“Slow and easy, sweetheart,” he instructed. “We’ve got all night if you need it.”
As she rode his cock, moving faster and faster, she stripped the last of his control from him. His hips began to rock in counterpoint to hers. He gritted his teeth as he fought to keep his movements slow and easy though it was difficult. His control was shredding fast, and it took everything in him to keep from driving hard and fast up into her hot, silky hold.
The hand in her hair dropped to her thigh then made its way up the inside of her leg until he reached her clit. He was close to exploding, but was determined she fly over the edge first. Finding her wet, knotted clit, he began to stroke it lightly with the pad of his thumb.
“Need more,” she whimpered. Grabbing at his shoulders to steady herself, she started to move even faster.
With her admission of need, the last threads of his control disintegrated. Pulling his arms from under her skirt, he wrapped them around her back.
“Hang on,” he said as he surged to his feet.
Emerald squeaked and wrapped her legs around his waist when he stood. He took a second to shove the food containers out of his way before laying her on the table. Leaning over her, he kissed her again as he began to move, fucking her hard and fast. Wrapping her arms around his back, she held him close as her hips canted up to meet him.
“Come for me, gypsy,” he murmured as his own orgasm gathered in his balls. He worked his hand between them again and gently pinched her clit between two fingers.
Emerald cried out as she bucked underneath him with her orgasm. Her pleasure feeding his, he thrust three more times before his cock jerked and he came. Semen surged with an almost painful pleasure before it exploded out the tip of cock deep into her pussy.
At the same instant, he felt a sharp pain bloom where his shoulder and neck came together. It took a few seconds for his thoughts to clear enough for him to realize Emerald had just bitten him. A second orgasm slammed through him, and his hips jerked several more times, pushing even deeper into his woman’s wet heat.
* * * *
Emerald licked the bite in Nick’s shoulder closed as he groaned, the heat of his juices filling her sending her into a second, smaller release. She dropped her head back to the table and tried to recover her breath and her control. All she wanted to do was drag her mate up to her room so they could start all over again.
In the next second, Nick collapsed over her. The feel of his warm body pressing hers into the table felt so good all she could do was sigh as a never-before-felt happiness flowered in her.
She had found and claimed her mate. She would not spend the rest of her life alone and lonely. There would be someone beside her from now on.
She held him with trembling arms and legs as their breathing returned to normal and they slowly recovered. Finally, Nick lifted his head and then rested his upper body on his elbows as he studied her intently. “That was incredible, but you bit me.”
“No, I claimed you. There’s a difference,” she said, her words slightly slurred. She felt almost drunk with the depth of her release and his blood entering her system. “We are now mates for life.”
He smiled down at her, looking more than a little relaxed and content himself. “So, what’s next?”
“Mmmm, I think we need to get dressed before someone shows up and catches us in this somewhat compromised position.”
He opened his mouth to speak, but she laid two fingers on them to silence him. Her sensitive hearing picked up voices coming from beyond the yard. Closing her eyes, she was able to pinpoint them to be coming from the woods out toward the beach. Another second and she concluded they were not pack members. At least two strangers were trespassing on pack lands. Were they guests or treasure hunters?
Pulling her fingers from Nick’s lips, she whispered, “I need you to go inside as fast as you can. Call Silver and tell him someone is trespassing in the woods near the beach behind the house. His number is on the card by the phone in the kitchen.”
“What?”
“Nick, please just do as I say,” she urged as she pushed him off her.
He frowned but straightened. Stepping back, he pulled pants up and fastened them. She sat up then climbed from the table. Once on her feet, she pushed her skirt down her legs and stepped out of it. She straightened to find Nick staring at her with a hungry expression.
“What are you doing?” he asked, catching the skirt that she picked up and tossed at him.
“I’m going to investigate. Now go inside,” she said just before she shifted to her wolf form.
“Holy fuck, you really are a shape-shifter,” Nick said, his eyes going wide. “Wait, what do you mean you’re going to investigate?”
Wishing she could speak, Emerald instead stepped toward him and used her shoulder to nudge him toward the back door. She waited until he had crossed the patio and entered the house. Once he closed the door and was be safe, she turned toward the woods.
* * * *
Stunned by Emerald’s blink-of-an-eye transformation into a sleek black wolf, Nick found himself unable to move until she came and pushed at him toward the house. Once he was inside with the door closed, he turned to look out the window at the wolf. He watched as she trotted off the patio and disappeared into the woods. He stared into the bushes where she had disappeared, half hoping she would walk back into the yard in naked human form.
After nearly a minute, the rest of Emerald’s words came back to him. He looked around and found the list hanging on the wall across the room. Hurrying to it, he found Silver’s number on the list and quickly dialed it.
“Hello?” Silver answered after the second ring, but the background noise was almost too loud for Nick to hear him. “Hang on a sec.”
It was closer to twenty seconds before the background noise diminished and Silver returned, “Hello? Em? What’s wrong?”
“It’s Nick. Emerald asked me to call and tell you there are trespassers in the woods behind the house. She’s out there alone,” Nick said, trying to remain calm though he felt anything but.
