Force of Nature (12 page)

Icy sweat formed on Austin’s body. She would have been there had she not been on this run.

He sat down on the step and let the fact that she was asleep behind him wash over him.

“Was anyone hurt? And did she have insurance?” Austin didn’t want to think about her being hurt. He also didn’t want to think about why. “Tell whoever it is we’ll take care of the damages.”

“Too late. Phil had a crew already doing repairs before the fire department left the scene. He contracted some of our guys to do the work, paid them double to do it today. There were no reported injuries.” His pause made Austin leery. “Then one of the pack members called a bit ago to let me know that a gift card came to them by courier. She sent everyone a five hundred dollar credit card for their inconvenience.”

The fact that he would have done the same thing made him smile. She was something else.

He stood up and looked at the door behind him before he spoke.

“I’m not coming home. I’m going to work this out. I’ve been…well, I’ve been a fool.” He thought his brother snorted, but ignored it. “Work with Phil, get as much cleared away as we can before she gets back.”

They talked for a few more minutes and then hung up. Austin climbed back into the rig and then back into the sleeper. It was do or die time. He needed her in his life whether she wanted it or not. Smiling, he thought it might be fun to see who came out on top.

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CJ woke when she felt someone near. Looking around the semi-dark cab, she saw a shape and nearly cried out when Austin told her it was him. She rolled over on the bed and covered her head when he turned the light on.

“Go away. I have a long day tomorrow and I—hey!” She flipped back over when the covers were stripped off her. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”

“I need to speak to you. Now.” Austin started unbuttoning his shirt. “But first I’m going to shift and I don’t want you to freak out.”

“I don’t freak out, thank you very much. And shift your ass out on the seat. I’m too tired to fuck around tonight.” She found herself watching mesmerized as he undid the buttons. “I want you to stop that right now.”

“I have to stay as a wolf for at least an hour or it’s too much on my system. Don’t scream because we’re too close to the other rigs for them not to hear you.” When he pulled his shirt off and dropped it on the floor, he started on his belt. “I’m taking off my clothes because the shift will tear them up.”

“Shift? I don’t…you’re thinking you’re going to change into a wolf? Here? Now? Oh no you don’t, buck-o. You just get that notion out of your head right now.” She tried sitting up in the bed to get away from him, but he grabbed her leg. “Let me go, Austin. This isn’t funny.”

His belt hit the floor and he worked the snap and zipper with his free hand. She could see his cock hard against his briefs. She licked her suddenly dry lips and looked up at him when he groaned.

“I want you. I want to bury myself deep inside your pussy and fuck you. But you need to see this.” He let go of her leg and pulled his pants free along with his boxers.

Before she could move, there was a tightening in the tiny room. Then he began to change.

She watched as he stretched out his arms and they suddenly became furred. His hands began to morph and his fingers elongated. When he said her name, she looked at his face as it too began to change. His jaw lengthened and teeth began to fill the space left open. Then he was gone. In his place lay a black wolf. She scrambled back to the wall when it moved toward her.

“Stay,” she commanded with her hand up. “Don’t come any closer. I’ll…I’ll shoot you if you do.”

He moved up the bed, crawling with his belly on the mattress. When he touched his nose to her foot, she jerked it close to her body. He lay there for several seconds before he began to crawl again. She was so crunched in the corner she could barely breathe.

His tongue lapped at her hand she had wrapped around her leg. She peeked at him and was surprised to see him sitting close to her, his tongue hanging out like a big, sappy dog.

“If I pet you, will I get to keep all my fingers?” He snorted at her question. At least she thought it did. Either that or it sneezed.

Reaching out tentatively, she brushed her fingers over his chest fur. It was soft and warm.

The need to bury her fingers in its depths made her look at his face. She watched for any sign that he would hurt her while she did as she wanted.

“I’m either really still asleep or there’s a wolf in my bed.” That caused her to laugh, but it sounded sort of maniacal even to her ears. “Okay, so you’re a wolf. Now what?”

