My eyes snapped open when I heard Ruffles meow. The sunlight was flooding in through Ares's, I mean, Mars's dark curtains. Though dark and sleek, the whole room had such a homey feel to it. Maybe it was the pictures on the walls or the--wait a goddamn second.

I squinted my eyes at a picture of him and a young woman which sat on his side table. Her eyes were a piercing blue, lips the color of cherries, and her hair was a frizzy blonde mess. She was beautiful.

They were staring ahead, his head on her shoulder, giving the camera the biggest grin that I had ever seen. They looked so happy and so young. Nothing like Alpha Ares, the notoriously powerful alpha of the west. My wolf growled. Who was she and why did she have her arms around my mate like that?

Ruffles meowed again. I gazed around the room, sitting up almost immediately. I'd find out who she was later. Now I had to find someone else.

Mars laid in the bed next to me, one arm draped around my waist, pulling me closer. "Kitten, lie back down with me. You smell so good."

"No," I said. "I need to go--"

He curled me to him, making me fall back onto the bed, and brushed his lips against my ear. "That was an order, not a choice." He pressed himself closer to me, lips brushing against my ear and making me shiver. "Things are going to be different here than they were at your old pack."

"You mean my home," I said, wanting to keep him talking so he didn't hear Ruffles meowing. Moon Goddess, what was she getting into?

He growled lowly in my ear, canines brushing against my neck. "This is your home, Aurora, and you'll soon find out that this pack is run differently than your Mom's." His hand slipped under the hem of my shirt, fingers rubbing soothing circles on my stomach. "For instance, you're not going to disobey me when I give you an order."

I snorted and sat back up. "Yeah, okay," I said sarcastically. "I'll obey your every command, sit at your feet, worship you to--"

He snaked a hand around my neck, yanking me back down next to him. "Another rule... you don't leave my bed in the morning until I have eaten."

"Moon Goddess, Mars, you expect me to wait until you're finishe--"

"Yes." He placed lingering kisses down my neck, disappeared under the blankets, and yanked down my underwear, staring up at me from between my legs. "Every morning, until I'm satisfied."

My eyes widened. Oh... he meant... "But you just did it last n--"

He pulled my folds apart with his fingers and placed his lips on my clit. "I did, and I'm going to do it again." Mars spread my legs and flicked my clit with his tongue. Holding my trembling legs as far apart as they would go, he gazed up at me and said, "Fuck, Kitten... I can't wait to be inside of you tonight."

Tonight? Tonight? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not tonight. We couldn't do it tonight. I wasn't ready for him like that.

Yes we are. My wolf howled in the back of my mind as Ruffles meowed again.

It took me no time to let him touch me, but I didn't want to be another whore. Moon Goddess knew that he liked whores like this. That was the rumor anyway.

"Does my mate have a problem with that?" he mumbled against me.

I gazed down at him, his golden eyes making me clench. He sucked my clit between his lips, pushed a finger inside of me, and hummed against my pussy. I furrowed my brows together, pushing a hand through his hair. But it felt so good.

"I asked you a question," he said, voice hard and utterly demanding.

"Y-yes." I clutched the sheets in my fists, arching my back, as a wave of pleasure rolled through me. I wanted more. I always wanted more of him, more of this. He was too good at it.

He pushed another finger inside of me, moving them dreadfully slow. "Does she have a problem with me thrusting my cock into what's mine or does she have a problem with how much she wants it?"

I clenched on his fingers when he added a third. He stopped moving them, and I couldn't handle it. So, I moved my hips back and forth slightly.

"So desperate for it." He closed his eyes, inhaling. "So desperate for me." When he reopened his eyes, a wave of pleasure rolled through me. "Show me how you want me to fuck you."

"Wh-what?" My heart was racing.

"Show me how you want me to fuck you. Move your hips on me. Use my fingers to make you cum. I want to watch this pretty little body of yours tremble."

My eyes widened for a brief moment. So damn confident in himself. So damn sexy. So damn... I grabbed his wrist, thrusting it closer to my pussy. His fingers slid into me with ease. I pulled them out, then pulled them back into me again. I threw my head back, moving his hand faster, and moaned.

"Faster," Mars said.

I moved his hand faster, pounding his fingers into me as far as they would go.

"Come on, Kitten. Is that all you have?" he asked, shaking his head. "Let me show you how it's done."

One arm curled around my waist. He thrusted his fingers hard and deep into my pussy, the pressure almost immediately becoming unbearable. I grasped onto his shoulders, digging my nails into his skin, and pushed myself back. Needing to create space between us. Needing to breath for a second. But, Moon Goddess, he didn't stop. No matter how much distance I tried to put between us, he followed me. Curling his arm tighter around me and thrusting up into my pussy until I was plastered against his headboard, my feet on his thighs, my legs shaking uncontrollably.

Someone knocked on the door, and my eyes widened. "Ares," Liam said behind the door.

"Come back later, Liam." Mars kept his gaze on me.

"But ther--"

"I said to come back later," Mars said, growling. A wave of pleasure rolled through my body. So close to cumming. So close to releasing myself for him. So close to feeling my body tingle with excitement.

He placed his lips on my stomach, looked up at me, fingers still thrusting wildly, and said, "Cum for me, baby."

I parted my lips, slapped a hand over my mouth, and moaned into it, cumming almost instantly. Dear Moon Goddess. He continued to thrust his fingers into me, slowing down only slightly.

"Charolette wants to see you," Liam said.

Charolette?

Mars tensed, then slowed his fingers. "Tell her that I will see her during the party," he said. He knelt next to me, sliding his fingers out of my aching pussy.

Was that who the woman in the picture was? He seemed to respond to her name like he would a mate, always there when she called, alert to her whenever and wherever she was. He stood, nodding to the doorway. "Come on, Kitten. It's time for you to meet the pack."

My wolf growled, and I pulled down my shirt to cover my bare pussy, suddenly feeling so... so... distant. I didn't want to think the worst, but Mom had beat it into my head that Ares was a no-good, lying, whore-loving man.

I couldn't stop thinking the worst.