“Okay. I’ll be there in a couple of minutes. Stay in the house until we come back.” Silver’s tone changed, and suddenly he sounded more serious than Nick had heard since meeting the man a few hours before.
Before Nick could reply, Silver clicked off his phone. Hanging up, Nick returned to the back door. He stared toward the spot where Emerald had disappeared into the woods. When he started thinking about what had happened, his legs went weak. Instead of collapsing to the floor, he leaned heavily against the counter next to the door. He continued his vigil for the woman who had captured his heart. As he did, he wondered what other secrets his black-haired gypsy had to share with him.
* * * *
After pocketing his phone, Silver took off running toward the house. Fear for his cousin caused him to use the extra speed being a shape-shifter gave him. As he ran down the street, he hoped none of the guests saw him moving faster than humanly possible.
He rounded the outside of the house, pausing at the fence just long enough to punch the code into the electronic lock. Shoving the panel open once the lock clicked, he stepped through and began stripping off his clothes. He folded his shorts, put them in his mouth, and then shifted. He doubted Emerald thought to take clothes with her. If the trespassers were guests, he would shift back and escort them politely to their side of the fence with a stern warning about what the fence meant.
If it was the people who had been digging holes on the island and had taken a shot at Goldie a few weeks before, there was no telling what might happen. They were under strict orders to keep the pack lands safe while at the same time guarding the family secrets, but if the assholes had come back to do some more treasure hunting, Silver might just need to tear them apart and worry about the consequences later.
Crossing the patio, he glanced toward the back door. He saw the outline of a man in the window and knew Nick stood there waiting for his woman to return. Thankfully he was now E
merald’s problem. As he passed the patio, the earthy scent of sex reached his nose. He smiled around the pants he carried. So, the literary agent was now a member of the family. Good. Maybe he would be able to talk Emerald into leaving the island and seeing the world.
Silver tracked his cousin’s scent as fast as he could through the thick brush. When he lost it, he put down his shorts and lifted his head, barking three times before howling long and loud. Picking up the shorts again, he listened for a response. A moment later Emerald returned the signal. She was to his left and on the beach that encompassed the entire island.
* * * *
Emerald found the trespassers on the beach within sight of the fence that went all the way out into the ocean. They did not seem to be the ones who had been hunting for treasure, but were a couple of guests. They must have swum around the fence as they were now playing naked in the surf. As she watched, the man lifted the woman and carried her up onto the beach where they began making love.
They were so caught up in one another they did not see her sitting just at the fence line. Neither did they hear her barking and howling in response to Silver’s call. Knowing she and Nick had just done the same thing though under far different circumstances, Emerald turned her back to the amorous couple and waited for Silver to join her.
He arrived within minutes. Once she showed him the situation, he shifted. “Go to your mate. I’ll take care of these two,” he said as he pulled on his shorts.
Emerald nodded and left, picking her way along the edge of the forest to the fence. Once she reached it, she raced as fast as she could back to the patio. She could feel her mate worrying about her, so she picked up her pace. She could not wait to see him and confirm he was okay as well.
Reaching the edge of the patio, she shifted. Instead of going straight inside, she stopped long enough to bag up the forgotten food boxes before she walked to the back door. She jumped several inches into the air when it flew open as she reached for the door handle. Her feet barely touched the ground when Nick pulled her into his arms. She tossed the bag on the counter and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
“Are you all right?” he asked, hugging her so tight she could not breathe.
The arousal she thought they had satiated by mating returned even stronger as she kissed his cheek. “I’m fine. Are you okay?”
“Me? You’re worried about me? I wasn’t the one who ran off into the night chasing after trespassers,” he said, frowning at her.
Before she could argue, he kissed her. His hands slid down her back to cup her ass cheeks. She lifted her legs and wrapped them around his waist as the kiss swept her away. She shifted her hips against his. Frustration grew when she felt a long, hard, cloth-covered cock brush against her clit.
When he finally broke the kiss, she smiled at him. “It was nothing. A couple of guests decided to see what was on this side of the fence. Silver’s taking care of it.”
She brushed her cheek against his and took a deep breath, filling her lungs with his scent. When he shifted his hold on her ass, sand scraped between his skin and hers, reminding her that she was covered with a fine coating of sand.
“I need a shower. Want to wash my back?”
Nick squeezed her ass cheeks as he turned and headed across the kitchen, their discarded clothes forgotten on the counter. “Only if you’ll wash mine.”
As he carried her through the house and up the stairs, Emerald began humping the cock that pressed against her pussy. Never before had she felt so horny, so needy. When Nick pulled her lower body from his, she gave a throaty whine in protest.
“I don’t know about you, but if we don’t cool down a little, I’m going to either embarrass myself or take you right here against this wall. And the last thing I want is for your cousin to walk in on us,” he said through gritted teeth as he held her so several inches separated their lower bodies.
“Put me down,” she whispered, “but be prepared to run for the bedroom. I need you so badly.”
