by Zoe Jane Fox
"Don't feel bad for Bastian, you see I'm going to kill you now, he will never find out it was me." He says laughing as he turns around with a knife in his hand. I start shaking on the chains harder now, I can't let him kill me, I have to get out of here, I have to get back to Monroe. As he starts getting closer to me, I feel a change in my body, I don't know what it is, just that it wants out and to be free. I let go of everything I'm feeling welcoming the change. The next moment there is a loud roar, the chains are snapping off the bed. Eric looks shocked at what is happening, I take that as my moment jumping toward him opening my mouth while biting. He is trying to cut me with the knife in his hand but misses so I keep biting down until I hear a loud snap feeling Eric's body go limp beneath me. There is a horrible metallic taste in my mouth that I'm assuming is blood. When I let go of Eric’s body, his head rolls to the side of the room. OH MY GOD, I freaking bit his head off!!! I would put money on the table that if I was still in my human form I totally would have fainted, may be thrown up. I have no idea how to shift back, Monroe makes it look so easy. I close my eyes, thinking really hard about being me again, slowly opening them to see I’m still in bear form. Shit, I have to figure this out, I can’t just go walking down the street in the middle of St. Louis without being shot at. I’m really starting to panic when I remember during one of our talks, Monroe was teaching me how to call upon my bear, he would say relax tell your bear to come. We didn't get to the part about shifting back so I wonder if it's as simple as relaxing while asking for my body back. I try to relax as much as I can after what just happened and close my eyes. When I open them again, I look down at myself seeing I'm back in my human form, I want to do a little victory dance. That was so cool, well other than the dead body part. My bear growls like she is telling me she liked killing him. I'm thankful for the magic that lets us keep our clothes during shifts so I'm not stuck somewhere naked. Shaking my head at my silly thoughts, I need to focus on getting out of here and back to my mate, he's probably going out of his mind wondering if I'm ok. My bear huffs at that wanting to get to Monroe as well. I slowly sneak out of the room, making sure there is no one else in the building. Once I make it to the exit door, I poke my head out to see that I am on Parnell street like I thought, just a little ways down from Ted's. So I make my way to Ted's to use their phone to call Monroe to come pick me up.
19
Monroe
It has been hours since my mate was taken from our home, I am not any closer to finding her. I’ve shifted multiple times now breaking countless things. Ma and Pa came back a while ago with Doctor in a cast with pain medicine, saying he will need lots of rest and follow up appointments. I don’t know if it’s from the medicine keeping him loopy or if he understands the pain I’m going through because he hasn’t flinched at all to my outbursts, just looks up to see what I’m doing before laying his head back down. I want my mate back with me, to feel her soft warm body pressed up against mine as I hold her tight. I pray the sick bastard hasn’t harmed her, I feel like I would know if she was dead, since I’m not getting that feeling, I still have hope she is alive.
Bastian left to go talk to his fellow council to see if they have any thoughts on this saying maybe we’re looking at it the wrong way and need some fresh eyes. I know he’s just as mad as I am feeling like he has failed his best friend and his job by not getting this guy in time. Damon left shortly after our parents took Doctor to the vet and hasn’t come back yet. Jace, Rhys, and Ian all came over, trying to calm me down, but I just keep ignoring them, they will understand one day when they find their mate. I shift again letting my bear take over, knocking over the dining room table in the process. Ian jumps up, grabbing his laptop before it shatters in my haste.
“Brother, you need to calm down and think, tearing your house apart isn’t going to bring her back.” Jace stupidly says.
I roar at him, but he isn’t fazed at all by it because I’ve been doing it nonstop. I turn around to head out the patio door that I broke again when my cell phone rings on the kitchen counter. I shift back quickly, hoping it’s Bastian with some news, but see it’s only Ted’s diner calling. They probably want Penelope to come back to work, but she told them she can’t until she knows she’s safe, I don’t know why they’re bothering to call. Not wanting to deal with them, I let it go to voicemail. I turn around opening the fridge, pulling out a beer, popping the top off downing it in a few gulps. My phone rings again, I see it’s Ted’s diner, calling again, I’m annoyed as I press answer and yell “WHAT?” in the phone.
