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Even Beki flinched at his assessment. Maybe I was proud, but what was the alternative? Smiling while people talked to me like I was shit was out of the question. Not if I wanted to retain an ounce of self-respect. The moment wolves spotted a weakling in a position of power, they would have challenged me until I was at the bottom of the pack.Sagging a little, I sat heavily on the mattress, waiting for him to eviscerate me with his words. It wasn’t like I set out to be single my entire life, but wolves didn’t throw themselves at women, especially when they weren’t beautiful or submissive.“So, my wolf and hers were the same?” I asked, trying to keep my voice even.“Cathwulf’s other half was the most radiant Arctic wolf in existence,” he said with a fond smile. “Mine was utterly smitten.”“But you didn’t feel the same?” I asked.Griff hesitated for long enough for me to gauge that his lack of an answer was a resounding no. “She was a di cult woman to love.”“Because she didn’t dance?”“S
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“Isn’t that a theft of her birthright?” I asked.Griff cleared his throat. “Fenrir wouldn’t have allowed the alpha magic to transfer if I hadn’t thoroughly subdued her.”“How was that possible when she was so frigid?” I snarled.“Cathwulf was a very passionate woman,” he murmured. “Beneath the ivory tower she had built around herself. I wanted to break down her walls, so she could let me in.”I shook my head. “What does that even mean?”“There was a barrier between us that I needed to shatter.” Resentment burned through my insides and radiated off my skin. Without meaning to, my hands drifted toward thegun holsters in my jacket. “Did it work, then?”“It was the single most pleasurable experience of my life.”Cold slammed into my chest, and my jaw dropped. I turned to Griff, my lips trembling. “What did you say?”Instead of looking at me, his eyes were unseeing, as though he was reliving the experience. But the look on his features was pure agony.“That night, I felt her heart
REJECTED MATE Chapter 25
Griff’s lips were smooth, sensual, and utterly sinful. I hadn’t felt them in over forty years, and the feel of his flesh against mine turned me back into thehopeful young woman I was before the betrayal.A protest rose to the front of my mind, but Beki pressed on our bond, urging me not to pull back. My wolf’s every instinct screamed at me to believe, forgive, forget about our past, but it wasn’t easy. It was like her jaws were clamped around my neck, holding me in place.My breath quickened, and Griff’s cedar and woodsmoke scent overwhelmed my senses. It was like falling back in time and falling back in love. All those times I’d watched our ill-fated romance on the memory wall, I’d only had a vague recollection of how it felt to be in the arms of a beautiful and powerful male. Now, I was reliving this experience, and I didn’t want it to end.Every nerve ending in my body tingled with the pleasure of his touch, my nipples tightened, and heat flooded my core. If I didn’t do something—an
REJECTED MATE Chapter 25.1
He leaned down a few inches, closing the distance between us, and cupped the side of my face. His lips grazed mine in a ghost of a kiss that sent pleasure skittering across my skin. My eyelids fluttered shut, and I waited for him to kiss me properly, but he continued the soft, teasing caresses. “Do you want more?” he growled in a tone that made mynipples tighten and my core clench. “Yes,” I whispered.“Then you know what to do,” he murmured against my lips.I slid my hand up the hard contours of his biceps, over his muscular neck, threaded my fingers in his hair, and brought his head down for a kiss.Griff groaned and pressed our bodies together so tightly that his erection felt like an iron rod against my belly. Moisture flooded my folds, and I ground against the thick length, wanting more.“Fuck, Katie,” he moaned into the kiss. “You are so perfect for me.”He slipped his tongue into my mouth and caressed mine with a series of strokes that made my mind spin. I’d forgotten how he coul
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His lips descended on mine for another kiss, but I didn’t get a chance to savor it for long because he soon made a path of hot kisses down my body until he reached my leggings.“Fuck, Katie,” he said with a groan. “You smell so good.”Heat rose to my cheeks. Something told me he could always scent my arousal, but he’d been too cool to mention it until I had accepted his feelings.“I want to eat your pussy and have your legs clamped around my head as you cum.”“Ah…” I tried to speak, but the words came out garbled. “Do it.”He hooked his fingers beneath my leggings and knickers, and then pulled both garments to my ankles with a practiced movement. I shoved away all thoughts of other women. Whoever he’d been with before meeting me didn’t count. Nor did the others he’d slept with while he thought I was dead and languishing in Hell. Griff hadn’t pursued anyone else since our eyes had met in Coyote Willy’s, and as long as I was alive, it would be just him and me.“Open your legs,” he said a
REJECTED MATE Chapter 26
You know that jumping-off-the-dive-board feeling when you’re about to die and you see your entire life flashing before your eyes? Maybe you can get the drift, because that was exactly how my insides felt when I realized that the enchantment altering my appearance had reversed.I sat on the mattress, stark-bollock naked, still trembling from the aftershocks of my orgasm. A lock of my original blonde hair fell to my face, and I tucked it behind my ear, already feeling my features were less delicate.Griff stood three feet away, his back braced against the fabric wall of our pop-up shelter. His broad chest rose and fell like bellows, looking like he was building himself up to a hurricane of wrath.Meanwhile, Beki, my sweet innocent wolf, tried to hide in the furthest corner of my soul. Gulping, I tried not to show any weakness. She'd warned me to confess my identity to Griff, but I’d been so swept away by the knowledge that he hadn’t betrayed me that I had let him give me oral even thoug
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Beki sent me images from every Disney movie or cartoon that involved a curse breaking with true love’s kiss.“No, it’s not because we had sex or connected our souls.” I gave my head a vigorous shake and packed both deflated beds into a spare saddlebag. “Hades was expecting us to seduce Griff for information. I should have told Marianna that the pack was planning a raid, and I didn’t. That’s why he pulled the magic.”She growled.“Well, he never once lied about not being a bastard,” I said with a shrug. “Demon King is pretty self-explanatory.”After stepping outside, I folded up the shelter and sent Dad a silent word of thanks for making me set up camp all those times we went out on big hunts. He’d told me it was important for learning independence, even though I’d thought he was just being lazy. Turned out that all that knowledge he’d given me had prepared me for the moment I would be stranded in Hell.By the time I stuffed the huge tent in the saddlebag, there was no space for the se
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Her ears pricked.“You and Griff’s wolf just want to be together, and we keep messing things up for you both.”She raised her front paw in a wolfy shrug. It seemed that she was used to me wrecking her love life, and this was one more setback. Beneath the resignation was a shard of hope that she would see her mate again or that maybe Griff might come back for us once his temper had cooled.As the roar of a mammoth-sized drake made Glinda slow down and allow it to pass, I swallowed hard. What if Griff returned to us so that Fenrir could bind my tongue? If Captain Caria or one of the other demon enforcers picked me up outside the gates of Shifter City, it would be me on the torture rack being impaled with hot pokers.I stared at the wingless dragon, finding a blue-skinned demon riding on its back. They were heading toward a small lake of lava up ahead where a bunch of demons had huddled together in a tight crowd.Beki’s heart plummeted, and pain lanced through her chest. I glanced around
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