by Becca Van
Jeremy stared at himself in the splattered bathroom mirror. Even to his own eyes, he looked different. He’d had trouble sleeping, and he was so fucking tired the skin around his eyes was almost black with fatigue. He looked as if he’d gone three rounds in the boxing ring and lost.
He stared at his black hair, still not used to seeing the dark color on the top of his head. He’d had blond hair with a lot of gray strands throughout, but the silver had been hard to detect because of his light coloring. He was going to look like a fucking skunk once the dye started growing out if he couldn’t afford to tint his hair again. Once he got his hands on that cash the slut didn’t know she was hiding, he’d leave the US and find someplace without any extradition laws, and after buying himself a mansion, he’d get the color stripped out and go back to his natural state.
Now all he had to do was lie low and find out what the fuck Stone was up to. If the bastard didn’t contact him soon, Jeremy would find a way to hunt the prick down and take him out. The last thing he needed was that idiot having information the cops could use against him.
Jeremy turned from the mirror after washing his hands and headed toward the burner phone he’d left on the small table near the motel room window. He was going to text and call Stone until the fucker replied or answered. It the bastard didn’t reply, he’d find someone to take the asshole out and put them on the slut’s trail. Just promising some lowlife a wad of cash would get him what he wanted, even if the idiot had to wait to be paid.
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Jace loved having Tami in his arms. She was so soft and sexy he couldn’t get enough of her. She seemed equally content to be sitting on his lap with her cheek resting on his chest. Every now and then she’d sigh, and the sound was so full of serene satisfaction he couldn’t keep the grin from his face. He and his brothers had always liked a woman with meat on her bones, and the fates had chosen the perfect mate for them.
He’d had to hold himself back as first Zayn and then Karter had made love with and then claimed their woman, and while it had been difficult, he’d succeeded. His brothers would have every right to be pissed at him if he’d stolen their mate from them while they’d been claiming her. Now it was his turn, and though he was shaking with unrequited hunger and was eager to start the bond with her, he also wanted to take his time and savor each moment. He spent time washing over every inch of her amazingly lush curves taking note of each shiver, each reaction to his hands on her with the intention to come back to those erogenous zones and build her desire for him.
He would only ever have one first time with his mate, but he also suspected every time he made love with Tamika would feel like the first.
He’d never felt such an immediate attraction to the opposite sex in his life. While he was deeply in lust with his woman, he was also irrevocably in love. He just hoped, prayed that Tami would fall in love with him and his brothers quickly, as well.
Jace looked down and stared at her pretty face. She had her eyes closed, the dark brown fanning crescents standing out starkly against her creamy white skin. Tami was so fucking beautiful she took his breath away and made other parts of his body stand at attention. When he carried her into the tub and spent his time washing her, he’d expected his cock to soften a little, but that hadn’t happened. He suspected he was going to be hard more often than not with her around. His dick was harder than it had ever been pressed into her soft belly as it continually pulsed with desire. He’d loved to give Tami all the time she wanted to just stay where she was, leaning against him all soft and relaxed, but his wolf was eager to get things started, just as the man was.
He clenched his teeth together when she shifted on his lap and bit the inside of his cheek when a groan of need bubbled up in his chest. She lifted her head, opened her eyes, and met his gaze. When he saw her shiver and goose bumps race over her skin, he wondered if she was getting cold. The water hadn’t cooled enough to cause goose flesh, but then again, he wasn’t completely human.
“Are you cold, darlin’?”
“No.” She licked her lips.
He followed the path her tongue made of the plump curve before meeting her eyes again. “Are you sure? You have goose bumps.”
