Bearing the Shifter (Shifter World - Book Four) (Series of 13 Short Stories)

Rolando smelt Maddy’s fear and kissed her. When she was calm, he kissed her neck up to her ear.

“I’m not saying I’m going to hurt you, my Sweet Raven,” he said, nipping at her ear. “I don’t know much about bonding—I just read about it tonight. But from the look of it, I think we’re going to have a bumpy ride. Oh, and also, don’t pull away when you feel something stretching you out and holding you in place….”

“What the hell!?” she demanded, turning her head to glare at him.

He took a deep breath. “Please, just trust me?”

She snorted. “I don’t even know you… ooooo,” she moaned when he slammed into her G-Spot.

“But I already know you,” he said with a wicked grin, then kissed her. “Just remember, I’m going to hurt right along with you. Oh, fuck!”

He felt his body tighten and his balls release his seed deep inside her.

“Fuck!” she screamed as her pussy milked his cock.

“Holy shit,” he mumbled when he felt the knot form inside her.

“What the hell is that?” she cried out.

“It’s called knotting,” he said with a deep sigh.

“What are you doing to me?” she asked, then screamed when a searing pain wrapped around their wrists.

“Dear Goddesses,” he groaned.

But his pain was more focused on hers. The louder she screamed, the more he hurt.

“What is that?” she cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.

He kissed away her tears. “It’s the bonding,” he said, gritting his teeth.

“Make it stop,” she cried.

He squeezed her fingers. “I can’t, Mafilia.”

“My name is Maddy,” she said, an angry look in her eyes as if he’d forgotten her name.

He smiled at her. How could he ever forget his mate’s name? “I know that. Maddy.” He grinned. “Mafilia is an old shifter word. It means, My Mate, or a better translation, My Love.”

Maddy blinked up at Rolando, the pain momentarily forgotten. “Oh,” she whispered, her eyes softening, but the pain returned, and she screamed.

Rolando kissed Maddy, hoping to distract them from the searing pain.

“Rolando,” she groaned against his lips. “What’s happening?”

He lifted his head and looked into her beautiful hazel eyes. “As I said, I only learned about this tonight. But from what I’ve read, we’re bonding.”

She snorted. “Worst bonding I’ve ever heard of.”

He chuckled. “I agree. But the Goddesses have always had a wicked sense of humor.”

“I’ve never met a shifter up close before.” Maddy stared into his silver eyes. “Let alone fucked one.”

He chuckled. “I’m glad I’d felt restless and came out for a run, or you’d be bear chow.”

She giggled. “My hero.”

He snorted, then kissed her.

Neither of them had noticed that the pain was gone. They’d been so wrapped up in each other. When they finally noticed, they looked at their joined hands, and Maddy sucked in a shocked breath.

“What the hell?” Maddy asked when she saw the markings on her wrists.

“Huh,” Rolando said as he watched the markings glow.

A wave of white fire flowed through their bodies, and their eyes widened in shock and wonder.

“Holy hell,” Rolando said, his body feeling like it was on fire. The white fire didn’t hurt, but it made him feel stronger, connected…

“Wow,” Maddy whispered.

“Yeah.” He chuckled.

“What was that?” she asked, looking up at him.

He smirked. “I think that was the bonding. From what I read, it makes me stronger, and gives you, uhm, my powers, I guess….”

“You mean I can shift now?” she asked, one eyebrow raised.

He shook his head. “I don’t think so. But you’ll get my other gifts. Like, strength and extra sensitive senses.

“Like hearing and eyesight?”

He nodded. “Sure. I think so. Maybe we can give it a try later,” he said with a smile.

She smiled back, then started to wiggle under him.

“Don’t move, Mafilia. We can’t separate yet.”

She stopped moving, and he brushed her hair from her face.

“You’re really beautiful,” he said with a sweet smile.

She rolled her eyes. “I’m fat….”

He kissed her. “You’re perfect.”

She sighed. “So, how long are we stuck like this?”

He shrugged. “Not sure. How long has it been?”

She looked at the watch on her wrist. “About twenty minutes.”

He nodded. “If we’re not able to move in ten minutes, I’ll start to worry.”

She chuckled. “You’ll start to worry?”

He nodded. “Knotting takes a while.”

“What is it for?” she asked, looking down as if she could see it.”

He grinned. “To produce cubs….”

“Cubs?” she squealed.

He looked into her eyes. “I’m not sure why, but the Goddesses want us to have cubs. Children.”

“Uhm, who are these Goddesses?” she asked, looking him up and down.

He smiled. “There are many of them. They created what humans call, and we started to use; Supernaturals.”

“Oh,” she whispered. “And why do said Goddesses want me to have your baby?”

“Cub,” he said, nuzzling her neck.

“Cub,” she corrected herself as she turned her head away to give him better access.

“I’m not sure,” he whispered against her neck.

“Well, there has to be a reason.”

He shrugged. “Maybe we can find the answer in the book my friend loaned me.”

She sighed. “How much longer?”

He looked at her watch. “Five minutes.” He looked into her eyes. “Do you want to get rid of me that bad?”

She gave him a cheeky smile. “No, my leg is cramping.”

“Oh.” He chuckled.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and moved, making sure not to pull on the knot inside her as he repositioned them. He sat up, kept her in his lap, and then started massaging her legs.

“Mmm,” she moaned as she laid her head on his shoulder.

He smirked. “Better?”

She nodded as she closed her eyes. “I could get used to this,” she whispered.

“Do you have family you’ll need to contact?” he asked as he rubbed the muscles in her legs.

She shook her head. “No. It has been just me for a long time.”

He nodded. “Where are you staying?”

