by Lynn Hagen
I called to check on my mom. Nurse Lisa said she was doing a lot better but was resting, so I told her to tell my mom to call me later. I was thankful that was one thing I didn’t have to worry about.
“Breakfast is ready,” I said when I entered Reese’s bedroom, carrying the breakfast tray in my hands. I scowled when I saw him standing by the window. “You need to be in bed resting.”
Without turning around, he said, “I’ve done enough resting. There’re things I have to take care of.”
I set the tray aside and joined him at the window. He was wearing a robe, but it wasn’t tied into place, and he was naked under it. “You’re not healed enough to do anything other than rest, Reese. This isn’t a game. If your body doesn’t have a chance—”
“Save me the lecture. My gut is never wrong, and it’s telling me we have a shitstorm heading our way.”
I crossed my arms, angry at his stubbornness. “Can you even dress yourself? Can you walk down the six flights of steps to leave the building without collapsing?”
I was real worried that he would try just to prove a point. I walked to the dresser and snatched a pair of dark blue boxer briefs from the drawer and took them to him. “If you can put these on without falling over, I’ll shut my mouth.”
A crack of thunder shook the window as lightning streaked across the sky in jagged white veins.
Reese snatched the underwear from my hand but turned back toward the window with a deep, dark scowl.
“Look, I get it.” I peered out the window and watched the rain coming down in buckets. “No one, especially alpha-type men, like being sick or injured. It’s like some heinous vulnerability to you guys. It’s killing you to lie in bed all the time, even if that’s what you need.” I touched his arm. “Can you at least eat my pancakes before they get cold?”
His hardened gaze softened as he gave me a short nod. “Pancakes sound perfect.”
He slipped onto the bed and I sat next to him, both enjoying our breakfast. Halfway through, he forked a piece of his food and fed it to me.
Afterward, I took the tray to the dresser and set it there as Reese turned the television on. We cuddled and watched some movie. I couldn’t concentrate on it. The sound of the rain and lying next to Reese’s body lulled me to sleep.
I slowly opened my eyes to the sound of the storm outside. It was still raining, and I wondered when it would finally end. Then it hit me. Reese wasn’t in bed with me. Where had he gone? Why was he up?
As if to answer me, he walked into the room, still wearing nothing but a robe that wasn’t tied up in the front. My gaze zeroed in on his soft, thick cock nestled against his body.
“You’re awake.” He smiled, and my heart sped. “I thought you were going to sleep the rest of the day away.”
I stretched but lay there, too tired to get up. “How long did I sleep?”
My breath hitched when Reese turned, his muscles flexing. I couldn’t stop thinking about touching every bronzed inch exposed to me.
“About forty minutes,” he answered. I looked up into his eyes and saw something close to hunger in them. “Feel better?”
I should have gotten up and gotten something, anything done, but I couldn’t stop staring at his nudity. I was trying my best to keep things professional between us, but I felt that resolution slipping away. I was losing the battle to keep my distance from him. Us cuddling was proof of that.
That should have been important. I should have been concerned with how badly I wanted him. So why couldn’t I stop thinking about being fucked long enough to care? I pushed to my hands and knees and crawled across the bed, stopping at the edge. “I’m…hungry.”
Look at me. I had initiated this. Put on a bravado I really didn’t feel.
Reese stepped closer. “Do you want me to get you something to eat?” There was no mistaking the husky pitch to his tone. The deep baritone made my body react, pulsing with need.
“No.” I shook my head. “Not food.” I squeezed my eyes shut. “I can’t believe I’m behaving this way. You’re my boss, and I’m your employee. We should keep it that way, but…” I turned and sat on my ass, keeping my eyes closed. “What the hell is wrong with me?”
“Nothing, beautiful,” he answered. My eyes snapped open. “We have a strong attraction to one another.” He ran his hand down his abdomen, and my eyes followed as I prayed Reese would drop the robe.
“I…I want you.” I couldn’t believe I had actually said that, but Reese was right. At least on my part. I was wildly attracted to him, and damn it, all I kept thinking about was lying under him, naked, begging him to fuck me.
