Nicolette To Nikki 1
Nicolette ran as fast as she could. She may not have trained with the warriors but she was a big royal wolf while her pursuers were lowly guards as all strong wolves were fighting.
But she had been given weakeners and kept shackled in silver so she was only half as strong as her usual self. She had tried to let out a howl and lost precious time to get away and she knew she couldn’t evade her chasers for too long.
So she put all her strength and circled around the battlefield in the hope of circling back to where the few of strong females who had rescued her were fighting.
She watched horrified as one of the guards chasing her split from the other three and started to circle around her through the fighting. She knew it was only a matter of time before he got her but she couldn’t stop to think now.
As she pushed her burning legs through the thick forest she felt a large aura behind her. The one she would recognise anywhere.
The next instant the guard from the side was upon her. With whatever meagre fighting skills she had picked up in the palace, she defended herself as Max caught up to those behind her.
By the time all the guards were put down, she was frothing at the mouth and wheezing from the effort. Loosing her strength, she shifted to kneel on the forest floor as Max came running up to her and pulled her into his arms.
“It’s okay, I got them, you’re going to be okay.” He was trying to calm and reassure her and she wanted to talk too but she was struggling to catch her breath.
As they both kneeled on the ground and hugged each other she felt something in chest. Like something suddenly went missing.
She felt…..pack-less.
Their king had been put down!
She snapped her widened eyes to meet Max’s. “Your father…,” she managed through broken breaths as she looked up into Max’s eyes.
His face was contorted in pain but it seemed like had been expecting it.
Did he choose to save her over his own family? The guilt at calling for help hit her so hard that she started to sob.
“Max, I’m so…sorry…for calling you…,” she managed through her ragged breathing and sobbing but Max simply pulled her in his arms again and just held her for a while. The victory howls sounded next and the reality of their status bore down upon her.
They were now pack-less, royals without title or rank and Max was the enemy kingdom’s last heir. She may even have to go back home and wait for her family to make another deal with a royal as females didn’t take titles to stay on in her birth pack.
But this was more of her home than her birth pack and the two of them needed to stick together more than ever.
“Mark me Max,” she whispered in his arms. “Mark me and we shall stay together. I’ll stay by your side…”
“No,” he firmly turned her down and pushed away from her. Even though he had been rejecting her for years, in light of the current situation, his words hurt.
She had done nothing but give her complete loyalty to him, stand by him again and again but, she didn’t want to exist in the human world as his fiancé. If he wasn’t going to mark her, she couldn’t bring herself to be with him.
She felt hurt and confused. “Then why save me? That too when you had a choice between me and your own family Max?”
He looked ashamed. It dawned on her that maybe Max had made the choice that was easy, the one that didn’t pitch him against his beloved stepbrother Alex. But Max surprised her with his reasoning, like always.
“I saved you because you deserve to live Nicolette. Someone as good and pure and loving and kind deserves to exist more than anyone else I know. I’ll talk to Chloe, she’ll let you swear allegiance to her and stay. The new kingdom needs you more than you think.”
No one had ever seen any good in her except the male in front of her. The one she had been raised to love. Yet, he couldn’t give himself to her. Yet, he was choosing to go ahead alone on the new path his life was taking. “And what about you Max? Where will you go?”
He smiled dryly. “I’m sure I’ll have a home as long as Alex has a pack and my grandfather is alive.”
She knew he was being optimistic. There was no role for the defeated kingdom’s prince in the wolf world because according to their ancient laws, Max should have been killed along with his family. “Then why not mark me and stay anyways,” she offered again.
“Because you deserve someone who loves you.”
Tears rolled down her cheeks as she pleaded with him. “But I don’t know how to be without you Max. My parents birthed me to be your mate and my whole life I was raised to be with you. To know what your likes and dislikes were, to offer what you wanted and needed, be what your family and kingdom wanted of me.”
He smiled sadly and tenderly wiped her tears with his large hands. “All the more reason to not be with me. You’re free now, you can finally be yourself.” He held her face in his palms and gazed into her eyes.
“You are amazing Nicolette and I have done nothing but give you less than what you deserve. It’s not your fault, it’s just a shitty situation. I never felt at home in my own palace and I know that I need to find who I truly am when I’m not the prince or the irresistible Nicolette’s fiancé.”
She gave a forced smile at the irony of that, he was the only male who had never coveted her even though he claimed she was irresistible. “You need to swear your oath to the new queen,” he turned around and they walked hand in hand towards the battle ground.
