Ruby's Strength

by Elisa Leigh

  “And I just bit him, while we were-”

  “Ah, ya ya ya. I don’t need to know those details.” Cole jumps up and says making me and Aubree laugh.

  “He doesn’t know we’re shifters, Cole. Or he didn’t know, but he might now since I ran out of the house naked and then shifted, in the snow.” I wince, thinking about what I just did and how rash I was. Maybe if I had talked it out with him, this could have been avoided. He is my mate after all.

  “I think you made it worse by leaving him alone to come up with answers on his own. You need to go back there and explain it to him.” Aubree says gently.

  “I know you’re right. Man, I messed up so bad. I think I freaked myself out when I bit him. I didn’t even think, it just happened.”

  Cole sits down beside me and wraps his arm around my shoulder. “Ru, you have to tell him what he’s in for. He deserves to know.”

  “I feel foolish.”

  “No one is perfect Ruby. We’ve all made our fair share of mistakes. It’s how we come back from them that matters more.”

  I hug my brother tight. Thank God I’ve got a family that can talk some sense into me.

  “You want me to give you a lift back to your place?” Cole asks.

  “Yeah, thanks. Aubree, I’ll get these clothes back in a couple of days.”

  “Don’t worry about it hun, I know where you live.”

  Cole and I don’t talk on the way back to my place. There isn’t much to say. When he pulls up to my house, the floodlights turn on, and I see Everett sitting on the back porch in a chair waiting for me. “Go easy on him Ru. I’m sure he’s in shock.”

  “I will.” I open the door, and I’m about to close it when Cole asks “When did you get floodlights?”

  I smile and look over at Everett. “He installed them this morning. He wasn’t happy about me walking into the house not being able to see.”

  “But you can…” Cole stops and waves at Rett who’s sitting on the porch. “I get it now. That’s a good guy Ruby.”

  “Yeah.” I sigh. “He is.”

  “You didn’t see this coming?”

  I give Cole a look, and he puts his hands up in surrender. “It was just a question. I figured since you’ve seen everything else, you would have seen this too.”

  “That’s what I thought would happen too. But life rarely goes according to plan. Love you, big brother.”

  “Love you too, Ruby. Tell him to call me if he needs to talk. I’ll check in with you in the morning.”

  I nod and shut the door then walk up my stairs to sit beside Everett on the rocking bench.

  “Hey…” I try, but he says nothing. I know he heard me, but he sits staring out at the back where the forest and my property meet. I can see the wheels turning in his head. I just wish I knew what he was thinking. “I’m sorry I lef-”

  Wolves howl loudly in the distance causing chills to run down my back.

  “They’ve been doing that every couple of minutes since you left. Friends of yours?”

  “Hell no! Those are the guys responsible for killing my father.”

  “Get inside.” Rett commands and stands up pushing me inside my house and to my couch.

  “Hey, take it easy,” I complain not liking being told what to do.

  Rett paces in front of me for a few minutes. “Don’t you ever do that shit again Ruby. I’ve been half out of my mind wondering where you were. You could have gotten hurt out there.”

  I snort, there’s no way that’s happening unless he still thinks I’m human. “Wait, you didn’t see?”

  “You mean did I see your naked-as-a-jaybird ass suddenly turn into a furry predator while running out on me after the best sex of my life? Yeah, it was kind of hard not to notice.”

  I cringe, hating the way he’s talking to me, but at the same time, I know I kind of deserve it. “You’re right, I shouldn’t have done that.”

  “If we have a problem you stay so we can solve it.”

  I grab his hand and pull him to sit beside me. “I’m sorry Everett. I freaked out after I claimed you, so I changed into my bear and went to my brother’s house.”

  “So your brother knows about you?”

  “We’re all bears Everett. My brothers and I were born as bear shifters because our parents were bear shifters. When Cole and Slate met their mates, they claimed them, and they turned into bear shifters as well.”

  “Do people in town know?”

