She put her hand on her hip. “And then what happened? You lost all determination?”
“I felt your heart change,” Victor said meeting her gaze. “Three weeks ago, your love for me was all but gone. I felt it,” he said touch his chest. “here.”
Nicole sucked in air turning away from him she sobbed into her hands.
Victor raised up onto his feet and pulled her back into his arms. “I thought you’d learned of what I’d done with the Herod pack. I knew you hated me. I decided I would let you be happy, but then Angeline with her visions-”
“How could I ever be happy without you?” Nicole nearly exploded out of his arms as she hit his chest with both hands. “I have only ever loved you, Victor. You and you alone.”
He held on tight to her not letting her fight her way from his grasp. “I have only ever loved you, Nicole. I’m sorry I made so many wrong choices trying to keep you.”
The wind in her sails of fury vanished. She leaned into him. “I’m sorry that I gave up on you. I don’t hate you, Victor.”
“Do you still love me at all? I’ll do anything to prove myself to you.” Victor said trying to stay in control. His wolf was demanding that he claim Nicole but he would not force her. Victor would never hurt her, not if he could help it.
“Yes, you idiot. I over the moon for you.”
“Claim her. Rip the clothes away and bury your cock in her wetness.”
Silence or I will not claim her. Victor threatened his wolf spirit.
Victor closed his hands into fists to keep from doing just what his spirit wolf suggested. “Before, when we were together with the pack. You were honoring your parents’ wishes to wait to have sex. I know you have to have a strong heir. I understand that the tiger shifter you carry will be the key to any kind of peace if we are to ever have any in this land again. I will not stop you if you have to-”
Bile filled up his throat at just the thought of having to endure Nicole fucking another man.
“... you know,” Victor tried to make those words form on his lips.
“It’s you, Vic. It’s always been you and it should have been you way back when I was too worried about disappointing my parents. I’m so sorry.”
Victor lifted her up into his arms, crushing her against his chest as he kissed her. He couldn’t hold back, not when he wanted her so much and held out for so long. Nicole kissed him back and just that nearly had him coming.
“I want you too much,” he said trying hard to gentle his hold on her. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
Nicole smiled down at him from her position up high in his arms. “I like what you did to me on the way here.” Her cheeks flushed pink at her confession.
Her sudden shyness only made him harder. It was Nicole, anything she did was going to just keep making him harder and harder.
“Did you?” He asked lifting her up higher.
“Yes,” Nicole said sounding breathless.
Victor guided one of her legs over one shoulder and then the other leg over his other shoulder so that her pussy was right in front of his face. Nicole gasped when he nuzzled his face against her through her dress.
“Pull up your dress for me,” Victor told her looking up into her eyes.
She swallowed and pulled it up and out of his way. Her scent filled his nostrils making him salivate. “You’re going to have a hard time getting my mouth off your sweet pussy, baby,” he said and kissed her hungrily while she watched him, whimpering, her hips bucking against his face.
Victor sank his thick tongue into her depths, feeling how tight she was as she squeezed his tongue with her inner muscles. Gripping her ass, he pushed deeper and held allowing her to stretch around his tongue.
Nicole tried to move but he wasn’t finished feeling her squeezing him. He spanked her ass and watched as her body erupted in a full body blush.
Like that, do you?
He turned his face nuzzling in tighter as he sucked her clit and squeezed her ass. Nicole’s mouth fell open as her core muscles began to quiver. She was about to come.
Victor watched her face as he thrust into her wet pussy with his tongue, nuzzling her clit with his nose. She cried out gripping his head as her body rolled like a wave.
“Claim her. Fuck her with your cock. She needs to be full of our seed.”
You’re not wrong.
He slowly slid her down his body once he was sure she finished her orgasm. “Are you tired?”
“I’m not tired,” She said rubbing her wet pussy up and down the length of his hard cock. “Everything you’re doing feels so good,” she breathed.
“What a naughty she-cat you are,” Victor said sitting down on the fallen log. He bent Nicole over his lap. His hand smoothed over her heated skin. “You are so soft,” he groaned. He couldn’t bring himself to hurt her so he gave her ass a slap watching as her pussy moistened and her blue eyes watched him.
Victor sank a finger into her reminding himself that he had to go slow with her.
Nicole gasped and pushed back against his finger taking him deeper.
“Fuck, Nicki, you’re going to make me come if you keep doing that.”
Nicole’s head whipped around the look of desire strong in her eyes. “This?” She bucked back against his hand.
Victor clenched his teeth trying to hang on to what little control he had left. “Nicole, I’m serious.” She thrust back again and his finger ran into the protective layer of her virginity. The knowledge that she was his alone, that she had never truly hated him had him straining against her stomach.
He lifted her up onto her feet and tried to think of something terrible to keep from coming. Nicole straddled his lap and began to take him into her core. She cried out her nails biting into his shoulders as she began to stretch to accommodate his thick, hard, dick.
She was taking him much too fast. He didn’t want to hurt her. Victor tried to slow her down by holding her hips but as soon as his cock hit that thin inner layer of her virginity he couldn’t stop himself.