Max found some discarded clothes and wrapped a jacket around her shoulders as they contemplated their bleak future and trekked with a heavy air around them.
Nicolette had never even dared to imagine a life different to what had been planned for her. It was both exciting and terrifying.
What they heard next made them both gasp. It was a binding howl. At first she scoffed, whoever was marking the queen had been impatient but it was Max’s shocked yet smiling face that made her gasp.
“Is that……Alex?”
He nodded as his smile turned into a broad grin first and then a hearty laugh. “Here I was thinking he was going to go brood in his jungle again….bloody son of gun managed to win her back.”
Max looked so happy that Alex was finally with Chloe that he was beaming. Nicolette couldn’t help smile along with him as they kept walking.
There were bodies being lined up as wounded and dying wolves lay everywhere. Nicolette had never had the stomach for violence and gore so she kept her eyes averted and clung to Max.
Soon, they arrived at a clearing with a lot of chaos and she saw Alex standing with a pregnant female by his side who was obviously the new queen.
“Come, let me introduce you,” Max tugged her forward and they slowly made their way through the commotion and noise and grief and the air of both triumph and loss as she held on to Max’s hand with all her strength.
In spite of how much he obviously cared about her, he didn’t love her and all her insecurities came from his repeated denial but they had developed an odd friendship between them and she trusted him more than anyone else. Would the new queen trust her? Want her to be a part of her kingdom?
If she did, Nicolette was happy she would have a place here to call home but she also wanted Max to stay. Now that Alex had claimed the queen, shouldn’t the King consort’s step-brother be allowed to stay?
Once they were close, Max and Alex looked at each other with emotion filled eyes. They were openly meeting as brothers and not cousins for the first time in their lives and having lost their parents, they held each other to comfort and grieve. No one knew how the two of them had found this connection in spite of not knowing who they really were to each other.
She was standing there watching them when her eyes met those of the male standing a little further away and she froze.
He was breathtaking.
He was as tall as Max but that was where the similarity ended. With blonde hair and blue eyes, he had the aura of a royal but she still couldn’t recognise him even though she had met all the royals on the continent. The striking male had an unimaginable amount of bulk on his tall frame and he was looking straight at her with his eyes piercing her making her shift uncomfortably under his glare.
Suddenly, something clicked. Something in her chest felt like a piece had just fallen into place. Her stomach fell as heat rushed to her face and her body came alive like fireworks were going off inside her, the sparks exiting through her very skin.
She had barely registered what the feeling meant when she felt him move towards her with lightening speed.
Without any warming, without uttering a single word and without wasting a single nanosecond, he lunged for her and she felt two strong, muscular and loving arms wrap around her.
His scent was like a drug that overtook her senses with a sweet high that she had never known.
Before she could register what he was doing, she felt a jolt of electricity run through a body. If looking into his eyes had set off fireworks, his canines latching on to her marking spot set off an explosion of happiness, desire, joy, peace and every positive emotion she knew, all at once, that started at her neck where his lips burned on her skin and smashed through her body like a release making her convulse and quiver in pleasure.
She desperately clung on to his naked body for support as the screams and growls emanating from around them filled the air.
Nicolette could smell her blood and felt him pull back from his half shift. For some unknown reason, she tightened her grip around him, she didn’t want to let go of him and didn’t want him to let go of that inch of her skin that he was so publicly claiming without a second thought or an ounce of shame.
Without caring that she was a remanent of the regime that had caused all this carnage. Without asking who she was. Without wanting to know what kind of a wolf she had.
He had claimed her as his without caring about any consequences.
On being claimed by that gorgeous beast of a male she felt a surge of love from her wolf side that she didn’t know she was capable of.
Her eyes rolled back into her head as he lasciviously licked the wound and she finally opened her tightly shut eyes to focus when he slowly pulled away from her.
He licked the small drop of blood that was on his lips as she studied the face of her drop dead gorgeous, goddess given, hunk of a mate. There was someone shouting behind her but she couldn’t take her eyes away from the face in front of her. Couldn’t break the spell that had been cast over her.
They were both panting and her heart was ready to jump out of her chest as she felt the wetness build in her core. He was bare and his very hard erection was pressing on her pelvis.
Without looking away from her eyes, he addressed someone.
“There was no way I was going to let another royal fucker steal my goddess given mate. I’m already on to my second chance and I don’t know if I’m as lucky as Clint.” He then looked at Alex and Max. “I don’t care what you do to me. It’s done, I’ve marked her. Do what you have to. Punish me, reprimand me, execute me…”
“NO!”
