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  Madison grabbed the sponge and scrubbed across her body quickly, trying to ignore the way it felt gliding across her skin, the feel of the slick soap. She hurried through the task.

  She’d just wrapped a towel around herself when someone knocked on her door. Madison hurried to the door to open it a crack and peek around the edge. She gasped. It was Mr. Gentry!

  “You dare to open the door dressed like that without knowing who it is?” he growled in obvious outrage as he put the flat of his hand against the partially closed door and pushed it open. He glanced over his shoulder to nod at a large man standing in the hall as he herded her backwards, closing the door behind him.

  “Wh… what are you doing here?” Madison asked nervously, chewing on her bottom lip. As his scent wrapped around her once again, her sex clenched tightly, sending a shudder through her too sensitive body.

  He glared down at her. “You know why I am here. I told you, you belong to me.”

  “No! I don’t belong…” Madison gasped when he stopped her tirade by grabbing her and jerking her flush against him.

  “You know you’re mine as well as I do. Your body weeps for me as we speak. Do you deny this?” he asked her silkily.

  Madison was mortified; she felt her cheeks heat. “It does not!”

  A growl of displeasure buffeted her as he stripped the towel from her body, one arm wrapped around her to cradle her against his side while the other hand delved firmly between her thighs, slipping a finger into her tender slit. “You are soaking wet, mate, and your body begs for my possession.” When she started shaking her head to negate his words, he captured her chin with his fingers.

  Madison closed her eyes, humiliated by the feel of her own wetness on the fingers grasping her face.

  * * *

  “Look at me!” Jared waited until she complied by opening her big green eyes to his gaze before speaking. “I will not allow you to lie to yourself, Madison, and by the time I am finished with you tonight I can guarantee you will never attempt to lie to me again.”

  When she gave a little gasping mewl of helpless desire, he cuddled her closer for a minute, running a soothing hand down her back.

  “I know the mating heat runs hot in you, little one, and I promise I will ease your need, but first we have to deal with your behavior.”

  He lifted her in his arms and carried her to the bed in the corner of the room. Jared tried not to look too much at the dingy walls. When he’d seen the building and the area in which his mate had been living, Jared had wanted to howl with anger. Only the knowledge that he wouldn’t be leaving her here calmed him.

  Jared sat on the edge of the bed with her straddling him on his lap so she had to face him, and he placed a finger beneath her chin to lift her gaze to his once again. “You ran from me.”

  Madison frowned, uncomfortable to be in such an intimate positon. “We were done. I came home.”

  “You knew we were not done.”

  She gave a nervous laugh. “I didn’t know anything of the sort.” Madison closed her eyes as if he would allow her to hide from him.

  A firm shake made her eyes spring back open. “You will not lie to me! Trust me, mate, you do not want to make any further trouble for yourself today. You are in enough already.”

  “T-trouble?” she asked, chewing her lip again in worry.

  “You ran from me, left the safety of my building, attempted to deny me as your mate, and have lied to me several times. You do not want to add to my list of grievances,” Jared said as he stood her between his thighs; she was so short that his eyes were even with hers while sitting. He held her firmly in place before him. “What do you have to say for yourself, young lady?”

  Madison blinked. “I… um… I’m sorry?”

  “No, you aren’t,” he said with a smile. “You still don’t understand enough about our relationship; you’re my mate, my other half; and you need me as much as I need you. I will love and cherish you, and you will obey me.”

  * * *

  He would love her? She looked at him suddenly filled with longing. Surely he didn’t mean that, he didn’t even know her really.

  “Madison,” he said firmly, clearly trying to get her attention focused again. Jared nodded when her eyes cleared again and focused back on his own. “You will never run from me again. Do you understand?”

  “Yes?”

  “You will never attack a member of my guard again. Do you understand?” His stern countenance allowed no room for anything but an affirmative answer.

  “Yes.”

  “You will never attempt to lie to me again for any reason. Do you understand?”

  “Yes,” she answered softly again.

  Madison didn’t really understand what he wanted but his fierce expression was filling her tummy with butterflies and she just wanted them to go away.

  “Now you will take your punishment and we will move on from here,” he told her resolutely.

  Madison’s eyes sprang open wide in alarm. “Punishment?”

  “Yes. I dislike having to spank you so soon, but I will begin as I mean to go on. You will not run from me or defy me for any reason,” he said before pulling her to lie face down across his strong thighs. “This will be a short punishment to give you an understanding of what will happen should you misbehave again.”

  Madison tried to flip off his lap frantically but he held her easily, one big hand resting on the small of her back as his right leg lifted to scissor across the back of her thighs, leaving her bottom arched high across his left leg in a perfect target. “Noo! You can’t!”

  Jared ignored her protest and showed her he could by simply bringing his right hand down hard on her bottom, leaving a hot sting in its wake.

  “Oww!” she yelled in response.

  He wasted no time dragging things out with further explanations. His hand began to fall in a rapid flurry of swats covering her entire backside in what felt like angry bee stings. Madison jerked and yelped as his hand fell again and again. He paid special attention to the tender crease where her bottom met her thighs.

