MadMoon by Regina Carlysle

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Chapter Five
     
    Mad was sick of dicking around.
    He’d been burning the midnight oil for far too long, using
any excuse possible to give her time to rest, de-stress, and make herself ready
for what was fixin’ to go down between them. She’d had enough brutality in her
life and he wasn’t about to push her. A mate didn’t behave that way. Any man
worth calling himself a man treated his woman with respect and care. He’d
learned those lessons at his father’s knee. His parents’ marriage had been as
near perfect as he could imagine and he wanted the same for himself and Lana.
    As he’d sat here tonight, his patience nearing an end, he
thought about how he would approach this mating business. In most lycan
cultures, sex built up slowly until the night of consummation when the male’s
cock would swell heavily at the base, locking mates together for hours of
mind-blowing sex. Then the female would shift into her beast safely and the
mated pair would spend their lives together, hunting and making little wolf
babies. With Lana, things were different because she had already shifted, but
Mad believed she deserved as much of his pack’s traditions as he could give her
and he’d been thinking about that tonight.
    Would they have sex?
    Oh hell yeah.
    They’d have a lot of it, but he wanted to save the
electrifying power of the consummation itself for later. Mainly, he wanted to
get to know her. He wanted to ease into sex despite the howling needs of his
inner beast for a fast, primal mating.
    “Do you know what happens to males of our pack when we
consummate a relationship with our mates, Lana?”
    Lana went still on the chair. “I think so. Mom told me some
stuff. She said that in most packs there is first the consummation and then the
female shifts for the first time. We don’t get to do that.”
    “How do you feel about that?”
    “I think that women in my pack miss out.”
    “Former pack.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “You are no longer of the Snow Wolf pack. Now you belong to
us, to me. You are a beautiful, strong lycan female of the Texas Rogues and you
will be my lupa.”
    She shook her head quickly. “I forgot. I’m sorry, I wasn’t
thinking.”
    Mad let several moments pass. He lowered his voice, needing
to be clear. “Do not apologize to me, Lana. I’m not going to belittle you or
hit you. There is no need to be afraid of me. Ever.”
    “Okay. No apologizing.”
    “Good. I’ve been doing some thinking tonight and I have come
to a conclusion or two. We are going to have sex, a whole lot of sex, beginning
tonight. Got that?”
    Lana nodded.
    “I don’t care that you’ve already shifted, honey. I want you
to have what every other female wolf has when she finds her mate. We’re going
to go slow and experiment with the mating energy because I have no idea how
much heat we’ll generate together and I want you ready to handle final
consummation. How does that sound to you?”
    She eyed him steadily but quickly licked her lips, a sign of
hidden nerves. “It sounds good. Yes, fine.”
    He stood from his chair and walked around the desk until he
could prop his butt on the edge. “After we’ve fucked in every way known to man,
woman or wolf, we’ll consummate this thing once and for all. You deserve the
fairy tale. You and I are luckier than most to find a mate ordained by the gods
and I’m not about to shortchange that event by letting the rituals go by the
wayside. We’ll consummate and then my pack will throw us the best consummation
party Sweetridge has ever seen.”
    Lana stared up at him, no doubt stunned by his little
speech. Had he ever said so many words strung together at once? Madden didn’t
think so but he wanted her to know how things were going to be before they
started. “Lana?”
    “Yes?”
    “Stand up.”
    “Oh boy,” she breathed.
    He wanted to smile but was too fucking turned-on to do so.
Lana stood in front of him and he reached out to pull her between his