The word was reflexively out of her mouth before she knew it and it was loud. Louder than she had ever spoken in her life. She was sure her horrified face said exactly what she felt about them punishing Lyle. That was what the queen had called him.
Lyle.
Her forever mate.
The name echoed in her head. This was the strongest warrior, the famed Lyle of Kamer and he wanted her. The rejected fiancé of the prince from the vile Violet Wolf kingdom! And to top it off, he had claimed her without worrying about being executed.
There were giggles from everyone as Lyle and she shamelessly gawked at each other while Max and Alex stood beside them growling loudly.
It was bizarre how much he already meant to her. “Please don’t execute him. I’ll….I’ll mark him back.” She dropped her eyes in embarrassment as her face turned pink and looked pleadingly at Queen Chloe again. She knew she was blushing because of the smiles and smirks on the faces of those surrounding them. “Just…somewhere…private.” She hesitantly turned and looked into Lyle’s eyes again as he stared into hers with a hint of amusement on his face. She never wanted to stop looking into his eyes.
“Okay.” Her handsome mate didn’t miss a beat as he ordered someone who was going to be more integral to their future together than any other wolf. “Get a tent around us Silas.” And then he pulled her in close and brought his lips down to kiss her.
Her body was doing a dance she had never learnt as her hands wrapped themselves around his neck and she completely melted into him.
It was a high ranker’s tent for sure. She couldn’t smell the queen though, just Alex. Maybe it was Alex’s tent that Lyle was carrying her into?
He placed her on the bed and immediately lay on top of her and started to kiss her passionately.
They’d been kissing literally non stop for the past hour till Lyle lost patience and simply carried her all the way to where they were camped.
She let his hands roam her body and set her body ablaze as he pushed his whole naked form into her.
“Goddess you’re divine Nikki,” he mumbled as he kissed the side of her face and sucked on the mating mark he had given her.
She had always been Nicolette and no one had ever shortened her name before. But from his lips, it sounded perfect. She wasn’t the Nicolette of the previous kingdom anymore, she was this glorious wolf’s mate. She was Lyle’s Nikki.
She moaned at the feel of his lips. “Lyle, I have to tell you something….”
“Hmmm,” he mumbled as he kissed her neck.
“You’re my first.” She said it quickly, like ripping a band-aid. Got it out of the way.
Realisation struck him as he looked at her, his eyebrows arched in surprise. But his expression quickly turned to one of concern.
“Fuck. I didn’t expect that. Do you want to wait?” He was worried about her? She had thought he’d mock her like Everleigh and Carolina always did.
She shook her head vigorously. “No, I’m ready. Just….go slow.”
“I don’t want to rush you, we don’t have to mate right away….” he reassured her with a soft voice.
Goddess…..she didn’t know how to say that she didn’t want to wait. Not anymore. If the marking gave her so much pleasure, she wanted to know what her whole body being claimed by him while mating would feel like.
“I don’t want to wait.” Her heart started to race as she looked down in embarrassment. She was worried she sounded desperate and she had so much to gain by being his mate, her status would automatically be that if a royal or whatever his rank was once they were a marked pair. “Unless you want to make sure I’m not using you to raise..”
He snarled, making her stop and extend her neck to the side in submission. But Lyle gently made her look at him by lifting her chin.
“I don’t care. I’m your goddess given and forever mate. I exist for you, to please you, to comfort you, to give you pleasure….and I’m honoured that I can do something for your rank in the new kingdom.”
She felt him push his pelvis into her as he half lay on top of her.
“I want to provide everything you need. Not because it’s my duty but because it’s what I need to do to be happy.”
“But I don’t have anything to offer you in return.” She was so embarrassed that her voice was barely a whisper.
But her new mate just gazed into her eyes as his voice stayed loving and soft. “But the goddess has already given me what I wanted sweetheart. You. You’re the most perfect and beautiful thing that I have ever seen. And I’ve seen a few. Are you going to be okay with that?”
She couldn’t believe he was self conscious about his mating history, so she tried to make sure what he meant. “That you’ve seen a few?”
“Yeah,” he nodded, “and that I didn’t wait for you.”
She vigorously shook her head to reassure him. “Your past doesn’t matter to me.”
He watched her closely as his tone became cautious. “I used to be Chloe’s companion and last month when we were in Kamer and her mate bond was broken, we spent a night together.”
“It’s the past.”
“You’re really okay with that?” He sounded incredulous for some reason.
“Why wouldn’t I be? You didn’t really know me then,” she reasoned with him but he still looked cautious and swallowed hard.