Austin, because she didn’t know what else to call him, laid his huge head on her leg when she stretched out. She scratched him behind his ear and thought about all the shit she’d encountered over the past six months. Not sure he could understand her, she lifted his head up and looked him in the eye.

“Blink once if you understand me.” His eyes closed and opened. “Well that could have been a normal blink now couldn’t it? Let me see. Okay, if you understand me…lick my cheek, the right one.”

He stared at her for so long she started to get up, but his big, wet tongue came out and soaked her right cheek. She couldn’t move.

“I’m not freaking out, but you have to admit this is fucked up. I go my entire life as if nothing is out of the ordinary and suddenly I know a pack of wolves and a vampire.” She moved to the edge of the bed to think and he moved closer to her. “You need to back off. I can’t think with you touching me like this.”

He moved back to the other end of the bed and she looked at the doorway. She needed a walk. Needed to just go outside and come back in and things would be back to normal. When she moved toward the opening, the wolf growled deep in his throat. She sat down.

“I can’t think. I was just going out… Why am I explaining this to you? You’re not real. I’m going to go outside and when I come back—” She was lying on the bed and he was over her body. When she opened her mouth, his paw, a big fucking paw, came down on her face. She was reaching up to jerk it off when she heard someone outside the truck.

Whispering, she stayed still. “You heard them, didn’t you? I don’t suppose you can tell me who it is, can you? You know, friend or foe?”

She thought she felt him laugh; his belly, warm against her, sort of rumbled. Then the rattle of the door made her stiffen.

CJ could see that it was locked. She was worried about the other door, the driver’s door, because from where she was, she couldn’t see it. Whoever it was, she decided it was foe. If it had been friend, they would have called out. Both she and the wolf lay very still until Austin got off her, went to the front of the cab, and sat on the seat.

~Chapter Twelve~

Austin sat there for the rest of the hour. He didn’t want to leave her because he knew even if he could have gotten her to open the door, she’d follow him. She would think to protect him even now that he’d shifted for her. When he could shift back, he went back to the sleeper to find her sitting at the end of the bed still and her gun in her hand. Austin didn’t waste any time shifting back this time, but let it come over him quickly.

“You were faster coming back.” The calmness in her voice scared him. “Are you going to get dressed?”

“Do you want me to?” His voice was low and arousal made it deep. She couldn’t stop staring at his cock. “I told you before I want to fuck you. That hasn’t changed.”

His body was on fire. He could see her nipples, hard peaks, brush against her undershirt. She had her hands fist into the sheets so she wouldn’t reach out and touch him, he thought. When he wrapped his hand around his cock for her, she moaned.

“I can smell you, Charlie. Smell your body’s need, your arousal.” He took a step toward her as he continued. “I want to taste you. Lick your juices from your pussy and drink your cum.

Would you like to come in my mouth, on my tongue?”

Yes, she did, he could tell. When he was standing over her, his cock a few inches from her, she licked her lips. His cock jerked in his hand. He needed to be inside her now.

“Lie back. I want to eat you.” She didn’t disobey him, but did just as he commanded. Austin dropped to the floor on his knees and touched her calves. She jerked at his touch.

“Easy, love. I’m not going to hurt you.” He pulled her to the edge of the bed, her legs hanging off as he moved between them. “You smell delicious. Are you wet for me, Charlie?”

Austin moved his fingers along her panties. He wasn’t surprised to find them soaked. Her thighs were also wet. When she tried to bring her legs together, he slid his finger under the elastic and entered her.

“Austin, please,” she begged. “You don’t want to do this. You want…you want to…”

Moving his finger in and out of her, he could feel how tight she was. “I want to eat you until you come over and over. Christ, you’re so wet. I’m going to get my fill of you. But these have to go.”

Removing his finger from her sheath, she whimpered and when he curled his hands in the tiny strips of ribbon on either side of her hips, she started panting. Her breath was heating his skin and he had hardly touched her. Before he tore her panties off, he wanted to see the rest of her.

“Take off the shirt,” he commanded harshly. “Take it off so I can see your breasts. I want to see them tighten when you come.”

She stared at him for several seconds. He could see the glazed look of need in her eyes.

