My neck burns, an unimaginable fire lighting at the base of my throat. Before I can think too much about it, I feel the energy filled touch of Ares as he strokes my head. My nerves come back slowly, their ripple beginning as my body takes note of him pressed against my back spooning me.

"Ares?" I whisper, my throat hoarse.

"Hello, darling. How are you feeling?" His voice is soft again, a reminder of how he was before he ripped my throat out.

"Please stop touching me." I groan trying to pull away, but he uses his strength to keep me against him.

"Not until the mark is set. If I let you go, your body will know you are rejecting it, sending us both into pain." He kisses the top of my head, my head fuzzes in pleasurable zings from his lips.

"What if I don't want it?" I try to pull away again, but he keeps me forced against him, "Ares, I am not wanting to be bonded to you. Please, just let me go."

"I can't let that happen, I'm sorry." His voice seems regretful, but deep down I know that some part of him does want this, he wants this claim over me.

"How much longer?" Defeat. The only thing coming from me these days.

"Not long, it's almost healed. Most mates have sex, and that is the fastest way to heal it." He mumbles, but I slap at his hand.

"Wouldn't do it for a check. Nows a good time to explain. Give me the details." I groan into the soft pillow loving the plush surrounding my head.

"I am Alpha of Wolfsbane, a large pack in the northeast United States. To provide for my pack financially, and for myself, I am the CEO of the largest National Bank that has become international. You are my mate and Luna, the one woman I desire to love me in return. Josh is my Beta, Tyson my Gamma, and Daniel my Delta."

"So Jess, she's the beta's mate."

"You would be correct. She is going through the same thing you are right now, being just as stubborn."

I roll my eyes, I feel a slight pinch in my neck the rest of the burning pain leaving at once, "Am I done?"

"Mate..." He allows me to leave his arms. I stand up stretching every part of my body.

"I feel very played right now, mislead, hurt, used. And worst of all, if you could stop your macho alpha shit for five seconds, feel controlled."

He gets off the bed as well the only clothing being the his low riding pajama pants. I try not to stare, but the inner sex goddess is wanting another round, and it doesn't help I have this new attachment to him that I didn't have before.

"I am only doing this to protect you."

"Every werewolf book I ever read tells me very differently. This is bullshit. This wasn't supposed to be real. I read them for fun!" I scream out stomping around the room. The tether is very much there like a golden rope that hangs in the air between us.

"Where do you think they got the story? A human mate despised her male and ran, writing the first werewolf story. Now it's like an exploding balloon of teenage hormones."

"Well, the books are interesting. You are nothing but a fucking prick!"

He closes his eyes taking many breaths before continuing the conversation, "Like I said before, you can hate me as long as you need too, I know what I have done."

"Is this even okay? In your world or whatever?"

"It is expected that the Alpha claims his mate the moment they touch, since you are human you had leeway, but it was hard to keep it whenever you ran at every fucking turn."

"Were you planning on taking me at our first dinner?"

He drops his head into his palms before looking back up at me, "Yes, I would have taken you at the diner, but there was too many people."

"Fuck." I push my fingers into my temples rubbing circles. This bite is giving me thoughts that I shouldn't be having and I have to bite my lip to keep myself from acting on them, "Then why agree to the contract in the first place? You knew what you were doing... you gave up false fucking hope."

"The average time it takes for a human to accept their mate is one month, I hoped by offering a compromise we could beat the average. I need you next to me, baby. I can't handle you being across the city where I can't protect you."

"But it's my life, my decisions. I should have a choice." I slap the back of one hand against the palm of the other, the smack resonating through the bedroom.

"What's so bad about being with me?"

I take a step closer to him, he throws his legs off the bed. The tether that I feel between us starts to burn, a good burn that throws my mind off. My feet move closer, my hips between his knees looking down at him, "I know who I am, what I have been through, and part of me knows that I am going be destroyed being with you."

"You don't know that. I want to love you, care for you, provide, anything you want at the drop of penny. The sky is the limits. If you want me to give up my title and move to Italy for fucks sake then let's go, just fuck. I need you." He grabs the sides of my sun dress pulling me in closer.

"I don't want your money, or your status, or anything. I just want love, and to be loved in the way that I want. I don't need the pretty balls, or the nice black card, I just want a normal life with a boring man that makes me orgasm."

He smirks, "Baby, love, you and I both know you wouldn't tolerate a boring man."

I lean my head in, the bond taking over me completely. Ever nerves tingles in need for his touch, "Fuck it." I groan moving down to meet his lips, the euphoria crawling over my skin at the contact.

He pulls me on the bed, throwing me on my back. Our lips break for a moment, his hand traveling up my dress to palm at my breast. His mouth comes down to my ear, a dark look coming over him as he nibbles, "Love, you aren't meant to be with someone boring. Flip over."

And I do. I turn over to have my butt up in the air. My dress falls to my shoulders, the pink panties from earlier the only cover I have. I feel his finger snap the band, the panties thrown across the room leaving me naked. Ares moans at the sight, hands rubbing my ass just taking a moment to appreciate the view.

I sit with anticipation, Ares leaning over to grab something from the drawer next to us. I stay calm until I hear the shifting of metal. Excuse me?

I have always been into vanilla sex, no man ever waning to try anything different, but when he clips those cuffs around my hands then clips me to the bed something inside me roars with pleasure.

Definitely fuck boring.