All I could see was her. The scent of lilacs filled my nose along with the richness of tea on a winter afternoon. The play between electric blue and the perfect creaminess of her skin was taunting me, and her orgasm still coated my tongue.

I needed her. To be inside her. To knot her and know she was safe and here with me.

Protect what’s mine.

I didn’t even set her down, just shifted my hold and pressed her back to the wall. The fucking dress she wore was so short it rode up her hips, nearly exposing all of that perfect, soaking pussy to me.

The fabric of her thong shredded under my hands, and somehow I managed to get my belt undone.

“Ben,” she said my name, and I liked hearing it in her voice.

I was out of control and I knew it. My Alpha side had never risen like this, and it wasn’t going to fade until it was satisfied with her.

The words felt like rocks in my chest. “If you need me to stop—”

Esme arched her body into mine and kissed me. More than a kiss. A meeting of two people so far out of our own minds for each other nothing else could replace it. “Don’t you dare fucking stop.”

The growl unleashed in my chest felt good. Powerful. The way Esme’s body shuddered against me. “Take the dress off if you don’t want it ripped.”

My fingers gripped her ass, supporting her as she wiggled out of the concoction of a dress which had been driving me to distraction and had me hard all night.

“Fuck, Esme.”

She wasn’t wearing a bra. Which meant she was naked in my arms except for the shoes whose heels were digging into my back. And she was absolutely fucking everything. Her lithe body was all softness, and all mine.

The urge to bite her rose. In my head, I saw myself biting down on her shoulder and completing the bond that already sang between us.

Instead, I thrust my cock into her, and she let go. Everything she’d been holding on to in the car. She cursed, and I cursed with her. I was sheathed in heat made to take me. Every stroke of my cock was enough pleasure to make me see stars.

I wanted to drown in it.

And every move we made together soothed the feral heat and drove me into comfort and bliss.

Esme gripped my face, eyes wild. “I need your knot, Ben. Please.”

Pressing her harder into the wall, I fucked her. Grinding into her clit and rolling my hips in the way I already knew she liked from her heat. I wanted her to come apart on my cock before I came. The deepest Alpha part of me needed to feel her yield and accept it. “You’ll get it. After you come.”