The Maverick Pride Tales - Chapter 23: Chapter 23

Hunter didn’t know what he did to deserve such a sexy as fuck mate, but he wasn’t about to question it. Not when worshipping her with his body was so much more fun.
He felt her pussy convulse around his tongue, and he worked harder. Sucking, licking, scraping his fang along her little bundle of nerves, and finally, flattening his tongue against her clit and purring until the sexy little she-Cat was screaming his name.
He could’ve enjoyed that position for quite some time, but his mate was pulling on his head until he came up, grinning.
“Mine,” he growled, and swept her off her feet.
Before her orgasm could completely cease, he flipped her over, settling her hands on the tile, and plunged into her welcoming heat from behind. Her ripe ass was perfect for cushioning his thrusts as he fucked her harder and faster than ever before.
Sure, they had explored each other, but she was a Shifter now. His sweet Elissa could take more, and he didn’t have to hold back. Her walls clenched tight around his erection, a second orgasm building strength as he fucked her hard against the wall of the shower.
“Fuck, baby, you feel so good. So tight, so hot. I love you so fucking much, my Nari, my mate,” he growled love and naughty words into her ear.
The cold tiles under her palms held her up as he pounded into her. Later he would make love to her slowly and thoroughly like she deserved, but right now, with his Tiger riding him hard, Hunter needed this.
He needed fast and hard. An acclimation of their mating, of her Puspa, of the strengthening and sealing of their matebond.
“Elissa,” he hissed.
“Gonna come, Hunter. Make me come,” she growled.
“Yes. Anything, mate. Come with me,” he commanded.
His beast would accept nothing less than her complete submission to his demand. And his Elissa seemed to know that. She was ready and willing, and wasn’t that fucking incredible?
“Yes, yes, yes!”
One, two, three more hard thrusts, and that was all it took. Hunter ground his dick into her, clutching her waist tightly in his hands, then he felt her shudder and he was right there with her.
His cock spurted his seed deep inside, coating his mate’s womb, marking her with his scent. Hunter felt his fangs elongate, and couldn’t help himself, he bit her right over her left shoulder, placing another mating mark on her smooth skin.
Fuck, he thought, going cross eyed with pleasure. His bite made her pussy squeeze him even tighter, milking every drop of cum from him.
“Mine!”
He roared, and the sound echoed off the shower walls. Several minutes later, after he’d towel dried both himself and his boneless and exhausted mate. Hunter held her, cradling her to him, in their warm, dry bed.
“Hunter?”
“Hmm?”
“What is going to happen to Blake?”
His animal tensed with the question. The beast was angry he hadn’t gone for the kill, but he understood tending to his mate was much more important than the insignificant male.
“He will be locked in a cell until the Council convenes to try him.”
“Are we safe? From him I mean?”
“Elissa,” he said, his voice thick with his animal.
“You are protected. Always. I would die to keep you safe.”
“I know, Hunter,” she replied, sighing his name.
“Can I ask another question?”
Her sweet voice was tired, but so full of contentment he could’ve died a happy man right then. He squeezed her against Him, kissing her forehead.
No, chuffed his beast.
The animal did not want to think about dying when he had a beautiful mate to take care of and impregnate with his cubs.
“Of course. What is it, my Nari?”
“Are you going to explain what happened to me?”
Once more, his anxiety rose. What if she was upset over the fact she was no longer human? Would she reject what had happened? Or worse, would she reject him?
He had no choice but to answer. His sweet mate deserved the truth from his lips.
“Our people call it Puspa,” Hunter began.
“Puspa, yes, I heard you say it before, but I thought never happened anymore,” she said shyly.
“No need for that now, my beautiful Nari. The Puspa is very rare, as is your white Tiger. You are a gift, my love. Unique, beautiful, and beyond comparison. The fact you were able to communicate to the animal with words that early is amazing. Some Shifters only ever get impressions and feelings from their beasts.”
“What do you mean?”
Elissa sat up and gazed at him with hauntingly beautiful brown eyes. Circled in thick, dark lashes, she blinked slowly. Hunter cleared his throat. He wanted her so badly, but he knew she needed this time to talk with him. To understand everything that had just happened to her.
“You are my Nari. A born leader. Alpha fem to all the Pride, and you are a white Bengal Tiger, sweet Elissa. That alone is very rare. Not to mention, you are also my fated mate. The Fates who decreed you mine also gifted you, us really, with the Puspa. It means blossoming. That is when a normal, or human, is taken as a mate and the union awakens what has always been inside of you.”
“So are you saying I was always a Shifter?”
“Not necessarily, though stranger things have happened, my love. Who knows how many people have latent Shifter genes? I mean, we’ve been here since the beginning too, so it isn’t all that farfetched.”
“I see,” she said, though he felt her confusion.
“You can ask me anything, my love, I will do my best to answer,” concern clouded his voice.
He wanted, no, he needed, her to trust him and to be as happy with their mating as he was.
“I guess I just wondered why the rest of the world doesn’t know about Shifters?”
“Oh, well, people see what they want to, my love,” he murmured and pressed his lips to her hair.
His Tiger settled, knowing that it was her curiosity that had her confused and not the state of her feelings.
“Hunter?”
