Wild seduction, p.4
Wild Seduction, page 4
Luca was gorgeous. He would have disagreed because his looks didn’t matter to him. Only duty to his family. His brother. The people he watched over. This made him more attractive to her. He was everything she wasn’t. Luca was every erotic dream come to life. The ones she pretended not to remember. She gasped when he pulled her shirt over her head and threw it to the floor. It wasn’t fear. It was anticipation.
He kissed her again before kneeling before her, undoing her pants. There was something sensual about having him undress her while he remained clothed. The feel of liquid heat rushing between her legs. While he didn’t break her gaze, she saw his nostrils flare. His eyes dilated in triumph. He removed her underwear with her pants, keeping his gaze locked on her.
He smiled before he pulled her down and laid her out on the carpet. His fingers played over her skin as if she were a fine instrument. The rarest violin that would reveal its song only for him. His hands roamed her body with such expertise, she wondered if he was a musician or magician, weaving a spell of desire and beauty. His hands were powerful, but the wicked sensation only added to the magic. A rough caress that roamed from her breasts down her stomach and between her inner thighs.
Lana found it impossible to keep her breath steady. It hitched as his fingers traveled higher up her legs, soft caresses over the hottest part of her. She tried to turn away. To pry her eyes from the intensity of his gaze, but she was trapped in a web of hunger and need.
Luca placed his hands on her upper thighs as he wedged his shoulders between them. “Don’t move. I have waited my entire life to touch you. To taste you,” he growled.
She squirmed as his breath heated her thighs. The whisper of a promise, one of seduction and pleasure. She cried out when he nipped her skin in warning, easing the sting with a gentle kiss. “This is too much.”
“We are just getting started, baby.” His tongue swept through her folds.
She arched up as the sensation rocked her. His hand pressed against her stomach, holding her in place as his tongue pursued its erotic massage of her most intimate channel. Her breath slammed from her lungs as her nipples peaked, begging for his touch. Her stomach muscles bunched in pain, looking for release. An escape from the excruciating pleasure his mouth was creating. He didn’t lick her. He devoured her like a starving animal. Hot cream rushed between her legs, but it wasn’t enough. He wanted more.
His growls of pleasure vibrated against her skin, elevating her arousal. Her body was aflame with lust. A prison of passion and yearning. She didn’t want to escape. Lana wanted to lock herself with him for all time, consuming one another in delight and desire.
Her orgasm ripped through her in a tsunami of pleasure, rippling waves of ecstasy that washed over her body in pure satisfaction. She scratched his back, feeling his skin shred beneath her fingernails. His growls of pride etched in her soul for eternity. The sound a reminder of his commitment.
She sucked in a breath as the reality of what she had done hit her. “Luca stop. We can’t do this.”
His eyes met hers. Her juices wet his lips. “You are mine.”
She shook her head. “No.”
He stood up, looking down at her as he removed his clothes. Her eyes fell on his thick shaft as he held it in his hand. “I won’t let you go.”
She licked her lips, unable to take her eyes from the hardest part of him. “You have to. Gerald will either mate me or kill me. Those are my only options.”
Luca kneeled down, positioning himself between her legs. “You have one option and it’s me.”
CHAPTER 4
Lana tried to control the shiver that went down her spine as his hard shaft nestled against her mound. God, he was sexy. How was a woman supposed to resist a man like Luca? He bent his head with amber laced eyes, daring her to stop him.
His lips touched hers. Gentle. Coaxing. Completely at odds with the steel body pressing against her. He held himself still, waiting for her to lose herself in the magic of his mouth as his tongue teased hers. He pulled back, as his eyes roamed her body. His look was one of wicked sensuality, features that carved themselves into her mind for all time.
“Luca,” she whispered.
“Don’t. You’re mine,” he said.
Luca whispered the words through clenched teeth, yet he might as well have shouted them. They burned into her soul, making her gasp. Something inside her fought to rise, lacking the strength to emerge, but making its presence known. Hope replaced pain. The loneliness dissipated, followed by excitement and wonder.
His thick cock nudged her entrance. “Do you understand, Lana? I will never give you up.”
The craving need escalated to the point of pain. She would have agreed to anything to get him inside her. To ease the burning between her legs. His sinful seduction seemed an insignificant price to pay to ease the burning desire, engulfing her body. While her mind still had reservations, her body had given in. She nodded, pulling him toward her, melding her lips to his.
He thrust into her. His long, hard shaft ripped through the slick folds of her pussy. It wasn’t her first time, but it felt like it. Her body had never felt so alive. So free. Everything she was belonged to him. Fire burned through her blood. Lightning forked over her skin, electrifying everything in its wake. He held her hips, angling them so he could go deeper with each stroke.
She couldn’t catch her breath. Her lips parted, perched on the edge of an endless scream. Time stopped as ecstasy swamped her. Her body felt too small as his hard cock battered into her, growing thicker, stretching her to the point of pain. When the torturous pleasure seemed too much, causing her to scratch his back, he pumped harder. Over and over into her slick, soft flesh. An erotic fury, fueled by anger, love and acceptance. Each stroke, branding her soul, screaming at the heavens she was his.
