Kajakti nodded, then headed inside the house. The delicious smells coming from the kitchen hit his nose and his stomach growled. He had a feeling he’d smell many more tantalizing scents like that in the future. And thanks to Jaren, he no longer would have to worry about Durlach giving any of them food poisoning.
* * * * *
Later that evening, after everyone had devoured the great meal Jaren and Durlach had prepared, Kajakti took his mate up to his bedroom. He had patiently waited for a good time to slip away from the others so he could whisk Jaren upstairs. Luckily she hadn’t minded.
Once the door was closed and locked behind them, they were in each other’s arms, kissing as if they hadn’t touched in a week. And it would be like this between them for some time. All newly mated couples spent a great deal of time reaffirming their bond, keeping it strong. Kajakti and Jaren were no different, not that his mate knew that’s what they were doing.
She broke away from him, then ran her gaze up and down his body. “I guess you get to be my dessert since I didn’t make one. A pastry chef I am not.”
“I’m fine with that,” he replied in a husky voice. “Does that mean I can have you as well?”
Jaren gave him a sexy smile. “Of course, but I get to partake of mine first.”
Kajakti held his arms out from his sides. “All right. Where are you going to start?”
His mate placed her hand on the center of his chest and pushed, getting him to walk backward. The back of Kajakti’s legs hit the bed. Jaren trailed her fingers down to the bottom of his t-shirt, took hold of it, then pulled it up and over his head. She stepped closer and dragged the flat of her tongue over one of his nipples. He let out a strangled moan.
“You like that, huh?” Jaren asked against his skin. “And yes, I know exactly where I want to start. Just don’t move.”
As she shifted to press kisses across his chest, Kajakti knew he wouldn’t move even if the house were on fire. Jaren pressed a kiss between his pecs, then worked a path downward with her lips and tongue. Scratch that, he wouldn’t move even if the house were on fire and right in the path of molten lava.
Kajakti practically panted by the time Jaren went down on her knees in front of him, having kissed a trail from his stomach to the top of his jeans. His cock was so hard it felt constricted inside his pants. But then his mate undid the button and zipper, then pushed the article of clothing down past his hips to pool at his ankles, taking his underwear with it.
He quickly toed off his shoes, stepped out of his jeans, kicked them away and only bent long enough to remove his socks before he straightened. Kajakti looked down to see Jaren eyed his cock and licked her lips as if she anticipated tasting him. His shaft jerked, bobbing in front of her face.
She took him in hand and stroked up and down. “Here is what I’ve been craving.”
Kajakti barely managed to hold back a growl of need. So turned-on he knew for sure his eyes had to be glowing, he closed them to mere slits. But that didn’t stop him from keeping his gaze on Jaren.
His knees just about gave out when her tongue flicked out and licked the bead of pre-cum off the head of his cock. A low growl pushed out of him as she made a sound as if he was the best thing she’d ever tasted. She tongued him again and he had to fist his hands at his sides to prevent himself from taking her to the floor and shoving his dick between her legs. Even though it would be a form of torture, he wanted her to continue what she was doing.
Jaren fisted his shaft at the base and sucked the tip into her mouth. Her talented tongue swirled around it, paying extra attention to the spot under the head. Kajakti’s eyes almost rolled back into his head.
But then she spread her lips wider and took his cock almost to the back of her throat. She sucked him in and out, her head bobbing with her movements. He moaned. Unable to hold still any longer, Kajakti rocked his hips, matching the pace she set. In and out he slid as he fucked her mouth.
Jaren’s other hand came up and fondled his balls, rolling them in her palm. Kajakti grew harder, his climax edging near. If she kept this up much longer she’d have him coming.
“I really don’t want you to stop,” he said in a strained voice, “but if you don’t I’m not going to be able to hold back for much longer.”
She pulled her mouth off his cock and looked up at him. “If you do, you’ll still be hard, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then it isn’t a problem.”
