Bruins Peak Bears Box Set (Volume III)

by Sarah J. Stone

  Onyx whispered low. “Where are we going?”

  “There’s a den in here,” he whispered back. “We can spend the night here.”

  He went down on his knees and crawled into the rock. She followed the sound of his knees scuffling on the floor until Abel stood up in a small chamber. A hole in the ceiling showed the stars overhead. The place smelled of dust and bear and burned wood.

  He pulled her over to one corner and tugged her down to the floor. She sat down next to him on a springy bed. A soft feather coverlet cushioned her from the firm woolen mat underneath. What would this place look like in daylight?

  He drew close to her. He didn’t speak above a whisper. “Are you okay with this?”

  Her face glowed in the pitch dark night. “Oh, yes! More than anything.”

  He cradled her face in one massive palm. “I never thought I’d be sitting here with you. I thought I was done for.”

  Her eyes stung from happy tears. “Don’t ever disappear like that again. Whatever happens, don’t ever leave me behind like that again.”

  His lips landed on her mouth. “I won’t. I’ll never let you go You’re mine. Do you hear me? You’re mine forever.”

  She raised her arms to embrace him. He lifted his arms to hold her at the same time. They both floundered to get their bodies together. He had to bat her arms away to get hold of her. “Come here. I need you so bad right now.”

  She gave herself over into him. She never wanted to be anywhere else. She drank in deep breaths of his scent. She tasted his skin wherever she could find it. She petted his hair and rubbed his neck. She could never get enough of him.

  He picked her up off the bed and hauled her toward him. He kissed her deeper than anyone ever her. He didn’t have to touch her. He already owned her and occupied her and engulfed her into himself. Would it never end? She hoped not.

  Nothing existed outside this den. They were one body and one mind. Neither of them was Midnight or NightShade or anything else. They were mates. They would never be anything else as long as they lived.

  Onyx saw them from Hadison’s point of view. No one in Hadison knew about the conflict between Midnight and NightShade. No one knew and no one cared, so why should Abel and Onyx care? In a few hours or days or whatever, all of that would cease to exist. Nothing would exist but the two of them together and the bright future opening before them.

  He lifted her off the bed and set her down on his lap. She folded her legs around his waist, but the old sizzling passion she used to feel with Hunter didn’t rear its ugly head. She experienced only peaceful togetherness with this man. He wouldn’t pound her into the mattress. He wouldn’t send her over the moon on torrents of raging lust.

  Those ideas no longer bothered her. Abel dwelt in a different corner of her heart and her life. She rocked on his lap. Not even his growing hardon disturbed the perfect unity between them. She met him with all her heart and soul. Her love for him made her so happy it boiled up from somewhere far under the surface of the Earth. It bubbled out of her to erupt into reality.

  His mouth devoured hers harder. He bit her lips and crushed her onto his lap. She didn’t care what he did. Everything he did was good and right and proper. They were mated for life. They would come together in this den and never come apart.

  He leaned forward to bend her over backward. The longer she rocked on that rising bulge between his legs, the more her joy and contentment translated into sexual desire. She wanted him. She wanted him all over. She wanted him more than she ever wanted Hunter. She wanted him with her heart and her love. She wanted to kiss him with every part of herself.

  He laid her out on the bed. The feathers surrounded her, and his bulk blanketed her over the top. She kept her legs around him, and he stretched out between them. That’s where he belonged. He kissed her as no one ever kissed her before. That kiss joined them in cosmic oneness. It sealed the fate written for them long ago. It wiped out every injury and every lover Onyx ever had before.

  He rolled his hips back and forth against her. He kneaded her under his body. She rose to meet him in rising undulations. She hugged him between her thighs. Quivery shivers rippled down her chest against his tightening muscles. His tongue probed deeper into her mouth. It tickled her secret desires and set them alight.

  He split off from kissing her to pillow his head on her chest. He hugged her closer than ever and covered his eyes in her shoulder. He gasped for breath and hid from the overpowering intensity of their reunion.

