Free In the Roar by Milly Taiden Page B

breathless moments. Maybe it was wrong of her but she hoped with every fiber of her being that he made her pregnant and gave her the babies she wanted so badly.

 
     
    NINETEEN
     
    Intense satisfaction and pleasure filled Karel on his drive to see his mother. His heart felt full to near bursting with joy when she’d said the words. She was his. Liv might still be wary of moving into being his mate, but he could give her the one thing she wanted, children. She could, in fact, be carrying his child at the moment.
    They’d had sex enough times through the night at one point he’d only slid a finger over her thigh and she’d opened mid-sleep. No hesitation. No question. Total access. The memory alone brought a smile to his lips. She couldn’t deny it. Even her body knew not to fight what she wanted: him.
    With every thrust, he found her pussy slick for him. She’d woken twice to his face between her legs, lapping at the delicious honey she dripped from her slit. The more he had of her, the more he wanted. Now all he needed was her to accept fate and they could continue getting to know each other.
    “The terrain up here is flatter, I noticed,” she said, rubbing her cheek on his back and raking her nails on his abs. His cock grew hard at the idea of her hands sliding a little lower and taking him in her tiny grasp. He wanted badly to see her stroke him. To see her lips on his cock like she’d done the previous night, sucking him off until he came in her mouth.
    “Yes. The forest is still thick, but the land is less hilly than by Alyx’s castle.”
    “The little cabins I see,” she murmured, her voice sounding confused. “They’re really far apart from each other.”
    “Jaguars don’t like to be surrounded by people,” he admitted. His kind were solitary and a lot of times didn’t socialize. “We like our alone time.”
    “Oh.” He heard the worry in her voice. “Are you like that? Like living alone and away from everyone?”
    The truth was he’d been a loner as a kid, but with befriending Alyx, he spent his teen years surrounded by palace guards and Alyx’s parents. It felt second nature to be around people now.
    Seeing how far apart homes were for his people, he knew this wasn’t for him. He liked living in the castle and seeing Bella and Alyx on a daily basis. He liked training his men, and more than all that, he liked feeling a part of the family. Alyx was the brother he didn’t have.
    “My job at the palace means I am always around Alyx and his people. We are never far from locals, other tribes, and towns.”
    “So you wouldn’t live like this…so…desolate?”
    He saw where she was going. She was worried about moving to a new place with no one to talk to. That was a hard adjustment for anyone. “No. I reside in the palace but when Alyx and Bella go away, I have a house not far from the castle.”
    “So you wouldn’t live way up here, right?” She raked her nails over his thighs, making him lose track of the conversation.
    “No. I could, if I wanted to. My family home has been up here and is closed off to anyone, but I am not interested in being the typical jaguar loner.”
    It was mid-morning by the time they arrived at his mother’s home. Though Keliana, his mom, didn’t like being surrounded by people, he had been informed when he’d been at the castle, that one of the castle servants had volunteered to assist his mother in her day to day life.
    He helped Liv off the transport and met her worried gaze. “Don’t stress, love. She’ll adore you.”
    She snorted and her lips turned up in a grin. “Easy for you to say. You’re not the one meeting the in-laws looking like death warmed over.” She pushed her long her back and patted the thick curls. “I have bed head and I probably need a shower.”
    He sniffed and shook his head. “You smell perfect,” he said, curving a hand around her waist and pressing her soft curves to his body. “You smell like me.”
    She laughed and