by Belle Harper
I was rewarded by a huge smile.
“Ranger, oh my gosh,” she squealed as she turned to me, and I couldn’t hold my wolf back any longer. He wanted to be stroked by his mate. With her hand out, I brought my head down and butted against it, her fingers scratching deep into my fur. She lifted her hand to move away, but I wasn’t having it. I moved in closer, placing my neck on her shoulder and pawing at her for more.
“Seriously?” Mav growled, but I didn’t care. She wrapped her arms around me, hugging me tight, and I was happy. This was so good, and my wolf needed it, especially after she’d said she wouldn’t pet him anymore if I didn’t behave. These moments were too good not to behave. A tug at my ear had me moving back from Lexi, and I chose that moment to shift back.
“Wow.” The word whooshed out of Lexi’s mouth, and I couldn’t help the huge grin I was sporting at that. I stood up, my huge frame blocking out the sun as she checked me out.
Hands on my hips, I let her have a good eye full at how she made me feel. My wolf really liked being stroked by his mate, and the evidence was clear.
She held up her finger and thumb with an inch between them and said, “Bit chilly?” and the guys burst into laughter. I pointed at Lex, arching my brow and she burst into giggles.
“Well, I’m glad I made you all laugh.” And I was. I didn’t want to see Lex worried or upset today. Galen would have told her the news, and a little teasing about my dick was worth it for the smile on her face. I picked up my shorts and pulled them on before settling beside her.
“I made sure they didn’t eat them all,” she said, handing me some sandwiches on a small plate, and my heart swelled in my chest. I should’ve known by now that she cared about me a lot. I knew this, even though my wolf had fears that she would leave, but just her thinking about me like this got me right in the heart. I was so in love with this girl.
“Okay, let’s have some fun. Ranger, you want to be the first I practice on?” I was standing now, back from the edge of the cliff. The birds were calling out over the water, and it was a nice day, even though the breeze had a chill.
“Hell yeah.” I was surprised she’d picked me to try out her powers on first, but I walked over to her and she took my hands. I looked into her beautiful amber eyes, the gold flecks in them sparkling, and watched as her gorgeous face twisted in concentration. I waited for something to happen, but there was nothing. She turned back to Galen, who watched her with such intensity, then she nodded.
They were doing that mind talk thing, so maybe that would be a good one to try? Like maybe she could hear my thoughts.
Lex, Lex, Lex… I watched her face, but there was no change. She let out a huff and dropped my hand.
“Nothing is working.” She seemed deflated, but we’d only been trying for a minute. I didn’t want her to give up that easy. I was still so happy to be picked first, I didn’t want to be the one not working.
“Hey, what were you trying to do? Maybe try something else?” I grabbed her hand before she could turn away.
“I was trying to do the warm thing on you.” I nodded. Okay, but I was already warm. Galen was cold. That was what she said, that he was cold and she felt bad that he was and then she heated his arm.
“Well, I am warm. Maybe try making me cold?” I suggested. The others started talking, agreeing.
“Or make him shift? Push his wolf out…not that it’s hard too.” Maverick suggested.
I held my hands up in the air and backed up a step. “Hang on. I don’t want anyone fucking with my wolf.” And that was the truth. I wasn’t sure what her powers were, but I didn’t want to mess with that.
“I won’t mess with your wolves. I love them, and I hope to be in a huge puppy pile later on.”
Now that was something I wanted too. I could lay beside her every day in wolf form. I pulled her in for a bear hug, and she melted in my arms.
“Okay, practice on me. I would do anything to help you, Lex.”
I bent down and kissed the tip of her nose, which was a little cold. I watched her lips as she pursed them together, then a hint of a smile twisted her mouth. Oh man, she was planning something, and I wasn’t sure I would like it.
What had I agreed to?
Chapter Thirty-Two
Lexi
Okay, I was thinking some pretty funny thoughts about what I could do to Ranger, but this was hard. I’d just thought I could heat his arm up and then move on to a new thing, but it was proving harder than I thought. Not that I had tried it since that day, but maybe I should try the cold thing.
