SHADOW I couldn’t think straight. My head was plagued with so much desire to feel the bulging length deliciously teasing my clit through my pajama shorts. Sure, I was wet and sensitive. My core was throbbing, but I wanted more like the air I breathed, as if I was running out of it. Califf continued attacking me with slow strokes of his tongue against mine in my mouth as he groaned and shifted his hips until he nestled between my legs. His hard length grew even bigger, pressed against my aching core. I’d never been aroused like this. Every touch he made, every ground of the heavy ridge of his cock, was torture, driving me insane. He ripped the shirt off my body without warning, enough to make me gasp. My breathing became quicker as he slipped his big hand into my bra, cupped my breast, and rolled my nipple between his fingers. I writhed underneath him. He unfastened the bra, took it off me, and threw it off the floor. “Oh, Goddess.” I bit my bottom lip to stifle my moan, but it was

SHADOW “Penny for the thoughts?” I felt like my body was always burning and yearning for his touch. What we did last night was not part of the plan. It just happened, and I didn’t have the will to stop him. In fact, I thought I was losing my mind if he left me unsated. “I’m thinking of something.” His mouth was on the side of my neck where a mate bit his mate, but I wasn’t worried if he forced himself on me. It would be painful, though, if he bit me without my permission. His hand went on my tummy, tracing up between the valley of my breasts. “Like what?” I tried to focus on letting him talk, but what he did was a huge distraction, making my wolf purr in delight. I bit my bottom lip when he cupped my breast with his hand. “I could use Marcus’ expertise.” He ran his tongue across the back of my neck while twisting my nipple between his fingers, breaking out a moan from my throat. “Califf,” I called his name, but it came out as a beg. “Take your top off.” He pushed his rigid lengt

SHADOW “That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. Given the threat outside this compound, you can’t go wandering outside.” My idea didn’t sound appealing to Lyon. It never would. Of course, why did I have to be surprised? He knew the ins and outs of the territory. He was the lead warrior, after all. “You can’t also lock me up inside, Lyon.” I turned to Califf, who hadn’t said anything but was tapping his fingers on his desk. “And you don’t have a say in this? That’s odd, given what we talked about last night.” “I don’t wanna fight with you, but Lyon is right, baby.” I widened my eyes at him. He just called me baby before his men. My face flushed. “They know. They can smell my scent on you.” “I took a shower and applied a lot of deodorant.” My face was probably beet red right now, making him smile, and he didn't even try to hide it from these men. I squeezed my eyes briefly and breathed deeply before facing Lyon, Zack, Tor, and Kairo. “Really?” They nodded in unison with their

CALIFF “So you mean to say. It’s not an option?” My hopes just crumbled down. My plan was a complete waste. “Yeah,” Marcus confirmed it. “Unless you abandon this compound because it’s completely contaminated with silver nitrate in the air, water, soil, and trees. Everything. If not, we will all die.” “What do you have in mind then?” “Dart gun with silver nitrate solution, or silver bullets, but you know the effect. I can wire an IED outside the compound and mix it with silver, but like I said, it’s hard to clean up. Or we will stick to plain Semtex. Your choice, Alpha.” “Santi is upgrading the security system. I’m adding cameras and sensors, but it’s only an alert. The rest of that, we have to fight if they’re coming to us as a threat. I may have allies, but it will take minutes to hours before they arrive.” “Just IED then, plain Semtex. Where can we buy it?” “I’ll take care of that, Marcus.” “Let me know when it arrives so that I can start planting it. I may need assistants,

SHADOW “Can we do it next week?” I was still negotiating despite the distraction before me. “Uh-uh.” He shook his head. With my thighs spread before him for his feasting, he began swirling his tongue around my entrance. “Cal— Goddess.” My feet pressed against the mattress, toes curling as he sucked my folds into his mouth and flicked his talented tongue on my clit. My muscles strained. My chest rose and fell as I started panting when his hands came to my breasts, cupping them and pinching my nipples until I squirmed. I only had a chance to drink water after we completed the mating, then he fucked me again, made love to me, fingered me, then again spread and exposed me before him. He wasn’t done, and it was already four in the morning. I wasn’t tired, though, just my pussy a little sore, but with the pleasure he promised to give me, I wouldn’t resist even if I could. He continued laving my entrance like his favorite flavor of ice cream, occasionally sucking from my forbidden hole