The Faerie Master (Aaron's Kiss Series) (26 page)

Shawn nearly laughed out loud when he breached the doorway and stepped out into the yard.
Four men stood around a lone wolf.
They looked to be bloodied and torn up.
The smaller alpha in the middle was pristine and seemed to be not a little nervous.
Shawn went to stand next to Bradley and Vladimir.
He could feel the humor rolling off the two men.

“Problem here?”
Shawn asked and then grinned wider when Bradley snorted.
Val just laughed outright.

“No problem.
These four seem to think that the one in the middle is someone they should be loyal to.
I’ve given them the opportunity to join with me and...What did you say his name was again?
Gabriella?” Bradley asked one of the standing men.

“You almost got it.
It’s Gabriel.
He says that we ain’t to go to you ‘cause you are gonna kill us anyway.”
This came from the biggest of the men.

“You got that part right.
I will kill you if you stand with that moron.
This is the last time I make this offer.
Come away from him and I’ll make you a part of my pack.
Provided that you behave, that is.
If you stand there, say, another ten minutes, I’ll sic my pack on you and kill you before you can shift back to wolf.
Up to you.
You’re on my land, in my territory now.
Pack law states that I am well within my rights to do so.”

The littlest man, Bill, stepped away.
When the wolf in the middle growled Bill stepped away again.
He looked up at Bradley.

“I got me a family.
A mate and three cubs.
They come too?
He said that you’d kill them just because you can.
I’m not so sure that I believe him anymore.”

“Smart man.
Come over here and you and yours will be safe.
I’m a fair man. Ask any of these men and women with me.
Time is running out, gentlemen. Live or die, but hurry up and decide.
My own mate is waiting for me and I tire of standing in the waning night.”

Bill moved away and toward the pack.
When he was close enough Bradley nodded to the other men and moved toward them.
Shawn thought it was going to be bloody when suddenly the three remaining men walked toward him and Bradley, leaving their pack alpha standing alone.
Bradley stopped five feet from Gabriel.

“Shift.
Now.”
The change was immediate.
Only a powerful alpha could make another shift.
And Bradley was very powerful.
“You have anything to say before I let this man kill you?”

Shawn was startled to realize he was talking about him.
He moved to stand just beside and slightly behind Bradley.
They both knew what had been done to his mate had been ordered by this man and Bradley was giving Shawn a great honor by letting him have first blood.

“You can’t kill me. I’m pack, their pack.
As alpha, I demand that you let—”

“Demand?
You have no right to make demands here.
You forfeited them when you came onto my property, when you attacked my house and my friends.
You have no rights at all, Gabriella.
If the woman were in any shape to demand it, I’d let her decide how you should die.
Shawn, kill him.”

Bradley walked away and Shawn took one step toward Gabriel.
Morphing a hand into a long-clawed hook, Shawn sliced the wolf’s head from his body.
Even before his body dropped to the ground Shawn was walking away toward the other man, Garrett.

He lay on the ground, his back broken and his face a mass of cuts and bruises.
He hadn’t been able to utter a word since Val had dropped him where he now la
y
.
Shawn wanted this man dead as well, wanted him to never be able to torment anyone or anything ever again. Only this death wasn’t his.
Shawn turned to Bradley. “He murdered this man’s mate in cold blood, alpha.
He told my mate that he killed her for the sole pleasure of a playmate when his own parents wouldn’t give him one.
Garrett’s death belongs to Cade’s father.”

“He has killed more than my mate, alpha.
He has killed more of your kind.
He deserves to die, but not by my hand either.
Melody, the queen, should have the right.
He has killed over a dozen of hers over the past decade and more than he could remember before that. I have his blood, I have his memories.
He should die by her hand and hers alone.”

Shawn’s respect for the vamp just went up.
Few would allow for a crime against his mate to go unpunished and fewer still would be willing to let another take the life.
Looking back at Bradley, Shawn realized that he too was impressed by Vladimir.
Mel shimmered into the field almost immediately.

“Vladimir, you give me a great honor.
I will take his death for all those he has killed.
You, I give a boon.
You will come with me when I leave.
Shawn, get your mate to ground.
Bradley, I hope I can depend on you to clean this mess up.”

Garrett’s body disappeared and a minute later so did Mel and Vladimir.
Bradley looked around the clearing and snorted again.
His pack began clearing the field of the other dead wolves.

