Stripe Search: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance (Furocious Lust Shorts Book 5)
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“Why is she so set on doing things herself when you’ve offered?”
“She knows how much I’ve tried to help Joel. She’s seen my struggles with him and refuses to add to my stresses. I think if she’d just get a better-paying job, she’d be able to move out of there and work less hours. It’s just hard, because when Jill needs help, Janie drops everything, and not all jobs are that accommodating.” She cleared her throat and rubbed a hand on her lap. “I...wish I could do more. It drives me crazy to see them living that way.”
He grabbed her hand and gave her a warm smile. “Don’t worry, beautiful. You’re not alone anymore. We’ll figure this out.”
She loved how he said that. Even though it was a lot to hope for, she was getting attached to Slade…a lot more than she’d ever allowed herself to be with any other man. All she could hope for was that if he ever chose to walk away, she’d be able to handle the heart break.
ELEVEN
Gabby stopped wearing the pink atrocity her brother had gifted her and instead wore a brown nondescript trench she’d gotten herself. At least now she didn’t feel like there were neon signs on her saying: “I have something hidden under this coat.”
Her cell phone rang just as she was about to leave the club. It was Slade. The thought of his name made her belly flip-flop. She’d not seen him all day and missed him. “Hi.”
“Hello, beautiful. Can I come over?”
She loved that he didn’t assume she wanted company. Working two jobs lately was taking a toll. Not that Charlie hadn’t been wonderful and cut down her hours so she could do both, but she was still exhausted.
“You may.”
He laughed. “Good, because I’m sort of already here.”
She tripped on the step as she walked to the back door. She opened the big, metal door and stopped. “Huh?”
“I took the liberty of starting a barbeque in your backyard.”
“How did you even get over the big-ass fence?” She laughed. “Let me guess, tigers climb fences?”
She heard his chuckle along with some movement on the other side of the line. “This one does.”
“Alright. I’ll see you soon.” She readied to take the final step when she noticed someone hanging by her car. It was a man. Ah, fuck. The big guy from the casino, the one who accused her of stealing his wife’s winnings. She didn’t know what that man’s problem was. He’d called multiple times saying she stole his money. She’d had to explain the whole thing to Charlie and the security staff to make sure he wasn’t allowed inside.
She rushed back into the building and waited for two of the security guys to escort her outside before heading home. It was getting ridiculous. The last thing she wanted was for the idiot who believed she’d taken money from him to keep showing up at her workplace.
The incident didn’t stop her from feeling excited to see Slade. She’d missed him. He’d been so sweet and concerned with her and what she wanted for Jill and Janie. The fact that he’d sat there, listened, and then given her input and moral support meant more to her than anything else.
“Hello?” She called out as she entered her house. The doors were locked, and the inside of the house was dark. She couldn’t figure out how he’d gotten inside.
She tossed her bag on a sofa, dropped her cell phone on the kitchen counter, and marched to the backyard. She’d been so excited when she bought her house. Her first real piece of property. She didn’t owe anyone any money on it. Sure it was small, but it was hers. It had a decent-sized yard and a pool. She’d gotten it with a pet in mind, hoping to one day get herself a dog or cat and share the space with an animal.
When she reached the backyard, she was left speechless.
“Oh, my god. Did you pimp my yard?”
He started laughing and almost sputtered out the beer in his mouth. “You say the funniest things.”
He had pimped her yard. Previously, her yard had been a plain spot with a few chairs by the pool and a small grill. Now, there was furniture. In her yard!
“I came by earlier to see if I could set up a surprise outing for us in your yard and noticed it needed some stuff to make it more comfortable.”
“But...how did you do all this?”
He winked, a sly smile on his lips. “I got over the fence and opened the door. Once I was able to do that, it was easy, since everything I needed was being delivered, including this awesome cooler,” he said. She glanced at the giant column that housed a flower pot on top of it.
“What cooler?”
He pressed a button, and the top of the column, the section housing the flowers, lifted and moved off to the right, revealing a massive, hidden cooler.
“Holy shit! That is so awesome!” She gasped in complete awe.
He chuckled at her excitement. “Yeah. It’s great. Anything for you, my curvy goddess.”
Her smile couldn’t grow any wider. He’d done this for her. There was a fire pit surrounded by a three two-person seats. An outdoor wicker sofa with big, green cushions was placed near the pool. New plants had been set up around the perimeter of the yard. Heck, he’d even had her one giant tree decorated with white Christmas lights. A small round dining area was set off near the barbeque area.
“This looks amazing,” she gushed. The dining area had already been set up with a pitcher of tea, plates, and silverware. “How long were you doing this?”
He strolled casually to her and pulled her into his arms. Their lips met, and it was coming home. She loved his mouth on hers. It was sweet and sexy. His tongue drove into her mouth, taking from her but leaving his mark at the same time.
A slow sizzle started in her belly and spread outward. She’d just managed to grab onto his T-shirt to keep herself from turning into a puddle on the floor when her cell phone went off. Reluctantly, she let go of him. His eyes had turned a bright gold that raised passion-filled goosebumps over her skin.
