“Thank you,” Link whispered against his cheek before taking Jace’s mouth in a devastating kiss.
Only his leopard, reminding him of the issue at hand, had Jace pull back. “What the hell is wrong with you, Link? Your kids…”
“Are fine,” Link finished for him and not in the way he’d expected. “Or they will be; Sol already has people on the way to get them to a safe location. He’s gonna get us when everything’s been confirmed.”
Jace felt like he could breathe again, not even realizing he’d been holding it in, but neither he nor his beast were completely at ease and they could both sense the fear and tension running through Link’s body. One thing struck him as odd though. “What were you thanking me for?”
Link smiled at him and let his thumb caress Jace’s lower lip with a soft look in his eyes Jace hadn’t seen before. “For caring about what happens to my kids even though you haven’t met them yet. Hell, you didn’t even know about them until just a few minutes ago.”
“Of course I care! Those kids are part of you and,” Jace tried to explain, realizing something as he went, “and… they’re mine.”
Jace was having trouble wrapping his mind around the idea, but these were Link’s kids and Link was his mate… his leopard confirmed it with his possessive thinking of these kids. These were their cubs too. Well fuck…
His thoughts were interrupted when Link ambushed him. Link had his tongue down his throat before he could even react. There was a hunger in the kiss, a desperation telling him his mate needed distracting. And frankly, so did he.
Fumbling, Jace managed to get hold of the lube on the bedside table without pulling away from Link. While Link appeared busy feeling up every piece of Jace’s skin he could get to, Jace slicked up his fingers and reached down between them to get himself ready. He was still pretty stretched from their earlier activities but he moaned as he pushed two fingers inside.
He growled when Link pulled away, but his mate wasn’t focused on him. Link was focused on the fingers that were stretching Jace’s ass. Experimenting, Jace pushed them in further and Link groaned.
Jace shivered as Link caressed the area where he stretched himself. Locking eyes with Jace, Link asked him. “Jace… will you let me tie you down?”
Both Jace and his leopard tensed, he knew his mate had kinks, but… bondage? Jace hadn’t the heart to say no even with how uncomfortable he felt. “Not with chains,” Jace managed to get out, trying hard not to show his unease. But he trusted Link. Hell, he fucking loved the guy, probably had since he first saw him. He just hadn’t worked up the courage to tell him yet.
“Shh, I won’t do anything to hurt you, Jace. I won’t use chains and If it gets to be too much just say so and I’ll stop,” Link promised.
Jace felt vulnerable as Link left the bed and started going through one of the dressers Jace had cleared out for him. The shifter was somewhat relieved when his mate returned with several pale blue, silk ropes.
Kissing his way up Jace’s stomach and chest, Link brought the hand that Jace had just used to prepare himself towards the headboard. Jace drew in a breath as the smooth silk closed around his wrist. Jace was confident that if he really needed to get out, his Triferus would be more than strong enough to shred the bindings, but he didn’t think he would have to. Link handled him gentler than he’d expected and didn’t tighten the ropes too much so Jace still had some sense of mobility.
Jace lifted his other hand up to his mate, who kissed the pulse on the inside of his wrist before gently tying it to the other side of the headboard. Jace half expected Link to tie his legs as well, but Link seemed perfectly content with restraining just his hands… or at least until Link brought forth a silk scarf and moved to blindfold Jace.
“Wait!” Jace only now realized he was shaking.
“Jace, baby, I’m right here. I know you’re scared,” Link said, soothing Jace’s tense muscles with his hands. “Just trust me, okay? Please? If it gets to be too much, I’ll stop.”
When Link kissed him again, Jace felt starved for his touch any way he could get it and was panting by the time the kiss broke. “Okay,” he whispered with his head buried against Link’s neck, calming down as he took in his lover’s scent.
“You sure?” Link asked and Jace nodded, pulling back to look into Link’s eyes.
“Just… pull it off if I say so, okay?” Jace needed Link to promise. He’d never let anyone tie him down before, not willingly, and he needed to remember that this was something completely different. He still felt like he would freak when he couldn’t see his mate.