“She could have done this with a wave of her hand.
But no, she leaves it for us.
Take Cade to your lair, feed her.
Tell her that I expect some more apple dumplings soon and that I want two for myself.
My bitch is whelping again and I can’t seem to keep her full.”

Shawn thought he didn’t look the least bit upset about it and told the alpha that.
Both men looked up when Cade came
through
the open doorway.
She looked spent and weak, but by far the most beautiful thing Shawn had ever seen.
He gathered her into his arms and took them home.

~CHAPTER 18~

Cade woke to have Shawn wrapped around her.
She needed to get up, but was loath to wake him to do it.
Her body ached and she needed to pee, but he was warm and hard.
A perfect affirmation that she was alive.
When she moved closer to the edge of the bed he pulled her back with a growl.

“Lie still.
It’s still a few hours till sunset and I need my rest. You should rest too.
When I do get up I plan to fuck you until you can’t move for at least a week.”

She stilled in the bed.
Images of him doing just that danced though her head and she sent them to him.
His sudden stiffening made her smile and when she reached out and ran one of her fingers down his spine he growled again.

“You sound energetic to me.
I don’t suppose you’d like to get a start on tha—” Cade was suddenly pinned to the bed, her hands above her head and his body between her legs.
She grinned up at his scowl.

“Woman!
What am I going to do with you?
I told you to rest.
Thomas said that you would need at least twenty-four hours before you would be awake and another twenty-four before you would even contemplate wanting to have sex.”

Cade ran her feet up his bare calves.
Up and down until he rocked into her.
Her body tightened at the thought of him fucking her.
She felt her fangs lengthen and stretch in her mouth, the need to bite him imminent.

“I want you.
I want to taste you and feel you inside of me.
I can’t wait for another minute much less another two days.
Take me, Shawn. Make me forget everything but you.”

Shawn’s mouth gently brushed against hers.
Warmth flooded her being.
When he kissed her again she could feel his restraint and his need.
Moving into his mind she gave him images of what she needed from him, what she wanted to do to him.

“You’re killing me, love.
I don’t know if I can be gentle with you right now.
I want you so desperately that I can’t think beyond touching you.
I want you so badly right now that I can’t hold back.”

Cade rolled Shawn to his back and sat across him.
Her body covered in a t-shirt and panties was all that was between them.
Lifting the shirt up and over her head she cupped her breasts and rolled her nipples.
His hands dug into her hips as he pulled her forward and over his engorged cock. Her panties soaked with her juices made the slide over him easier and quicker.
She rode him as she continued to squeeze her nipples.

When his hands slid up her hips, grabbed the strings of her panties, and he ripped them from her body she growled at him.
His hips moved up to every one of her downward motions.
When he sat up, his cock pressed hard against her clit, she grabbed his shoulders and rode him harder.

“That’s it, baby, ride me.
I want you to come this way so that I can feel your cum run over me.
Then I’m going to eat you, suck on that hard nubbin of yours, and fuck you with my tongue.
I want you to come down my throat, baby. Come and fill me with your juices.”

Her body exploded.
Even as she was still jerking and her body convulsing Shawn rolled her to her back and sat up.
He stroked his cock as he watched her come down.
When she made to lean up and take him into her mouth he pressed her back down.

“My turn.
Lay back, Cade.
I’m going to make you wish for that nap.”
He moved back on the bed, the entire time stroking his long, thick cock until she thought she’d scream at him to fuck her.
When he lifted her thighs and put them over his shoulders
,
as he settled between her legs, Cade felt a gush of liquid pour from her body.

Shawn ran his tongue from her gate to her clit.
It was all she could do not to leap up off the bed.
As he inserted a finger into her she felt his breath across her folds.
When he opened her soft nether lips she moaned his name.
The second then the third finger moved inside of her, reaching for and finding that special spot deep within her heat.
Riding his fingers now, she nearly screamed when he suckled her clit into his mouth and nipped.

“Shawn, please.
Please, oh please, oh please.”
She couldn’t think beyond what he was doing, couldn’t breathe.
The roaring in her ears the blood rushing through her veins made her close her eyes to try and regain some of her equilibrium.
It didn’t work. He was relentless.

Every time she was close, every time she could feel paradise just there, he’d pull back until she could feel her body slowing down.
Then he would begin again, never really giving her relief and never touching her clitoris enough to give her release.
The more she begged, the more he would make her suffer.