  “No, and we want to keep it that way. Please don’t say anything.”

  Nine

  Rett

  I sigh and sit down beside her. “Baby, of course, I’m not going to say anything, but you have to tell me what the hell is going on. You’ve said a lot tonight, and I need your help putting it together.”

  Ruby pulls my hand up to her mouth and kisses it before placing it back in her lap. She traces over my knuckles for a minute like she’s lost in thought. “Bear shifters are destined to have one true mate in this world. One soul that is the perfect match to their own. Most of the time, like my parents, shifters will be mated to another shifter. Sometimes though, a shifter will find their mate in a human. It’s not common, but it happens. As it turns out Cole’s, Slate’s, and my mate have all been human.”

  “Tell me I’m your fucking mate because if I’m not, we’re going to have problems.”

  She smiles. “Yeah Everett, you’re my mate.”

  “And that’s why you bit me?”

  “Yes, except there’s more to it than that. When I bit you, I didn’t just claim you, I changed you.”

  “Changed me into a bear?”

  She nods but refuses to look at me as a single tear rolls down her cheek. “I’m sorry Rett. My bear just took over. I think she was scared I wouldn’t claim you. I didn’t realize I did it until it was already done. I shouldn’t have taken that choice away from you, and I will be sorry about that forever.”

  “It’s okay baby.”

  “You’re not mad?” She asks, finally turning to look at me.

  I wipe the tears that have fallen away. “Once I watched you run off in your bear form I kind of put things together. While I was waiting for you to come back, I had time to think. I figured me changing could be one of the reasons you were so upset. Would I have liked you to talk to me about it first, of course? Now that it’s done, I can’t say that I regret it.”

  She lunges for me and wraps her arms around my neck, peppering my face with kisses. “Thank you, Rett. I was so worried that you’d never forgive me. My biggest fear would have come true, and it would have been my own fault. How was I supposed to live without you?”

  I pull her onto my lap, so her legs are hanging over mine, and her ass is snug against me. “You’ll never have to Ruby.”

  She smiles at me, and I swear she knows something she shouldn’t. “Guess we never got that date huh?”

  “We had a date, it just went differently than what people typically do on a first date. We’ll have many more to get it right.”

  “Yeah, we will. Everett, I have to tell you one more thing since we’re laying everything out on the table. I want to be completely honest about who I am and what you’re getting yourself into.”

  I rub her back and place my other hand on her thigh, needing to touch her. “Whatever it is Ruby, I’m in.”

  Ruby takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve had visions of the future. Sometimes it's the future that is many years from now. Other times it’s the very near future. There are instances when I only get feelings about things. I’ve never been wrong Everett, every single time I have one what I’ve seen has come true.”

  “You’ve been given a gift Ruby, that isn’t a bad thing.”

  “It doesn’t feel like one when I have no power over when the visions come. Anyway, my whole family knows about it. I haven’t gotten one in a few days which is strange, so I’m sure I’ll be having one soon.”

  “Are you okay after you have one?”r />
  “What do you mean?”

  “Do you get sick or pass out? Is there something I can do to help you through them?”

  “I don’t understand how you are so accepting of me and my life.”

  I stand with her in my arms and walk us back to her bedroom.

  “I can walk you know.”

  “Why walk when you have someone willing to carry you?”

  Ruby kisses me slowly, but I’m in no mood for slow. Once we’re in her bedroom, I place her on the bed and start undressing. Ruby watches me intently, her tongue peeking out and licking her lips when she spots my dick that is in need of some relief. “Baby I need you,” I tell her stroking my hard dick.

  She pulls the hoodie over her head and tosses it to the ground. Her tits are on full display, pointing at me, begging me to have a taste. She grabs her mounds and pushes them together, then tempting me further she pinches the tips and moans.

  I’m on her at once pulling those fucking pants down her legs and spreading her thighs open for my tongue. Her lips are wet with her desire, and she tastes like sin and sweetness. Spreading her lips with my thumbs, I lick up and down her center until she’s moving her pussy over my face begging me for more. I push two fingers into her tight pussy quickly finding her g-spot.