Tension and lust burned between them. A living inferno of want and need. She felt his muscles tighten. His cock thickened, swelled, as did the urgency of his pace. She screamed his name as he erupted inside her. Hot jets seared her from the inside out.
Breath was a luxury that eluded her. She panted and gasped, fighting for air. Her body was coated in droplets of perspiration that pooled and trickled over her skin. Silent shudders racked her body as her body continued to milk him, a sweet torture she could become addicted to.
She folded her arms around his neck. “What have you done?”
He smiled against her lips. “Hopefully, I have shown you why you need to be with me.”
She closed her eyes. “You’ve tied us together. Made me addicted to you.”
Luca raised his head. “Is that what you think mating is? A chemical addiction?”
“Not a drug, but there are pheromones created that...”
“Lana, you’re mine. You can spout every scientific explanation known to man, and neither I nor my cat will care. It won’t change the fact that there is nothing you can do or say that will make me walk away. I won’t leave you.”
“But if Gerald kills me, you will die.”
Luca shrugged. “That is the way of mates. One doesn’t survive without the other.”
She sucked in a breath. “We haven’t mated yet.”
“No, but you are my mate. There will never be another regardless if you accept me.”
She looked away. She should not have let this happen. Her body had betrayed her. Her mind had never lost a battle. She had let emotion rule her and it would end in Luca’s destruction. “I have to find a cure. I need you to be free when the Kallans find me.”
Luca growled as his cat rose. Her insistence that she would end up in Kallan hands, that he couldn’t protect her was insufferable. He had waited over a hundred years for her. Fought beside man and beast alike, honing his skills, waiting for the opportunity to protect what was his. “Gerald will never touch you. You are mine.”
Her eyes flashed amber. The animal within her was close to the surface. “This isn’t just about Gerald. I have to save Colin.”
“Because he saved you?”
“No. Because I forced him to kill his brother to save me.” Her eyes glowed. “Could you kill your brother to save a woman you barely knew?”
Luca wanted to reassure her he’d do anything for her. But she wasn’t talking about saving a mate. Could he kill Liam to save an innocent woman? “I don’t know? What were the circumstances?”
She huffed. “Does it matter? Liam is your twin. You grew up together. Laughed together. Played baseball together. Joined the service together. Is there any circumstance in which you kill him?”
Luca sighed. “Yes, there is.”
Lana startled. “What is it?”
“Liam, Ryan, and I are the current enforcers for the lair. That means we protect our family because we are unmated. Now that I have found you, my brother will continue his duties without me.”
She shook her head. “I don’t understand. What duties?”
“We send enforcers to rein in unruly lair members. If a member of the lair is causing trouble in the human world, we are sent to intervene.”
Lana squinted. “What kind of trouble?”
“As you know, we become unstable if we don’t find our mate,” Luca said.
“Yes, this happens to the soldiers too, but you don’t have the physical degradation.”
Luca rubbed his chin. “We do, but it isn’t as pronounced and it doesn’t progress as fast as it does in the soldiers. We... put down members of our lair that get to this point because we can’t risk them exposing us or hurting innocents. The current enforcers take out any threat to the lair.”
“Are you saying that if Liam became unstable, if he didn’t find a mate, they would force you to kill him?”
“This is my last mission as an enforcer now that I have found you, but I would have to step aside and let Ryan or Nick kill him.”
She sucked in a breath. “That’s awful.”
“The Kallans only glorify the upside of being a shifter. The enhanced strength, agility and longer life span. Going stark raving mad, having your body deteriorate in unimaginable pain, knowing your family will have to kill you if you don’t find your mate is more than a downside.”
She nodded. “I didn’t know.”
“Of course not. Kallan wanted you focused on extending his and the soldiers’ life spans. He doesn’t care about lair politics. We are just a means to an end for him. Lab rats with long life spans.”
“I don’t know what to say. I didn’t know about the enforcers or their role within the shifter species. I got focused on the scientific differences of your species and forgot about the sociological ones.”
He kissed her because he had to. It wasn’t that she made a mistake. It was her quick acceptance that she had missed a major portion of his culture. Her compassion and kindness were gifts he would always be thankful for. The Kallans wanted her for her brain, but her heart would always mean more to him.
She responded to him as he knew she would. Her body lay pliant in his arms, accepting. She understood the science behind a mate. The chemical bond between them. She didn’t understand she was his everything. The light in a void of darkness. An oasis in the middle of the desert. She was the one piece of beauty in the center of a wasteland. He couldn’t explain what she was to him, but he hoped he could show her. Make her feel the way he did. He felt her stiffen. “What is it?”
“How do we save Liam?”
“Liam isn’t in danger, Lana. He has years before he starts to show signs of deterioration.”
She shook her head. “I won’t take that chance. We should test what we know about mating and see if there’s a way to match the shifters. To see if their mate is in a medical database.”
Luca kissed her. “Lana, I appreciate that you care about Liam. More than you can possibly comprehend, but there’s no way to test who his mate is or match her to him.”
Lana looked away, pursing her lips.
