Chapter 4:Claimed in Secret

Kai returned at dusk, the sky bleeding orange and purple over Pine Ridge.Elara was upstairs in the loft, fresh from a shower that had done nothing to cool the constant low burn between her legs. Her body was a traitor sore in the most exquisite ways from the night before, pussy tender and swollen, nipples dark and hypersensitive, every step reminding her of how many times he’d fucked her, how full he’d left her.She’d spent the day floating customers commenting on her “glow,” while she secretly clenched her thighs together every time she remembered the way he’d growled mine while locked deep inside her.She stood at the small kitchenette now, wearing nothing but one of his discarded henleys from the floor sleeves rolled up, hem brushing the tops of her thighs, the fabric carrying his scent and brushing her bare pussy with every movement.

The door opened downstairs.Heavy, familiar footsteps on the stairs.Her pulse spiked, clit throbbing instantly.Kai appeared in the doorway duffel bag slung over one broad shoulder, silver eyes raking over her body like he was already balls deep inside her.“You’re wearing my shirt,” he said, voice low and rough, dropping the bag with a thud.“It smelled like you,” she admitted, cheeks heating, stepping closer. “I missed you all day. Couldn’t stop thinking about your dick.”His eyes darkened, nostrils flaring as he inhaled her arousal.“Missed you too,” he growled, closing the distance in two strides. Big hands slid under the shirt to grip her bare ass, squeezing hard, lifting her against his already hard dick. “Missed this perfect body. Missed how wet this pussy gets for me the second I walk in.”She wrapped her legs around his waist, grinding against the ridge in his jeans, kissing him hard teeth, tongue, desperation.“Show me,” she whispered against his mouth, voice filthy. “Fuck me like you missed me. Like you’ve been hard all day thinking about fucking me again.”He groaned, carrying her to the kitchen counter, setting her down roughly.The shirt rucked up immediately, exposing her bare, dripping pussy to the cool air.He spread her thighs wide, eyes locked on her glistening folds.“Look at this pretty pussy,” he rasped, fingers tracing her wet lips, parting them to expose her swollen clit. “Soaked already. Pink and puffy, begging for my tongue.”He dropped to his knees, mouth on her instantly no teasing.Hot, wet suction on her clit, tongue flicking fast and hard while two thick fingers plunged deep inside her, curling roughly against her G-spot.She cried out, hands fisting his hair, hips bucking.He added a third finger, stretching her, pumping fast while his mouth sucked her clit like he was starving.The wet sounds filled the loft obscene, perfect.She came hard, pussy gushing around his fingers, thighs clamping his head as she screamed his name.He didn’t stop licked her through it, fingers still fucking her until she was shaking, oversensitive.Then he stood, stripped fast shirt yanked over his head, jeans shoved down.His dick sprang free thick, veined, angry red head leaking precum in a steady drip down the shaft.She reached for it, wrapping both hands around the base, stroking slow and firm, thumb swirling the wet head, spreading the precum.“Missed this big, beautiful dick,” she whispered, eyes locked on his, voice dripping filth. “Missed how it stretches my pussy open, how it throbs when you’re about to fuck me. Missed feeling your come flood me.”He growled, hand fisting her hair, tilting her head back.“Gonna fuck this pussy until you feel me for days,” he promised, voice dark and possessive. “Gonna remind you who owns every inch of this body.”He lifted her, turned her, bent her over the counter ass up, thighs spread.The fat, leaking head dragged through her soaked folds, coating himself in her juices, teasing her entrance.“Beg for it,” he ordered, one hand gripping her hip, the other sliding up to pinch a nipple hard.“Please,” she sobbed, pushing back shamelessly. “Fuck my pussy need your dick so bad need you to wreck me, fuck me, fill me until I’m dripping your cum down my thighs ”He slammed in to the pussy in one brutal thrust.Elara screamed in raw pleasure, the stretch burning perfectly, his thick dick dragging over every sensitive nerve inside her, the head bumping her cervix.He didn’t ease in gripped her hips with bruising force and fucked her hard, deep, relentless hips slapping her ass with every stroke, balls smacking her clit, the counter shaking under them.“Take it,” he snarled, one hand fisting her hair to arch her back sharply, the other sliding around to rub her clit in tight, ruthless circles. “Take every inch like the greedy little slut you are. This tight pussy missed my dick stretching it open, didn’t it?”“Yes fuck yes ” she cried, pushing back to meet every thrust, filthy words spilling out uncontrollably. “Harder fuck me harder I’ve been so empty without your big dick owning me need you to ruin this pussy, make it yours again ”He reached around further, fingers plunging alongside his dick for several strokes stretching her impossibly wide, the obscene squelch of her soaked pussy filling the room then back to her clit, pinching and rubbing.“Cum on my dick, baby,” he commanded. “Milk me show me how much this pussy missed being fucked.”She shattered, pussy spasming violently around his pounding dick, squirting hard as she sobbed his name, vision whiting out.The knot began to swell at his base thickening, catching on her rim with every thrust.She felt it pushed back harder, craving it.“cum in me,” she begged, voice wrecked and desperate. “cum inside me fuck me fill me until I’m overflowing with your cum ”He roared, slamming deep one last time the knot popping past her rim, locking them together as he came thick, hot, endless ropes of come flooding her womb, pulsing deep, so much it leaked out around the seal in filthy rivulets down her thighs.They stayed tied, his chest draped over her back, both panting, his mouth at her ear whispering raw, possessive praise.“Perfect,” he rasped. “So perfect taking my knot. My good girl.”When the knot receded slowly, he pulled out with a wet sound, turned her, kissed her deep and slow.But they weren’t done.He carried her to the bed laid her down, spread her thighs wide again.Slid back in slow, face to face, eyes locked.Fucked her deep and grinding, mouth on her breasts, sucking her nipples until she cried from overstimulation.Knotted her a second time, coming with her name on his lips.Then in the shower hot water pounding, steam thick.Pressed her front to the glass wall, took her from behind hand on her throat, other rubbing her clit, knotting her under the spray as water sluiced over their joined bodies.Then on the rug by the window her riding him reverse, ass bouncing, his hands spreading her cheeks, thumb pressing into her tight back hole as she came screaming.Hours of it.Marathon sex that left them both wrecked sheets soaked with cum and slick, bodies marked with bites and handprints, the loft thick with the scent of raw fucking.Finally, spent and tied one last time him spooning her from behind, knot locked deep, hand splayed over her lower belly they lay tangled.“I’m not leaving,” he said quietly. “I’m moving in. Here. With you.”She tensed slightly.“Why?” she asked. “Because of the sex?”“Because I can’t be without you,” he said, voice raw. “And because it’s not safe for you to be alone right now.”She turned in his arms as much as the knot allowed.“Not safe?”“Rivals,” he said carefully. “People who want to hurt me. They might use you to get to me. I need to protect you.”She searched his face.“You’re not telling me everything.”“Not yet,” he admitted, kissing her slow. “But I will. Soon.”She didn’t push.Just kissed him back, grinding slow on his knot until they both came quietly one last time.Sleep took them tied together.