“Monroe” I hear whispered softly from my mate
“Penny, baby is that you? Are you hurt?” I ask with a rough voice into the phone, tears pouring down my face and I don’t care who sees it. I’m talking to my mate after having her taken from me and I was afraid I wouldn’t ever see her again.
“Wow, I knew you would be worried out of your mind, but for you to call me Penny, you must have been really losing it. How much stuff did you break?” She asks, causing me to laugh.
“I don’t care about the things I broke. Are you at Ted’s?” I ask while running to my truck hopping in it with Jace chasing after me climbing into the passenger seat quickly while on his phone, probably letting everyone know what’s going on from hearing our conservation.
“Yes, please hurry and come get me,” She says sounding sad. I tell her I’m on my way but don’t hang up as I drive over. It’s a thirty-minute drive, but we don’t talk just listen to each other breathing, other than occasionally making sure she is still on the line and safe. Finally, I’m pulling in the parking lot jumping out of my truck barely stopping to put it in park while hopping out when she comes running out of the diner straight into my arms. I squeeze her tight to me, thankfully she is back in my arms before pulling back a little so I can lean down to kiss her. She melts into me losing some of the tension she had when she first got in my arms. I break the kiss to look over her body to make sure she isn’t hurt when I hear her growl at me, my eye go wide in shock.
“Did you shift baby?” I ask while looking at her body, she seems fine other than some blood on her clothes but I’m not finding any injuries.
“Yes, I did,” she says right as Bastian and a few of his council members show up along with the rest of my brothers. Damon runs over to her and wraps his arms around her in a tight hug while apologizing over and over for not keeping her safe.
“You listen here, Damon you have kept me safe for the last few weeks every time I am outside. The asshole must have done something to you for you to not be there for me, right?” she asks with her hands on her hips. I have to have my mate back against me so I pull her back to the front of my body with my arms around her waist. My bear is making a rumbling noise that sounds like a purr.
“Yeah, he hit everyone with a tranq dart,” he says with his head down still feeling embarrassed by what happened.
“Well, I guess that makes me even happier I bit his head off,” she said not sounding bothered by it at all.
“WHAT?” everyone yells at the same time. She nods her head, then tells us what happened to her. I have to say I agree with her and I’m not sorry for what she did, he killed lots of women and took my mate planning to kill her as well. Bastian and the men with him leave to go to the warehouse saying they will take care of it and they’re glad she is safe. Now that my mate is safe I want to take her home and get her back underneath me to reassure myself and my bear that she is ok. We are telling my brothers bye when a woman with brown hair and blue eyes walks out of Ted’s and straight to Penelope.
“I’m glad you’re safe, Penny. I just wanted to tell you bye and don’t forget to call me later.” The woman says.
“Thanks, Mabel I’ll be sure to call you.” my mate says as she goes to hug her friend before she goes back to the diner. I hear growling followed by a “MINE” so I turn to my left to see who is growling when I see it’s Damon, who is looking at Mabel with a look of pure shock and protectiveness. Laughing I slap him on the shoulder
saying “congrats, bro.” I turn back to my mate bending down to pick her up, bridal style carrying her over to the passenger side of my truck. Sitting her on the seat before leaning in giving her a kiss I pull back after one more peck and tell her let’s go home. I shut the truck door running around the other side to quickly drive us home.
