Her blue eyes met his, her gaze so earnest that it felt like they were the only ones left in this world.
Her hair stuck to her sweat-dampened face and her pupils dilated as she fixed her gaze on him as she continued to massage him.
She didn’t even look like she had done anything like this before but that couldn’t be because she had definitely…
Adrian refused to think of anyone or anything else when Ava lay naked beneath him, her face the embodiment of unrestrained passion.
He positioned himself between her legs and dropped a peck on her lips.
“Relax for me, baby.”
Then he eased himself in. She was so tight that he almost came immediately. Ava’s nails dug into his shoulders as she bit back a grunt of discomfort. She felt too full. It was too much and yet not enough.
It felt like their minds and thoughts were melding into one. He felt her twinge of pain, her arousal, her need for him and he wondered how much of his emotions she was also processing on her own end.
Adrian paused as he felt an obstruction as he moved. His eyes widened in shock as he felt her hymen give way to his thrust. Ava sucked in a breath and tightened her hold on him, her sudden intake of breath making her walls constrict around him.
He would think about what that meant later becaus, e at that moment, he was incapable of thought or speech.
He moved slowly at first, watching and feeling for her reaction. Ava loosened beneath him with each shallow thrust, her breath quickening as the discomfort faded. She urged him on silently to increase his pace with her eyes, her soft sighs of pleasure and a tilt of her hips.
Adrian adjusted his weight onto his knees, using one straightened arm to brace himself above
her. He accelerated his pace, pumping quickly against her. Then he moved his free arm between their bodies, down near where they were
joined.
Ava gasped in pleasure as she felt firm pressure on her clit.
She adjusted her movement beneath him, making sure she met each of his thrusts. The pleasure inside her was now climbing quickly as her body geared towards a climax. She tensed and her breathing disintegrated into urgent pants.
Her body started to shake as waves of heat and pleasure washed over her.
Adrian continued to thrust against her, moving rhythmically andfast-pacedd as they raced towards their climax, he rubbed against her clit and felt her shake beneath him. She inhaled deeply, her fingers digging into his shoulders as their movements synchronised.
He felt her freeze for a moment then she came with a loud gasp as her tension broke in pulses of rippling pleasure, her walls quivering around him as her body arched backwards dramatically
Adrian lost control as she constricted and relaxed around him, his breaths came louder. His thrusts got faster, then a little jerky and less controlled.
He came inside her with a grunt and his arms tightened around her as he leaned in and bit the space between her neck and her shoulder right on the mating mark.
Adrian felt a mini orgasm go through Ava as he claimed her again. She released a moan that almost made him hard again.
“Mine. My mate.” His voice was guttural as he spoke. He barely recognized his voice.
Ava’s arms tightened around him as she tucked her head into his chest.
“Yours. Always. My mate.”
He felt their mate bond snap into focus. It had always been there growing stronger day to day but now it no longer felt like a thread or a rope between them. It was like a path, a river, a bridge connecting both their souls. Binding them together forever until eternity.
It was done. They were sealed together forever. Ava’s breathing grew heavier as she succumbed to slumber entangled as she was with him. He wouldn’t mind sleeping this way but he didn’t want to cause his mate any discomfort so he pulled out of her and moved her.
It was then he saw the bloodstained sheets and remembered the fact he had tossed aside while being carried away in the passion of the moment. He was Ava’s first. If she had lost her virginity to him then how could she have possibly cheated on him with someone else?
There were two options, either she was lying which begged the question of why she felt the need to do so, especially with everything that had been at stake. The second option was that even Ava didn’t know that she hadn’t cheated on him.
What exactly was he missing?
*****
Adrian felt Ava melt against him as he kissed her. She felt warm, soft and small against him. He felt his protective instincts flare up. He would protect her at all costs.
Ava pulled away and looked at him as though he was a dream made manifest.
He dropped one more kiss on her lips and another on her forehead unable to help himself where she was concerned.
Ava grappled for words and he felt her emotions along the bond. Surprise, disbelief, want and then an odd sense of shame came upon her.
“But how could you love me?” She sounded combative now as though he was joking. “I betrayed your trust. Cheated with someone else, the pack mistrusts me and want you to take a consort because any child I have with you wíll be suspected of dubious parentage.”
Tears streaked her cheeks. It would seem that she really believed that she had cheated on him.
Adrian paused, his mind racing.
“Did you really cheat on me with him? Did you sleep with him?”
Ava turned away from him as though in pain after recollecting what had happened. Her voice was a whisper when it came and ladened with guilt and uncertainty.
“I did.”
She didn’t know. How could she not know? For the first time since the event occurred, Adrian wished he hadn’t been so hasty with killing the wolf. There was still so much that remained unclear to him.
He held her by her forearm, turning her around to face him.
Ava still refused to meet his gaze, her eyes shut as though she would shatter if he applied any pressure on her.
“What happened that day, Ava? That day when I returned you were trying to tell me something but I didn’t listen because I was so angry. But now I’m ready to listen to you. I’m all ears.”
She pulled away from him again, pain evident in every movement.
“What does it matter Adrian? It’s already bygones, we can’t change what has already happened.”
He heard the unspoken ‘it’s already too late’.
“It matters because you don’t even remember whether or not you had sex. Ava, I was your first. How did you have sex without even remembering what happened?”
He grabbed her by her shoulders. Not roughly but firmly enough to make her look up at him with wide eyes. She couldn’t believe it.
Paying close attention to her emotions that flitted down the bond, he spoke again.
“Did that wolf do something to you? Were you drugged, Ava?”
She sputtered, unable to speak but her emotions in the mate bond confirmed what he had been thinking. She had been drugged.
Adrian saw red. He would rip the person apart for doing that to his mate, for sewing seeds of discord as disharmony into their relationship, he would rip the person apart.
“Who did it? You can tell me, Ava. You don’t need to explain yourself. I trust you. Always. Whoever did this will be appropriately punished. Was it the wolf, Shawn or was it someone else?
Even as he spoke, he remembered the way Gabrielle had thrown herself at him at the office. The way she had been so quick to volunteer herself for the consort position and the way she had ‘forgiven’ Ava so easily.
Could she have…
He shook his head with disbelief. How could one person do something like that to their own sister? It wasn’t possible.
Ava avoided his gaze as she looked down on the duvet wrapping her body, her sheet of dark brown hair obscuring her face. She knew who had done it but she didn’t want to betray the person’s confidence for whatever reason.
There was a reason she was being so secretive. Ava was only this protective when it came to family. Suspicion bloomed to surety.
“Ava, look at me.” He paused. “Was Gabrielle behind this?”
He heard her sharp intake of breath. Felt her emotions in their bond and he nearly rocked back in disbelief. Gabrielle had done it. She had come between him and his mate. She had destabilized the pack just for her selfish intentions and purpose.
I won’t let you be happy, Adrian. Especially not with her. Never.
He remembered what she had told him what seemed like a long time ago now during Jenny’s mating ceremony.
He wouldn’t spare her.