He held his breath as he watched her pupils dilate and her brown eyes haze over with heat. Jace realized his mate wasn’t cold at all. In fact, she was getting hotter by the minute, and so was he. He wrapped his arms around her and shoved to his feet. She squeaked out a startled sound as she looped her arms around his neck and her legs around his hips. There was no way to hold in his growl of arousal when her hot, wet cunt hugged his hard cock. If he hadn’t been concerned about drying her off so she wouldn’t get a chill, he would have aligned his aching dick with her pussy and shoved in deep, but her needs had to take precedence over his. There was no way he was neglecting his woman, only to have her end up sick. While he knew the likelihood of that happening was slim to none, there was always a chance the mating bond would be slow to take with their mate, leaving her open to illness, so he wasn’t about to risk it.
As soon as he set her on her feet and made sure she was steady, he grabbed a clean towel from the rail and started drying her. She met his gaze with a frown on her face and tried to tug the towel from his hands.
“I can dry myself. You don’t need to do it.”
“I know, darlin’.” Jace cupped her face, caressing her soft skin with his thumb. “I want to do this. It’s a privilege.”
“Why?”
Jace knelt and rubbed up and down her legs, wiping the moisture away. “Hold on to my shoulder, mate, and lift your foot.” He tapped her right calf, and she immediately complied, and he started drying her foot. “Because you’re special to me and I like being able to help you even if you’re more than capable of doing things for yourself.” Once he’d finished that foot, he tapped her other leg, and she lifted her left foot from the floor. He was meticulous about making sure no dampness was left between her toes or glistening on her skin. When she had two feet back on the mat, he grasped one of her hips and turned her to face away from him. He stood, towel dried her back, arms, ass, and between her legs. When her breath hitched, and he caught the scent of her growing arousal, he closed his eyes for a second and begged for control. When he was sure he wasn’t about to pounce on her as soon as she was facing him again, he turned her back.
His heart flipped with worried concern when he gazed at her face. Tears were rapidly welling over her eyelids and rolling down her face. Jace cursed under his breath, berating himself for causing her pain, but he frowned over that thought. Although he’d caressed the terry cloth over her skin quickly and efficiently, he’d been aware of not being too rough with her.
Jace dropped the towel to the floor, cupped her face in his hands, and stared intently into her stunning brown bloodshot eyes. “What’s wrong, darlin’? Did I hurt you? Fuck! I’m so sorry, Tami. I didn’t mean to be so harsh.”
She shook her head as her fingers wrapped around his wrists. He glanced at her small delicate fingers on his tanned skin and marveled over how much bigger he was than her. Her fingers didn’t meet as they clasped him.
“You didn’t hurt me, Jace.”
He deepened his frown as he swiped the tears from her cheeks. “Then why the tears?”
“You called me special.” She glanced away when a sob escaped from her parted lips. He gently turned her eyes back to his.
“And?”
“No one but you and your brothers has ever called me that before. Your words touched my heart.”
Jace released her face, wrapped his arms around her shoulders, and pulled her against his body. She sighed as she wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her forehead on his chest.
“I meant every word I said, darlin’.” He leaned down and kissed the top of her head.
She raised her gaze toward his. “I want you, Jace. Will you please make love with me?”
“It’d be my honor, Tami.” Jace didn’t care that he was still covered wi
th drops of water. All he cared about was making Tami his. He swept her off her feet, up against his chest again, and stumbled when she hooked her legs around waist and her arms around his neck. He groaned, and she moaned when she wiggled her hips until his throbbing cock was snugged in her folds along her cunt. Warm, wet moisture trickled down his dick and off his balls.
“I can’t wait,” she gasped out as she wriggled her hips until the head of his dick was kissing the entrance to her pussy. “I need you. Now, Jace! Please?”
Jace gritted his teeth and nodded as he took two steps until her back was pinned to the wall of the bathroom. All his intentions to go slow and savor his time with her flew out the window when she started sucking and licking at his neck. His wolf surged forward, intent on making his claim, and Jace barely managed to keep the little shit from escaping. His canines were fully extended, but he ignored the urge to bite into the crook of her shoulder and neck.