I pull in the driveway, after parking the truck I hop out trying to make my way to the other side to get Penelope. But she doesn’t wait for me, hopping out of the truck before I can get there. I grab her hand lacing our fingers as we make our way up the porch and inside the door. I see my patio door has been boarded up again, almost everything was put back in place that wasn’t broken. There’s a note on the entry table from my Ma saying that she is happy I got my mate back safely, that Pa fixed as much as he can for me. She also took Doctor home with her so I can have the night alone with my mate, that she will bring him back over in the morning. Penelope sees the note asking what happened to him. She cried as I told her, so I pulled her to me for a hug while rubbing her back telling her he’s going to be ok. I pick her up again, carrying her up the stairs and straight into our bathroom.
I stand her back up, placing a soft kiss against her mouth before pulling her shirt off her body throwing it in the trash can behind me. I place a kiss on her shoulder as I unclasp her bra and use my teeth to pull the strap off her shoulder, then kissing my way across her chest to the other strap doing the same thing before letting it fall. I lean over, turning the shower on before returning my attention to her body. This time I drop to my knees and put my arms around her while leaning my head against her stomach just breathing in my mate, thankful she’s here with me. I’m lost in my thoughts when she runs her finger through my hair, shaking me out of the nightmare that was about to happen. I kiss her stomach before pulling her leggings and panties down, throwing them behind me not caring where they land. I stand up quickly shedding my clothes, then picking her up, she wraps her legs around my waist as I carry us in the shower. I don’t want to let her go just yet so I stand us under the stream of water soaking up the warmth it gives us, enjoying my mate in my arms. Penelope has other plans, wiggling until I release her legs so she can stand up. Reaching behind me she grabs the shampoo and starts to pour it into her hands.
“Let me do that,” I say in a rough voice. I’m still afraid she’s going to disappear at any moment, sad that I wasn’t the one to save her, I need to do this, I need to care for my mate. I rub my hands together lathering the shampoo before rubbing it in her hair when I get towards her temple she flinches. I turn her so I can look at her head better, I see a small bump on it. Growling that someone dared to put his hands on my mate hurting her, I wish I could bring him back to life just so I could kill him again. Penelope rubs her hands up my stomach to my chest snapping me out of my murderous thoughts.
“I’m ok, I’m back where I belong,” she says as she leans her head back rinsing the soap from her hair.
I watch as she grabs a washcloth putting some soap on it before bringing it to my body, washing me in a soothing matter. When she makes it to my dick I’ve lost all thoughts about anything else. I groan as she continues her path and begins to wash my balls, torturing me. Grabbing the cloth from her hand I return the same favor to her. After cleaning between her legs I throw the cloth back on the hook before pushing us into the water to rinse off. I shut off the shower before pulling a towel down drying each of us as best as I can before picking her up, carrying her to bed. I climb on top of her kissing her softly when she moans I slip my tongue inside her mouth touching hers. I hear rumbling and know it’s our bears happy that we are back together, about to mate again. I lift my right hand up bringing it to her mate mark holding it slightly in my hand before traveling down to her breast. I break the kiss, going to her neck, sucking on her mate mark while pinching her nipple that gets her moaning while thrashing about on the bed begging me to fuck her. Chuckling as I release her neck.
“I’m not ready yet, mate. We have only just begun.” I say as I kiss my way down her body.
I use my shoulders to nudge her legs apart and she happily spreads them farther apart for me. I kiss the inside of her thigh trailing kisses down her leg until I get to her ankle causing her to giggle. Smiling, I put her ankle on my shoulder, then grabbing the other giving it the same attention. She is wiggling and trying to lift her hips up to bring her pussy to my mouth, but I still feel like playing for a moment. I lean my head down, blowing on her clit before licking all around her clit but not touching it yet.
“Monroe, so help me God, if you don’t stop teasing me, I’m going to kick you,” She says while panting heavily.
Chuckling, I decide enough of the games, sucking her clit into my mouth. She moans loud while chanting “Yes, yes, yes!!” I’m feasting on her pussy like I haven’t had it in months when it’s only been a day. I could live off her pussy forever. I slide my finger down to her opening to test how wet she is “You’re drenched for me baby,” I say while pumping my fingers in and out of her. I suck her clit back in my mouth while pumping my fingers faster when her back arches off the mattress and her legs clamp close around my head in a vise grip when she starts screaming out my name.
