The Mating Season: A Paranormal Shifter Romance (14 page)

Kim gratefully obliged. Without missing a beat, she straddled Keith’s face. She let out a moan into his solid manhood as she felt Keith’s hot, raspy tongue dive into her sopping wet sex.

His tongue flicked across her engorged clit, distracting her from the pleasure she was attempting to give him. She felt his fingers probe into her deep well as his tongue played across her sensitive nub.

Kim continued sucking on the bulbous head of Keith’s turgid member., her tongue mimicking what his was doing to her. She felt her climax building as he worked his magic with his mouth and fingers as they sixty-nined.

Kim felt the pressure building deep in her womb as Keith’s hungry mouth devoured her sex. His tongue flicking rapidly over her hot clit. His fingers pushed against her G-spot as he decided to latch on and suck on her sensitive nub.

She drew hard on his manhood, but not going down past the ridge where the fleshy barbs began. Her crest began to peak as Keith sucked on her womanhood. She couldn’t help it; she ground her pelvis into his face and sucked his hard cock for all she was worth.

Keith’s balls began to boil; pressure was building at the base of his spine. He couldn’t hold back for much longer as Kim gave him the best blowjob he had ever had in his life. He stopped sucking for a minute “Hey, you might want to...”

His protest was silenced as Kim moved her sopping wet pussy back towards his mouth. He sighed as he moved his tongue back over her tangy wet petals, bringing her crest to its peak.

Kim moaned into his cock as her orgasm rocked her. She fought the urge to take Keith’s member deep into her mouth. Kim sucked harder and worked her tongue furiously as the tide of her release ebbed.

Keith gasped as his seed boiled up and erupted from the purple head of his manhood. Kim managed to get one spurt into her mouth then pulled away to witness the rest of Keith’s release.

The barbs flared outwards even more as Keith’s seed spewed all over Kim’s perky breasts. There were only two or three of the protrusions, they started at the base of the shaft and ended halfway up towards the glans. Kim was fascinated by it.

She felt the tension leave Keith as the last of his orgasm left him spent. He was breathing hard under her body as she moved off of him.

“So,” he panted. “Did you see what you wanted?”

Kim smiled and snuggled in to his chest as she wiped his cum off of her perky breasts. “Yep. That was pretty cool, actually. I don’t know why you were so shy about it. Well I do, but you know, I’m not like other girls.”

“Well, you knew we were shifters before you got to see it,” he said with a smile. “So at least that way you were probably expecting some kind of difference. When Tony has casual sex with chicks in the next town over, they don’t know any better. They think it’s warts or something.”

Kim nodded solemnly. “I can get where they would think that.” She heard her stomach growl; it was as if a cougar lived inside her, that’s how loud it was. “I think I’ll take that offer for dinner now. I’m starving; the hospital didn’t give me much to eat while I was there. Guess they didn’t want me throwing up in my sleep.”

Keith smiled. “I think I’ll fix you a light soup, then. Since you haven’t eaten in a while you need something, but not anything heavy.” He got up and put on his boxers and t-shirt and went to the kitchen.

Kim lounged in her bed, reluctant to get up. She wrapped herself in the duvet and basked in the afterglow of their activities.

Keith’s scent permeated the room and Kim deeply inhaled it. She couldn’t help but feel some sort of fuzzy warm feeling towards the chunky man. She heard him putter around the kitchen; she knew that Tony wouldn’t even dream of taking care of her like that. He might have tossed a TV dinner in the microwave, or called for pizza or something. Definitely not cook dinner for her from scratch.

She shifted around and realized she had an urgent need to use the bathroom.
Guess all those IV fluids are finally moving out of me
, she thought. So, she got up and walked to the bathroom. After she was finished, she put on her plush terry cloth bathrobe and made her way out to the living room.

She sat down on the futon and smiled as Keith busied himself in the kitchen. During one of their dates he brought over a bunch of new cookware, and threw out her old dented pots and pans.

After a few minutes of watching the evening news, Kim got up to check on Keith in the kitchen.

On the table there were two steaming bowls of home-made wonton soup. The delicate flour and water wrappers were filled with ground rabbit and venison, seasoned with a delicate mix of ground five spice powder.

The broth was a clear fowl based broth. It tasted like a gamey chicken broth. Not quite turkey, not quite duck, she couldn’t put her finger on it.

“Its rabbit. You had some frozen rabbit stock in the freezer. Figured I would make some of this. It’s light enough to not make you sick, but hearty enough to fill you up.”

“Mmm, it’s delicious,” Kim said, digging on in, savoring the taste. “Thanks so much. I mean it.” Emotion filled her eyes as she thanked him between bites.

“It’s nothing,” Keith said bashfully. “I mean, like, I am trying to impress you, but even if I wasn’t, I would be doing this.”

Kim took a sip of water. “Really?” she asked. “That’s just...”

