by C. D. Gorri
Cael knew the moment her pleasure had found her. After that, he was relentless in his own pursuit of satisfaction. He gripped her hips with bruising hands and drove towards that pinnacle. Never with anybody else had he ever felt such complete satisfaction. Exhausted and shivering he collapsed onto her body. She held him whispering soothing words and kissing his eyelids and forehead. Little shockwaves of ecstasy went through him as he nestled even closer. Mine.
“Was it worth waiting for?” he asked.
“Oh yes,” she answered.
They languished in his small bed for the rest of the day. Cael insisted on cooking the second time around, and he smiled as he produced a small chicken from the back of the freezer. It was cut up into quarters and defrosted fairly quickly. He baked it in the oven with canned potatoes and green beans.
“This isn’t half bad,” she joked and kissed his shoulder as they sat face to face on the rug by the hearth.
He fed her pieces of chicken from his fingers, and she kissed and licked them clean. After a few minutes, their food was forgotten, and they rolled on the floor in a tangle of arms and legs and half off clothing.
He found her in minutes. His hands delved into the soft nest of curls at the apex of her thighs. He parted her lips and slipped one long finger inside.
“You’re so tight,” he whispered as he probed her heat.
Rayne bucked against his hand and writhed against him. A passionate moan escaped her lips as he found her mouth with his. He nipped and teased, finally plunging his tongue inside as he spread her legs and buried himself deep inside of her.
Her sweet submission made him feel like a goddamn superhero. He had no idea how passionate his little doctor could be. She was amazing.
“You look like an angel, with your hair spread out behind you like a soft caramel wave, the golden highlights like a halo. Rayne, I, I need to tell you something,” he stared into her eyes as he spoke, mesmerized by her.
“What is it, Cael?”
“I, I need you to know that I intend on going back. You’ve made me see I made the wrong choice hiding out here. I’m going to fight.”
“Why now?”
“Because I love you, and I’m not letting you go.”
“I’m glad to hear it,” she smiled and brought his head down to hers. Her heart was so near to bursting she didn’t hear the footsteps outside.
They were in the middle of that all-consuming kiss on the floor by the fire, under a thin sheet, when the door flew open.
“I said take the weekend, Davis, not crash your damn car and disappear off the face of the earth!”
Cael was on his feet in a fighting stance before he recognized his brother’s voice. Rayne was right next to him, though she managed to wrap the sheet around herself first.
“David!” Cael yelled and then nodded and stepped slightly in front of Rayne as his brother took in the situation.
“So, I take it you guys don’t need me to rescue you?”
“Why don’t you sit down David while we get dressed, we have a lot to discuss,” Rayne smiled and walked back to the bedroom with Cael on her heels.
An hour later…
“So, wait a minute, that bastard threatened to out us?! That was why you left? And you didn’t tell me after all this time!”
“Yes, and yes, look, I had to try and protect you both,” Cael watched his brother for signs of what he was feeling, but David was always difficult to read. When he grabbed Cael for a brotherly hug, he got the picture and, he finally exhaled.
“Oh, and, uh, I sort of claimed Rayne as my mate.”
“What? Good grief! Are you okay with this?” David looked at Rayne who was smiling like she won the lottery.
“I love him, and, uh, I claimed him too.”
Cael smiled vacantly. The bite! Yes, she did bite him too. He inhaled and wanted to howl with satisfaction. His own musk was somehow different. It was a combination of his own and her lavender-honey scent. The combination made his mouth water. Mine.
“Okay, we will sort out the wedding plans when we get back. By the way, I’d love to be an uncle some day! First, we need to get that bastard, MacAvoy!”
The three Werewolves closed the cabin and packed up the few perishable belongings before trudging outside into the snow to where David had parked his SUV, about fifteen minutes away. They went to Rayne’s apartment which was closer than David’s house.
Good thing too, since as a newly mated male, Cael didn’t know if he could handle her in his brother’s home. Best not test his resolve just yet. He shrugged and entered the apartment.
“It’s cozy,” he said and meant it. There were splashes of color here and there, but mostly it was small and efficient.
“Thank you, I know it’s tiny.”
“It’s great for now, you okay?” he put his arms around her and all the buzzing in his head died down. He touched his forehead to hers as she held onto him.
“Oh yes, I am now. I love you, Cael.”
He kissed her tenderly, unaware of their audience.
Like two halves of a whole. That was what his brother thought when he saw them standing there like that. He knocked before walking into the doctor’s apartment.
He’d brought half a dozen pizzas and a couple of visitors. Two of the guests were about six-foot-four-inches tall each, they were Werewolves, and they were obviously twins. There was a small woman with them.
She was shy and petite with short dark hair and big brown eyes. She was holding a small tablet and recording device. Clearly, she was there to take notes. The men had varying lengths of bright red hair set against pale skin. The woman looked up longingly at the quieter brother when she thought no one was paying attention, but Rayne caught it and grimaced. Poor thing.
The brothers were all business and a little intimidating, but Rayne knew them. She turned and smiled, but didn’t offer her hand. Cael tensed and relaxed when she made no move to touch them.
“Hello Kurt, Dib, I’m sorry I don’t know your name?”
“I’m Aleeza, I’m Mr. Lowell’s paralegal. Don’t worry, my dad is a Werewolf, so I know all about you. Your secrets are safe with me, I assure you.”
“Nice to meet you, Aleeza. Please forgive me if I don’t shake your hands, gentlemen. You see, we’re newly mated.” She didn’t reveal that he’d been injured as that would put him even more on edge. Smart and pretty.
“Congrats!”
“No worries, doc, we get it. Just so you have it right, I’m Kurt, this is Dib. He’s a bit on the quiet side, but he’s the lawyer in the family, and as I understand it, you’re in need of one.”
