Page 21 of Hunted Ink

The moon rose high overhead, limning everything in silver, my newly honed senses picking up every detail. We ran deeper into the woods, where the trees were older and grew closer together, the rushing of the river left far behind. I recognized that I should’ve been exhausted by now, but power coursed through my veins, energizing me in a way that was both unfamiliar and second nature all at once.

Kedi turned to look over his shoulder and yapped back at us, and even though I couldn’t speak wolf, I just knew he was talking shit. He was better at this than we were. He’d had at least a decade of bonding time with his wolf, but we weren’t about to let him off so easy.

I could picture my wolf’s move before he made it, our heart racing, minds working as one. Kedi cut left to go around a fallen tree, but the shortest distance between any two points was a straight line. Muscles bunching, we stayed on our course, leaping onto the log and pushing off, launching through the air, and just as Kedi ran back out in front, we used our full weight to take him down. Our wolves rolled a few times, growling and nipping playfully, and then I came out on top. We set our teeth to his throat. Gently, not enough pressure to break the skin, but no doubt asserting our dominance.

I wasn’t sure which of us shifted back first, but one second, we were wolves, the next humans, my blunt teeth still latched on to his tender flesh. Kedi’s laugh was like a sun shower, lighting me up inside as the vibration tickled my lips, and I reluctantly let go of his neck, kissing gently to soothe the bite mark.

I propped myself up on my elbows, staring down into his beautiful blue eyes. Aside from all the horrors we’d experienced to get to this point, I was still incredibly grateful for how lucky I’d been to be fated to such an incredible man.

Kedi’s smile softened as he gazed up at me, sliding from playful to sultry in two seconds flat, and as he pulled his luscious, pierced lip between his teeth and tilted his hips up, I was suddenly reminded that we were both very naked—and hard.

His eyes smoldered with lust. “You caught me. You used to let me win,” he said with a fake pout that told me he didn’t mind being caught.

“We’re not kids anymore, Kedi. As much as I love walking beside you, there’s a certain appeal to having you beneath me. Wouldn’t you agree?”

Hovering over him, I lowered my mouth to his with full intention of kissing him breathless, but before I could, he grabbed me around the waist and hooked one of my legs with his, then flipped us. Before I could blink, I found myself pinned down in the dirt, Kedi straddling my hips.

“And now I’ve caught you,” he bragged. “All according to my plan.” He took my hands in his, lacing our fingers, then brought my arms up over my head and holding me down. We both knew I could get free if I wanted to, but I really, really didn’t want to. That wasn’t how this game was played.

I groaned at the sensation as my cock nestled into his slick ass crack. “Now that you’ve got me, what are you going to do with me?” To help him make his decision, I craned my neck up and sucked a nipple into my mouth, flicking the metal hoop with my tongue. His responding moan was so erotic, there was a very real danger of me coming from that sound alone.

Kedi granted me the chance to tease him like this a little, switching to lave at the other nipple, tugging the piercing between my teeth, but I could tell he was just as ready to take the next step as I was. He was rubbing his cock over my stomach, but my senses were also heightened now that I’d joined with my wolf, and I could smell his slick as it ran down the inside of his thighs.

He pulled away, his nipple dragged from my mouth with a pop, and I dropped my head back to the ground with a thud. “Kedi… please,” I groaned, desperate to be put out of my misery.

“Don’t worry, baby. I know what you need.” He let go of my hands so he could sit up on my lap and grind his hips back against my aching cock, spreading his slick along my shaft.

To distract myself, I let my hands drift toward his dick, bobbing enticingly between us, precum glistening from the tip. I wrapped one hand around his length, using my thumb to smear the tempting dribble, cupping his balls in my other palm with a gentle squeeze, but it seemed he wasn’t going to give me free rein just yet.

“Ah-ah,” he tutted playfully, offering me a wicked smirk. “Did I say you could touch?”

I whimpered as I forced myself to peel my hands away from his sinful body, searching for something, anything, to hang on to. He reached back to line up the head of my cock against his hole, and it took all my willpower not to thrust up. Kedi left me there, nudging at his entrance, as he braced himself on my chest with one hand, fingers splayed over my pec. With his free hand, he traced a burning path up my neck to my mouth. “Open,” he commanded, voice husky, and I rushed to obey.

He slipped two fingers into my mouth. “Now, suck.”

My eyes slid shut as I wrapped my lips around those fingers, sucking like my life was on the line. The way I felt so overwhelmed with desire right now, my heart slamming against my ribcage, it might very well be true.

Of course, that was the exact moment Kedi decided to drop down on my cock, his warm, slick channel wrapping around me in the tightest squeeze, and stars dotting my vision. My groan was muffled as he held me in place with his fingers, heavy on my tongue.

When I finally managed to open my eyes, I looked up at him, panting to catch his breath as he adjusted to the stretch. He looked back, and a brief touch of concern crossed over his face. “If this is too much for you, I can stop.”

I shook my head and swirled my tongue around those two digits. I spent so much of my life worrying. Training the kids, leading the other hunters, toeing the line of the Order’s rules. There was something so freeing about handing all the power to Kedi. To relinquish my responsibilities felt like taking a deep breath for the first time in my life.

He rolled his hips once slowly, grinding into my lap. “Then you’d better hold on, cause this is going to be a bumpy ride.”

That was all the warning I was going to get, and I barely managed to grab hold of his hips before he rose up on his knees. When he began to move in earnest, it was like all my wishes had come true at once. This wasn’t just pleasure; it was all seven sins and possibly an eighth I’d never heard of before. The very blood in my veins turned to liquid fire, and I dug my fingers into his lush hips, urging him on.

As much as I wanted this to last forever, there was very little chance of that happening. I could feel my climax surging to the surface, and if Kedi’s increasingly desperate moans were any indication, he was close too. He rode me hard, but he was tiring.

Dragging his fingers from between my lips, Kedi fell forward and claimed my mouth in a sloppy kiss, his tongue piercing a delicious foreign sensation that drove me wild. He gripped my hair in his fists hard enough to sting along my scalp, and it made me want to roar like the Alpha I was. The need to mark him as wholly mine made my teeth sharpen, canines pricking at my lip, a feral growl rumbling through me as I took control and rolled us, hiking one of his knees up as I slammed my cock deep inside him.

Kedi cried out in need, and I knew I would always do everything I could to satisfy every single one of those needs. I set a hard pace, and too soon, Kedi was shuddering beneath me, his cum spilling against his chest and stomach in hot spurts, his hole clenching and fluttering around me.

He dug his claws into my back, and I felt the fragile tether anchoring us together thicken, from a piece of twine to an iron chain. It was enough to pull me straight over the edge with him, and I drove deep as I filled him with my seed, my knot expanding to lock it inside. Without any hesitation, I let my wolf guide my instincts, and I sank my teeth into his neck, his blood flooding my mouth and throwing my entire world off its axis.

I might’ve been new to this whole shifter thing, but instincts overruled any hesitation I might’ve had on how to take care of my mate. As my teeth retracted, I licked slowly over the wound until the bleeding trickled to a stop, filled with animal satisfaction at the lingering mark. I moved to press my forehead to his, staying there a moment, his sweet breath on my lips.

Slowly, I became aware of how much of my weight was pressing Kedi down, and I shifted to roll us carefully onto our sides, our bodies still locked together. We were both covered in sweat and cum, hair tangled with leaves, but there was nowhere else on earth I would rather be. Kedi hooked one grass-stained knee over my hip, trailing his fingertips up my back over my old scars, pausing as he found one of the new marks he’d left on me.