Claimed by Her Viking Wolf (10 page)

“
Wow.”
 
Letting go of the headboard she reached out
to touch his claws.
Asger
gave her that moment to
examine the other side of him. Her gaze darted from his face to his clawed hand
and back again, while the sweet musk of her arousal perfumed the air between
them. His wolf all but purred at the open admiration in her expression, as Kim
smiled up at him.

“
I
can’t wait to see you shift fully. I bet you’re beautiful in your wolf form.”

Asger
flashed her grin,
and then pointedly stared at her fingers still examining his claws.

“
I
am deadly, too.” She swallowed hard at that those words, but he didn’t sense
any fear off her. More of a quiet acceptance of that fact, which her next words
confirmed.

“
You’re
deadly in your human form, so I don’t doubt that, but I also know that you
would never hurt me, so you can stop with the big bad wolf act.”

She grinned when his animal growled at that.
Asger
vowed to show her just how bad his wolf could be. It
would have to wait until they were truly mated, however. She was too fragile
for that in her current state.

“
You
will find out just how bad I can be a lot sooner than would be good for you, if
you do not do as you are told. Hands on the headboard,
kona
.”

Asger
nodded his approval
when she complied immediately, and laughed when he spotted what he needed on
her bed stand. Kimberly kept a collection of colorful hair ties in a bowl. They
would be perfect for helping her to keep her hands where he wanted them.

Reaching across he snagged a couple and looping
them first through the slots and then her wrists, he secured his
kona
to his satisfaction.

“
There,
you can get out of those if you have to, but you will not do that, will you?”

“
No,
minn
rekkr
,”
she said, and he tapped her nose.

“
Hmm,
I approve of the title,
kona
.
”

They smiled at each other like a pair of lovesick
puppies, until
Asger
brought his clawed hand into her
vision.
 
Kim sobered, and swallowed hard,
when he ran the tip of his lethal claw along her neck, and up to her mouth.

The plump lips opened to him, and withdrawing his
finger he bent his head to claim the soft flesh in a gentle kiss, which quickly
turned passionate when Kim kissed him back. Desire soaked eyes pleaded with him
when he withdrew. She yanked on her makeshift restraints, when he ran his
clawed index finger slowly along her collarbone, and down into the valley between
her breasts.
Asger
ran circles around the heavy
mounds with both his hands now, his claws digging in just enough to mark her
pale skin with the thin red lines of his possession.

When he flicked the little hard buds of her
nipples, Kim gasped, moaned and arched her back in silent encouragement. Taking
the hint, and giving in to the now urgent need to taste her, to hurry this
along, he took one of the nubbins into his mouth, while he rolled the other one
between his thumb and forefinger.

A deep throated moan was his reward. Goosebumps
broke out on his
kona
’s
skin, as she writhed under his tongue and
fingers. Having suckled one nipple into an elongated shape, he swapped his
attention to the other one, while lifting off her. When
Asger
trailed his free hand down toward her cunt, he smiled around his mouthful of
breast. Kim eagerly opened her legs to give him entrance, and his questing
digits encountered soft tissue drenched in her juices.

Releasing her nipple with a soft pop, he brought
his slick fingers up to his mouth and sucked them clean. Another one of those
cock hardening groans came from his mate as she watched him through hooded
eyes. Beads of perspiration rested on her upper lips, and her whole body shook
with the force of her breathing.

“
So
wet for me,
minn
kona
,
but I think you can do even better.”

He laughed at her moaned denial, as she shook her
head. Scooting further down the bed, he got to his knees, slid his hands under
her ass cheeks, and lifted her up.

“
Let
me see my cunt. Ah, there it is.” He grinned up at her when she let her legs
fall wide open. Completely exposed to him, her inner lips opened up to reveal
the little quivering hole he couldn’t wait to claim. He blew across her slit,
and the bundle of nerves at the top of her hood contracted. As he watched and
repeated that action while circling her clit with the tip of his tongue, more
of her nectar left her cunt and trickled down her cleft toward her other hole.

