Big Bad Wolf Chapter 15

Big Bad Wolf Chapter 15

Deny Her Nothing

Javier

Their laughter died away as they looked into each other’s eyes. Her lithe body pressed into his chest. She was smiling at him. He wrapped her in his arms and kissed her for a long, tender moment.

The feel of her naked on top of him as he lay on his back naked in the grass was incredible. She had called out to him. When he responded, she came to him.

He might regret it later. At that moment, kissing her was all he wanted to do forever. He was lost to her.

Javier forgot about her fire or being burned. He kissed her with the same wild abandon he had been playing with earlier. It was sheer joy and pure delight at being alive. He shared it with her.

Isabell kissed him back as she lay on top of him, her hands flat against his chest, holding herself enough to deepen the kiss and allow her tongue to demand entrance into his mouth so she could taste him.

The smell of clean wood smoke from the campfire surrounded him. He didn’t deny her. She tasted him as she wished.

It was only when she broke the kiss to breathe he realized phoenix flames were dancing over his chest from her hands. Where the flames touched him, the light glowed over his skin with a reflection of the bluish-red flames. His skin tingled.

Wherever her flames touched, they covered him in reflective light. No heat or cold touched him. The passion from their kiss was lighting up the night, both literally and figuratively.

She laughed, and he smiled. She had a lilting laugh that echoed in his heart as her calling to him had done before.

Flames covered her, and she was a phoenix once more. Isabell hopped back into the sky and drifted lazily on an updraft. Javier didn’t move for long moments. He lay in the grass watching Isabell.

When the passion haze finally cleared, the light traced him back into his direwolf, and he ran for the sheer joy of running.

As he neared the cabin, he howled, and she called back. She was flying back to him. She landed easily in the grass next to him as they approached the cabin. They stepped onto the porch together. She rubbed her neck with his and slipped inside to trace back to her human form.

He shifted on the porch and dressed again. She was shy and embarrassed after kissing him. He was more than excited by the way she looked, all flushed. God, she was beautiful.

Was he staring? Fuck, he had to stop that. She would think he was a pervert. Something about her stole his attention and narrowed everything down to only her, and he was powerless to stop it from happening.

“Did I burn you or freeze you? Are you okay? I’m sorry, I got caught up in the moment. I didn’t mean to…”

She was rambling, shaking, and nervous.

He placed his index finger against her lips.

“Shhh. I’m fine. Don’t be sorry. I know you wanted to kiss me, and you didn’t want me to get hurt. I enjoyed the kiss, and I’m unharmed. Relax.”

He shrugged her apology away. There was zero chance he could allow her to be sorry for an amazing kiss.

“I can’t accept your apology because I don’t believe you’re sorry you kissed me. I’m certainly not sorry. Besides, what self-respecting man wants a beautiful woman to apologize for kissing him? What he wants from her is for her to let him know if and when she would want him to kiss her again.”

He dropped his finger, and she jumped into his arms and kissed him again. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back.

He took a more dominant role. His hand threaded through her red-streaked black hair and held her head. He tilted her head and deepened the kiss. His tongue darted into her mouth to taste her.

He let her feel the fire of his passion in the kiss. It wasn’t airy, or simply happy to be alive. It was heavy with deep desire.

He clasped her body against his own. He could feel her hard nipples through both their clothes as they pressed into his chest. His erection strained the zipper on his jeans as she wantonly ground herself against him. He groaned into the kiss.

His lips mastered hers, then he was kissing along her jawline. His lips left little kisses until he got to her ear, then he sucked the lobe into his mouth and licked it. Isabell moaned, and he gained courage.

Javier kissed down the side of her neck to the hollow between her neck and shoulder. He could feel her blood pumping through her veins too fast. It spoke to his wolf. He would mark her there as he claimed her.

His fangs extended at that thought, and she tried to back away from him. Javier growled, and she stilled in his arms. He shook his head and released her.

He would never force her. Javier backed away from her and turned away as he panted to regain control of his emotions.

“I’m sorry, Isabell. Give me a moment. I need to regain control. You’re far too precious to me. You make it difficult to protect you when you stir my feelings so strongly. I’ve become the enemy I would save you from.”