He focused on his breathing as Link placed the soft material over his eyes, kissing his forehead and rubbing Jace’s chest and stomach, which had a calming effect. He just needed to remember that it was Link, that they were in bed together and Link just wanted to bring them pleasure. Hell, the man wanted to fuck him into the mattress, something Jace was all for.
Jace’s prick certainly perked up at the thought, it was a sensual thing, not a violent one and Jace moaned as his mate started torturing his nipples with his mouth.
“Use your senses, Jace,” Link practically purred at him, a sound Jace had never heard from his mate before. Jace usually ended up doing the purring. “Scent me, Jace; feel me,” Link continued.
Jace panted as Link began licking his way down, dipping his tongue in Jace’s bellybutton. His mate was right, even if he couldn’t see him, Jace sure as hell could smell him. Sniffing the air, Link’s scent came across strong and potent. The scent, combined with Link’s ministrations with his tongue, had Jace leaking clear droplets of pre-cum.
“Please…” Jace gasped when Link lapped at the head of his cock.
“Please what, baby?” Link teased as he licked Jace’s cock from root to tip.
“Aw god, stop fucking around and suck me already.” Jace purred, out of breath. He wished he could see Link, see him posed above his hard, leaking dick… ah hell, he just wanted to know where the fuck to aim!
Hearing his mate chuckle, Jace cried out when Link swallowed him down to the root in one gulp… he didn’t even gag…
Jace had to fight the desire to wrap his legs around his mate’s head and thrust like he wanted. His beast, though, wanted nothing more than to shed the ropes and pounce, mounting its mate in the most primal way and Jace could feel how his leopard tried to push the Triferus to the surface so that they could experience their mate together.
One of Link’s fingers breached his ass as he sucked Jace hard, using his tongue to massage the underside of his cock. Jace frustratingly pulled at the ropes, wanting to pull his mate closer as he started moving in and out of Link’s scorching mouth.
When Link suddenly bit down gently on his dick and at the same time nailed his prostate with his finger, Jace cried out, shooting down Link’s throat. His release was quickly swallowed down.
“Fuck! You bit me!” Jace accused as Link pulled off him.
“You didn’t seem to mind.” His mate snickered as Jace felt him shift on the bed and push his legs apart.
Jace laid waiting for Link to push inside of him, moaning as he started pushing against his opening. Right as the head of Link’s cock popped in past the ring of muscles, Link’s phone rang out.
“Oh, come on!” Jace growled… seriously, just five more minutes, that’s all he’d need. He expected Link to pull out. Instead, he heard Link pick up the phone and started pushing in deeper as he took the call.
“Debra,” Link started and gave a hard thrust into Jace.
“Link, what the hell are you doing?” Jace hissed, trying not to shout at him.
“Yeah, sorry, I didn’t warn you.” Link continued, completely ignoring Jace’s protests and burying his dick in Jace’s ass to the hilt. “It’s better this way, safer. Think of the boys.”
Jace struggled not to moan, biting into his lower lip with each push as Link started a slow, determined pace. A woman was shouting on the other end of the phone. “If he won’t leave you alone, just whack him with a
shoe or something.” Link replied to his shouting ex.
Too preoccupied with the feel of Link’s thick dick plundering his ass, Jace didn’t have the brain capacity left to get much sense out of what Link talked about.
“I’ll be there in an hour. I’m in the middle of something right now.” Link gave a particularly hard thrust at the last word and Jace just barely managed to hold back his groan. Seriously, if he wasn’t tied up right now he’d show his mate a thing or two about pulling fucking hi-jinks!
There were some more shouts and something sounding a lot like growling in the background of the call and Link snorted. “Say hello to Jace, Debra.”
Jace tensed as he felt Link place the phone next to his head, then grab hold of his hips and start pounding into him.
“Fuck!” Jace groaned, unable to hold back the vocals as Link grabbed hold of his newly awakened erection, which had hardened despite the embarrassing situation his mate had put him in.