“
Oh,
God, please…”

He repeated the action several more times, until
her whole body shook in need. The color of her lips darkened as more and more
blood rushed to that area in her arousal, and she grew wetter still. More than
wet enough to lubricate her to claim both of her holes. He lapped up her
arousal, and inhaled deeply against the tight ring of muscle guarding her
delectable ass.

Unintelligible sounds spilled from her lips and her
thighs tightened around his head, as she started to grind herself against his
face.

Kim whined when he bit the soft flesh of her inner
thigh and withdrew.

“
Please,
I need to come. I’m so damn close. Please,
Asger
,
come with me. Make me yours.”

Asger
closed his eyes to
savor this moment, he would no doubt remember, when he was old and grey and
rocking his great-grandchildren off to sleep. The thought of his
kona
heavy with his child made his wolf howl, and
taking his cock in hand he slid the already thickening tip through Kim’s wet
slit.

“
Yes,
yes, just take …oh.”

Kim’s mouth opened into a silent scream when he
thrust into her clenching hole.
Asger
swore and
clenched his teeth against the overwhelming sensation of her tight, wet heat
gripping his cock.

“
Fuck,
relax,
sváss
.
Let me love you.”

Their gazes locked, as he continued to push in
slowly. Beads of sweat slid into his eyes, and blurred his vision with the
sheer effort required to hold still and to inch in at a pace she could cope
with.

Kim whined, but she didn’t tell him to stop. When
he was halfway in the crushing force around his cock relaxed slightly. He
pulled back until only his head stretched her inner lips, and Kim gasped.

“
Yes,
please, just. Move, for the love of God, please … I’m okay now. I—”

The rest of whatever she was going to say was lost
in a scream as
Asger
lost the ability to go slow. He
thrust back into her willing body, seating himself further with every forward
move of his strong hips between her thighs, until at long last he bottomed out.
His balls hit her ass, and he hung his head to claim her mouth in a long
drugging kiss, while he started to move in earnest.

“
Please,
let me, need to.”

Kim yanked at her restraints while she mumbled the
words in between kisses and using his claws, he freed her in one fell move.
When she wrapped her arms and legs around him, it drew him in further, and
Asger
howled his approval. Spurred on by her incoherent
moans into his ear, he set a ruthless pace, as he
pistoned
in and out of her in ever faster moves. When he angled his thrusts, so that
every move of his dick scraped along her hugely extended clit, Kim tumbled into
her first orgasm. Another gush of her juices soaked them both as she came. It
was what
Asger
had been waiting for. Much to his
surprise his wolf burst free, his fangs descended, and his claws slid through
the covers of Kim’s bed. He was dimly aware of her eyes growing wide and the
brief smell of fear, before he pulled out of her. The action stretched her
obscenely wide, and Kim came a second time, as he flung her face down on the
bed, and bringing her ass up, surged back into her cunt. Her muscles clenched
around him in rhythmic waves designed to drive him, too, past the point of no
return, as he thrust deep.

The bed banged against the wall, and the sound of
his balls slapping her clit on every down stroke set the perfect backdrop for
their frantic coupling, interspersed with Kim’s whimpers of arousal and the
deep growls of his wolf.
 
Asger’s
release built with the speed and intensity of an
out of control bull, and hooking one of
 
his fingers, slick with Kim’s juices, into her anus, he thrust deep one
last time, while giving his wolf free rein.

“
Minn
,
all mine.”

His wolf’s fangs tore through the sweat-slicked
skin of his mate, and Kim’s scream rang in his ears, as her life essence flowed
on his tongue, while he pumped his seed into her body. They shook together as
her internal muscles clamped down on his pulsing cock and the force of the
mating orgasm took Kim also.

Tears pricked the backs of
Asger’s
eyes, as he collapsed on top of her, his cock locked tight in her cunt, his
wolf truly at peace for the first time since he’d come to in her world. He had
the foresight to roll slightly, so that they lay on their sides, joined
together as intimately as two people could be. Retracting his teeth, he licked
the wound until it closed, leaving his mark behind.

