by M. L. Briers
“No, buts. I thought you liked the danger…”Nathan came up behind her again, after leaving her to what she thought were her own devices for a few minutes. Caging her within his arms he felt her relax slightly against him, feeling safer.
“I don’t do trees…”She hissed out between clenched teeth and he couldn’t help but chuckle.
“A wolf that doesn’t do trees, perhaps you could rephrase that.”
“Perhaps you could get us down first?”Sky was done with tree hugging, she much preferred the ground, even the flatness of the roof, compared to this.
“Perhaps I have something else in mind.”Nathan slipped his hand down over her hip and down under her skirt, running back up her inner thigh, he found the place within her curls that made her hiss louder.
“Nathan…”She admonished, his fingers touched her arousal and she wanted to open herself to him, but her damn feet had nowhere to go.
“You have claws don’t you? I’m sure they were embedded in my back not so many hours ago…” He chuckled beside her ear and watched as she allowed her wolf to push forwards. Not only did she use the claws at her fingers, but the ones at her feet as well, embedding them into the wood and feeling slightly safer.
“Can we get down now?”Sky hissed back at him over her shoulder as she turned her head and caught the dark gleam in his eyes.
“Not just yet…” He heard her breath catch when he pushed two fingers up inside her, and his erection turned to steel within his jeans. He used his free hand to unzip his jeans and release his erection, while he played his thumb over her nub, taking her deeply with his fingers.
“Nathan, I don’t think this is a good idea…”Sky’s brain was telling her one thing, but her body was telling her another.
“Sure?” He breathed against her neck as he ran his tongue up and over her vein and she gasped in a breath. He raised her skirt and ran the swollen satin of the tip of his shaft between her barely open thighs, lightly touching her sex and felt her squirm back against him. He released her from his touch and she mewed her protest. “If you want to get down…”
“I want you…” Sky wiggled her backside and searched for him, and he couldn’t help the grin that spread across his face.
“I thought it wasn’t a good idea?”He pulled her hips backwards and thrust into her to the hilt, and she cried out in pleasure.
“A girl can change her mind, No?”
“Yes, love, as many times as you wish.” Nathan pulled back and thrust inside her again. The sound of the tree protesting when she dug her claws in deeper filled him with amusement, and gratitude that it wasn’t his back this time.
“If I fall off this damn branch…” Sky hissed and Nathan couldn’t help but chuckle as he slammed inside her again.
“Then we’ll be going down together, and I’ll make sure you have a soft landing.” He breathed against her neck, the press of his sharp fangs into her flesh made her almost purr with satisfaction as he tasted her blood. His hips started a long, slow, deep rhythm against her, as he caught her up in the erotic and sensual ways of his nature.
“Harder, both feeding and…” She never got to finish that request. His hips pounded against her backside as he sucked deeply against her vein and she lost herself completely with him. Where she was didn’t concern her now, only what he was doing to her.
Nathan took her hard and fast. He knew he couldn’t keep up this level of feeding for too long before he weakened her, and he had no intention of doing that, but sill, once they had both come, he would feed her his blood just to make sure she recovered quickly.
When she tightened around him, her inner muscles going into hard rhythmic spasms he buried himself against her womb and allowed his own release to tear through him.
The loud crack of splintered wood as his mate’s claws bit a chunk out of the tree, made him flick out his own claws and embed them into the trunk, his arms around her, caging her within the safety of his body as they rode out their release together.
“I like trees…” Sky breathed and he couldn’t help but grin against her neck as he sealed her wound.
“Next time a small outcrop of rock on the side of a very tall mountain.” He teased and heard her low growl, and he chuckled at it. “Where’s your sense of adventure?”
“It got lost somewhere with your brain.”She hissed back.
Wade tapped the table top with annoyance as he stared at his sister and her mate as they joined them for dinner. He’d noted that they came in from outside and he could smell the scent of sex in the air and wasn’t best pleased by it.
“You took my sister outside?” Wade eyeballed Nathan across the table and Nathan narrowed his eyes and sensed the tension from the Alpha.
“I did.”
“And while the two of you were occupied, the rogue could have…” Wade growled out as Jasmine shot a look at Sky who was giving her brother a low warning growl.
“Not unless the rogue could climb fifty feet up a tree without either of us knowing.” Nathan offered back, giving them all more detail than anyone wanted to know.
Jasmine saw Sky blush deep crimson, but still she couldn’t hide the smirk on her lips or the small giggle that escaped as she tried hard not to picture what the mates had been up too, and where.
Wade narrowed his eyes on the vampire with a look of disbelief. “The two of you were fifty feet up a tree, how…?” Wade caught himself before he asked the damn question. He really didn’t want to know.
“Carefully.” Nathan offered as Sienna’s eyes widened in amused disbelief. That was certainly a new one on her, and she thought she had a pretty wild sex life with her mate when they were younger, but then her mate wasn’t a vampire.
“I couldn’t even imagine how…” Wade growled, shaking his head and trying to put the mental image out of his mind. It was his damn sister they were talking about.
“A gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell.” Nathan offered back and Wade’s glare met his.
