Brayden took his son out to greet everyone that had been at the meeting. When Dane had gone into labor, everyone stayed to see if they both made it through it all right. A huge cheer went up when Brayden introduced his son to the people.
Wyatt and Sidney slipped out into the evening. Sitting on the bench on Main Street, a few blocks from the warehouse, they didn’t speak for a long time. The night, the events, it seemed too perfect to break it right now. Sidney laid her head on his shoulder and told him, quietly, that she loved him.
“I love you as well. When do you think you’ll have your article finished?” She told him it was done. “Really? I thought that you’d be working on it right up until the deadline. I mean, I know little about what you do, but I know what I see on television.”
“You don’t watch enough television to have a clear view about anything, Wyatt.” That was true. “Dane gave me all the paperwork after she was finished with it. I wrote what I thought it would be about, then revised it several times when she would find more or told me that I couldn’t print certain things just yet. I sent the teaser out to the wire about an hour before the meeting started. I wanted to have a big lead on what was going to go down before anyone else did.”
“I guess I don’t know what that means.” She explained it to him, how it worked with her contract with newspapers. “Oh. So you send out the teaser, as you called it, then if they want the entire story, they contact you, pay you, then you send them the rest. I like that.”
“Yes, well, the first paper that hits me up for it, they get a good deal more. Like where the criminals are being held, their full names, as well as ages. Fluff stuff that the other guys will have to look up. I got a buyer about three minutes after it was out there.” She told him the name of the paper when he asked.
“Wow, that’s a big paper. I’m proud of you. Who would have thought that we’d have something like this going down in our little town?”
“I did. Now, tell me what happened with the partners. Did you make them eat crow? Christian wouldn’t tell me anything. Said it was up to you to fill me in. So spill it, bucko. I need some details.” Wyatt grinned. “It must be good if you’re smiling like that.”
“To be honest with you, I was being distracted by my lovely wife when things were going on. I think you did that on purpose to keep me calm. What I do know is that my partnership has been dissolved. I’m not going to have to pay them anything, but they will have to reimburse me for any time that I covered for them. Also, my pension, which is something that I didn’t think about, hasn’t been touched.” She told him that was wonderful news. “I think I like it. Also, they have to pay my malpractice insurance for the next ten years, as well as medical. You’d not think that a doctor would need medical insurance, but I have it for us.”
“Christian is good, isn’t he? I mean, he kept telling me that he was, but I just never saw it.” Sidney told him that Christian was going to be helping her with a few things. “Now I know that he’ll get me what I want. I think I knew that before, but you just verified it for me.”
Holding her hand, they walked to their home. Wyatt was glad now that he’d brought his case with him when he’d come into town earlier. He would never have thought that he’d be delivering a baby today. But he felt good about it like it was something that he was meant to do. Wyatt thought of something that Levi had told him earlier.
“Levi is going out of town for a few weeks. He and Ray are going to her plant to make sure that things are settled enough for the place to be opened here. Did you know that everyone that works for her is coming here to live and work? That is something that we’ve needed for a while. An influx of new people to come and help with the town. Also, Brayden has decided that he’s going to open his own plant on the idea that he had with Ray. The part that he helped her with could be used in a lot of the things that she makes.” Sidney said that was good. “I think so too. I’m opening my practice in town too. Dad told me that while he was proud of me for wanting to do this at his home, it’s difficult to step away from working when it’s right there all the time. I think I’ll take his advice on that.”
“I never thought of that. I think that’s why I had a room at my apartment that I didn’t use for anything else but work. Like he said, it’s easier to step away from work when you can actually step away from it.” Wyatt asked her if she was going to do the same here. “I am, but not right away. I want to be a housewife. Stay at home. Get to know your family a little better. Lucy even asked me to join a few of her clubs. Dane gave me a list of the ones that I want to stay clear of.”
“Yes, Mom has been in and out of clubs since before I was born. There are more of them now that we’re able to help her out with.” Sidney steered him into the ice cream shop. “We’ll spoil our dinner; you know that, don’t you?”
“You need the calories for what I have planned for you later.”
He fumbled all over his order and blamed it on Sidney. All she could do was laugh, and he knew that payback to her was going to be epic.
The trial for Meadow and Ricky was going to be in two days. They would be taking most of the hit on this. Neither of them, he thought, would be able to see the sunlight any time soon without an armed guard around them.
Bryn’s family had made the decision to move closer to be near their dad. Walker wouldn’t be able to move here until his child was born. Les was going out there to be with his son and daughter-in-law to wait for the event.
Finishing off his ice cream first, Wyatt took Sidney’s from her and ate the rest of it in one bite. Then he let his cat take him. He was chasing after Sidney when she suddenly stopped and shifted. Her cougar was about the most beautiful one he’d ever seen. It was going to be a long and fulfilling night, he thought as he chased her down once again.
Chapter 6
Sidney loved the play—foreplay, she supposed it might be called—between the two of them. When she’d been able to shift from woman to cougar, she’d been as surprised as anyone. And she had been able to hold onto the form. Stopping in the middle of looking for Wyatt, Sidney decided to try out being the two animals from her birth.
