“Uh-oh,” beth said. “I know that look all too well.
I had thought my mate was safe at the Lodge. I had taken the shower to give her a few minutes alone to snoop around and get settled, sensing she had needed it. Well, it had been that, and the fact that my wolf was still very unsettled. I needed to calm down and relieve myself of the physical pain she was causing.
I hadn’t been that long, but apparently it was long enough for her to plan and execute an escape. When I realized what had happened, I’d dressed quickly and started to track her. ben and my team were in the hallway downstairs just past the elevators laughing and carrying on. I could smell that she had been there.I stopped and growled at them. “Where is she?” I had demanded. “Who?” Baine asked. “You talking about that beautiful chickjordan’s screwing?”
I roared in anger. There was only one female scent and I knew it was myI didn’t know what to think. Between Tom and now ben I was on an emotional overload and I wasn’t familiar with having to deal with my own emotions. I was good at pushing them down, allowing me to think rationally and make solid decisions. But now my head was whirling with everything happening.“Wow, cousins,” Elise said. “How long has it been since you last saw each other?”ben shrugged. “Ten or more years.”I nodded surprised he even remembered. I was struggling to trust him, but it was obvious Patty had also changed a lot in that time.The girls rallied around me. It was like I was already fully accepted by them.“Are you set?” Kelsey asked, sounding truly concerned as she hugged me.I shrugged. “It’s a lot,” I admitted.“Do you need another drink?” beth asked.“I think you’ve had enough,” her mate said, but she just brushed him off.
I could feel Jasmine’s nerves washing over her. I had tried to help her relax before going inside. The water seemed to have a similar calming effect on her that it had on me. She had opened up some and I thought things were going well, but I could feel her shutting me out the moment I mentioned going inside.She was hesitant going in, but relaxed a little once inside, likely overwhelmed by my scent. I knew hers was soothing me and I hoped it was the same for her.“Wow, this is nice, Tom,” she said. My wolf stirred in excitement when she said my name. I liked hearing it roll easily off her tongue.“I’ve never required much,” I confessed.She shrugged. “I live out of this bag,” she told me.“That’s it? That’s all your belongings?” I asked unable to believe what she was telling me.“Well, no, and yes. I do own more clothes than this. This is my minimalist pack.”&l
Sleeping next to Jasmine wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I was usually a light sleeper. Comes with the job, but I crashed hard with her next to me.When I awoke the next morning, I was holding her in my arms as she used my chest as her personal pillow. I looked down at the beautiful creature next to me, so full of mystery and strength. I’d never met anyone quite like her before and having her there next to me, touching me in an intimate way, made me feel calmer and more at peace than I’d ever experienced in my entire life. It also made me hard, but there was no way I was going to be able to hide that fact.I laid as still as I could, not wanting to disturb her, but watching her gently wake was the sexiest thing I’d ever experienced in my entire life. She moved slowly like a sultry goddess. I didn’t think she realized it, but she was rubbing herself against me. When she started to moan, I wasn’t sure how much longer I co
My whole life I’ve felt like I was on the outside looking in. One night with Tom, and I suddenly felt like I finally belonged somewhere, like this was where I was supposed to be, and it scared the hell out of me.I was a loner, but I didn’t feel so alone when he was near. In a way it was freaking me out that I needed someone else to feel complete, but only when he wasn’t there, and I was thinking with my brain instead of my heart.Living in the Irish Clan, women were looked down upon. We were told we didn’t need college, and we weren’t expected to work either. The role of the female was to make babies and keep house. It was an archaic view that I knew I could never live up to.My mom had worked. She was a cook at one of our small restaurants, and Aidan had harbutted her for years to take another mate and give up working. He even went so far as to find her a mate. I was sixteen at the time. He was a brutal man who beat my mother when s
While Kelsey and the girls were entertaining Jasmine, I headed down to the Lodge and found the team working out in the gym hidden beneath it.“She leave you already?” Baine asked.I frowned and flipped him off. “Kelsey and the girls have bonded with her and they’re having lunch today.”“Man, no good ever comes of those girls together,” Ben warned me. “I couldn’t tell her no. I want her to actually make friends and feel athome here,” I told him. “Are you saying I shouldn’t encourage her to be friends with your mate?”“My mate is a saint, so you’re good there. It’s the group of them that spells trouble.”“I thought you weren’t coming in today,” alex said.I shrugged. “Wanted to get the debriefing over while it’s fresh.” “Sure, I’ll get O’Connell’s butt in here and we can wrap things up
I was still withering in pain in the now warm water when Tom returned. The only thing enticing me out of the tub, was the delicious aroma of pizza covered in meat.I heard Tom moving around in the kitchen as I tried to convince myself to get up. There was no way I was putting clothes on anytime soon. He was going to have to deal with me living naked for the next several days at least.“T, you still in the tub?” he shouted.“Yes,” I confessed.The door opened and he walked in with the pizza. He sat on the floor and pbutted me a paper plate and a large slice with no expectations of me getting out to eat. I didn’t want to say how happy that made me, but the smirk on his face told me he already knew.I took a big bite and moaned in pleasure.“Good, right?”“So good,” I finally managed to say before taking another bite. He was staring at me. He shook his head. “I hope you like pizza,b
Waking with Jasmine in my arms could quickly become and addiction. I hadn’t marked her body yet, but I had claimed her in every other way and we both knew it. I had never planned on taking a mate, but there was no way I could ever walk away from her. I was whipped, done, and loving every second of it.I still didn’t know what that would mean for me on the Force, but if it came down to it, I knew I’d walk away from my team for her. I still hoped we’d be able to make it work for me to keep both, but I was already resolved to the fact that I would do whatever was best for her.She stretched and groaned, no doubt sore from our love making. She had tried to tell me she wasn’t capable of having more than one orgasm. I’d proved her wrong three times before she had finally pbutted out on me with a big smile on her face.“Good morning,” she said. “What time is it?”I kissed her before answering. I wanted to s
I couldn’t believe how quickly my life had changed. Tom was right, we’d just fallen right into place like two pieces of the same puzzle. I wasn’t ready to tell him that just yet though. I liked making him sweat.We had a good routine down in only a few days, and he’d let me do a little redecorating to bring some life to the old cabin. It made the place feel like mine too, like home.After the girls’ dozenth call for me to his cell phone, he’d broken down and got me one. I had never had a cell before. They were easily traceable and dangerous on the job, but I conceded to using it when I was in San Marco.I’d already been added to the /Collier family text group and introduced to Shelby and Lizzy’s other sisters that I hadn’t met yet. I’d been officially declared an honorary sister. They were borderline insane at times, but it was great having friends for the first time in my life. Yet