Wolves for the Bears: Book 5, Grey Wolf Pack Romance Novellas (11 page)

He pulled her clit into his mouth and began nibbling and
licking it.  He moved two fingers to her channel and pushed them in, twirling and massaging her inner muscles.  She moaned around his shaft and in reply he groaned against her flesh, sending the most marvellous vibrations through her tender nub.

She could feel him twitching and hardening and sped up her movements. 
She continued engulfing him until she felt him hit the back of her throat and then frantically suckled at him, her cheeks hollowing out.

She could feel the heat rapidly rising within her.  She didn’t think she would last long
.  She moved faster and faster, trying to make him come in her mouth.  Sensing her growing urgency he sped up his fingers.  He scooped up some of her juices with his thumb and pushed it against her tiny rosette.  She squealed at the unexpected sensation as his thumb pushed past the tight band of muscles and she was gone.

Her orgasm took off like a rocket, flying through her body.  Her body bucked as she tried to get away from his tortuousl
y delightful mouth and fingers, her cries were muffled by his thick hard length.  His hand clamped onto her hip keeping her in place, as he continued moving over her as her body shook through her release.

She reached out with one hand and caressed his balls as she squeezed her mouth even tighter around him and pushed her mouth down over him as far as she could go, her teeth gently scraped over his length and he
exploded in her mouth.

She greedily swallowed down his hot seed as he thrust his hips up toward her mouth.
  He threw his head back from her quivering folds and shouted out incoherently.  She continued lapping at him as he slowly deflated in her mouth.

He rubbed his hands over her cheeks.  “Honey that was... that was amazing.”

Mac let him go with a wet pop.  “Yes it was.”  She shuffled off him and lay down next to him, draping one hand over his chest.  He snuck an arm round her shoulders, snuggling her closer.

A bit of guil
t niggled at her but she tamped it down.  Her wolf was dancing away, pleased at their coupling. Mac was too tired and satiated to fight against her own feelings of contentment. 
Andy may not truly be hers but maybe Esther would not mind sharing once in a while... or perhaps her orgasm had been so powerful she was no longer thinking straight.

Andy closed his eyes.
  Yes, he could get used to this, lying in his mate’s bed
.  If they were together every day would be like this.  Although he suspected if every day were like this he would be too exhausted to get out of bed,
not necessarily a bad thing...

“I love you Mac...”  He couldn’t stop himself from blurting it out.  His bear bellowed in encouragement, if he had his way Andy would have said it the first time they were together.

“I know... I love you too.”  She murmured.

“It’s just...”  He began sadly.

She lifted her fingers to his mouth, rubbing her thumb over lips. 
No more arguing
.  “Shhhh, let’s not spoil things.  Let’s just forget that the outside world exists and just enjoy our time together... what little we have.  Come on.”

She started wriggling out of his embrace.  He watched her as she stood up and pulled the tiny dress over her head and stripped out of her lacy red bra.
  He felt his sex stir.  Mac in a sexy red dress was one thing, but totally naked she was unbelievable.

She quirked an eyebrow at him as she noticed ‘little Andy’ slowly coming back to life. 
Or should that be ‘not so little Andy’
.  Her own sex fluttered in arousal.

“Let’s go take a shower.”  She sashayed into the bathroom, the water still running from when she set it going before.

He scrambled after her,
sinful thoughts entering his head
.

*

Whilst Mac and Andy enjoyed the delights of showering together they gave little thought to the outside world, or the people in it and how they may feel about the outcome of their night together.  They briefly acknowledged they were being a little selfish and they didn’t care.  They’d been good all their lives, so for once they were being
bad
.

Unbeknown
to them there was an extremely disgruntled and furious wolf standing beneath Mac’s open bedroom window. 

Luke
, after trying to run Andy down, had shifted and followed the limping bear all the way back to Mac’s house.  He had watched through the window as she examined his wounds, he had silently raged as she led him upstairs to her bedroom and he was beside himself when he heard the sounds of their passionate lovemaking.  The wolf had pawed the ground and wanted to howl his fury into the night, but he had kept himself in check. 

Since Mac had told him of her married mate he had started to suspect it was Andy.  The two of them were acting too weird around each other not
for something to be going on.  He had hoped that it was his imagination but tonight finally his suspicions were confirmed.

How dare this fucking bear touch her?  He was
married
.  Why doesn’t he go home and fuck his wife and leave Mac alone?! 
She belonged with Luke
.  She was his long before the fucking bear came on the scene.

