by Lisa Lace
"We have to be quick. We need to get back to the others."
He moaned the words against her mouth, making sure again that she knew this would be no long, leisurely session.
"Then you might want to let me down so I can get these damn pants off, don't you think?"
He growled in response, pulling away from her just enough to let her unwind her legs from his body and stand on her own two feet.
He spun her then, making her face the tree. His hands had her pants down around her knees before she could fully catch her footing.
His fingers slid into her wetness, pulling her ass against his cock even as he teased her lips, parting them and diving deeply into her center.
She braced herself against the tree as she spread her legs as far as she could with her pants still around her knees.
His one arm wrapped around her waist, his hand sliding under her shirt to grip her breast as his other hand pressed and circled her clit. He bent her forward a bit more, bending his knees. His eyes rolled back in his head as his cock slid between her ass cheeks, dipping lower and then sliding in her wetness as he aimed for the tight sheath he was dying to bury himself in.
He slid home, filling her full in one quick thrust of his hips and she moaned as she pressed back against him, using the tree for leverage.
He knew it wouldn't take him long, not like this. He needed her orgasm to come first though, and he was willing to stay still, fingering her as he filled her, but she seemed to be as needy for release as he was.
Her hips rocked as she rubbed herself against his fingers and fill herself with his cock.
He was afraid that he'd lose it if he moved any more than he was, if he buried himself deeper than he already was.
Their flesh slid and slapped together, both of them chasing a release only the other could give them.
He leaned forward and kissed her neck as she started to come.
"Make me yours, Mac."
"You've been mine since I saw you."
"I mean, mark me. Claim me. I want to wear the mark Sandra and Keelyn wear. I want the world to know I belong to you. It's the same, right? With wolves and bears?"
"Yes. I can't turn you, like you asked before. Shifting is genetic, but marking you is forever."
"Love me forever, Mac. Fuck me forever. Please."
Her words, and her frantic thrusting, filling herself with his cock and slapping her ass back against him, made his balls tighten up, preparing to fill her with his seed as well as his length, and he knew he'd never deny her anything she asked for.
He scraped the tender skin on her neck with his teeth, and then he bit down, claiming her as his as her pussy clenched around his shaft and her orgasm pulled the last of his control from him.
Her waves milked him dry as he spilled every bit of himself inside her. He gave her all that he was, and she took it, giving him her body, her trust and her future, linking them forever.
* * *
Later, at the house, Keelyn organized the collection of lion hearts and hides, then buried the bodies, figuring they might was as well collect the bounties.
"No use letting them go to waste when we could always use more money," she said. "Besides, we could use the cash when we head to the castle to take out the source of whatever has decided to come after us. After you."
Mac grinned to himself as he watched Bane try to tell her that as his mate, her family would never want for anything again, let alone money, but he guessed that old habits died hard. Eventually Bane agreed to help Keelyn, since she seemed determined not to let them be buried whole, but cashed in on instead.
Naythan and Sandra seemed to take everything they learned, from Ivy shifting lion to Patty's question of her sister's rape in stride.
Enid though, was another story.
She didn't come out of the house until all the fighting was done, and she didn't appreciate Bella questioning her about why Naythan, Sandra and Ash were all made to stay outside from the moment everyone had left the day before until now.
"What about Ivy? Now that you know she's a shifter, will you let your own daughter inside? Or Keelyn? Or me?"
Bella grilled her mother, seeming to Mac oddly angry for someone who probably would have taken the same stand just twenty-four hours ago.
Mac looked at Enid, wondering how she'd answer. Would her children be welcomed in her house, or would their shifter-ness, in Ivy's case, and shifter's mate status, in both Keelyn and Bella's, tear this family apart from the inside out?
Enid finally spoke.
"My mother's truth lies at the castle, correct? This lion shifter, Ace, may be my father? He may be the shifter who raped her? I know, I know, you say Patty has her doubts. But I don't. Why would mom lie? After all those years? Why would she tell me, years later, after her father had died and could no longer affect her life, why would she still say that she was raped? If it wasn't true, that would have been the time to come clean. She could've told me that she loved a shifter, and forces at the time made her say it was rape. She could have nursed me with love for my real father, the man she couldn't have, because the times dictated it. But instead she nursed me on stories of how he took her and forced himself on her. No, I don't believe for a minute that it was consensual. Even after her husband, the man who raised me as my father, died she still said it was rape.
It was her story that drove your dad to hunt them as well. And he died for it, killed by her mate's mother," she said those last few words with more disgust than Bella had ever heard from her before, jerking her head toward Keelyn. "Her mate's mother killed your father, and yet she still takes him to her bed."
She took a breath, realigning her original rant back toward her own mother, Lauren.
"My mother had every chance to change her story, but she never did. I know you say Patty thinks it was consensual, but that can't be the truth. It can't. And now you're trying to tell me you believe this shit, too? I see that fresh bite on your neck. I know how that got there. You and your sister have both been brainwashed somehow."
"And Ivy, Mom? What about Ivy?"
"Well that just proves my point, doesn't it? She obviously carries shifter blood. You can't deny that."
"No one is denying that, the only question now is was it really rape?"
"Well, I guess there is just one way to find that out, isn't there? We're going to the castle."
"You're coming with us?" Bane asked. "That's not a good idea. We need to travel fast, and I highly doubt you'd be willing to ride."
That did seem to stump Enid, but just for the space of a breath.
"I'll ride Ivy."
"I'm sorry, you'll what?" Ivy asked.
"Do you want the truth or not?"
"Well, yes, but..."
"The truth lies at the castle, as does the King. Let's go. You guys save the King, and I'll get my confirmation."
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