Cry Wolf

Chapter 4

Gods. Rei had never wanted anyone with the magnitude he wanted this man. Sin had become like a d**g to him. He was never able to get enough of him when he was around him, and craved him obsessively when he wasn't.

The man, in all his tall, lean glory, had captured Rei's attention the first night they'd met. Sin, in spite of his humble history, carried himself with an almost princely bearing, as if the world had been put here for his sole benefit.

Yet there was so much more beneath that proud surface--a solid common sense, true intelligence, humor, compassion. It was a striking combination and had immediately ensnared Rei. When they'd parted company that first night, Rei had returned to camp feeling strangely lonely and unfulfilled. As he had every night since then.

For over two weeks, he'd fought the urge to act on his baser desires, knowing with the werekin's troops out looking for the rebels, and feeling the weight of his own responsibilities heavy on his shoulders, it wasn't a good time to delve into a new relationship.

And he'd known from the beginning what he wanted with Sin was a relationship. No quick one-night f**k, or even a short-term dalliance would do.

There was something about Sin that spoke to him, lured him in, and tied him up in s****l and emotional knots. They were damned good together, both in a crisis, as they'd proven tonight, and in more intimate ways. As, somehow, he'd always known they would be.

He'd realized almost immediately when they met that Sin felt the same s****l pull he did, but hadn't realized until tonight just how deeply Sin's desires ran, matching his own with a startling intensity.

Now, in spite of the recent close call with the soldiers and the fact a clearing full of thirty of them were paces away, all he could think about was being buried inside Sin, thrusting into him with animalistic eagerness, and spilling his seed to mark the man as his own.

What?

The thought shocked him.

Gods almighty! He was experiencing a need to mark Sin as his? What had gotten into him? He was acting like a shifter who'd found his true mate...which was impossible. Unless...

Of course, he knew he's not entirely human. And with his race so few in number now, having been hunted almost to extinction a century ago, most of kin in the current era would pass their lives without ever finding a true mate.

And yet...belying all tradition and genetics, Rei felt his body surge with the need to ritually claim Sin as his. Just the thought of such a thing was sacrilege against everything he's fighting for.

Maybe he was damning them both to hell by even having such thoughts and desires.

But with the feel of Sin's muscular a*s pressed against his groin, the warmth of his body heat scorching into him, and the heavy weight of the man's shaft in his palm, all he knew was that right now, in this time and place, he needed Sin with a ferocity that bordered on recklessness.

Reckless enough to want to f**k him with Raul's soldiers close enough to hear them should one of them lose control and moan too loud in passion.

Leaning down, Rei grabbed his cloak and spread it across the dirt floor of the cave, then urged Sin down onto it on his hands and knees, facing the cave entrance.

Sin's body glowed red with heat in the dark, and Rei wasted no time claiming it. He curved an arm around Sin's waist and leaned over him so his mouth was once again next to the man's ear. "I've wanted to f**k you since we met," he whispered.

He felt rather than saw Sin smile. "Usually I'm the one who does the fucking."

"Then I'm going to show you what you've been missing..."

Rei lost all sense of time. A potent and ancient magic drove him now, urging him on, demanding he go deeper, penetrate all the barriers, physical and otherwise, between himself and his mate--no, not a mate...that's impossible.

Yet, his instincts urged. Yes...fill him...mark him...only yours.

He's human...

He's yours, the magic told him. Yours. Now and for all time.

His balls began to ache and tighten. Heat built in his c**k. He closed his eyes, feeling his body swept up in the storm.

Now. Make him yours.

No, no, no, some logical thread inside him warned. He's human. It's never been done. You don't know the consequences!

Do it. He's yours.

No...not without him knowing...

Then something happened that had never happened to Rei before. On a particularly deep thrust into Sin, a powerful tingling sensation of pins and needles tore through his testicles. It was pain and ecstasy at the same time, stealing his breath and wracking his groin with tremors. He tried to pull out of Sin, suddenly afraid of what was happening to him. But he couldn't move--no matter how he tried, he could not pull free of Sin's body.

A moment of panic hit him. What is this?

If felt as if his p***s was expanding, lengthening. The sensation became more powerful, overwhelming...and then something surged up his shaft...fire...and ice. It burst forth from his slit like liquid lightning, finding purchase deep within Sin's body.

At that exact moment, all Sin's muscles contracted, his back arched, his body clamped down tight on Rei's over-sensitized member. A low, throaty cry, almost animalistic in sound, tore from his throat, and his c**k spewed hot seed over Rei's fingers.

It was then Rei knew....knew what had just happened.

But before he could process it, a new rush of warmth coursed up the length of his rod and his own o****m tore through him. He realized he could move again and, unable to stop the thrust of his hips, he pounded into Sin's out of primal, instinctive necessity as wave after wave of his own thick seed spilled out.

Completely spent, he collapsed against Sin's back, resting his cheek between the other man's shoulder blades and listening to the steady thud, thud of his heart.

As if sensing his drained and unsettled state, Sin curved an arm around behind him, then turned his head and pressed a kiss to Rei's lips.

The warm and openly given intimacy was almost more than Rei could take. Guilt and a sense that he'd betrayed this man settled like a heavy stone in his stomach. What would Sin's reaction be if he knew the truth of what had just happened between them?

Gods...what have I done?

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