Rescuing His Captive Mate: Saving The Future Luna

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Star

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 OK! CUE THE EXPLOSION! I really think my head might explode with what I just said. Did I really just tell Artem that I love him? Here let me replay that in my head.

"Artem." I whispered his name softly.

"Yeah?" He didn\'t look at me, he just stared out at the water. 

"Thank you." That made him look at me, shock, awe, happiness, joy, all of those emotions warring on his face when he looked into my eyes. 

"For what?" 

"For always being there for me. For always showing me how much you care about me. For being so amazing."

"It\'s easy to be there for you, Star." He leaned down toward me, our eyes locked together. "I love you, so I want to be the one that you rely on and come to for help."

"I-I think that I, I think that I m-might love you too."

YUP! I had said it. Oh my god. What was I going to do?

Judging by the look in Artem\'s eyes as he inched closer to me, I don\'t think he minded me saying those words. 

"Star, can I kiss you again?" The fact that he was asking me before just kissing made it clear that he was thinking about me above all else.

"Yes." I whispered the words almost against his lips since he was so close to me already.

His hand came to rest gently on my cheek then, cupping my face in his strong, yet gentle touch. On instinct I tilted my head so that my cheek would lay more in his palm. It felt natural and right, plus the look of satisfaction in Artem\'s eyes told me I had done something right.

That was when he pressed his lips to mine. I had been expecting something along the lines of the last kiss. Something that was sweet, innocent yet earth shattering. No, this kiss was more intense, more heated.

Artem\'s lips pressed against mine with a fever that felt like it was going to burn us both to ashes. I gasped at the feeling of the intensity and was shocked when he slid his tongue into my mouth.

I couldn\'t stop him though. I was too busy enjoying the feeling of what was happening. Artem\'s tongue was tangled with mine, licking the inside of my mouth as he seemed to be trying to explore my mouth somehow.

After a few moments I wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my hands in his hair. The feeling of his hair in my hands was mind blowing. It was soft and silky and I just wanted to grab onto it and hold big handfuls of it. 

When I tugged gently on Artem\'s hair he seemed to growl, but it sounded like it was full of pleasure and something that was akin to happiness. With that growl and tug, though, Artem seemed to push forward and the next thing I knew I was laying on the blanket while Artem hovered over me.

Our bodies were somewhat pushed together from the waist down. Artem still had his hand on my face but the other was braced on the blanket to keep him off of me. With this new position Artem\'s kiss deepened even more, causing my brain to cloud and fog over. I wasn\'t going to be thinking clear for a while.

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Artem

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I had asked Star if I could kiss her again and my head and heart both just about stopped functioning altogether.

I put a hand on her cheek and the next thing I knew she was nuzzling it with her cheek. She seriously didn\'t know what something like that was doing for my self control that was already being tested to its limits.

Then, when my lips touched her, a little more fierce and a little more heated than I had intended at first, oh the way she reacted. She had gasped but accepted the kiss. She wasn\'t trying to stop it and she was actually kissing me back.

When she wrapped her arms around my neck and tugged on my hair I lost a little bit of my control. My wolf growled low with satisfaction and I leaned forward, pushed her down against the blanket. I had enough presence of mind to avoid anything that was in the way, and I was glad that I had cleared aside most of the mess before I had started talking earlier.

Now, my body was pressed against her. The soft, supple give of her body beneath mine almost made my wolf abandon all reason and throw all caution to the wind. I had to fight myself to remain in control and to hold back.

I had braced myself against the blanket with one hand, still holding her face with the other. And I could feel something deep in my body burning out of control. I knew that before long she would feel the reaction I was having to her. Still, I was not able to stop myself from kissing her and mapping out the territory of her mouth. I would be coming back to this mouth, this home for my lips, soon and I wanted to remember the way it felt.

I don\'t think she knew that she did it or not, but Star let out a small moan of pleasure when we pressed against each other and my tongue flitted through her mouth.

I was losing my grip, losing my self control. I felt my hands begin to wander over her body as I held myself off her with nothing but the support of my own upper body.

I felt my fingers graze over her breast. They skimmed across her belly and caused her to shudder. They slid around her backside, cupping a soft cheek and squeezing it gently before sliding down to feel the supple flesh covering her powerful thigh muscles.

My wolf was in control too much. All he could think about was taking Star while she wrapped those luscious thighs around my waist. Just the thought had me tightening the fit of my shorts even more than they had already been.