“Then come and get me, sweetheart.” Reese crooked his finger as he let go of the robe. It fell to the floor, revealing his hard, beautiful body.
I crawled from the bed and moved until I was standing in front of Reese. I had an urge to rub my body all over his. I’d never felt so horny in my life. My skin was tight, and my pulse wouldn’t slow down. All I thought about was getting to Reese, being touched by him. Being fucked by the man would be more honest.
Reese ran his fingers under my jaw as his eyes closed to narrow slits, his irises burning with the same exact need. “On your knees, Danni.”
My body jerked at the command. Our eyes locked, and I could see Reese wasn’t kidding around. His fingers tightened on my jaw. “Do I need to repeat myself?”
“No.” I stripped out of my scrubs, shaking like crazy that I was actually going to have sex. And with Reese, no less. A guy who wasn’t even human. Even so, I loved that he was taking charge, telling me what to do. Any other time I would’ve had a fit, but right now, I loved every second of it.
I lowered to my knees. Reese gripped his straining erection. I stared at the hard length and wondered what I’d gotten myself into. Was that going to even fit in my mouth? I wasn’t sure, but I was going to try.
“You’ve been driving me crazy in that uniform, Danni,” Reese stated as he rubbed the head of his cock over my lips. When I tried to take the head in, he inched back. “I might have to take this slow because I’m not fully healed, but don’t think for a second I can’t handle having sex with you. The question is, are you ready for me?”
“I have no idea,” I confessed. Why lie? This would be my first time, and I wasn’t going to act worldly. I didn’t have a clue about what I was doing, but I was dead certain Reese wouldn’t mind showing me.
Reese pressed the blunt head against my lips, and I parted them, licking at the clear liquid seeping free. Reese hissed before he said, “Thank you for being honest.” He canted his head to the side. “Don’t be afraid, Danni. I promise my dick doesn’t bite.”
My eyes flickered up as I leaned in, taking Reese’s cock farther into my mouth. The taste of pre-cum on my tongue made me moan, made me want more.
“Relax your throat.”
Reese’s finger slid through my hair and then tightened, sending a maelstrom of sensations coursing through me. This wasn’t enough. I needed more. I’d been wanting Reese since first laying eyes on him, even if that made me a bad person. You weren’t supposed to fall in lust with your patients. That was a big no-no. In my defense, I’d never had anyone like Reese to take care of. But now that I was with him, I felt out of control, loose, edgy.
I gagged a few times trying to take him down my throat and had to back off, but Reese didn’t say a word, didn’t talk smack about my lack of experience. He ran his hand across my jaw as he stood there, looking down at me with such tenderness in his eyes.
That spurred me on, made me want to master this. I tried again, running the flat of my tongue over the heavy vein, hollowing my cheeks for better suction.
He hissed, his eyelids fluttering closed for a brief moment before they snapped open. Then he gripped my hair and started a slow fuck, moving in and out of my mouth, his hips punching forward in short bursts.
When I looked back up at him, I was shocked to see his canines.
“See what you do to me?” Reese slowed his t
hrusts. “Driving me fucking crazy.”
I palmed his nuts and tugged gently at them, smiling around his erection.
“Oh, now you want to get cocky?” He grinned. “My little virgin thinks he can handle what I have to give him?”
I narrowed my eyes.
Reese laughed. “Don’t be so sensitive, beautiful. You won’t be a virgin by the time I’m done with you. Then you’ll be just as addicted to sex as every other male with a pulse.”
His teasing helped put me at ease, though I still wanted to smack him for it. I hadn’t been a virgin on purpose. My life had just been too busy for me to find the right guy. I still wasn’t sure Reese was the right one, but the craving I’d had for him, still had for him, was enough to drive me mad.
No one had ever affected me this way before, and I had to get rid of this insane itch that was hampering my thoughts and made doing my job damn near impossible.
