by Milly Taiden
Moving down she licked and sucked her way to his hard cock. Her face was just inches from the thick, velvet-covered, steel pole. When she looked up, she saw him tensely gripping the comforter in his fists.
Licking her lips, she smiled up at him, noting the flare in his eyes. She wrapped a hand around his hard length and slowly pumped him from root to tip.
Chase moaned when she repeated the action, and a bead of liquid trickled from his slit. She spread the fluid as she pumped, lubricating his dick to a glossy shine. Then she lowered her lips to run her tongue in a slow circle over the crown of his cock.
God, but he tasted good. His flesh was hot and smooth. She inhaled his manly musky scent.
She moved her jaw and rubbed the underside of the plump head with her lips. His hips jerked, and he pushed his cock into her mouth. She kept a firm hold and slowly worked more of his hard length in until he hit the back of her throat.
Then she pulled him out and did it over again until he was slick. Her cheeks hollowed in tight suction while she slid him down her throat.
Her saliva slid down the sides of his cock as she continued to blow him. His hands had moved to hold her hair away from her face so he could watch her mouth. The entranced wonder on his face made her want to make it absolutely perfect for him. His eyes darkened when she took him in and hummed her pleasure in the back of her throat.
“Sophia, baby,” he groaned. “You’re fucking perfect but…you have to stop, or I’m gonna come in your mouth…”
She clamped her lips tighter and sucked harder while her hand pumped his lower half. His hands tightened in her hair, and his hips thrust his cock harder into her mouth.
That’s what she wanted, for him to lose control. To let her pleasure him until he couldn’t hold back. Her pussy soaked when she watched his reaction.
“Sweetheart…” he growled.
He tried to pull her head away, but she continued to pump his length and suck hard on him. She opened her throat more and took in as much of him as she could, curling her fingers around his ass and digging her nails into his cheeks.
The small aggressive move was enough to bring him over the edge. He came with a shout of her name and jerked in her mouth. She swallowed as much of his hot release as she could, but he kept coming, so she let go of him with her lips and moved his pulsating cock to spew over her breasts. His hot semen dripped down her front while her own juices soaked her thighs.
Chase stared in fascination when Sophia held his cock, licked his length, and then rubbed his seed over her breasts. The sight was so hot he became hard again while watching her.
One of her small hands massaged and tweaked a slippery nipple while the other rubbed the swollen lips of her cunt, dipping one finger into her sex. She looked into his eyes, and he could see the lust riding her.
She moaned in need. “Fuck me, Chase.”
In the blink of an eye, she was on her back. He thrust his cock into her slick cunt in one smooth move. She moaned with each hard thrust. Desperation drove them both. Her nails dug into his shoulders. She pulled him farther in her and wrapped her legs tightly around his ass.
She lifted her hips off the bed, tilting her pelvis to bring him even deeper in her.
He growled and fucked her like the animal he had inside. With every thrust he slammed deep in her, moving her body up the bed and then hauling her back down to do it again. She whimpered and purred, coming closer to orgasm.
“Look at me. You’re mine, Sophia,” he growled.
Her gaze locked with his. “Yes, yours.” Her head flew back, breaking eye contact with him.
“Who do you belong to?” His hands cushioned her head, pushing her to look at him once again.
“You, Chase. Only you,” she moaned.
“Baby you feel so good.”
“Harder, Chase…please.”
Her body tensed, and her legs started shaking. He rocked his hips, and his dick hit her at an angle causing her breath to hitch. He moved a hand between her thighs and rubbed a thumb over her swollen nub. Once, twice, and on the third touch, he pinched her clit and rammed her pussy with his cock. She screamed and splintered into oblivion.
Her vaginal walls fluttered and contracted around his driving shaft. Above her, he groaned, stiffened, and jerked inside her, filling her with his semen. Her sex clenched and sucked his release deep into her womb.
She was exhausted and ready to fall into sleep. She completely ignored the sticky mess she was covered in. He left and returned a few minutes later to carry her to the bathroom. He had drawn a bath. Then he washed them both and finally allowed her to get some rest.
* * *
Sophia woke to the smell of food. Her stomach grumbled and cramped until hunger pangs dragged her out of bed and into the shower. While she was dressing, she could hear voices coming from the kitchen. There was Julia’s soft pacifying tone, River’s clear questions, and Chase’s sexy deep growl. There were also two others she didn’t recognize.
“Good, you’re up. We were wondering if you were planning on showing up. Chase wouldn’t let us eat until you came down. He said it was rude. I’m Riel by the way.” He winked at her when she walked into the kitchen, and she smiled at his easy charm. They all sat around the dining room table talking over coffee and tea.
Chase stood to give her a kiss that was cut short after a few coughs and groans intruded. She felt her face flame and pulled up a chair to join them.
The two men who she’d never met stood and bowed their heads.
Riel smiled. “It’s an honor to meet our leader’s chosen mate.” He bowed and took a seat.
She smiled and blushed again. “Thank you. It’s nice to meet you too.”
The other man, who seemed to be older and much more intense, had been watching her with a closed expression. He dipped his head. “It’s my pleasure to welcome you into our pack, Dr. Reese. My name is Seff, and I am at your service.” He kept his voice formal.