“Hold that thought. I need to get out of this outfit and have a super quick shower,” she said, rushing inside to get the phone from the kitchen counter.
“I’m holding you to that, beautiful.”
She grinned and lifted the phone. It was Janie. “Hi, Janie.”
“Gabby,” Janie said, her words teary and thick. “I don’t know how to thank you.”
“Thank me for what?” she asked, confused. She shrugged out of her jacket and ran to her room to shower.
“Your boyfriend. I didn’t know he was related to Vincent Tigris.”
“Okay?” He wasn’t her boyfriend per se, but whatever. “What does that have to do with anything?” She asked, now climbing into the shower and putting Janie on speaker.
Janie sniffled. “Mr. Tigris, the father, came to my house and interviewed me for a job.”
“He what?” She glanced to where she’d put the phone so fast she almost got whiplash.
“He said he trusted your judgement, and he offered me a desk job for three times what I was making.” Janie sobbed between her words.
“Janie... I’m... I don’t...” She stood in her shower, water sluicing over her body, frozen in place.
“That’s not all. The job comes with one-hundred-percent health insurance coverage. Gabby, nobody offers that.”
Gabby blinked. “Apparently, they do.”
“Oh my gosh, Gabby. The company offers extended childcare. I’m allowed to go pick up Jill and bring her to the childcare center when she gets out of school,” she sputtered through her tears. “This is just…so…amazing.”
It was beyond amazing. It was incredibly selfless of Vincent and Slade to do that for a person they didn’t even know.
“We get to move!” Janie squealed. “Because I’m so far from work, I’ll need to get a place closer, so someone from the hotel will work with me to find a better apartment. In the meantime, we get a few months of corporate housing until we’ve settled. I was worried Jill would be upset. You know how she is with change, but she’s ecstatic. Mr. Tigris told her there’s a pool at the corporate housi
ng unit we’re using, and she is ready to go right now.”
TWELVE
Holy crap on a cracker! If she hadn’t slowly been falling for Slade, love would have hit her just now with the force of a two-by-four.
“I’m so happy for you, Janie! Really. I... It couldn’t have happened to someone more deserving,” she said, the lump in her throat almost killing her ability to speak.
“It’s all thanks to you. This means more to me than you know. I’ve been wanting so hard to get Jill out of this dump. Child support has helped a lot, but this will be the change we need to start fresh. This can never be repaid. Thank you.”
Gabby showered faster than she ever had, rushing out of her bathroom with a robe stuck to her still-damp body. When she got to her backyard, she saw him sitting by the edge of the pool in a pair of swimming trunks. Her already-tense muscles burned with need.
She shrugged out of the robe, leaving her completely naked. Thankfully, she had a high fence, and none of her neighbors had two-story homes. She walked around him until she could see him from the front steps as she descended into the water.
His gaze ate up every inch of exposed skin, leaving her flushed and breathless. “You look beautiful.”
She couldn’t help the smile that tugged at her lips. “Thank you.”
She waded deeper, until the water floated around her shoulders, and headed in his direction. He slid into the pool, his feet hitting the pool floor at the same moment she reached him.
There was so much care and concern in his gaze as he stared deep into her eyes, so much passion and possession. All of it made her feel so wanted, so desired…something she wasn’t used to.
She curled her arms around his neck and pulled his head down, meshing their lips together in a toe-curling kiss. “Thank you.”
He ignored her words and continued kissing her, grabbing her ass and lifting so she could get her legs around his waist. When he finally pulled back, they were both breathless and panting. “Why are you thanking me?”
She nuzzled his jaw and neck, her nipples pebbling tight at the manly scent of him. Wild. Sexy. Part clean and part woodsy. “What you did for Janie. I can never thank you enough for it.”
“I did nothing special.” He lifted her higher, flipping them over and setting her on the edge of the pool. He spread her legs wide and pushed his body between her thighs. She sucked back a moan and loved when he grabbed her breasts and thumbed her nipples.
“You,” she moaned, her pussy contracting, ready for more. “You did something I couldn’t. I tried to solve the problem by giving her everything I could. What she needed was to feel like she was making progress in her life. That she could take care of herself and Jill. You’re amazing.”
He pushed her big legs wider, dropping a wet hand between her pussy folds to stroke delicately at her clit. Up. Down. Round. “So what do I get as a thank you?”
She shuttered at his low, hungry words. “Anything. Everything.”
He slipped a finger into her and pressed his thumb on her clit. Sucking her tit hard, he finger-fucked her slowly, driving the fire in her body into a giant, blazing inferno.
“Oh...” She gripped his shoulders, digging her nails into his flesh, hard. “Slade, please. Don’t tease.”
He released her nipple with a resounding pop and grumbled against her chest. “You just gave me everything. I’ll tease and fuck and tease and fuck you until your body’s a mess of nerves.” Her body’s response was another hot shudder down her spine and straight to her clit. “Your tight little pussy’s going to squeeze hard around my fingers when you come and wet them with your scent.” He groaned. “I can’t fucking wait to get another taste of you on my tongue. It’s going to be so fucking good. Your slick folds dripping on my face.”
