Chapter 40

Her skin was warm, Jayden's body heat lingering on her, and her hands trembled as her blood buzzed under her skin.

Jayden confidently removed his clothes, as why wouldn't he be? Bodies like his graced magazine covers.

Kira was more hesitant, shyly looking away when Jayden helped her out of her jeans. It was silly; they had seen each other naked in the woods.

Yet, here in the low light of the bedroom, everything felt different.

She tried to avoid Jayden's gaze.

"Beautiful," Jayden whispered.

His hand moved from her calf to her thigh, to her hips.

"I still can't believe you ended up in my town."

"I still can't believe you wooed me by dropping a dead deer in my lap," Kira chuckled.

"Let's not bring prey into bed," Jayden groaned. "I was in my... wolf mind."

"That reminds me," Kira said, her breath hitching as Jayden stroked up her ribs. "I promised we'd talk about the Alpha thing during the full moon."

Jayden grinned. "We did agree on that."

"You'd better show me how Alpha you can be, then," she said, throwing an arm across her face with a groan, never imagining she'd say such a thing aloud.

Jayden didn't laugh. He smiled, showing white teeth, and pulled her down the bed until she was flat on her back, breathless.

Jayden dominated her in his kisses. His Alpha was clearly excited. He nipped at her lip and Kira responded, grazing her teeth against his jaw as he kissed her all over her face.

Kira's back arched as Jayden explored her body, running his hand down to stroke her arousal. 

Everything moved in rhythm – his strokes, his kisses, his breath.

When Jayden used his finger on her, she moaned, unable to even arch her back enough to accommodate the lightning that ran through her navel and up her spine at the stimulation.

"I like that sound," Jayden said, thumbing over her until she moaned louder.

Her legs opened automatically, inviting him, and Jayden smiled as he examined the different ways her body reacted to him. 

He sucked a mark at her neck, one that wouldn’t fade fast, and she buried her hand in his hair, holding him there.

It was an Alpha's nature, she thought, to mark his mate as his own.

“Are you sure you want to go all the way?” Jayden asked again.

“Of course I’m sure,” She replied.

Jayden's calloused hands moved expertly, almost too much for Kira's sensitive nub. But she liked to think she had a high tolerance for such things. It reminded her that Jayden was her opposite, her favorite opposite.

Jayden sat back and grabbed the bottle of lube he'd prepared, and Kira propped herself up on her elbows to watch. She had seen Jayden unclothed before, but it was different when he was hard. 

Kira didn’t usually compare sizes, but it would be a disservice to Jayden not to think about how big he was.

Jayden's length twitched in his hand as if he felt her stare.

“Does it come with being the Alpha, being huge?” She asked, voice casual.

She was sure she saw Jayden’s length twitch in his hand. His ears turned red.

“Which answer would you find sexier?”

“That’s cheating.”

Jayden fisted his member and made sure that she watched, holding her gaze. “I don’t think it’s a prerequisite. I guess I’m just blessed that way.”

“Interesting,” muses Kira.

She cut off from her smart-talk when Jayden pushed her thigh up to her chest and rubbed a finger then two over her wet core, using lube. The roughness sent a thrill up her spine and a knot curled temptingly in her navel. 

Well, Kira did make him promise to go all Alpha on her. She wasn’t complaining. The roughness was a reminder that Jayden was her opposite, her favorite opposite. 

Jayden managed to be gentle with her, never hurting her, and rough in the way he folded her up at the same time. 

The contrast almost had her eyes rolling up before he was even inside her.

“You look so good spread out for me, baby,” Jayden gritted against her ear while he worked a third finger past her entrance, stretching her to take his length.

If it weren’t Jayden, Kira would be intimidated, but she knew her boyfriend would take his time over this. She trusted him.

The thought made a fuzzy cloud descend over her mind and her body relaxed. She trusted him. 