  “My mate likes it when I fuck her with my fingers, doesn’t she?”

  “Mmm yes, don’t stop Rett. Soo good.”

  I suck her clit into my mouth making her even wetter. I’m steadily stroking my dick, precum coating my shaft and dripping onto the floor. I lick around her tiny asshole then use my thumb and rub circles around it as it starts to loosen for me. “That’s it, baby, let me in.” She moans, her pussy getting wetter the more I play with her ass.

  “Everett, please I need it.” She moans when she feels the tip of my thumb at her ass. Using my precum for lubrication, I press my thumb into her tight hole. With two fingers thrusting into her pussy and another in her asshole she’s coming. Once I’ve rung every ounce of her orgasm out of her, I slide up her body and take her mouth in a sloppy kiss. “Love you, Ruby.”

  “Love you too, Rett.”

  “You trust me, love?”

  Ten

  Ruby

  Oh my God, that was… I have no words for what that was.

  “Love you, Ruby.”

  Hell, he’s going to do me in. “Love you too, Rett,” I say with tears lodged in my throat.

  “You trust me, love?”

  “Yes. With anything Rett.”

  “Good. Roll over baby and get on your knees.”

  I do as he says, my belly tightening with excitement. If someone had asked me if I would let someone touch me there, the answer would have been no. With Rett, anywhere he touches me feels right, it feels incredible. Rett moves behind me and leans over me, rubbing his two hands up my back. His calloused hands feel perfect against my tingling skin. He places open-mouthed kisses starting at the nape of my neck and moves down my spine, while one of his hands plays with my pussy, rubbing circles around and over my clit.

  Rett rubs the head of his dick through my entrance, and I’m more than ready for him to take me there. Pushing my pussy over his dick, he enters me shallowly before pulling out. Gripping my hips, he pulls me up, so I’m on my hands and knees, sticking my ass up. I look over my shoulder, and I can tell the animal that I just put inside him is at the surface and calling the shots now. I’m more than willing to surrender myself to him.

  Rett enters me in one swift thrust, balls deep and resting against my ass, the fullness takes the air right out of my lungs. Jesus, I wasn’t expecting that, but he feels so fucking good. He pulls almost all the way out before thrusting back in. He does this over and over until the only thing we can hear are the obscene sounds of our skin slapping together.

  Thrusting faster, I move with him and push myself against him so he can get even deeper inside me, touching a place he didn’t before. I claw the sheets and hold on tight as the bear inside him takes over and pushes me into the bed and ruts inside me like the bear he is. Unable to take any more, I’m on the verge of coming.

  “You’re mine, Ruby. You’re my mate.” He roars before bending over my back and biting my neck roughly. My orgasm washes over me, and Rett comes deep inside me, filling me up until his cum is dripping out of me. With a slight pinch of pain, he releases my neck and cleans my wound, then places a soft kiss against my mate mark.

  He pulls out of my throbbing pussy and lays beside me. Gathering me in his arms, he helps me lay over him and rest my head against his chest. We lay in silence for a while, him stroking the back of his fingers down my back, while I snuggle into him.

  “We didn’t use protection Rett, and I’m not on birth control.”

  “It’s been years since I was with anyone baby, and I’ve been tested regularly through the military. I’m clean.”

  I pinch his nipple and look up at him.

  “What was that for?” He laughs.

  “I don’t want to hear about the other women you’ve been with.”

  “I wasn’t telling you about them, to be honest, there weren’t that many.”

  I pinch his other nipple and twist.

  “Shit. Okay, I just wanted you to know you didn’t have anything to worry about. That will be the last time that will ever come up.”

  “Better be.”

  “Look at me, Ruby. What matters is you’ll be my last and my only for the rest of our lives. You’re the only one I’ve ever loved and given my heart to.”

  I kiss the middle of his chest. “That’s better. Keep saying that stuff, my big ego wants more.”