Holy mother of pool sex. He was so good at giving her images. Dirty, dirty images…stuff she thought she was the only one imagining.
Tension coiled in her belly. “Keep going! Talk to me some more,” she said, shocking even herself with her words. “It makes me wet, and I’m so close.”
“Ah, baby. You like thinking of my mouth on your slick little hole,” he mumbled on her chest, licking circles around a nipple.
“Yes! Good god, I do,” she groaned, pushing her hips closer to his fingers and her chest into his mouth.
“You want my dick inside you, don’t you? Want me to fuck that little pussy raw?”
“Hell yes!” She whimpered, her stomach clenching along with her pussy on his driving fingers.
“You’re a dirty girl. I fucking love that.” He nibbled on her tit. “I love how fucking wet and hot you are. Tight and wet. It’s like heaven.”
“More...”
“Greedy aren’t you?” He chuckled and bit on her nipple hard enough to make her whimper again. “Fuck that’s sexy. I bit you, and your pussy squeezed at my fingers. That’s what I want around my cock. All of you shivering and clenching and fucking coming so hard it hurts me every time your pussy closes around my dick.”
That took her over the edge faster than her brain could process. Tension unraveled with reckless speed inside her—so quickly it left her breathless. Her legs shook, and her pussy grappled around his thrusting digits.
“That’s it, baby. Keep doing that.” He slid his fingers out of her and replaced them with his mouth and tongue, licking and sucking at her tender sex. “Yesss. I love the taste of you coming. So fucking sweet.”
She was still gasping and trying to get her ability to move back when he picked her up and moved toward the steps leading into the shallow end of the pool. He placed her on all four and didn’t give her a second to breathe before he was pushing into her from behind. He grunted and drove deep, pounding into her without stopping. Water lapped at their sides with each harsh dive.
He felt so good inside. So deep. So fucking big.
“Fuck,” he grunted. “I can’t wait to have you full of my cum. Sticky and slick with your scent and mine combined. Your pussy,” he groaned, each thrust harsher, deeper than the last. “Clinging to my cock. Wanting every drop of my cum in you. I want to feel your body drinking it in. Taking it all thirstily.”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes,” she mumbled. It sounded perfect. She wanted all of him in her. Everything. She’d take it all—all he had to give—and then give herself fully to him.
Another plunge and she could barely breathe. Her focus was him. Fucking her. His cock going in and out of her body, and the raging fire he fanned in her pussy. That’s all she could see, smell, and feel. The branding of her body with his dick.
His fingers bit into her hips, hard, so hard she glanced down and noticed they’d turned into claws, and there was blood dripping from how deep he’d dug them into her hips. She didn’t give a fuck. Hell. Knowing he’d lost his control for her only turned her on more.
He rotated his hips, hitting her at a new angle. She gasped, her eyes rolling to the back of her head with the new move. “Oh, my god!”
“That’s my girl. Come on, sweetheart. Let go.” He breathed by her neck, licking her shoulder. “Come so I can fill your pussy with my cum. Fill it until it slides out of you. Then we’ll fill it again and again. When your pussy can’t take any more, we’ll fuck that tight little ass and make it spill my cum too.”
She tried to grip the slick pool tile. Her body shuddered, her release knocking her so hard that she dropped her head forward and screamed.
He fucked her harder, each plunge stronger than before. And suddenly, he stopped, his body so tense he vibrated behind her.
“Fucking hell, that’s amazing!” he roared, the sound almost deafening as he came into her. His cock thickened and spilled his warm semen into her channel. “So fucking sexy.”
He pulled out and stroked his slick cock on her asshole. “This is next,” he rumbled by her ear. “My cock in your ass will be fucking amazing.”
She’d never done that one before, but as sexy as he made it sound, she had no doubt she’d enjoy anything he did to her.
“What you did for Janie,” she began, glancing into his eyes. “Thank you.”
“I don’t want you stressing over something that can be fixed, Gabriella,” he said, pushing a long strand of hair behind her ear, the soft gesture not lost on her. “I want you to be happy. With less stress.”
“I’m always going to have stress with Joel.”
He nodded. “Yes, I get that. But you can share the burden with me now. I’m here for you. I’m not going anywhere.”
She loved hearing him say that. It was a matter of acceptance on her part. She knew shifters had a deep sense of the right person for them. At that moment, she had no doubt he was the man she’d been hoping for her entire life. If only her brother wasn’t such a pain in the ass.
“Joel is always going to be my brother,” she said, half-warning him of the chaos he was asking to be involved in.
“I understand that. I’m not asking you to stop being the loving, caring person that you are. What I’m hoping is that now you can share some of that stress with me. I’ll happily listen, and if I can help, I will.” He snuggled her tighter in his arms.
The safety of being with him lulled her into relaxation. “I appreciate that.”
She more than appreciated it. She loved it—loved him, for it.
THIRTEEN
Gabby walked out of Charlie’s excited. Janie had called. Things were going good with the move, and Jill was adjusting, which was something they’d both been worried about. She turned the corner of the building and saw Slade’s car parked at the other end of the filled lot. It had been one crazy night, with multiple private parties filling the club to capacity.