Blackthorn pack land the next afternoon Kai returned briefly for an emergency council.The main lodge was tense elders seated around the heavy oak table, enforcers standing, Thorne leaning against the wall with arms crossed.Liora sat at Kai’s right, calm as always.Reports lay on the table.Silverfang movements.Their alpha Ronan Silverfang, ruthless and ambitious had sent scouts close to Pine Ridge.Photos, Elara locking the shop.Notes,questions asked in town about the “pretty herbalist living alone.”Thorne tossed a recorded message on the table a voice clip from a scout.Ronan’s voice, cold and calculating “Find out if she’s carrying Blackthorn blood. If she is, we take her. An heir in our hands ends this territory war.”The room erupted.Elders arguing for immediate retrieval.Enforcers ready for blood.Thorne’s eyes on Kai.“You’ve got a problem, brother. Ronan wants your female. Thinks a pup gives him leverage.”Kai’s voice was deadly quiet.“She’s not leverage. She’s mine.”Silence.Power shifted in the room.An elder leaned forward.“Then she’s not just your mate. She’s future Luna. We can’t leave her exposed.”Kai stood.“I’m handling it. She’s not ready for this world. I bring her when she’s ready.”Thorne smirked, but his eyes were serious.“Better hope Ronan doesn’t get to her first. He’s not known for asking nicely.”Kai left with blood roaring.

One on one with Liora outside.“She’s pregnant,” he said quietly. “Doesn’t know I know.”Liora nodded.“Protect her heart as well as her body. The shift at birth will be painful. If it’s royal red… the packs will come.”Kai’s jaw clenched.“Then we’ll be ready.”One on one with Thorne on the porch.“You’re in deep,” Thorne said. “Ronan’s been pushing borders for months. This gives him excuse.”Kai nodded.“Double patrols. Eyes on Pine Ridge.”Thorne grinned.“Gonna tell her about the war coming?”“When she’s ready.”Thorne clapped his shoulder.“Better make her ready fast. Or Ronan will.”

Back in Pine Ridge night Kai returned with more bags and tension radiating off him.Elara sensed it immediately.She met him at the door in nothing but a silk robe, open just enough to tease.He dropped the bags, pulled her against him, kissed her hard.“Missed you,” he growled.“Missed you more,” she whispered, dropping the robe.They didn’t make it upstairs.Fucked on the shop floor after closing her on the counter, legs over his shoulders, knotting while he sucked her clit through the aftershocks.Jealousy flared the next day.A male customer lingered too long, eyes on her cleavage.Kai watched from the back, eyes glowing.When the man left, Kai locked the door, flipped the sign.Took her against the shop window robe open, breasts pressed to the glass, fucking her hard from behind.“Mine,” he snarled, hand on her throat. “This pussy is mine. No one else gets to look.”She came screaming yes, pussy milking his knot.Danger teased closer.A strange scent near the shop.Kai shifted at night, ran patrols, returned to knot her slow and possessive, whispering promises.Pack pressure built.Thorne called: “Ronan’s moving. Wants a meeting. Says he knows about your ‘human pet.’”Kai didn’t tell her.Just fucked her harder, held her tighter, marked her deeper.The storm was gathering.But for now, they burned together.Elara asleep in Kai’s arms his phone buzzing on the nightstand with Thorne’s message “Ronan’s scouts are in town. They’ve seen you with her. He’s coming himself.”