“Please, call me Sophia. It’s nice to meet you too, Seff.” She smiled. She sat down, and everyone started talking at once.
“So tell me what you have learned.” Chase spoke over the conversations and brought the discussion back to the main business of the lab.
“The employees inside the lab have all been verified. We had to look deeper into their lives to see if there were any strange links. You told us of a Dr. Warren.” Seff kept his gaze on Chase. “It seems he’s got very little love for shifters and humans alike. He likes to believe he’s going to discover the next big drug, so he takes exception to a young woman telling him what to do,” Seff said, looking around the table. “Anyway, he’s got witches and other shifters in the family, but no hyenas.”
Riel took over and added what he knew. “We looked into Sophia’s direct employees. All employees have shifter, witch, or human in their families, but none have any hyena relations. Not sure where that link is coming in, but I’ll look into everyone working in the lab and on the research.” Riel lifted his coffee and took a sip.
“I’ve been trying to get access to the security footage from the night you both got attacked,” River joined in. “It seems my guys can’t find any evidence of a recording for that evening. Apparently the system malfunctioned and stopped recording, making it difficult for us to see what happened.”
“Did anyone find out why there was no one around when we got attacked?” Sophia asked. “That lab is extremely busy on a regular day, and even on evenings you’ll find people working well into the night, waiting on some result or jotting down notes on their work. It was strange to see that nobody was there. It was as if everyone had been told to leave.”
Seff said he’d find out more from employees and where they had gone off to while his leader and the doctor were attacked.
“So all in all we have nothing,” Julia stated.
“What happens to your storage when someone attempts to open it?” Riel asked.
“It’s set up in a way that it locks down after a finger and voice rec
ognition failure. What that means is that it resets and you have to wait for twelve hours before you can attempt again. It’s my backup.”
“When someone tries to access your storage does it have any alarms or does it send any notice to the building security? I’m trying to gather more information so I can interrogate the guards,” Seff said.
Chewing on her lower lip, she considered the question. She’d been asked if she wanted alarms but always felt they could be disabled, so she had dismissed the idea in favor of the finger and voice recognition with a shutdown backup.
“Not that I’m aware of. I specifically declined the alarms. They wouldn’t know if someone was trying to get to my research unless I notified them.” She gave him an apologetic smile. “I’m sorry. I guess that brings us to another dead end.” Sophia turned to Chase and leaned her head on his shoulder. “I think the cold storage is the best place for my work right now. Don’t you think?” She looked up at him.
“Yes. Until we can figure out who wants your work, it’s safest inside the locked storage,” Seff answered.
“Unless they can get their hands on her,” Riel stated, ratcheting up the tension around the table with his words.
Seff, Chase, and River turned to glare at him.
“Sorry to say it, but it’s true. The samples are safe unless they can get their hands on Sophia to get the vault opened. This means she can’t be left alone without protection.”
River sighed and turned to Chase. “He’s right. I’m sure by now they’ve realized they can’t get the storage opened without Sophia. They’re going to want to get their hands on her soon, which means she’s not to be left alone.”
“What do you mean I can’t be left alone? What am I, four?” Outraged she looked at River and gave him an angry glare.
“We’ll all take turns until we get rid of the threat—” River broke off as Riel’s cell phone went off.
The enforcer looked at the number and stood to answer the call away from the table. Meanwhile Chase continued to pile more food on Sophia’s plate. She wondered if he was trying to turn her into a cow. Here she was trying not to eat them out of everything they had, and he just kept adding stuff to her plate thinking she wasn’t paying attention. She rolled her eyes but continued eating.
Riel returned, concern written on his face. “That was Tryx’s phone. The caller wasn’t Tryx. Not really sure who it was, but it’s clear they have her. They stated she was fine for the moment, but they want Sophia if we want her back.”
He hadn’t finished speaking when the other three men stood ready to take action.
“We can’t let anything happen to her. Do you have her phone’s GPS turned on?” Seff asked.
“Everyone in the pack has an active GPS on their cell phone. If hers is working, they want us to find her. It might be a trap,” Riel said.
“I hope so. I need to get my hands on whoever is behind all this and finish it once and for all.” Chase’s voice had deepened to an almost unintelligible growl.
“So who stays with Sophia?” Riel asked.
River stood and walked toward Chase’s open home office. Everyone quickly followed as the men gathered weapons, and Riel sat down to access the mapping of Tryx’s phone location from Chase’s laptop.
“Oh for God’s sake. Give me a frigging break and just go. I’m not going to go anywhere, and I’m sure anyone looking wouldn’t think to find me here.” Sophia’s rage had been simmering since they started talking of watching over her like she was some newborn, and now that someone actually needed all of them, they were still debating who would stay with her.
“Absolutely not.” Chase turned and pulled her into his arms. He held her tightly to him. “I’m not taking any chances with your life.”
His concern soothed her, and she leaned into his body. The fear she saw in his eyes was enough to stop her ranting.
“Riel, you stay and track the signal while we go and find Tryx.”