“Almost there, Danni.” Reese’s smile faded. He now looked completely focused as he hitched his hips, driving his cock in and out of my mouth. I tightened my throat, and that seemed to please Reese. He grunted and looked down at me with pure lust in his eyes.
Then he threw his head back and shouted my name, which sounded glorious on his lips as he came down my throat. I couldn’t handle the load and gagged, most spilling from my mouth.
Reese pulled me to my wobbly feet and kissed me with desperation, with an urgency that made my head spin. His facial hair left whisker burns by the time he pulled away and led me toward the bed, kissing along my jaw.
“That was fucking perfect,” he murmured against my lips. “So fucking perfect.”
My first blowjob and it seemed I’d aced it. That gave me courage, a sense of accomplishment that was probably silly in most eyes. But I didn’t care. Reese had loved it, and that thrilled me.
We slid onto the bed, and I felt seconds away from exploding with need. I spread my legs and said, “Please, Reese. Take me.”
“Easy, love. I’m not going to move that fast.”
I writhed, my skin too damn sensitive as I watched Reese grab a bottle of lube from the nightstand drawer. My head fell back as Reese began to stretch me. It was just enough to drive me insane. If I didn’t get release soon, I was afraid I’d burn alive.
But I had second thoughts when Reese slipped his fingers free. This was it. There was no going back. My apprehension made me shake as Reese stretched out beside me.
“There’s no need to be frightened, sweetheart.” He kissed his way down my jaw, his hand sliding over my heated skin. “Just relax, Danni.”
Under his artful kisses and the way he touched me, soon I relaxed and groaned into his mouth, grabbing at him, though I was careful of his wounds.
“That’s it, love.” Reese settled between my legs. “Just concentrate on my lips.”
I felt the blunt head of his cock press against my stretched and lubed hole. The muscles pulsed as I held my breath and waited for him to breach me. When he entered, the burn was almost unbearable.
I gripped the sheets, hissing as I spread my legs wider and then wrapped them around his waist.
“Don’t stop.” I panted, sweat building on my skin as Reese continued to slowly sink inside me. “I need more.”
“And you’ll get it,” Reese said, his eyes riveted to what he was doing. “I’ll take care of you, beautiful.”
And I had a feeling he meant more than just sex. I didn’t want Reese to financially take care of me. I already had a career I loved. This was just a heat-of-the-moment thing, two people who were wildly attracted to one another, and I didn’t expect it to go any further than that.
Reese grabbed my legs and spread them wide, bracing his muscular arms as he bottomed out and then pulled back. I cried out, wanting Reese to go faster, harder. So much harder. The sight of Reese taking me was something that would be burned into my mind forever.
Everything was happening so fast in my life. It was a whirlwind, and I wasn’t sure I could handle the ride. But for this, right here with Reese, I would gladly sink myself into this moment and never surface. To freeze this moment and stay like this with Reese forever wouldn’t be such a bad thing, though I knew it could never happen.
A part of me, though—a deep wish or maybe a dream that I truly belonged to him and his world wasn’t insane—made me think we could make this work. Those were ridiculous thoughts that I shoved back down, refusing to let them see the light of day.
I concentrated on Reese’s slick muscles moving, bunching, flexing as he fucked me. His eyes were so dark they resembled black orbs. But it was his lips that I kept going back to. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to drown in him.
“Reese.” I hated the way his name came out like a whine. “Please.”
Reese let his head fall back, and I was more fascinated than scared at the sight of those two sharp teeth. I knew he was a wolf, but to see even a glimpse of the teeth, twice now, was more reality than anything anyone could have said to me.
“Do you want to bite me?” I had no freaking idea where that question had come from or why I’d even asked it. I arched my back and moaned when Reese filled me completely and then pulled back.
“Is that what you want?” Reese shook his head. “That’s not how we do this, Danni. I’m just excited, or more to the point, my wolf is.”
I was relieved at his answer. In truth, I didn’t want him biting me. It sounded as though it would be painful.
Reese moaned and punched his hips forward, slamming his cock into my ass. I cried out, clawing at his biceps as my orgasm built, climbing up my spine. “Reese!”
