by Milly Taiden
“Garrett…”
He shook his head, letting her down slowly, his hard length pressed against the softness of her lower belly. His mouth took hers before she could say a word, his tongue delving deeply into the moist cavern. The taste of him sent her senses reeling.
“Garrett, please…” Her words were a soft gasp.
His hand held the back of her head as he broke their kiss. “That’s what I want, Toni. You dripping wet and begging for me.”
He slid his free hand over her hip, his fingers dipping below the waistband of her leggings. The tips fanned across her shaved mound and he growled. “Smooth.” He slipped lower, separating her moist folds to her slick entrance. “And juicy.”
Two fingers plunged into her slippery cleft and Toni sucked in a breath at the rough feel. She clung to his wide back as he worked her spot, his thumb circling her hard nub.
“Let go, Toni. I want to feel you come. I want to lick your slick juices from my palm and fingers. I want to taste you and tease you until you beg for my cock, and then ride you so hard, your eyes roll back in your head as you crest.”
She quivered at his words, digging her hands into his hair, her mouth taking his this time as she ground her pussy further into is palm. Heat exploded across her skin as Garrett curled his fingers further inside, the pressure forcing her toward the edge.
Sliding his hand from her neck, he cupped her full breast, kneading her stiff nipple through her thin cotton tee. He pinched the hard peak and Toni tore her mouth from his, panting.
“Garrett, please!”
“Please what, Toni?” He pinched her nipple harder. “Tell me what you want.”
“You! Hard and deep.”
Garrett pulled his hand from between her legs and licked the slick digits one at a time, moaning at the taste of her.
Toni’s heart pounded watching his full sensual lips wrap around each finger, teasing her further. A crooked smile tugged at his lips and he let his hand drop, inclining his head.
“Your scent tells me everything, love. Exactly what you want and where.” He hooked both hands into her waistband and fisted the clingy material, tearing the lycra with one tug. The fabric popped and ran, rolling to her thighs, leaving her completely exposed.
He growled at the pale bare mound, her skin glistening and slick. “Baby, you look good enough to eat.” He lifted her tee, tugging it over her head and Toni shivered in the night air.
He grinned. “Completely commando. Are you sure you didn’t guess I would show up tonight?”
21
“I wasn’t expecting you until tomorrow. I was ready for bed.”
His smiled broadened. “Then who am I to upset your plans?” He scooped her into his arms again and headed straight for the stairs, taking them two at a time. Placing her on the edge of the bed, he rolled what was left of her leggings from her body.
Toni scooted further onto the mattress, lying back, but Garrett shook his head.
“Not yet, love. I’m not done with tasting you.”
He took her hand and pulled her up again. “Stand,” he ordered. “Legs apart.”
Toni licked her lips and did as he said, standing on the bed, positioning herself in front of him. Spread.
Garrett slid his hands over her waist to her hips and pulled her close, tonguing her navel. His hands moved to her ass, cupping the soft flesh, kneading his fingers toward the crack and her slippery slit.
He dipped his head to her pussy and lapped her lips, the tiny cat barbs on his tongue rasping across the sensitive flesh of her tight bud.
Toni’s head dropped between her shoulders as he laved and licked, his teeth grazing the pink swollen flesh. His fingers worked her ass, rimming her tight hole as his mouth worked her wet entrance. She hissed as his teeth bit her clit, but her entire body tensed as he slid one finger into her ass, then another.
She cried out as he plunged and plundered both ends, her body grinding for more. Colors exploded behind her eyes as she came, alien sensations rocking and ripping through her rigid body.
Garrett waited for each aftershock and then pulled his fingers from her, wiping them on what was left of her leggings before stepping back.
“My turn,” he rumbled low, his snow leopard eyes yellow and feral with unspent need.
Toni lay against the pillows, knees bent and legs wide. She toyed with her still throbbing pussy, her eyes locked on Garrett’s intensity.
His long, corded cock jutted from his body, hard enough to cut diamonds. He crawled onto the bed on all fours, predatory and hungry, and flipped her onto her stomach with no warning. Reaching for the night table drawer, he pulled a silk bag from inside. Its contents were three small silicon balls, graduated in size and attached to a nylon cord. He dangled the toy over the crack of her ass, his fingers teasing her used flesh.
“You’re mine, Toni. I want you in every way possible. Starting now.” He slid his hand to her dripping pussy and spread her own slick juices back. Squeezing a dab of lube onto the balls, he slathered the silky fluid over each, wiping the excess over her tight hole. “Open for me, love.”
Toni spread her knees and Garrett slipped his thumb into her pussy again, working his clit with his fingers until she arched for more. He slipped the balls into her ass, one by one, curling his thumb deeper into her cleft with each.
She hissed, crying out a soft gasp at the invasive feel even as her pussy walls convulsed in pleasure, squeezing as she came again.
Garrett pulled his digits free and yanked her hips back, driving his cock deeply into her waiting pussy with a single thrust. Toni’s fingers gripped the end of the mattress as he pumped hard and fast. With each thrust, his hard length rolled the balls through the thin membrane, stretched and sensitive, separating each side. Bucked and pounded, Toni’s body rocketed past climax into boneless oblivion, spasm after spasm.
