by Crystal Dawn
She kept up with my swift pace with a knowing look in her eyes. Was it because she knew what I felt or because she felt the same burning need that I did? I opened the door and pulled her in. I wouldn’t be denied, not for another second. I closed the door and pulled her into my arms and devoured her. I was so hungry for her I had little time to spare before I would just explode. Clothing was torn and flung away in all directions. My hands filled with her breasts as my mouth continued to gobble her up. I stepped back and lifted her into my arms carrying her to our bed. I stripped in seconds before joining her there.
Heat shot through me, intense and glorious as my mate lay spread out before me like the most precious gift I had ever received. I could scent her readiness so I didn’t hold back, I just slammed into her all the way. Nothing had ever felt half as good and I slid out to impale her on my rigid length once more. We both shuddered our need so great we were halfway there already. I banged the hell out of her going in fast and out slow, hitting every sensitive spot along the way. My body tensed in preparation for one violent orgasm. It was almost upon me before my mind, completely focused on getting there, realized it was there.
My toes curled almost painfully as tingles raced up and down my back. I felt delicious heat everywhere our bodies made contact and pleasure flooded me. Her body froze for a moment and then her muscles clutched and clenched my hard shaft. Her channel felt like a vacuum cleaner as it pulled my essence out of me in bursts. I felt both tension and relief and I emptied into her vessel. Each stream of cum built up painfully before the release eased the pain. It seemed to go on and on, the pleasure with a pinch of pain until it finally stopped. My heart beat like a runaway train and my breath came in short pants.
My lady was in a similar shape and I knew we would succumb to exhaustion once we caught our breath. I rolled us to our sides ready to wrap myself around her and steal a late afternoon nap with my mate.
Alas, there was no rest for the weary and my phone buzzed at the same moment that a knock came at the door. I sighed my disappointment as my mate and I looked at one another.
“No reason you can’t take a nap Honey.” I told her with a kiss as I got up to answer the phone and yell at the door. “Be there in a moment.”
My Sherona didn’t stay in bed and I hadn’t really expected her to but I’d hoped she would, since the change had taken a lot out of her. It didn’t matter what I thought, my mate would do it her way. While I was lost in thought, she got dressed and ready to go before me. I hurried to dress so we could leave together. I wondered what we’d been summoned for but I knew it was important. I led Sherona down the hall and toward my office where I suspected we would meet with all or most of my advisors/betas. I was sure it had something to do with Nola, her son, or both of them.
When we got to my office the door was open so we swept right in. I took the chair behind my desk and Sherona took the seat next to me that was vacant awaiting her. Everyone seemed to be there including Jericho. Edward sat at his seat and he and Jasper seemed to be communicating silently.
“Anyone care to enlighten us as to what’s going on?” I asked as my eyes fell on Edward and then Jasper. Edward nodded but Jasper began to speak and I realized he’d been nodding at Jasper giving him the go ahead.
“Our hunters recovered the pup Gus.” He shared.
“Is he alright?” Sherona asked.
Jasper smiled. “He is except he’s tired, dirty and hungry. He also misses his mother. All his needs are being taken care of as we speak but the last one and we’re working on that. One of my hunters was out around ten miles north of here searching in a pattern for any sign of the pup, his mother, or the surviving rogues we suspected in taking them. It was Niles, the young one, and he stopped thinking he’d heard an odd noise.” Jasper paused to take a sip of water and knowing him, to make sure all eyes and ears were on him. The Niles he spoke of was named after a beloved uncle. The older Niles didn’t get out much because he was a historian of sorts and his interests were of the inside variety. “He stood waiting to see if this odd noise would repeat itself or if another unusual noise would make itself heard. It did, so he slowly moved to the right being careful not to make a sound that would alert anyone to his presence. The wolf moves like a ghost and he doesn’t miss much. He examined the area carefully and decided whoever or whatever it was, lay low in an effort not to be seen. A whimper came from the spot he had narrowed the sounds down to so he took a chance and approached quickly. That’s where he found the child in the questionable condition he was in.”
“So what are we concluding?” I asked with interest.
“We believe they underestimated the pup and he escaped. He’d clearly run through some rough woods judging by the cuts and scratches he had all over his body. Many have healed by now, but he was pretty torn up. There was no sign of pursuit so we’re assuming they decided to just let him go rather than try to chase him down. That also supports our theory that the mother was the target and the child just an extra victim that became a burden. Recovering him has helped us fine tune our estimate on where she is if they haven’t moved her.”
“Very good work everyone. I’m assuming your hunters are now in the area you fine tuned?” I ask smiling with the new hope we now had.
“Yes and we’re marking out places as we speak. If they stay put, we’ll have covered the area by morning and she will be found.”
“Great news. Is there anything else to see to?”
“I’d like to see you after the meeting.” Edward said softly.
“Since that’s it, everyone can go.” I said but Sherona and I sat with Edward waiting for the room to empty. It didn’t take long and I was glad because I was curious to know what Edward wished to say.
