by Kimber White
“I know. It’s complicated. But they weren’t themselves. But now, they’d give their lives for mine. For Alec. We have a lot of things to sort through, but we will. Trust me.”
“You’ll come home more often?”
I laughed. “Yes. All the time. I promise. Now give me a hug and take Jaxson home. He needs rest. And salmon.”
My father hugged me in that way he had, warm, all-encompassing, safe. I felt an ache in my heart later as I stood in Alec’s arms and we watched them leave. My father shifted and reared his great, grizzly head one last time to roar. Jaxson raised a hand and then lowered it quickly when Lucifer charged forward and nearly unseated him. Though I hated to see them go so soon, I knew it was right. Jaxson needed the healing powers of his homelands and the solitude only bears can appreciate. And I needed Alec.
Later, the sun dipped below the horizon and a full, bright moon rose high in the sky. I woke alone in the bed in Pat’s front room, a cool breeze whispering across my skin. I reached for Alec in the space beside me, but he’d already gone. I knew exactly where.
I met him along the water’s edge like the very first time. I sank my toes into the sand and pulled my nightgown over my head, letting the crisp air touch my skin and give me goosebumps. Still as glass, the water reflected the moon. Then it bubbled and rippled as Alec emerged from the deep like some sea creature. He cut through the water with clean, strong strokes then rose up. Water sluiced off his chiseled form. When he came to me, he shook his head like the dog he was and sprayed cold drops of water all over me, soaking me from head to toe.
Laughing, I drew him to me. Even covered in cool water, he warmed me as my nipples pressed against his skin.
“Come with me,” he said, taking my hand he drew me toward the lake.
“I’ll freeze to death.”
“I’ll keep you warm. I’ll always keep you warm.”
So I followed him. Alec wrapped his arms around my waist and we dipped into the water together. He kept his promise. He kept me warm. I wrapped my legs around his waist and he slid into my heated core in one smooth stroke.
“I love you,” he whispered. Joined like this, floating through the water, it felt like we were one being.
“I love you more.”
“Not possible.”
“Well, Alpha dog, I hope to spend the next forever proving it to you.”
Alec let out a low, wicked laugh that sent heat spearing through me. Though I loved the water, an urgent need for a different kind of friction rose within me. Alec’s feet found bottom and he carried me back up to the shore. I thought he would lay me down in the sand, but my wolf had other ideas. The woods called to him, so he took me there.
He laid me down on a soft bed of leaves, his cock still hard and deep inside of me. He hovered over me with the bright moon over his shoulder. A full moon. I remembered the promise I made at the last full moon, and it made me shudder with fear. But just for a moment. Then Alec leaned down and kissed me and chased everything bad away.
He thrust inside me. I arched my back to receive him. We went slow at first, savoring the feel of each other’s bodies. I slid my hands over the curve of his ass as his muscles clenched. I ran my fingers along the faint lines of the scars he bore. Scars he’d taken for me. I had my own scars, but they too were faint and didn’t matter.
Heat spread through me, reaching a throbbing peak at the center of my being. I brought my legs up and Alec caught my ankles. He spread my legs into a vee, pressing even deeper inside of me. I wanted it. All of him. Forever.
With his hands circling my ankles, he found the deepest spot inside of me and brought me to the edge of desire and back again. I opened for him, thrust for him, breathed with him.
“Yes!” I gasped. Alec took his hands away from my ankles and I curled my legs around his shoulders. He pumped inside of me, and I felt the first jerk of his orgasm and then my own. We came together. I screamed his name as he poured his seed inside of me. I dug my hands into the soft earth beside me, finding the pressure and friction I needed to rise with him. Pleasure tore through me. It felt as if the stars themselves exploded around me. On and on we came. I could never get enough of him. He filled me. Completed me. Loved me.
When we were both spent, a new urge rose within me as Alec’s eyes flashed silver. I gasped and nodded. It was time, but he wanted to hear the words.
“Yes. Please. I want you to.”