  She clutched his head against her breast. She understood his tremulous shudders. Convulsive energy ran through her to answer him. She didn’t have to hurry him. She didn’t have to throw herself at him. They would be mated, one way or the other. They already were. Tonight was a formality. Tonight was just the first of many they would spend together.

  She wanted him so much. She wanted to fulfill him and make his dreams come true. Her desire burst out of her and threw her off the bed. She flipped him over on his back and mounted over him. She straddled his hips and pushed his hands over his head.

  He reared up once, but when he saw her towering over him, he relaxed back on the bed. The air rasped through his nose, and his midsection contracted to push his hips between her legs. She rode those bouncing tremors. She plowed her sensitive tissues apart on his crotch to urge him onward.

  She dragged her fingernails down his chest to his stomach. She watched the intoxicating contractions racing through him. The tortured breath rose and fell in his chest. His ribs expanded under her hands. He was so good. Why did she ever give herself to anybody else? Why didn’t she understand how good it would be if she waited for him?

  She slipped her hands under the lower seam of his shirt. She tickled his smooth skin to the curly hairs tucked under his waistband. He was in there somewhere. He was waiting for her down there.

  She couldn’t go there now, though. She wasn’t ready for all that—not yet. She glided back up to his broad chest. She eased his shirt up and kissed along his sternum to his nipples and armpits. She licked his stomach and nibbled his ribs.

  He threw back his head and hummed. He hugged her head against his chest. His breath caught in his throat every time he exhaled. That sound delighted her beyond comprehension. She loved every noise he made, every twitch of his skin and every thrilling goosebump standing down his sides.

  He pulled her off by the shirt and slid it over her head. He unhooked her bra behind her back, and her clothes dropped to the floor. He touched her with such expert care no one would ever guess he was a virgin.

  He scooped one breast into his mouth. His hands drifted down her sides and into her shorts. He massaged her ass to grind against his cock. Now all that peaceful contentment ignited into unstoppable passion. Her insides ached for him. Her lips sobbed their wetness to invite him in.

  She kicked her shorts away and sat down on his pants. She rotated her hips in wild circles to stimulate herself to whimpering ecstasy. He rose off the bed to grapple her against him. He plunged his face in her cleavage and bucked his hard-on into her engorged tissues.

  She couldn’t hold back any longer. She knew too well what heavenly bliss awaited her down there. She tore his pants open and slithered her hand inside. She closed her fingers around the wicked shaft buried there. Abel cried out in surprise, but the moment she started moving her hand, he joined her rhythm with his own beating pulse.

  She scooted off him just long enough to peel off his pants. She had to get him naked. She had to seal her skin against him in sweat-fueled mania. She had to satisfy this insatiable hunger for his blood and bodily essence.

  He helped her get his clothes off. He never once fumbled until he stripped off every stitch. She attacked him in all her untamed fury. She jumped back on his lap, and his stiff cock touched her flaming slit.

  God, that felt so good! When did she ever feel anything as good as that? No wonder she had to keep doing it with Hunter, so many times every day. No matter how many times he did it to her, he never
satisfied her. He never could. No one could satisfy her like this.

  Is that what being fluid really meant—jumping from one man to the next in an endless search for something only her true mate could give her? When would the Midnight ever learn?

  Abel heaved up under her. He spread her spattered juices all over her while his mouth searched her soul for every last morsel of her love. He rocked her back and forth until he pushed her over onto her back. He crawled on top of her and wormed his cock between her petals.

  Every cell of her being cried out, Yes! for him. She licked his saliva inside his cheeks and mauled him in desperate hunger. She needed him in her deepest recesses. She needed him in every day of her life.

  All of a sudden, he was there. His taut head pressed against her opening, and he froze. He stared into her eyes and held his breath. Was he really going to do this? Was he really going to cross that line and make her into something she never imagined before?