“I wasn’t asking for details!” Wade growled. He couldn’t even look at his sister right then, he needed to try to put the thought out of his mind.
“Sounded like you were…”Nathan teased back and Jasmine and Sky couldn’t help but giggle.
“Well I wasn’t.” Wade snapped back and Sienna coughed into her hand to try to stop the chuckle she was holding onto from escaping.
“Maybe we should change the subject.” Jasmine offered and Wade growled at Nathan again.”But after that announcement I can’t think of a single topic to change it too.” She admitted and Sky giggled again.
“Perhaps we could discuss your sex life…” Nathan offered to Wade, who growled a little longer and harder at him. “I’m sensing tension in that department…” Nathan offered and Wade gave him a hard glare.
“Do we really need to reply this morning?” Wade shot a quick look towards Jasmine and Nathan sobered slightly. It was his interference this morning that had caused Jasmine to leave the house and use her magic to disappear, and Wade was right, he didn’t want to put her in harm’s way again.
“Let’s not. How about we talk about something else?” Nathan offered and shot a look at Sienna hoping she may have a topic to discuss.
“Don’t look at me, my sex life has been nonexistent since my mate died.” She offered and Wade winced.
“There’s another image I really didn’t want in my head.” He growled out and his mother grinned at him.
“You wouldn’t be here son if I had kept my legs crossed, now would you?” Sienna offered and Wade winced again.
“Can we please stop with the sex…?” Wade started and Sky giggled her amusement.
“I think I heard your mate say the same thing to you.” She retorted, and got a hard growl back for her trouble.
“Sky…” Wade warned and Jasmine couldn’t help but snigger. Placing her hand over Wade’s as it rested against the table top, he stopped and looked down at her fingers as they lightly caressed his.
“Wade and I are going t
o bond, but this whole rogue thing is…” Jasmine offered. It was her and not Wade that had been a block to their bonding and she didn’t think it was entirely right that he should be the butt of their jokes.
“Then maybe we should put the rogue thing to bed…”Nathan stopped and rolled his eyes. “No pun intended.” He added.
“Easier said than done.” Wade turned his hand palm upwards and laced his fingers with Jasmines.
“Maybe we should use bait. A little Fae blood…” Jasmine offered and Wade’s head snapped around on his neck.
“No.”
“Not the whole body, I know you wouldn’t…” Jasmine tried again.
“I don’t want him to have your scent.”
“He would be dead, what would it matter?” Jasmine replied and Wade frowned again.
“It’s not a bad idea…” Nathan offered his opinion. “As long as she’s not there…”
“I don’t think…” Wade started and Jasmine squeezed his hand.
“No, Love. Don’t think, just agree.” Wade went to protest again, but Jasmine wasn’t done. “Fae blood is a draw, that in theory he shouldn’t be able to resist. Apparently I’m very tasty.” Jasmine teased her mate and watched his eyes grow dark with desire.
“Very.” He agreed and she gave him a devilish smile and a look of promise that had him growing harder within his jeans, and he squeezed her hand tighter.
“So, it’s a plan.” Jasmine announced victoriously and saw her mate frown again, this time though she thought he was probably trying to think how he had agreed to such a plan.
Jasmine looked over at Nathan and saw him shake his head in disbelief. Now he knew exactly how she had managed to get him to do the things that he had thought was a bad idea for all of those years.
“Sneaky little Fae.” He admonished.
Jasmine took the Athame by the black ornate handle and slipped it from its sheath. Wrapping her hand around the double edged blade, she felt the hard sting of the razor sharp knife against her palm and her fingers, as she pulled it from her closed hand, slicing deep into the flesh. The smeared blood against the blade as she placed it down on the table drew Wade’s attention, and he scented the air.
She held her hand over the bowl and squeezed her fist. Her blood seeped out between her fingers and dripped from her closed hand. The deep crimson stained the steel surface of the bottom of the bowl, and as she clenched and released her fist the blood flow increased, until the bottom of the bowl held enough of her blood to do the job of attracting the rogue.
Wade caught her wrist in his hand and closed his fingers, bringing her hand towards his mouth, he licked his tongue to catch the flow, and when she opened her hand for him he traced his tongue down the wound in her palm first, cleaning and sealing it, before he moved onto each finger.
The pleasure of tasting her blood made his wolf howl for more within him. The wolf wanted the bond between them and nothing else was going to sate the beast, but her blood came a close second, a prelude to more, and Wade’s own desire for her, mated and bonded to him, increased with every stroke of his tongue over her damaged flesh.
Jasmine watched him intently and his eyes never left hers as he tended to his mates needs. She watched his desires bloom and flourish within him with each tender stroke of his tongue, and when he was finished he reached out and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her body up against his, and the hardness of his arousal was more than evident between them.
“Someone’s horny…” Jasmine teased on a whisper and Wade dipped his head and nuzzled into her neck and shoulder. His tongue ran circles over the mark he had placed there, and she felt the desire within her own body like a firestorm that washed through her.
When Wade lifted his head and looked down into her flushed face, he couldn’t help the lopsided grin that made him look devilishly handsome, as he gazed down into her passion filled eyes.
