Angela knew what she asked for and she more than ready to be with her mate. He stood towering in front of her with his blazing blue eyes on her lips. She didn't realize that she held her breathe until he was the one that sucked air into his lungs. The dark scent around the room wrapped around her body and she felt it grasp her in its control, like it'd never let her escape the darkness. The very same darkness that surrounded him was where she was headed now.

"You want to wear my mark," he said as he put his hand on her neck.

Angela met his gaze. "Yes," she told him.

Trez's bit down on his teeth and she saw the way his jaw tightened like a hard bolt. "Angela," his deep tone sent chills down her body. "There's nothing more that I desire than to mark you." He stepped closer, their bodies inches apart like their lips. "If you're not ready, tell me now, otherwise I won't stop."

Angela felt his warm breath on her mouth and she felt his hands hold her to face him and nothing else. "I am ready," she consented with a flutter of nerves wreaking havoc inside her.

Trez leaned down and kissed the corner of her mouth before he laid his lips on hers. He led her down a sweet kiss that made her realize that he was reassuring her. He was making sure that she knew that she was safe with him and that he'd never hurt her. Angela understood that he would never cause her any harm.

She placed her hands on him and pressed into the kiss and let him take more of her. He deepened the kiss, it turned hungry and powerful as he stroked his tongue with hers and she held him close. Taking in the dark pheromones of her mate, she felt her wolf emerge to the surface aching to be marked by him already. As their lips sought to devour the other, she couldn't see anything past him.

Trez pulled away. Both of them gasping for air and yearning for the other.

Trez grabbed the ribbon on her waist and tugged it apart letting it fall, he pushed the robe off her shoulders to reveal her bare skin to the glint of the moon. He stepped forward making her move back and he continued until the back of her legs hit the bed. The robe fell off her body and around her feet, her limbs growing cold as she stood in a silk gown alone. However, the chilly night air was nothing compared the heat from Trez that swarmed around her.

"Lay down, sweetheart," he commanded.

Angela faced him yet she couldn't see his expression since the light was beaming behind him and he stood like a mysterious shadow that was here to claim her. She followed his demand knowing that fighting him here wasn't going to be a good idea, especially when he was a dominant wolf known to get his way. Angela turned before she got onto the bed and sat in the middle for him. He towered over the side of the bed but waited until she put her back down against the silken sheets.

She silently watched as he took of his blazer and tossed it on the floor before he reached for the buttons on his wrist and got them open. Tugging apart his tie, it loosened and fell down before he unfastened his shirt and it followed the tie. She felt the heat in her body blaze through her and she couldn't find the words to explain the nerves in her stomach.

The bed shifted as he leaned onto the bed with his knee and she swallowed the tension down. He crept over her, without touching anything of her but she felt as if he already had his hands on her. His molten hot gaze spread through her and felt it swimming in her blood, like it was possessing her. Trez loomed above her and she faced him not knowing what look was in her eyes, but he knew.

"You're nervous," he claimed.

Angela wasn't nervous to be taken as his mate, it was just that he was a dominant wolf that always claimed what was his and she was the prize right now. She wasn't sure if she'd be able to keep up with him, especially since she'd never done this before.

She laid her hand on his neck. "I've just never put myself in the hands of someone else before."

Trez lifted her hand and kissed her palm before he placed it on top of his heart, that was pounding like a fast drum. She gaped up at him realizing that he was feeling the same way as her. "I've never given myself to anyone either," he confessed. "Nothing allowed me to trust anyone nor have I touched another person. You're my one and only too, Angela."

Angela's heart melted for him. "I love you," she breathed shakily.

Trez smiled hearing those words like she had given him a priceless gift. He leaned down and kissed her lips like he took the words for himself. "I will do anything for you just to hear those words over and over again," he told her as he kissed down her neck and his hands roamed over her hips.

Angela smiled softly before she felt where his hands were headed and she felt herself stiffen instantly. He smiled against her neck and she knew that she shouldn't have chosen such a short nightgown. It barely covered her right now and he wasn't stopping either.

Trez kissed down her chest. "Silk was made for you," he praised as he felt her curves over the silk. "But this won't work if stays it on and it keeps me away from you." He grabbed the straps of the gown and pushed them over her shoulders.

