Page 85 of Moon Craving

the offer. He rolled off her to lie on his side. Keeping grasp of her wrists, the position still

left him the freedom he needed to touch her body and make her ready for the physical

claiming.

She mewled at the loss of his weight and began to thrash her legs, undulating her

body in beautiful, abandoned need. He had to throw one thigh over hers to keep her in

place beside him.

Then he set about ensuring her arousal reached a fever pitch through which she

would be only marginally aware of the pain that breaching her maidenhead would

inevitably cause. He kneaded her breasts, teasing her nipples until she cried out in

mindless desire.

He had touched every inch of her silken skin in the hot springs and he wanted to do

so again, but both their need called out to him with too much urgency. He allowed his

hand to slide down to the juncture of her thighs, sliding his middle finger between her

swollen, wet labia.

He had not breached her vaginal opening beyond a fingertip during his nightly

explorations of her body in their tent, but now he allowed himself to press deeper. He

stopped only when he felt the supple barrier of her virginity.

She made a small, pained sound and he comforted her with small tender kisses on

her face and neck. He whispered promises and compliments she did not respond to. The

part of his brain that still functioned on a fully human level was grateful she was so lost to

her desire she wasn't making sense of his words.

He would feel like an idiot later for saying them otherwise.

He did not pull his finger out, but massaged the thin barrier inside her body, that

which proved she had not played love games as he heard many in the English Court

indulged in. He had been told that the English Court actually revered love between parties

married or promised to others as some sort of romantic ideal.

Both he and his wolf found the concept utterly distasteful.

And his beautiful, sensual bride was clearly not a practicing participant in such

ludicrous games. She was wholly innocent and deserving of all his consideration for their

first claiming.