hurt tone in his voice made a twinge of guilt clench in her heart. Madison didn’t like it. Why should she feel guilty?
She sighed and replied in a very small voice, “I’m afraid you’ll consume me so completely, I’ll cease to exist.”
Jared obviously heard the very real fear in her voice and responded to it by crushing her to his chest to comfort her. “No, baby, you’ll never disappear. I need you as much as you need me. You complete me. I know the mating heat can be scary at first. The intensity during the claiming period is legendary with my people. Though we will always be explosive together and want each other, the ache making you desperate for me will only occur after the claiming period if you are ovulating.”
“Your people? Why do you keep saying mating heat and pack?” She was halfway afraid of his answer.
“I’m a wolf,” Jared stated simply.
When she only looked at him in disbelief, he allowed his eyes to glow and his fangs to drop as his face elongated.
“You’re a werewolf!”
When she would have climbed off his lap, he held her there and forced her thighs down until her cleft rode the erection tucked into his jeans.
Madison groaned in response as he continued to rock her against him. “We are not the half man, half beast creatures of Hollywood. We turn into actual wolves, though our species is much larger than natural wolves. I am a wolf and you, my dear Madison, are my mate.”
Madison wasn’t as shocked as she pretended to be and she was more intrigued than afraid. “Can I see you change?”
“Not until I am certain you are completely committed to me and our life together. It would be too dangerous to expose you to my wolf until both he and I are completely sure of you,” Jared explained regretfully.
“Your wolf would kill me?” she asked in alarm.
“No, baby, neither my wolf or I would ever harm a hair on your head, but if you tried to run or reject me in that form, the wolf would take you and could accidently hurt you in the process.”
Madison swallowed, more than a little disturbed by the disclosure. “Can you control yourself and keep from changing around me?”
“Of course I can, Madison. I am the alpha, but in my wolf form I would respond to any challenge you sent me as quickly as I would in human form.” Jared watched her face as she digested what he was telling her; she didn’t seem afraid, more contemplative. His eyes fell to the full breasts rising up from the rounded neckline of her top and realized he had neglected the beauties shamefully.
No time like the present to remedy the situation; with a firm jerk he had her neckline pulled down below her bra and from there it was a simple matter to lift her breasts from the bra cups, leaving them balanced on top of the cups and lifted up to him like an offering. He growled in appreciation as he eyed the dark berry-like nipples seeming to beg for his attention.
Madison gasped as he claimed one nipple and sucked it deeply into the warm cavern of his mouth. He’d freed her breasts so fast there was no time for protest, but as he sucked hard, her head fell back as the pleasure unfurling in her breast shot straight to the place throbbing between her thighs.
She whimpered and clutched his head tight as she began to rub herself frantically against the ridge of his erection pressed against her clit.
Jared reached between them and freed his erection then hooked a finger in the gusset of her panties and pulled it aside so he could slide home. He lifted her slightly and tilted her hips before pulling her down so hard he butted against her cervix.
Madison came immediately, clutching at his head where he still pulled on her throbbing nipple. “Jared!”
Releasing her nipple with a wet popping sound, he answered her hoarsely, “I’ve got you, baby-love.”
Grasping her hips, he lifted her almost completely free of his shaft before slamming her back down on him as he thrust up.
Madison’s back arched, a low,