Bear with Me (Half-breed Shifter Series) by Miranda Stowe Read Free Book Online Page B

crying.
    “I love you,” he whispered,
the pressure of his cock seeming to drive that point home...repeatedly. “I love
you so much. Please don’t hate me. Anything but that.”
    The muscles low in her
abdomen coiled taut. She tried to fight it, but her body took control. She
came, and came, and came.
    Brick watched her, the light
in his eyes relishing her body’s reaction until his eyes went unfocused and he
groaned, losing himself in her. God, she loved him too, and she hated that he’d
been forced into binding himself to her for all eternity. Because what if it
all faded away once her heat was over? Would he still say he loved her after he
was clear-headed? What if he regretted being her mate?
    Having his hatred would be so
much worse than simply being his platonic friend.
    As soon as she was done, she
shoved at his chest, crushed because now everything between them was ruined.
    “Rhea,” he started, his voice
hoarse, but he let her have her way. He slid out of her—for the first time
since they’d started their marathon sex together—and she rolled away putting
her back to him as she hugged herself.
    “Please.” He touched her
back, but she shrugged him off. What if that was only the mating heat talking?
It had to be because he’d never been like this with her before.
    “Don’t. Touch. Me,” she
whispered shakily.
    He removed his hand with a
sigh and collapsed on his back beside her. They lay like that for minutes,
hours...well, maybe not hours. She was still too fresh into her heat to go that
long without needing more sex. It was probably more like forty-five seconds.
    But she went for as long as
she could last. Next to her, Brick growled, “Damn it, Rhea. You’re going to
hurt yourself if we don’t do something...soon.”
    She hated how he could feel
how much she needed it, how he needed it as much as she did...because they were
fucking mated now. She’d wanted him to come to her of his own free will.
    But he was probably suffering
right now, because she sure as hell was. She needed his cock, deep... so deep,
moving and rubbing against her. Which meant he needed it too.
    Not wanting him to hurt as
much as she was, she rolled from her side to her belly and hiked up her ass, so
he wouldn’t have to look her in the eyes. She just couldn’t look in his eyes
right now. What if she saw regret? “Just...do it.”
    “Rhea...” he started, his
voice hesitant but strained. See, he didn’t want to want her.
    She reached down her hand and
rubbed her clit, her body growing more and more aroused by the second. It hurt
because she needed a penis during her mating heat to truly appease any aches,
but she knew it’d put him over the edge.
    “Damn it,” he muttered. “Stop hurting yourself.” He grabbed her hips and yanked her ass backward,
impaling her with his hard, hot length.
    Oh, God, yes! She moaned out
her pleasure and surged back against him, relishing each and every plunge.
“More. Brick, more ...”
    He buried his fingers in her
hair and tugged her head back as he fucked her from behind. It made her chest
arch out and her breasts ache, wanting to be squeezed and pinched.
    “Say you want me,” he ordered
in her ear.
    “I want you,” she complied,
wanting his cock deep, deep, even deeper but also wanting his true affections.
    “Now tell me you’re mine.”
    She bit her lip, refusing.
    His fingers bit down more
firmly on her hair. “God damn it, Rhea. I swear, I will stop fucking you right
now if you don’t say it. If you have ever felt anything for me, you will
tell me you’re mine .”
    Rhea pulled in a sharp
breath, her eyes flying open wide. Ever since his mother had shoved him so
harshly out of her life, Brick’s biggest fear had always been rejection from
the ones he loved the most. He’d confided that to Rhea years ago.
    Remembering the scared, lost
boy her father had brought into town one quiet night, she bowed her eyes and
said, “I’m yours, Brick. I’m all yours.” She