  Madison would have been frantically wiggling her bottom to relieve the sting if he didn’t still have her pinned so tightly. When his hand stopped falling and came to rest lightly on her hot bottom, she shivered in response. The heat from her well-spanked bottom was beginning to spread into other areas.

  “Are you ever going to run from me again?” Jared asked Madison just before he delivered a volley of five swats harder than any of the others.

  “No!” she cried, desperate to end the spanking.

  “No, what?” Five more hard swats followed.

  “No, sir!”

  “Are you going to lie to me again?” Again five even harder swats followed the question.

  “No, sir!” She wailed the words this time.

  “Are you ever going to attack any of my guards or any other males?”

  “No, sir!” Madison yelled before his hand had a chance to fall.

  Madison groaned as he started to rub, skimming his hand lightly across her scorched flesh as he unscissored his legs to give him better access. She moaned in response and his hand slid down her globes, his fingers trailing into the cleft of her bottom.

  Madison forgot the spanking and her burning bottom as the needs of her body took precedence and she opened her thighs for him. She was rewarded with two fingers sinking deep inside; he positioned her on his knee so it pressed against her clit every time she moved with the thrust of his fingers.

  He withdrew his fingers to return them with a third as the hand on her back urged her to press firmly and rhythmically against his knee while his fingers thrust hard and deep.

  Madison’s back arched as she came loudly across his lap.

  Jared flipped her from his lap onto her back across the bed and pulled her legs over his shoulders in almost the same movement. The feel of his hands cupping her stinging bottom as he held her while his tongue licked through her wetness sent her up another peak.


  “Jared!” she screamed as he drove her quickly to another orgasm, his tongue continuing its sensual torture, alternating between circling her throbbing clit and sinking deep inside her in firm strokes that were driving her wild.

  “Please!” Madison yelled as she thrust herself against his face. He sent her completely over the edge again when he slid one broad finger into her ass; she wrapped her thighs about him even tighter as she screamed her release.

  Almost before she was finished he had flipped her to her tummy, lifting her knees to the edge of the mattress as he joined them in one hard thrust.

  Jared pushed his finger back inside the tight pucker of her bottom as he rode her hard and fast bringing her higher and higher, then stilling inside her just when she was about to fly.

  “Nooo! Please, Jared… please,” Madison panted and tried to thrust back against him but he held her fast with one hand on her hip.

  He added another finger to her ass and scissored them inside her, bringing a soft scream from her in response. Jared nipped her lightly on the ear before whispering, “If you ever run from me again, I will paddle you until you can’t sit for a week and then I will take this tight little hole.”

  Madison felt herself get even wetter around him at his words. She couldn’t believe how hot his gruffly spoken words made her.

  He began to pound into her again as he moved his fingers in her ass, again stopping before she could topple over the edge.

  “You belong to me! Say it!” he commanded.

  “I belong to you!” Madison yelled.

  Jared began to slam into her so hard and fast it took her breath; he removed his fingers to slap her hard across her still tender bottom, which sent her screaming into her release as he continued to pound into her contracting sheath.

  “You will never leave me again!” he roared, still thrusting relentlessly.

  “I’ll never leave you, I belong to you forever!” she cried as he sent her over the edge into another mind-blowing climax.

  “Again,” Jared said firmly.

  “I can’t,” she whimpered hoarsely.

  He showed her she could three more times before he gave into his own needs and growled his release, sinking his teeth deep in her shoulder as he came.

  At the feel of his teeth piercing her flesh, Madison gave another silent scream of release as she shuddered beneath him.

  * * *

  “That’s it, baby, milk me with everything you’ve got,” Jared said as the hard spasms of her sheath wrung every last drop of his seed from him. The feel of her coming around him and squeezing his cock so tightly as if her body would never let him go was almost enough to make him lose consciousness.

  Madison was almost asleep before he withdrew from her, the pull on her sore sheath bringing a sleepy whimper.

  Jared pulled her into his arms and put her beneath the covers with him before wrapping himself around her body. He smiled as Madison relaxed and sank bonelessly into him with a sigh.

  She now knew how completely she belonged to him and understood she was his mate. Jared wasn’t worried she would run again, largely because he’d taken her past the point of exhaustion and beyond.

  He contentedly snuggled his mate. Tomorrow would be soon enough to explain he was a werewolf. Jared frowned into the dark room as he wondered how long it would take to broach the topic of Ethan as their third.

  He only hoped his second could be patient.

  Chapter Three

  “I am not moving, Mr. Gentry,” Madison said firmly, crossing her arms across her chest as she frowned up at the large male glaring down at her.

  “Don’t call me Mr. Gentry. There is no way I am leaving you in this neighborhood living in a tenement!”

  “This is my home!” Madison exclaimed.

  “Your home is with me,” Jared said firmly.

  “My home is where I say it is!” Madison said, poking a finger into his chest.

  Jared grabbed her hand and leaned down to toss her over his shoulder. “I grow weary of this conversation, mate. We’re going home.”

  “Put me down, you hulking bully!” Madison shrieked and then tried to punch him in the kidney.