Shivers ran along his
kona’
s
spine, and he pulled her
closer. Guilt pricked at him. She hadn’t agreed to his bite. In truth he hadn’t
thought this would happen, not until he was back in his time, but he didn’t
regret the action either.

Her even breathing told him that she had either
passed out or fallen asleep, which was probably for the best. No doubt he would
have some explaining to do when she would wake up. He smiled as darkness
encroached on him, too, together with the sickening feeling of falling. His
wolf yipped his excitement as the world swirled by, and with his last conscious
thought, before the magic pulled him under,
Asger
tightened his hold on his precious bundle.

He hoped they would wake up in the safety of his
homestead. Either way, he was finally going home.

Chapter Ten

Childish whispers and giggles broke through into
Kim’s consciousness, as she struggled to wake up. Not that she wanted to. Her
body ached in places she didn’t know she could ache as her muscles contracted.
Her ass protested the move, as she tried to roll to her side, and failed. What
or who was confining her? And those were definitely children she could hear.
Children speaking Norse?

Kim jerked awake, and screamed as she encountered
the eyes of a goat. The animal was nibbling on the furs that made up the
covering of the bedstead she seemed to be on. Furs that had wrapped around her
in a tight cocoon, thus stopping her from moving. Fortunately they also covered
up her nakedness. Because Kim was very much naked under here, and she was most
certainly not in her own time anymore.

Heat rushed into her cheeks when that blasted goat
bleated at her, and getting one hand free, she shooed him away.

“
Go
get, be off with you.”

The same childish voices she’d heard waking up,
erupted into fits of giggles at the bottom of her bed. She could just about see
a mass of white blond hair and the impish grin on two little boys’ faces as
they ducked back from view.

The menacing goat, in the meantime, bleated again,
and then backtracked out the curtain that had been hung to presumably separate
this sleeping space from the rest of the dwelling. A very Viking dwelling, as
her befuddled mind seemed to finally comprehend. Which could only mean one
thing. They’d made it back to
Asger’s
time, and…

With a frightening jolt of clarity the previous
night’s events came rushing back to Kim, and she brought her hand up to her
neck. Sure enough, there, still tender under her fingertips was the slightly
raised mark of
Asger’s
possession.

Before she could process the rush of emotions that
flooded her at that revelation, her pintsized intruders at the bottom of the
bed caught her attention. They were whispering again, and her lips twitched at
what she was hearing. She would contemplate why she could understand them at a
later time. Yet more magic at work, no doubt. Kim shook her head in wonder. She
didn’t even believe in magic, yet here she was.

“
This
is your fault,
Thorsto
n
.
I told you she’d wake up. Mother will take the belt to my behind for this.”

“
No,
she will not. You’re her favorite, and besides Father isn’t back yet. He’s the
one who gives us the belt.”

“
Oh,
you’re so dumb. Uncle
Asger
is back, and he hits even
harder than Father. He will be so angry. He told us to let her sleep.”

“
But
she’s been asleep for ages, and besides.”

Kim put her hand over her mouth to stop herself
from laughing out loud as the bed shook and one little blond head could be seen
bopping up and out of view as its owner seemed to be bouncing up and down.

“
It
wasn’t us that woke her up. It was the goat.”

A slap could be heard, and Kim frowned.

“
Oh,
you are so stupid. Mother said to keep the goat way from
Asger’s
woman. So, you see, we will still get told off.”

Something of a struggle seemed to be taking place
until Kim cleared her throat.

“
Hello?”

The struggle stopped, and she fixed a smile on her
face when two little blond haired, blue eyed boys cautiously appeared from
behind the bed.

“
I’m
Kim,” she said. “Now I know one of you is
Thorston
,
right?”

The slightly taller one puffed out his little chest
and thumped it hard with his fist. His younger brother looked up at him, and
offered Kim a tooth- gapped smile, as he scrambled up unto the bed. Before she
could stop him he had wrapped his little hands around her neck in a tight hug.

“
You
smell nice,” he mumbled. When his brother shouted at him to let go, he
reluctantly released her, but sniffed her again very audibly.

