Bud heard them moving close by. He moved towards the sound, moving low. He watched them as they shifted into humans and begin whispering about where the fourth guy could be. Right here, he thought.
Near their feet, he saw the mangled body of Jason and gagged slightly. That bitch had ripped one of his arms off in her anger. Bud was glad he was downwind from the pair so they couldn’t smell him, but he could smell Jason’s blood and gagged again. His anger rose with his bile.
He stepped into the clearing.
*****
Alice and Alex had shifted and hugged each other tightly. He asked her, “Are you ok?”
“I will be. But not yet. We have to find the third guy,” Alice said, trying hard to think about the task at hand, not the loss of her mother.
“We’ve got three of them so far,” Alex commented. “Let’s head back to camp and see what happened with everybody else.”
“Ok,” she murmured.
“Stop moving,” Bud commanded. “Put your hands up. And if either of you try to shift, I’ll shoot you in the kneecap.”
Alice and Alex lifted their hands and looked at each other. A little bit of mind reading would have helped, but only the fairies could do that.
“What are you going to do now?” Alex asked. “Our families are twenty yards away. They’ll hear if you kill us. You won’t make it out alive.”
“I don’t really intend to. This were-bitch started all this. So I’m going to kill her and finish it,” Bud claimed. He aimed his gun at Alice, and Alex stepped in front of her.
“Alex, step aside,” Alice told him. “You can kill him as soon as he’s shot me.”
“Listen to the lady, Alex,” Bud laughed. “She’s putting you first.”
Alex looked at Alice, smiled, and stepped aside. Alice dropped to the ground, and John leapt over her, colliding with Bud. His gun went off, uselessly blowing a tree to bits. He lay on the ground, staring up at the muzzle of the werewolf. Riley stepped into the clearing in his human form and cleared his throat. John looked up and smiled his wolf smile, then licked Bud’s face and moved away from him. Bud wet his pants.
“Hello, poacher.” Riley’s voice was frighteningly calm. He sniffed the air. “A little scared?”
Bud sat up. He was unashamed of his fear. “Yes, I am afraid. I killed some of your kind, you killed some of mine. And now you’re going to kill me.”
“You are correct, sir,” Riley confirmed. Riley looked at John, who had waited patiently beside the poacher. John growled and hovered over Bud once more.
Riley turned to Alex and Alice. “Let’s leave John to his business, shall we?” He gestured them away, and as they walked to the camp, they heard Bud’s screams and the sounds of ripping flesh.
*****
Alice helped Alex back to camp, with Riley following. As they stepped into the clearing, the smell of blood hit their noses. Alice looked around, at the bodies lined up in a row, both werebear and werewolf, and she felt her chest constrict and tears fill her eyes. Mom, she thought. She looked for Susan and saw her sitting against a table, still in bear form, but fine other than the earlier wound.
Shara ran up to them and threw her arms around Alex. “Where’s John? Is he ok?”
“I’m here, Shara,” John called behind them, wiping blood off his face.
“What happened?” she asked, holding his hand and wiping his face as well.
“I killed the last one,” John said. “What about the other ones?”
“All dead,” Shara reported.
“How many casualties?” Alice asked.
“Three bears, two wolves dead, several on both sides injured,” Shara said, looking at the line of bodies.
“Does that include my mother?” Riley asked quietly.
“Yes.”
“Did my sister see?”
Shara nodded
Alice hugged Riley, and together they walked to Susan to comfort her. They sat with her, and the trio cried together. Several families were doing the same. Five lost. Shara watched the people around her as they cried, and her heart broke. Her family had lived, and she was grateful, but she hurt so much for the others.
Shara turned to John. “We have to make a truce with the werebear clan, John. This could have been prevented.”
“How’s that, Shara? The poachers followed the trail left by our son rescuing Alice. They could have followed any one of us and taken us by surprise.”
“If there are more of us, and we share a camp, we’d have better security,” Alex added. “There is a way to prevent further death.”