After taking a deep breath and holding it for a few seconds, he exhaled slowly and sighed with relief when his canines retracted. He opened his eyes to find Tami staring at him with a worried expression.
“Sorry, darlin’, I needed a minute to control my overly eager beast.” Jace didn’t give her a chance to respond as he lowered his head to hers and slanted his mouth over hers. She sobbed with pleasure as their tongues tangled in a carnal, passionate dance as she canted her hips toward his.
Jace tightened his grip on her ass cheeks, molding, kneading, and squeezing her soft flesh, and as he lifted her a little higher, he began to press his hard cock into her hot, wet cunt. His groan was muffled as they continued to devour each other’s mouths with voracious need.
She turned her head away from his, breaking their kiss, and gulped in air. Jace lowered his mouth to her neck, licking and lapping at her skin. She shuddered in his arms when he suckled at that hot spot just beneath her ear, and then he licked his way back up to her ear. Instead of nipping at her earlobe as one of his brothers had done, he drove his tongue into her ear canal. Tami cried out as her internal muscles clenched down around the tip of his dick.
“Fuck, darlin’, you feel so fucking good,” he panted against her ear after withdrawing his tongue.
“You…too…” Tami combed her fingers into the back of his hair, clutched a handful, and tugged his mouth toward hers. “More, Jace. I want everything you’ve got to give me.”
Guilt assailed him as he lost total control. He powered into her until the tip of his dick butted up against her cervix. She cried out. Jace groaned as her cunt clenched around him and coated him in her juices. He leaned his forehead on the wall next to and above her head hard enough to hurt as he tried to get his lust back on a tight rein. He knew he’d caused her pain when he’d slammed into her because her nails were now digging into the flesh of his scalp and the back of his neck. “I’m sorry, darlin’. So fucking sorry.”
She pulled at his hair, and he withdrew from the wall and met her gaze. “What are you sorry for?”
“For hurting you.”
“You didn’t hurt me, Jace. I was crying out because it was so good.” She released her hold on his hair and caressed over his shoulder and down his back until her fingers were digging into his ass. “Move damn it. Now!”
Relief surged into his heart and soul that he hadn’t caused her any pain, and after sucking in another breath, he pulled back until the tip of his cock was resting just inside her dripping cunt. He drove back into her as she shoved her hips up toward his. Their flesh slapped together, and he retreated again. Over and over he pumped into her, the wet frictional slide of her walls along his cock sending sparks of heat to course over his body, through his blood.
She pulled his mouth back to hers, her tongue delving into his mouth to twirl and tangle with his. Liquid desire pooled low in his belly, and heat centered at the base of his spine. After kissing her deeply, he lifted his mouth from hers and trailed his lips and tongue down the side of her neck and over her collarbone toward her chest.
She tightened her legs around his waist, her hips rocking in perfect sync with his as their bodies slammed together over and over. He swirled his tongue around her areola, delighting in the way her velvety soft flesh contracted until he could feel the bumps rasping over his taste buds. Her nipple was a hard, rosy peak, and he had to swallow the saliva pooling in his mouth before sucking that ripe delectable morsel into his mouth. He suckled on the tip firmly, each draw of his lips causing her cunt to clamp down around his pistoning dick.
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“Oh,” Tami moaned. Her insides had melted into a molten pool of liquid desire. Each time Jace stroked his cock deep into her pussy, the pleasure was so intense she wasn’t sure she’d survive it.
She sobbed with wanton need when he released the nipple he’d been sucking on and cried out when he switched to her other breast. He swiped his tongue on the sensitive nub then scraped the edge of his teeth over it. Her internal walls rippled along his hot, hard dick, and cream wept from her pussy. She gasped and groaned when he suckled firmly on the nipple, causing her pussy to spasm around his thick cock. He groaned as he lifted his mouth from her breast before kissing and licking his way up her chest toward her mouth.