After barking at her again to take it off, she lifted it up over her head and dropped it on the floor beside his discarded clothes.

When he ripped her panties from her body, her breasts jerked. His beast snarled at him to bite. To sink his canines deep into the soft flesh and mark her. Trying to calm the wolf, he shifted on his knees and buried his nose deep in her pussy.

He had tasted her before. But she wasn’t fighting him this time. Her body wanted his; the cream gushing from her pussy told him that. He lapped his tongue from gate to clit and was dizzy from the taste of her. Taking her hard nubbin into his mouth, he sucked hard and entered her again with his finger.

Christ, she was tight. Her channel milked at his finger, pulling him deeper with every thrust.

Using his free hand, he lifted her up until she was a feast before him. Pushing his tongue into her pussy, he gathered her cream and tasted her. Even as he slid another then another finger into her, she filled him. Her bud, ripe for him, beckoned his mouth. Taking her clit into his mouth again, he nipped her and she shattered.

Austin knew he wasn’t going to last. He wanted her with a desperation he’d never felt before. Standing over her, he looked down at her even as her body continued to spasm and jerk.

A fine dew of sweat covered her and he thought if he lived another three lifetimes he’d never see anything more beautiful. Reaching toward the shelf above her head for a condom, not wanting her to refuse him now, he tore the package open even as his wolf snarled for release.

“Take me. Now. I want you to take me now.” Her breathless plea nearly felled him. He held the rolled condom in his hand. “Now, Austin, take me please. I want to feel you inside of me when you come.”

“I won’t last. Not long, I won’t last. And my wolf…he needs to take his bite. He needs to mark you.” He would take her whether she wanted the wolf or not, but he wouldn’t bite her unless she said yes. And he also needed her to understand she’d be his. “The bite, it will mark you. No one will touch you. No one will live if they do.”

She nodded. “Yes. I beg of you, take me.”

He felt the wolf snarl at him and move along his skin. He knew what she was seeing, the change, the shift. His canines sharpened in his mouth and he snarled at her. Coming down onto her, he entered her hard and fast. Then stilled when she cried out.

A virgin. Charlie was a virgin. He calmed then and held himself up on his elbows and looked down at her. Tears ran down her cheeks and using his thumb, he brushed them way.

“You should have told me. I would have…I would have tried to take more care with you.”

She looked up at him.

“I don’t…do you no longer want me?”

Austin burst out laughing. It came from deep within him and startled him. “No. I want you.

Now more than ever.” He brushed another tear away. “Did I hurt you?”

“Yes. No. I don’t…you’re very full in me. I didn’t even have time to wonder if you’d fit.

You didn’t, did you? I’m sorry. Maybe if I move—” She moaned when she shifted her hips.

When she did it again, her eyes widened and her mouth opened. “Austin, can you…will you move? Please?”

He slid out of her tightness only to move back slowly. He could feel the sweat move down his spine, the effort to not hurt her killing him slowly. But the look on her face, the look that told him she was enjoying this, made him want to see to her pleasure over his.

“Wrap your legs around my hips. That’s it.” He groaned when she did as he asked. Reaching down, he cupped her breast and nibbled just on the tip.

Moving slowly, he felt her body responding to his. Her fingers dug into his shoulders and then moved down his back to his ass. Her nails dug deep. He needed to slow her down or he was going to come before she did. Rolling to his back, he brought her with him so that she now spread over him. Adjusting her legs so that she straddled him, he showed her by moving her hips in a ride what to do.

“Oh yes, oh yes. You’re so deep.” He watched her move, her breasts flushed with need.

When he took her hands and cupped them, he nearly swallowed his tongue when she looked down at him while she pinched her nipples.

If he thought to slow things down, he realized this wasn’t going to help. He sat up and took her offered nipple into his mouth and slid his hand between them. Gathering her cream from her clit and stroking it, he moved to her rosette at her ass and rubbed her juices into the puckered entrance.

“I’m going to fuck you here,” Austin told her as he circled the tight muscles. “I’m going to ram my cock deep into you and fuck you from behind. Would you like that? Want to feel my cock taking your ass?”