“Yes, baby?”
The endearments fell from his tongue easily. Something that had never happened to him before, but he couldn’t help it.
“Is it too soon to tell you I think I love you?”
Her chin dug into his chest as she turned to look at him, the words slipping from her plump lips. Hunter’s heart squeezed in his chest, but he couldn’t speak. Not yet.
Fuck.
He was acting like a pussy. What was next? Was he going to tear up during diaper commercials and shit?
Grow up, the Tiger hissed, you love her. As you should. She is ours. Now tell her.
“Considering how much I love you, no, I don’t think it’s too soon.”
He turned, so that he was covering her with his body. Loving the way she opened up to receive him, Hunter leaned down and nuzzled her lips, kissing her with all the feelings he could not express with words.
The warm vanilla sugar flavor that was all her burst along his tongue as he tangled with hers. Needing some relief from the ever-present desire he felt for his mate, Hunter ran his erect shaft along the seam of her lips.
“I’m sorry I’m not good with words, but I swear to the gods, the Fates, the whole universe, I will love you with every inch of my being until I blink out of any and all existences, my love.”
“I love you so much,” she replied and mashed her mouth to his.
His cock nudged her slit, and the wetness there told him he was not alone in his need. She purred beneath him, and that was when he damn near lost his mind. The vibrations flowing through her to him made the teasing little strokes of his dick along her sex that much better.
“Shit, baby, gonna blow if you don’t stop that,” he growled at her.
She nipped his lip in response.
“Sorry,” she whispered, but her eyes said she wasn’t.
Elissa flexed her hips against his cock while lapping at the small drop of blood that welled up from where her fang had scraped the sensitive flesh. And if that wasn’t hot as fuck, he didn’t know what was.
But she didn’t stop there. His sweet as sugar, and apparently aggressive as hell mate, used her newly found Shifter strength to flip him over and reversed their positions.
“Fuck, Elissa,” he growled as she sat astride him.
Her blonde hair cascaded down her shoulder in a wave of gold as she raised her arms and lifted her hips. Claw tipped fingers gripping her hips, he tried to be gentle as she slid up and down his shaft.
She allowed his dick to pop free then found the tip with her sex, kissing it with her wet pussy lips before sliding back down and grinding into him. Every withdrawal and slide pushed his system into overdrive. He could barely hang on as she rode him good and hard.
“Hunter, so good, love,” she growled, and her brown eyes glowed gold as her pace increased.
“Take what you need, mate.”
“You. Need you.”
“That’s it. Ride me, baby, anything you want,” he said and truly he meant it.
“Mine,” she said.
Elissa scored her nails down his chest, the added bite of pain made his balls tighten, his cock eager to spew his seed deep inside her womb.
There was nothing as sexy as seeing his curvaceous, gorgeous mate riding him. Her eyes were glazed with lust, mouth open as she swerved her hips, grinding her pretty pussy on his cock.
She increased the pace, her channel twitching all around his shaft. It was fucking glorious. He felt every inch of her as she slid and swiveled, massaging him with her walls. Together they panted, and Hunter sat up. He teased her nipples with his tongue, finally sucking one into his mouth and tugging with his teeth.
The added bite seemed to give her more of what she needed. Hands gripping her hips, he forced her to move faster and harder on his dick. Her moans grew and so did the pressure building inside of him.
He thrust upwards, furiously pumping from beneath her sumptuous body. His dick ached with the need to come. But he needed her to reach the pinnacle before he did.
“Come for me, mate,” he growled, releasing her with one hand so he could thumb her sweet little clit.
One hard stroke had her moaning, back arching as she clung to his shoulders. The slapping sound of their bodies fucking was sweet music to his ears. He never wanted to stop, but he knew it was inevitable.
His mate bared her teeth, fangs elongated in her mouth. He saw her Tiger in her eyes and for once the Neta of the Maverick Pride bared his throat, succumbing to his mate’s bite with fierce pleasure he’d never savored before. As she sucked on the wound, his cock throbbed and pulsed within her tight heat.
Their matebond pulsed with new strength. Hunter himself was a fiery ball of need and lust for his mate. And more. So much more.
Possession, pride, caring, desire, heat, and love, yes love, burned throughout his entire body and both sides of his soul too. She was his now.
Forevermore.
Elissa moaned as she swallowed down his essence, her body convulsed around him. The force of her orgasm had him exploding inside of her. Hunter roared thunderously as he came. His claws pierced her hips, marking her again as his and his alone.
It slammed into him with all the force of a supernova. Momentarily blinded by the power of it, he moved on instinct, mashing his lips to hers.
Gasping for air, they kissed and nuzzled and held each other through all the shivers and moans in the aftermath of their furious yet gentle lovemaking.
“Love you,” she sighed.
“I love you, my Nari,” he whispered and kissed her lips. She purred softly and he nuzzled her neck, savoring the sweet warm smell of her.
She smelled like home. Her Tiger’s essence mixing her warm vanilla sugar scent with that of the Pride. He supposed that was just how things should be. She was his home now that they were mated.
Yes, the Tiger agreed.
Purrfectly mated.
He gave her one more kiss before he allowed exhaustion to claim them both. He wanted her again already, but that could wait. They had forever to be with each other.