His lack of caring for her stung, but she pushed aside the hurt. Slade had his mind in the right place. This was all for her family. It wasn’t about her, or even about her body, feelings, or pain. The only thing that mattered was getting the information needed to take down the shifters and perhaps find the key to taking them all down.
Slade looked around and then moved closer to Nora. He reached down and pulled her skirt up around her hips. “Open your legs, I will make it fast.”
The image of Ian with Onyx by the waterfall came to her mind as Slade pushed her feet apart when she didn’t open her legs for him. He had his shaft in his hand. It was erect, as he ran the tip of his dick up the inside of her thigh. Usually, this made her feel desirable, but in that moment she didn’t. It was more a dirty feeling.
“He’s coming,” Nora said. “I can hear him calling my name.”
Slade cursed muttering something about wanting to come in her before the shifter used her. His words cut deep and she shoved him back a step. Nora pulled her skirt down. She blinked rapidly to keep her angry tears from falling.
“I didn’t mean it like that, Nora. I wanted you to remember me while you are forced to endure the shifter.” Slade kissed her. “I love you.”
I’m just being silly. He loves me. Slade has told me so more than a dozen times and he saved me.
“I have to go. Meet me back here in two days.”
Nora nodded putting on a brave smile for him.
“Make sure you please him. He has to trust you,” Slade added.
He may have meant well but she couldn’t bear to hear him encouraging her to go and have sex with another man right after he’d just said that he loved her. It was just too much. Nora picked up the empty bucket and left the stables. She dropped the empty bucket where she found it and ran to the town meeting hall.
It was the largest building in Freebasin and only the size of a city church in comparison. She only made it three steps inside before Ian grabbed her and pulled her into his arms. “You told me you would come here and wait for me,” Ian said his voice tight. “I thought the Nothings that I ran out of town might have split up and taken you.”
He hugged her tightly, careful not to cause her any pain. Ian’s sigh of relief surprised her.
Ian doesn’t even know me. How can he care so much what happens to me?
Suddenly, Ian’s body stiffened as though his body had been turned to stone while wrapped around her.
“What is it?” she asked her heart still pounding from her run. “I’m here. Why are you-”
“I can smell a man’s scent on you,” Ian said his voice rumbling out in a growl.
“Ian, I bumped into many people on my way here.”
Ian’s hands went to her skirt as he dropped down in front of her. “I can smell more than just a passing touch on the street. Tell me what you’re not telling me. You met with the friend you mentioned the other day? You had sex with him?”
His voice was still rumbling like a drumroll out of hell. Nora was afraid. She couldn’t help it. “Yes, I met with a friend.”
Ian’s teeth clapped together so hard it was like a bear trap of steel jaws banging together.
“We didn’t have sex, Ian. He wanted to but we didn’t.”
His eyes were those of his wolf when he looked up at her. “Don’t lie to me,” he warned. “I will know.”
“I am telling the truth,” Nora said her body shaking beyond her control. “I am not yours, Ian. You cannot behave this way about-”
Ian growled his arms around her waist. The vibration of the growl shook her core and she felt herself getting wet again. “You are mine, Nora. You just don’t know it yet.” He gripped her thigh lifting her leg over his shoulder. His face dipped low as Nora tried to move her leg that was still securely in his grasp.
His tongue heated her skin as it ran over her wet pussy. Ian growled again but this time it was a yearning sound. His blue eyes looked up at her from where he was with his mouth pressed right up against her most intimate place.
“Ian,” she breathed his name sounding desperate to her own ears. “You can’t do that.”
It feels too good. Fuck, I’ve never felt anything like that.
He leaned back, his tongue running over his lips. “You told me the truth and I didn’t believe you. I’m sorry,” he said. “Will you let me make it up to you?”
“Make it up to me? Ian, just stop what you’re doing.”
Ian smiled up at her. He was watching her breathe and probably able to smell the new gush of her heat from the amazing feeling of his mouth on her sensitive flesh. “You like it,” he said. “Don’t try and tell me you don’t.”
“It’s not appropriate. People don’t do that.”
He laughed, his hot breath running over her and sending more hot tingles through her body.
“Yes, they do. Even if they didn’t, I don’t care about what other people do. I care about what makes you breathe like you were just breathing. I want to hear you whimper with pleasure, Nora. I want to make you feel good.”
The way Ian looked at her was nothing like the way Slade looked at her and she trembled with lust, confusion, and guilt.
This shouldn’t have to be so hard. Why is this so hard? How can I be aching for Ian to touch me when it was his kind that killed my family and my old life?
CHAPTER SEVEN
She’s conflicted.
He could see Nora struggling and knew he should be patient but with the taste of her still on his tongue and the knowledge that another man was trying to claim her for his own, Ian couldn’t stop himself. He dipped his head again and lapped his tongue over and between her wet folds.
Nora gripped his shoulder, her other hand tangling in his hair. “Ian,” she whimpered his name. “Someone might come in here and see us,” she managed to say between breaths.
He heard her but didn’t know why that would matter. They were but random people who didn’t know either of them. Plus, she said his name on a needy whimper and it made him hunger to hear it again. Ian lifted her leg up higher and slid his tongue inside her.