“Concentrate. Will it because you want it.”
Having Galen in my head was also a little distracting, but he was right. I was trying so hard to will it. I tried to think about cold, willing his hands to go cold, but they were big and warm in mine. I let out a growl of frustration.
“You got this, Lex.” I rolled my eyes at his nickname for me, but I’d given up on correcting him. Huh, maybe instead of making him cold…I could give him ants in his pants? Like he had something tickling him all over…
I smiled and watched his face. He looked worried, but I was going to have too much fun if I could do this. I closed my eyes and thought of little ants walking all over him, tickling his skin. Even the thought was making my skin crawl. Then his hands pulled away from me fast.
“Nope, fuck this. Nope. Nope. It’s tingling all over… What the hell, Lex?”
I opened my eyes and saw he was twisting and shaking his body. I turned to Galen, and saw he was watching in fascination. Raff’s mouth was dropped open, and Maverick’s eyes crinkled as his grin grew huge.
“What did you do to him?” Maverick asked, and the humor in his voice had me choke out a small laugh.
“Lexi, you did something. What did you think about?” Galen asked in that teacher type voice of his. I watched Ranger running his arms over his legs. Shit. I didn’t think about how long it would last for.
“I thought of little ants crawling over his body and tickling him.” Ranger’s eyes widened as his mouth dropped.
“I… Fuck, it worked, but I’m not going again. Nope, it’s all over. They feel like they’re in my ass crack.” He shook his whole body, then dropped his shorts and shifted in front of me. Galen came and held my shoulders as we watched Ranger shake his fur out, then in less than ten seconds, he was back to Ranger again.
“Okay, so that wasn’t so bad, now that I’ve shifted. I feel like I did my part of the day as the guinea pig…so Mav is up next. Bring his wolf out.” Ranger shoved Maverick towards me, but he didn’t seem to care. He took my hands in his and looked down at me.
“Give it your best shot,” he said, then he winked.
We spent the afternoon trying out different things. Ants crawling worked on all of them. Galen was still smiling and nodding as if nothing was happening, but he seemed to wear the effects the longest. The other guys just had to shift, and the power wore off. Galen was curious to see if I could compel, but that didn’t work.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t try and will wings… I wanted to fly. So when they were talking about something new to try, I would concentrate on wings, growing wings and flying high. By the time dinner rolled around, my stomach rumbled and I was so tired, I just wanted to stuff my face and crawl into bed.
Galen had let me ride on his back to this spot. It was beautiful, and I knew I wanted to come back. It was a direct line to the Lovell place, so it would be easy to find again. I jumped on his back, and he ran at vampire speed back to the house, where a nice meal had been set up and all the Lovells were sitting around the table, waiting for us. We all piled in, my eyes barely staying open, and Galen moved his chair closer so I could rest my head on his shoulder. It was either him or Raff, since the twins were too tall for me to do that.
Alaric stood at the head of the table, and everyone looked to him. It was hard to read his expression, since he always looked so serious.
“Welcome officially to the family, Rafferty King. You are no
w Pack Kiba. We will protect you, as you protect us.”
Everyone clapped, and I joined in. Jett wrapped his arm around Raff’s shoulder and pulled him in for a side hug. There were lots of congratulations and ‘one of us’ comments.
I smiled as I watched them all together. This was what being in Pack Kiba was—a family. I took a bite of roasted potato and quietly chewed, then placed my fork on my plate and lay my head against Galen’s shoulder again. I took a deep breath and rested my eyes.
Just for a moment.
Chapter Thirty-Three
Lexi
It was so warm and soft and hard… Hard? There was something very hard poking me in the back. I grinned and arched back, my arm going up behind me and snaking around Raff’s neck.
