Werewolf in Seattle: A Wild About You Novel (24 page)

“I thought that was a nice touch.” And she wouldn’t
let him treat her like a beginner much longer, either. He was going home soon. She could worry about being sore after he left.

“I’ll help you in.” He steadied her as she climbed into the roomy tub.

“And here I thought my first hot tub experience would be on Le Floret.” Jets pulsed, sending warm water swirling above her knees.

“In my opinion, it will be. A Jacuzzi in a bathroom doesn’t qualify as a hot tub, which I think of as being outdoors.”

“Outdoors, and with room for more than two.” She thought about the hot tub that would be delivered tomorrow. Tomorrow night could be Colin’s last one on the island. She pushed the thought from her mind as he stepped in beside her.

“While this Jacuzzi is perfect for two.” He kept hold of her hand and moaned softly as he eased down on the built-in bench on the far side. “As if I need more stimulation.” He tugged on her hand. “Climb aboard, while there’s still a pole to steady you.”

“Something tells me Colin MacDowell never discharges before he’s ready.” But she followed his suggestion and placed a knee on either side of his hips. “Guide me into the dock, Captain.”

“I will.” He spanned her waist with his big hands and positioned her above his cock.

The warm water felt wonderful pulsing against her
parts
, as he’d called them, but his thick penis sliding in felt much better. This time, there would be no barrier, no flash of pain. Just pleasure.

So much pleasure. She gripped his shoulders as he drew her down, down, until he was deep inside her. She clenched her muscles, wanting to hold him there forever,
and felt his cock twitch in response. But even more amazing, her womb reacted, too. She felt the first twinge of an orgasm.

She clenched again and felt another twinge, this one stronger than the first. She lifted her gaze to his. “What’s going on?”

Heat burned in his blue eyes, but his lips curved in a smile. “You have power, too,” he murmured. “When you tighten around me like that, it’s good for both of us. And you’ll come faster.”

“I think… ” She trembled as she clenched again and the response was a swift tug at her womb. “I think I could stay still and make myself come.”

“Do you want to?”

“No.” She held his gaze. “I want to feel your penis moving inside me. That’s more exciting.”

“I’m glad. But this time, the moving is up to you. You’ll have to work a little bit, if you don’t mind.”

“So I move and you stay still?”

“Not totally still. I won’t be able to help myself once you start. But the major up and down is your department.”

“Ah.” Her breathing quickened as she contemplated the maneuver. “I will be in control.”

“Aye.”

“I like that.”

He laughed softly. “After watching your striptease, I thought you might.”

“Let me know if I’m doing it right.” Looking into his eyes, she braced her hands on his broad shoulders and rose up on her knees, going slowly so she didn’t lose him. “How’s that?”

His jaw tightened. “Maddening.”

“Is that a good maddening or a bad maddening?”

“Both. Drawing out the suspense is making my heart pound like a bass drum, but what I really want is for you to go… faster.”

She sank down onto him and rose up again. “Like that?”

“Faster than that.”

She noticed that the vein was standing out on his temple again. “Colin, do you want me to ride you like you’re a bucking bronco? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?”

His answer came through clenched teeth. “Yes.”

“What if I rise up too far and miss? What if I break your lovely cock?”

“I won’t let that happen.”

“All right, then.” Clutching his shoulders, she began to pump vigorously up and down, and sure enough, his firm grip on her waist kept her from disconnecting and causing a painful disaster.

And what a wonderful rhythm it was, full of life and wild passion. The water frothed and churned madly around them and splashed out of the tub. The jets were total overkill.

Thank goodness he had a good hold on her, because she discovered the fast pace worked for her, too. Before long she approached the point when she would soon fly off in all directions.

She thought he deserved fair warning. She gulped in air. “Colin… I’m going to… come… any second.”

His grip tightened. “Do it.”

“But you… ”

“I’m there, lass. Waiting for you.”

She had no idea how he managed to hold off his climax in the middle of this frenzied coupling, but she didn’t have time to think about it as strong contractions surged through her, interrupting her rhythm and wringing wild cries from her throat.