Her standing leg trembled.
Ian backed her up against the wall and put her other leg over his other shoulder. “You taste like heaven to me, Nora. I want to keep my face buried right here,” he said circling her clit with his thumb. Nora covered her mouth to mute her moan.
He bent again, opening her legs wider so he could bury his tongue deeper into her depths. Nora’s hand in his hair tightened, her other hand pressed hard over her mouth but doing very little to keep his keen ears from hearing her cries.
Ian cradled her ass in his hands and rocked her against his mouth. Her hips jerked and she gasped, probably surprised that her body was reacting so strongly to him on its own. Then her hips moved again.
Looking up, Ian met her eyes. She was watching him and she was breathless and close. He wanted so much to plunge his hard cock into her pussy and feel her come apart, and orgasm on his dick. He didn’t though because he wanted to make this time with her special, and all about her.
He slid northward enough that he could suck on her clit. Ian’s cock jumped in his pants as she cried out. He licked up her wetness greedily and then went back to sucking on her clit and circling it with his tongue.
His fingers slid over the entrance to her pussy in slow, needy strokes.
Show me you want me, Nora.
He continued sucking and licking her clit, every sound he elicited from her made him hungry for more, starving. She arched her hips at last and he sank his middle finger into her tight wet pussy. The muscles squeezed around him immediately and he growled against her as his cock pushed against his pants even further.
When her hips began to quiver and rock in tiny rapid quakes he knew she was going to come for him. He pressed his free hand against his cock through his pants and he fingered her deeper and sucked on her with even great vigor.
She cried out in ecstasy, looking down at him with shock and heat in he
r eyes so real. It was beautiful. She was beautiful. He continued pumping his finger inside her, sucking on her clit, and drinking in her nectar voraciously.
When her breathing began to slow again and her grip loosened in his hair, he knew he had to stop. She would be too sensitive for him to continue sucking on her and fingering her.
Ian withdrew his finger first, then his mouth. He sucked on his finger as Nora watched him and groaned at the heat he could see growing again in her eyes.
She slid one leg off his shoulder and then the other, quickly pulling down her skirt. “I… I’m sorry,” she said averting her eyes from his. Her cheeks heated a bright pink color.
“Sorry for what?” Ian asked taking hold of her chin and making her look at him.
“I couldn’t be quiet.”
Ian laughed as he stood. He was standing close, too close for Nora to get away with the wall securely at her back. “Why would I want you to be sorry? I will have you screaming for me louder next time, Nora.”
Her lips curved ever so slightly into a smile even though she still did not dare look at him. Ian didn’t care, he loved knowing that it was he that made her smile, made her come, and made her blush.
“I can’t believe we just did that in a public place.” Her fingers touched her bottom that was trembling. “I’ve always been so quiet.”
This time it was Ian smiling.
Nora laughed a breathless sound. “Proud of yourself? My goodness, Ian. She slid along the wall until she could step away from it.
She is trying to put space between us. I will not let her go so easily.
Ian allowed her to walk a few paces before he joined her and walked at her side. “You liked what we just did, no matter how much you may wish you didn’t,” he said.
“I just wish I knew more about you. I don’t usually do that sort of thing, much less with someone I barely know.”
“What do you wish to know about me, Nora?”
Nora tucked her hair behind her right ear. “I wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings.”
“Ask me anything.”
“I always thought that shifters didn’t have real feelings but you seem to have them. Don’t you?”
Ian nodded. “I am a human that shares his body with a spirit wolf, that makes me a shifter but it does not make me a monster.”
Nora nodded. “And the other shifters are like you? They feel?”
“Yes.”
“Even the ones that are not werewolves?”
Ian nodded in answer to her question. “Don’t you want to know what I feel for you?” he asked. He could see it the moment her fear kicked in and as he knew she would, Nora shook her head.
“Why do the shifters hate humans?”
“Because humans refused to allow them to be themselves. It is difficult to share a body with an animal spirit who is meant to be wild and free. Hiding is painful for shifters. Imagine how painful it would be for you to be in a wheelchair for weeks at a time without ever getting to stand up and stretch your legs.”
Nora frowned. “I don’t have to imagine. There were times that I had to hide in tiny spaces that left no room to move and stretch when shifters were hunting the human group I traveled with. Do you think forcing humans to suffer the same fate is right?”
Ian shook his head. “No. I could have left when the Rizer pack decided to make an alliance with Freebasin. I didn’t.”
“How long do you think this alliance will truly last? There have been alliances before. What makes this one different?”
“You are asking me a lot of questions. I think that I should get to ask you questions too.”
“Okay,” Nora agreed as they stepped out of the town hall building. “I don’t have much to tell, I warn you.”
Ian smiles as he thinks of another idea. “Then how about I get a kiss for every question I answer?”
Nora is blushing again and scanning the street, looking to see who might see him kissing her. He can’t help but wonder if it’s truly because he’s a shifter. If he no longer had his scars he knows he would be a greater temptation to her.