A hand slid around my middle and pulled me closer, his body rubbing against my ass a few times, and I chuckled. I tipped my head back and took a deep breath, but what I assumed was Raff didn’t smell like him, so I cracked opened an eye and saw two green ones looking down at me.
I gave a lazy smile at Ranger…and I remembered this position very from when we were in the pool. Only we were missing someone. I glanced around, seeing we were in my bedroom, but Raff wasn’t here.
“Morning wood?” I asked, and he gave me that cocky smile, then ground his erection into my ass.
“It is a good morning. I never get to be the one waking up alone next to you. I can see why Raff loves it so much,” he replied. It was a surprise to find him in my bed without the others, but now they had all these protection shifters it would be a while before we all were waking up together. But I wasn’t complaining. This was a nice, more than nice. I moved against him, teasing and giving more pressure, and he moaned.
“Do you tease me to torment me? Like how I thought I was special yesterday when you picked me first to try your skills out on?” I started to laugh. Shit, I bet Galen told him.
Before I could say anything, he took my chin between his thumb and knuckle, tilting it up, and took my mouth. Our tongues went from lazy to waging a war… He was upset with me, I could feel that, but I turned him on too much to care as our tongues danced and clashed, my body hyper aware of his. This was the best way to wake up.
His hands traveled my body, the exposed skin sending me wild. God, he was amazing at this. This boy knew how to kiss and all the right buttons to push. His fingers trailed up my thigh, higher and higher, until they reached my sleep shorts and made their way under.
He hesitated, waiting for permission, but I wanted this. I needed this.
“Ranger…touch me.” I gasped as his hand slid over my underwear and ground myself into his palm. I wanted more friction, I needed… “More.” I felt his chuckle before he removed his hand and started to push the T-shirt I was wearing up higher. He moved down and kissed my belly, then rubbed his neck and head against my bare skin, and I laughed.
“Are you marking me?” I asked.
His smile was a little devilish, his hair all messed up, but those green eyes were gorgeous. There was no denying that.
“While you’re down there…” His brow raised, but he didn’t need convincing. His tongue dipped out and onto my heated skin, then he slowly licked his way down to the waistband of my shorts, sending the most amazing sensation to my clit. God…please. I pressed my hand on his head, letting him know I wanted more.
“Oh, is this what you want?” he asked as he started to pull my shorts down, and I did everything to help remove them faster. He chuckled. “Someone needs a lesson in patience”
I shook my head. I didn’t need to learn anything, I just needed something, and he was going to give it to me. With four hot as fuck boyfriends, my libido was at an all-time high, and last night with Raff only woke it up more.
When Ranger pressed a kiss on the outside of my underwear, his hot breath set me off and I bucked beneath him. God, how did that feel so…”Fuck,” I moaned.
“More? You need more?”
Just like a wolf, I growled at him, “Stop teasing me, or I’ll find someone who will do it.” His thumbs hooked my underwear and dragged them down, and I lifted my hips so they could come off. I watched his face as he looked down at me.
“God, Lex. You’re seriously the most perfect, beautiful woman I have ever seen. I’m so fucking lucky, and I loved that you growled at me. So I might have to tease—” I grabbed his hair and pulled him close to my face. “Ouch! Okay, no teasing. My woman has needs,” he said, but he was smiling and so was I.
I was so glad I’d let him in and given him a chance. He didn’t just wear his heart on his sleeve, Ranger was a complicated guy. I was only at just the tip of the iceberg with him. He may have acted a certain way, but he deflected so much.
He kissed me, his hands going under my top as my hands went to his boxers. I rubbed his hard length through the thin material, and he moaned into my mouth.
“I won’t last long if you do that, and this morning is about you.” Pushing my T-shirt up, he kissed and licked my nipples, which were hard and needy. I watched as he kissed his way down, every so often stopping to look at me, watch me. When he got to the top of my wet folds, he took a deep inhale.
