Do You Take This Cat [Wind River Pack 4] (Siren Publishing Classic)

by Missy Martine

  Rennia groaned when someone patted her cheeks. She could hear a male’s voice.

  “Come on, Rennia. Wake up, young lady. You’ve worried everyone quite enough. It’s time to wake up and face the world.” When someone lifted her eyelid she stiffened and began to fight back.

  “It’s me, Rennia. Dr. Tehran. You’ve been rescued. You’re safe now.”

  Slowly she opened her eyes and looked around her bedroom. “Was it just a dream?”

  Her mother stepped forward and picked up one of her hands. “No, not a dream. More like a nightmare.”

  Her two dads moved to the opposite side of the bed and reached out to lay their hands on her arm. “Are you all right?” asked Latan.

  “I’m fine, Dad. Did you catch Nathaniel?”

  “Nathaniel who?” asked Ethan.

  “He said his name is Nathaniel Kaugh. He’s some kind of crazed doctor or scientist.”

  Latan growled. “What did he do to you?”

  Rennia sighed. “Nothing, really. He took a bunch of blood and used some drug he’s got to make me shift.”

  Kitania frowned. “You mean to keep you from shifting. An inhibitor, right?”

  “He had both. He gave me the inhibitor when he took me from my house, and then when he had me in the lab he gave me some drug that forced a shift on me.”

  “Damn,” said Latan. “Are you all okay? That must have been extremely painful.”

  “It was, but that’s not the worst of it. His drug brought on both my wolf and my cat. He was able to force the wolf back to let the cat out.”

  “I didn’t think that was possible, since your wolf is dominant,” said Kitania.

  “We got everything out of the lab so maybe we’ll get lucky and find the formula,” said Ethan.

  “Don’t get your hopes up, Dad. That’s not his main lab. They were getting ready to transfer me to his main facility right before they sedated me. The crazy man told me that he was gonna harvest some of my eggs. I think he planned on fertilizing them.”

  Ethan groaned. “Remus is gonna explode when he hears all this. He’s not gonna rest until he finds the guy’s home base. I don’t suppose he told you where he was transferring you to?”

  “No, he was pretty careful not to mention specific details about anything.” She took a deep breath. “Did Ray go home?”

  “No, I didn’t.”

  Rennia turned and saw him standing in the corner near the window. “You’re still here.”

  “Yeah, I thought I’d stick around and see what happens next.”

  “Ray,” she cried, her breath catching in her throat.

  Kitania smothered a laugh with a cough. “All righty, then. That’s our cue to leave. Tehran, is she well enough to spend time with her mate?”

  Tehran shrugged. “She should take it a little easy for a couple of days, but I’d say she’s cleared to do anything she wants. The drugs will be completely out of her system in another twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Then she’ll be good as new.”

  Kitania bent down and kissed Rennia’s cheek. “Give him a break,” she whispered. “He was on the team that rescued you.”

  Latan crossed his arms over his chest. “I don’t want to—” Kitania grabbed his arm and pulled him down so she could whisper in his ear. He turned to look at Ray and then back at his daughter. He sighed. “Fine, let’s go.” He followed behind Kitania and Ethan and stopped next to Ray. He leaned in close to look Ray in the eye. “Hurt her, and I’ll let my wolf eat you.”

  Rennia laughed when she saw Ray’s shocked face. Latan turned and grinned at her, and then left, shutting the door behind him. A few moments later she heard the front door slam shut.

  Ray moved closer to the bed. “Are you really feeling okay? You were out from their drugs for a long time.”

  She nodded. “I’m surprised you’re still here. I thought you were heading back to New York.”

  “Something kept pulling at me to stay. I didn’t understand it at first. There were all these feelings of fear and anxiety. It didn’t make any sense. Then, I talked to your brother Zack. He told me that I was feeling everything that you were. He said that somehow, without a mating bite, we’d started a mating bond.”

  “I didn’t think that was possible. I know I kept calling for you in my mind. It was a way to keep the fear at bay. But I didn’t think you could really hear me.”