So wha
t if the bear was her true mate?
  What the fuck did that matter?  Why should fate tell them who they got to love and who they got to be with? 
He chose Mac
.  Over all the other girls he could have had back when they were teenagers he chose her. 
Didn’t that mean anything?
 

Back then he could have had any girl he wanted
.  He was captain of the football, one of the most popular guys in school and Mac was just an awkward little nerd whose terrifying older brother scared away boys that tried to look at her twice. 
But she called to him
. On a base level he knew he wanted her.  Back then she had been grateful that he was with her. 

He snorted
remembering the way she had come to him and begged him to be her first.  His manhood stirred a little remembering her agonized scream as her tore through her virginity. 
He’d never felt so powerful before or since.

Shouldn’t she be grateful to have someone like him?
  He was prepared to be with her even though he knew she would rather be with her mate.  Not to mention he was a member of her pack.  They were both wolves, shouldn’t that count for something?

There was far too much inter-species breeding for his liking.
  Wolves should stick with wolves, bears should stick with bears. 
Like his father had always said, each species should stick to their own
.  There were already enough humans polluting the pack gene pool as it was. He could only imagine the weaklings the pregnant human females mated to Alec and Mal would give birth to.  They weren’t the only ones either, soon enough the Alpha’s human mate would become pregnant. 

The pack was falling apart as it was b
ut now a bear?  Did Mac even realise that if they were together she could potentially give birth to a bear cub? 

Luke shook his head in disgust.  It wasn’t right, wolves shouldn’t birth bears and vice versa.

He had to find a way to make Mac see that.  She hadn’t spoken to him since the pack pot luck.  She’d avoided his phone calls and ignored his texts. 
She was still pissed
.  She wouldn’t stay that way for long though, she was a very forgiving person. 
Usually
.

He heard the gentle snores of the bear and the soft breaths of his mate.  At last they were sleeping.
  Luke ground his jaw and bared his teeth. He silently padded away from her house through the woods.

Mac was safe for now.  Andy wouldn’t try to bond with her whilst still tied to another woman.  Sex was one thing, but bonding them to one another forever was irreversible.
  He wouldn’t be so rash. 
Luke still had time
.

He had a way to make her see things clearly, she w
ould be angry with him at first but in time she would realise that he did it for the right reasons. 
He would force her to see that
. 

On the downside a lot of the pack would be irate with him, most lik
ely he would lose a lot of friends and suffer punishment at the paws of both the Alpha and the Beta.  Punishment that Mac would not be able to save him from... even if she wanted to, but it would be worth it. 
She would be his, and that’s all that matters.

The more he thought about it the more he like
d his plan. 
If the bear didn’t like it, tough fucking luck.

Chapter Nine

26
th
October

Mac’s eyelashes fluttered open a few hours later.
  After a very satisfying shower with Andy, which amounted to four further orgasms for her, the two of them were exhausted and collapsed asleep on her bed.

She had now
wakened on hearing the soft sounds of him moving around her bedroom searching through her closet.  Her eyes adjusted to the darkness and once again she thanked god for her enhanced night vision.  Andy was still lusciously naked. 
Her wolf practically salivated as his muscles flexed
. 

But as much as she enjoyed the sight she didn’t really feel up to round three right at that moment.

“Try the chest, third draw down.”  She murmured.

He looked at her a little guiltily, startled to discover she was awake.  She almost giggled,
he looked like a little boy with his hand caught in the cookie jar
.

“Oh ummm thanks.”  He whispered, basically tip-toeing over to the chest.

She snickered.  Her mate was an adorable goof ball sometimes.  “There’s no need to whisper, we’re the only ones here and I’m awake.”

She stretched out her limbs and let out a contented moan.  She found
Andy staring at her, his eyes jet black and his manhood rising. 
Christ!  He was a machine!

She yawned deeply.  “But I am kind of tired.”

He nodded understanding, although he couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.  The sight of her supple body sprawled over the bed was too tempting, his bear was almost panting.  But no, she was tired and... he should probably go home.

He
unenthusiastically remembered telling Esther he would be home for dinner... around six hours ago.  She might start to wonder where he was.

He yanked on the
borrowed clothes and found his boots.  Before leaving he covered her with a blanket, without his body heat she would soon get cold.  Lying next to his mate turned him into an inferno!  He knelt by the bed and gave her one last lingering kiss.