Jaren went back to sucking him off but with more gusto than before. Her cheeks hollowed out with each pull she took on his cock. His balls drew closer to his body. Kajakti put his hand on the back of her head and stroked in and out. It didn’t take very long before he threw back his own and groaned as his orgasm surged through him. His mate continued to suck until she’d taken everything he had.
Once she’d given him one last lick, Jaren stood. Her cheeks had taken on a pretty flush and the scent of her arousal wafted around her. “That was the first half of my dessert, now I get the rest.”
She gave Kajakti a shove so he fell back onto the bed. He pushed toward the middle of the mattress, then propped himself up on his elbows to watch as Jaren stripped out of her clothes. With each tantalizing inch of bare skin she exposed, the more he ached to be inside her, to join her body with his.
After she’d taken off the last piece and had thrown it to the floor, she climbed up next to him, then straddled his hips. Jaren placed her hands on the top of his shoulders and leaned down to capture his mouth. She kissed him hungrily, opening hers for his tongue when he swept it along her lips.
Kajakti pulled his elbows out from under him and slowly lowered until he was flat on his back. Jaren followed him down. He reached between her legs and found her pussy wet with her desire. She moaned into his mouth as he stroked a finger in and out of her. She was more than ready for him.
“Enough,” Jaren said in between pants. “I want your cock inside me.”
“And you’ll have it.”
He pulled his fingers out and gripped the base of his shaft as Jaren positioned herself over it. She placed her hands on the mattress on either side of his head and slowly pushed down on him. Her warm, silken inner walls wrapped around his length as he impaled her. Once she’d taken all of him, she rose onto her knees until only the head of his cock was lodged inside her, then sank down again.
She rode him faster as moan after sexy moan pushed past her lips. Her pussy gripped his shaft, increasing the pleasure Kajakti felt. He arched his back to lift his hips, matching Jaren’s downward strokes.
Her movements became stilted just as Jaren let out a whimpered cry and she came. Her inner muscles rhythmically clutched and released his plunging cock. Seeing the pleasure she felt skate across her face along with the sounds she made, it was enough to have Kajakti’s climax thundering through him. He held on to her hips, surged into her one final time hard enough to lift her knees off the mattress and came, his shaft emptying deep inside her pussy.
Jaren settled onto his chest with her head resting on the bed next to his. Her breath fanned his cheek with each rapid breath she took. “That was some dessert.”
Kajakti held on to her, then rolled, taking her to her back with his cock still hard and buried inside her. “You had yours, now it’s time for me to have mine.”
He pulled almost all the way out of her and then plunged back in. After that, Kajakti took his mate hard and fast, pushing her to another climax before he found his own.
Chapter Six
The following day, Kajakti and Jaren had Ketah and Haven drive them to the Canadian consulate. Ketah drove Haven’s SUV. So far his wolf brother was the only one who had actually gotten his driver’s license. Ketah had taken to the modern age faster than the rest of them. Kajakti figured he’d have to learn how to drive at some point, but for now he was quite happy to have someone else take him where he needed to go. And now that he’d mated with Jaren, who already had her license and just needed a car, he’d buy them one and she
could do all the driving.
“So you don’t want us to hang around until you’re done?” Ketah asked.
“No,” Jaren replied. “I have no idea how long it will take.”
“And I promised Jaren we could go to the Juneau-Douglas City Museum after we finished up at the consulate,” Kajakti added.
“Okay. Give us a call when you want a ride home. We’ll be at Haven’s old place. We have a meeting with a real estate agent.”
Kajakti looked at Haven, who sat in the front seat next to Ketah. “You’ve finally decided you’re going to sell the house?”
She turned her head toward the backseat. “Yes. It’s not as if Ketah and I are ever going to move in there permanently. I can’t see the point of holding on to it and paying the mortgage each month.”
Kajakti smiled. “We’d all miss you two if you did.”
