“Gareth specializes in annoying me. It’s his idea of foreplay,” Brandi said stiffly.
“You just need to train him better. Guys will do most anything for you if they know there’s sex in it for them at the end. Ask Gareth for a foot rub or a massage,” Heidi suggested.
Ariel saw Brandi’s indignant look pass from Heidi to her and back to Heidi. She couldn’t imagine Brandi asking Gareth for a hug or kiss, much less a foot rub. Their coupling hadn’t left much of an impression on the former agent.
Firmly pushing aside her escalating concern, she told herself that fixing Brandi’s love life wasn’t her problem to solve. Neither was putting a hiatus on Heidi’s.
“Ladies, I have no answers, but I will be here if you need me. Right now I plan to enjoy my conjugal rights. I suggest you make the most of your situations while you can. You never know what kind of change tomorrow is going to bring.”
Heidi’s friendly, caring hug surprised her, but Ariel hugged back because it felt right to do so. She smiled as the most carefree female she’d ever met happily trotted off to the unsuspecting, and soon to be disappointed, Ryan.
Head down, Brandi stepped close to her which had Ariel raising an eyebrow. “Did you change your mind. You want a hug now after all?”
“Yes. I want a hug. Bite me,” Brandi said, cringing at her enormous relief when Ariel laughed and pulled her into her arms. “I hate this. When did I start needing hugs? It’s all Gareth’s damn fault that I’m getting mushy.”
Ariel grinned as she turned loose. “You still sleeping with him?”
Brandi nodded and sighed. “He doesn’t give me any choice in the matter. If I sneak off to the spare bedroom after sex, Gareth just comes and gets me. No matter where I fall asleep, I always wake up in his bed. He’s gotten good at ignoring my complaints about it.”
Ariel smiled. “Gareth’s practically tapping his foot with his impatience to take you home. I see him doing that all the time. I think it means he likes you.”
Brandi huffed. “I better go. It’s only for a couple more days. I can deal.”
“Instead of ‘dealing’, try enjoying the attention. I’ll see or talk with you tomorrow,” Ariel called to Brandi’s waving hand as she disappeared into the dark with Gareth.
Sighing with relief when she heard Gareth’s vehicle starting, she turned to Matt. “Apparently I pissed off my pack when I mated you. Since when does an alpha need her pack’s permission to do anything? I thought it was supposed to work the other way.”
Matt chuckled. “They must have gotten over their mad pretty quickly. Both hugged you goodbye.”
Ariel laughed and leaned against his arm. “We’re an all-female pack. Hugging is what we do. It’s sort of a biological imperative for us.”
“I’m sorry, but I feel I must correct your assumptions, Dr Jones. You’re not an all female pack any more,” Matt said, pulling down the collar of his shirt. “See this? The pack alpha marked me as hers. I’m part of her pack now.”
Ariel leaned forward and kissed her mark on him. It caused butterflies to flutter in her stomach every time she touched it. “That works for me. My pack could use a few good males.”
Matt smiled. “I think you’re going to get at least two more.”
“That’s what you think. Brandi’s leaving in two days and Heidi made me forbid her to mate Ryan.”
Matt’s eyebrows shot up in shock, but when they lowered, he laughed. “I stand by what I said. I know both of those men.”
“I personally wouldn’t put a bet on them,” Ariel declared.
Matt grinned. “Well, I would.”
Ariel looked him up and down. “Okay. What kind of bet?”
“I want a child for each couple that mates for life.”
Ariel barked out a laugh. “Ha! What will I get if they don’t mate?”
Matt chuckled. “You will still get a child for each couple. There is no chance of me losing. I have great instincts about relationships.”
Ariel laughed at Matt’s bragging. “All I heard was blah, blah, blah and ‘here honey—here’s ten times more responsibility for you’. No bet, buster. We’re using condoms when I come into heat, which thankfully will be several months from now.”
“It will be two months and nine days—give or take a day. You should probably note it on the calendar in the kitchen if you want me to buy condoms,” Matt said, taking her hand as he pulled her inside. They walked up the stairs to his bedroom—their bedroom—and he smiled the whole time thinking about how lucky he was.
“How can you know when I’ll go into heat?” Her eyes widened when Matt pointed at his nose. “You can smell hormonal changes in me? I don’t believe you.”
“Fine. Run all the scientific tests you want. It won’t change the outcome.”
Ariel threw up her hands, far beyond embarrassed. Matt could smell her hormone shifts? That had to be impossible. “So how does this work? Am I supposed to come to you when I want to know the date of the next one?”
Matt grinned at her indignation and backed her up until her legs hit the bed. “Instead of using protection, many couples simply abstain during the female’s heat cycle. I think we should practice all we can while it’s still our safe time.”
“Safe time? Did you make up all that stuff just so you could seduce me tonight?”
His answer was a husky laugh and a searing kiss as their bodies tumbled to the mattress. “I don’t have to lie to get my way, Ariel. I’m an alpha. I can just take what I want. Remember?”
After all his teasing, his sensual dare was more than she had the power to resist.
“Big talk, Alpha. I’ve had your entire pack looking at my breasts all day. After that, I dare you to shock me,” Ariel challenged, quivering in anticipation.
“Challenge accepted,” Matt smiled, his teeth extending in anticipation.
Ariel laughed as Matt shredded the clothes from her body, and then squealed when he buried his face between her legs. The unleashed Gray Wolf Alpha sent her over passion’s edge in less than a minute. Protests flitted through her mind, dying one by one as he adjusted her body into whatever position he wanted to use to torture her next. After the first three screaming orgasms, everything else became a blur of sensation after sensation.
She lost track of time again, but suspected his torment lasted for several hours. When her alpha finally tired of proving his point, he told her he loved her and fell into an exhausted sleep on top of her. There wasn’t even enough energy left at that point to push him off.
Ariel promised herself that when she recovered from their sexual marathon, she was going to make Matt pay—one way or another.
But when he woke her with kisses and promises of ham for breakfast, all she remembered was spending a wicked night with her alpha mate alternately laughing and begging for mercy.
# # The End # #
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