Victor pulled her hips down as he thrust upward. Nicole cried out her hands slipping as he pushed all the way up into her core. Hugging her he waited for her body to stretch to allow for his cock.
Her nails bit into his thighs. “I’m going to come again, fuck me, Victor please,” she cried.
Victor thrust upward even deeper and bounced her on his lap as his shaft pumped in and out of her slick wet heat. His cock tightened as Nicole screamed his name her hips pumping furiously against his. Her pussy squeezed him, milking his cock and he growled as the first burst of his come poured into her tight pussy.
“Nicki,” he said her name as he thrust upward standing and releasing her ass he sank as deep as possible emptying his seed as he told her, “You’re all mine.”
CHAPTER TEN
NICOLE
After he filled her pussy with his hot come, he’d sucked on her breasts and played with her clit until she came for him over and over again. She was wet with sweat and so dazed she was having trouble putting words together as he moved away from her standing. “I’m going to fill you so full of my come you’re going to be leaking me for days,” he growled reaching for her.
Her pussy and stomach clenched with anticipation.
“What are you doing now?” Nicole asked with a laugh as he swept her up in his arms and began to carry her. “I can walk, you know.”
“Not on that ankle. If it’s not hurting now it will be soon. I was holding you and half that damn tree by your ankle.”
Nicole smiled softer at him as she drank in his features. His face had matured so much in the years that passed between them. He was definitely manlier. He no longer tried to do everything he could to please her. This man had a backbone and strength she knew she could count on.
“I love you,” she said kissing him. “I don’t think you have to worry about Rafi anymore, though. If I tell him I don’t want to mate with him he’ll listen to me.”
“That isn’t the reason I came
for you. It would have been if I’d known Rafi was trying to get between your legs.”
Nicole didn’t hide her smile. She was glad to have her big bad werewolf wanting to protect her. “Why did you come then?”
“Angeline had a premonition. Rafi was going to use you to turn the Rizer pack human and then he was going to kill us all. He would have kept going. Wiping out any who stood against him with your sacred blood.”
Nicole stiffened in his arms. “My blood.”
“Yes. He was going to take some and use it on the Rizer pack.”
Nicole clasped her hands together. “Did she see how Rafi is stopped?”
“You don’t have to worry. We got you away from him. He can’t use you to hurt anyone. I won’t let him near you. The Rizer pack are good. I’ve been accepted into their pack and since you are my mate, you will be too. They will protect you but they won’t get the chance.”
“Vic?” Nicole began.
They were drawing near to the fortress where the doors were open and the pack just inside were smiling at them. Obviously, they knew that they made up but it was still going to be a bit awkward after her lies.
Awkwardness she could take. The responsibility she could handle. Loss? Not so much. She hugged him tighter the worry in her stomach growing.
“I got you, babe. Believe me, these are the kind of people who will forgive you easily. You don’t have to be afraid here. Okay? Trust me.”
Nora was the first to approach them. “I heard about your leap from the rooftop all the way into the forest line. That is incredible. I’m very impressed,” she said to Nicole. “I know it’s not official until it comes from Darian and Cara, but I wanted to say, welcome to the family.”
Just like that?
“That’s very kind of you. I am sorry that I lied when I first got here.”
Nora snorted, which set her mate Ian off into laughing. Once he was laughing Errol and Onyx were laughing too. Nicole wasn’t sure what was so funny. She looked at Victor who was shaking his head at the four.
“Your lie was not good but it was a fib in comparison to what others have done and had to make amends for before they became part of the pack. These four especially,” Victor said with a smile.
Making mistakes and being forgiven wasn’t something that was done in her own family pack. She loved them and missed them but the more she explored the world outside of the bubble she used to live in, the more she realized they were wrong about a few things.
The forgiveness and acceptance the Rizer pack offered her and each other, it wasn’t weakness as she’d been raised to believe. There was strength in the bonds their forgiveness forged. Victor was right about this pack. They were very special.
I can’t risk Rafi coming after them.
Angeline and Killian edged into the front room looking Nicole’s way with caution. “Sorry about shooting you. Both times I shot you actually. You sound happy in here though so I thought it was probably the best time to get apologies out of the way.” Angeline finger combed her long white blond ponytail as she spoke.
“I’m glad you shot me. Both times,” Nicole said.
“See? I told you she’d forgive us,” Angeline said to Killian.
Darian and Cara came through the front doors from behind where Victor was standing holding Nicole in his arms. Cara’s blue eyes swept over the room. Darian turned his head slightly and was quiet. It was something Nicole’s father used to do. He was an alpha as well. Darian was listening and processing the feelings of his pack.
“It appears you are mates after all,” Darian stated. “You are welcome to stay and be a part of our family.”
“Don’t you need to test my loyalty? What if,” Nicole looked at Victor, biting her lip. “What if my tiger spirit is stronger than your alpha?”
Darian gave her a soft smile. It was a reassuring smile that made her feel peaceful, it made her worries ease. “Your tiger spirit is strong, I could see it from the first with you that she is not easy for you to control. I would never have allowed you into the fortress if I did not already know that my alpha command is strong enough to force her into submitting.”
