WOLF

Seven months later

At the ripe age of fifteen, the word love was no longer a part of my vocabulary. If anything, it was a mediocre term—one I despised and wanted nothing to do with. Why? Because to me, love made you weak. It made you vulnerable and it made you care too much.

So, I said fuck love, and swore I’d never love anyone again—not to the point that it touches my soul.

But then Nova came along…and she has been the only exception.

I was never supposed to fall for her. She was just some girl before. I thought she was naïve, gullible, and worthless while dealing with Ellis. I don’t know how she never saw through his shit before, but that was the thing about Ellis. He was good at faking it. I couldn’t let him have Nova, though. I couldn’t let another person become his fucking victim.

Now look at me. Look at us. I’m laying in bed with a girl I love and I thought it would feel wrong, but it doesn’t. Everything about this feels right. The way she plays with my hair. The way she kisses me. The way she rides my cock. Never has anyone set my blood and body on fire the way she has. Never has a girl grabbed my heart, squeezed the fuck out of it, and ran with it until now.

I shudder a breath, looking up at her perfect tits. Her lips are parted as she rides my cock, and her moans sound pure and sexy-as-hell. I love having control, trust me, but seeing her on top of me, and feeling her milk the hell out of my dick is the only thing I’ll give up control for.

Her tits bounce as she rocks her hips, and I lean up to suck one of her plump, tan nipples into my mouth. She holds my shoulders, and I groan, sucking harder on her nipple. I’m close.

“Oh, Wolf,” she moans, fueling my fire. “I’m coming,” she breathes. I cup her hips and thrust upward. As I tip my head back, her mouth finds mine, and she loops her arm around the back of my neck as a loud moan breaks out of her and echoes off the walls of the bedroom.

Watching her come sets me off, but not more than the feeling of her throbbing, wet pussy around my cock.

“Fuck, Lamb,” I growl on her lips as her body goes limp in my arms. I bend my legs and lay her on her back, but I’m still deep inside her pussy. My cock throbs as I come inside her, and as I do, I drop kisses on her lips.

Her cheeks.

Her chin.

Fuck, I love this shit. Coming inside her is a fucking gift I’ll never get tired of. Look at me. I sound like a fucking pussy, but I don’t give a damn. With her, my image doesn’t matter.

As my cock throbs one last time, I pull my way out of her and then roll over, lying beside her. She turns onto her side to look at me and then lets out a sigh.

“Wolf?”

“Yeah,” I murmur.

She’s quiet for a short second. “There’s…something I should tell you before the night is over,” she says in a smaller voice.

I turn my head to look at her. “What’s is it?”

“So…my health insurance at work expired a couple months ago. I got so caught up with work that I forgot to send in my forms to get it renewed. Since it was expired, I wasn’t able to get another prescription of birth control last month, which means I finished my last pack several weeks ago…”

I focus on her brown eyes, confused now. “So, what the hell does that mean?”

She sits up a little. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been feeling a little off lately.”

“Off how, Nova? Say whatever it is you need to say.”

“Fine. Gah, I swear men can’t read between the lines.” She huffs. “I took a pregnancy test this morning after being in denial for the last few weeks.” I sit up on my elbow with a slight frown and she sits up with me, her eyes wide and damp. “The test was positive…which means I’m pregnant, Wolf.”

“Oh.” My eyes drop to her stomach. “Shit.”

“Yeah,” she says, nodding. “I said the exact same thing.” She sits up and grabs my hand. “So, what do we do now?”

For a moment, I have to process what the hell she’s just told me. It’s been a year and some change since we’ve officially been together. A crazy, thick fucking year, but she has been the highlight of it all. Every time I see her car parked at the house on the hill when I pull up on my bike, my heart does crazy shit—like the mere thought of her is tugging on all of my heartstrings.

Nova Almaraz is my fucking world, and sometimes I wonder if she knows it. Sometimes I feel like I don’t do enough, or that I’m not soft enough for her—and I know that she understands me—but lately I’ve been feeling like I need to do more to prove my love to her—to show her that what I feel for her is indescribable and that I don’t know what the hell I’d do without her.

Fuck it. I will show her that she is my world—that she means more to me than anyone else on this goddamn planet.

“We’ll get married,” I tell her. “Within the next few weeks. No more fucking around. I think it’s about time I made you my wife.” I look her straight in the eyes, letting her know that I mean it. I really fucking mean it. She will be my wife, and that baby? Boy or girl, he or she will be protected, and I swear that on my life. The baby will not grow up like I did.

But it all starts with Nova and making her my soulmate for life.

But shit…now we’re going to have a fucking wedding to plan, and I’m not even going to lie, that big, goofy smile plastered on her face worries the shit out of me.

She knows that when we get married, I will really be her bitch. Nothing will keep me away from this girl. Not a single thing.

She throws her arms around me, laughing. “Wait—are you serious, Wolf?” she asks, leaning back to look me square in the eyes.

“I’m dead serious,” I tell her. I cup her waist. “I only want you, Lamb, for the rest of my life. Question is, do you want the same? Pregnant or not, the choice is still yours.”

She beams at me, revealing her perfect white teeth and that beautiful smile. Irresistible. That’s what she is. I fought the way she made my heart beat for so damn long, now look at me. Fucking pussy whipped. Jesus. I can’t believe I love this woman so much.

“Yes,” she gasps, on the verge of tears. She sinks her teeth into her lower lip, thinking for a fleeting moment. I can always tell she’s thinking when she does that. Then, as my heart beats a little harder, she says the words I’ve been waiting to hear spill from her lips for a while. “I want the same, Wolf. I want to be your wife. Let’s get married!”