Trez pulled it down and his eyes landed on her heavy breasts. He kissed down the middle before he turned and laid his lips on the curvy mound. She trembled from his touch and he ran his slick tongue over the rosy nipple hardening it in seconds. Taking it between his teeth, the slight twinge of pain shot right through her down to the juncture of her legs. She didn't even know how that was possible. As he moved onto the next breast, she felt his hands trailing over her thighs before he caressed them apart. She was falling for his charm so easily and there was no resistance in her.

He settled between her legs and she felt the cold air hit her core before he pressed into her. The buckle of his pants laid over her stomach and he knew what she had exposed for him, it was the most vulnerable spot of her body. Yet, he wasn't arrogant about it. He knew that she was nervous about this and he was slowly easing her into it.

He kissed down her body as he continued to pull the silk down like a drape was revealing the hidden truth. He trailed his hot lips over her stomach before he had her gown down her thighs and off her legs. She laid for his blazing eyes bare and submissive, every part of her aching for his touch. He got up and kneeled between her legs as his eyes memorized every inch of her body. Trez kissed down her thigh, she felt the warmth of his lips as the heat trapped in her core.

Angela gripped the sheets as he fanned his breath over her core and she closed her eyes. The sensation of his slick, wet tongue plunging into the walls of her core was sensational. He had done this to her before, but this time, it was different. He was possessively sweet but greedy to get closer. His tongue ran along the sensitive skin before he raced over the hard nub. She gasped from the thrilling sensation and he continued to do it, like he learned something about her.

She bit her lip trying not to make a sound even though it was impossible. Opening her eyes, she found him staring up at her like he was enjoying the show too much. Licking her over and over again, he drove her body wild and she couldn't hold it in. The way her body yielded to his was remarkable, it was like she wasn't even her own soul anymore. Everything she had belonged to him and she found the piece missing in her life that made her whole again.

"Trez," she moaned as he continued his assault.

He growled into her core, eating her like she was everything he craved. She racked her fingers into the dark layers of his hair and held him to her. He smiled against her core and she felt him tease her when he flicked her clit and told her that she should fist his hair.

Angela tightened her hand and he quickened his pace, which didn't warn her at all that it was going to be irresistible pleasure that came with that. He continued torturing her and making sure that there wasn't a moment that she could calm down. Everything built inside, stringing itself together just so it could break her apart. She felt the pressure inside her body and wasn't sure whether to push him away or pull him closer.

Trez was the one that pushed closer to her as she moved back and he continued to add the weight to the pressure inside her. Overwhelmed by the pleasure, she felt the wave come crashing down on her and she felt the orgasm shred through her limbs.

In seconds, Angela fell against the bed, gasping for air and she let go of Trez as she felt her limbs melt into slush. Trez kissed her thigh and cupped her core, she moaned from how sensitive it was before he slid his fingers within the walls again. She wasn't sure what he had planned now, but she was aching once again for his touch.

Trez leaned back and grabbed the buckle of his pants letting her know what he intended and was more than ready. She laid under him as she watched him pull down the zip and push away the black boxers, before he revealed the hardened length of his shaft to her, that was thick and long but ready to be inside of her.

She kept her legs parted and knew that her wolf was watching him from within her. Both of them ready to be claimed and she was ready to have him. Trez ran the head of his cock down her core and she cried out in pleasure. The slickness of her orgasm coated his shaft before he pressed into the tight hole of her body.

Everything around her vanished and she found herself focusing on him alone. The way his body moved to make room inside her. She saw his eyes that drank the sight of her body taking him further and further into her domain. The slight ache inside her was bearable as she felt him nearing her. She wanted to take more of him and let him fill every part of her core.

But he stopped and leaned over her, his blazing blue eyes wracked over her face sending a shudder through her. Her legs that were wrapped over his waist stretched further apart as he kissed her neck. He nibbled on the skin between her neck and shoulder and she felt his shaft slowly inch within the slick walls. She lost herself to the sensations and couldn't focus on anything else.

He kissed his way up her neck, softly trailing towards the racing pulse in her neck. She combed her fingers through his hair as she gathered him in her arms. They sought each other's mouth and locked into a heated kiss, that took her by a storm. She wasn't prepared by his carnal desire to have her under him and yielding to his dominance. But she let herself go and let him lead.