“Oh, my god! Link! Are you fucking him at a time like this? You are such an ass!” An angry female voice sounded next to Jace’s ear.
“Yeah, no shit!” Jace growled back at her and moaned as he felt Link go wild pumping his release into him, almost sounding as if he had an animal in him as well. Feeling Link’s release filling him triggered his own release and he whimpered as he came a second time.
Almost knocking the air out of him when he collapsed on top of him, Link remained seated in his ass. He could feel the cell being moved back to his ear.
“I’ll be there in an hour,” Link repeated and snapped the phone shut before Debra started shouting again.
Chapter 13
When Link first mentioned to Jace that he wanted to tie him down, he’d been surprised at the amount of tension and vulnerability surging through his mate and he knew there was something more behind that. His mate’d had a similar reaction when Mika had first brought him to Link and he’d had to slam the cuffs on Jace to keep him still when taking the blood samples.
Despite his obvious fears, Jace had trusted him and hadn’t taken long before embracing it, but Link supposed fucking him while his ex-wife was listening in had been crossing the line. Link rubbed his chin as they got out of the car. When he’d untied Jace, the man had nearly ripped him a new one; throwing him a punch straight in the jaw that literally knocked Link on his ass.
It had been totally worth it though and even now Jace’s face still hadn’t rid itself of the furious red he’d turned after their performance. Besides, talking to Debra with Jace being right there and then not introducing the two… now that would’ve just been bad manners.
The house to which they’d relocated his family wasn’t as secure as the pride manor, but there were plenty of guards to keep them safe.
“Dad!” Jason ran into his arms the moment they got into the living room. His youngest son of twelve was a tough kid, but he knew he had to be scared.
“It’s okay, Jason, everything’s fine. This is just a precaution.” Link promised and hoped he wasn’t lying to the kid. Either way, he’d probably fucked up his sons’ lives. No way Link could allow his kids to return to their normal lives… not with Mika looking for them.
“Just fine, huh? We’re going to have to move, aren’t we?” Kyle called out from across the room. His oldest was pissed.
“Kyle…” Link started, but Kyle disappeared out of the room before he could finish and slammed the door after him.
Jason turned in his arms and frowned at Jace. “Who the hell are you?”
Link almost felt sorry for his mate when Jace’s panicked expression turned to him, desperately seeking help.
“Jason, I’d like you to meet Jace.” Link told his son and decided if anyone in his family could take the truth, it would be Jason. “He’s my mate.”
Jace’s eyes nearly popped out of his head and his mouth fell open, very apparently shocked at Link’s blatant honesty. It was hard not to laugh, but the glare Jace served him when he started chuckling made him rethink it.
“Ew, you guys have sex? That’s gross!” Jason wrinkled his nose and mock gagged.
“Hey!” Jace protested, having snapped out of his momentary silence and finding his voice again. “Whatever happens behind closed doors between your father and me stays between your father and me, okay?”
“Thank god!” Jason snickered before he puffed out his chest and stepped up to Jace with a serious expression. “But if you ever hurt my dad, I’ll go roadrunner on your ass!”
“You will, huh?” Jace snickered right back at him with a feral grin. “Well, I just love poultry.”
Link thought Jason would pass out when Jace let his beast shine through, his son’s skin paling slightly. Link, himself, was rather fascinated by the shift he’d seen in Jace’s features. It just struck him he’d never seen the leopard lurking under his lover’s skin, not beyond the occasional glimmer in his eyes.
“You’re a shifter!” his son stated, having taken a step back from Jace towards Link.
“Yeah, you might say I’ve gotten myself a man-sized kitty-cat.” Link teased as Jace threw him an evil look.
Chuckling as he looked around the room, Link noticed someone was missing. “Jason? Where’s your mother?”
Jason wrinkled his nose again. “She’s in one of the closets with one of the guys that came and got us… I honestly don’t know what happened, one minute she was beating him with a shoe then they got all creepy and started making out. Seriously gross.”