  “I didn’t hear your words. I only felt your emotions. I can’t explain it, but it was very intimate. I’ve never felt so close to anybody in my life.”

  Rennia bit her lip. “I’m so sorry. I never meant to start the bond. I was always careful not to bite you.”

  Ray moved closer and took her hand in his. He pressed her palm to his chest where she could feel the beat of his heart. “Shhh, it’s okay. I know you didn’t do it on purpose. I’m beginning to believe there’s something called fate and we’re all at her mercy.” He raised her fingers to press a kiss against her palm. “I don’t think we should try and fight fate.”

  “That’s an awfully big turnaround for you. I want to believe you, but I don’t wanna be hurt again. You said you couldn’t leave your life in New York, and I know I can’t live there. My wolf would slowly die if she couldn’t be free regularly.”

  “I don’t know how we’re gonna work things out. I just know I don’t want to be anywhere without you. I thought I would die when Kati told us you’d been taken. Until then, I hadn’t realized just how much I’d come to love you. Can you accept that for now, and we’ll be together and work out the details later?”

  Rennia felt tears run down her cheeks. “There’s nothing I want more than to be with my mate. I love you, Ray. And I will love you for the rest of my life.”

  Ray smiled and started to climb on to the bed. “I think it’s time for that claiming bite I keep hearing about.”

  “Wait!” she cried. “I’m not claiming my mate without a shower.”

  He laughed, scooped her off the bed, and headed toward the bathroom. Rennia dipped her hand under the hem of his shirt and steered her fingers over the silky swirl of muscle that criss-crossed his back. His sparkling brown eyes smoldered. As he carried her, the play of muscles beneath her body turned her on in ways she never dreamed. She relaxed into the heat of his body and turned her lips to his. The kiss was lazy and unhurried as he eased his tongue forward to gently tease with hers. She could hear her own breath sighing out against his mouth as it came closer. He brought both lips down slowly over her bottom one, letting his tongue slide softly against the silky, moist inner tissue. He traced her soft mouth with his lips and the tip of his tongue right before the kiss became possessive, insistent, feverish, all in the space of seconds.

  Setting her on her feet by the tub, Ray moved closer, one hand going to her slender throat, slowly caressing it. “I want you, Rennia. I’ve never wanted anyone the way I want you.” He lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.

  Rennia shivered at the slow caress of his hands on her rib cage while the kiss went on and on. She gasped when he pulled away abruptly and stripped the clothes from her body. She grinned and pointedly looked at his jeans. “You seem to be a bit overdressed.”

  “Not for long.” He yanked his T-shirt over his head and tossed it toward the bedroom. Bending, he turned on the water in the tub, adjusted the temperature, and then stripped off the remainder of his clothes. “Is that better?”

  She giggled. “Absolutely.” She moved forward and nuzzled her face against his warm, bare chest. Groaning, his arms reached down, enclosing and lifting so that she was completely off the ground in a warm embrace that seemed to swallow her whole. He stepped into the tub and lowered them both into the warm water. A deep, throbbing ache began between her legs.

  Ray grabbed her soap and quickly began to work the lather over her body. He swirled the soap over her full breasts and then retraced the soap’s journey over her wet skin with his fingers. “I love the way your soft, slick skin feels under my fingertips.” He drew tiny
circles in the suds covering her skin.

  “You do realize that I’m going to get my turn next?”

  He grinned. “I’m counting on it.” He watched as she lifted one tanned leg from the water and worked the soap into a lather over the taut calf muscles. “When you’re done, let’s turn on the shower to get rid of all the soap.”

  “Sounds good to me.” She hurried through the rest of her bath and handed the soap to Ray. He quickly ran it over his body and then pulled Rennia to her feet.

  “Stay behind me while I get the shower going. I don’t want the cold water to hit you.” He pushed her behind him and then adjusted the spray.

  Rennia’s gaze trailed from his broad shoulders and chest, to his flat stomach, to the column of flesh that had been inside her. Blood and lust coursed through her veins.

  Ray turned and eased her under the warm water. He cupped her cheek and ran his thumb over her lips. “You’re so beautiful.” He cupped her face in his hands and brought his lips down to hers.

