Hexing the Alpha (Hex My Heart, #1) (6 page)

She held her hand up to stop him, wondering if she could shield herself from him. She didn’t want to break their bond, but she did want to understand the limits. “You misunderstand. The piece you took—I never want it back, because it would mean a broken heart and a shattered soul. Something I couldn’t live with, Jake Monroe.”

Silence bloomed around them. She raised her hand to reach out, but quickly drew back, remembering how he’d reacted when she’d tried comforting him downstairs earlier tonight.

Relief filled her when Jake’s shoulders relaxed, hope shining bright in his eyes. He closed the small space between them and reached out for her this time, a glorious smile brightening his handsome features that mirrored her emotions in every pore of her body.

He leaned in, resting his forehead on her bare shoulder. With his lips pressing butterfly kisses along her skin he whispered, “You didn’t take anything I wasn’t desperate to give you. And I thought you were going to tell me to leave, that you had a change of heart. Honestly, I don’t think I could have.” He pulled her deeper into his embrace.

Her magick brushed along the tendrils of power they shared, feeding off the new source of energy thrumming through her from head to toe.

“If you walk out that door, I’ll find you. Remember?” She raised a brow in a mock challenge and tapped the side of her temple. “We’re connected now.”

“Yes, ma’am. Indeed.” Her heart swelled and her chest tightened. So many new unexplored emotions bombarded her she couldn’t tell heads from tails, but none of that mattered right now.

She might have hexed the alpha, but he’d enchanted her with his wolfish charms long before tonight.

“Let me help.” Before she could ask what he wanted to help with, Jake gathered her in his arms and swung her legs to wrap around him. A position she notched in her new favorite list after tonight. “I can’t promise to know everything, this is new to me, too, but I can help you figure out our connection. And I can help with The Matchstick. Just promise me one thing. No more illegal love hooch. Please?”

Honor rested her forehead on his, inhaled once then let her muscles relax for the first time in forever. “You would do that for me?”

“We’re mated, baby. Your problems are mine.”

She squeezed her thighs and pulled back. With a wink, she said, “So we’re back here, are we? Me wrapped around you.”

“I plan to thoroughly fuck my mate tonight, and again tomorrow.” He laid her out beneath him on the thick throw rug she loved to curl up on in front of the fireplace. “I’ll always be there for you, Honor. Never doubt that.” His features turned serious, and she could see the truth of his words deep in his gaze.

With a firm grip on her ankles, he slowly peeled her legs apart to reveal just how much he affected her. “Already wet and ready for the taking.”

With a flick of her wrist, fire burst to life in the hearth to cast a warm glow over their love nest.

He positioned himself at her entrance and sank into her depth in a slow glide. The room dimmed. Her back arched and she clutched the soft material of the rug into her fists. Holy goddess, it felt so good. Her channel pulsated around his thick shaft. He pulled out, leaving nothing but the tip to tease her. “Jake, don’t stop.”

“I want to hear you, Honor. Say you want this.”

“It’s a little late, don’t you think?”

“Let me hear the words, baby.”

“I don’t want only you, Jake. I want your heart, your soul. Forever.”

With each declaration, Jake slammed home, her body responded with a shudder of pleasure. “Goddess, don’t stop.” Her words came out on a groan, her head tossing from side to side.

He pulled out, and she immediately felt the loss. “Turn over.”

He gathered her hips in his hands and spun her around to settle on her hands and knees before him. A warm palm pressed into her back and eased her down. Without warning he slammed home, causing her to push back against the force he rocked her with. He leaned over her, nibbling the flesh of her back, grazing his teeth further up her back until he reached her shoulder.

With an arm around her waist, he locked her in place. Caged against his chest and the soft rug, she twirled her hips, desperate for release. “Don’t move,” he ground out.

She stilled just as sharp teeth bit down into the soft flesh of her shoulder. A cry bubbled and she gasped. Surprised by the sudden jolt of pain, she stilled.

Jake loosened his grip then began to massage the length of her back. “Forever, Honor.” He laved at the bite until the pain faded into a muted ache.

“Forever,” she managed on a breathless sigh, his hips driving her crazy with the slow grind, stoking her impending orgasm.

The walls of her pussy constricted, ready. She angled her head around to see a raw, almost carnal need in her mate’s eyes. He gathered her tousled locks into his fist, their gazes never parting.

“You’re going to milk me, baby.” She pushed as he pulled. “That’s it, suck me with your pussy. Take what you want.” She braced herself with her elbows. Tension knotted in her core, coiled, ready for release. She reached between her legs to press against her clitoris. Her fingers grazed the swollen flesh of his cock, her reward a gasp followed by a growl. He freed her hair then tightened his hold on her hips. Come morning she might have a few bruises on her skin, but she shrugged it away. Nirvana was too close to worry about the small details.

Her legs trembled, and her body tensed. Fire brushed along her nerves and her pussy quaked with an intoxicating pleasure. Heat flamed to life causing the walls of her channel to clench around his shaft. Jake growled from behind and fell over her body. With his arms wound around her waist, he held her in place. “Do you feel me, baby?”