“I have spoken to the council and it seems that they are now willing to give us flexibility with the targets and pay us for dealing with them. They will pay more for captures but they will pay a bounty per head.”
“Good news and we will give out bonuses to our wolves on this. They risk life and limb.” It was mostly young hunters with a few experienced ones that were going on this mission but they needed the money to get there young lives started. “Tell Jasper to tell his wolves there will be bonuses if all targets are taken out and Nola comes back to us safely.”
“It will encourage them to be careful but effective.” Edward approved. He left us and I knew my mate had questions.
“Do they often give a bounty and why didn’t they just do this first?” She asked.
“They used to give bounties but it was decided it inflamed the hunters. Now that the council is being cleaned up, many of the old ways are being brought back. The coffers were probably drained by the corrupt council members so they didn’t offer what they weren’t sure they could pay. One of the council probably guaranteed the payment so they went ahead.”
“Will they ever straighten out the mess the last council left behind?” She asked.
“They will especially with strong wolves like Damon leading the work. Every victory moves us one step closer to accountability and fair leadership. We will have the honest government we deserve that will be fair and there for their citizens instead of the other way around.” I said with conviction. I hoped she understood I believed we could have fair an equitable treatment of all and that all wolves would live a life free of poverty. We had some problems often considered human troubles, but it wasn’t humans that had caused these failings for us but our own greedy leaders too busy filling their own pockets to look out for the weaker and in need in our own population.”
I knew I sounded like a politician on a campaign trail, but I felt the needs of my people deep inside like few others seemed to. The McDougals and others that mated white wolves all seemed to have similar outlooks and I figured eventually we would ally, maybe that had been the big picture all along. Imagine what we could do to make our world a better place for the average wolf.
“I believe in you, Aristotle Strong.” My Sherona said and I believed that she di
d. If she hadn’t, I would never have had a hope of claiming her. “You’ll never have a thing to worry about when I’m behind you because I’ll always have your back!”
Had I not already been hopelessly in love with her, at that moment I would have fallen in all the way. “Why my lady, I believe you do.”
A throat cleared and I was brought back to reality. Poo Edward had been forced to sit and listen to us two love birds carry on. “I’m going to check on Gus. I met him a few days ago so he’ll remember me.” Sherona said and she gave me a quick kiss as she squeezed my hand. She hurried out and I watched her until she was out of sight.
I turned to Edward who had a look of undisguised longing on his face. Maybe he did want a mate but hadn’t found one. “I’m very happy for you old friend.” He said and he turned away but I thought I saw the glimmer of tears in his eyes. It couldn’t be because alpha wolves didn’t cry, or at least the males didn’t.
We talked a little more but in the back of my mind I wondered if I’d done my friend a disservice by not encouraging him to find a mate. In the past I’d always thought him unmated by choice and I knew he’d not found his soul mate. We’d discussed it when I mated Joetta and he’d supported that decision completely. Maybe he’d not believed in a perfect mate before and things had changed for him now. How could I find out without sticking my nose where I knew it wasn’t welcome?
I watched him walk from my office with his head held high but I wondered what the condition of his heart was. I had always thought him a little cool when it came to emotions but maybe he just kept a wall around his feelings. It was a problem for another time, right now reuniting a scared little pup with his mother needed to be accomplished.
The hunters were hard at work scouting the area they had calculated as being close enough that a pup Gus’s age could have made it from. They added a little all the way around just to be positive nothing would be missed. Fifty or so hunters were going over every inch of that ground with a fine toothed comb. They looked for Nola, any sign of her that might have been left behind and any sign of the rogues we were looking for.
I hoped Sherona would come to me after she got Gus settled in. I would feel better once I knew that little guy was being seen to and put to bed. It was my deepest hope that when he woke in the morning his mother would be there to give him a hug and a kiss. There was nothing I could do for him that would hold a candle to that. I stayed in my office waiting for updates and my sweet mate to come back to me. I knew she would hunt me down once she was done because her sense of need to know out weighed that of everyone else I knew.
An update came about thirty minutes in. They had divided the search grid into zones and one zone was clear with no signs of anyone suspicious. Another thirty minutes and another clear zone with nothing found but a young couple parking. I could go rest, but my need to be on top things kept me where I was. I leaned back getting comfortable while I waited.
I must have nodded off because the phone shocked me awake and I almost fell out of the chair. It was another zone cleared and still no news to tell. Sherona made her way into the office. I had known that she would find me.
“That poor little boy, he’s such a brave one. We got him cleaned up while the cook fixed him a plate of food. I sat and talked to him but at first he was just too busy eating to talk. As he filled up his eating slowed down and he was able to talk about what had happened. He said his mom was over the moon about the job and moving to the pack house once she got use to the idea. She was packing up stuff in the house when she remembered some of his toys and stuff from when he was a baby. There was a wolf nursery rhyme that was popular with the little ones so she was looking everywhere for it.”
“Maybe you should tell me the rest in bed?” I asked when she paused to breath. She shot me a nasty look. I guess not.