Suddenly, he thrusted into her body with a final push. She realized that he wasn't even close to being inside her earlier. Right now, she could feel the thick length of his cock reach every spot that was hidden within her. He was throbbing against the wall of her core and she was unsure that there was even that much room down there to fit him.

Angela couldn't find the breath in her lungs as he nibbled on her bottom lip and let go. She laid her hand on her belly wondering how deep he was, it was as if he took her body as his own. He let go of her lips before he faced her eyes, that told him she was aching for more. Moving his hips, he slowly inched out and she moaned from the pleasure swarming inside her. He knew that she needed him right now to take her as a wolf did his mate.

Trez thrusted inside her and she gripped his shoulders for support. He was controlling her orgasm with his own body, letting her feel out each stroke of his cock before he'd send her off the edge. She held onto him as her body was claimed and she felt his power tense with need.

He moaned into her ear his confession and she fell for him all over again. His soft tone that contrasted against the ruthless thrusts of his hips enchanted her. They lulled her into his darkness and consumed her as she tried to keep her sanity intact.

"Angela," he whispered her name sweetly as if he was reading it off a great poem. "I can feel your beautiful wolf watching me."

She knew that her wolf had her eyes on Trez this whole time. She wasn't keeping her presence a secret because she was letting him know that she was here and ready to be his wolf too. "My wolf wants you," she told him.

Trez smirked. "As do I," he answered as his hips thrusted into her.

Angela saw his wolf flash within his eyes and she felt him purposely let their wolves meet. But he quickly dominated them both and had them under his grasp. As the storm of pleasure brewed inside her, she couldn't hold back anymore and kissed him. He stole her breath and she stole his words. Both of them reaching the end of their patience before neither of them could stop. Trez latched his teeth onto her neck and she made room for him to do what she craved. Just as he bit down on her neck, marking her, claiming her as his own for an eternity, they both came hard and he filled her with his hot essence that overflowed inside her womb.

Breathlessly, she laid exhausted on the bed as Trez stayed inside her even after they were done. She thought he'd move and get up. But he didn't move away and he had licked her neck of the bite mark. She let him caress the shudder of nerves from her body as he eased her limbs with his hands. She felt the raw ache in her core and on her neck, but she adored the sensation since it was her mate that gave it to her.

She looked up at his blue eyes that were gleaming down at her with passion oozing out. Gathering him close, she kissed him again and again, letting this moment seep into her memory forever so she'd never forget it. Trez controlled the kiss as she felt his shaft hardening inside her again. Pulling out of her slowly, he thrusted hard and fast taking her into a wild ride that wasn't like before.

Trez rose onto his knees as he pounded into her, taking her like a ravenous animal thirsting to force his mate into submission. His cock imbedded deep inside her, she didn't know what to do. He was ruthless with her body, that had already gotten used to his size. Her core filled with his thick shaft and she loved the sensation of him being in her only.

Suddenly, he put his fingers on her clit and she arched her back off the bed as the pleasure grew like a bubbling volcano ready to burst. She cried out his name and told him that it was too much but he didn't relent. He only quickened his pace and pushed her legs further apart, so nothing was in the way of him and her core. Pounding into her over and over again, she felt him claw the orgasm out of her body and she came all around his cock and he poured into her again.

Trez pulled out of her body and she felt the heated liquid trickle out of her. His eyes feasted on her as she felt everything leave her. The pain of her past was gone and she had finally begun a new chapter of her life. There was nothing that could stop her from feeling the happiness that was gifted to her again, especially after her parents were taken from her.

Angela lifted off the bed and leaned onto her knees before she put her hand on Trez's chest, his powerful heart thundering under her palm. "I love you," she whispered softly as she leaned down and kissed his neck. His skin was burning hot against her lips and she breathed in his dark fragrance.

Trez put his hands on her hips and he gathered her close to his body, she pressed against his abdomen and chest. Her bare body against his own and her breasts crushed between them. He combed his fingers into her hair, gripping it tightly as he directed her to face his burning blue eyes.

"The love I feel for you cannot be expressed with words," he growled before he crushed his lips onto hers and took her into a searing kiss. His tongue entered her mouth and didn't ask for permission before it caressed around her own.