“That makes two of us love.” He breathed against her lips, gently brushing over hers as she parted them on a breathless sigh of desire.
“You don’t have to leave just yet…” She offered and heard him growl gently, the rumble against her fingertips, as they pressed against his chest through his T-shirt, made even her fingertips tingle.
“Fresh blood is more of an incentive, but I’ll be back soon, and when I come back, we are going to bond, love.”Wade didn’t give her the chance to respond. He took her lips in a demanding kiss that made her head spin and her inner muscles clench with the need for him.
Just as suddenly he let her go, set her away from his body so the temptation to take her right then and there didn’t overwhelm his senses, and he took one last look at her before he lifted the bowl and disappeared from the bedroom.
“Damn, but that man makes my toes curl.” Jasmine looked down at the rawness of the sealed wounds on her hand, and closed her fist and her eyes, keeping her feet planted firmly where she was so that she didn’t get the inclination to chase after him and take him down like a lioness on a poor unsuspecting gazelle.
“Tell me again how I let Jasmine talk me into this?” Wade shot a look a Nathan who raised his brows in amusement. The smile that stretched his lips and the gleam in his eye gave Wade little doubt that the vampire knew exactly how she had managed it, but wasn’t about to tell him.
“Wait until she talks you into buying her a top of the range sport car…” Nathan offered and Wade shot him a curious look.
“She did that to you?”
“No. Your sister did, only I’m not quite sure how…” Nathan scrunched his face up and was still puzzled by the female ability to get what they wanted.
“Well I guess you have more money than sense, being so old…” Wade offered and Nathan shot him another look, this one was full of suspicion.
“Did your sister ask you to find out how old I am?” He asked, keeping time with the alpha over the unfamiliar terrain. Half of his brain was on the conversation they were having, and the other half was centred on the woods around them.
“Yes.” Wade shot back, not even bothering to lie, and Nathan’s grin grew wider.
“It’s killing her isn’t it?” Nathan chuckled and Wade nodded in agreement.
“That it is. So do me a favour and don’t tell her…” Wade offered and then thought about it. “And don’t tell me either, because she has a way of getting information out of me as well.” Wade admitted and Nathan chuckled.
“Females.” Nathan offered lightly and saw Wade nod his agreement.
“Perhaps we should team up and watch each other’s backs where our mates are concerned?”
“Sounds good in theory, but there are times when we can’t be there for each other…”Nathan said with a gleam in his eye.
“Which is normally the time that they pounce.” Wade agreed. Stopping in his tracks and looking around the clearing. “This place should do nicely. We have tree cover where you can wait and there is enough foliage around for my advance on the rogue to be covered…”
“And I can shield the both of your scents…” Jasmine offered as she walked into the small clearing as both men turned towards her.
The anger that washed through Wade was fast and furious, and at that very moment he could cheerfully reach out and strangle his mate.
“What the hell are you thinking?” He shoved the covered bowl in Nathan’s direction, and the vampire collected it with ease, as Wade stalked towards her. The low, deep menacing growl that he gave her set her nerves on edge, she didn’t want this fight and she had hoped that by just appearing here the subject would be pretty much mooted, but obviously Wade had other ideas.
CHAPTER TEN
“I’m thinking my magic is stronger than the both of you two combined. I can cover your scents and your presence in the same way I can cover mine…”She offered up to him without the anger that rolled through her. “The question is alpha, do you want this to be over?”She stood her ground and watched her mate chew over his options as Nathan rolled his eyes and muttered under his br
eath.
“You know I do…” Wade growled down at her and she gave a slow shrug of her shoulders as she smiled up at him with all the innocence that she could muster.
“Then let’s do this. I’ll be up in the tree with Nathan.” She took a step towards the vampire and Wade snagged her wrist, closing his fist around it and dragging her towards him.
“You’ll stay up in the damn tree, no matter what happens.” Wade growled down at her, and she felt the annoyance flicker within her. It was a concession that she didn’t want to make, but at least he hadn’t flung her over his shoulder and stalked back to the house. She guessed it was progress and she bit down on her objections.
“Yes.”She met him half way and he tightened his hold on her and dragged her closer.
“Promise me, Jasmine.” He growled. Those black eyes of his practically bored into her very soul.
“I promise.”She bit out. Even more annoyed that he hadn’t just taken her word for it right off, and he had made her swear. Damn, she hated giving her word, now she had no choice.
Wade let her wrist go and she backed away from him, walking around him to where Nathan stood with amusement in his eyes.
“And the female wins again…” Nathan offered and Wade narrowed his eyes and wanted to plant his forehead against the nearest tree. The vampire was right, she’d got her way again, damn it.
“Just make sure she’s up nice and high. And I might just leave her there all night once this is done.” Wade walked over and snatched the bowl of her blood out of Nathan’s hands. Uncovering it and placing it under a patch of bracken, he heard his mate muttering under her breath, but when he looked up, both Nathan and Jasmine were gone.
“You have trust issues…”
Nathan teased as he stood behind Jasmine on the branch and made sure she had a firm hold on the bough that ran along in front of her at waist height.
“I do not have trust issues.” She hissed back, keeping her voice as low as she could.