“At the local hotel.”

“We’ll go there once we get back to the house I share with my teammates and get my clothes. We’ll gather your stuff, and you can live with me until we can find a place of our own to rent….”

She pulled her head back to look at him. “You think because I let you fuck me that we’ll just automatically move in together?”

He frowned. “Maddy, if we leave each other, we’ll go insane.”

She blinked at him. “What?”

He sighed. “In two minutes, we’ll be heading to gather shit, then you can read the book. I didn’t know any of this until my teammate and best friend Gerald Copperfield told me and loaned me his book.”

“What do you mean, go insane?” she asked, a tear sliding down her cheek.

He placed his hands on either side of her face and held her so he could look deep into her eyes. He sucked in a breath when he saw his other half, the missing part of him he never knew was missing.

The other half of his soul.

“You’ll understand it better when you read it yourself—from what I read tonight; when you find your Fated Mate, which is what you are,” he said, so she understood. “When you find him or her, once you have bonded, which we have, if you don’t have sex or keep in contact with each other constantly, we will both go insane from lack of contact—or whatever it said.”

She blinked. “So that’s why you jumped me?”

He chuckled. “No, Mafilia. I jumped you because I knew you were my mate, and if I didn’t claim you, someone else would rape you to try to cockblock me. Because if a shifter fucks a Fated Mate that is not his, it will screw up the connection to the person who is meant to be with him or her.”

She blinked several times. “Raped?”

He nodded. “I knew I needed to make you mine. The moment I saw you, I knew you were mine. And I knew I had to claim you. You’re lucky no one has attacked you. Because you smell really good.” He sniffed her neck, which made her giggle.

“Okay.” She wrapped her arms around his neck. “I don’t know why—because I just met you. But I trust you.”

He smiled. “It’s the bond. Look.” He held his left arm up for her to see his wrist.

She sucked in a breath. “That’s my name.”

He chuckled. “Yeah. And mine is on your left wrist.”

She looked at her left wrist and then her right. “UNITY,” she whispered.

“We are united as one. You’re my missing piece, Maddy.”

She looked into his eyes, and he felt his heart skip a beat.

“Like soul mates?” she asked.

He smiled. “Do you believe in soul mates?”

She shrugged. “Kind of. I know I’ve never found mine….”

“Until tonight,” he said, lightly kissing her lips.

She nodded. “Until tonight. Are your teammates going to be angry if you bring me home with you?”

He chuckled. “More like envious.”

She made a face at him. “Why would they be envious? They have skinny ass cheerleaders to keep them company.”

He grinned. “Exactly, skinny-assed women.” He squeezed her ass. “None of them compare to you, Mafilia.”

Maddy moaned, and his cock jumped. He’d already slid out of her pussy while they were talking, and it was ready to go again.

“I’d go for round two, but then we’d have to wait another thirty minutes.” He grunted.

She smiled as she wiggled around on his huge cock.

Rolando smirked. Not only does he have a BBD, but it was also enlarged from being a shifter. Being a bear shifter made it that much bigger. And she’d taken every single inch of him. She really is his mate. His other half.

“We’re not in any hurry, are we?” she whispered.

He grinned. His mate was as sex-crazed as he was. Good, she’s going to need to be. Because he’s going to fuck her from sunup to sundown.

“Nope, not in any kind of hurry.”

Rolando lifted Maddy up by the hips and slammed her down, impaling her on his giant, thick cock.

“Oh my God!” she screamed.

“Fucking hell,” he moaned.

She snickered at his words, and he grunted. She felt so good. He didn’t care that she was laughing at him. She was still tight—like she was made to wrap around his cock. He moved his hand between them and easily found her clit. It was swollen and begging for release. He grinned as he started rubbing it.

Maddy felt her eyes roll to the back of her head. This man, shifter, her mate, is amazing. She has never felt anything like him before. He was huge, yet it didn’t hurt as much as you would think it would. She wasn’t a virgin, but she’d never had anything even close to his size.

Him being a black male would have made her terrified of his cock to start with. But the added girth and length from being a bear shifter made him crazy big. But her pussy was taking it as if it was something that’s happened every day of her adult life.

And God, he’s gorgeous. She couldn’t stop looking at him. His silver eyes bore into her and made sensations crawl up and down her spine.

“You’re so incredible,” he said as he continued to torment her clit.

“Don’t stop,” she whimpered.

“Don’t worry, Mafilia. I have no desire to stop touching and loving on you.”

She moaned at his words, and her orgasm lifted her off his lap. He pulled her back down his cock with one hand while his other continued to torment her pussy.

“Fuck yes!” she cried out as she leaned back and thrust her breasts into the air.

“Fuck, I need to see those,” he said, staring at her large, covered tits.

She grinned at him, then pulled her top over her head and tossed it in the general direction of her pants, then unfastened her bra and did the same with it.

His sliver eyes became a smoky grey, then his mouth was on her left nipple. She cried out when he suckled her soft, brown nipple. She moved her hands to his head and slid her fingers through his hair.

He groaned against her nipple, and she bucked. Both his hands found her ass cheeks and squeezed them, then lifted her up and slammed her down on his cock.

She cried out with pleasure as he continued the same movement while he sucked hard on her hardened nipple.

“So perfect,” he mumbled against her breast.

She groaned. “More,” she said, out of breath.

He grinned, then lifted her again and slammed her down so hard she felt the tip of his enormous cock hit the back of her pussy and cried out as an explosive orgasm blinded her for a moment.

“Holy shit!” he bellowed.

“What if you pulled out, so we’re not stuck waiting?” She figured it was worth a try.

He nodded and kissed her.