Chapter 4 *Lemon Warning*

Kouga awoke the next morning to a pounding headache. He honestly couldn't remember half of what happened last night. After Kagome had agreed to let him court her, the women had swept her away until dinner. Then the whole pack had drank and danced like there was no tomorrow. New courtships were a big deal, and warranted a big celebration. Especially when it involved the Alpha and his intended.

Smirking, he stretched and looked over at Kagome, her riotous mass of hair the first thing he saw since she was on her side facing away from him. Scooting closer, trying to cuddle her, he gave a sharp inhale when he saw a bare shoulder peeking out from under one of the fur blankets. Glancing down at himself, he realized he was naked under the blanket. He was covered in Kagome's scent and the cloying smell of sex was all over the sheets. This wasn't good at all.

Slowly, so as to not wake her, he peeled her blanket down, hoping that she was still wearing something, anything! When he saw her bare hip he gave a low whine. She was going to kill him when she woke up. But the weirdest thing was, he didn't feel mated.

Snuggling up to her, he pulled her hair away from her neck and gave a shaky sigh when he saw smooth flesh, confirming his suspicions. He started nudging her awake, kissing her neck and throwing an arm around her waist. Maybe if he stayed on her good side she wouldn't kill him for fucking her without officially mating her?

Kagome groaned a bit, wiping the sleep out of her eyes and rolling over in his arms to face him with a whispered, "Good morning" that he returned softly. She didn't seem angry yet, so that was a good sign. In fact, from what he could tell from her scent, she was happy, if not a little embarrassed that they were naked.

Blushing, she looked up at him and whispered a soft, "I hope you're not angry about last night." She was tracing her fingers up and down his bare hip, making it hard for him to focus his thoughts and even more difficult for him to hide how hard she was making him. If she just moved her hand a few inches...

"W-why would I be mad Kagome? Why aren't you mad? I-hm, I took advantage of you when we'd been drinking and we only started courting yesterday. And I didn't even mark you as my mate like I should have. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself!" Feeling guilty, he looked over her shoulder, scowling and missing her confused stare until her hand on his jaw pulled his eyes back to her.

Eyes softening and cheeks blooming pink, she asked "Kouga, do you remember what happened last night? You didn't take advantage of me. If anything, I tried to take advantage of you. And you stopped me before we finished anything. I'd had too much to drink, and my hormones are really messing with my head right now. I just get so wound up right before I ovulate... well right before my Season." She corrected quickly.

He scoffed and rolled his eyes. "And just how in the hell do you think you took advantage of me, Kagome?" Her eyes blazed blue in the semi-dark of his den, and the spicy scent of her desire met his nose as she recalled last night.

"Well, we both stumbled into the room last night, completely drunk, and fell onto the bed together. You looked into my eyes and told me you loved me more than anything." She trailed her fingers down along his shoulder as she spoke and his muscle twitched, tensed in anticipation. "I remember that I couldn't stop thinking about how good you looked then. I couldn't resist touching your bare arms, and your chest, and then lower, to your abs. It was just so tempting." She ran her hand down his chest to his abs as a demonstration, and his breath hitched.

"You said you couldn't think straight with how good I smelled, and then we kissed. It was like we crashed into each other. I remember undoing the sashes holding my outfit together, and tugging down your furs." She placed feathery kisses along his jawline as she whispered to him, and he whimpered when she rolled him over and straddled him. He gripped her hips, closed his eyes, and growled as she pressed her naked sex against the underside of his erection.

"I wanted so bad to continue, but as soon as I started moving on you, you broke away from my lips and told me we should stop." She thrust her hips into his slowly, barely moving, coating him in her essence. His eyes snapped open, pupils barely visible bathed in red. "And then you took a walk to cool off, and left me here all riled up by myself."

"We shouldn't be doing this." He rasped out, acutely aware of fangs aching to bite into her neck. "There's supposed to be at least a week between announcing our courtship and the actual mating. " Kagome paused to think for a minute, trying to calm her racing heart, before saying, "Well then that settles it. We'll just have to improvise."

She rolled her hips one last time before dismounting him and throwing the blanket off of them. He raised an eyebrow at her, confused until she turned around, straddled his face, and leaned down to press a kiss to his cock. The thick scent of her lust, tantalizingly close, made his mouth water.

Groaning and pulling her hips down to him, he felt her sharp intake of breath on his dick as he buried his face in her heat. And when she pulled his cock into her mouth and swirled her tongue around him, his answering growl against her clit made her whole body twitch and jump. Making a mental note of that, he continued the growl and dug his claws into her thighs as he lashed her clit with his tongue.

Kagome couldn't believe how close she was to orgasm, her whole body shaking. He was better than her best vibrator! She popped his dick out of her mouth to murmur soft phrases of, "Right there," and "don't stop, please" while stroking him furiously. She sucked him back into her mouth and the noises and vibrations from his throat made his balls draw up tight.

Her whole body strung tight, she came into his mouth with a long involuntary groan, triggering his own orgasm as she swallowed his seed. After a minute, she pulled her shaking thighs away from his face and rolled off of him, swiping her hand across her forehead as she sat to face him. In a flash he had pulled her down to lay face to face.

"You're so perfect. I can't believe how lucky I am to have you." He whispered sweet nothings to her while tucking her hair back away from her face. He wanted to stare into her eyes forever, to get lost in them and drown in her ocean blues.

However, their peaceful moment didn't last, when from beyond their little alcoved curtain came a loud wolf whistle and cheers of "Glad you came up for air boss!" Kagome's face bloomed with heat as she said, "I'm never leaving this den. Nope. I can't face them after them hearing us."

Kouga just laughed and said, "Oh don't worry, they'll all be drunk and fucking each other by the end of the week. The solstice is coming up and all the women are starting to go into Season. The whole den is full of it." Nuzzling his nose with hers he whispered, "And you smell like it too. I can scent your body getting ready. It makes my head spin. I don't know if we'll be able to wait a whole week."

Giggling, she whispered back, "Well if you're so worried about it, I can always go sleep in the women's quarters…" She raised an eyebrow at his possessive "No" and his arms wrapping around her when she tried to get up.

"I guess we'd better behave then" she murmured with a yawn before falling asleep in his embrace. He rumbled out an affirmative before being lulled to sleep along with her.