Jude

I was definitely asleep, or rather, I didn’t know when I’d fallen asleep after successfully walking Rosie back to her cottage through the longest route possible because I wanted to delay our time together and stretch out every single second I had with her before we had to part.

Even when I finally stood at her door and watched her unlock it, the newly formed mate bond thrummed painfully in my chest, pulling me toward her. I had to clench my fists so hard my nails dug into my palms and swallow down the whining, pleading sound that wanted to escape my throat, begging her to let me inside.

I knew she could feel my reluctance through the bond because her eyes softened. She just smiled at me shyly with that beautiful blush spreading across her freckled cheeks and stood on her toes to peck my cheek sweetly before closing the door gently between us, and I stood there like an idiot staring at the door.

Fuck! I didn’t know how many hours or minutes I spent standing outside her cottage like some lovesick fool just breathing in her lingering scent and feeling the bond pulse between us until finally the light in her window went out. Only then did I force myself to walk aimlessly through the woods with my hands shoved in my pockets and my brain replaying the festival moment over and over like my favorite nursery rhymes.

When I finally got back to the Winter Pack territory, I didn’t go to meet the other members of the pack, still enjoying the festival night, even though I knew some people were definitely waiting around to congratulate me and ask questions, and wanted all the details about my mate. But I just walked straight to the Winter mansion and slipped quietly into my room, which I left for the school dorm.

I detached my outfit piece by piece until I was standing naked in my room, and a smile involuntarily made its way to my lips, spreading wide; my stomach felt jelly as I jumped onto my bed.

God, I was behaving like a pubescent teenage boy who’d just gotten his first kiss. Well, to be honest, Rosie was my first kiss.

I didn’t know the amount of time I spent tossing and rolling restlessly on the bed with the bond humming contentedly in my chest and my wolf purring with satisfaction before sleep finally swallowed me whole.

But how the fuck did I suddenly find myself in Rosie’s cottage with her straddling my lap wearing only the flimsiest, laciest lingerie I’d ever seen that left absolutely nothing to the imagination and showed every beautiful curve of her soft body?

My throat felt parched, and I felt my throat bob with desire as I tried to swallow, and my nose flared, picking up the intoxicating scent of her arousal thick in the air.

How did we even get to this... But the Rosie straddling me was still the shy, bashful, beautiful mate I knew and loved, but this version of her had a confidence and sultriness that made my cock throb. It was Rosie, but not quite the Rosie I knew, because my Rosie would be blushing and hiding her face, but this... Rosie was staring at me with heavy-lidded eyes full of desire.

The sultriness in her eyes was undoing me as I could feel the heat of her core pressing against me through the thin lace.

This version of Rosie on my lap trailed hot wet kisses from my jaw down my neck, and I tilted my head back, giving her access while my hands found her hips, grilling the skin. Her lips moved sensually from my chest down my stomach to my belly button. And her tongue stuck out to lick slowly around my navel in circles, and my entire body jolted from the sensation, yet I couldn’t stop the groan that ripped from my throat.

I threaded my fingers through her soft brown hair, watching her through heavy-lidded eyes as a guttural, animalistic sound escaped my lips when she moved lower and knelt between my spread legs and looked up at me through her lashes with those beautiful blue eyes dark with desire.

My wolf was pushing forward, wanting to take control, to flip her over and mount her, but I forced myself to stay still to let her lead the way.

She raised her head up and wetted the corner of her lip with her tongue so deliberately slowly that my cock twitched, and then she used her teeth to grab my zipper and pulled it down torturously slowly while maintaining eye contact, and my aching, throbbing cock sprang free immediately, standing at full attention, already leaking.

Rosie moved closer, and the first touch of her breath against my cock made me hiss through my teeth, she nuzzled her nose against the length of me, breathing in my scent deeply. I watched completely transfixed as more precum dripped down, making my cock glisten in the low light. The action of her just breathing on me sent violent jolts of desire shooting through my entire body, starting at my groin and going to every part of my body.

My muscles trembled uncontrollably, and my blood pumped hot and fast through my veins, rushing straight to my cock that was now veiny, purple, and throbbing in an angry confession of need.

Fuck! I released a shuddering breath that came out more like a whimper, and my grip tightened in her hair gently.

Rosie, noticing exactly what she was doing to me and how I was completely at her mercy, decided to lean forward and give one single, slow lick from base to tip, dragging her tongue along the underside and up over the sensitive head. I nearly came right then and there.

Fuck! Fucking fuck!

I’d never felt anything like this in my entire life. She smirked up at me, knowing exactly the power she held over me in this moment, and then gingerly lapped at the tip with kitten licks before sucking the swollen head into her warm wet mouth, and my entire body trembled violently, my hands getting lost in her hair.

She hollowed her cheeks and took me deeper, inch by agonizing inch, until I could feel the back of her throat constricting around me, and I was making sounds I didn’t even know I was capable of making—sounds that were half human, half wolf.

Her head bobbed up and down in a steady rhythm while her hand stroked what wouldn’t fit in her mouth, and her other hand cupped and massaged my balls gently. It was too, too intense.

I could feel the pressure building at the base of my spine.

My eyes rolled back in my head until all I could see was white, and my breathing became ragged as the pressure built at the base of my spine, coiling tighter. The bond was thrumming so intensely in my chest I thought it might burst, and I could feel my wolf clawing at my insides, wanting more.

Rosie sucked harder and moved faster, hollowing her cheeks and taking me deeper while making these little moaning sounds around my cock that vibrated through me and sent shockwaves of pleasure up my spine, and that was it—it sent me over the edge.

I came hard with a shout that was almost a roar, spilling down her throat in hot pulses, and the pleasure was so intense it whited out my vision.

I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t think, and my brain fogged up as I watched her swallow everything while still sucking, licking, and milking me dry. wringing every last drop from me until I was completely spent and boneless while gasping for air with labored breathing.

As she released my cock with a pop, my eyes flew open, gasping hard and disoriented, only to notice with mortification that I’d actually come all over my naked body in reality while having a wet dream about Rosie.

My body was hot, extra hot, and heating up, which was beyond my normal body temperature, and sweat rolled down my neck, chest, and back in rivulets.

My pheromones coated the air so thick and heavy I could taste them, and my cock was still angry and hard as fuck despite having just orgasmed, standing at full attention.

My eyes flashed gold in the darkness of my room, and I felt my wolf pushing forward, more insistent than ever before.

That was when I knew.... It has started.

My rut.