  Rett slaps my ass, and I laugh. “Hey!”

  “Oh no, you started it, love.” He rolls us over, so he’s straddling my belly. Grabbing my hands in one of his, he uses his other hand to tickle my middle.

  I manage to buck him off of me and straddle his legs. Finding his dick hard again I raise my eyebrow at him, and he shrugs shamelessly. “I haven’t been able to get it to stay down since the moment I laid eyes on you. It’s a little painful if I’m honest.”

  “Do you need some help with that? Maybe I could relieve some of the pressure.” I grab his shaft, and he hisses as I pull up on him.

  “Just like that baby. Fuuuuck, just like that.”

  I watch as his eyes roll in the back of his head and then close. Continuing to jerk his dick in my hands, I watch his face as pleasure consumes him. Checking to make sure his eyes are still closed I lean down and swipe my tongue over the mushroomed head of his dick, tasting him. His eyes open and he watches as I lick around his head and then suck it into my mouth. “Goddamn.” He groans and holds his dick for me while I explore him.

  Using my tongue, I lick of up the underside of his shaft until he is nice and wet. I grab his shaft and hold it while I open my mouth as wide as it will go and suck his dick into my mouth. Rett’s hands spear into my hair, and he helps guide me up and down his dick until I’m swallowing almost all of it.

  “Baby I’m going to come in your mouth if you keep going like that.”

  His words spur me on, and I suck him harder and faster, wanting to give him the same pleasure he’s been giving me. “God, don’t fucking stop. I’m gonna come, ohhh fuck I’m coming baby, I’m coming.” He shouts, his fingers tightening in my hair, right before long ropes of his cum slide down my throat.

  When I pull away from him, he’s looking at me with a giant smile on his face. “Have to say I wasn’t expecting that.”

  “So it was a good surprise?”

  “The best, but from now on, my cum is being saved for your pussy until you’re pregnant with our baby.”

  “You want to give me a cub?” I ask in wonder.

  “Gonna give you so many cubs baby. Gonna fill this house up until we need to build onto it to make more room for all of them.”

  If I wasn’t sure about him before, I am now. No matter what comes I know he’ll be here right beside me, loving me, and any cubs we will have.


  Eleven

  Rett

  “Beautiful girl if you don’t get your ass out here we’re going to be late,” I call from the kitchen where I just did the dishes while Ruby got ready for our night out with her family. The woman takes forever to get ready and our room ends up looking like a tornado tore through it when she’s done. We’ve been together for over two weeks, and I haven’t left since. After I got out of work on Monday afternoon, I dropped by my room at the motel and grabbed my things at Ruby’s insistence and promptly checked out. We go to work and even met up with her family last weekend for a family dinner, but I’ve spent every night in her bed.

  “What did you say?” She asks wearing a skintight long sleeve black t-shirt that is pushing her tits up and showing off way too much cleavage. She’s also got on a pair of jeans that look as though they’ve been painted on.

  “Go change.”

  “No.”

  “Get your ass back in that room and change into something else,” I say knowing she isn’t going to listen to me.

  “I’m wearing this. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

  “Have it your way, but don’t hold me responsible for what happens when a man hits on you tonight.”

  Walking up to her, I pull her in close with my hand at her waist. I lean down and get close to her ear, so close my lips brush against it when I speak. “And trust me love, dressed like that they aren’t going to care if you have a man attached to you.” I suck her earlobe into my mouth and nibble it before I release her.

  “You changing?”

  She shakes her head no. Fuck, I swear she wants to see me hand some guy their ass. Earlier this week when we were grocery shopping I lost my shit when I came back from grabbing some cereal and found some guy standing entirely too close to her while she was picking out tomatoes and talking to her. She thought it was funny that I got pissed until I shoved her into the family bathroom at the store and fucked her until my cum was dripping down her thighs and marking her as mine. Since then I think she’s been trying to make me jealous to see what I’ll do.