Nicole wanted to argue but he sounded so sure of himself. She wanted him to be right. If he was then he would be able to make her tigress respond better, be more obedient to Nicole’s commands.
“Angeline and Killian told me about Rafi’s pack,” Darian continued. “Do you know of any ill well he has against the pack?”
Nicole nodded. “He talks about bringing down your pack nearly every day. It is an obsession with him. You would be wise to prepare for an attack.”
“We are,” Cara said nodding. “You look tired, Nicole. We can speak of all this later. You should go and rest.”
CHAPTER ELEVEN
VICTOR
There was something she wasn’t saying.
Victor watched her sleeping in his bed. The remainder of the day passing by as he lay with her cherishing the woman at his side. The swelling and bruising in her ankle was nearly gone. Her shifter blood was doing its job helping her heal at an accelerated pace.
Her tiger spirit purred in her sleep. The sound made Victor smile until he remembered that the tigress was dominating Nicole.
“I’m sorry my choices put you in so much danger, Nicki,” he whispered even though she was asleep. He pressed a kiss to her temple and then closed his eyes with his arm possessively around her. Darkness had fallen and with her soft purring, he could no longer resist the pull of sleep.
It felt like he’d just closed his eyes and the purring stopped but that couldn’t be right. He opened his eyes and found his arm draped over a pillow instead of Nicole.
Sitting up he scanned the dark bedroom.
The door was still locked, he could see the bolt turned from where he sat on his bed. “Nicole?” He said her name even though he knew she was no longer in his room. Her scent was far too faint. Victor slid off the bed and walked over to the open window.
This is the way that she left. But why? Why is she returning to Rafi?
Victor unbolted the door. When he opened it Ian, Nora, Errol, Onyx, and Angeline were all standing outside his door in the hallway. Errol and Onyx had their hair sticking up and puffy eyes as though they’d been pulled from their sleep. Ian and Nora smelled of very recent sex and Angeline was holding her stomach and wincing.
“I have to go after Nicole. We’ll talk later,” Victor said. “I must have done something to upset her. Or maybe she went back to say goodbye to Rafi? I don’t know but I have to go after her.”
Angeline held up a finger at him as she breathed in and out in a quickened pace.
“You’re in labor, Angeline. For crying out loud will you lay down? I’ll get Killian,” Nora scolded her.
“In a minute,” Angeline snapped back. Perspiration gathered at her hairline. “Take a tranquilizer gun. Don’t trust the children. Don’t kill anyone. Got it?” Angeline asked Victor through clenched teeth.
What?
“Yes,” he answered.
“You’ll have the gun,” Angeline said pointing at Errol. “You’re going to drop it and that’s okay.”
Onyx shook her head at Errol.
“I’m not going to drop it,” Errol denied.
“You’ll bring the carriage,” Angeline said to Ian and Nora. “Don’t leave it behind.” Angeline wiped her brow. “Now go. All of you.”
Nora reached for Angeline’s elbow but didn’t get a hold of it before Angeline moved her arm to point behind her. “I’m taken care of, see?”
Killian was coming down the hall with a worried stern look on his face. “Angeline, you promised.... Are you in labor?”
“Yes, she is,” Nora told him.
“Go,” Angeline yelled at them.
Victor didn’t need any more pushing from Angeline. He wanted to be at Nicole’s side already. The fastest way out was the same way Nicole left. Victor turned and started to shift as he crossed the space of the room and leaped out the window to the
ground below.
He could smell Nicole’s scent and see her trail. At least she wasn’t trying to hide from him. She had to know that he would come after her, didn’t she?
CHAPTER TWELVE
NICOLE
Medley announced her approach when she was still a mile outside of Rafi’s camp. Nicole knew she had no hope of sneaking in and finding the three samples of her special blood she allowed him to take.
I’ll talk to him and try to reason with him. If he won’t listen then I’ll take them back by force. I will not let Rafi hurt Victor or my new family.
“Welcome back, Nicole,” Rafi said opening his arms to her.
“We need to talk,” Nicole said not getting any closer to him than she already was. He would smell the Rizer pack on her, he’d smell Victor on her and he’d be unreasonable.
Rafi nodded. “I agree. You were gone much longer than usual. You had us worried that something happened to you.” He sat down next to Sabre, a tiny sweet girl with skin almost as dark as night. She was still too young to shift yet but the way she purred in her sleep, Nicole believed she’d be a tiger. Rafi scooped her up and set her on his lap.
The look on his face as he ran his hand over her short curly black hair made Nicole freeze with fear. “Put her down,” Nicole said starting toward him.
“You’re going to tell me the truth. If you do, Sabre will continue to have this beautiful, innocent smile you love so much. If not, she’ll get a lesson in what it is to sacrifice for the greater good.”
Sabre was a shifter child they found in one of the abandoned towns and the pack was raising her as her family. Rafi called himself her father. There would be no one who would try to stand up for Sabre against Rafi.
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