When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Emris.

It started as a death mission. Now it’s pure dopamine flooding through every cell of my body.

I watch as she takes one thin strap of her sleepwear and pulls it down her shoulder. Then the second. The fabric hesitates for just a moment before sliding down to reveal her breasts.

Her breasts. They’re pale as fresh milk yet impossibly, cruelly perky. They’re exactly as I remember from that frenzied moment in the storage room. But now there’s no rush. Now they just… stare back at me. And her nipples, the color of deep, earthy beets, are drawn tight, begging.

My lips part without my permission. My heart is a ship wreck against my ribs, trying to batter its way out just to get closer to her. Just as the last of the fabric slips away, her little innocent–looking fingers come up. They begin to run over her own skin in a slow, torturous manner She cups the weight of one full breast, then the other, a private show for an audience of one.

Something in my mind shatters.

It’s not blood lust rushing through my veins. It’s something worse. Something better. Lust so powerful it wipes out everything else…the anger, the betrayal, the mission I came here for. All of it, gone. I lay flat when she starts crawling toward me on the bed. I am truly, utterly and completely surrendered. My muscles combust.

I can’t breathe and I don’t want to.

Demetra comes above me and her breasts brush against my

face.

I capture her nipple with my mouth and suck like I’m starving! Like I’ve been wandering a desert for four

years

and she’s the first water I’ve found. My mouth fills with her and I suck harder, drawing a loud gasp from her throat.

My hands grab her small waist, and by my Alpha nature, the one I can never quite shake, takes over. It’s aggressive, this need. It’s in my blood. I grab her and make her sit on my stomach. My teeth graze, then mark the soft of her other breast. Not hard enough to break skin, but hard enough she’ll feel the claim

tomorrow.

“Emris…” she moans. “Emris… Emris…”

I suck until it’s swollen, squeeze the other, then switch. Then I can’t wait anymore. I need her mouth. I surge up and capture hers in a kiss that’s anything but gentle.

Filthy doesn’t cover it. I’m an adamant kisser. I always have been. I pour every ounce of pent–up, desperate lust into that kiss until her body goes limp, until she can’t breathe and she pushes me back against the bed, breaking the seal.

Demetra’s eyes are wild.

“No touching,” she breathes a shaky command.

I can’t control myself but I have to obey. I lay back with my breath sawing in and out, my chest heaving so high it’s almost painful. My hands are fisting the sheets, and they’re shaking. They’re actually shaking. I am

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the Alpha of this broken world, and my hands are trembling because I can’t touch her breasts

She’s seated on me now and I force myself to watch.

As she settles herself, I can feel the heat of her through my pants. Her hand drifts down and finds the aching length of me. So very hard. Her small palm traces the long line of my stoked girth and a shaky surprise flash in her eyes as she truly feels what I’m packing. She gets the zipper down, and I impatiently shove my pants past my hips, freeing myself from my underwear.

My jewel springs up as a monument to my need.

The first thing I feel is her sinking down around me. My eyes are already screwed shut, jaw locked because if I look at her now, I’ll lose it. I feel her hands fumbling against my chest to steady herself and pressing into my skin then she starts to move.

Demetra is so goddamn slow about it! Her thighs are shaking against my hips, and I can feel every nerving lust. She’s so warm. So tight for me. She starts to roll her waist, this shy, circular grind that has my head pressing back into the pillow and a growling sound out of my throat that I don’t recognize.

My instinct is to take over, to show her how it’s really done and dictate the pace, to pump up into her and remind her who’s in charge. But the second I try, my head sinks back into the pillow with a broken sound I’ve never heard myself make. I can’t. I can’t move.

She throws her head back with a cry, “Ahhh!,” and moons, her tits are bouncing the air in a glorious sight! I can only lie there, a so–called Alpha, reduced to a shaking mess under her. My hips surge up to that juicy house that’s taking my person and instantly, I’m seeing stars.

I can’t even form words, just animalistic pleasure as she takes me, takes me, takes me over and over again. I’m shaking. Tears are coming out of both my eyes…what is this!? No…can she see the tears forming in my eyes? That’s not me. I’m the beast in bed, the one who growls while she cries!

“AH.” I moan.

My whole body is trembling like I’m a green boy and not a fucking Alpha who’s had omegas dripping from his knot for years. None of them ever felt like this. None of them ever made me shake.

Demetra rocks me filthily till my calves are on fire. She’s riding me like she’s trying to pull my soul out through my person, grinding down, taking me deeper, faster-

And I’m shaking.