Haven’s place was the home she’d shared with her late mother and had grown up there from a teenager. Selling had been a hard decision she’d held off on since the house had meant so much to her mother, who’d been a single parent. Haven’s father had left when she’d been young to go from one woman to another. He’d just recently died after he’d sold Haven to Tanner. After his body had been found in a wooded area, his death had been ruled as the result of a wild animal attack. Andre had been the one who had torn out his throat in front of Haven.
Once they arrived at the consulate, Ketah pulled over to the side of the street and let Kajakti and Jaren out. They waved at the other couple as they drove away. Kajakti took his mate’s hand and walked her toward the building.
“You really think this will take a long time?” he asked.
She shrugged. “I really don’t know. I’ve never had to go to a consulate to have a passport replaced before. It is a government service so the chances are it could take some time. But you never know, they could surprise us and we’ll be out in a matter of minutes.”
“That would be good. Then we can take a short taxi ride to the museum.”
“You’re sure you don’t mind doing the tourist thing by going there with me?”
“Not at all. Actually, I’ve never been to it so it will be new to both of us.”
“I don’t feel so bad dragging you there then,” Jaren said with a smile.
It ended up taking a little while for Jaren to get all the paperwork filled out for a replacement passport, but nowhere near as long as Kajakti had feared it would. They’d call her once it was ready and she could pick it up.
With that task completed, it meant Kajakti had to reveal what he was to Jaren later that day. He didn’t relish the idea of it, was actually afraid she’d not take the news at all well. Especially the part where she’d inadvertently caused them to become mated during her first night at the house. There was no way either one of them could break the bond. Kajakti hoped like hell she wouldn’t want to get out of it. He was more than happy to have her as his.
Since there wasn’t a taxi to be seen once they came out of the consulate, Kajakti suggested they start walking. Jaren had agreed. Hand in hand, they headed down the sidewalk. Every once in a while she would want to stop and look at something that had caught her interest.
After one such delay and they had continued on their way, Jaren jerked on Kajakti’s hand and brought him to a halt. He followed her fixed gaze to a man who had stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and stared back at her.
“What’s the matter?” he asked.
“That’s Matt. He didn’t leave Juneau, after all.”
Matt stepped closer until he stood in front of Jaren. His gaze flicked to Kajakti, then Kajakti’s and Jaren’s linked hands before he focused on her again. “Jaren, what are you doing?”
She gave Matt a scornful look. “What am I doing? More like what the hell do you think you’re doing?”
Jaren’s ex ignored her questions. “What is going on, Jaren? And why are you holding hands with this man?”
“Why should you care? You’re the one who walked out on me, leaving me stranded. You even had me kicked out of the hotel.”
“I care because we’re in a relationship. I’m your boyfriend. And I only did what I did to teach you a lesson. To show you how much you need me in your life.”
Jaren gave a sarcastic laugh. “You’re my boyfriend? I think not. The moment you left me in that hotel room with no money, plane ticket or passport, that’s when I stopped considering you in any such way. And for your information, your plan backfired. It made me see how much of a selfish asshole you really are and a control freak. I’m with Kajakti now.”
Matt scowled. “You can’t break up with me. If you do you’ll have no way to get home. Though I guess I’m willing to overlook you playing the slut and sleeping with another man.”
Kajakti had had about enough of the mortal. He grabbed the smaller man by the throat and pushed him into the alley they stood in front of. He didn’t stop until they were in no danger of being seen from the street. Jaren followed them in.
He slammed Matt up against the brick wall of one of the buildings. “I’m going to warn you right now, you’re pissing me off. You don’t get to talk to Jaren like that. Face facts, she no longer wants to be with you. She’s with me, and will always be with me. Now this is what you’re going to do, Matt. You’re going to return what you took from Jaren, so hand it over. Then she never wants to see you again. Do you understand?”
Matt swallowed, the fear he felt showing clearly on his face as well of the stench of it wafting off him. “Yes. I’ll give her back her plane ticket, passport and credit cards, but I don’t have them with me right now. They’re at my hotel room.”