“It seems she remembered that she’d moved it to the shed out back. So she went out to the shed telling Gus to stay inside, but he followed her out. She’d just found the box and was getting the other stuff cleared off it when the rogues came around. She asked them to leave but they didn’t listen. Gus even told them his mama would spank them if they weren’t good boys but they just laughed. Gus said one of them went for him first and he kicked him in his leg in the spot Jericho always taught the young ones to go for. The guy let Gus lose but he was pissed and he came after him again. Gus just wasn’t fast enough to get away. He looked up and some big bad guy had his mama and she was a kickin’ and a screamin’ up a storm but they wouldn’t let either of them go.”
“Jasper said they put up one helluva fight.”
“Gus said they had to drag them every step of the way. They got them to the road and pulled them through a hole in the fence. A big van was parked there and they threw them in the back and locked the door. They didn’t bother to tie them up because some of them sat back there with them. Gus said they drove a few miles up the road and they let a couple of the guys out. He said it wasn’t very far.”
I looked at Sherona when I realized what she’d said. Some of the rogues might be staying close by. If the pup was right, they were almost on top of us. I sent Jasper a text. Cell phones were a neat invention that had helped me keep in touch with my pack. Not all wolves embrace technology or new concepts of any kind. I waded through the new inventions picking those that contributed to our organization. If it didn’t show it benefitted us, we dropped it and moved on. Not everything new was good, but not everything new was bad either. I nodded at Sherona to continue, I was done updating my wolves for now.
“Once they dropped of at least two of their guys, they turned to the right and continued for sometime. Gus fell asleep so he couldn’t say how long they drove. They finally got wherever it was they were going and they pulled his mama out of the van and she fell. He said they laughed because she was hurt. He said he wanted to kill them but he knew you would find them and take care of them for him.”
The faith that pup put in me made my eyes water, but I didn’t cry. Everyone knew alpha wolves, the male ones, didn’t cry. I smiled as I thought I would hopefully not disappoint this youngling. If I found them, I would make them pay. How much I made them pay depended on Nola’s condition. I would extract payment for every pain and every tear. No one blamed a mother for crying in fear for her child’s safety.
“He said they hustled them into a building that smelled like a basement. They wouldn’t let him stay with his mama and he told them they’d be sorry. They put him in a little room and they didn’t watch him very carefully. He slept a little and they even fed him some food a few hours later. When he got a chance, he took it and ran. He ran so hard and so far, he wasn’t sure how far he went. He rested for a little while and ran some more. He finally couldn’t go any farther and he lay down to try to sleep. He heard someone out there and he was afraid it was them so he was as quiet as he could be. Niles found him anyway but once he knew it was Niles, he was happy. He knew he would be safe and he could help you find his mama.”
“That was quite a tale. The boy may become a storyteller.”
“You mean like I am?”
“If he’s lucky.” I said earning me a smile.
Another update came in on my phone so I checked it. The area was cleared but there were signs that led to the next area. Jasper had also gone searching and found one of the rogues Gus had told us about nearby. That little pup was going to get part of the reward for that one. Things were picking up and even though it was getting late and I was tired I felt I had to be ready for anything.
“What’s up?” Sherona wanted to know.
“What’ll you give me for telling you?” I asked flirtatiously or so I thought.
“It’s what you won’t get if you don’t tell me you should be concerned with.” She whispered.
“Aw you’re no fun.” I complained.
“That’s not what you said earlier today.” She reminded me.
My eyes heated with the memory. “That was then and this is now. What have you done for me lately?�
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“Just like a male.” She said as she sat on my lap. “It’s always about right now.” She leaned in and kissed me lightly pulling back when I started to deepen it. She was teasing me and I could tell her right upfront I couldn’t take it.
“Keep that up, and you’ll get a big surprise.” I promised.
“How big?” She asked but she slid her hand along my crotch and she knew exactly how big. “Oh, wow, is that for little ole me?”
I nodded solemnly. “Here.” I said as I thrust my phone to her so she could read the updates herself.
“This will be coming to an end soon.” She said as if she was relieved.
“Is that a white wolf prediction?” I asked curiously.
“No, that’s an evaluation of the facts with a little gut feeling thrown in.”
She settled in my arms and I was tempted to take her to bed so she could rest but the feeling that something would happen soon was on me as well so we stayed there.
I moved to the small couch in a corner of the office with her in my arms. We could settle down where we’d be more comfortable and maybe my mate would get some sleep even though I saw no way I could.
The first thing I was aware of when I woke was Edward lightly shaking my shoulder. I shifted my position so I slid out from under my sleeping mate. I settled her in and we exited the room to talk. I knew it was serious for Edward to wake me.
“They think they’ve found her. Her scent is nearby, but it could be recent and not current. Several of the rogues are there, we fear if we attack they will use her for leverage.”
I nodded I understood. “Any suggestions on what we should try?”
“Jasper has two gorgeous female hunters. He thinks sending them in might give us an edge. They are armed with hidden weapons so they can take out any threat to themselves if necessary.”