As if to prove his point, the other brother grunted and nodded at the two of them. Then he ignored the small woman who ran to keep up with him and sat down.
“So, what’s been going on?” Kurt continued. Where he was easy going in his manners, his identical brother was gruff and reserved. Still, they were honest and wore their intentions in the open for all present. They were Pack.
The five Wolves sat down at the informal dining table. Cael told his story as David dished out pizza and Rayne got soft drinks for everyone. He explained his job and how he lost it and almost everything else he had after Fred MacAvoy had threatened to out all of them.
He looked at Rayne when he said it and she squeezed his thigh under the table. He had her now. That was what mattered.
“Fred MacAvoy claimed to have proof about Werewolves?”
“He didn’t actually say Werewolf, but yes, he did claim to have proof.”
“You should have come to us, you know that, right?”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to do. I just knew I needed to protect Rayne and David. I figured distance was best.”
“Understood. Let’s try something else now.”
EPILOGUE
Six-months later…
Cael Evangelos walked out of the Superior Court of Maccon City with his lawyer, Dib Lowell. They’d requested a formal investigation into Fred MacAvoy, who�
�d not only been embezzling hospital funds but who’d been blackmailing a shockingly large number of the community.
Of course, most of them were supernaturals. As it turned out, Fred MacAvoy was the grandson of a Werewolf. He knew stories about their existence and with some guess work was able to piece together who was likely to be one. However, after a surprise visit from his grandfather who’d been living in Mexico under an assumed name, Fred admitted all his wrong doing.
Cael’s name was cleared. Fred MacAvoy’s assets were being liquidated and the eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars Cael had paid to him, and the hospital was among the first to be paid back. The hospital wrote a formal apology and offered him his job back. He had some serious thinking to do.
“Thank you, Mr. Lowell,” he said and shook hands with the tall, formidable attorney and Wolf Guard.
“No worries, Mr. Evangelos. Better marry that mate of yours now,” his serious tone was belied by the twinkle in his pale blue eyes.
Cael nodded. Yes, it did sound like a good idea. He’d missed Rayne. She’d been busy the past few weeks at the hospital and he’d been trying to prove his innocence. She believed in him, of course. He knew that and appreciated it, but she seemed to be content with their relationship as it was. He’d have to do something about that. He narrowed his eyes and called his brother.
Rayne was walking to the parking lot after her shift. It had been another twelve-hour day for her. She hoped court went well for Cael. She’d been worried all day, but she didn’t have a chance to call him.
She frowned as she walked to her yellow Jeep. It was good as new, and she was glad, but it had been six months. Six long months. Summer was turning to fall, and soon it would be winter again.
So much had happened. She was mated now. Cael was a part of her life. But there’d been no talk of marriage. No hint of them moving in together. He still had things at his brother’s house though he stayed with her almost every night. She loved him, she guessed it would have to be enough.
Just as she was about to get into her car, she heard music. Not from a stereo, but live music. She turned around and was shocked as over a dozen people, Pack members that she recognized, walked towards her with instruments in their hands. They were playing the most amazing melody. She laughed as bubbles started blowing around in the air, millions of them! They landed in her hair and on the car. The musicians smiled widely at her obvious delight. She turned in circles, but she couldn’t find him. Then suddenly, there he was.
He was gorgeous and elegant in a black tuxedo. He’d gained weight, and his color was a deep bronze from the summer sun. His smile was dazzling as he walked to her with an arm full of red roses.
“Cael, what is this?”
“Shh,” he smiled and dropped a kiss on her nose.
The music swelled as he handed her the flowers and got down on his knee among all the bubbles and rose petals.
“Rayne Davis, you believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. You loved me when I didn’t love myself. You are the best person I know. I would have never guessed that I was destined for a true matebond, but if ever there was such a thing I know that you and I share one. You are my other half and I swear to love you, to honor you, and to be true to you for the rest of my life. Will you be my bride?”
Rayne gasped and held a hand to her mouth as she opened the small black velvet box in his hand. Nestled inside was a ring, in the center was a perfect pearl surrounded by tiny sparkling diamonds.
“Oh Cael, yes, yes I will marry you!”
He stood up and pulled her to him to the applause of the musicians and others who gathered in the parking lot to watch including Cael’s brother.
Later that night, Rayne turned to Cael and kissed his shoulder as she admired the way her unique engagement ring looked on her finger.
“Do you like it?”
“I love it. Why the bubbles though?”
“Didn’t you like them?” he laughed and kissed her neck.
“Yes, I was just curious though.”
“Well, do you remember when I opened the door to the cabin when you first came there?”
“Do I remember it?! Of course, I remember it, you were naked and bleeding!”
“Yes, well, you were standing there with your big, beautiful brown eyes and the snow was falling all around you and I thought I’d died.”
“What? Oh Cael, why?”
“You. Rayne, you looked like an angel standing there in the snow. I waited too long to ask you this, it’s summer now, but I wanted there to be snow. Hence, the bubbles and the pearl because they reminded me of you, my snow angel.”
Rayne smiled and kissed Cael with all her love evident in the gesture. He was wrong about the timing, he did everything just right.
“This, us, is for life, isn’t it Cael?”
Tears shimmered in Rayne’s eyes as she thought of how lonely she’d been most of her life and how she would never feel that way again. Not now that she had him. Their matebond throbbed with the love between them, she saw it, iridescent and glowing in her mind’s eye with their Wolves.
“Of course, Werewolves mate for life.”
The end.
About the Author
C.D. Gorri earned her Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Montclair State University. She lives in her home state of New Jersey with her family.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, places, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either part of the author’s imagination and/or used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to a person, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. All rights are reserved. No part of this book is to be reproduced, scanned, downloaded, printed, or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of any materials in violation of the author’s rights.
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