“There is more,” he started but Nikki brought a finger and placed it on his lips.
“Stop. We have a lifetime to talk about our pasts. Whatever it is, I’m going to be okay with it Lyle. No matter what it contains.”
“Why?” For some reason he wouldn’t believe her. Was he kidding her? How could he not see how lucky she was to have him?
“Because you’re the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen and no one has loved me as unconditionally as you have. The way you claimed me, made me feel desirable and special. You have no idea what a huge favour you have done for my sense of self worth by not questioning our bond.”
His eyes danced over her face as first he smiled, then leaned in and kissed her deeply. She felt his lips languidly glide over hers as he caressed her mouth with his.
He seemed to be in no hurry as he savoured her and she savoured him, her hands in his hair and his running all over her body.
She felt him pull away as he undressed her. Slow and deliberate, he took in every inch of her skin as he unwrapped her body like a present.
She reddened under his gaze but kept eye contact till he was leaning on her once they had nothing else between their bodies.
“Maybe I died in the war and this is a dream….” he muttered as he looked at her.
She gasped loudly. “Goddess I hope not. I want this to be my reality so bad…”
Lyle’s heart was thudding wildly in his chest. Everything about her was perfect. The way she smiled, the way she hesitated, the way she looked into his eyes…the guilt he felt for not waiting for her was making his chest hurt.
This is what he had always wanted in a mate. This is why he had wanted Chloe the omega, all those years ago at Kamer.
Nikki was gentle, soft, delicate, soft, graceful and …..did he say soft?
She had everything that had first attracted him to Chloe but none of the sass and attitude she developed over the years. Maybe this was what he had always wanted. A loving, trusting and absolutely adorable mate who loved him for who he was. Who didn’t question his cockiness or cheekiness and found every part of him as perfect as he found her.
Then why was he nervous? It wasn’t like it was the first time he was mating, he had always considered himself to be an exceptional lover.
But in front of his goddess given awesomeness that was Nikki, he was trembling.
He leaned in and kissed her as she ran her fingers through his hair. Her erect pink nipples rubbed against his chest and she wiggled under him as his erection pushed into her stomach.
She was pushing herself against him in invitation.
She wanted this.
She wanted him.
He moved from her mouth to her face, then jaw and the soft skin behind her ear where he nipped her again.
She moaned and he let his tongue dip into her ear and felt her skin get goose bumps as he continued to move lower. He gave the raw mating mark a small suckle before he moved to the hollow of her neck.
“Lyllleee…,” she moaned in her smooth, husky voice, making him even harder.
Lyle covered every single inch of her chest and neck in kisses and scent before he looked up to see her face. She had her head thrown to one side and was looking at him through her thick lashes.
She stroked his hair as if to encourage him and he held her gaze as he parted his lips and latched on to her breast.
“Mmmmmmm…,” her eyes closed just after he saw her eyes roll. Oh what a site it was to see those eyes go white and her back arch as she offered her breasts to him.
Goddddesssss….she was made for this.
After spending a good amount of time kissing, sucking and biting her breasts from the top to the side to the soft under breast, he started to move downward.
“No,” she firmly grabbed his hair to stop his descent and pulled him up towards the head of the bed. He meekly let her guide him to where she wanted.
When he was at her eye level she whispered. “The first thing I want to feel down there, is our mating.”
“But I want you to come,” he argued. He was only trying to get her wetter, get her sensitised, get that special spongy spot inside of her swell and throb so he could hit it as he rolled his hips into her.
“Wouldn’t I just…when you…” she dropped her gaze, “I didn’t know how…..never mind.”
He couldn’t help but smile. She was so innocent, so uncorrupted, it was absolutely endearing to watch her blush. But he wanted her to always feel comfortable around him.
He grabbed her chin and made her meet his eyes again. “Don’t ever feel embarrassed around me. I want you to always be frank and open with me and I want you to always tell me what you want. Or how you want it.”
He pecked her sweetly on her trembling lips and added, “And it takes more than just sticking my dick into your glorious cunt for you to come sweetheart.”
Her eyes widened in shock as she reddened even more. But it was the quickening of her heart and the scent of her arousal that gave her away. She liked it when he talked dirty, the first female ever to like it when he did so. By goddess she couldn’t have been more perfect for him.
He smashed his lips to hers again and turned her to face away from him, her smooth, curvaceous back and behind to his front.
Keeping one hand to stop her from pulling her lips away, while he pushed his knees between her legs and spread them so that she was spread wide.