He turned her face back to his. “Lana?”
“It’s still in its experimental stage, but I may have found how pairing works.”
“What is pairing?”
“It’s the yin to your yang in the shifter sense. The opposing hormone that balances yours after mating.”
“Are you saying you could test a woman and tell if she was Liam’s mate?”
“Theoretically, if I had Liam’s DNA, I could test to see if his mate is in any medical database.”
“A database owned by the Kallan Corporation.”
“No, I mean any database anywhere. I mean, if Garrett could hack it.”
Luca squinted. “How do you know about Garrett?”
“Kevin, Jordan, and Camilla are all aware of his skills. You need to be careful with him.”
Luca’s muscles tightened. “You think they will kill him given the chance?”
She shook her head. “No way. They would abduct him and force him to work for them.”
He growled. “Garrett would never do that. He would die first.”
“Garrett would try, but once the shifter Meth got a hold of him. He would do anything to stop the pain.”
“That’s not happening.”
She watched Luca dress, trying not to be affected by his hard body. Each defined muscle begged her to reach out and trace them down to the strip of hair he was buttoning his jeans over. She wet her lips, wondering why her libido was so different with Luca. Cam had been gentle at first. Kind. Yet, she had never felt this kind of lust. Cam had been more of a comfort. An escape from the trauma of losing her parents. Her head snapped up when he spoke.
His amused look made her blush. “Lana?”
She gave him an irritated look. “It’s your fault. You’re too sexy.”
Luca winked. “Is that your expert medical opinion?”
Lana pulled on her clothes. “I don’t need be a doctor to know that any woman with a heartbeat would be attracted to you.”
Luca pulled her against his body. “I don’t care if other women find me attractive. I only want you. We need you.”
She looked down. “To stop from going mad. I understand.”
Luca growled. “I want you with every fiber of my being. So does my cat. That has nothing to do with the repercussions of not finding a mate. It’s because you are mine. I have waited over a hundred years for you, searching every corner of the earth.”
“You were in the military. That was part of...”
“Why do you think we serve? It’s so we can travel, stay in other countries, looking for our mate. Do you understand how hard being away from our native territory is?”
Lana squinted. “What are you talking about?”
“Our cats crave our natural habitat, our home, but they allow us to travel to non-indigenous environments for the sole purpose of finding a mate. We can’t leave our team in the middle of a mission when our cat misses his home terrain. We have to build a bond with our animal so that they trust us in every situation. My cat has raked beneath my skin because I waited too long to shift. The man in me wanted to serve my country while looking for my mate. My cat only wanted one thing. You.” He kissed her. A demand. A plea to understand what she meant to him. It was a command she was willing to oblige.
Her lips parted as his tongue swept between them. Her hands clutched his arms as heat raced through her body. She had just had him, yet it wasn’t enough. She craved him. The sensations. The pleasure that only he could give her. She clung to him. The one solid structure in a tornado of emotion. She snapped her head up when her cell phone chimed. “Oh no!”
Luca went on alert. “What is it?”
She grabbed her phone from her bag. “That’s Colin. He will only message me on this phone if it’s urgent.” She read the text.
Luca rested a hand on her back. “What does it say?”
Lana spun around. “Gerald knows we are here. Colin said you’re to get me to safety. That we have little time.”
Luca growled. “How does he know I’m with you?”
She shook her head. “I’m not sure, but my guess is Kevin’s watching you. I haven’t told Colin about you, so Kevin must have.”
“What is Colin’s game? What does he want?”
Lana swallowed hard. “To destroy Kevin Kallan before he dies. Camilla too if he has time, but Kevin is his primary target. He brought Cam to the program. Convinced Cam that he could save him.”
“He wants revenge,” Luca said.
“Yes. He wants to help me too and doesn’t care what happens to him. He doesn’t have any family left.”
“Except you,” Luca said.
Lana nodded as guilt squeezed her heart. “I ruined his life, and he feels responsible for me.”
Luca sighed. “I understand him wanting to save you. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for my sisters-in-law.”
“They are exceptional people, Luca. I met Racheal, and I walked away, knowing that something was wrong with her and Jordan’s relationship. I know Jane too. That she worked for Kevin to help Carla.”
“Did you meet Carla?”
Lana looked down. “Yes. I did some work on the hormone we gave her. I was trying to help her, but it didn’t work. Her mind didn’t start the healing process as I hoped.”
Luca’s chin dropped. “You created the serum Kevin gave Carla?”
“Yes. Kevin wanted me to give her a mating hormone, but I didn’t. I spliced several species of shifter DNA to create a serum I hoped would maximize healing. It didn’t work.”
“It did, Lana. She is healing, but she is also amid a transformation.”
Lana shook her head. “That isn’t possible. I gave her that serum two years ago. I checked on her before my... accident. She showed no signs of improvement, but I didn’t give her anything to enhance mating or a transition. Only her mate could do that.”
Luca grabbed her arm. “What are you saying?”
“I gave her several species of DNA. If she was ever near her mate, it may have triggered the serum to activate. She had to have been exposed to him after I left.”
