Claiming Their Mate (2 page)

When she heard a deep rumbling snore, Madison knew she had to leave. To escape while she could; there was no doubt if she didn’t, this man would completely dominate her life.

At least until he grew tired of her; no man who looked like Jared Gentry could ever want someone like her long term. She couldn’t allow herself to be open to that kind of devastation.

Madison moved slowly, carefully sliding out from under his arm. She couldn’t bring herself to even look at him as she quietly pulled her wrinkled dress down her hips and smoothed it as well as she could down her legs, wincing slightly at the aches in her body.

Her panties were a thing of the past and though she would have liked to clean the sticky mess from her thighs, she knew there wasn’t time. It was imperative she get out of the building before he woke.

Quickly grabbing her purse from the chair in front of his desk, she walked gingerly toward the stairs. The elevator bell would have definitely woken him, she thought as she let herself quietly into the stairwell.

The place between her thighs still throbbed with tenderness and remembered pleasure with every step she took. The feeling reinforced that she’d made the right decision; Madison shuddered as she imagined taking her clothes off again and sinking down onto the floor and into him. She barely knew herself around him and felt she had no control of her body. Escape was her only option.

At the 15
^th
floor she left the stairwell to take the elevator the rest of the way. Her body wasn’t up to another fifteen flights after the workout she’d been given upstairs.

Madison breathed a sigh of relief as the doors opened to the lobby. She gratefully left the elevator and headed to the big glass doors heralding her freedom.

The guard stepped in front of her; was he sniffing the air around her? “Ms. Anders, I think you should wait while I call Mr. Gentry,” he said.

“No. I don’t need to wait. I didn’t get the job,” she replied, trying to skirt around him.

“He would want you to wait,” the guard said firmly as he reached to take her arm.

Madison did the only thing open to her at the moment; she kneed him as hard as she could between the thighs. Not her normal response to someone not threatening her, but she couldn’t allow him to call Mr. Gentry.

The guard gasped and dropped to the floor, clutching his privates with a groan sounding suspiciously like a growl.

Madison guiltily patted his shoulder. “I’m sorry but I have to go.”

She gave the man a worried look before turning and running out the glass doors.

* * *

Jared sat up with a frown when he heard the elevator doors ding. A low growl escaped when he realized Madison was gone. He looked up to see his second, Ethan, helping one of his guards into the room. The man was doubled over cupping his balls.

“What happened, Ethan? Where is our mate?”

Ethan gave him a funny smile. “Our mate is what happened. Braden tried to stop her from leaving the building and she took exception.”

“Madison kicked you?” Jared asked incredulously. Their mate seemed to him to be a quiet gentle woman.

“I smelled you on her. I knew she was your mate and when I tried to detain her she kneed me and dropped me like a stone. I’m sorry, Alpha.” Braden dropped to his knees before him with his head bowed in supplication.

Jared shook his head, still trying to process the fact that his mate had dared to run at all, much less take out one of his guards in the process. He stroked Braden lightly on the head in reassurance. “Clearly you weren’t the only one to underestimate my little mate. Don’t worry, Braden, I know where to find her. Ethan, get the car.”

As he dressed Jared smiled at the thought of his sweet little mate dropping the guard. He would be amused if she hadn’t done it while running from him. Behavior she would soon learn was unacceptable.

They had waited years to find their destined mate; now that he’d found her he would never let her go.

Ethan would love her. Of course Madison would have to accept she was mated to one werewolf before he explained she was actually mated to two.

Chapter Two

Madison was still shaking when she let herself in her apartment an hour later. What was wrong with her?

Not only had she had sex with a total stranger, her body was still a quivering mass of jelly. Even though she was sore, her core continued to ache and weep for him and instead of the multiple orgasms tamping down her need, Madison’s arousal seemed to be growing by the minute.

Her clothes felt strange and itchy against her flesh, the glide of her skirt across her bare bottom bringing a shiver of gooseflesh across it. The raw need thrumming through her body terrified her; it was like her body was no longer her own. It was his.

“No!” she shouted to the empty room. She was not his! It was just a momentary lapse, she thought as she wrapped her arms around her middle protectively.

She hurriedly stripped suddenly anxious to scrub the scent and evidence of his possession from her body. Turning the shower as hot as she could stand it, she climbed beneath the soothing fall of water.

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.