Colin took over the reins, keeping them in sync, urging her up and down as he bellowed in triumph with his own release. Then it was over except for the panting, and the water still sloshing back and forth in the tub and dribbling over the sides onto the floor.

Luna lifted her head and grinned at him. “That was outstanding.”

“Not bad.”

She splashed water in his face. “You mean for a beginner?”

He wiped the drops from his face with one large hand and laughed. “Well, there was that dodgy bit in the beginning, when I thought for sure you were going to turn this into a water ballet, but things improved after that.”

“You just wait. Next time it’s going to be like the Kentucky Derby.”

“I look forward to it.” Cupping his hand, he filled it with water and dribbled it over her breasts. “You are so incredibly beautiful, Luna.”

She started to tease him about saying that to all the female Weres, but then she realized it might be true. “In some ways I’m glad that I’m a beginner, but in other ways, I wonder if I’m not as exciting as I could be because I’m so new at having sex.”

He stopped dribbling water and cradled her face in both hands as he focused his earnest gaze on hers. “Luna, I was teasing you. I didn’t mean to imply that you aren’t exciting. You are without a doubt the most exciting female I’ve ever been with.”

“That can’t be right. I don’t know what I’m doing.”

“You know more than you think you do, but even your inexperience makes you fascinating to me.”

“That’s one thing I’ve got going for me, then. I have to be the most inexperienced twenty-seven-year-old
Were on the planet.” And she couldn’t help wondering whether having more seductive moves would lure him into coming back to the island, at least once in a while.

“And I’m the lucky male who reaps the rewards of that. You’re not jaded. Everything is new and wonderful for you. Do you realize what a gift that is to your partner?”

“Then you’re not just humoring me?”

“Good God, no. Normally I’m really good at delaying my orgasms, but you’re so sexy I have quite a struggle holding off.”

“I did want to ask about how that’s done.”

“I can’t speak for other males, but I go over football stats in my head.”

“During sex with me you’re thinking about
football
?”

“Not American football,” he said. “Our football. In other words, soccer.”

“But that’s outrageous! You’re supposed to be thinking about me!”

He gave her a wry smile. “I do most of the time, but toward the end, if I thought about you, and your luscious body, and what you’re doing to me, I’d go off like a rocket, and I like to wait… for you.”

“Oh.” She was somewhat mollified that he was forced to use football stats because she was more than he could handle. “That’s okay, then.”

“Luna, I cherish every minute I get to be with you, even the times I have to resort to football stats.” He stroked his thumbs over her cheeks. “If I could stay another month, I’d do it. But I can’t. I’ll find it very difficult to leave you.”

“Will you ever come back?”

“Of course I will. I can’t promise when that will be, but… you’ll probably have taken another lover by then.”

“No, I won’t.” She might have been smarter to keep her mouth shut about that, but the response popped out before she had time to think.

He looked into her eyes for a long time. Then he swallowed. “As much as it kills me to say this, you probably should take another lover. You have a passionate nature, and you’ve said yourself that you feel more complete now that you’ve discovered how wonderful sex can be.”

“Would me taking another lover make you feel better, then?”

“Yes.” He squeezed his eyes shut and opened them again, misery shining there. “No, damn it, I hate the thought of you being with anyone else, but
yes
, I want you to be happy, and find someone who can do for you what I can’t. So the answer is yes, I’d feel better if you took another lover.”

She smiled, the pain in her heart eased by that muddled answer. “I don’t think so. And that’s what I wanted to hear.”

Bollocks. Luna had asked Colin the right question, and he’d cocked up his answer so thoroughly he wouldn’t ever forgive himself. A litany of colorful curses marched through his brain as he and Luna mopped up the mess they’d made in the bathroom with several of the fluffy towels hanging from decorative hooks.

He was a selfish sod to have told her that he’d hate knowing she had another lover. And yet, when he’d given his first answer, she’d looked devastated by it. Unable to bear her tragic expression, he’d reassured her by telling her the truth. But what was the truth, really?

