When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Alpha Emris.

“Art competition?”

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I pull my shirt over my abs, which are… and I say this without exaggeration, genuinely on fire. Not metaphorically. Every muscle group from my shoulders to my hips has been reintroduced to its own existence in a way I did not ask for.

Honey’s two–day curriculum has left me feeling like I’ve been disassembled and put back together.

I got back as early as I could manage this morning specifically to see Demetra. I spent the night training and the whole drive back I was calculating when she’d be up, whether she’d already eaten, if there was any version of this morning where I could just be near her without it requiring a conversation. I would like that.

“Yeah.”

Demetra walks into the Alpha Groove and immediately her eyes do that thing where they move over me slowly like she’s taking inventory of what’s different.

Her floral perfume wafts into my nose as she sits on my bed. “What about you? I trust that you were training?”

“Yeah. How was the competition?”

“I won.”

“You didn’t tell me it was happening.”

“You have enough going on, Emris. I wasn’t going to add to that. Besides–it’s not like you tell me things either. You tell me what you feel like telling me, when you feel like telling me. So.”

I just stare at her.

She stares at me like until her face is getting red…pink creeping up her neck, coloring her cheeks, making her look like she’s the one who’s been fighting instead of me.

“Who… who has been training you?”

“Instructors from Wolf Arts-”

“What!!”

What?” I whisper back, confused.

“Um… you…you said Wolf Arts?”

“Yeah.” I squint at her. “What is it?”

“Nothing, I just ” She stands up from the bed already. “I just remembered I haven’t taken a phone call-”

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I catch her hand before she’s made it two steps, and I pull her back into my chest without giving her the option to argue about it. I put my hand under her chin, tilt her face up and I kiss her softly.

The moment I taste Demetra’s mouth, she tries to remove it from mine and I open my eyes because what the hell. That was good. Kissing her again like that makes me remember why I love the heck out of her.

“Kiss me,” I say. And I am, embarrassingly, begging.

Me. Emris Covenant.

Her chest heaves against mine and there’s no other time to apologize.

“I know I’ve been a scum. I only want the best for you. So when I hide myself, it’s because I’m scared that I’ll lose you again.” I hold her face in my hands.

“I love you, Demetra.”

I feel her breath shift against my hands.

Her lips part. But I can tell she’s still upset, so I kiss her forehead. Then her nose. Then her lips again. And I slide down all the way until I’m on my knees in front of her as the Alpha of the Black Covenant Pack, on his knees for his Luna.

“Five years ago, I let you see my eye when there were slits because I didn’t care if you saw the worst of me.” I look up at her from there and I don’t feel diminished by it.

“You know the kind of person I was back then, Demi. And now I’m trying… every single day I’m trying to hold it together, to be the Alpha this pack deserves, to be the father Amira and Milo deserve. I want to be the best for all of you.”

“And you are,” Demetra’s voice breaks on it slightly. Her hands come down to my arms and she looks at me with an expression that undoes everything I’ve been holding rigid for weeks, and then she’s lowering herself to her knees in front of me and pulls me into her.

“Emris, you are. I love you. I loved you when you were sharp and impossible to reach…why would I love you any less now that you’re trying? Don’t you dare say that again.” She pulls back and holds my face in both hands with wet, furious cheeks.

“Don’t you dare.”

I hug her all the way. Then I notice….with something close to gratitude toward my wolf for the timing…the bruising on my chest from the training has healed.

I pick Demetra with my strength and make her wrap her legs around me as I stare at her mildly puffy face. Her eyes are red. Her nose is pink. She’s never looked more beautiful.

“Oh no, did I make my Luna cry?” I kiss her softly, and she smiles….unable to keep on that worried face. I set my hand under her ass and make her bounce slightly as I walk around the room.

She fights the smile. Loses. “Stop-”

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I bounce her once, just to hear the sound she makes, and she laughs despite herself… that real one, the one she can’t manufacture or suppress and I carry her in a slow circle around the room purely for the joy of it until she’s telling me to stop through laughter and I tip us both onto the bed in a controlled collapse.

Demetra’s hair spreads out and her hand lands on my chest.

Then I see her mouth do that pout.

“Say it,” I put my hand on her thigh and work my way up slowly.

“You and Riley.”

“There’s nothing—”

“You slept with her, Emris.” She sits up.