Angela wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed into his mouth. This kiss told her that his love was deeper than any ocean and burned hotter than any wildfire. He was consumed by her just like she was with him. They were both joined into this mating bond that took them into a mesmerizing state that they couldn't see anything other than each other.

However, this time, Angela needed to claim her mate for herself and she needed to feel him.

Inching closer to him, he noticed that she took the kiss into her own control. He eased back and let her tongue enter his mouth before she took him down on the bed. Breaking the kiss, she stared at him as he laid on the silk sheets ready for her to anything she desired. He wasn't going to restrain her or tell her to do it his way. Angela and her wolf drank the sight of his powerful body that was ready for them.

"Get on top of me, bambina," he beckoned her with his hand. "and take what's yours."

The blaze in her eyes showed him that she was more wolf than human.

-Trez Luciano's POV-

Trez was never one to believe in the religion or the gods that came with it. However, as he laid on the bed with his mate leaning on her knees with her tousled red hair and burning hazel eyes, he could've sworn that she was a goddess. The moon that spilled through all the windows washed over her body, that was beautifully naked. Yet, there was nothing vulnerable about her. She was confident in her skin and she held herself with a regal authority that made his heart ache to hold her.

Angela laid her soft hand on his shaft and his blood burned while his shaft thickened for her. He sucked in a sharp breath as she continued to slide her hand up and down the length. Letting her explore and feel his body since it was her right to do what she wished with him, he stayed where he was despite shaking with hunger to push her down and thrust into her lovely body.

"Angela," he growled.

Angela continued to be a tease. "Does that feel good?" Her sweet voice driving him wild.

"You know it does," he remarked.

She peeked a cunning smile before she leaned down and laid her lips on the head. He immediately stiffened and didn't know what to do. Everything he imagined in his dreams when he didn't have her wasn't even close to what she was right now. The sensation of her pretty lips wrapping around his cock made him forget his name and the goddamn empire he built. Nothing mattered in front of her and his wolf fucking agreed.

Trez knew that he spent his entire life building his Luciano name to be feared and remembered forever. But he could forsake that all and just be known as Angela's mate now. Nothing came between them and he couldn't let anyone take her from him.

Angela leaned down onto his shaft and swallowed his cock into her throat. He felt the back of her mouth as it gripped him tightly and he felt himself burning like flames. He reached down and moved the strands of her hair letting him see her clearly as she took him inside her mouth.

"Come on, baby, just like that," he heard her sweet little moan before he pushed into her. "You're going to kill me, Angela." He threw his head back and felt his body being consumed by her.

The surge of carnal desire ripped through him and he felt his cock tighten with pleasure. He knew that his release was close and he didn't want to come without being inside her. But she wasn't moving despite his objection. She continued to take him into her mouth and slide back out, leaving it slick and wet as she let him feel everything.

"Angela," he growled. "I'm going to come if you don't stop, baby."

She didn't stop and he wasn't going hold back then. Matching her pace, he thrusted into her mouth and let her feel his thick length choke her breathe away. As the storm brewed and came to destroy him, he wasn't able to resist and burst into her mouth hard.

Trez panted as he watched her beautiful hazel eyes gleam like the wolf inside her. He knew that he was at her mercy and there was nothing that he wouldn't do for her. She could kill him and he'd gladly take it as a blessing. His heart and soul were all hers and there was no one that could change that.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her close before he took her mouth into a heated kiss. She resisted since she had just had her mouth on his cock, but he didn't give a fuck. She tasted of him and he fucking loved that since it meant that she was all his now.

He gripped her thighs and forced her on top of him, she eagerly complied and straddled his waist. Neither of them stopped the kiss, but Angela had her motives clear when she ran her soaking wet pussy along the length of his cock. He growled into her mouth and gripped her ass, pressing her closer onto his cock. The heat of her core awakened his arousal and he was more than ready to go with her again.

"It's so hot against my-" she moaned when she glanced down at his cock pressed into her core.

"That's because I'm burning to be inside you again," he told her.

