love every second.”

I raised an eyebrow.

Titus stood in the blowing wind, his sable hair tufting around his ears. White flakes of snow fell on his naked, well-muscled flesh, and he didn’t shiver once while I trembled.

I had shaken since the second I stepped outside from fear, adrenaline, and now from the ar0usal Titus invoked in me with his presence and his words. I liked the idea of him chasing me. To cleanse the last few years of running from my mind. Of making my need to run into something more. Something pleasurable with him.

With frozen fingers, I unbuttoned my jacket. Titus watched me with an intense expression as I removed my clothing piece by piece.

“I need to run, Titus. I’ve shackled my wolf for so long. Garth found me because of my wolf. I need to feel truly free.”

His hand dropped to his thickening c0ck and stroked the length. My body heated with anticipation. Even in the cold, my core was hot and aching. I appreciated what Titus would do with me once he caught me, and I craved the idea of running even more.

I shifted into my wolf form and raced across the snow. Titus was behind me in an instant. His gray wolf form was more noticeable than my white fur in the storm. I ran. Not from fear this time. I ran with freedom. I bounded over the landscape as a wolf, loving every second of the joy and exhilaration. And more, I loved Titus chasing me. I treasured the comfort of his scent close to me. Even though he hadn’t completely protected me from Garth, he had saved me.

He’d killed Garth for me. If I’d stayed inside his house as he wanted, I might have been safe. I might not have gotten the backhand over my cheek. And I might not have seen Titus maul him to death.

That had been so satisfying to witness. To watch Garth’s b***d seeping into the snow from his lifeless body had filled me with so much glee, I thought I might be a little crazy.

Titus nudged me in the side. I changed direction at his prod, and we raced up a mountain. Another nudge from Titus and we ducked through a narrow opening in the snow and stone and entered a cave. I dashed down the dirt track deep into the mountain.

The cave grew gloomier until I stopped short at a thermal spring in an enormous cavern. Above, pale beams of muted sunlight filtered in through the skylight. Shifting in an instant, I splashed into the steaming water. Titus paced the edge in his wolf form, his l!ps drawn back.

“I thought you were going to catch me?” I taunted as my heart pounded from the exertion of the run, but also from the alpha waiting to make me his again.

Titus shifted into the magnificent specimen of a man he was. As he made his way into the water, his muscles bulged in a mesmerizing display under his tattoos. He gathered me in his firm arms, enveloping me with his strength, his passion, his alpha essence.

“Love,” he g*****d a second before his l!ps landed on mine.

We k!ssed in a frenzy that had us stroking and car*ssing each other at the same pace as our tongues. My hands ran the length of his back and down lower over the globes of his as*s, dragging him closer until his er3ction nudged me in the stomach. His hands cupped my bre*sts and pinched my n!pples over and over again until the taut peaks ached and shot pleasure straight to my core.

In a swift move, he hoisted me out of the water and laid me on the edge of the damp rocks. Fortunately, the inside of the cave was warm and steamy, the spring a heating system to the cavern. Titus spread my legs and buried two fingers in my slick heat.

“You want me, admit it.”

“Yes.” I panted as he massaged the spot deep inside me until stars danced in my vision.

“For more than just for s*x.” His gaze met mine.

I couldn’t look away. He demanded my answer as he’d commanded an org*sm from me with the way he stroked me. The way he cared for me. Gave me what I wanted. And would give me everything I longed for.

“I want a family again.” I sighed as his thumb stroked my cl!t.

“I’ll give you everything you want. You’re mine, Kara. Mine to look after. Mine to protect. And mine to love.”

I grabbed his arm, digging my fingers into his firm muscles.

“What?” he asked.

“You want to love me?”

A smile stretched his l!ps. “Mating with you implies that.”

“I didn’t think I’d have love in my life ever again.”

His fingers circled and massaged the bundle of nerves until moisture coated his fingers and my legs shook.

“You’ll have love and so much more.”

The org*sm fluttered into existence, much like the tiny spark of love building between us, and then the release exploded in blinding clarity.

My muscles contracted and spasmed. My back arched off the rocks as I clamped around his fingers buried deep inside me.

Titus

“I’ll never tire of feeling you come,” I said, withdrawing my fingers and sucking them clean.

Her legs flopped open. Her pink pvssy dripped with her juices, filling the cave with the aroma of her arousal. Just from looking at her, my c0ck was harder than it’d ever been as it waited for me to fill her. I fed my c0ck into her, watching each ripple of pleasure light over her face. Her hands clawed at my arms until I pinned them above her head. I wanted to wipe away every memory that as*sh0le had implanted in her head.

She froze for a second until I thrust my h**s. Her eyes widened with a dazed glassiness. Luna, she was glorious, taking my c0ck like a good mate.

I f****d her hard, pinned as she was to the ground, but I watched her carefully to make sure she was enjoying it, loving me inside her. And she was.

She couldn’t fake her soft m0ans or the tight clenching of her muscles as another org*sm built inside her.

I shifted her hands into one of mine, then licked the fingers of my other hand and rubbed her greedy cl!t.

She bucked underneath me.

“Titus, Titus.” She panted, chanting my name.

Her sounds were perfect. Just like her. She came quick and hard, her muscles contracting around me. I pumped through them, drawing out her org*sm, and as she gradually came back down, I let go and roared my release inside the cavern. My voice echoed through the cave as my c0ck pulsed and jetted inside her. The base swelled, knotting us together again.

She gasped and came again, clawing at my ch3st, mindless to what she was doing with how hard she was coming. I brushed her damp hair from her face and k!ssed her l!ps before dragging her into the water to straddle my lap with us knotted together.

After a while, her pvssy stopped spasming, and she slumped in my arms as though her limbs had no bones. I loved knowing I’d made her so relaxed. So satiated, she didn’t want to move. Not that she could with my knot.

“Will the knot happen every time?” she asked in awe.

“No.” I chuckled. “It only happens when I want it to.”

“Oh,” she whispered. “So, every time?” A delicate pink blush stole up to her cheeks as I gazed down at her.

D*mn, she was adorable.

“If that’s what you want, love, then yes.”

“I think I’d like that very much.” She grinned.

I took her mouth with mine. She was mine. Now and forever. I would join us for the next few hours, but she’d just admitted she wanted the knotting every time, which she may as well have said she wanted me forever. I’d take it. Take her. Any and every way I wanted.

She was my mate.