It was all I could manage to say. I found the strength to turn and present myself to him on all fours. Still hard as a rock, Alec slid inside me again, stretching me wide. My hair fell to the side, exposing my neck. He nipped my ear, sending a shiver of pleasure through me. I ground my hips backward, feeling the slow build of pressure. I would come again. Hard and perfect.
Alec kissed along my spine, teasing me, driving me wild. “Please!” I begged him. When he ran his tongue in circles at the nape of my neck I thought I would die from the pleasure of it. Then I felt his fangs tickling my skin. Tingling pleasure and expectation built inside me. I started to come again. If he meant to go slow, when my walls clenched around him, it did something to Alec. He wonderfully lost control. A low, vibrating growl heightened my pleasure as he finally bit down. An instant of pain spread to pleasure unlike I’d ever known.
He became part of me as he marked me. Oh, God, if only I’d known. He claimed me. Made me whole. But as he bit me and made a new mark, I claimed him too. We fit. Alec’s pulse flooded through me. Oh, this was so much different. So much stronger. He came into me, filling empty spaces I didn’t know I had. I saw the world through Alec’s eyes. Cruel, brutal, beautiful. For an instant, his thoughts became my thoughts. His heartbeat became mine. We were joined, coupled, a tighter bond than anything I knew possible. Stronger together. Better.
Time and space became a swirl of light and stars. I saw things. Me. Alec. The pack. Danger. Beauty. Wonder. Alec’s bite didn’t just seal the bond between us. It awakened something in me. I found my magic. My mother’s magic. It poured through my veins, set my heart on fire. Visions flashed behind my eyes. Fast and furious at first, then slowly they took shape and meaning. Some brought a new, hard darkness. But others . . . others made my heart soar with hope and possibilities. All of them took my breath away. Then, Alec brought me in and curved his body around mine as we stared at the moon and held each other.
An eternity might have passed, or only a moment. As Alec as I lay on the forest floor together, for the first time in my life I knew where I belonged. My mother was right. Alec was my destiny. And I was his.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Later, we went back up to the farmhouse together. As much as we both wanted to spend the rest of our lives naked in the woods together, the pack waited. We had decisions to make.
“Will we go back to the ranger station?” Since Kane’s downfall, the outpost was empty. Part of me dreaded the possibility. That place caused me terror and pain for so long, I wanted to forget it. And yet, the woods around it brought me solace and peace.
“Well, that outpost was Kane’s job. We need a pack presence there. But, if it makes you uncomfortable, we’ll find something else.”
I sipped my tea. We’d finished a huge dinner with the pack, and they’d found reasons to head back off into the woods to give their Alpha and his new mate privacy. Things were instantly easy between me and Cole and Christian. Even Daniel. Brandon found ways to make himself invisible and for now that suited me fine. Time would tell whether he could find a place in this pack or would need to move on.
“What if we leveled it?” I said. As soon as I did, my heart brightened. “Those awful cabins, I mean. We could make a real home there. Still do all the things we need to do to keep the place running and the wildlife thriving.”
Alec reached across the table and took my hand. He turned it and kissed my palm, sending a shiver of warmth through me. “Then that’s what we’ll do. Now, that that’s settled, are you going to tell me what you saw out there?”
I wrinkle
d my nose at him. I tried to play dumb for an instant, not sure if I was ready to give voice to what I felt, but this was Alec. My mate. My Alpha. He knew me literally inside and out now. A flood of echoed desire made me shiver as his eyes flashed with lust. When Alec marked me, I felt his power flow through me, but I found a new power of my own as well. His mark made a conduit for both of us. I couldn’t hide what happened to me and didn’t want to.
“Pat said my mother was a seer. That she had a vision about me and knew I was meant to be with you. Well, not you specifically. But, she said she knew I was fated to be with a wolf.”
“Lucky me.”
I nodded.
“You had a vision too, didn’t you?”
He was calm about it. I realized why. My mate. My Alpha. He had probably seen a flash of everything I did. I set my teacup down and smiled at him. This was the hard part. I still hadn’t sorted out everything I saw. It had happened in just an instant.