Angela laid her hands on his chest as she lifted her hips and she aligned his cock into the entrance of her core. He watched alertly since he didn't want to miss a single thing. She leaned down onto him and his thick length eased between the folds before it pressed into the hole. He held her thighs helping her stay up before she took his erection deeper inside her divine body.

Trez felt every muscle on his body tense with heat for her. The wolf inside him racked to be let free so he could taste her, but Trez didn't want to share Angela. Nothing would ever let Trez share his mate with anyone. She was his and his alone. He gripped her thighs, his fingers sinking into her soft flesh that was hot all over. Her body was perfection and he drank the sight of her, like she was the elixir to life and he was dying.

Angela took his entire length within her body and he felt her take a shaky deep breath, like it was too much to handle. His thick shaft throbbed within the confinement of the tight walls and she was the one that lifted her hips herself. He was more than willing to let her take her time and wait until she was used to his size, but she didn't want to stall time. She moved her hips over him, in a lustful rhythm that made him utterly defenceless.

Trez never thought that he was one to succumb to the pleasures of the body, since it never appealed to him in the slightest, which was mainly because of his time in the cages. The captors that ran the cages were ruthless with the slaves and tormented them. Trez had fallen out of touching anyone skin to skin or even letting another be near him in any way that was intimate.

However, everything that he ever thought was wrong as he laid with Angela's beautiful body draped over his own. She was pure and soft, consuming him like her final breath and taking him into her blessed world. His own body didn't ask for his permission before it gave itself to be under her enchantment.

All else faded away. His past didn't matter and his future only counted because she was worth living for now. He would devote himself to her and ensure that she had everything she ever wished for at the tip of her fingers.

Angela lowered her eyes; her rosy lips had parted as she faced his darkened gaze. She rode his cock and let him feel every single pleasure that could be bestowed on him. Taking him deep inside her, he felt her pick up speed. He held her hips before he thrusted into her on his own, the honey from her body spilled down his shaft and it helped him slide within her walls easily. She threw her head back, letting her red hair skim his thighs. His eyes fell to the mark on her neck and it drove him insane with possessiveness. She bore his mark and there was nothing that could get rid of it. There was only one problem. He didn't have her mark and he ached for it.

Angela rolled her hips over him and it was clear from the way her core tightened around him that she was about to come. He took over then, gripping her waist he held onto her before he thrusted his hips into her core. She gasped from pleasure and he thrived off it. Pumping his cock into her, both of them reached the edge and were about to burst.

"Mark me, Angela," he growled hungrily. "Do it now."

Angela leaned down on him, her heavy breast crushed against his chest before she latched her teeth onto the spot where his shoulder met his neck. Trez thrusted into her all the while she took the last second to bite down and finally mark him as her. He ruptured apart and came hard just like she did when the mating had been completed.

She fell against him as he pulled out his shaft, her limbs losing all strength as she tried to catch her breath. Trez wrapped his arms around her, holding her safely in his arms. He wasn't sure how long they stayed like that, because he found himself holding onto the sound of her breath calming down and the way the warmth of her soft skin felt against him.

Angela was the first to move. She lifted her head and leaned onto her arm next to his head. Her hazel eyes gleamed with a soft allure that tugged at his heart. Trez ran his fingers down her glowing cheek and she leaned down for a kiss, it was sweet and slow like she was taking him into a dream. He breathed her in and followed through this tender kiss knowing that she was his beloved mate.

She pulled away and he followed after her making his mate smile. Trez ran his hands down her body and she relished the sensation by leaning into him. He took that as permission to feel every part of her again. The curve of her back towards the softness of her butt and the way her breasts pressed into him. She didn't object and he turned them over so she was resting comfortably on the bed again.

Trez kissed her neck then her chest as he traced his hand down her waist over to her thigh. She smirked knowingly as he brushed his fingers along the seam of her core.

"And here I thought you would let me rest," she remarked.

Trez leaned over her as he kissed her lips. "What gave you that idea?" he retorted as he pushed her legs apart.

She gripped his shoulder as she drew him into a long kiss, that took his breath away. Fuck, she was taking everything from him. There was nothing before or after her anymore. Was this what a mating bond was supposed to feel like? he thought because he was feeling a rather powerful urge to kill anything that came between him and his mate, which could be dangerous for anyone that approached him from now on.