Garrett’s hands gripped the soft flesh of her hips, merciless, as he drove deeply. Engorged, his cock head swelled and spread inside her, stretching her farther than she thought she could bare. She cried out and he grasped her shoulders, pulling her against his chest. His raspy tongue licked the back of her neck, his teeth nipping her sweat-sheened skin.
“Mine, Toni. Now and always. I claim you as my mate, my lover, my everything. One flesh. One blood.”
Pain sluiced through her flesh as his fangs bit deeply into her shoulder, the mark penetrating her essence, her soul. Her mind spun with colors and images, a web merging and tying itself to her very being. He was hers and she was his. In body and soul. For real.
She cried out, but he took her mouth with his, demanding. He drove his cock, pumping harder, faster until he emptied himself fully with a guttural roar.
Sweat soaked and spent, the two collapsed on the bed, the scent of sex and blood mingling in the air.
“You okay?” he asked.
She nodded. “I never expected to feel the mating.”
“With me and the balls inside you? You didn’t expect to feel that?”
She laughed softly. “No, the merge. I felt my essence merge with yours.”
He kissed the tender, puncture wounds on her back. “I didn’t expect that either. No one tells you what happens when you find your soul mate…” He laughed, sliding his hand low to ease the balls from her ass. “Except mind blowing sex. They all brag about that.” He placed the balls on a hand towel on the floor and then slid his arm tightly around Toni’s waist. “I guess true soul mates get both.”
“So we are soul mates, then?”
He turned her mouth to his and kissed her. “We are.” He slid his hand over her hip to cup her sex. “But we can always put it to the test again.”
“Garrett!” She giggled.
“I guess we should spend the night being loud and destroying my bed.”
She laughed harder. “Think we can do it?”
“Challenge accepted!”
22
“Good morning, love,” Garrett said as he carried a cup of steaming coffee
into the room. “I made breakfast. Do you want it here or in the kitchen?”
Toni stretched and yawned. “You’re so amazing. A total keeper. Not only did you wear me out last night and give me pleasure like I’ve only read about, now coffee delivered in bed.”
Garrett chuckled. “I aim to please you in every way.”
“Good, then put that coffee down and come here,” she said as she pulled him into bed with her.
“You’re so fucking sexy, Toni. I can hold you forever.”
She laughed and snuggled closer. “Little did you know, I’ve had more than my fair share of fantasies of you. I knew you were a playboy, but that didn’t stop me from drooling over you. Kira reminded me that your past would make you an excellent lover since you’ve perfected your technique. I’m happy to say she was right.”
“It’s never been like this before. It was you that brought out the best in me. You made this magical. It was you who blew me away.”
Toni rolled her eyes. “You do have a gifted tongue…with words, I meant,” she tried to qualify as Garrett’s laugh echoed around the room.
“It’s okay, babe. I knew what you meant, and for the record, I’d be happy to use my gifted tongue on you any day. Who needs breakfast when I have the most delicious woman by my side already?”
Toni bit her lip and moved to straddle Garrett. “I think you’ve turned me into a nympho. All I can think of is riding you into oblivion and never letting you up for air.”
It was Garrett’s turn to moan in pleasure. “Breakfast can get cold.” He reached up and pulled Toni down for a kiss.
“Garrett, your phone. You need to answer it,” Toni grumbled as he kissed his way down her neck. “It keeps ringing, stopping and restarting.”
“Seriously?” Garrett grumbled as he pulled away and grabbed the offending phone off the nightstand where he’d placed it this morning after retrieving it from his pants in the bathroom. He glanced at the screen and growled. “This better be fucking important.”
Bastien’s amused laughter filled the air and Toni had to cover her mouth to hide her chuckle, too. “Have I interrupted something important?”
“Yes, you bastard, now what do you want?”
“As much as I hate to do this since you finally got your mate, but you need to come over now. There’s been an issue,” Bastien replied.
“What type of an issue? And why are you still laughing?”
“Simple, it’s payback. I recall you having the uncanny ability to interrupt my time with Carly when I was wooing her. I think we’re even now. We need you down by your guest house. The one at the edge of your property near my workshop.”
“Fine, we’ll be there soon. Toni will be with me.”
“Understood, and we have no problem with that. Like we said before, our mates deserve to know what’s going on with the mountain as much as we do. Bring her, she will always be welcome, brother.”
Toni had to wipe the tears away that slowly fell at Bastien’s words. She knew they liked her, but to have them accept her so easily when her own ex hadn’t been able to do that stunned her. Jared had declared his love for her and sworn to never leave her side, but he’d walked away and torn her heart and self-esteem to shreds. Now these wonderful people were showing her what it really meant to be loved.
“Love, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?” Garrett exclaimed as he pulled her into his arms and held tightly.
“Nothing, they’re tears of happiness. I never thought I’d find someone who could want me and love me the way I am. But you and your friends have done just that. None of you care what I weigh, or that I’m not the Barbie-thin skanks that throw themselves at you day and night.”