“Then I guess we’ll go there with you to get them.”
“I’d prefer you didn’t. I don’t need you knowing where I’m staying. I’ll get them, then we can meet at a certain time and place.”
“Who is to say you’ll show up? You can tell me you’ll do it but have no intention of following through.”
“I promise I’ll be there. Just let me go. You can have Jaren. She’s all yours now.”
Kajakti released Matt and took a step back. A bit of a growl laced the next words he spoke. “You’d better. If I really wanted to, I’m sure I’d be able to find out which hotel you’re staying at. Then I can guarantee you wouldn’t like that particular visit.”
The other man nodded. “There’s a coffee shop a block away from here. Meet me there in forty-five minutes. I’ll have everything that belongs to Jaren with me.” With that said, Matt brushed past Kajakti and took off out of the alley and onto the sidewalk. He practically ran the whole way.
Kajakti turned to face Jaren. “Do you think he’ll put in an appearance?”
She nodded and laughed. “Oh, he’ll be there. He was scared shitless of you. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Matt grovel like that.”
They both grew silent and looked up at the sound of clapping that came from that direction. Kajakti growled when he spotted Tanner standing on a metal fire escape above them. Since the wind was blowing downwind of him, Kajakti hadn’t been able to smell the dark wolf’s scent. It would have been something the other werewolf would have done on purpose.
Tanner vaulted over the railing of the fire escape and landed on his feet a few yards away. The jump would have broken a mortal’s legs. Kajakti grabbed Jaren’s arm and pulled her behind him. The dark wolf stepped closer and chuckled.
“I never thought I’d see a wolf brother threaten a mortal like that,” Tanner said. “Aren’t you sentinels supposed to have been created to protect them? You all are mortal-lovers, you included. You might try to hide your mate behind your back, but I know she’s still there. And from her scent, you haven’t turned her into a werewolf like you yet. That was dumb on your part. After what happened with Haven, I would have thought your wolf brothers would have made sure your mates were better protected than that. Mortals are so much more fragile than us.”
Kajakti took a threatening step toward Tanner. “You will leave her alon
e. If you want to hurt someone, you’re welcome to come at me.”
“All right, since you offered.”
Tanner snarled, then shifted to his wolf form as a black, smoky mass surrounded him. Just as the dark wolf went on the attack, Kajakti launched himself at Tanner, taking on his dire wolf form on the fly. He vaguely heard Jaren’s loud whimper of fear.
They came together in a flurry of sharp teeth and claws. It didn’t take long for Kajakti to realize he was stronger than Tanner. As a dire wolf his teeth were sharper, his legs sturdier than the dark wolf’s timber wolf form. And with the threat to his mate, it made Kajakti fiercer, more willing to go on the attack than the defensive. Tanner had to be eliminated to keep Jaren out of harm’s way.
Kajakti was about to get his jaws around Tanner’s throat and take him down to the ground when he felt a sharp jab in his neck, then he suddenly found himself thrown against a brick wall. He shook his lupine head to clear it as he surged to his paws, ready to engage the enemy once more.
“That is more than enough, sentinel,” Andre said as he stood between Kajakti and Tanner. “We’ll yield this time.” He then looked at Tanner. “You’ve done well, but it’s time we left Kajakti and his mate alone. Now we’ll see what the future brings.”
Andre then ran off with Tanner, who had shifted to his human form, to the opposite end of the alley before they disappeared from sight. Kajakti would have followed them, but at that moment he remembered he couldn’t leave Jaren alone in case the two dark wolves doubled back and came for her.
Kajakti turned in Jaren’s direction and slowly walked toward where she stood with her back pressed up against the brick wall. Her eyes were wide and she breathed at a rapid pace. The scent of fear rolled off her in giant waves. She looked about ready to bolt.
It’s okay now, Jaren, he said to her telepathically. You have nothing to fear from me. I didn’t want you to find out like this. I’d hoped to do it in a much less threatening way.
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