Her hand slid up his back, along his shoulder. She meant to reassure him. Her touch heated his skin through the fabric of his shirt. He knew she was innocent and didn’t comprehend what danger she placed herself in.

He should take her back to Fox, so she would be safe. The wolf inside snarled his displeasure at that idea. He would protect her.

He wanted to roar out his frustration at the night in the way wolves howled at the moon. How could he protect her from himself? He had to regain his control.

“Javier, do you think we can stay here tonight? I can go back in the morning. This place is too wonderful. I don’t wish to leave it yet.”

Isabell asked to stay with him. There in his space, alone. Just the two of them.

He wanted to groan at the position she placed him in. Never had he been so torn between his desire and his sense of honor.

His inner direwolf was still close to the surface. It pushed him to accept her desire. His wolf wanted to be with her. He groaned.

He wanted her too much. It was dangerous. He needed to protect her, but he’d become the evil she needed saving from.

“Isabell, do you know what you’re asking? What you do to me? I’m not sure I’m that strong,” he whispered, afraid to admit it out loud.

“I don’t understand. I thought you wanted to be with me?”

As she looked into his eyes, he saw her confusion and hurt. He saw the depths of her soul, the flames in her heart.

He wanted her. His cock was hard and pressed against his jeans, urging him to go to her. He needed to make her understand.

Javier reached for her hand and placed it on his crotch so she could feel the evidence of his desire for her. He watched her eyes widen with fear and fascination at his condition. He tried to answer her, and his words came out low and throaty.

“I want you. Make no mistake about that. The evidence of my desire is plain. I don’t want to frighten you. Feel what you do to me? Do you truly doubt my desire is real?”

He asked her as her hands traveled over the bulge in the front of his pants. She shook her head in answer. She had her evidence.

“Tell me when you’re ready for that, and it will be yours. Be sure first. You’ve taken my mind and my heart. If you ask me, I’ll give you my body and soul as well. There’s no rush. I’m immortal. I have eternity to wait.”

Javier husked the words out quietly. Giving her the truth she needed to hear.

“I’ve met no one like you.”

She breathed the words as if she didn’t quite believe he was real.

“You make me feel safe, and I can’t stop thinking about you. When you touch me, all the anxiety leaves. When you hold me, I sleep without nightmares. You answered me when I called out like a phoenix. No one has ever returned my call. I’ve always been alone, until you.”

Isabell looked into his eyes as she spoke. She was trying to explain her emotions to him. She struggled with the newness of everything to her.

Javier knew there were too many firsts. Too much to process and far too soon for what his wolf wanted, what he wanted.

At that moment, his inner struggle left him. He had his self-control. Javier wouldn’t ruin her. He would wait.

“Never have I shared a kiss before when I didn’t burn my partner. I could never be close to anyone that way. I gave up finding another who could be with me, someone who wanted to try. You didn’t run away in fear.”

She whispered the words in awe as she continued to look at him. Her hand hadn’t stopped tracing over his cock, either. He wondered if she was subconsciously trying to understand what she felt and how that fit with the way she made him feel.

Either way, he needed to put a stop to whatever that was before it got completely out of hand, her hand, to be exact. He smiled at her as he took her hand away.

“I’m not afraid of you. I won’t run away. If you don’t stop stroking me, I’ll need to change clothes.”

Isabell blushed a bright pink as she realized what he meant. She looked down and tried to turn away from him, embarrassed by her behavior. No way was he letting her feel as if she was guilty of any wrongdoing.

He clasped her hand and reached out to lift her chin with his index finger. Javier tilted her chin so she would look up at him. She had to stop running away and apologizing for everything because, damn it, he wanted what she was doing to him in the worst possible way.

“Isabell, it’s not wrong the way you make me feel if I like it. I don’t want you to have regrets, and I’m not a man who would take advantage of your inexperience. I don’t want your excitement at discovering I don’t catch on fire if you kiss me, or that I understand you when you call, to lead you to do things you aren’t emotionally ready for.”

She stepped up to him and hugged him tightly. He wrapped his arms around her and held her to him. He would wait. She was everything.

If he messed things up, his beautiful phoenix might fly away, literally. He sighed his contentment as he held her and made the concession she asked him for.

Javier could deny her nothing, and he thought it would always be so.

Thank you for your support! Welcome to the dream… Sincerely, -OK

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