“God, you smell amazing,” he said, but before I could answer, he licked and sucked on my clit. The pleasure snapped me like a rubber band, and I went flying over the edge into a blissful orgasm. He didn’t stop, keeping the rhythm, his fingers joining in, and I clutched the sheets, needing something to keep me anchored to this world.
When I felt his fingers entered me, I knew I needed more. My core clenched around him, sucking him deeper as he flicked my clit over and over with the edge of his tongue, before he sucked again, his fingers finding that magic spot inside, stroking me into another orgasm.
“Oh fuck, Ranger. Holy shit.” I grabbed a sheet and balled it up in my fist, turning my head and biting it so I stopped making so much noise. I didn’t want everyone to hear us.
“You like that?” he asked, and the only answer I could give him was pushing his head back down. His chest rumbled with laugher, and I felt it through my body as he went back to sucking and fucking me with his fingers.
My body was covered in sweat, and I was so close, so sensitive. I gripped the back of his head and rode out the most incredible orgasm. I flopped onto the mattress and sunk down, half dazed, with a smile on my face.
“So, am I a keeper?” he asked out of nowhere. I laughed and rolled into him, inhaling his scent. His hard chest pressed against me as he hugged me tight.
“Yeah…for now.” He kissed me and rubbed himself against my belly a couple of times. I reached my hand down, but he grabbed it before I could touch him.
“It was all about you this morning, you don’t have to do that,” he said. I cocked my brow but saw he was serious. He really was all about me, and as much as I loved that about him, I would love to watch him get off with my hands.
“I want to touch you, watch you come,” I said as I ran my hand down his chest, feeling the dark hairs of that sexy trail leading down to the waistband on his boxers. My fingers inched their way under, grasping his hot, silky cock in my hand, and he hissed as I gave it a small stroke.
“Fuck, Lex. I usually last longer, it’s just—” I stroked again, and his body shivered and bucked in my hand. I rubbed my thumb over the head, spreading the pre-cum glistening on top, and that was all it took to send him over the edge.
“Lexi, oh fuck.” His hand flew down to mine, grasping it in his, and I watched as rope after rope of cum hit his belly, his forearm, my hand, and my T-shirt.
“Holy fuck, that was…fast. Intense,” he said and kissed me once, then twice before I felt the cum sticking my shirt to his belly and chuckled.
“I should get cleaned up. Did you want to have a shower with me? I’ll wash your back if you wash mine,” he said, wearing a cheeky grin, but a shower sounded nice.
Before I could answer, there was a loud knock on the door.
“You two, let’s shower in separate rooms. Father isn’t ex
actly happy. You guys need to sneak around better, or at least wait until he’s out of the house and far away,” Jett called from outside my door.
Ranger’s eyes went wide at the news that Alaric had heard us. Fuck. I laid back, my clean hand going to my face. That was kinda embarrassing. If his dad heard us…fuck, everyone probably heard us.
“You weren’t that loud, so don’t worry. No one else heard,” Ranger said, trying to comfort me, but even he didn’t look convinced. There was a knock again, and the door opened. I pulled the sheets up and saw Jett standing at the doorway, grinning and shaking his head.
“Everyone heard… Next time, use Galen’s place.”
I groaned. “Stop with your super hearing shit. Turn it off.”
Jett winked. “But I might miss something important if I do. Like you and my brother getting—” Ranger threw a pillow at him, and I laughed as Jett caught it.
I rolled over and hugged myself into Ranger.
“Douchebag,” I called out once Jett left the room.
“Let’s go have that shower.” Ranger grabbed me around the waist and hauled me off the bed. I really needed to wash my hand.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Lexi
I was so happy Josh had come to visit, I wasn’t sure with the whole Russet pack threat and everything else going on that I would see him. But if they thought it was safe to have him here then I was going to have as much fun as I could with him.
“Check it out, it’s got a snorkel.” I showed him the goggles and snorkel I had bought while Ranger was blowing up my new yellow lounge chair. So I could float around on top while Josh looked for things under water in the shallow end. And wearing his floaties.