  Rennia’s legs trembled and her muscles went weak. Gently, he took her bottom lip between his teeth. A whimper of pleasure escaped her as her entire body shivered in response.

  Her mate dipped his tongue in her ear. “Are you ready for more?” he whispered.

  “Oh, God, yes.” Rennia moaned.

  Ray pushed her against the wall anchoring her wrists above her head with one of his hands. She loved the feel of her breasts against his hair roughened chest. He cupped one of her breasts and squeezed gently. His fingers played across her pebbled nipple. She held her breath when he bowed his head to one breast and laved the nipple hungrily with his tongue. She released her breath in a strangled groan when he pulled her nipple into his mouth and hummed, sending little shocks through her system. She arched her back to push farther into his mouth as he alternated between sucking and flicking her nipple with his tongue.

  When Ray released her, Rennia let her hands slide over his wet skin, up the defined muscles of his arms, gliding over the hard muscles playing in his shoulders. Her gaze locked on his cock, which stood erect from his body. It was heavily veined and hard, pulling up toward his stomach. She lowered her head and began licking the mineral saltiness of the bathwater from his skin. She flicked the tip of her tongue back and forth across one male nipple a couple of times and relished the sound torn from his throat. He buried his face into the crook of her neck as she fisted his erection in her hand. She placed her warm hand against the veined shaft.

  “Suck my cock, baby. Please, Rennia. I wanna feel your lips sliding over me so bad.”

  * * * *

  Rennia pumped her hand up and down his length and then leaned forward and swirled her hot tongue around the head. He jerked, unable to stop himself. He’d only imagined her doing this for him. Suddenly, she dropped to her knees in the tub. He trembled at the first tentative brush of her tongue over the head of his cock. She swirled her tongue around the large purplish head, slowly easing down the side. Her teeth gently raked the sensitive skin. His breath caught when she opened her mouth and took just the tip of him inside her heat. “Damn, that feels so good.”

  She worked her lips around him, sucking as much of him as she could into her mouth, using her tongue to stroke and rub against the sensitive underside of his shaft. As she took more and more of him into her mouth and sucked harder and harder, he grasped her head in both hands. He looked down and saw Rennia between his legs on her hands and knees, plump ass in the air, and her sweet, red lips wrapped around his cock. The sight was enough to steal his breath away. Ray bit back a groan as one of those soft hands cupped his balls and squeezed.

  He pumped his hips when she alternated between sucking and swirling her tongue around the head of his cock. His whole body shook as she held his erection tightly in her mouth. “Rennia, you’d better stop, love. I can’t hold out much longer.”

  She sucked harder as if she wanted to taste him fully. He held her head where he wanted it and began working his pulsing erection in and out of her mouth with slow strokes forcing her to take more and more until she choked on the big head as he pushed it to the back of her throat. “I’m sorry, love.”

  “Don’t stop,” she muttered around his shaft.

  “I can’t hold it anymore.” He clenched his hand in her hair, holding her still as he released his seed into the back of her throat.

  * * * *

  Ray emitted a long, low growl, and she felt his hot seed spurt deep into her, the thick cream splashing down her throat. He groaned as she licked a drop of cum from her lips and then leaned forward enough to lick up and over the still-pulsing head of his cock. She savored his musky scent and salty taste.

  He couldn’t hold back the moan as she moved her body slowly up his, her nipples skimming his flesh, reigniting the fire in her sex. He wrapped a hand in her hair and jerked her head back, forcing her lips open with his tongue. The kiss was brutal in its intensity. He lifted her against him and kissed her hungrily, until her mouth felt faintly bruised from the slow, insistent pressure. Her breath caught when he helped her from the tub and quickly ran towels over both of their bodies.

  He bent and lifted her into his strong arms and carried her straight back to the bedroom. He sat her on her feet beside the bed and then pulled her closer and murmured her name against her mouth. Breathing harshly, he lifted away from the kiss and buried his lips into the curve of her neck and began nibbling. He worked his way down her body as she squirmed in pleasure. She shivered when he pressed featherlight kisses against her skin.