“Fuck no, we don’t. They love you because you’re my mate and make me happy. They loved you before that because you are Kira’s cousin and you’re important to her.” Garrett pulled away and looked into her eyes. “You’re the other half of my soul, my heart, and my very being. I don’t care if you weighed more than my truck, I love you and I think you’re the most beautiful person I’ve ever laid eyes on. You know I want you, my rather large cock is proving that now. It’s throbbing with need, having you so close. You’re my world, my entire universe.”
“I don’t understand you, but I’m so glad I met you.”
Garrett smiled weakly. “You’re the only one in this entire universe who has ever made my heart flutter, and you’re the one I’ll spend the rest of my life sleeping next to. My whole life, I’ve spent searching and praying one day you’d come into my life. Now that you’re here, nothing is taking you away from me. Not even you or your self-esteem.”
Toni gave a soft laugh. “I’ve never met a man like you. Jared claimed to love me. Hell, he spent three years of his life with me, but even he wanted to change me. I’d hear him and his friends and they’d make jokes about me and my weight. He never stood up for me, not once. He never joined in, but he didn’t defend me either. My family loves me. I know they do, but even they have tried to get me to lose weight. I’ve tried telling them how much I work out and how healthy I eat, but I don’t think they believe me.”
“I don’t want you to change for me. You can go to the gym or not, it’s up to you, but know that no matter what, I’ll be by your side and I’ll kick anyone’s ass who dares say one negative thing about my heart.”
Toni squeezed him and leaned up to plant a gentle kiss on his lips. “I lied.”
Garrett frowned in confusion. “You lied? About what?”
“I’m not half in love with you. I love you with every fiber of my being.”
23
“Garrett, something tells me this is a bit more serious than Bastien let on,” Toni said quietly.
He nodded but didn’t reply. He was rapidly growing more suspicious as he took in the sight of Luke, Kira, Bastien, Carly, Brannon, and Caelen standing there watching the two of them climb from the cab of the truck.
“Morning,” he said, testing the waters.
“It’s a good thing you didn’t say good morning, I think,” Luke said before he glanced to Toni and gave a small smile. “Something tells me it might have been a great morning if we hadn’t called.”
Garrett rolled his eyes and moved to pull Toni into his side. He knew she’d be blushing at his words and wanted to offer his support.
“Ass,” Garrett mumbled to Luke as they walked closer to the somber group. “What’s going on that you’re all here?”
“Fucking hell, there is no easy way to say this, but it’s your house,” Brannon replied as the group parted and Garrett could see his front door for the first time.
“What…” Garrett trailed off and looked between the faces staring at him.
“We were out for a walk this morning, discussing things, and we saw your front door like this,” Caelen said as he gestured at the mangled door. “We called Luke and Bastien and then shifted to investigate.”
Garrett waited for him to say more but grew suspicious as they all frowned and glanced back to the door instead. “Okay, and?”
“That’s just it, nothing. We didn’t find anyone, nor could we scent anyone out of the ordinary. Hell, for that matter, we couldn’t find any scent of anyone being at the door recently.”
“That doesn’t make sense.” Garrett paused and glanced around. “We need to take this somewhere private. I don’t want this overheard, and I need to make a call.”
The group moved into Garrett’s guest house and waited as he moved off to make a call. Garrett knew things weren’t adding up. They should have smelled the two FBI agents from the morning before at least. There hadn’t been any rain to dilute the smells.
“Wilcox,” the amicable voice on the other end of the line answered.
“It’s Garrett. Can you guys get up here to my guest house? It’s right at the edge of my property, now.”
“What’s wrong? What happened? Is anyone hurt?” Wilcox asked in rapid-fire succession.
“No, but someone broke in while I was home with To
ni last night. Things aren’t adding up. Come in as FBI. If you want, we will come up with something to spread around to cover for you.”
“Not a problem, we’re down the mountain as a matter of fact. We can be there in two minutes,” Wilcox replied as he hung up before Garrett could reply.
He took a deep breath and walked around the house to see how bad it was. The living room where his friends sat hadn’t looked any worse for the wear, but he feared what he’d see through the rest of the house.
Everything seemed fine, and that threw him even more. Why would they break the front door in, but take nothing? He moved to the final place and examined the wall closely. No signs of anything having been tampered with. He took a deep breath and opened the hidden door to double check the path to his stash of liquor he kept for entertaining, as well as some expensive equipment he hadn’t taken to his shop. He let out a breath and sighed in relief. Everything was fine.
A knock at the front door startled him. He’d lost himself in his head and forgotten the agents where arriving. He opened the door and gave the two men a sardonic smile. “Not how you expected to see the place, is it?”
The agent laughed and shook his hand.
“Nope, not at all. How bad is it?” Wilcox asked with a worried frown flitting across his face.
“Actually, other than the front door, it’s fine. Nothing seems touched or taken. Even the door to the caves is still hidden away,” Garrett replied as he led the two men into the living room to see the gathering.
“Guys, most of you know Agents Wilcox and Grant. I called them in. It’s part of the reason I said earlier I needed to talk to you guys.”
24
They exchanged greetings and the two agents sat. Garrett nodded and moved to Toni’s side. He winked and pulled her to stand, sat in her place, and pulled her down on his lap.