Kim pulled a face. It was on the tip of her tongue
to deny that when the curtain opened and a very heavily pregnant woman gave the
little guy sat next to her an indulgent smile.

“
I
thought I could hear you.
Thorston
, did I not tell
you to keep
Gunstan
away from your uncle’s woman? She
needs her rest.”

Amber eyes the exact same color of
Asger’s
connected with hers, and Kim realized this had to
be
Guta
,
Asger’s
sister.
There was no mistaking the family resemblance, or the fact that
Asger’s
sister really oughtn’t to be on her feet. Kim was
no expert in pregnancy, but judging by the lowness of the enormous belly which
Guta’s
slight frame had to be struggling to support, she
was ready to drop, if not overdue. A shiver of unease curled low in Kim’s
belly. No wonder
Asger
worried over her.

“
Sorry,
Mother.”
Thorston’s
sincere apology snared Kim’s
attention back to him. “I shall take this nuisance away with me.”

“
I’m
not a nuisance.”
Gunstan
put his hands on his hips
and stuck his bottom lip out in the most adorable pout. Goodness, this little
imp would steal anyone’s heart. “Not leaving. Like it here.
Asger’s
woman smells nice.”

Thorston
rolled his eyes.
Guta
gave a tired laugh, which made Kim scoot over as
much as she was able to, and pat the side of the bed.

“
Here,
please, sit down. You shouldn’t be standing in your condition.”

Guta
looked surprised,
but did sit on the edge of the bed with a deep sigh that spoke volumes.

“
Thank
you, my dear sister to be. This child does get heavy to carry around.”

Kim blinked at the unexpected address, but before
she could open her mouth to refute that notion,
Guta
addressed her sons.

“
You
two, scoot, and see if you can get a message to the hunting party. Your uncle
wanted to know when his woman is awake.”

A squeal came from
Gunstan
,
which turned into a yip, as he bounced off the bed with dizzying speed. In the
blink of an eye, the little boy had transformed into a wolf cub. His cornflower
blue eyes sparked up at Kim, as she instinctively rubbed her own, afraid they
were deceiving her.

Knowing
Asger’s
people
were wolf shifters, and seeing such an effortless transformation in the flesh
were two entirely different things, and Kim was glad she was sitting down. At
least, this way it was only her mouth doing goldfish impressions, and she
didn’t add to her embarrassment by sliding to the floor in a heap, because her
knees gave out.

Thorston
followed his
brother, only he changed mid leap across the bed. One minute there was a little
boy, pulling his tunic over his head, the next a brown wolf cub landed
gracefully on all four paws. He nudged his younger brother with his muzzle,
licked his ear, and with a thoughtful glance back at Kim led the smaller pup
out of sight.

“
Was
that the first time you’ve seen the shift?”
Guta’s
softly spoken question meant Kim hastily shut her mouth. She nodded, not
trusting her voice to work at this moment. Much to her surprise
Guta
took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.

“
I
thought so. You have a very expressive face. I’m so used to seeing it. I forget
how it must look to someone who’s not used to it.”

Kim returned
Guta’s
encouraging smile with one of her own.

“
It’s
amazing. I mean they make it look so easy. I’d have thought it would hurt?”

It was
Guta’s
turn to
look puzzled, as she absentmindedly rubbed her big bump. What looked like a
mini tsunami rolled across her skin, and
Guta
winced.

“
Do
not do that, little one. Do your mother a favor and come and see us. There is
much more room out here than in there.”

Another rolling wave rippled across her stomach.
Guta
sighed, and looked across at Kim.

“
No
doubt this one is another boy. Just as stubborn as his father.” She tempered
the words with a smile, however, and a pang of something akin to envy ripped
across Kim’s chest.

She hadn’t thought too much about having children
before, but confronted with
Asger’s
very pregnant
sister and her boys she supposed it was only natural. Especially as her earlier
movement had brought with it a sticky wetness between her thighs. Heat rose in
her cheeks when she realized what it was—
Asger’s
cum.
With it came the realization that they hadn’t used any protection. A surge of
anger at the man made her breathe harder, even as her rational brain kicked in
and rolled its eyes at her. He was a Viking, for Pete’s sake. No doubt he had
no idea what a condom was, and besides, she should have made sure he used one.