I’m actually shaking. I can’t think, can’t breathe, can’t do anything but moan her name. My mouth is

as she takes me over and over until I feel that white–hot pressure in my spine- hanging open, gasping,

I explode

Side her. Groaning, shuddering, spilling everything I have into her warmth!

And then she shar

too, right on top of me, crying out as she falls forward onto my chest. My arms are around her before I even decide to move. My mouth finds her jaw, her neck, breathing her in as we both fight to remember how lungs work.

I look at her face in the silence.

The dim light from her window catches the curve of her check. My eyes capture the parting of her lips.

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In the present. Demetra throws a coa cover over my length, like seeing it might take make I’m still lying on her bed like some love love–sick idiot. It’s so comfortable I don’t

aut’s wort Y.“You said it was an abomination and vend yet you rode me like your lover hasn’t been eng no not been enjoying his game? You scen were med really… shaky.”

You were crying-”

I wasn’t crying!” I defend myself immediatediately. Her face softens like she’s about to boutols stops herself just as fast.

LeLeave. I don’t want your scent on my bed Bed. Plus, the party will end soon.”

Lellerine meet him.” I say it before I can thinkthink.

Heter eyes narrow. “What?”

Iraivaise my body from her bed. “I need some ques questions answered before I reject you. One..1 wa yourlor tover. Two. I want to know how you became one Metra. Not the biography you have out the dead cal or what happened after I-

“Afterforyou sent me out of your life with nothing anu and a- She stops herself suddenly from what was about to say. I wonder what that was.

“Thre.se who the father of your daughter is.

Her eyes vea darken again at that. It’s a secret I’m apparendyently never meant to know.

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get up, naked, and stand before her agamarainst the skyline of her window. She looks ce she no always used to. Even now, after everything, she, she still finds it hard to look at my beast

ons, including what swings between my legs. It’s good to see that part of her still exists.

to that she literally let me get torn apart by burgbonghests.

ne noi remember why I came here. To hunt Star Slade. But looking at her now, it feels in ke, il alcali it impossible.

leave. Show whispers it, studying her nails as I pull on my cloth clothes.

Something tells me this will happen again.”

She looks at me shasharply Do you not even feel guilty?”

I realize it now. She’s tex feeling guilty because she’s Demetra. Pure soni aculet the end of the day. She coming between me and nd my marriage…a marriage that isn’t even real rat if I’m honest with myself.

“I made a child with kichina on a drunk night.” I say quietly. “She was in miner bed and it still had yo it. I was mourning the los dos of you. I thought it was you and that’s how Mic vile was conceived. I pau since that day, it’s never apappened again.”

I expect to see something my her eyes. Emotion. Shock to hear that I’ve been ben mourning her depa

Instead, a bitter scowi twist hier lips.

“You must think I’m the sun siz grapid Demetra. Naive. Easy to break. Easy to chase hase back and fort

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In the present, Demetra throws a cover over my length, like seeing it might make her want another round I’m still lying on her bed like some love–sick idiot. It’s so comfortable I don’t want to get up.

“You

was an abomination and yet you rode me like your lover hasn’t been giving it to you. Have you

ying his game? You seemed really… shaky.

ing-”

erying!” I defend myself immediately. Her face softens like she’s about to laugh at me, but she herself just as fast.

Leave. I don’t want your scent on my bed. Plus, the party will end soon.”

“Let me meet him.” I say it before I can think.

Her eyes narrow. “What?”

I raise my body from her bed your lover. Two, I want to deal of what happened

“After you sent m was about

“Thre

questions answered before I reject you. One…I want to know came Metra. Not the biography you have out there. The real

nothing and a-” She stops herself suddenly from whatever she

was.

daughter is.”

1. t. It’s a secret I’m apparently never meant to know.

aked, and stand before her against the skyline of her window. She looks away shyly, sed to. Even now, after everything, she still finds it hard to look at my beastly ing what swings between my legs. It’s good to see that part of her still exists, separate she literally let me get torn apart by barghests.

now I remember why I came here. To hurt Slade. But looking at her now, it feels impossible. e, I’ll call it impossible.

ave.” She whispers it, studying her nails as I pull on my clothes.

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ure soul at the end of the day. She thinks she’s arriage that isn’t even real if I’m honest with myself.

unk night.” I say quietly. “She was in my bed, and it still had your scent in ou. I thought it was you and that’s how Milo was conceived.” I pause. “But pened again.”

ig in her eyes. Emotion. Shock to hear that I’ve been mourning her departure.

I twists her lips.

m the same stupid Demetra. Naïve. Easy to break. Easy to chase back and forth. Even if I

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found out you and Elena were never married, it wouldn’t mean a thing to me. I can’t wait to end this bond with you.”

She points at the door.

1. w. Get. Out.”

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