Wave after wave of sensations crashed into her while another orgasm held her as a willing prisoner. Bursts of pleasure rocketed her into another realm with each pulse of his cock within her.

She gasped. Her heart raced in her chest. It was him. She was experiencing his orgasm.
Amazing.
And breathtaking to think she made him feel so good.

Liquid pooled between her thighs. A mixture of their combined pleasure. He inhaled close to her ear. “Mmm. Like strawberries and fine wine.” Jake moved to the side and pulled her down to nestle in his warm embrace. “Pure male and magick.” She countered on a spent sigh.

Soft lips touched the area where he’d bitten her and she stiffened. She understood the dynamics of pack law, but not why he’d bitten her. Hadn’t he already claimed her the first time?

“Did I hurt you?”

Like a mother.
“No, more surprised me than anything. What does it mean?”

The first time I took you, my wolf’s power combined with yours and normally that’s enough. But as alpha I needed to make sure no other wolf would even try to get their grubby paws on you.”

“So I’m marked and claimed?”

“And under pack protection, baby.”

Jake sat up and pulled her favorite blanket from the back of the couch.

“If you’re cold, we can take care of that.” Honor turned and ran a hand down his chiseled six-pack. She cradled his pleasured cock in her palm, the silky shaft already hardening under her touch. “Sounds like a promise, but I don’t think your sister will appreciate the view.”

“Sister?” One or all three were bound to show up tonight.

Wood crashed into wood for the second time tonight. Geez, any more abuse and she’d have to replace the whole door. She made a mental note to invest in a better lock. Maybe a hex or two for anyone else that wanted to barge in unannounced.

“Honor. Honor. Where in the holy Hades are you, woman? Don’t you know how to answer a phone?” Honor leaned sideways and peaked around the corner. There, standing in her doorway with wild hair and panic-filled eyes stood her sister. The cold sweat she had going on tinged the air, but it was the way she anchored herself to the doorframe for support that really had Honor worried. Her sister never lost her cool. Ever. Not even when they were teenagers and got caught casting a sleeping spell over all the teachers just so they could go to a Pink concert. Wait. How did she smell her sister from all the way over here?

She turned to Jake and whispered, “So my senses will be like yours? So how did I smell to you when the hex took over?”

“Like a sweet piece of meat.” His eyes smoldered and she splayed her hands along her midriff to calm her nerves. Whoa—he was good at that.

She turned back to her sister. “I’m right here.”

Ambrosia slammed the door shut, raced into the room and fell to her knees in front of her. “I’m not going to ask what the hell you’re doing, why I smell rose and lavender or why you’re naked, although that part is obvious.” Her words tripped out between gulps of air.

“Ambrosia, take a deep breath and calm down.”

“Maybe I should step out and let you ladies—”

“No.” Honor stopped Jake from rising and motioned for him to stay. She only had one blanket and she wasn’t in for a peep show tonight.

“Honor, you have to help me. I don’t know how it happened. One minute I was working an abundance spell under the full moon in our normal spot in the woods, in the next two wolves were hot on my heels. I tore my favorite dress, hurt my foot, lost my panties and I think...” Ambrosia slapped a hand to her forehead, scrunched her eyes closed and pressed her lips into a tight line. Crimson crept up her sister’s cheeks until her whole face beamed red. Her breathing came ragged and she reached out to soothe Ambrosia.

“It’s okay. You can tell me.”

“I think I jinxed two alphas with a love spell.”

Shut the front door.

Ambrosia cringed, tears rimming her eyes. It took a few frantic seconds for the words to sink in.
Two alphas?
“As in more than one?” No wonder Ambrosia was freaking out. It might mean double the pleasure, but in their world, it also meant double the punishment, too.

“And this is a bad thing?” Jake leaned over her shoulder and voiced the question she sensed from him through their connection.

Ambrosia’s chest stilled and her fingers tightened in her lap. “It is when you’re the daughter of the High Council of Magick.”

A sly smile lifted the corners of his mouth. “Witches and their spells. What a web you ladies weave.”

Honor elbowed Jake.

A knock brought all three around to look at the door.

“Ambrosia Grace. We know you’re in there,” called a muffled deep, masculine voice before another added, “We can smell your sweet body, and we want a taste.”

Honor looked at Ambrosia. “Sounds like you better let the big bad wolves in, sweetheart, before they bust the door down.”

Jake wrapped his arms around Honor, leaned in, and whispered the words she already knew, “Hold on baby. This is going to be a hella lot of fun to watch.”

The End

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lump beams of silver light broke through the scraggly canopy of branches to peel away a small portion of the night’s veil. Fresh snow shifted and crunched beneath Ambrosia’s winter boots, bringing her closer to the clearing ahead. And, by all the witch’s brooms in Sweet Briar Hollow, closer to shedding the bond.

The bond she shared with Luke and Evan. Both were alphas of a neighboring pack and each an owner of a deeper part of her soul than she cared to admit to. And that is why she was in this mess to begin with.

She clutched the crystal around her neck and stroked a thumb down the smooth heart-shaped surface.

Each day the bond grew stronger. And each day she refused to relinquish control to the burn and ache, it only made the longing grow and the weight of their absence more unbearable by the hour.