“Something’s coming. Not for us. I think we’ve earned our slice of peace. But I think Kane had allies that might try to finish what he started. The packs need to be ready.”
Alec nodded. “I thought as much.”
“It’s coming from the south. I don’t know why I know that, I just kind of do.”
Alec nodded again. “It’s what we’ve always suspected. That’s the other thing we talked about during . . . uh . . . beer court. Derek’s pack is going to head down to Ohio to do a little recon.”
“Isn’t that going to be dangerous for them? I mean, wolves up here are kind of expected.”
“They know how to stay safe. And it’s not our worry right now. Like you said, you and I have earned our little slice of peace. Derek can handle himself. If there is trouble coming, it won’t be worse than things we’ve faced before. And I can’t help it. You could tell me the apocalypse is coming and I still wouldn’t be able to wipe this smile off my face. I have you. I can face anything.”
Then a slow blush warmed my cheeks. I slid off my chair and onto Alec’s lap. I hadn’t wanted to give voice to the rest of what I saw. As though the magic might only last if I kept it a wonderful secret. But, I couldn’t keep anything from Alec. He slid his fingers along my neck and traced the outline of the new, crescent-shaped scar he’d made. This time, my mark flared with pleasure like a new erogenous zone. Heat shot straight to my core. In another few seconds, I’d need him again. Another side effect of a marking done right. We’d fucked more times than I could count.
I closed my eyes and kissed him. The vision flared between us and I didn’t hold anything back. Alec saw everything I did. In a future not far from now, I saw myself back at the ranger outpost. A beautiful house cut into the hill overlooking the lake with floor to ceiling windows. Alec waved to me from the dock, fishing pole in hand as he crouched low. Our small son stood in front of him, his chubby fingers struggling to reel something in. Alec tossed his head back and laughed as he closed his larger hands around the reel and helped.
I waved from the window, our baby girl straddling my hip. “Fiss on! Fiss on!” she squawked, kicking her legs as if I were Ladybug. And just like that mare, I listened. I bounded down steps of the deck Alec had built. We joined the boys at the end of the dock just as our son hoisted his catch in the air. Alec’s rich laughter sent goosebumps through me. Our son’s eyes flashed silver, just like his daddy’s as his own white wolf flared inside of him.
Alec pulled away from me, his eyes shining, wet with tears. “Is that real?” he asked, his voice thick with emotion. I smiled and cupped his face with my hands.
“Well, Pat says my mother’s visions always came true. But either way, think of all the fun we’ll have trying to get there.”
Alec growled as I reached down and loosened the buttons of his fly. He was already huge and hard and all for me. His inner wolf flared to life. He rose and swung me over his shoulder caveman style. I snorted and laughed as he gave me a playful swat on the ass and headed toward our room at the end of Pat’s hallway.
Oh, yes, think of all the fun we’d have trying to get there.
THE END
A Note from Kimber White
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for following along with Alec and Olivia. This was one of those stories that just poured out when I wasn’t expecting it. Alec is stubborn that way, I guess. He’s not the only one. Keep on reading and I’ll tell you about what happened when Jaxson Lord roared across my computer screen.
Before I get to Jax though, I’m not quite ready to leave Wild Lake yet and I hope you’re not either. Derek’s story is up next. There’s a gathering threat to the south and Derek’s been dispatched to deal with it. Trouble is, there’s a sexy, sassy, wolf hunter on her way to dispatch Derek. What could possibly to wrong?! You can catch Derek’s story in Hunter’s Heart. Click here for more information.
If you’re new to the shifters of Wild Lake, you can find out more about Alec’s pack in Primal Heat. That’s Bas’s story.
The Wild Lake companion series is called, Claimed by the Pack which kicks off with The Alpha’s Mark.
Okay . . . now about those bears. Jax and Caleb will be back. Promise. Jax just wouldn’t get out of my head while I was writing Savage Moon. I’ve got something special planned for him very, very soon. He’ll kick off the Wild Ridge Bears series I’ve got planned for late summer, 2016 (and if it is late summer when you’re reading this . . . hot damn!) You can get more info about Jax at the series page here.
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