by Milly Taiden
He kissed the side of her head and held her close. “I won’t let it.”
“I know. You’re my sexy Alpha geek.”
He barked a laugh. “You have no idea how correct that is.”
His cell phone rang and she watched him put it on speaker. “Hey, Nick.”
“Knox. I know you’re with Scarlett, so I wanted to fill you both in. We got Francis erased. And for the time being, Zeke will have security until we’re sure he’s in the clear.”
“Sounds good. Anything else?”
“Yeah, one more thing. We’ve searched through your guest records for the night of the party. The only thing we could find is that someone either brought those guys in, or they came through the river side of the house. Otherwise, there would have been no way for them to get in. Not with my guys all over the place.”
Knox rubbed his jaw on Scarlett’s head. She could feel the tension coming off him in waves. She wanted to make all that shit go away, but knew she couldn’t. This was something they had to deal with.
“Thanks. I’ll check out the river myself.”
“Take care of my sister,” Nick ordered.
“With my life,” he replied.
She smiled at the definite way he said that. He closed the phone and they were silent for a moment. “Knox, there’s something that’s been bugging me about this room since I woke up.”
SEVENTEEN
“What’s that, love?”
“Where’s the remote control?” She glanced around but didn’t see one. “Don’t tell me you’re one of those guys who doesn’t have a TV in the bedroom. Please tell me you’re not one of them.”
He chuckled and pressed something above his head. A secret compartment opened and he pulled out a remote. Before he closed it, he hit a button and a TV rose from a giant dresser.
“No, baby. I’m not one of those,” he said. “What do you want to watch?”
She snuggled closer into him. “I don’t care. Let’s watch your favorite movie.”
He laughed. “I doubt you’d find anything I watch entertaining.”
“Try me. I’ve watched a little bit of everything.” When he didn’t say anything, she glanced at him. “Now you’ve made me curious. What is your favorite movie?”
“War Games.”
She frowned. “I don’t think I’ve seen that one. What’s it about?”
“It’s old. From the 80s. It’s about a teenage hacker that plays tic-tac-toe with an artificial intelligence computer.”
She yawned. “Yeah. I definitely did not see that.”
“I told you, you might not like the same stuff I do. It’s okay, sweetheart. Tell me what you want to see and I got you.”
She grabbed his hand and twined her fingers with his. “No. You have to tell me some other movies you like. I must have seen one of them. I watch a lot of movies when I need to relax. I just let them play and zone out.” She sighed. “Come on. One more. If I haven’t seen it then you can spank me.”
He growled. “Don’t play, sweetheart. You’re still recuperating.”
“I’m fine. Now tell me the movie.”
“Spaceballs.”
“Oh! I’ve seen that one! It’s hilarious. They’re making fun of Star Wars, right?”
“Yes. I’m surprised. It’s old, too.” He laughed. “But now I have a question for you.”
“Shoot,” she said and rubbed his palm with her thumb. It felt so nice to be in his arms and not fighting her attraction for him any longer.
“What kind of movies do you watch?”
“Action. You know, all the Die Hards, though my favorites are Live Free or Die Hard, that hacker kid in that one kills me. And A Good Day to Die Hard. I love that in those last two, his kids hated his guts at the beginning but by the end they were all he’s my dad,” she told him. “I’m a sucker for a good ending.”
“I should have known, but I didn’t take you for an action movie type.” He lifted their twined hands to his lips and kissed the back of her hand.
“Oh? What type of movie did you think I liked? If you say drama, I will hurt you.”
He laughed and she crawled on his lap, placing her knees to either side of his legs and straddling him.
“No,” he met her gaze and inhaled.
At another time she would have worried he could scent her arousal. Not any longer. She didn’t care.
“No?”
“I saw you more as a suspense or slasher film where everyone gets killed because they ignore the obvious escape route and do something stupid like head right for the killer.”
A smile widened her lips. “Maybe you do know me.”
She leaned in, brushing her lips over his, raising her hands around his neck. The kiss was slow, teasing. It was almost as if he were afraid to touch her, but she wasn’t having it. Fire bloomed everywhere his hands caressed. He lifted her top off and cupped her breasts.
His hands on her felt good. Warm and fucking perfect. She continued to kiss him, grazing her lips over his beard and down to his neck then back up to his ear. “I want you inside me.”
She rocked her hips, rubbing her pussy over his erection. Her shorts and his pajama pants were in her way. He twined his fingers into her hair, holding her still and driving his tongue into her mouth. Finally. That dominance she’d come to expect was there. He took control of the kiss, his lips and tongue stroking and caressing to heat the fire at her core.
She stood on the bed. He grabbed hold of her shorts and yanked them down. Then his pajama pants came off and she was back to straddling him.
“I want your pussy on my mouth,” he said.
She bit her lip and raised onto her knees, placing the head of his cock at her entrance. “Maybe later.” He slid into her. “Right now, I need you. In me.”
She pressed down, her pussy swallowing his cock in one quick slide down. He sucked on her neck and helped her ride him. Every glide brought her closer to the earth-shattering explosion she sought.