“Right there with you.” He kissed my neck. “Gonna make you fly, beautiful.”
He thrust harder and deeper, and I shattered. I shouted Reese’s name again as my cock pulsed between us, painting our skin with my cum.
Reese moved faster and then buried himself inside my ass, cursing up a storm as his cock throbbed inside me.
He’d been right. I was addicted to sex now. I wanted to do this as often as possible with Reese. For now, I curled into him when he eased out of my body and spooned me.
“How’s your side?”
“Killing me.” Reese hugged me closer. “Nothing I can’t handle.” His arms tightened when I tried to get out of bed. “I don’t need any painkillers. I just need you to stay right here with me.”
I snuggled closer to him as the rain started to let up. The sky was still overcast, but my heart felt lighter with his strong arms wrapped around me.
Chapter Seven
Reese…
I woke to the sound of my phone ringing. Careful not to jostle Danni, I reached for it and grabbed it off my nightstand. “Hello?”
“I had no other choice.” Alfonso sounded panicked, which made me sit up. Danni stirred then turned over and continued to sleep.
“What’re you talking about? Where are you?”
“They took my wife and kids,” Alfonso said. “They told me they’d kill them if I didn’t tell them where you were. They knew I worked for you but didn’t know where you were hiding. I’m so sorry, Mr. Corbin. I had no other choice.”
“Just tell me where you are.” I flung the blanket back and went to the dresser to retrieve some clothes. I was livid that they’d gotten to Alfonso, but I was more worried than angry. I’d met his wife and pups, had broken bread with them.
“It’s too late for me,” he said. “But they’re coming for you. Run, Mr. Corbin. Run.”
Alfonso hung up. I’d gotten my underwear on and my jogging pants before I heard a bang at the front door. Fuck. I’d left my weapons in the living room.
“What’s going on?” Danni sat up and rubbed at his eyes.
“Get dressed,” I said. “We have company.”
His eyes widened as he jumped up and grabbed his scrubs from the floor, jerking them on. “I guess you were right.”
“My gut is always right.” And sometimes that sucked. I’d wanted it to be wrong this time, especially with Danni
here. I tossed my phone at him. “Call Max.”
“I called him hours ago,” Danni said. “He should’ve been here by now, but I’ll try him again.” He tapped my phone as I struggled to get my sweatpants on. “No one is answering.”
Danni jumped and shouted when my phone rang. He was stressed, and I hated to see him that way. “Max, where in the hell are you?”
The only people who talked to Max that way were his inner circle of friends and Derek. I found it amusing, my little spitfire nurse.
“He said he’s at the front door, but he can’t get in,” Danni said to me before talking to Max again. “That’s because the kick bar is in place. Hang on. I’m coming.”
I grabbed his arm before he rushed from the room. “I don’t care who is at the door. I’ll answer it.”
Danni wiggled the phone at me. “It’s Max.”
I shoved Danni behind me as I made my way down the hall. That bout of sex had drained me, and I was in a lot of pain by the time I made it to the living room.
“You need to rest.” Danni laid a hand on my arm. “You’re sweating.”
My gun was still on the coffee table. I snatched it up and pointed for Danni to move over toward the windows. He scrambled away but grabbed one of the fireplace pokers and kept it in his grip like it was a baseball bat.
“Okay, open the door,” Danni said.
I wanted to point out that he wouldn’t be able to do a damn thing from across the room, but another booming knock hit the door.
“Damn it! Open up,” Max shouted from the other side.
I removed the kick bar, disabled the alarm, and unlocked the door, swinging it open. Max, Gabe, and Lucas stormed in. “You’ve been compromised. We need to get the two of you out of here.”
“How do you know about Alfonso?” I asked as Danni hurried from the room. He came back with a pair of sneakers for me, shirt, and his medical bag slung over one shoulder.
“When Danni told me he was missing, I dug into what happened to him,” Max said. “I’ll explain everything in the car. We need to get moving.”