Tami met him halfway, leaning up to him as he bent down. The kiss they shared was hot, wild, and passionate, leaving her shaking with need and breathless as the pressure deep in her womb began to grow.
Jace was thrusting into her hard, fast, and deep. Her pussy made slurping sounds as her muscles continually clenched as if trying to pull him back into her or keep him locked deep inside her cunt.
Her legs began to tremble as the heat flared to a raging inferno that seemed to singe her from the inside out. Tension invaded her muscles as the coil inside grew tauter and tauter. She whimpered when the pleasure intensified until she thought she was about to snap.
Tami was hovering right on the edge of climax, and while she reached for the stars, she couldn’t grasp a hold of them. And then Jace shifted her in his arms as he pounded his hard dick in and out of her needy pussy. When his pubis slammed into hers, he gave a slight twist of his hips, putting pressure on her clit. He did that once, twice, three more times, and on the fourth stroke, she ricocheted toward the heavens.
She screamed as rapture swept her up into the stratosphere. Her pussy clamped down hard around his still shuttling cock before releasing, only to grip around him again and again. Streaks of white raced past at a blindingly phenomenal speed, and then all she saw was darkness. She was deaf and blind to everything but Jace making love to her. Just as she thought she was going to pass out, she gasped in a breath. The inky blackness of space receded, and her hearing returned.
Jace was making a low rumbling, growling sound deep in his throat as he pumped his hips, gliding his cock in and out of her so hard and fast there was no way she’d be able to keep up. Just as the euphoria began to dissipate, Jace shoved in deep with a howl and sank his teeth into the flesh of her shoulder.
Tami went hurtling straight back up into ecstasy. Her mouth opened on a soundless cry, and her body convulsed with nirvanic rapture. Cream gushed from her pussy as she came with Jace. She felt each pulse and twitch of his cock as cum spurted from the tip of his dick deep into her pussy and womb. Her internal muscles pulsed each time his dick palpitated inside her cunt.
Tami was so intent on feeling she was oblivious to time or anything else. Her whole being was centered on Jace. She felt a slight click as the mating bond snapped into place, and while the connection wasn’t strong, she could feel a slight warmth radiating toward her. At first, she thought she was feeling what was in her own heart and soul, but after a few seconds, she figured out the faint echo of emotion was emanating from Jace. Tears of emotion stung the back of her eyes, but she quickly blinked them away. She didn’t want to give him the impression he’d hurt her when it was so far from the truth. Jace, Karter, and Zayn were almost afraid of their own strength, but she knew they’d never do anything to deliberately harm her. She did
n’t care if they left bruises on her skin, if they got a little enthusiastic while making love with her. She loved how intense they were on giving and receiving pleasure. They’d all marked her shoulders by claiming her, and if they marked her in other places, too, she’d wear those bruises with pride. To her it meant that she was a sexy, desirable female even though she didn’t have a body society viewed as what sexy should be. She was a healthy size fourteen, and she had three men who seemed to delight in every curve.
For the first time in her life, Tami was glad she was who she was and hadn’t let the media or society dictate how she should look. She no longer needed to hide behind the cool confident façade she portrayed to the outside world. All the insecurities she’d had faded away.
Her mates liked her just the way she was.
Chapter Twelve
Tami couldn’t believe how happy she was. Last night had been the best night of her life, and while she tried to keep the sappy smile from her face and from sighing every other minute while she was cutting hair, it just wasn’t possible. She caught herself staring into space with the scissor still clutched in her hand as she remembered the pleasure she’d experienced at her mate’s hands, mouths, and large cocks. When she’d realized she’d been staring off into la la land and glanced in the mirror, she couldn’t help blushing when she’d seen the knowing grin on Broden Higgins’ face. Even though he had to know what she’d been thinking about, the large doctor and Kodiak shifter hadn’t said a word but patiently sat in his chair as he waited for her to come back to the present. Since she’d taken three times as long as it should have to trim his hair, she’d discounted his fee by half.