Keith nodded. “Yeah, people have taken advantage of me a few times. I try not to let it happen, of course, but there are people in town who aren’t as nice as they seem. Sometimes the predatory nature really comes out in some people.”

Kim nodded, feeling kind of sad for Keith. His kind, generous nature was what really made him as a person. She felt he didn’t want to possess her, but to share life with her. Tony had a possessive streak a mile long. She still didn’t have her mind completely made up yet, but she was definitely leaning towards Keith now. The thought of being with Tony didn’t really appeal to her much. What if her distracting him was what caused him to lapse this time? What would happen in the future? She promised she would give herself time to decide, and she had been. The thing was, Keith had been there emotionally for most of the shit. Tony had a habit of pulling away when things got hairy.

They ate their soup in silence. Kim relished the combination of sweet and savory flavors as they played in her mouth. The heady scent of the rabbit broth that cradled the unconventional wontons made her head swim. She felt the throbbing of the returning headache begin between her temples and saw floating lights in front of her face. Nausea gripped her as she experienced a full blown migraine attack. It was her first ever migraine, but her mother had them often enough that she knew exactly what she was experiencing.

Keith saw Kim grit her teeth in an attempt not to vomit. He rushed to her side and helped her up to the bathroom where she promptly rejected the delicious soup he had prepared for her. He held her hair up as she retched into the toilet, and rubbed her back soothingly with his free hand. “Do you need anything?” he asked.

“Painkillers....pills...migraine,” she managed to gasp out between heaves.

Keith helped her up after she was finished. As she cleaned herself up, he went to the living room to find the orange prescription bottle on the coffee table. He read the dosage and grabbed the recommended two pills. He brought them into the bathroom and handed them to Kim. She swallowed them with a gulp of water.

“Thanks,” she said, wincing at the light. “I need to go lay down. Can you help me to my room? Pull the blinds as closed as you can. The light hurts my eyes.” There was a bright orange streetlight just outside her bedroom window. Usually she didn’t mind it being there, the brightness gave her a feeling of security. Smiley wouldn’t be able to sneak into her house without being seen due to the overly-bright light, but during a migraine, it proved to be a major pain.

“Sure thing,” Keith replied as he went to pull the blinds closed. “Do you have any towels or anything? I can at least put a few over the windows to block out more of the light.”

“In the bathroom closet,” she replied wearily as she sunk down on her bed. “Can you bring a bucket in, too? Just in case I have to puke again.” Kim wrapped herself up in her duvet, head and all, in abject misery. The splitting agony in her skull was almost too much for her. Tears streamed down her face as she counted down the minutes until the medication kicked in.

Keith finished covering the windows as best as he could, and left the room, closing the door gently behind him. He silently walked to the living room, as to not disturb the suffering Kim.

He sat down on the couch, grabbed the TV remote and adjusted the volume so it would be at the lowest, yet still audible, setting and turned his game console on. He grabbed the fully charged controller and began to play.

After twenty minutes of playing, he was startled by a knock at the door. He peeked out the window and saw his cousin Tony standing there holding a case of beer, with Rusty by his side.

Keith slowly opened the door. “What do you want? Kim’s in bed with a migraine...she can’t see anyone right now.”

Tony nodded, and Rusty looked concerned. “Can we come in to hang out with you, at least?” Tony asked.

Rusty nodded. “I would like to see her just for a moment, even if she’s sleeping. I might be able to at least help with the migraine.”

Keith grunted and let the two men in. Rusty’s wizened face looked at him and smiled. “Don’t worry. It’ll work out just fine.”

Tony plopped himself down on the futon. He reached in to the case of beer and grabbed a bottle. He cracked open the top and handed it to Keith. “Here, looks like you might need this soon.”

Keith looked confused as he took the beer from his cousin. “What do you mean?”

“Let Rusty do his thing and we’ll find out sooner or later,” Tony said while opening a second bottle for himself.

While the two cousins were chatting and drinking beer on Kim’s couch, Rusty made his way to Kim’s bedroom. He looked on the bed and saw the bundled up form of the woman sleeping soundly.

He walked up to the suffering woman and placed his hands over her head and chanted softly as to not wake her up. A warm flow of energy emerged from his hands and disappeared into Kim’s raven head. Hopefully, that would alleviate the migraine she was suffering from, and heal whatever damage she sustained from the concussion, he thought.

Rusty then shifted silently into his mountain lion form. He placed his grizzled head on the mattress and sniffed around. He then padded to the bathroom, and sniffed around a little more. He opened his mouth a bit in an attempt to pick up more of the scent he was attempting to pin down.

He padded out of the bedroom, leaving the woman to sleep off her migraine. He didn’t want to wake her just yet. In the hallway, he shifted back to his human form and went to join the boys in the living room for a beer.

