Day Dreamer (Undeadly Secrets Book 2)

by Aaron L Speer

  “Because his time as the Alpha was coming to an end.”

  “I knew it!” Nicole leaned forward. Nick saw a change in her face, from passive to delighted. “I’ve been going over and over this in my head. Let me see if I’ve got this. So, you told me at the café your dad wanted you to take over the family business, which now I’m guessing you were to be the Alpha, right? And the men that worked for him hated that, so they wanted their sons to be considered. But you said he refused to listen to them. He only wanted you. So they killed him. Your mum knew they might come after you, so sent you away?”

  Nick didn’t know what to say. Everything he had worried about telling her, how to explain, had just been rattled off to him in under thirty seconds. She had pieced together the whole story from bits and pieces of information.

  And that is why she is worth this. How many more will you find so accepting? So in tune? “That’s exactly right, yes.”

  “Wow…” Nicole looked towards the ground for several seconds, before looking back at him. “So…what you can do?”

  Nick placed his glass on the table slowly. “Wait. You…believe me?”

  She does. Will you do the same? Will you believe in her?

  “I do. I admit I didn’t before. The whole idea seemed so preposterous, but I saw something in your face last night when the moon hit you. Just a flash, mind. And it just came over me. This feeling of understanding, acceptance and…I don’t know…wonderment. Then I thought about a number of other things that happened. Your behaviour at my speech, the way our cat freaked out, the marks you claimed to have made on the coach’s car, the fact that you were so feverish and ill just as the moon was getting fuller. It all makes sense now. This is incredible.”

  “Well…I guess.”

  “What’s wrong?”

  Was he really having this conversation? How was talking to her about this suddenly so easy? He had been going over and over this in his mind ever since he developed more than just a crush on her. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine having a calm, rational discussion about what he was.

  “I just—aren’t you…afraid?”

  “Of you?” Nicole scooted closer to him and placed her hand aside his neck, making Nick breathe in sharply. “Not at all. You’d never hurt me.”

  Nick grasped the hand she touched him with and held it tight. “Nikki, it’s true I don’t want to hurt you, but I’m terrified I might. I wake up without knowing what’s happened the previous night. Like the car. The scratches. I know I did them, but I can’t remember. I have flashes in my mind that gets me up in the middle of the night. Things that I shouldn’t know unless I was there. The-“

  The smell of the teacher’s breath. The alcohol. The way our nails, yes Nicholas, our nails, cut the metal so easily, like foam. The rush we felt as he looked into our eyes and screamed. Your mouth still waters at the taste of the one thing you have never embraced; power. That includes power over me. She gives you confidence, her touch is calming. We can bring men to their knees, or we can help them rise. That choice has never been mine Nicholas.

  “-I don’t want anything to happen to you.”

  Nicole shook her head in emphatic denial. “No, nothing will happen to me. You won’t hurt me. Think again of Alan Shubert. You could have killed him, but you didn’t.”

  “Yes, but the wolf itself told me I would hurt you.”

  And so I did, should you not take her. It was only you that assumed I meant the primal fashion. Hold her Nicholas. Trust her. The head has never been the source of our strength. The heart is. What we cherish, what we protect. She is accepting you for what you are. Why won’t you do the same?

  “You speak to it?”

  “Not exactly. It’s like a voice in my head, always telling me to go after you and to give in to the fact that I want you so much. Not to quit when you said we can just be friends. Manipulating me. In the nurse’s office, for example, I felt my arm raise towards you, on its own.”

  Nick paused at the grin Nicole gave him. “I’m serious!”

  “I know you are. I’m smiling because on that day, I felt you calm down just by touching me. When you felt like you were on fire, I kissed you and you cooled off. I think what you have inside you is very old, very powerful but ultimately, a trickster. And clearly you have some influence over it. I bet you can take even more control if you try.”

  Nick was grave. “I don’t know. It told me that if I don’t succumb to my hunger, that transformation will be much worse. I don’t know what it’s waiting for. I would’ve thought last night would’ve been the perfect time, but I’m grateful it didn’t.”