But I put my hand on her belly to bring Demetra back to the bed so she’s facing me again.

“And I genuinely don’t remember it. I’m sorry for having a few minutes stand with her, I swear….I was half drunk when I-”

“Oh please, do not give me details about that!”

“Okay, okay.” I hold up both hands. “I don’t want to talk about it either. It was nothing, and trust me, it’s insignificant. It was before you were my mate. We can fire her-”

“We’re not firing her! That will look like I’m a jealous Luna.”

I watch the way her brow furrow.

“Okay. So… what do you wanna to do?”

Demetra looks at me deviously amidst the frown, and I don’t need to be told again. First thing I do is take the patch off my eye so she can see me.

I come in for a kiss and she meets me halfway. I part her lips with my tongue like I’m unlocking a door I already own the keys to. She tastes sweet and that makes my jaw ache with want. I push deeper, curling my tongue against hers, and she moans into my mouth. That sound travels straight down my spine-

Her hands find my shoulders. I take that as permission to shift her body from the bed to me, guiding her until she’s rising above me, her knees bracket my hip. She’s still kissing me like she’s trying to swallow my soul, I let her.

Demetra breaks the kiss just long enough to pull the top she’s wearing over her head. I watch her in a bra.

Just lace and skin and the faint shadow of her nipples underneath. She reaches behind her back and unhooks

1. it.

Her tits look at me-

That’s the only way to describe it. They’re looking at me and I am looking back like a starving wolf who just

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found a feast.

I rip my shirt over my head!

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My mouth finds her left breast first. I close my lips around her nipple and I suck. She gasps, back arching, and I feel her clench around nothing but the air between her thighs. I suck until her nipple hardens against my tongue, until it’s a tight little pearl I can roll and tug and torment. Then I switch to the other one. Give it the same treatment. She deserves fairness.

Her hands cup the back of my head, holding me there like she’s afraid I’ll stop. I won’t.

Demi’s fingers thread through my hair and she moans something above me….something about how hard my body is.

I pull my mouth off her just long enough to say, “Thank Honey for that.”

She pushes me back against the bed and both her tits are red from my mouth. Gorgeous.

She’s been sitting on me this whole time so she already knows I’m throbbing against the fabric of my joggers like a prisoner begging for release. She unties the drawstring with fast fingers.

That heavy–lidded, heat–soaked look on her face could start a fire.

I lift my hips so she can pull the waistband down. My length strikes free. She wraps her hand around me and I hiss through my teeth as her delicate fingers struggles to circle all of me.

Demetra positions herself to collect the synergy of my erection. Just the head. Just the first, devastating inch and my hands find her waist! Shaking. I’m shaking and I lose my mind.

Yet greedy…as I hold her hips. I’m still shaking and I can’t stop it.

She sinks down. Slow.

Moons, she’s slow. Her core is wicked tight like she’s trying to decide whether to let me in or keep me out forever. I feel every inch of her surrender and her mouth falls open.

And then she starts to move. Demetra rises up on her knees until I’m almost all the way out, then she drops

back down and takes me to the hilt.

I watch her fingers curl in her hair and her whole body roll with the motion of her hips grinding down on me. I’m sweating like an idiotic idiot.

It drips down my temples. Down my neck. Down my chest, pooling in the hollow of my collarbone.

I’m gritting my teeth so hard my jaw aches. My neck muscles, veins are standing out, every with the effort of not coming undone right now.

Demetra bounces on me. Not gentle but Wrecklessly. She’s riding me like she’s trying to break us both. Her thighs slap against my hips with every downward stroke.

“You like that…..AH!?” she pants and I can do is growl!

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Every time she comes down, my girth stretches her and I can feel her grip and milk me until I feel every single pulse like a heartbeat in my arrogant cock until my mouth is just hanging open and all I can do is shake.

“De…Demi! Demi!”

I yell a paralyzed wolf’s last word before the darkness takes him. My back arches off the bed. My head presses into the pillow. My mouth is just open…tongue slack with no sound left to make except her name.

I hold her hips. White–knuckled as I finish. She shatters at the same time I do as her hips jerk. The blue in my formerly patched eyes clears as she collapses onto my chest and her tits press against my heaving ribs. My lips find Demi’s neck and for a long moment, neither of us moves.

I stroke her back with trembling fingers and think: now I’m ready to destroy Lake.

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