He dug his nails into her hips. She raked her own across his back and rocked up and down, back and forth, until her body felt it would break from the inside.
“Knox,” she panted.
“I’m here, sweetheart. Let go, I’ll catch you.”
She didn’t know what that meant, but the words had the desired effect. She pressed herself into his chest, her pussy gripping and contracting around his cock. He came in her, his seed filling her aching emptiness with his heat.
He kissed her and changed their position so she was now on her back, her legs wide open. He slid down her body, sucking at her breasts, her belly, and then putting his face in her sex.
EIGHTEEN
Knox sat at his desk when something finally clicked in his mind. That piece of the puzzle from the night he was attacked. Suddenly the image came clear and he saw Lisa.
He picked up his phone and dialed her number but got no answer. Calls to her father went unanswered as well. He had to find out if she was okay. The last thing he wanted was for Lisa to be dead in a ditch somewhere.
“Hey, sexy,” Scarlett said as she strolled into his office. “Want to go for a walk? I’m feeling kind of cooped up in here. There’s only like twenty thousand square feet to this place and yet I am burning for fresh air.”
“Yeah. Just give me one second to send Nick some information.” Once he sent Lisa’s address and details, he got up from his desk.
They walked out of his office and onto the balcony. From there, they headed into the forest.
“What did you send Nick info about?”
“Lisa.”
“What about her?” she asked with a curious tone.
“My memory came back of the night I was attacked. She was being dragged into the forest toward the river. And I ran after them.”
She gasped. “Oh, Knox. Do we know if she’s okay?”
“I tried contacting her and her father, but nobody picked up.” He gulped back the acid in his throat. “I hope she somehow got away.”
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p; “Didn’t Nick mention the river once? Maybe we should check it out.”
They hurried to the farthest side of the house, down the same pathway Lisa had been dragged, until they reached the raging river. He doubted someone could cross that. The only other option was a guest had brought those people with them.
Back at the house, he continued trying to contact Lisa and her father. A call to her father’s office told him that Lisa’s dad was at his vacation home in the mountains. There was no way to reach him and no other information they could share.
“Uh-oh,” Scarlett crossed her arms over her chest. “I know that face. Someone’s going to hack something.”
He grinned at the way she whispered it. “Babe, we’re home. There’s no one else here but us. You don’t have to whisper.”
“So what are you looking for?”
“Just John’s mountain home address. I want to go up there and see him. Find out if she’s okay.”
“Did you call their house?”
He nodded, emailed himself the address, and grabbed her hand. “Yes. Nobody would give me any information other than John was gone. They knew nothing of Lisa.”
“Damn.”
“Ready for a quick trip?” he asked as they walked outside again.
The sound of helicopter blades reached them. “Thank goodness. I really didn’t want to fly on your back again.”
He chuckled at her teasing and helped her into the chopper. An hour later, they touched down in the area near the cabin. He gave the chopper instructions to land at the nearest helipad with availability and he’d give them a call when ready to go.
They ran to the front door and knocked repeatedly. Nobody answered.
“Maybe they’re out back,” Scarlett said and they went around the house.
They walked down a trail. He sniffed but got nothing. His senses told him something was wrong. And a new animal decided to speak to him.
NINETEEN
Scarlett had a really bad feeling about that place. She started to turn and pull Knox with her when a group of men came out of the woods, holding rifles.
“Oh shit. I don’t think this is good,” she whispered.
She watched a few older men, a younger woman, who she assumed was Lisa, and seven guys point guns at them.
“John, Lisa, I’ve been calling you both.”
“I know,” one of the older men replied. “You know, if you had just died when these guys tried to kill you, my life would be so much simpler now.”
Scarlett gasped. Her lioness wanted out right now. She’d tear them up and rip their balls off for putting a hand on her man. Knox tensed beside her.
Knox growled. “You did that? Why, John?”
John glared at his daughter. “Because she couldn’t get you to fuck her.”
“It’s not my fault his shit didn’t work,” Lisa argued.
Oh yeah. She was going to make ribbons out of that bitch’s face. Then she was going to lick her paws clean of her blood.
Knox curled his hands into fists. She grabbed hold of one and held tightly. “I still don’t understand.”
“You know, for a genius, you’re damn stupid,” John told him. “I wanted you to handle my accounts because I thought you’d be good for my side business. You’d be able to fill in the blanks about where the money was coming from and make it sound legitimate. But you wanted to keep everything by the fucking book.” He chuckled. “I know you’re great at making money multiply and I wanted that. What I didn’t want was you snooping into my shit.”
“So Daddy thought if we were in a relationship, you’d be more likely to come to our side and understand that Daddy has some side jobs he gets paid for and all you had to do was invest that money,” Lisa told him. “But you always wanted to research where things came from and why he had more money than his accounts should.” She shook her head. “Sticking your nose where it wasn’t wanted.”
“So we had to get rid of you,” John said. “No hard feelings, just business.”
“Just business,” Knox growled. “Your men tried to kill me.”
“Yeah, and we still don’t know how you came back from the dead,” a big guy with a scar on his cheek said.