Kim had had a
Mirena
coil
fitte
d
a couple of years ago to help with
her heavy periods, so she wasn’t worried about falling pregnant, but he
wouldn’t have known that, damn him. And then there was the whole issue of
sexually transmitted diseases. No doubt as a wolf shifter he was immune to
those, but still. Where was her brain at? Not functioning around
Asger
, clearly.

“
Are
you in pain,
kona
of
Asger
?”

Guta’s
unexpected
question shook Kim out of her turbulent emotions, and she shook her head.

“
No,
why … well, I need to pee and have a wash, ‘cause … err…” She felt her cheeks
heat under
Guta’s
warm gaze, and the other woman
smiled.

“
I
expect you will. There is a bucket for that purpose and another with water to
wash in just outside the curtain. I shall make sure you have some privacy,
though I would suggest you make haste. The womenfolk are most curious to meet the
woman who has snared my brother.” She laughed when Kim frowned at that. “He is
considered quite a catch, my brother, but he has never shown any more than
passing interest to any maiden, much to our father’s dismay. He wants to see
Asger
wedded before he goes to dine at
Valhöll
.
”

Her smile deepened at Kim’s gasp of surprise.

“
Lord
Liufr
will want to see you in the great hall when
you’re dressed. I have laid out some clothing for you, too. Come and find me
when you are done.”

“
Right,
yes, that is…” Kim’s words trailed off, when
Guta
struggled to her feet. Not caring about the fact that the furs slipped to
expose her nakedness, Kim got to her knees on the bed, and helped the other
woman. A grateful smile was her reward. Then she was on her own, apart from the
goat, which decided to stick his head through the curtain again. She threw one
of the smaller furs at him, and the blasted thing bleated his seeming thanks,
while keeping hold of one edge disappeared with its prize.

“
Hey,
you, get back here.” Kim froze when she left the relative security of the
curtain behind, and hastily yanked a long piece of material left outside for
her up to her chin. On closer inspection, this appeared to be a dress. As
promised there was also a shallow bowl of some sort, and a bucket with water.

However, the actual dwelling took up most of her
attention. An oblong raised fire in the middle of the building was the focal
point around which everything seemed to center. Kim spotted several more
curtained off areas, presumably containing more bedspreads, and she idly
wondered how many people slept in this room. Several, judging by the hive of
activity around the fire. An older woman smiled up at
Guta
as
Asger’s
sister waddled toward her, and stopped
stirring whatever she was cooking over the fire.

Table and chairs were set against one side of the
fire, a pen containing a motley assortment of livestock was to the far right of
it, and as she watched a gaggle of children, followed by several young women
carrying water and what looked like slaughtered pig entered directly opposite
her.

Kim wanted the ground to swallow her whole, when
they all looked in her direction, before the old woman
Guta
was speaking to clapped her hands, and shooed them all back out again.
Guta
followed slowly behind, and Kim knew this was her cue.

Lord knows, she’d done enough camping to be able to
rough it, so, pushing her discomfort at being this exposed to the back of her
mind, she hastily took care of her bodily needs.

By the time she’d had a sponge bath in the freezing
cold water provided in the bucket, pulled the dress over her head and tamed her
hair into some semblance of order with the wooden comb she’d found, she felt
almost human. Ready to take on the world, if she forgot the small fact that she
was stark naked under this dress. The homespun material was surprisingly warm
and soft against her skin and mercifully long enough so that she only showed
the tips of her boots. These, too, were made from leather and worn in well.
What’s more they fit like a glove, as did the dress, and Kim had to marvel at
Guta’s
ability to judge her size so well.

Now what to do with the dirty water and such? Kim
was still contemplating this question, when the old woman who had been speaking
to
Asger’s
sister walked back in. Her lined face
broke into a knowing smile when she saw what Kim was holding in her hands.