He moved closer until I was forced to look up to meet his eyes, his hand going to my jaw, tipping it up further. There was a question in his eyes as his thumb stroked my cheek, one I found myself nodding in answer to.
Fuck… was all my mind managed as he his head dropped down and then he kissed me.
I’d had plenty of great kisses before. Those kisses you have at some crazy hour of the night, the air chilled, the streetlights blurring behind our heads as we had one of those open mouth
ed, messy kisses tasting of beer and cigarettes, and you don’t even care. Or slow, just waking up after a awesome night of sex, sensual kisses that celebrated and honoured the magic we’d been able to create, even if it was just for one night. But none of my kisses before had been like this.
Sen’s mouth had a direct line to my clit, the plush of his lips, pressing against mine, then opening to suck my bottom lip in, it felt like it was doing double duty between my legs. I whimpered down in my throat, then clawed him back when he tried to pull away.
“No…no…” he moaned, finally jerking himself free. He stared at me and I stared at him, looking like we’d just survived a bomb blast or something. “Fuck, no,” he said when I moved closer, holding a hand out to stop me. I liked the way his eyes rolled back when I closed my fingers around it. “You’re gonna have me coming in my pants if you keep doing that.”
“Fuck, me too…” Aidan leaned in, rubbing his face against the side of mine. “Love, you smell so—”
“Everyone out who isn’t pack or an accepted petitioner,” Ophelia snapped, her voice like the slap of a wet cloth across my face. I blinked, struggling to keep my eyes open as the sensations that came from Aidan, then Peter as he tugged me against him, washed over me like waves, dragging me down below into their velvety depths where I’d happily drown.
“Keep Sen from her and get Snowy in here. And Renee,” she ordered.
“She’s going into heat? It's not the full moon. She hasn’t shifted.”
“Who’s to know what her body is doing? It’s always a new discovery with each outsider that comes here. Now get them here immediately.”
Lips trailed over my flesh, sending burning trails over my skin and squashing down the monkey brain part of myself that was screaming questions about what was going on. She was shouldered roughly to one side, seduced by the great swell of sensation to just stay quiet for this once. I felt my Tirian shift inside me, and it felt like she had much more room to do so. Her mouth fell open in a wolfish smile, her eyes flashing bright at what was coming. All she was had been held back, boxed in, kept at bay by my ‘monkey brain,’ but that was offline right now. She was taking control.
“Not yet.”
The alpha’s command beat down on both of us, holding us still, keeping back what had to happen, if only for a moment.
“Think of Kade,” she said when I pushed back, lifting my head to stare into her endlessly grey eyes. “We will take him to Renee’s, he can have an extended sleepover with the boys.”
I nodded. The cub, he always came first. We could see just how scared he would be if he was escorted away from the house without an explanation. “Bring him, now. I can’t wait for much longer.”
“You’ll shift tonight?” she asked. “I need to prepare…”
Her words fell away as she saw my toothy grin, the echo of my wolf twin’s.
“That’s for the moon to decide.”
“We’ll need to study her afterwards. If this is something other outsiders will do, it changes how we do things,” one of the matriarchs said as they exited the door.
“Something for later, don’t you think?”
“What’s happening, Mum?”
Kade studied the lot of us, eyes skipping from one to the other in rapid succession.
I dropped down to his level and threw my arms around him, hugging him tight.
Cub…cub…cub… my heart went.
“Darling, you’re going to have a sleepover at Nana Renee’s, with Jared and Rexy and—”
“Really! Tonight?” I nodded my head, watching his little face light up. “Cool! I’m gonna take my LEGO Star Wars dune walker and—”
“Kade, we actually have a whole lot of new toys for you to play with at our house,” Renee said gently. “Rex has a massive stash of LEGO sets. Space, dragons, monster fighters…”
“Really? Will he let me play with them?”
“He’d love for you to. Now, you’re going to stay with us for about a week, so we’ll need to get you some clothes.”