All their eyes glowed. She knew they were wolves and didn’t care that they were outnumbered. She’d stand by Knox and kick all their asses.
“Don’t worry, love. I’ve got this,” Knox said into her head.
They readied their guns when Knox shifted. It happened so fast, had she blinked, she would have missed it. One second he was standing next to her, and the next he was a massive blue dragon roaring at the men.
Bullets whizzed by her head. She dodged and flung herself to the ground. Knox stepped in front of her, keeping her safe.
Lisa screamed and ran into the woods. The other men stayed and shot at the dragon. He roared a second time and blew out a plume of fire that lit each one. They ran around trying to tamp out the flames.
Knox’s massive dragon blew out another fire breath and continued destroying everything in his wake.
Scarlett rushed into the woods. Her lioness demanded to be let out, so she did a quick shift. She’d been dying to rip Lisa’s face off since the beginning.
She sniffed down her prey, listening to footsteps and the sounds of Lisa’s cries. In the distance, she heard another roar from her dragon and she knew he had that shit under control.
A curse sounded from ahead. She pawed the ground quietly, taking her sweet time pinpointing Lisa’s location.
Hiding behind a thick trunk, Lisa held her rifle out and glanced over her shoulder. “Fucking Knox! He should have died that night.”
Scarlett sighted her in and rushed forward as Lisa focused her attention behind herself.
She knocked the woman down, but the rifle stayed in Lisa’s grasp. Lisa rolled and raised the rifle to point it at Scarlett.
“I’ll fucking kill you!” she screamed. “You think this is the first time I’ve fired this at an animal? It’s not.”
The lioness watched and waited. She saw panic in Lisa’s gaze. She glanced around as if scared other animals were going to surround her. The sound of leaves crunching to her left made Lisa swivel the shotgun away from Scarlett. That’s all she needed.
She jumped her again, this time knocking the weapon out of her hands and clawing at the other woman’s face. Her lioness bit down on Lisa’s hands trying to block the attacks. It wasn’t long before the wounds killed her, but Scarlett’s lioness continued to paw at her until she heard the call of her mate and left Lisa behind.
TWENTY
Scarlett placed her hands flat on the shower tiles and sighed. Hot water dripped down her back, soothing her aching muscles. The next time she raced Knox’s wolf, she’d have to get a head start. He was too fast for her.
She washed her body and listened for Knox. He’d told her he was joining her, so she didn’t know what the wait was. It was the end of Halloween night, and instead of being at some party, they were finally home after figuring out why Knox had been attacked and making sure those responsible were handled.
After her shower, she slipped a robe around her body and walked down to Knox’s office. He wasn’t there. The hairs on her arms stood on end. Uh-oh. What was he doing?
She walked out the door by his office onto the balcony but didn’t see him. She did get the distinct feeling he was watching her.
The sky opened up and rain came down so hard, she almost didn’t believe it was real.
“I’m coming for you, little cat,” he whispered in her mind.
“Did you really just call me that?” She laughed.
“Yes. And unless you plan on giving in quickly, you better run.”
She wanted to tell him no, but the lioness wouldn’t let her. Instead, she found herself squealing as she ran into the grass, getting drenched from the rain.
Suddenly she was tackled from behind, the robe ripped off her body. They rolled on the grass, the rain falling over them.
He covered her
with his naked body. “You’re mine now.”
She cupped his face with her hands. “I’ve been yours.”
Their kiss was long and sweet. He gave her care, attention, and the usual aggression she was used to simmering under the surface. Water covered their bodies as rain poured. Their hands were all over each other, touching, exploring, as if the first time again.
She pushed him until she was on top. Then she grinned and slowly got up, flipped to put her back to his face, and straddled him again.
“Scarlett,” he growled behind her. “I don’t know what you’re doing, but I fucking love it.”
She laughed and scooted back, putting her pussy level with his face, bringing her head to line with his cock.
Her hand grabbed a hold of his hard shaft and pumped him using the rain as lubrication. She lowered her head, took him into her mouth, and moaned. He was so damn smooth, velvety. And hard like steel. She licked and sucked him, using her spit to coat him and jerk him in her grip.
He groaned, his legs tensed and his hand slapped around her hips to pull her down to his face. His tongue flicked into her channel and she moaned around his dick again.
Her head moved faster with each bobbing motion and jerking of his thickness. Rain continued to fall as he sucked on her pussy, making circles with his tongue.
She reared back, almost sitting on his face and groaned. “Fuck, you’re really good at eating pussy.”
He sucked harder as if her words motivated him. She went back to jerking him and swallowing him down her throat.
A soft growl sent vibrations up her pussy and made her legs shake. She released him from her mouth but continued gripping him hard, gliding her fingers up and down his shaft.
He growled again. The tremor going up her body flung her into an orgasm that caught her off guard. She stopped jerking him and held on, her body shuddering with her release. Loud moans and purrs left her throat.
There wasn’t a chance to get her bearings. She was still riding her euphoric wave when he slid from under her and caged her, keeping her on all four. He bit down on her shoulder and plunged his cock deeply into her sex.