“I’d rather play this sort of game in private,” she says.
Ian nods and sets a fast pace toward the inn where they are both staying.
“Are you going to tell me how this alliance is different than the others?” Nora asks picking up her feet to match pace with him. Ian turns to go into the inn but Nora touches his elbow. “No, let’s go this way.”
Ian follows her as she leads the way around the side of the building where there are few people and a bit of privacy to be had but not as much as the inn would offer. He supposes she doesn’t want to be alone with him in either of their rooms and even though he’d like to matter more to her, Ian respects that she has standards and isn’t so easily pushed around to the will of any man, even a shifter like himself.
“This alliance is different because it was not the idea of shifters. The people wanted to create an alliance with us after we helped them take down the wall around their town.” Ian hooked his hand around her lower waist and pulled her close. “Time for my kiss,” he said sliding his other hand up the back of her neck, his fingers sinking into her hair.
He could hear her pulse quicken.
She closed her eyes, her breath coming out in a choppy, strained flow. Ian took her mouth to his. He enjoyed the feel of her soft full lips against his. Then running his tongue along the seam of her lips he tasted her. She tasted like her tears, and the knowledge that she’d been crying again made his own heart hurt.
Ian tipped her head back, opening her mouth to him. She shook a little as he slid his tongue into her mouth. It was a slow kiss, that he was careful not to make too demanding. He kept his lips soft and the stroke of his tongue against hers light and languid.
Nora leaned into him for a second but then she pushed away flattening herself against the wall. “Okay, that’s a kiss. Now I get another question. Why did they want to bring down their wall? Didn’t it offer them protection?”
She was breathless again and would only look at him in tiny glances. He turned his scar away from her so that she might not find it so difficult to look at him. “They realized that the wall they put up to protect themselves, it caged them into a prison of their own making. They wanted to be free.”
Nora looked at him. Her green eyes widened as she listened to him. “And now that the wall is down they believe they are free because of their friendship with your pack?”
“They are free, Nora. They can come and go as they please, there are no prisoners here.” This time when he sealed his lips to hers he pulled her tight against him and opened her mouth with his right away. Drinking her in he explored her mouth with his tongue. His lips were demanding as they pressed into hers, and he groaned against her mouth when she whimpered.
His cock twitched at her mid-section. Nora whimpered again pushing at his chest.
“Two questions. That means I get another kiss.”
Nora’s lips were swelling already from his mouth on hers. She had such beautiful lips. He stroked his hand over her ass as he sucked on her tongue. His hips pulsing forward in slow but even strokes that moved his cock against her soft stomach.
She arched against him pressing her breasts against his chest. Her hands slid up his arms. When her cold fingers touched his neck, he thrust his tongue into her mouth just the way he wanted to thrust his shaft into her wet, heated entrance.
As if she knew, she whimpered her hips rocking slightly against his. Ian felt his blood surging to his cock in response to her movements. He took hold of her hips and drew back ever so slightly. “If you keep doing that with your hips I will pull up your skirt and fuck you right here. I already want you too much, Nora.”
Her eyes lit with something as she looked up at me. “That shouldn’t be something that turns me on,” she said in complete frankness. “So, why does it?”
“Maybe you want me too,” Ian said.
She slid my hand from her hair to her chest. �
��I have been touched before but it has never felt so good as the way you touch me,” she whispered.
His hand curled around her breast as his cock jumped again against her.
“How many humans have you killed, Ian?”
He stopped moving and so did she. “I don’t go out hunting humans. It’s in self-defense is all.”
“How many?”
Ian narrowed his gaze on her face. “You are asking me this to try and push me away. I won’t answer.”
“Then the game is finished. I’m going to my room.” He wanted to pull her close again, pull up her skirt and thrust his needy cock into her pussy but he didn’t. Ian allowed her to walk away. He watched her enter the Inn and then he finally gave into the needs of his wolf and shifted.
We need to run. Find the other male and let him know she is ours. His wolf pushed wanting to mark his territory.
No. we run. That is all we will do. We will run. Ian told his wolf and stretched his legs to cover more ground.
CHAPTER EIGHT
What were you thinking, Nora? Kissing him back like that?
Nora sat on the bed in her room hugging her legs tightly to her chest. It was more than just a kiss, she couldn’t pretend it wasn’t. He’d brought her to the strongest orgasm she’d ever experienced. Not just because he was good with his tongue, or because he flattered her, it was because it was Ian. Everything he did, from kiss her, to hug her felt good.
She pressed her face into her knees.
I can’t seriously be falling for the shifter.
Remembering the way his mouth felt between her legs had the moisture of her arousal pooling again. She wanted him when they kissed. He knew it too the way her hips had begun to move against him without her permission.
The hard length of him pressed against her stomach was bigger than Slade, that much she could tell. She also knew that he wouldn’t just thrust inside her until he found his satisfaction and be done with her the way that Slade did.
What Nora once thought of as romantic no longer was. Slade loved her sure, but not the way that she wanted to be loved. It didn’t change her mind about what she was there to do, however. She had to find enough out about the shifters to stop them from extinguishing the human race.
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