He’d never trusted someone the way she trusted Jayden. It wasn’t the first time she’d slept with someone, but it was the first time she’d been intimate with someone.

She let Jayden have her body and her mind, opened up with a vulnerability to him that made her feel happy and dazed, like there was no place she’d rather be.

“Okay?” Jayden whispered.

“Feels – feels so good,” she moaned,

“Can’t wait to feel you around me,” Jayden breathed.

Kira had to wait. She had to wait with mewls of pleasure while Jayden took her apart with his fingers, brushing over all of the sweetest spots that had her moans heightening in pitch, on and on until he was satisfied that she would be able to take him.  

By the time he finished, Kira thought she had already lost all of her grip on reality; she had certainly lost her grip on words.

When Jayden asked if she was ready, she just nodded and nodded, desperate. Shit, did she look needy?

“I love you,” Jayden reminded her.

The words were like cool water on her hot skin. When Jayden pressed inside her, she wrapped her arms around his back and she was sure her nails dug into the muscles but Jayden didn’t wince.

Their lips caught in a messy kiss, punctuated by Kira’s gasps. She’d never felt a stretch like that before.  

She arched her back but Jayden just took hold of her body like he’d shape her however he wanted, a sculptor.

He asked three more  times whether she was okay.

It wasn’t easy for her to answer. She didn’t want words when feeling was so much better. Their bodies tangled as one, making such a mess of the bed that Kira reached for the pillow to throw away and the sheets made a jumbled mess around her ankles.  

When Jayden was fully sheathed he nipped at her ear and let his tongue and lips linger on her warm skin.

To show him that she was ready for more, she rolled her hips and Jayden exhaled, eyes fluttering shut at the level of sensation. 

Kira felt like she’d been split in two and put back together all at once, like her body was made and remade to receive him. 

The knot of excitement in her navel vibrated with pleasure every time that he shifted, and Kira knew she wouldn’t last like this.

“Please,” she moaned, and she had just a second of rational enough thought to think of one more way to prod at Jayden. 

“Please, Alpha.”

That did it

Jayden growled – honest to God growled – and he held Kira’s waist in a vice as he brought her body down to meet his, so deep that she saw stars.

He established a rhythm, not too fast but torturously deep that  it had Kira keening. 

“Say it again,” Jayden breathed hotly.

“Alpha,” she moaned. The way it made Jayden grip her hips tighter was temptation enough to say it again.

Even the press of his fingers on her skin was intoxicating. 

It took only a few minutes before Kira was getting to her high, head thrown back on the hard bed as she tightened all around him. With every thrust, Jayden pushed her further beyond the brink until she was moaning nothing but his name.

Jayden. Alpha. Jayden.

“Damn, Kira,” Jayden groaned. His teeth grazed over her neck again and Kira knew he wanted to mark her more.

To indicate that he could, she rolled her head to the side, floppy and spent, exposing her throat in submission.

“Keep – keep going,” Kira panted, because all that she could think about now was Jayden catching his high.

Jayden was outrageously strong. He moved her on the bed like she weighed nothing, flipping her over to take a new angle, one hand on her hip and the other clenched on the sheets close to her head. 

Kira could barely hold her up, mouth open and spit on her lips, but she grabbed the back of the pillow she threw for something to bite as she fought through the over-sensitivity.

The sound in the room was all them. In the city, sirens wailed and drunken chatter drifted up to every window. Here, beyond these walls there was nothing but silent night, stretching out through the forest as far as any man or wolf could ever hear.

Their moans, the slap of skin on skin, the union of breath became the music of the Woods.

“Kira, baby - ” Jayden finished with a snap of his hips, holding her up as he spilled inside, a hand sliding to her lower back like he could massage out the stimulation that had her trembling beneath him.

And they found a new silence. Jayden grinded in against her a while, pulling out only when she was spent, and he pulled her into his lap. 

They stuck together with sweat. Kira didn’t even have it in her to pull a face.