She tossed him a challenging look over her shoulder. “Then change my mind.”
The smile fell from his lips, and his eyes darkened to the color of pitch. He wrapped an arm under her hips and lifted her. This was it. She gritted her teeth, preparing for pain, but when Tobias slid into her gently, there was no hurt. Only pleasure. Above her, he propped on one locked arm, his hand splayed on the blanket beside her, and with his other hand, he pressed onto her clit as he pushed into her. This wasn’t what she’d expected, and her fox was nearly purring at this kind of attention. Wide eyed, she lifted up on her hands and knees to give him better access to her body.
“Fffuck,” Tobias whispered in a shaking voice as he slid into her again.
He rested his chest against the length of her back, and she arched to him, just to feel him better.
Panting at how fast the pressure was building between her legs, she pushed against his hand with her own and rocked with him, slowly at first, but faster with every thrust. His powerful body worked over her, contracting and relaxing as he drove her closer to release.
And right when the pleasure became consuming, his teeth brushed her skin where he’d bit her the day he’d claimed her. He held her flesh between his teeth, hard enough to make her feel the sting, but soft enough he didn’t break the skin. And that sexy growl was back in his throat as he thrust into her faster.
Vera clutched the blanket in her fist as she cried out. He slammed into her so hard, her orgasm came unexpectedly as she screamed his name. Tobias’s teeth left her, and he pulled out.
“Mine,” he gritted out in a gravelly, inhuman voice.
She looked over her shoulder as her body pulsed on. Tobias had himself in hand, stroking fast until he shot warm jets of seed onto her back. Holy fuck, Tobias was hot when he was territorial. He was claiming her in some animalistic way that would’ve confused her if Fox wasn’t so damned satisfied right now. He’d bitten her out of necessity on Perl, but this was him laying claim to her body again.
Warmth trickled down her ribs as he emptied himself onto her sensitive skin with a groan.
She grinned triumphantly as she swayed with him, enjoying every lingering aftershock.
Tobias’s breath steadied as he pressed his finger deep into her, pushing forward gently with his hips and then back.
He built her up again with slow strokes, and when he slid a second finger in and pushed against her sensitive apex, she climaxed again with a soft throbbing sensation.
“Holy shit,” she breathed, shocked that sex could be like this. Multiple orgasms? Was that even a thing? She waffled between pride in her mate and pride in herself, and inside, her animal was practically howling with pleasure.
Tobias bit the back of her leg gently, then cleaned her back with the corner of the blanket.
“You’re sleeping on that side,” she teased, but Tobias was still quiet. With a frown, she sat back and studied his face. It was closed down, and a chill blasted through her body where she’d been so warm moments ago. “Did I do something wrong?”
His lip twitched, and he shook his head, his gaze on the floor. “No, I did. I lost control.”
“So?”
His dark eyes jerked to hers, then away. “I didn’t hurt you?”
“Hell no. I liked that. A lot. Come here you silly man.” She pulled him down next to her. “I’ve changed my mind now. That is my new favorite.”
Tobias wrapped her up snug against his chest and draped his leg protectively over hers. “I haven’t ever let myself go like that with a woman.”
“Well good, and stop mentioning other women or my fox will go all stalker on their asses. You’re mine, too. Ours.” She frowned in confusion. “Do I say ours?”
Tobias chuckled. “If you want. Your fox might always feel apart from you.” It was quiet for a long time as she enjoyed just being with him, newly engaged, bedded well, and warm against him. But at last, he admitted, “I did research.”
She eased back and graced him with a suspicious look. “What kind of research?”
“I wasn’t just doing deliveries when you were an animal.”
“I know you went after Jonathan, too. I remember that part.”
Tobias swallowed hard. “I wasn’t just avenging you either. I felt so helpless when you didn’t Change back. It was a new feeling. I’ve always been so sure of everything. Eat, sleep, work to earn money for food, take enforcer jobs, hibernate. Repeat every year. There was no variance ever. And then you came, and everything was different. Everything I’d known was different. I wanted to help you. I wanted to fix you, but I couldn’t.”
“What did you learn with your research?”
“That you don’t need fixing, Vera. You’re fine, just disconnected from the animal part of yourself, and who can blame you? You weren’t born like this. You and your animal were both forced into the same body. I visited a family of fox shifters.”