that. That's part of the reason I live all the way across the country from them."
He reached between them and pushed her left leg apart so he could settle between her thighs. The familiar tingle in her belly returned as his fingers got closer and closer to her pussy.
"You look ready for more, babe." He mumbled around kisses to her breasts.
"I thought we were having a conversation. I wanted to hear more about where you came from."
He nipped her nipple with his teeth, the sharp but brief pain adding another layer of excitement to her already aching body. "The last thing a man wants to talk about when he's about to be inside his woman is his family. We'll have plenty of time for that later.
Before she could reply he captured her lips in a long, leisurely kiss in which he explored every spot he could reach with his devilish tongue.
Just the mere memory of where that tongue had been this morning made her moan deep in her throat. He growled in response, his fingers sliding that last inch of skin into the wet vee of her sex.
Jessa cried out and he swallowed the sounds. He dipped his fingers inside her and stroked deep.
Oh God. Yes.
She grabbed his hair and deepened their kiss even further. If she was going to burn up into a massive ball of heat and explosions she was damn well going to take him with her.
His fingers thrusted and her hips rocked to meet them. Her body was racing to the edge and she didn't want to stop. She tugged on his hair and broke free from the kiss.
"Oh shit. Calder. I'm going to come again."
"Good. I love watching you fall apart from the pleasure I give. Do it, baby. Come all over me."
Her back arched as all of her muscles tightened and released in one giant tidal wave of sensations. She screamed his name and scratched at his back, her nails digging deep.
Before she could come down, he was inside of her and pounding hard. She couldn't even catch her breath before the next wave of pleasure began to build.
"Babe, you're so damned tight. You have no idea how good you feel."
She couldn't respond because she had no breath, but she knew because he felt one hundred times better. Stroke after stroke he fueled the fire until she couldn't hold it back anymore.
Her eyes squeezed shut and her body convulsed as she screamed his name over and over.
"Oh shit. Your muscles, Jessa. I'm losing it."
The idea of her big strong man losing control flooded her with joy. All of her fears and worries fell away and she knew in that moment she had found the one place she was meant to be.
With Calder, a bear shifter, in a cabin in the woods.
12
W ith Calder breathing heavy on top of her, his breath teasing her hair and the shell of her ear, Jessa's heart cracked open and pulled him in. Whether they'd known each other three days or three years wasn't going to matter. They were connected and she could care less if it was because of some mysterious mystical thing.
He belonged to her and she belonged to him dammit. For once in her life she might have finally done something right.
"Do you believe me now?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think I get it." Sort of. How could this be so perfect? He really believed she was his mate? There was so much she needed to tell him before this went too far. Maybe it was too late for her heart, but he didn't know everything and that was something he might not be able to expect.
"I need to tell you something."
Calder slid from her body and rolled over onto his back. "Haven't we talked enough for one day?" he asked. "I'm beat."
"Where's your stamina now? I thought shifters had exceptional physical energy."
"It's all mental, babe. I haven't talked this much in one day since I moved here. I've got to get a break. I just want to lay here with you wrapped in my arms and listen to nature."
She kind of understood where he was coming from. When she was a kid she liked to keep to herself. Talking and socializing with other people her age had held little interest for her. She preferred the world of