  How could she live her whole life having sex with dozens of guys, only to find herself raw and clean and new tonight? None of those guys ever touched her. They couldn’t change her like this.

  Abel’s iron bulk rocked. He gasped once, and he punched through the barrier holding them apart. Onyx arched back and screamed to heaven. In one blast, he destroyed everything she ever was before. He wiped the slate of her past clean and wrote himself across her future. He blew her apart and filled her with only himself.

  She strapped her arms and legs around him in desperate completion. She shrieked into his ears against the terrible onslaught ripping through her. How could it ever be like this? How could she ever survive without this?

  In one instant, she catapulted skyward on a fiery burst of ecstasy. She lifted her voice to the clouds, to the frosty stars outside that window up there. She stretched out her arms and welcomed the dawn breaking all around her.

  She hung onto that exploding rocket to carry her away. His muscles tensed all around her, and his thick member drove to her limit. She hugged all around that throbbing cock. Her spasming muscles stroked down its length until he panted and groaned in her ear. His sweat trickled down his back, and his arms squashed her under him.

  Every thrust boggled her mind. Overpowering intensity blasted her into space. She became one with the stars and unstoppable pleasure. Where would it end? Would it ever end? Would it be like this forever?

  She flung her hips upward to meet him driving down on her. Her engorged flesh attacked his rock-hard bones. His blows worked hand in hand with the deep penetrations touching every delicate spot along her channel. She couldn’t get enough of him. Not all his devastating strokes would ever be enough.

  She needed him. She needed him deeper and harder and hotter. She sucked him into her. She inhaled him through her body. She would drink every last drop of him until he nourished her from the inside out.

  He propped himself up on his arms to tower above her. His eyes bored into her soul and fired her to fresh tempests of sweet release. She swam in his eyes while their bodies spoke to each other down there in never-ending union. No force in heaven or on Earth could pry them apart.

  He rotated his hips in circles to excite every part of her. She matching him going the other way. Tense twisting pleasure curled out of those spirals until orgasmic mystery infected her whole being. What was he doing to her? Just when she thought she’d experienced the pinnacle of physical passion, he worked her up to new heights. He pumped her full of such intoxicating pleasure, she couldn’t comprehend it all.

  Did she ever feel this with Hunter? Did she ever know what bliss and climax really were until now? She never looked this deep into Hunter’s eyes while he did it. She never delved into his soul and saddled her destiny to his at the moment of ultimate completion.

  No, all these delirious peaks had to wait for Abel. Only he could show her what love really was. Only he could teach her what sex was really for. It communicated the forgotten bond some mystical power wrote on their souls. It wove its magical curtain there between their eyes. It sealed them together for all time.

  Abel grasped Onyx behind her back and lifted her off the bed. He held her against his chest, and still their bodies swayed and undulated in heavenly oneness. Their eyes never parted, as they spun their lives into a single fabric. Their gaze knit them together until no one could tell where he ended and she began. One body kissed another. One mouth opened to receive, while the other delivered the soul food to satisfy the other’s deepest needs.

  Onyx split apart on his upthrusting cock. Her soul cracked open, and fragile vulnerability gave birth to blinding passionate love. It embraced the universe in all its surprising complexity. If she could experience this cosmic fulfillment, what the world couldn’t accomplish!

  She ached to share this bliss with everyone, even as she nurtured it in her most secret heart. It existed nowhere but between her and Abel. Others might love, but no one could love the same way. This precious gift belonged to no one else, and she sheltered it against every storm.

  35. Chapter 15

  Abel kissed the back of Onyx’s neck. She cuddled into his arms, but the feather coverlet kept them warm. Birds squawked beyond the roof window, and light crept down the den’s walls. He murmured into her ear. “We ought to get going.”

  She closed her eyes. “The bus doesn’t leave until 2:35 this afternoon.”

  “I’m hungry.”

