Challenging the Alpha (Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Romance) by Joanna Wilson Page B

was the fact that Sin trusted her with something he had probably never trusted with anyone that allowed her to regain her control.
     
    Sapphire lowered her head and slowly swiveled her tongue against the tip, tasting her mate in the most primal way. Gently but firmly, she begun to tug at the skin at the base of his cock, licking away the small drops of pre-cum as they sprung up to the tip. She held Sin there: teetering on the edge, held between this moment and the next, waiting, wondering, wishing.
     
    All at once, Sapphire removed her mouth and exerted a gentle pressure at his base; "Not yet." The two words were whispered jaggedly. She relaxed her hand and released him.
     
    She rose fluidly and stepped back until she felt the bed hit the backs of her knees. And then she fell, letting gravity take her and crush her into the mattress. "I want you, Mate. Come." Sapphire demanded, lifting her legs and pulling off her panties.
     
    Sapphire felt him before she heard him, felt the strong, sure heat of his cock press into her. There was no more foreplay. He was too far gone and Sapphire wouldn't have had it any other way. She lifted her legs and wrapped them high around his waist and thrust up as he thrust down, slamming home inside her body.
     
    Poised on the edge of the bed, Sapphire arched her neck, clenched down tight around Sin’s cock and came. Not a heartbeat later he was with her, flooding her body with heat; and it was perfect, just what she needed.
     
    Sapphire tugged Sin down to her, burying her nose in the soft fragrance of his hair. "Thank you, Sin." She whispered, gripping him to her tightly.
     
    "Sapphire, I--" She could hear him begin but she wasn't ready. She wasn't ready to say it, and certainly wasn't ready to hear it. "Sin, I-I can't. Please… I just--let me have this moment."
     
    Sapphire felt Sin gently pull away from her, and Sapphire felt the moment was over. Even as he picked her up and gently stripped her, she felt a rift between them, one she had created.
     
    In a matter of seconds, Sapphire found herself naked, lying against Sin's chest, covered by blankets at what was probably still only late afternoon. So much lay between them, not just about her brother, but so much more, and Sapphire just wasn't sure how to get through it.
     
    "It's fine, Mate. We’ll talk about it later. Sleep now." Sin breathed into her hair.
     
    Sapphire opened her mouth, a thousand things she could say buzzing through her mind, but she kept her mouth shut. Settling more firmly onto Sin, Sapphire closed her eyes and took the coward’s way out.

 
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    Sapphire slithered around a corner, feeling the sharp stones cut into her back and thighs. Before the guard could even sense her, she wrapped her hand around his throat in a choke hold and quietly set him down on the wall after he passed out.
     
    A deep sigh of relief left her as she leaped off the wall and onto the back of the SUV she’d “borrowed” from the compound.
     
    She slid in and put the key to the ignition. The engine awoke with a purr as Sapphire pulled out of the gate and away from her mate. I’ll be back. She reminded herself, reaching for the cellphone she had filched off the guard and punching in Maxine’s number.
     
    Sapphire wiped at the tears in her corners of her eyes. Being separated from her mate felt like a physical blow with every mile she travelled. It was only a matter of time before Sin woke up and found out she was gone.
     
    “Hello?” Sapphire heard Maxine suppress a yawn.
     
    “Max?” Sapphire kept her voice neutral and soft.
     
    “Fire? Is that you?” Max asked, the only one able to use that nickname for Sapphire, and that was only because Max had come up with it.
     
    “The one and only.” Sapphire answered, forcing herself to smile. She was pissed off that she felt such a connection to a man she’d known less than a week and a half. But as Sin had reminded her time and time again, it was the mating