The tiger was easy enough. She could see Wyatt a few feet away, and he was watching her. She told him what she was doing. He laughed and told her to have at it. They had forever to be together. Walking around as her tiger, she realized that she was much larger than her other cat and asked Wyatt about it.
I would imagine because she is something that you were born with rather than anything you might have inherited, or whatever it might be called, from me or Dane. She told him she thought that was about right. Your other relative was a bear, correct?
Yes. I’ll try that one next. I’m marveling at how long I’ve been able to hold this shape. Before, it was maybe for only a few seconds. Just enough to heal myself if I happened to be hurt. The same with the bear. Do I have to go back to a woman to be the bear? Wyatt told her that he didn’t think that was necessary. Okay. I’m going to do that.
The shift was much easier than she’d ever had before. When she’d only been a bear and tiger, she had to go back to being a person and wait like hours before she could try again as a bear. Sitting down on her butt, she asked Wyatt, who had come to her, what he thought.
She’s a brown bear. I don’t know why but I thought you’d be a black bear, as they’re more common when it comes to shifters. But she’s pretty. I guess. Wyatt laughed with her. You’re much larger than even your tiger, and monstrous compared to your cougar. I’d not fuck around with you if I were coming at you.
I guess that was what I wanted as a child growing up. Something that could protect me. What I think is really funny is that I can understand you either way. Wyatt told her that she was basically her no matter the shape she was in. I suppose you’re right about that too. When did you get so smart?
My mom beat it into me. They were laughing again, something that she’d not d
one in a long while before meeting him. She and Bryn would laugh a great deal, but she was so serious as well. You ready to try something else?
Thinking of the hawk that Dane used, she felt herself shift to the large bird. It took her a few seconds to figure out the wings and flying, but as soon as she did, she was up in the sky and soaring through the evening clouds. Sidney was startled when Wyatt joined her. She could almost touch his excitement.
No wonder she loves this shape. Holy Christ, this is something that I’ve never done before.
They played on the currents, soaring past one another several times as they tried to outdo each other. When they landed on top of one of the mountains behind their home, Wyatt laid on the grass and watched her change into different animals. She made sure that when she shifted from one to the next, he got to see her naked. Not that she needed to change to herself, but it was fun for her to tease him.
“If you’ve had enough, I’d like to have a bit of a taste of you.” Sidney shook her head. “You don’t want me to feast on you? I have to say that’s not very sporting of you since you’ve been teasing me for the last two hours.”
“I want to taste of you.” She heard him growl, and it made her pussy wet with need. “You don’t want that? You don’t want me to take you into my mouth? Suck on your cock and balls until you come down my throat? Oh, Wyatt, I’m so disappointed….”
She found herself on her back with him on top of her. Sidney reached up to pull him to her, kissing his chin and mouth as she made her way to his neck. Rolling him over, she sat on top of him, their bodies highlighted in the night moon.
“It’s so beautiful up here, don’t you think?” To answer her, if that was even an answer, he put his hands on her hips and moved her over his cock. “I’m so wet, Wyatt. I’m betting that you could take me right here, and there wouldn’t be a problem with you entering me.”
“I thought you wanted to suck on my cock.” She moved down his body, making sure that she touched him wherever she could. “Christ, Sidney, you keep this up, and I’ll never survive you. You’re very lovely with the way the moon dances over your nipples. I love the way when you move, your navel seems to make the moon look like it’s coming from inside of you.”
“I was just thinking of how furred you are. I don’t want to say hairy. That makes me think of old men who look as if they have a fur coat on. But I love the way it curls up over my fingers. It’s so soft and warm.” Leaning down, she took his nipple into her mouth and suckled on him. Rubbing her hands over his ribs, she sat up as she moved down his lovely body.
Licking him from navel to hip, she was rewarded with his hips coming up to meet her mouth. Taking his cock in her hand, Sidney licked him on the opposite side, rubbing her hand up and down his cock as she went.
“You’re so very hard.” He growled again, and it made her pussy gush with cream. Riding his thigh while she licked his crown, Sidney tasted the heavy cream that flowed from the tip of his cock. “Are you ready for me to take you?”
His voice sounded strangled. His yes seemed to have come from someone else, someone in pain. Taking his cock into her mouth, she moaned around the feeling of him filling her mouth even as she moved down his cock, licking the cream as it slid down him.
“Take me in your mouth. I’m so close to coming that I couldn’t hold back if I wanted to.”
Taking his balls into her hand, she rolled them around as she licked from the root to the top. Sidney wrapped her mouth around Wyatt and felt his cock release under her palm. The hot cream filled her mouth until she had to swallow several times before she could keep up with him. Wyatt’s large hand held her to him as if he was afraid that she’d leave him while he was coming.
When he let her go and fell back to the ground, his head making a thump when he did so, she moved over him. She needed relief as well but wasn’t going to wake him when he seemed so asleep at the moment. Wyatt looked so peaceful.
Sliding her hand down to her pussy to give herself some relief, she was nervous. This was something that she’d never done before. Wyatt stopped her by putting his hand over hers. She looked at him, wondering if he was sickened by what she’d been about to do.