* * *
Seff drove Chase’s SUV while the alpha called two other enforcers, Kane and Troy. The men were working the streets as cleaners to ensure resolution of any problems the pack members got into with humans. They were usually left to work on their own.
River was on the phone with Riel to get an exact location and verify there had been no movement. They met up with Kane and Troy about a mile from where Tryx’s phone’s GPS had locked its last location. Chase had given Tryx’s shop a call and verified with her assistant she hadn’t shown up and was truly missing.
They drove the vehicles off the road and hid them behind a group of thick trees. Splitting up in groups of two, they shifted out of their skin and set out in a large circle around the area, slowly closing in on the coordinates Riel had passed along.
In the center of the clearing lay a woman bound and gagged with a cell phone next to her. Her clothes had been torn, and cut marks dripping blood were visible on her arms and legs. The woman’s blonde hair was covered with dirt and leaves. There was no one else around, and she resembled Tryx, but as they neared her they realized she wasn’t Chase’s cousin.
Once they got closer to the unmoving body, Chase scented her and knew she was a human. Kane picked up the female and removed her from the scene. Growls sounded around the group. Their display of aggravation made Chase wonder what else could be done to find Tryx.
They returned to their vehicles and called Riel, but he didn’t answer. Concern made Chase’s heart beat faster in his chest, and he tried Julia and Sophia’s phones with no success.
* * *
Riel left Sophia and Julia sitting in the living room and went into Chase’s office. When an explosion rocked the front and back of the house, he lifted his gaze from the computer screen to see the women run into the office and join him. Not wasting any time, Riel clicked a button that unlatched a column on the wall.
Sophia and Julia both gasped when a piece of the wall slid, giving way to a small hallway. He immediately jostled both in, and with a finger over his lips, indicated for them to be quiet. Then he locked them inside.
Riel shoved a filing cabinet in front of the column and ripped his clothes off. He shifted seconds before the door was torn open and two hyenas crowded the entrance. He snarled and lowered his head showing them his fangs.
Their whiney laughter grated on his nerves. He watched a female and a male stroll into the large office. The female, known for being aggressive and hostile, came in ready to fight. She shoved the male out of the way in her attempt to get at Riel.
The female opened her jaws and showed him her fangs in the silly smile hyenas were known to have. She went for his face and used her paws to scratch at his neck. Riel moved away from her paws and tried to get space between the two of them. Undeterred by her smaller body or his massive claws, she attempted to sink her claws into his face once again.
Riel’s powerful claw slashed across the female’s face, and he shoved her away. She hit a chair, the wood splintering, and landed on her side.
Her whiney growl became louder, and she turned her head toward the inactive male. Riel guessed she was trying to get the male’s attention.
Both animals zigzagged around Riel. The male jumped over a table and landed on Riel’s back, biting repeatedly into his shoulder and clawing at him while the female tried to cut into his face once again.
What was it with the woman and his face? He growled and shook the male off. The hyena hit the wall in a loud whine.
Riel’s focus turned to the female, and he bit into one of her paws as hard as possible. Then he jerked her roughly and threw her across the room, breaking a glass coffee table in the process.
She picked her bleeding body up off the floor, whining loudly.
The male came at Riel once again but only got as far as biting into Riel’s hind leg before Riel shoved him against the oak desk, bit him on the back of the neck, and tossed him through a window.
Riel heard the other hyenas whining outside as well as the distant roar of an engine. The female limp
ed toward the broken window, growled at him one last time, and jumped out. The urge to chase made Riel take a step in the direction of the window, but he stayed firmly in front of the filing cabinet he’d placed before the hidden door.
Gunfire erupted outside. Seff waited until they were closer to the house before he slowed down enough to allow Chase and River to get out of the vehicle. Chase saw the torn front door and rushed toward his home. Multiple windows from his office were broken, and blood covered the lower panes. Two animals moved away from the house, limped into a large van, and took off.
Chase and River headed into the house while Seff stayed in the SUV and followed the van. Rushing inside the house with River, Chase was ready to tear the place apart. When they entered the office, they came face to face with a snarling Riel.
“Stand down!” Chase growled.
Riel’s wolf lowered his head and whimpered. Blood covered his brown fur. He panted, trying to regain his human form. Once he was back in his skin, he groaned and landed on a chair, struggling to get his bearings.
“Sophia and Julia?” Chase asked, knowing his enforcer wouldn’t dare let anyone take their women and then stay behind.
“In the safe room. I locked them in before they got to them.” Riel groaned and attempted to shift back to his wolf to allow for faster healing of his wounds. Chase watched as Riel shifted back to being a brown wolf and lay on the carpet.
Chase moved the filing cabinet out of the way and unlocked the secret passage with the hidden code. He stepped back when he heard the hiss of the sliding wall. Inside, Sophia was holding Julia in her arms as the other woman sobbed on her shoulder.
River stepped in front of Chase and pulled Julia toward him. He picked her up in his arms, soothing her with soft words while he carried her to a sofa.
Sophia ran out of the tight space and launched herself into Chase’s arms. While he held her, she buried her face in his neck and used his shirt to muffle her cries.