  She laughed out loud and hugged his arms tighter around her. “You would be, a guy as big as you. It’s gonna cost a mint of money to keep you fed.”

  He nibbled her neck under her hair. “I’ll take care of you. Don’t worry.”

  She squirmed under his teeth. “Just don’t eat me. That’s all I ask.”

  He chuckled and bit harder. “I’ll eat you. I’ll eat you for lunch every day. That should save some money.”

  She writhed in his arms until she sobbed in sweet desire. He nuzzled his hips closer against her ass. He rumbled into her ear, “Come on, baby. You know I want you so bad.”

  “You said we ought to leave.”

  “Not yet.” His prick stuck between her legs, and he rocked her back and forth.

  She backed up against him. “I don’t want to catch the bus today, anyway. I want to go back to the Moraine and say good-bye to my family.”

  Abel stiffened. “I want to go back, too. I don’t want to leave without telling them I’m going to be okay. I didn’t want to say so. I was worried you’d be upset. I’m glad you feel the same way.”

  She rested her head back against his shoulder. “Don’t tell your family about Hadison, okay?”

  “I wasn’t going to. I don’t want them coming after me.”

  She twisted around to face him. “Would they come after you?”

  “I really don’t know. The Elders wouldn’t want me leaving. They might decide to bring me back, but I guess my daddy would tell them to leave me alone. He knows I’m doing this to protect….to protect the Ridge.”

  She curled into a ball inside his arms. “I know you have a secret from me. I know that’s why you didn’t want me to come up to the Ridge.”

  Abel lay silent for a long time. “Did Ash tell you that?”

  “Ash didn’t tell me anything. I figured it out from what you said. You said you couldn’t take me up there even if you wanted to. I figured you had something up there you wanted to protect from the Midnight.”

  He didn’t say anything.

  Onyx leaned back to meet his gaze. “Whatever it is, don’t ever tell me. I don’t want to know. If it’s that important to you, I want to protect it, too. I want you to keep the secret, even from me.”

  He hugged her so tight she couldn’t breathe. He would never stop holding her. “I should have known you would say that. I should have trusted you. I only wish I could tell you.”

  “Don’t. We’re going somewhere it doesn’t matter, anyway. Keep the secret. Let your people live in peace. They can’t touch us. They won’t bother us as long as we stay away from them and
keep the Midnight away from them, too.”

  He raised her chin to kiss her. “Now I know for certain I’m with the right woman. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. I swear I’ll never make you regret what you just said. I’ll never let this secret come between us. It’s the NightShade’s secret. When we get to Hadison, I won’t be NightShade anymore. I can forget all about the secret and live only for you.”

  She pushed him away and got up. “Let’s go, then. Let’s not lie around here for the rest of the day. We can screw around as much as we like when we get to our new home.”

  He sank back on the bed. He couldn’t stop smiling, he was so happy. “But I like screwing around with you.”

  She laughed. She climbed onto the bed and knelt on hands and knees above him. She kissed his lips one more time. He could only separate from her knowing he could kiss those lips for the rest of his life.

  She climbed into her clothes, and Abel pulled on his pants. They crawled out to the overhang and kissed before they set off, back the way they came.

  They held hands and strolled through the woods growing up into a bright, large day. Abel stopped on the spot where they met. He folded her in his arms to kiss her one more time. “I don’t like letting you go off by yourself. I don’t want you slipping through my fingers.”

  “I don’t want to let you go, either. What if something happens to you up there? What if they decide not to let you go?”

  “That won’t happen. I’ll be back here. I promise.”

  She still didn’t release his hand. “How can I be sure of that?”

  He gazed into her eyes. Neither would let go or look away. Abel sighed. “Well, what are we going to do about this?”

  A rustle answered him. Abel looked over his shoulder to see two men running through the woods. “Ash! Jordan!”

  Jordan almost ran past him. He skidded to a stop at Abel’s shout. “Abel! What are you doing here?” Then he saw Onyx. He opened his mouth and closed it again.