“Never that. I want to watch you.” Nodding, she told him how she’d never done that before. “Given yourself pleasure? Well then, I really want to watch. And help you if you’ll allow me.”
“Yes.”
His hand was over hers as she moved it toward her pussy again. Thinking of him watching what she was doing, his hand so close to where she wanted to be, Sidney moaned loudly when she touched her clit.
Moving her fingers around herself, she laid the rest of the way back. Enjoying herself now that she knew what she liked, Sidney slid their fingers into her, the heat of herself making her cry out in pleasure.
“I’m going to help you.” Nodding, not caring what he did so long as she got some relief, Sidney didn’t even look at him when she felt him shift around. As soon as his tongue, barely touching her clit, curled around her, Sidney’s body jerked back from the overwhelming feeling. “I need more of you, Sidney. All of you.”
With his tongue and her fingers, she was writhing on the ground. Her body would find it too much, and she’d back off, then tease herself more. Each time his tongue slid over her, she would cry out again. This was almost too much, she thought. Sweat was making her body cool off as she heated herself up.
Before she could come, Wyatt moved her hands out of the way and took her entire pussy in his mouth. His tongue entered her, feeling so incredibly thick and long, he touched parts of her that she’d never felt before. When Wyatt told her to come, screaming for her to do it through their link, she felt her body bow up, as if she had no control over it, just before everything hit her.
She was sure that her body had imploded. Not only did she seem to have no control over her body, but her mind needed someplace to put all the extra power that seemed to have been generated when she came.
Sidney heard herself scream, heard how primal it was. Even her animals, all of them, seemed to have enjoyed that as much as her own body did. They flashed over her body so quickly that she could feel their pleasure with her.
Almost the moment she thought that her body was coming down from the height that Wyatt had taken her to, she was soaring up again. This time flashes of her life passed over her eyes. The good times as well as the bad.
Landing again, this time so out of breath that she couldn’t speak, she smacked at Wyatt when he asked her if she’d enjoyed that. The fucker was going to pay—if she lived through this.
Sidney must have gone to sleep, or she’d fainted. Both were a good possibility. Reaching for Wyatt, he wrapped himself around her and told her that he loved her. She knew somehow they’d gotten to the house and their new bed. But for the life of her, she couldn’t care less if some stranger had found them both naked and brought them home.
When the room was still dark, she heard Wyatt. Asking him if things were all right, he told her that they were. He needed to go and see his brother. The room was cozy, as was the bed, and she didn’t bother asking him if he wanted her to go with him. Whatever it was, Wyatt was a cat, not some unsuspecting human.
The next time she woke up, the room was flooded in light. Rolling to her side, she smiled at Wyatt as he laid beside her. Since his eyes were closed, she assumed he was asleep and got out of bed. Wyatt asked her if she’d come back and hold him.
“Do you really need me to hold you, or are you hoping to get lucky again?” Wyatt said both. “Okay. It’s nearly ten o’clock, and I have to meet your sisters and mom at the Christmas in August sale at the mall at noon. I was told, several times, that I wasn’t to be late.”
“Party pooper.” She asked him about last night. “Brayden wanted me to come by and check on Dane. She was all right, but Brayden thought that she was getting up and around too soon. I told him if he wanted to try and keep he
r in bed longer than she wanted, he was on his own. But she checked out okay and seemed to be ready to face the world.”
“Yes. I bet there aren’t too many people that would try and make her do anything that she doesn’t want to.” Wyatt leaned up on his elbow and watched her. “I’m going to see about getting us some Christmas things. If this really is a Christmas sale.”
“It is. The mall here does this once a year, after the July sale, and pulls out all their last year decorations and shit like that. I’ve never gone before, but Mom comes home with some pretty awesome deals. She donates a great deal of it to the nursing home usually, then to the churches that put up a tree.” Sidney was forever amazed at how much Wyatt’s family did for this town. She told him that. “Mom said that you were going to be helping her with a few projects. The other women in the family don’t have a lot of time—I think they work full time to avoid that sort of thing. But you and my mom, you two seemed like best friends right from the start. She told me how much she enjoys just having a nice cup of tea with you.”
“I do as well. She’s so friendly. And when she’s not, then you learn a great deal about her that I doubt many people see often. I love her like she was my own mom. She’s wonderful.” Sidney asked him if she looked all right. “I asked what sort of clothing they were going to be wearing, and they laughed at me. Your mom said to wear comfy. Her answer was much nicer than the others were.”
“I’m betting they were laughing at you.” Wyatt sat up in the bed. “If you buy too much and need a lift home, let me know. Or, and I like this one better, you call me if you’re going to be there for dinner and I’ll join you. Perhaps we all will. That’ll be great, don’t you think?”
“I do. Okay.” She kissed him on the mouth and made her way to the door. “Oh, before I forget, there is a delivery today of things that we ordered the other day. Mostly it’s just kitchen things and dinnerware for us to use in the kitchen. Also, you have an interview with Meggie Luna, from the pack, about getting staff. Denny said you know everyone better than he does. And don’t forget the auction. I’m excited about that as well.”
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