Trez nibbled on her lip before he continued down her neck and left a few marks on her throat before he noticed her eyes dozing off. Since this was her first time, he must have pushed her too much already.

Trez kissed his mate. "Would you like a warm bath?" he asked.

"Yes, please," she muttered.

He got up off the bed and walked around it towards the bathroom. Striding straight to the tub, he turned the golden handle letting rushing water into the basin. He put his fingers under the water and it was perfectly warm for his mate. Until, it had reached mid-way, he left to get her.

Entering the cool draft that was surrounding the bedroom, his eyes landed onto his lovely mate who was gleaming on the dark sheets. Angela slept with her naked body gracefully draped on the bed and he was tempted to slide right over to her and take her again. But he pushed his desires down and tended to his mate's needs.

Trez reached over and lifted her off the bed, she stirred awake and held onto him as she asked where he was taking her. He answered by putting her in the warm water of the tub. She moaned in pleasure as it engulfed her sore limbs and eased the tension from all over. He kissed her cheek as she rested in the water. Trez wasn't going to let this opportunity pass and got in behind her, she comfortably rested against him as his legs caged her to him.

"This feels nice," Angela mumbled.

It did feel nice, he thought but he knew it was because she was here with him. "It does," he whispered above her ear before he kissed her head.

"Can I ask you something?" she said.

"Anything?" He ran his wet hand along her arm.

"All this time and you never had any physical relationships," she said. "Why?"

Trez wasn't really sure how to answer that without bringing up his past at the cages. "I always saw the dark side of it," he told her. "The way people used each other like animals just to feel release in that cage was nothing I could forget then or now." He stiffened behind her and he closed his eyes seeing the horrific hands grab the next victim and their screams.

"Trez," Angela's soft voice brought him out of that darkness.

He opened his eyes to her looking at him, she was holding onto his face and kneeling between his legs. "I'm sorry," he raked his hair making it wet.

"Don't ever apologize for sharing your heart to me," she kissed his cheek.

He leaned into her touch and found her fragrance calming him down. "But that changed," he said then. Her hazel eyes gleamed with kindness. "I gave myself to you with everything I have and I always will."

She smiled at him. "Because we're mates," she said.

"Well, that and you make me feel safe," he told her wholeheartedly. And he knew that it might make him look weak for admitting it, but it was the truth and he'd never lie to her.

Angela's eyes glazed with a sheen of tears and he instantly regretted it. "You- you," she wiped her cheeks.

Trez lifted his back and gathered her in his arms. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry," he said.

Angela sniffled her nose as she hugged him back. "I love you, Trez," she held him tightly.

"You mean Mr. Sexy Macchiato," he teased making her laugh through her tears.

"We have to forget I ever called you that," she sighed.

"It's growing on me," he added as she sat back down between his legs and laid on him. He wrapped his arms around her waist and they talked for a bit longer.

Eventually, the water grew tepid and inching closer to cold. He helped Angela out of the tub and she used a towel to dry off as he left to grab her nightgown, since she insisted on not sleeping naked. Wrapping a robe over himself, he helped her into the soft pink gown that glowed against her body skin and her fiery red hair that was stunningly tousled around her.

"I can see the look in your eyes, mister," Angela said as she braided her hair over her shoulder.

"What look?" he asked as he raked his eyes over her body.

Angela grabbed the black hair-tie and knotted her braid securely. "The look that says I can't go to bed," she told him as she placed her hands on her hips.

Trez grinned. "I'm not stopping you," he moved to the side. "Go to bed, sweetheart." She didn't trust the smirk on his lips but she walked past him. He locked his eyes onto his target and she knew it too. "On second thought-" Running away from him was a bad idea and she squealed when he caught her. Trez lifted her in his arms and took her to bed to make love to her slowly and ensure that every moment was not wasted.

Time was precious to him now, especially since Angela wasn't in his dreams anymore and right next to him. So, he could reach over and touch her the way he ached all this time. He could tell her his love for her was as deep and that he'd perish any storm that came her way. There was nothing that stopped him from kissing her heart and whispering to her soul through his eyes. The sweet caress of her fragrance was all he could focus on and he spent all night breathing that scent into him. Angela was his mate and he was hers. That was his promise and a Luciano never broke a promise.

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