Link raised an eyebrow. So that was what the whole incident had been about. When Debra had called him, she’d been pissed, not only because they’d extracted them from the apartment, but because of this guy that had been hounding her. Sharing a look with Jace, it wasn’t a big leap to guess Debra’s new admirer was another shifter.
“Link! ‘Bout fucking time you got here!” An all too familiar voice rang out.
Debra, closely followed by a large, ripped and somewhat scarred man, stepped right up to Link and poked him in the chest. “How fucking dare you get your goons to kidnap us in the middle of the night with no goddamned warning!?”
Before Link could answer, Debra was ripped away from him and two tons of wolf pounced on top of him. Slammed to the ground, Link got the air knocked out of his lungs, the wolf snarling and snapping at him, baring vicious teeth.
The wolf seemed to dive for his throat at the same moment as a shrill roar filled the air and the wolf flew up into the air as someone lifted the animal off him like it weighed nothing. Looking up he was just in time to see… Jace… throwing his attacker across the room.
An almost entirely furry version of Jace snarled at the animal, his slightly off face showing equally vicious teeth and claws that would have put Wolverine to shame. Jason was protected behind Jace’s enlarged size as he dared the wolf to pounce again.
Jace’s shirt had been shredded at the seams, showing off more muscles than Link had ever seen on him before and he’d definitely looked hard enough.
More of the soldiers had intervened and now had the wolf under their control. They forced him to shift back as he was held down, revealing the man who’d followed Debra into the room.
Jace still didn’t return to normal and looked to be contemplating eating the wolf; a strange almost growling sound telling everyone he was less than satisfied with Debra’s new guy going wolf on Link.
Sitting up, Link hissed. Three red stripes decorated his chest through the shreds of his t-shirt and he suddenly found himself pushed down to the ground again by Jace. Still a little unsettled by the sheer size of his mate and the slight covering of spotted fur covering his skin, he held his breath to see what his mate would do.
His mate looked concerned even through his altered appearance, and gently moved away the shredded fabric. Link realized he also didn’t look very happy with him having been marked by another male and the rumbling sound continued as he examined the wound, licking it with an exceptionally rough tongue, making it sting, but a few more licks and the m
arks were all but gone.
The cat man rubbed against him, the rumbling turning into the purr Link had come to depend on from Jace. Not able to help himself, Link petted his mate and scratched him along his neck, amazed at the downy feel of the white spotted fur.
Jace all but curled around his body, which with his current size might not be all that impossible. His mate had to be a foot or so taller than him now and possibly also a little wider.
Purring, Jace seemed to melt on top of his body and soon enough, a regular sized Jace lay spread across his chest. Still rubbing up against him.
“Jace…?” Link asked as Jace rubbed his head to Link’s throat. Link tilted his head back and exposed more of his throat for Jace who started purring louder.
He was vaguely aware of Debra’s voice in the background giving somebody a verbal thrashing. That also made him remember they weren’t alone here. “Jace? There are people watching,”
Those words alone were enough for Jace to tense and keep a watchful eye on the surroundings as he sat up, still situated on top of him. Jace made threatening rumbling sounds, making sure there were no others who would try to attack and that the first mutt was under control. Apparently satisfied, he got up on his feet, dragging Link with him to a standing position.
Debra’d taken off her shoe again and used it to knock each word into the guy’s head as she scolded her new mate. “MORON! IDIOT! HOW DARE YOU ENDANGER MY KID!!! ASSHOLE! I SHOULD CASTRATE YOUR SORRY ASS!”
Jason had joined his mom and actually kicked the mountainous man straight in the shin. When the shifter snarled at him, Debra whacked him in the head again.
“RETARDED MUTT!!!”
Link nearly felt sorry for the guy. Jace looked happy about it though.
“Deb!” Link interrupted.
“What!” She crossed her arms and turned to him with a full on glare.
Sending his ex an evil grin, Link continued. “Happy matings.”
* * * *
Finding the closet Debra had pointed him to, Jace grabbed hold of his mate and pushed him inside, slamming the door shut behind them. Link groaned as Jace all but attacked him. Hell, Jace was all but humping him.
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