John didn’t respond. He had nothing to say. He walked away from his little family to comfort his people.
Shara and Alex walked to Riley, Alice, and Susan. Shara knelt and touched Susan’s injury. “I can bind that for you.”
Susan looked at Alice and Riley, who both nodded. Alice rose and said, “Please let me help you with the injured. We can move them to the eating area like you suggested earlier.”
Shara nodded her thanks and rose to issue orders to those able to move the injured to the eating area. Alice looked at Alex and touched his wound. “Let’s get you to the eating area.”
“You can stay with your family, Alice,” Alex told her. He could see the pain in her eyes, and it hurt him. “I can get over there.”
Riley stopped him with a hand on his arm. “I saw you step in front of my sister. It was brave and foolish, but thank you.”
Alex shrugged. “I love her.”
Riley nodded. “I know.”
The men smiled at each other, and Alice smiled too. Maybe a truce could happen after all.
*****
Later that night, after the werebear clan and the werewolf pack had eaten together, decisions were made regarding the dead. Cammie and the werebears would be taken to the werebear cemetery, while the werewolves cremated their dead. Shara asked the werebear clan to attend the memorial for the werewolves, and Riley invited the werewolf pack to join them in honoring his mother and the other werebears who had given their lives.
An easy comradery had appeared between the clan and the pack, and Alice was grateful. She’d pulled Riley aside after dinner as the werebears were preparing to leave, and told him she wanted to stay with Alex tonight. He stared at her.
“Alice, are you sure that’s smart?”
“Riley, I love him. I know we can make this work,” Alice insisted. “Look around. The feud may be ending.”
Riley did look around. Werebears were hugging werewolves who had saved them and vice versa. People were smiling and making jokes while saying their goodbyes. Even John was among them, shaking hands and making small talk while Shara checked and rechecked bandages on the werebears. Luckily, the injuries had been somewhat minor, most of them having happened during the werebear/werewolf fight rather than gunshot wounds. Only Susan was unable to shift.
He looked back at his sister and nodded. “You’re right. Stay if you want to. I can see that he loves you. Maybe your relationship with him will help end the feud.”
“I think so,” Alice said. She hugged Riley and then talked to Susan briefly, explaining her decision. Susan smiled and nudged her, wiggling her bear eyebrows. Alice laughed and nudged her back gently. Riley joined them and promised to walk with Susan the whole time.
As the werebears left the clearing, Alex joined Alice and took her hand. She leaned into him. He looked at her, then at the departing bears.
“Aren’t you going home?” Alex asked, confused.
“I wanted to stay with you. I hope that’s ok?” Alice replied, smiling. “Your mom said I could.”
“Oh, well, as long as Mom said it was ok,” he teased her. They giggle a little and turned to walk to his tent. They called their good nights to his family.
John watched them go. “Shara, I still don’t like the idea of the two of them together. What if they have children? What will they be?”
Shara shook her head at his words. “John, they’ve only just started this litt
le romance. Children are far, far away. Let them be young and enjoy themselves.” She pulled him away to their own tent. “C’mon, let’s go have some fun ourselves.”
In Alex’s tent, Alice wrapped her arms around Alex’s neck, careful not to hurt him, and kissed him tenderly on the lips. “I’m glad you wanted me to stay as much as I wanted to stay.”
“I think I might always want you to stay,” he replied. She smiled at him, loving the idea of waking up with him every morning.
“I’ll be here as long as you want me,” Alice told him. They kissed again, then she jerked away with a gasp, her hand covering her mouth. “Oh my gosh! We are so Romeo and Juliet!”
“Yes, but instead of death ending our story, we’ll end it with some lovin’!”
Alice laughed when he slapped her ass playfully. “Hey now, calm it down! You’re injured. Can you?”
“Baby, with you, I can do anything!”
