Love at First Scent
Chapter 18

Craig gently placed one last k!ss against her swollen bud before he moved up her body and claimed her l!ps. Caro’s eyes were still closed, and when she finally sighed and opened them, her smile was enough to have his already weeping c0ck j*rk in attention.

“That was delicious,” she murmured, “but all I can think about is having this inside me.” She reached down to wrap her fingers around his aching c0ck, slowly stroking up and down, spreading his pre-cvm over the tip, and stealing the breath from his lungs. A low growl escaped him, and he gently removed her hand before he flipped her over to her stomach and pulled her to her knees.

“Is this what you want?” Her low voice taunted him as she pushed her as*s up, showing him her swollen folds, glistening with how much she craved him.

He couldn’t resist her invitation. Craig grabbed his shaft and rubbed the head along that soaked flesh, hissing at how hot and wet it felt against his most sensitive skin. He rubbed up and down for several passes until her h!ps were moving along with his own in a silent plea. Then he found her entrance and slowly pushed forward into heaven.

“Craig.” She whimpered, pushing against him. “I need more, please…”

He answered her by thrusting all the way in, filling her up until she’d taken every inch of him, and they found a pace that satisfied the hunger ruling them both. Over and over, he moved inside her, reaching his arms around, one to tease at her bre*ast and the other to pluck and rub along her throbbing cl!t until he could feel her muscles fluttering around his c0ck.

“Harder! Yes!” She gr0aned as she came, stealing his control and making him give in to the inevitable as he followed with a growl.

Has anything ever felt as good as that? Not possible. He gently eased them to rest on their sides, careful to remain inside her—exactly where he wanted to be with their panting breaths the only sound he could hear. The noises from the streets below were a faraway notion now that he held his mate in his arms.

They lay there for minutes until the sky lit up with colors, and she gasped.

“Fireworks?” She smiled as she snuggled deeper into his embrace.

“Yes, we only do them when the fields have been cleared so we can make sure there’s no fire hazard, and we keep them silent so it doesn’t disturb the animals.”

“Mmm, I like them this way. It feels very serene.”

“This definitely feels about perfect to me.” He pulled her closer to place a k!ss along her neck as they lay and watched the colors fill the night sky.

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Caro started a bit at that because when she searched her own feelings, being here in his arms did feel perfect. She tried to remember a time when she’d felt such peace and came up empty.

“Caro?” Craig pulled away from her just enough to separate their bodies and turned her so that she lay back, looking up into his eyes. “Will you be my mate? Will you stay here with me?”

She reached up to run her fingers through the soft dark waves of his hair, settling her hands along the stubble of his cheeks while she composed herself. “How can you be so sure?” The small flash of hurt that crossed his eyes made her push forward. “I mean, I feel things for you I wasn’t even sure were possible, but I don’t think I could take falling in love with you and having you change your mind one day. It’s all happened so fast.”

Craig seemed to relax at her concerns and then smiled. “I know because whenever I hear your voice or catch your scent, my wolf immediately wants to be next to you. The man wants to do much more than that,” he added with a wink, “but I see you, Caroline. I think you’re brave and strong, and I think you care about the people around you. I want to build a life with you, to have a family with you, and I look forward to the next however many years of our lives that the Goddess sees fit to bless us with. Learning everything there is to learn about you because I know I’ll love it all.”

Caro searched his eyes and could feel the certainty behind his words. Something inside her just released, and all the doubt and tension that she’d been holding back for so very long evaporated. She could admit to herself that she believed in this man. She believed in what she could have here with him and knew she had to grab on to it with everything in her.

“Yes.” She settled one hand over his heart, feeling it pound in his ch3st. “I will be your mate, Craig Porter.”

The k!ss he gave her in response was full of all the passion she’d always been missing in her life, and as it went on, she felt the length of his shaft grow hard against her belly, causing desire to rise once again in her own body.

“On that note, I think we should try to get started on that family right away,” she whispered in his ear as she wrapped one leg around his h!p, grinding against him.

“That, I can do, mate.” He growled back. “Or maybe you should.”

She squeaked when he rolled them over until she was straddling his h!ps, her hands braced against his ch3st. Caro bit her l!p as she shifted slightly, and her cl!t rubbed against the hard shaft below her.

“Mmm.” She did it again, using the moisture from her body to ease the slide against him. “I think I like being in charge.”

“I don’t seem to mind it myself.” He smiled up at her, and the look in his eyes took her breath away. “Goddess, you’re beautiful, Caroline.”

With that one look, Caroline could see her entire future unfolding with this man. His hands cupped her bre*asts, and when she sat up to notch the swollen head of his c0ck against her opening, their eyes locked. She eased down around him slowly until he was completely inside her and then began a leisurely rocking motion, savoring the feel of his shaft filling her up in the most glorious way possible.

No words were spoken. They simply moved together, reveling in the connection between them until her body began to spiral higher and higher, tightening around his flesh as the pleasure mounted. Caro was about to tip over the precipice when Craig lunged up and pulled her hard against him. The pressure against her sensitive cl!t shot her straight into org*sm at the same time that she felt his teeth sink into the skin at her shoulder, and they both gr0aned in completion.

“Mine.” His soft voice whispered against her neck.

“Yours,” was her answer.

Satisfaction ran through every muscle in her body, and with her mate’s arms around her, she drifted off to sleep.