Then slowly and leisurely he moved his other hand up from her inner thigh to touch her folds.
Nikki moaned in his mouth as she felt a male’s touch between her legs for the first time.
Lyle shuddered with the excitement of giving his mate her first orgasm of her life as he slowly wet his fingers in her folds before starting to rub her clit.
She tensed and moaned into his mouth but he tightened the grip of his hand that was holding the side of her face, refusing to let her move away as he started to rub and roll her sensitive little nub.
Nikki squirmed and wiggled under his touch but he kept her legs wide open with his knees, kept her mouth open with his tongue and kept her building with his fingers.
He felt her clench her asscheeks against his groin and her raised hand in his hair fisted more and more till finally, he felt her body quiver and jerk as she came moaning against his mouth.
Lyle had never felt this kind of hunger, this kind of need, to claim anyone, as he did then. He moved his hand away from her sex and grabbed the back of her knee to stop her from closing her legs and moved the other hand that was on her face to place it flat on her stomach. She relaxed as she caught her breath and braced herself at the same time.
Nikki’s eyes moved up to meet his shyly and in spite of the immense control he usually showed over his shift, his beast side rebelled and he was suddenly half shifted.
Afraid that he would scratch her with his nails he kept his touch light as her eyes widened slightly at the sight of his elongating canines. His manhood was bigger in this form yet she didn’t complain. In fact, she looked absolutely unbelievable; her hair mussed, her lips swollen, her skin flushed and her breasts moving up and down with her heavy breathing as she waited for him to take her. His beast growled, his voice animalistic and grisly as he commanded her. “Do not look away.”
She held his gaze and gave a slight nod as he lined her up. Lyle watched her gorgeous face as she gasped when he placed the fat tip of his erection between her spread folds and pushed his hips up.
Nikki leaned and rested her forehead on his. She was the perfect height for the position he had her in, sitting exactly where he wanted her.
He continued to pull back and push up little by little till he finally managed to get the whole half shifted tip of his erection in. Nikki bit her lip and moaned,“Mmmmmm Lyyyllleee…”
She knew exactly what he wanted to hear without him even asking her as she grabbed his hair and the nails of her other hand dug into the back of his on her stomach.
He stopped and let her catch her breath as his chest rumbled from the impatience of his beast. For the first time in his life, he wanted to rut a female senseless. But he stayed pa. Slowed himself down for her.
As Nikki calmed, he tightened his grasp on her thigh. She knew what he was going to do next as she bit her lip and held her breath.
In one swift and powerful thrust, he shattered her virginity and seated himself completely inside her.
“LLYYYYLLLEEE…,” the scream was out of her mouth before either of them could stop it. But he was gloating at the pleasure on her face. She trembled at the feel of his whole length embedded inside her and he savoured the feeling of her tight insides spasming slightly as Nikki’s virgin sex adjusted to his length.
Goddess……how was he ever going to get out of this tent?
When her spasming lessened, he started to move, slow and unhurried at first, he rolled his hips to move in and out of her. As her gasps got louder and sweat started to appear on her skin, his beast lost control.
He held her spread, completely at his mercy as she moaned and screamed his name and her insides tightened around him. Lyle needed to wait for her, he steadied his breathing and increased the pace till the slapping of their flesh made obscene noises and Nikki’s face scrunched up with the build.
Her body twitched violently as she came hard, clenching with her release, her insides tightened around him.
But he kept going, kept thrusting, kept rutting her bleeding cunt as Nikki’s eyes started to water and one high melded into another for her.
“Oh Lyle..” she exclaimed again and again.
He couldn’t hold back anymore, he gave the hardest few thrusts as Nikki’s whole body and breasts bounced like crazy and he felt himself come, felt himself fill her insides with his release and felt his body snap free of the tightly bound build he had held for far longer than ever before.
Nikki dropped her arm and closed her eyes, her forehead still resting against his, she caught her breath while Lyle took deep long breaths and reeled in his beast. Even though he had let his nails and canines grow a bit when he mated Chloe, he had kept his human form as the one in control. But this had been all beast. He had never let the animal in him take over reason and thought, had never mated half-shifted before. This was a first for him in a way too.
His eyes fell on the part of them that was still joined. Nikki’s juices intermingled with her blood and his seed, were seeping down her thigh and the sight of it was mind blowing for his filthy, dirty, down in the gutter, mind.
He wasn’t going to stop now, he was going to rut her till the sun came up and he was going to fill her up with so much seed that it would spill out of her for days.
But first, his human side needed to take her too.