  She calms me. But even she cannot hold me back much longer. I’m afraid the time is coming, and the process will be agonising.

  “Me too. I wouldn’t have been prepared like I am now. So,” Nicole finished her glass and placed it on the table next to Nick’s and faced him. “What’s this about hunger? Do you hunger for me?”

  “I didn’t mean it like that—”

  Nicole flashed a mischievous grin. “I think maybe you did. I think you meant exactly that.” She leaned forward yet again and kissed him. Nick felt confused, and he returned the kiss half-heartedly.

  Nicole eyed him, repeating his words from last night “You don’t want to kiss me?”

  She placed her hands on either side of his face and let him come to her. He held the back of her head as he kissed her deep. Her tongue teased his, neither of them getting too close. Nicole slinked off the seat, sliding to her knees on the floor, gently bringing Nick to the same position, opposite her. Nick stared into her eyes for what seemed like entire minutes, before her hands found their way to his top buttons. She kept her gaze focused on him, until his last had come undone, then she looked down. She eased the shirt apart, spreading her hands over his chest and then around his shoulders. That was where her gaze lingered, as she continued to run her hands over him. Her palms, then fingers. Across his chest, up his neck.

  This is how it should be Nicholas, touched by a lover. You can experience something that few ever get to. The act of love by someone that truly cares.

  Nick closed his eyes and supressed a shiver. They were surrounded by darkness. No window was open. Yet even she had to feel his goose bumps.

  Nicole held her hair back with both hands as she left gentle presses of her lips along his pectorals, flicking his nipple with her tongue. Her hands ventured down his stomach and to the belt of his jeans.

  “Nikki…maybe we shouldn’t.” Though his body screamed at him, he felt it had to be said. All this was just too good to be true. Only last night they had agreed to see each other as more than friends. She had just lost her career. He didn’t want to take advantage if she wasn’t thinking clearly.

  “Yes we should,” her mouth was only an inch from his. “I’m tired of denying myself what I want for the sake of appearances and protocols. I don’t have to follow those anymore. You trusted me just now and told me something that would’ve terrified you. I can’t control the future or the past. Maybe I should be afraid, maybe I should be running, but I’m not. I don’t want to. I will no longer say no just because of what other people might think, especially those that don’t care about me. I want to be here, now, with someone who does.”

  She removed her jumper. She slid the straps of her bra down slowly, maybe in her own small way, putting on a show for him. Making him anticipate. She took both his hands and brought him closer, moving them past and behind her. He gazed into her eyes as her cleavage bulged just in front of him.

  Her eyes revealed her thoughts. Take it off for me.

  He pinched his fingers on her clasp as he opened his mouth and softly licked in between her breasts, leaving small kisses as he went. He felt the slightest touch of her fingers in his hair, partially massaging his scalp as she gave a sharp breath out. No, not just a breath, something else. A word, whispered. His name. He clicked his fingers and the clasp snapped free, revealing her full, rounded breasts and darkened, enlarged areola
s.

  “Wow” he whispered. She shook the bra off as he cupped the weighty softness in his hand and with only a second’s pause to admire her further, he brought her to his open mouth. With his free hand, he kneaded her other breast, carefully pinching and pulling the nub between the tips of his fingers. Nicole closed her eyes, swaying slightly on her knees. The sounds escaping from her throat were a cross between a moan and a giggle. He teased the nipple, flicking it against his teeth with his tongue. He opened his mouth a little wider and rounded his tongue over her areola, sucking and nibbling ever so gently.

  Nick moved his salivating mouth from her nipple, glistening with his saliva, and brought it to the side of her breast, and then her ribs. He allowed himself a brief grin as her body jerked and skin tightened after every tender kiss and lick to the area. Only to then return to her original position, ready for more.

  “My turn.” She said

  With her palms and thumbs she massaged his chest, neck and shoulders. He looked at her while she touched him, watching her enjoy using her hands all over him.