  Ray cupped one of her breasts in his hand and thumbed the nipple. When he bent and took the breast into his mouth she moaned. He dragged his teeth over the sensitive skin and then made maddeningly slow circles around the peak with his tongue.

  “Please, don’t tease me,” she begged.

  Ray took the small bud into his mouth and sucked gently. Without warning, he lifted her up in his arms and deposited her in the middle of her bed. Moving quickly, he began to lick her leg slowly from her ankle to the inside of her knee. He flicked the tip of his tongue along her inner thigh, causing her pussy to flood with cream. His hands moved slowly up her thighs until he reached her curly patch of damp hair. His hand cupped the throbbing mound, the heat from his palm seeping into her already burning flesh. A groan escaped her lips as she closed her eyes and opened her legs a little more. His fingers spread open her labia, and he flicked her clit with the tip of his tongue right before he sucked it into his mouth. The bundle of nerves at the top of her slit sent pleasure radiating through her whole body.

  “Oh, God.” The cry that was torn from her was little more than a hoarse gasp. He clamped down on her clit, and she exploded. Arching upward, she let out a cry as she came.

  * * * *

  Ray ran a shaking hand over her almost reverently from her shoulder to her hip and then up again, cupping one breast. When he leaned in to nuzzle her cheek she sucked his earlobe between her lips nipping at it gently with her teeth. Placing one knee between her parted thighs, he covered her body with his.

  She lifted her hands to his chest and skated her palms upward, clutching his shoulders. “Be sure, Ray. If you make love to me now I won’t be able to stop myself from claiming you as a mate.”

  Ray smiled and aligned his body with hers. He thrust upward, flexed his hips, and sheathed himself to the hilt inside her pussy with one stroke. “I’m not using a condom.”

  Rennia gasped. “That’s fine. We can’t catch or carry disease like humans.”

  “That’s not why I’m doing it. I want to see you swollen with my child.” Ray’s shaft slid into her with ease, her channel wet and welcoming as he stretched her walls. He cupped her bottom in his hands and lifted her hips as he pounded into her.

  “I’d….love…to…have…your…baby.” Rennia could barely catch her breath as he caught her hips and forced her to move faster. He angled his strokes higher up on her body so his shaft rubbed her clit with each thrust of his hips. Releasing a harsh br
eath, he drove deeply, grinding his hips against hers.

  Her soft hands ran over his back and buttocks. When she shifted her legs, he pushed his cock deeper until his balls rested against her thighs. Rennia brought her legs up to grip around his waist and dig her heels into the small of his back. He felt a sliver of pain as she dragged her nails down his back.

  Ray groaned when her muscles tightened around his cock. She rode him faster while his orgasm inched closer. Withdrawing and pushing in rough, jerky motions, he took her lips in a demanding kiss as he lifted her so he could grind his erection against her pussy. He gasped when she dug her fingernails into his scalp.

  “I need to…Please.”

  He felt her strain toward a release, and then suddenly her scream echoed through the house as her orgasm burst upon her. He cupped her ass and pulled her against his hard frame. He was unprepared when she leaned forward and sank her teeth into the skin between his shoulder and neck. The pain shot through him and then morphed into the greatest pleasure he’d ever felt. His release exploded, sending his seed deep into his mate’s body. He could feel her pussy contracting around his erection. “I love you,” he whispered.

  “I love you, mate.” She lay back and ran her hands over his sweaty chest. “My wolf needs something from you.”

  Ray frowned and balanced on his arms above her prone body. “I don’t understand.”

  “We’re mates, and my animals know that. But my wolf needs a mate she can surrender to.”

  “Okay, what am I supposed to do for her?”

  “Take me from behind. She surrenders to you in that position, and she’ll accept you as the dominant one in this relationship after that.”

  “You’re talking about me taking your ass, aren’t you?”

  “Yes, does that bother you?”

  Ray felt the life flare back into his body, his cock going rock hard. He carefully pulled from Rennia’s body and flipped her onto her stomach. She giggled as he dragged the flat of his tongue up the curve of her spine.