As she pulled her legs from around him, he lowered her to the floor. He straightened and took her hand in his, but when she tried to run down the hall, he pulled her back to walk at a more sedate pace.
“Hurry,” she urged, frowning over her shoulder at him.
“No,” he replied. “We need a few minutes to settle or else it will be over before it even begins. And this time I plan to spend a long, long time making up for that quickie we had out on the patio.”
“Oooo, sounds like fun,” she said, opening the door to her room and leading him inside.
Chapter 5
Nick followed tried to keep his pace sedate, his cock hard and his brain consumed with all he looked forward to teaching her. As they entered her room and headed for the bathroom, he took a quick look around.
Her room was nice though sparsely decorated. The corner next to the door to the hallway was obviously her office. She had two tall bookcases flanking a huge wooden table. The bookshelves were crammed full of books, files, and notebooks. More books were stacked on the floor. The table held a computer and stacks of files, papers, and more books. A printer sat on a wooden crate under one corner of the table. Looking around the rest of the room, he found her double bed sat underneath the wide windows that showed a few lights from the businesses and streetlights of the village.
She flipped on the light as she entered the bathroom then dropped his hand and turned to smile at him.
“Strip,” she ordered gently.
The word sent a tingle down his spine and even more blood surging into his cock. With a grin, he scrambled to get out of what clothes he had put back on earlier.
As he did, she bent to pull a stack of towels from underneath the sink. Setting them on the sink, she straightened and turned. Though he had seen her naked out on the patio, seeing her here under the bright lights of the bathroom sent his heart racing even faster.
She was gorgeous. Though petite, she was long limbed and curvy in all the right places. Her breasts were full and topped with soft pink nipples. Everything about her made him want to howl at the moon with his need.
Lifting his gaze back to her face, he watched as she looked him up and down. His cock pulsed when she licked her lips. His tongue mirrored the sexy little action as an urge to taste every inch of her skin overwhelmed him, sand or no sand.
“I want to lick your entire body. Especially this,” she whispered.
Without a smidge of hesitation or shyness, she stepped closer and wrapped her fingers around the base of his cock. She smiled into his eyes as she caressed her way up and then back down the turgid length one time.
“Okay,” he answered. His common sense flew out the window as his baser instincts took over.
“But first I want a shower.” She giggled, shifting her hold on his erection.
Using his cock as a leash, she led him into the walk-in shower and turned on the water. He helped her quickly rinse off the sand. Once she was grit-free, he knelt before her. She parted her legs, but he pushed them even wider so he could snuggle up between them. She grabbed his shoulders then sucked a breath when her shoulders met the cold tile wall behind her.
He used two fingers to part her pussy lips. Leaning in, he licked from her open pussy entrance to the top of her slit. He smiled when she moaned in response and tilted her hips forward, silently begging for more.
* * * *
Between the warm water beating on her breasts and Nick’s warm tongue brushing up her slit and over her clit, Emerald had a hard time staying on her feet. Leaning harder against the wall, she spread her legs even wider to give him more room in which to work. Electric shocks ran through her body before gathering right behind her clit, spiraling tighter and tighter. She pushed her hips even farther forward, needing firmer contact so she could reach a pinnacle of something she was not sure she had ever felt before.
“More,” she breathed.
She reached down and brushed through Nick’s hair. He chuckled when she began to massage his scalp. Sh
e sucked in a quick breath as he slid two fingers into her pussy as far as they could go. He fucked them slowly in and out while twisting his hand back and forth. Her pussy muscles tightened around the digits as her arousal gathered even tighter and stronger. She gasped when he brushed a single fingertip over her back hole, causing every muscle from knees to waist to clench even harder.
In the next instant, he took her clit between his lips and sucked hard before biting the knotted flesh gently. She screamed as everything in her exploded. The muscles all the way up the front of her chest contracted, forcing her to bend forward. She tightened her grip on Nick’s shoulders and fought to stay on her feet. He held his fingers deep in her pussy and gentled his hold on her clit, but did not stop playing until she came to a second screaming orgasm.
When he finally did release her, her legs went boneless. She slid to down the wall to land with her ass on Nick’s thighs. Barely able to move, but wanting to give her mate the same loving care he had just given her, she wrapped one hand around Nick’s cock.
“Stand up, please,” she murmured as her head tilted forward and she licked at his lower lip.
Instead of doing as she requested, he kissed her deep, and she tasted herself on him. Then all she could taste was her mate. Her arousal did not completely die away, but settled on a lower simmer. Needing to give him the same pleasure he had just given her, Emerald’s hand began to slowly travel up and down his cock. Gently cupping his balls with her other hand, she began to play with them with her fingertips.
She pulled her head back and broke the kiss when she could no longer breathe. Smiling at her mate, she said, “I want to taste you.”
Nick swallowed and nodded, looking disoriented. She continued to hold his cock and balls as he shifted from under her and slowly stood. She kept her eyes locked on his as she leaned forward and licked the tip of his cock. He watched her with a hooded gaze as she then parted her lips and took the head of his cock between them.
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