“Thank you for tonight honey.”  He said in a low voice, but she had already fallen back to sleep.

He caressed her cheek one last time, and took in every detail of her.  God knows when they would next be together, he needed to remember this moment.  With regret he left.

He bundled up his tattered clothes and made sure the front door locked on the way out.  He dumped the clothes in the trash can.

With one last longing glance at her house he set off home.  His beast snarled at him for leaving their sleeping mate.  He tried to soothe him, one day Andy was confident he and Mac would be together.  He just hoped it was sooner rather than later. 
He didn’t know if he could stand it much longer
.

*

Andy let himself into his house quietly.  The exhilaration he had felt at being with his mate had started to wane the further away from her he was.  Every step felt harder than the last, his legs were like lead.

He ducked under the low frame and listened for movement.
  He heard the low hum of the TV and Esther’s gentle breathing from the living room, probably fell asleep again watching TV.  He stilled when he heard something else.  It wasn’t just Esther’s breathing, there was someone else in there too.

Maybe a friend had come over for movie night.

Andy crept into the living room.  His eyes widened in surprise.  Esther was lying on the couch asleep.  Okay so far so normal.  But it was the fact that there was a young wolf lying in her arms in a lovers embrace, Esther clutched the wolf to her like her life depended on it.

He was surprised to find them together, although on reflection finding the wolf with Esther was not such a big shock.
 
It was Felicity
.  Every time he saw the wolf in Bar Luna she always asked after Esther.  They’d practically been inseparable at the pot luck.

He felt a little stupid for not seeing it sooner.
  He was glad Esther had found someone.  She deserved a little happiness.

He snapped off the TV and silently went up to his room.
  Undressed he lay on his bed naked.  He could still smell his mate’s scent all over his body.  Maybe he wouldn’t shower for a few days just to keep it with him...
no that probably wasn’t a good idea
.

He thought about
the situation with Esther.  Now that Esther was involved with someone perhaps he should confront her about handling the problem of their marriage.  Not that it was really a problem...
it was just standing in the way of his happiness and ruining his life
.

There was just the question of what to do about their clan. 
Well their old clan
.  They weren’t a part of it anymore, although they never truly seemed to get away from the suffocating reach of the clan.

Growing up things had seemed so straightforward, he’d never been aware of the vicious undercurrents of clan life.

He’d had his own heartbreak, like when his parents died.  His father in a car accident after an alcohol fuelled bender. 
One of the reasons Andy rarely drunk alcohol
.  His mother, having never gotten over the death of her mate followed five years later of a heart attack.  Although really she’d checked out a long time before that.

After his
mother died Esther’s family had taken him in, her father Able was the clan leader and her brother Abraham was next in line.  They treated him like one of their own.  He’d once had a crush on Esther but that soon changed to a more brotherly attachment.  Romantic feelings for her quickly died, and he had no doubt that she never felt that way about him.

Things had been fine in the pack up until two years ago
.  He’d known that the clan leader Able was strict, and that laws governing she-bears weren’t exactly... progressive but what came next had shocked him to his very core.

In their clan males were free to do as they wished when it came to mating, the females however were only permitted to wed a male that was approved by a male member of their family.  Usually the father or brother.  And it was also decreed that bears could only mate with bears. 
There were certainly no humans or wolves in the Payne Clan. They had to keep their bloodlines pure...

It wasn’t something that Andy had ever really considered as being bad before.
  He’d grown up with these rules, just assuming that one day he would settle down with a she-bear and have kids.  He’d never thought to question their outdated laws before. 
He’d always been a pushover...

Esther was the clan leader’s only daughter.  It had been well toted that Able had wanted to make a good match for her, meaning one that would be good for him. 
Such as marrying her off to another clan so that the clans would have familial ties
.

Esther, much to Able’s approval, had not dated boys whilst in school.  Nor had she done so when she went to college.  Or even when she came home from college, despite the persistent attentions of several male bears all keen to court her.
  Esther had seemingly remained celibate.  Able had taken this to mean that his daughter was saving herself for the marriage he would arrange.

That just wasn’t the case.  One fateful day just over two years ago, an especially aggressive member of the pack called Rusty had spotted Esther out on a date. 
With a woman
.  Rusty had dragged Esther away from the woman and hurled her in front of her clan leader and father for judgement.