They laughed together as they fell onto the bed. He ran his hands up and down her body, thrilling at the instance response from her. She moaned her pleasure into his mouth, grabbing his cock and he ran his fingers over her clit, eliciting even louder moans.
When he raised up to kiss her, looking into her eyes as he did, she knew her place was beside him, no matter the consequences. She wrapped her legs around his waist and held him to her, wanting his body against hers. Their kiss went from loving to passionate to frantic quickly. They had to have each other, and now.
Alice murmured in his ear, “Take me, Alex. Make me yours.”
Alex looked at her, fell into her eyes, and kissed her again. He moved his hand down her body, his mouth following. When he reached her apex, she sucked in a breath in anticipation. He looked up at her, and her eyes pleaded with him to make love to her with his mouth. He smiled sexily, and flicked his tongue across her clit. She jerked in pleasure and put her hands on his head to encourage him.
He sucked her clit until she writhed beneath her, and he inserted two fingers to increase her pleasure. She bucked her hips to give him easier access to her inner self, and he increased his rhythm to rabid pace. He wanted to hear her pleasure when she came. He felt her inner walls contract as her orgasm crashed around her. She tried to put her hand over her mouth to stifle the cry, but he pulled it off with his free hand. Her cry of ecstasy only added to his pleasure.
Alice pulled him back up and kissed him, rolling him over on his back. He’d been on top last time; now she wanted a little taste of the top. She ran her hands up and down his chest, loving the feel of his muscles. She leaned down and gently kissed the bandages that covered his wound. He smiled at her tenderness, and gasped when she straddled him, her pussy just above his cock. He waited with baited breath for her to lower herself on him, but she only teased, rubbing herself over him so that her wetness covered him. She smiled seductively at him as she leaned over to kiss him.
She sat up and guided his cock into her, lowering herself slowly, driving them both insane. She lowered herself until he was in her to his hilt. Then, rather than sliding up and down on his expansive cock, she rocked back and forth, showing him a new way to feel pleasure. He moaned, and to increase her pleasure, he used his thumb against her clit. She threw her head back and moaned, smiling with happiness.
She began to move up and down, his thumb pressing hard into her clit as she moved downward, then releasing the pressure as she moved up. His other hand caressed her breast, pinching her nipple just as he pressed harder on her clit. The simultaneous stimulation of her clit and nipple caused sensations to ripple through her body, and she sighed with bliss.
Alice repaid the favor, using her nails to flick his nipples. He jerked in response and let out an “ah” that surprised her. She raised her eyebrows at him and continued to gyrate, flicking his nipples again to elicit that same response from him. She loved the mesmerized look on his face as he watched her. She increased her pace on top of him and leaned back, giving him better access to her clit. And as he flicked her swollen clit the way she’d flicked his nipples, she reflexively jerked, an orgasm slamming into her suddenly.
Alex could take the teasing no longer; watching her cum aroused him so much. It felt amazing, yes, but he needed to take back control. He flipped her over and pressed her back into the mattress, never breaking contact. He thrust into her deeply, and she tossed her head back and forth against the pillow, feeling the contracting of her pussy walls as her orgasm ended. But she wanted more.
She raised her hips, pushing against him, her body begging for more as he forcefully thrust into her. His sweat dripped on her, the musk of sex mixing with his scent, and her arousal, already so high, only lifted higher. She cried out his name as her pussy walls began to contract again. Her surprise at how quickly her body readied itself again for pleasure showed in her face, and he thrust harder to please her.
He knew he was going to explode as soon as she did. He slowed his pace and lay on her, pulling her face to look at him. He kissed her gently, murmuring love words to her.
“I love you, Alice.”
“I love you, Alex.”
He kissed her once more, then without breaking eye contact, he increased the pace of his thrusts. Deeper and deeper he thrust until he felt her walls begin to tighten, and when she let out a scream, his explosion followed soon after.
They slept peacefully, content in each other’s arms, caring nothing for the outside world that night.
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Chapter 5
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