20
Penelope
My legs feel like jello and flop back down on the bed as Monroe makes his way up my body. He leans down, brushing his lips over mine, I slide my tongue out, against his lips wanting entrance to his mouth when he opens and lets my tongue in. I moan at the taste of myself on him, it feels so wrong, but right at the same time. I push on his shoulders and he backs up looking at me, wondering what is wrong when I shake my head then push him so he’s lying on his back. I straddle his lap while smiling as I look down at him and say “Much better, ” Before going back in for a kiss. I start moving my hips gliding my pussy over his hard cock that rests between us. He moans before reaching down, grabbing his cock in his hand and I know what he wants, he can’t wait any longer to be inside me. I sit up while lining up his hard cock at my opening, slowly lowering myself onto him. He growls before grabbing my hips, pulling me all the way down on him. We both moan at the connection, I lean forward to kiss him again before raising my hips and working my body up and down his cock. He’s gripping my hips tightly like he’s trying to control himself from moving my body faster. I know with how tight he is holding me, I’m going to have slight bruises from where his hands are tomorrow and I’ll love them, knowing how we felt in this moment. I start moving faster while throwing my head back and moaning.
“You feel so good,” I say while panting. He lets go of my hip, bringing his hand to my clit, rubbing in a fast circular motion. I know I’m about to come, I feel my bear nudging me telling me to mark him as ours. I lean forward, licking his nipple before making my way up to his neck. I feel my teeth grow in length as I’m sucking on his neck and I open my mouth before biting down and sucking. “FUCK” I hear him yell out while coming deep inside me filling my womb. I feel my own release slam into me. Letting go of his neck I see there is a little blood and start to panic when I remember he licked my mark once he was finished and it healed. So I lick it and moan at the taste of him against my tongue before pulling back to make sure it closes. My body feels like spaghetti noodles and after everything that has happened today, it’s too much to take. I feel my body collapse on top of Monroe’s while whispering “I love you.” Before drifting off to sleep.
I wake up the next morning to Monroe once again laying on top of me, this time instead of being frustrated that I’m sweaty I want to soak up the fact I’m back with my mate. If it wasn’t for the fact I have to pee really bad I would happily lay there all night. I’m trying to slip out from under him without waking him, but he is not budging at all and growls while pulling me closer to him.
“Monroe, I need to use the bathroom, please let me go,” I ask him while wiggling around in his death grip trying to get free.
“Never,” He says growling and moving completely on top of me nuzzling my neck. I poke him in t
he ribs trying to push him off of me.
“I’m serious, Monroe, I need to use the bathroom NOW,” I say getting angry that he might cause me to pee on myself. Finally, he rolls off of me, sitting up while looking at the clock to see what time it is. I rush to the bathroom, I quickly relieve myself, then wash my hands. I go to open the bathroom door, letting out a scream when I see Monroe standing there. I plant my hands on my hips.
“What the hell are you doing just standing there? You almost gave me a heart attack” I yell at him.
A breathtaking smile splits across his face before he says “I’m sorry, baby I’m just not ready to have you away from my side. I don’t think I ever will be.” I can feel his emotions again, he’s scared and it makes me feel bad for snapping at him.
“I get it, I really do, but next time don’t stand outside the bathroom door that’s just weird,” I say. Walking closer to him and standing on my tiptoes, wrapping my arms around his neck and placing a soft kiss on his lips. I want more but my stomach chooses that moment to growl loudly informing us that I haven’t eaten since before I was kidnapped by Eric. Breaking the kiss with a chuckle Monroe says “Alright baby, let's go get some food in you.” Bending down, he swoops me into his arms, carrying me downstairs. He takes us to the kitchen, placing me on the bar stool, kissing me on my forehead before moving away and starts making us something to eat.