  A hard hand fell on her upturned bottom in retaliation.

  “Oww!” Madison yelped; her poor bottom was very tender still from the spanking the night before. Madison was sure she would feel it every time she sat down for a day or two. “That hurt!”

  “Don’t provoke me, Madison; your bottom would definitely not appreciate another lesson so soon.”

  “That wasn’t a lesson, it was brutality!” Madison groused loudly. In truth, though her bottom was terribly sore, just the thought of being across his knee brought moisture flooding between her thighs and she’d felt the swat he’d just delivered all the way to her core.

  She never would have thought she’d respond so fundamentally to such a dominant male. He truly was what his man Ethan called him, Alpha.

  Ethan was just as beautiful as Jared, a little shorter but even broader across the chest. His hair was brown with a hint of red, and his eyes were a warm hazel—though his seemed to swirl with amber sometimes too when their eyes met.

  Every time he walked into the room he watched her hungrily and an answering throb rose between her legs in response. It was shocking to realize after years of not responding to any man that she was a slut beneath all of her reserve.

  “We will discuss what you will and won’t do more once we get home and back on pack lands, Madison. Ethan, you and a few others pack up her things and bring them to the estate.”

  Jared carried Madison to his car, the driver opened the back door to the limo, and Jared swung her around to cradle her and stepped into the car with her cuddled to his chest.

  Once seated in the back, he turned her so she straddled his lap. “Where is your home, Madison?”

  Madison didn’t feel nearly as brave in such close quarters while straddling his thighs. She’d known before she went to sleep the night before that Jared was her future, so she wasn’t sure why she woke so determined to fight him every step of the way.

  She knew she belonged to him, Madison felt it in every fiber of her being, but she was determined to ensure he knew it went both ways; if she belonged to him, then he belonged to her too. If she was tying herself to this man forever, she wouldn’t be sharing him.

  She glared at him, crossing her arms over her generous chest once again.

  “Madison?” he growled warningly.

  As hot as the idea of a spanking was right now, her bottom couldn’t take another one. “Fine! My home is with you, you big bully!”

  Jared smiled and kissed her deeply, stroking his tongue alongside hers until she was panting.

  He pulled away and pressed his forehead to hers while he calmed himself. “Why must you fight me so, Madison?”

  The slight hurt tone in his voice made a twinge of guilt clench in her heart. Madison didn’t like it. Why should she feel guilty?

  She sighed and replied in a very small voice, “I’m afraid you’ll consume me so completely, I’ll cease to exist.”

  Jared obviously heard the very real fear in her voice and responded to it by crushing her to his chest to comfort her. “No, baby, you’ll never disappear. I need you as much as you need me. You complete me. I know the mating heat can be scary at first. The intensity during the claiming period is legendary with my people. Though we will always be explosive together and want each other, the ache making you desperate for me will only occur after the claiming period if you are ovulating.”

  “Your people? Why do you keep saying mating heat and pack?” She was halfway afraid of his answer.

  “I’m a wolf,” Jared stated simply.

  When she only looked at him in disbelief, he allowed his eyes to glow and his fangs to drop as his face elongated.

  “You’re a werewolf!”

  When she would have climbed off his lap, he held her there and forced her thighs down until her cleft rode the erection tucked into
his jeans.

  Madison groaned in response as he continued to rock her against him. “We are not the half man, half beast creatures of Hollywood. We turn into actual wolves, though our species is much larger than natural wolves. I am a wolf and you, my dear Madison, are my mate.”

  Madison wasn’t as shocked as she pretended to be and she was more intrigued than afraid. “Can I see you change?”

  “Not until I am certain you are completely committed to me and our life together. It would be too dangerous to expose you to my wolf until both he and I are completely sure of you,” Jared explained regretfully.

  “Your wolf would kill me?” she asked in alarm.

  “No, baby, neither my wolf or I would ever harm a hair on your head, but if you tried to run or reject me in that form, the wolf would take you and could accidently hurt you in the process.”

  Madison swallowed, more than a little disturbed by the disclosure. “Can you control yourself and keep from changing around me?”

  “Of course I can, Madison. I am the alpha, but in my wolf form I would respond to any challenge you sent me as quickly as I would in human form.” Jared watched her face as she digested what he was telling her; she didn’t seem afraid, more contemplative. His eyes fell to the full breasts rising up from the rounded neckline of her top and realized he had neglected the beauties shamefully.

  No time like the present to remedy the situation; with a firm jerk he had her neckline pulled down below her bra and from there it was a simple matter to lift her breasts from the bra cups, leaving them balanced on top of the cups and lifted up to him like an offering. He growled in appreciation as he eyed the dark berry-like nipples seeming to beg for his attention.

  Madison gasped as he claimed one nipple and sucked it deeply into the warm cavern of his mouth. He’d freed her breasts so fast there was no time for protest, but as he sucked hard, her head fell back as the pleasure unfurling in her breast shot straight to the place throbbing between her thighs.

  She whimpered and clutched his head tight as she began to rub herself frantically against the ridge of his erection pressed against her clit.