Chapter III. One Step Closer - Part 7 - Only When I Sleep
“You’re playing a dangerous game, Mara.” Sage warned her.
With every word he spoke, he could feel his lips brushing Mara’s and it was driving him crazy.
“I want to see your wolf, now!” She demanded.
“Mara-”
“Now!”
“At your own risk. I would have warned you.” Sage told her before letting his wolf surface.
With a growl, he captured Mara’s lips. A kiss to which she responded straight away. When she let out a small moan, Sage took her lower lips between his before nibbling lightly. She opened her mouth and moaned again, and he took the opportunity to deepen their kiss. Within minutes they had both lost control and allowed their passion to consume them. Mara had wrapped her legs around Sage and was sensually caressing his chest. While Sage had both hands on her buttocks. Feeling his sex harden, Mara began to dry pumping him. She had never felt so comfortable. She had never wanted anything like this... So intensely. Feeling her panties getting wet, she ended their kiss and stepped back.
“What’s going on? Is this too much?” He asked, noticing the changes in Mara’s eyes immediately. She was still the vengeful Mara, but her eyes were filled with doubt.
“Yes, it’s too much!”
Remorseful, he began to apologize: “I’m sorry Mara. I should never have-”
“Shut up, please! It feels so good! But so frustrating at the same time. You’re making me feel so out of control. In your arms it’s like I have no control. And Goddess, how I love being in control. I need to be in control. And yet, the more I touch you, the more I want you. I want to feel your hands on my body, your lips too... I want so badly to know what it would feel like to feel you inside me that my panties are soaked. I never liked what those men did to me and yet I want you to do it to me. To have you possess me in every way possible! To claim me! What is wrong with me?!” She cut him off and poured out her thoughts in one breath. During her monologue, Sage moved closer to her.
“This is new to you and you’re terrified, that’s normal. Sex and love have never been associated with desire or your feelings before. But what you’re feeling right now is normal. It’s the way it should have always been.” Sage reassured her, gently caressing her face.
“I really do blow hot and cold!” Mara half-joked.
“That you do!” Sage said in agreement, a smirk on his lips.
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be. There’s no rush and we’ll go at your pace.” Sage tells her, placing a chaste kiss on her forehead.
“What if I don’t want vanilla sex?” Mara said, burying her face in his chest and inhaling his delicious smell.
“It’s up to you. I desire both Mara, making sweet love to you but also fucking you out of control. But I would never do anything you didn’t want or weren’t ready to do. What matters is that I have you by my side.”
She raised her face to him and he was surprised to see the other Mara was back, but for once her eyes weren’t devoid of emotion.
“Teach me.” She begged him. She was showing him her weaknesses. She was vulnerable in that moment and reminded him of the Mara he had known when he was 16.
“Mara...” His voice was choked with emotion.
“Teach me to show you my emotions. Teach me what it is to be loved. Show me, what it is to make love gently and kindly.” She begged him again.
He nodded, unable to speak, his throat tight with emotion. He carried her to the back of his pickup and physically showed her how much he loved her.
They both lay in the trailer of Sage’s pickup looking up at the stars. Well, Sage was asking himself a thousand questions. Had she loved him? Had he lived up to her expectations? Had he satisfied her? After all Mara had a lot more experience than he did.
“What’s bothering you?” Mara asked him, breaking the silence.
“Did you like it?” He asked her, hesitating.
“It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced, but yes I liked it a lot. It was so intimate and beautiful. I didn’t think we could share so many emotions during sex. I really felt your love for me.”
Damn, in moments like this he loved her honesty.
“And you?” She asked him in return.
“That was wonderful Mara! Thank you for trusting me.”
“I don’t need to teach you to show me your feelings. I need you to teach me how to read you. You are perfect Mara, you don’t need to change and especially not for me.” He declared.
“I’ll try but I don’t know how to do it.” She replied, moved by his words but still not showing it. She took his hand to let him feel it.
“Perhaps Orion could provide me with some advice?” Sage offered.
“Orion’s going to jump up and down when he finds out we did it. He bet me I’d fall into your arms by the end of the first month. At least he lost.” Mara murmured, making Sage smile.
“You don’t like to lose.” Sage pointed out.
“No, I hate it. It’s not even worth trying to play a game with me because if you win, your victory will cost you dearly.”
“Noted.” Sage said, biting his lip to keep from laughing. So Mara was a sore loser.
“How many girls have you slept with?” Mara asked, throwing him off his game completely.
“6 or 7. Heather is the only one I’ve slept with a few times, the others were one night stands that I only have a vague memory of because I was really drunk when it happened. Unfortunately, you’ve seen my latest conquest, sorry about that. I shouldn't have but for my defense I didn't slept with her. I was way too wasted and not able to get hard.” He spoke the truth even though he was uncomfortable.
“So that mattress in your pickup trailer, it’s not there for your one night stands. Did you put it there for me just in case?”
He was relieved to see she wasn’t mad at him for his number and amused by her logic.
“I like sleeping under the stars. Sometimes I feel like I’m suffocating in my room, when that happens I sleep out here.” He explained to her.
“I thought you slept like a baby, that’s what you told me in high school.”
“That was before.”
“Sorry...”
“Are you really going to tell Orion?” Sage asked her to change the subject.
“I don’t have to. He’ll know right away. Orion has this annoying ability to know before I do what I desire... In one look, he will know and our mixed sents will confirm it.”
Sage smiled at the knowledge that Mara desired him, even if it was going to be obvious a little earlier.
“Did you have your first orgasm?” Sage asked her. He was proud that he’d made her come.
“No.”
“But you told Niels you’ve never cum with these men.”
“And that’s the truth, but in my therapy, one of my exercises was to masturbate to learn to associate pleasure with sex and to take control of my body and my sexuality.”
“Oh...”
“But it was you I was thinking about when I was doing it. And I wasn’t doing your skills any justice at all.” She added. Sage felt his ego swell.
“Damn, you sure know how to stroke me the right way. You have no idea what a boost you just gave my ego.” He admitted to her.
Looking at the tent forming in Sage’s crotch, Mara said, “Apparently it’s not just your ego I’ve boosted, round 2?
“Round 2!” Sage agreed.
Suddenly she winced: “Let me warn Orion before he gets worried and tracks us down.”
“He wouldn’t dare!”
“Oh yes he would! And then he’d go around telling everyone what we did and how he saw it.” She said seriously.
“So there’s no point in thinking about spending the night together?” Sage asked, stroking her belly and moving up to her breasts.
“I like that idea. Our first night in our house so to speak. But before we sleep, show me again how much you love me!” She demanded.
“Your wish is my command, my Alpha Luna!” He whispered before lowering his head between her crotch.