If he cared about her, then logically he’d want her to live a full life, complete with sex and maybe, eventually, a devoted mate. He definitely wouldn’t want her to pine away for him as she went back to her celibate existence on the island. Well, a part of him did want that, the selfish sod part.

“We soaked the sandwiches.” Luna held out the plate for his inspection. “Maybe we should order some dinner, after all.”

“George would expect us to if he discovered we’d
cancelled the restaurant reservations. Since he made them in the first place, someone might have already double-checked with him on that. He’s a powerful figure in Seattle, and I’m sure restaurants have instructions to treat him well.”

“So if I understand this right, we need to order an expensive meal from room service, or George will be offended.”

Colin nodded. “That sums it up.”

“Then I’ll take this back to the wet bar and find a room service menu.”

“He may not expect us to order off the menu.”

Luna turned at the door. She wore naked well. Her body was taut where it needed to be and filled out in all the places that gave a male pleasure. Colin could look at her all day and all night without tiring of the view.

She shifted the plate of soggy food to her other hand. “If we don’t order off the menu, how do we order?”

“We dream up what we want, call room service, and ask them to fix it for us. In fact, it should be something that’s specifically
not
on the menu.”

Luna shook her head. “Alpha Weres are just plain crazy.”

“That may be true, but remember our goal. We need to show George Trevelyan that we’re not peasants who can be toyed with.”

“But I am a peasant.”

“No, you’re not. Your grandmother is George’s aunt, which puts her in the same league as Sinclair Trevelyan, who was the alpha before he passed on the title to George. Your connections are as powerful as his. Had your father lived, he might even have challenged George for his position.”

“Let’s see if I have this straight. We need the menu so we can make sure we order
off
the menu. Is that right?”

“Aye.”

Shaking her head, she left the bathroom. “Alphas,” she muttered on her way out.

In principle, Colin agreed that the posturing was ridiculous, but those who ignored the unwritten rules often found themselves outmaneuvered. Wolves had a hierarchy, and pack members understood and respected that. Luna hadn’t grown up that way, so she didn’t get it.

That was another reason to establish her connection with her grandparents. That would establish her standing in the pack, and her grandparents could teach her the rules, especially as they applied to the Trevelyan pack. All that would provide a certain amount of protection.

The decision to open a Were-specific inn had become far more complicated than he liked, but he wasn’t about to back down from it now. Honoring his promise to Luna was the main reason, but now they were in a pissing contest with George, and Colin wasn’t about to lose that, either.

George didn’t just want to buy in, and Colin knew it. He wanted a controlling interest. He would get that over Colin’s dead body. Colin hadn’t realized the scope of George’s ambition until today’s visit to his office.

That was partly because of his inexperience in the alpha role compared with George’s. But Colin didn’t plan to use George as a role model, other than taking note of the older Were’s obvious physical fitness. George had aged far better than Colin’s father.

But Colin had no desire to become a tycoon like George, who obviously relished his role as Seattle’s premiere mover and shaker. Colin smiled. There wasn’t a whole lot of moving and shaking going on in Glenbarra. He’d leave that to the wealthier Weres in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Tossing the towels in a corner of the bathroom, Colin walked into the bedroom as Luna returned carrying a
menu and her battered copy of
Lady Chatterley
. He smiled. “Planning to do some reading?”

She sashayed over to him. “Only if we feel the need.”

He liked the confident way she moved, and he knew part of that was a certainty that he felt possessive about her. It was a double-edged sword, but he couldn’t take back what he’d said. She’d never believe him.

After handing him the menu, she opened the paperback in her hand and stroked the open pages over her breasts.
“Eau de Literature,”
she said with a very cute French accent that she’d probably picked up in the New Orleans French Quarter.

He couldn’t let that pass. Tossing the menu on the bed, he cupped her breasts, buried his nose between them, and inhaled noisily. She did smell good, but he wasn’t sure if it was old book or aroused Luna that had his cock stirring again.

Luna started laughing, which made her breasts jiggle against his face. No red-blooded male of his acquaintance would be able to feel all that sweetness moving against him and not want to taste, so before he knew it, he was nuzzling and nibbling.