  “I love your ears,” Nicole pressed her mouth close to them.

  “My ears?” Nick smiled.

  “They’re so cute.”

  Nick clenched a fist as she kissed his left ear, his lobe and the skin just under it. Nicole moved her head side to side, slowly kissing both sides of his neck as she continued to press his shoulders. Nick had no idea something could feel so good being only lips and a tongue, slowly teased like this.

  She leaned back a little slowly. “Did you just growl at me?”

  Nick kept his eyes closed, not certain of whether he had or not. “Did I?”

  She laughed through her nose. “Awesome.”

  She returned to what she was doing, but with more energy, seeming to enjoy the effect she was having on him. Nick parted her hair and kissed her neck, keeping his movements slow. He ran his hand down her back and with the other, he kept her neck open for him, holding her. Without even realising, his tongue was lightly flicking her as his lips closed.

  Nicole released his belt and brought his zipper down. “Off.”

  Nick slid his jeans down his legs, kicked them off and Nicole brought him down on top of her. Nick cupped the sides of her breasts with both hands, taking his time to kiss them both as he made his way down her stomach, to her groin. He curled his fingers around her hips, under her skirt and as she lifted her hips, slid it off.

  He admired the boldness of her wearing nothing underneath, mouthing the strip of pubic hair he found, kissing just above her opening.

  Freshly waxed, just for you. I think you should feel privileged.

  He grazed her inner thighs with his teeth, holding her soft skin in his mouth. He put his head to the side, and ran his tongue up and down her entrance, with long, slow licks. She placed her hand at the back of his head and brought him in. He plunged his tongue into her, quivering it, again and again, coating his mouth with her juices. He gave her roughly thirty seconds of this, then sped up, lapping at her clitoris, using his tongue to centre it for his mouth before taking it between his lips. He sucked, pressing it against his teeth, moving it around in his mouth, enjoying the trembling of her knees on either side of his head.

  He gripped the tops of her thighs and opened her legs a little wider.

  What was one hand at the back of his head had become two, lifting his face. The rising swell of her stomach had become rapid, as her breathing quickened. She breathed a short command, for him to come up.

  Nick positioned himself between her legs. Her eyes flicked down, noticing that he held his shaft with one hand, not quite making the fingers touch.

  Feel the blood in the veins beneath your fingers. It pulses desire. It feeds your strength. You need her just as much as she needs you.

  Their eyes locked briefly before she gave a small whistle, “Go slow…”

  Nick nodded, using the tip to nudge her opening and entered, inch by inch. He took his time, running his eyes over her full curves, watching her body shift the deeper he went. A primal pleasure flicked inside his mind, watching her concentrate between her legs, tongue between her teeth, realizing there was still more length, placing her finger tips against his stomach. Nicole closed her eyes and swore softly as her tender, slick folds stretched to accommodate his cock. But Nick could feel she was more than ready for him and brought his mouth to her neck, which she turned to offer him. He kissed and licked the sweet flesh, tasting the tanginess of her vanilla musk body lotion.

  His thrusting movements were slow at first, deep, removing himself completely before sliding his full length into her. Her whole body moved with him again and again, bringing a mute, open mouth gasp from her as her fingers found their way to his back and gripped him hard.

  Nicole eased him up, until he was removed from her. She moved her leg up and across his body, turning herself over, leaning on her elbows as Nick gripped her hips and entered her again. This didn’t bring a mute gasp. The move brought a cry of surprise because he didn’t take his time, he buried himself to the hilt with no resistance. Nick took a few seconds, allowing himself a brief pause, getting his mind around how it felt to finally be inside her. Her inner muscles tightened around him, something that must’ve been deliberate on her part. He felt her squeeze his cock as he pulled himself out, slowly. The further he went the tighter she made herself. He heard her breathing deeply through her nose, noises subdued through her closed mouth.

  Treat her like a Queen. Fuck her like an Alpha.