Kim rolled over in bed, noticing the sunlight peeking through the edges of the makeshift curtains Keith had put up the night before. She felt a pang of sadness waking up with Keith not next to her. She got up out of bed and felt a little unsteady.

She put on her bathrobe and made her way out to the living room. She looked around and saw an empty case of beer next to the futon. She hoped Keith hadn’t been wrecked in her house. He wasn’t like that. Maybe Tony came over to see her and, finding her in bed with a migraine, he and Keith had a few beers. That’s probably what happened.

She looked in the kitchen and found Keith. She wasn’t surprised at all. He was puttering around making her a mushroom omelette. “Hey, good morning! How are you feeling?”

“Better,” Kim replied. “How did you know I loved mushroom omelettes?”

“Eh, wild guess,” he said with a broad grin. “The toast and bacon are just about ready, too. Hope you can keep this down.”

Little did Kim know, Rusty used his magic to help heal her head injury while she slept. He was head shaman after all, so he had a few tricks up his sleeve. He also gave Keith some herbs to use in her omelette. He didn’t bother asking what they were for. He just naturally assumed they were to help ward off another migraine attack, so he put them in.

“Thanks, I’m famished. I really do think I can hold this down. My head isn’t hurting at all today.”

Keith’s smile brightened. “That’s great. Here you go, eat up.” He placed the plate on the table.

The earthy smell of mushrooms punctuated with the salty smell of bacon wafted into her nose. Kim’s mouth began to water at the thought of this delicious breakfast. Keith sat down across from her with his own loaded plate.

“So, last night, Rusty and Tony came by to see how you were feeling. Obviously you were in bed, but they stayed around. We had a few beers, watched baseball on TV and shot the shit while you were out. I hope you don’t mind.”

“Nah. I’m okay with that. I figure I’m safer with all three of you here.”

Keith laughed. “That’s true. They do care an awful lot about you, you know.” He looked at her with love in his eyes.

Kim smiled shyly.
They aren’t the only ones
, she thought to herself.

She took a sip of orange juice as Keith continued. “Anyway, Betty said you can go to her house tonight to help with the girls. She put it off to let you recover, but she can’t keep putting it off for much longer. Rusty wanted to talk to you about that last night, that’s why he came.”

“Makes sense.” Kim took a bite out of the cheesy mushroom omelette. The texture melted in her mouth, and the combination of Swiss and Gruyere cheeses accented the mushrooms perfectly.

All of a sudden, her phone began to ring. She picked it up and saw the hospital’s number on the call display.

“Hello?” she greeted uncertainly as she answered the phone.

“Hello, is this Kim Smith?” the lady on the other end asked.

“Yes, this is Kim, how can I help you?”

“My name is Doctor Shanahan; I’m the resident obstetrician at St. George hospital. You need to stop taking those narcotics for your head right away.”

Kim’s eyes widened. “Why...do I need to stop taking them?”

“You’re pregnant. It’s still new, you aren’t more than three weeks along, according to the levels in your blood work, but you definitely are pregnant. Congratulations. Hopefully, we can come up with a plan to help treat your head injury and keep you as comfortable as possible during your pregnancy, how about it?”

Kim’s mouth opened and shut in silence, she was completely stunned by the news. Keith looked over at her from across the table, his earnest face creased with worry.

“Umm, thanks, I guess?” Kim stammered

“I do have a monthly clinic in Predator Springs. I hope to see you there? It’s next week.”

“Sure. I’ll definitely be there,” she said in a low monotone voice.

“I’ll get my secretary to write you in then. Have a good day!” the cheerful woman on the other end replied as she hung up.

Kim put her phone down on the table with shaking hands. She reached up and placed her face in her palms and started to shake. Keith got up, walked to her, squatted down and tried to look her in the eye.

“What’s wrong?” he asked as he placed his hand on her leg.

“I’m... I’m... pregnant,” she stuttered. “I mean...I can’t believe it.”

Keith’s eyes widened and his jaw dropped. “You’re... pregnant?” He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. If she really was pregnant, this changed everything. The choice between Keith and Tony was already made for her if that was the case, since the father of the child was considered her mate for life. He didn’t want to tell her that just yet, though. He figured he would let Rusty tell her that bit of news. The fact that she was pregnant was almost too much for her to take in now.

Kim nodded. “Yeah, the doctor said about three weeks along with the numbers they got on the blood test.”

Keith let out a low whistle. “Well, you’ll need to tell Tony, too, since you slept with both him and me. Either one of us could be the dad.”

Kim nodded sadly. “Yep, I’m not really looking forward to telling him, that’s for sure.”

Keith nodded glumly. He hoped the baby was his. The sad thing is, they wouldn’t be able to find out until the baby was born. By then the autumn equinox would have come and gone, and both Tony and Keith would be cougars forever, and Kim would be left on her own to raise the baby.