After listening to her father’s tirades Esther had given in and admitted that she was only attracted to women, and had been dating women since she was a teenager.  Able had been livid.
  As far as he was concerned homosexuality in shifters didn’t exist.  Shifters were moved to mate and produce offspring, they were animals after all. 
How could they do that if they were gay?

Able had told her she was confused
and that all she needed was a male bear to end her confusion and show her the error of her ways.  With that Able had handed her to Rusty, entrusting him to rid Esther of her wickedness.

At this time both Andy and Abraham had been out of town.  On returning it was to find Esther in the hospital, having been raped and beaten numerous times.
  On learning the truth Andy had been beside himself with anger.  Abraham on the other hand... although he didn’t agree with his father’s high handed and downright cruel methods had agreed with the sentiment.  He intoned that there was no place for same sex couples in the clan.  An opinion their downtrodden mother also shared.

Andy had said that was bullshit.  He had promptly beaten Rusty to within an inch of his life and would have done the same to Able is Esther hadn’t begged him not to.
  Able agreed not to punish Andy for what he did to Rusty and everyone agreed to forget the incident.

Esther
feared about retaliation from the rest of the clan if Andy were to attack their leader, most of whom agreed with Able and Rusty’s actions. 
Or were too afraid not to
.  Neither Andy nor his bear had been happy with this, but Esther was like a sister to him and he agreed to do as she asked. 

After, Andy had felt self-conscious and out of place in the clan. 
Alien feelings for him
.  His once close-knit clan family felt like strangers to him. 
Vicious, self-righteous strangers
.  Knowing they agreed with what had happened to one of their clan sisters disgusted him.  He could no longer stand to call them friends.

Esther had clung to him.  She no longer trusted any clan mates other than him.  Neither did Andy.

Able, fearing the truth about his daughter would be revealed if she were married into another clan decided his only option was for her to marry one of their own clan mates.  Knowing her predilection for women there weren’t many volunteers.  Just one in fact. 
Rusty
.

Esther had almost fainted when she found out, she paled and shook with fear.
 
The thought of being bonded to him was too much...

Able had made overt threats to Esther should she think about refusing to marry or running away.  Under clan law she belonged to Able until she was married, and then she would belong to her husband.
 

Esther feeling despondent and desperate had considered suicide, thank god Andy had found her in time before she had tried anything that night... she had been ready to swallow a litre of bleach just to escape a dreadful marriage.

Andy seeing that Esther was out of options had stepped him.  With Esther’s agreement Andy had asked Able for her hand and it had been readily given.

Rusty had not been happy but Able had.  In spite of Andy’s dark feelings for his substitute father Able still loved him, and wanted nothing more than for him to marry his daughter.

They had plumped for as long an engagement as they could manage, knowing that Esther would remain safe during that time, it lasted just under a year.  During that time Andy made arrangements for them to move to Rose.  His cousin Dylan had suggested it, knowing that he and his wife would be there to keep an eye on Esther too.  And he doubted that the clan would be foolish enough to storm a wolf pack town if anything were to go wrong.

After the wedding Andy had announced his intention to leave and take Esther with him.  Her brother Abraham had tried to protest but Andy quoted the law to him word for word.  Esther was his property now,
and if he wanted to leave with her that was his right.

Able had bowed to the law... reluctantly.  Although he made it clear that if anything were to go wrong with the marriage he expected Esther to return to the clan.

Since then Esther and Andy had been living together as a married couple. 
Well, pretending to be a married couple anyway
.  They couldn’t be sure clan members weren’t watching.  More than once Esther had worried that she had spotted Rusty in town.

It meant that they couldn’t openly date anyone else, they had to live together, and if they found their true mates they couldn’t be with them
. 
Hence nearly three months of tortured longing for Mac...

The marriage was just one of convenience. 
Although it felt pretty fucking inconvenient right now...

Over the past few months he’d turned the matter over and over in his head.  No matter what he couldn’t bring himself to abandon Esther to be with Mac. 

Despite the constant barrage from his bear he had forced himself to maintain the appearance of a happy marriage with Esther. 
The bear was a tad more self-centred than him, the bear wanted his mate and to hell with the consequences
.  Andy thanked god that he was the one in charge... or at least that he was most of the time.

He had considered telling Mac the truth but...
there were parts of the story that he wasn’t sure Esther would want broadcast to anyone.  So he had remained silent and had stolen as many moments as he could with his mate.