  Just as the head was visible, Nick sunk himself into her again, with a touch more force. He was done teasing. His grip on her hips was gentle, his thrusts were measured, controlled, loving the feeling of her round, soft arse jiggling against his groin. Nicole moaned, hissing encouragement, biting her lip when Nick reached around her and circled her clitoris with two fingers. She moved her hips with him, arching her back to give him better access.

  As his hand continued to bend and press with increasing pressure, she reached underneath herself and rubbed his testicles, massaging and squeezing her breasts with the other hand.

  Nick grabbed a fistful of her shiny hair, and even though the pleas came, he did not wait for them, rolling her hair in his hand tighter and tighter, stretching her neck back further and further.

  He slid his fingers up her jaw, closing in on her mouth, until finally she took in his index finger, running her tongue over it, sucking hard. It was taken away before he made her see there was a method to his gesture.

  He circled over her anus along with his hip movements, matching them in tempo, until finally he dared to insert the tip. Nicole screamed, putting her head down, clutching her hair, cursing her orgasm into the floor.

  He shifted, moving faster, rocking her body, as she gripped the carpet in both hands, bringing it closer to her chest and clenching it. Her temperature was rising. He could see the sweat forming on her back.

  Nicole yelped as Nick brought her up. She hit his chest with her back. She flicked strands of wet hair off her face, moving the back of her head onto his shoulder, turning to accept his kiss. He wrapped one arm around her waist and his other hand on her hip, keeping her still and locked into him. His thrusts were lighter. On her knees and pressed into him, every one intended for her g-spot. She threw her head back and clenched his forearm tight.

  He could feel the end building.

  Nick pressed his nose against her cheek. “Do you have any condoms?”

  She barked a laugh. “No. I’ve got the rod implant,” she paused to give him a quick kiss. “Now shut up and keep going.”

  Nick eased her onto her back and hooked her leg over his arm. Nick took her hand and slammed it to just beside her head and held it still, interlocking their fingers as she gripped his bottom lip between her teeth and gave a quick bite, bringing her free hand to his arse and squeezing roughly. Bringing him in harder, his lightning quick thrusts returned, deeper than before. Nicole stretched her neck back, letting him go, mouth open. She
screamed something he couldn’t quite make out, but something inside him hoped it was name once more. From the same area that hope came from, Nick’s orgasm found him. Sudden and relentless. His body froze, clenching his teeth, before her hands touched either side of his face and he looked down. Looking into her eyes and the smile she wore as they both felt his seed coat her insides over and over, was something he would never forget. He collapsed exhausted on top of her body, twitching with her second orgasm.

  It was a few minutes before either could move. When they did, Nick let go of her hand and reached with both arms under her back, keeping still and holding her. In response, she repositioned her legs so he could lie at an angle on top of her, quietly running her fingers through his hair and across his back as the flames continued to flicker and crackle.

  *

  The wolf awoke to find Nicole’s limbs draped over its body and her head on its shoulder. She had fallen asleep in Nicholas’s arms. The wolf stared at the girl, sound asleep, having been satisfied over a dozen times in the last few hours. Nicholas has done well.

  How ironic that she had challenged the wolf to emerge and here it was, lying naked in bed with her. The wolf admired her spirit. It lowered its head and planted a delicate lick on her forehead. I will never hurt this one. After all, she is the reason I was unleashed.

  Very carefully, the wolf peeled itself away, careful not to wake her, breathing in, readying itself. It looked again at the sleeping beauty, then at its own hand. The nails out, sharp and prepared.

  The wolf vowed never to hurt this one, but others would not be so lucky. Nicholas had solved half the puzzle. Nicholas had claimed his prize but now it was time for the wolf to make its first kill. The time had come for revenge.

  It dressed in the clothes Nicholas had worn and walked over to the window. Thanks to Nicole, the boy was strong now, was becoming a man. Their merging would soon be complete. The wolf leapt to the ground and ran as it landed, avoiding the populated streets. The wolf waited until there was not a soul around before breaking into a wolf sprint, all fours racing across the grassy fields.