Wade was glad it had been Roxie who had stopped Braedan from letting the cat out of the bag. She had been a little more circumspect than he would have been. He didn’t need Taryn to know about her being his mate as of yet. He still had to find a way to somehow convince her he was a werewolf without having her think he was crazy, or running from him in terror. “You could say we’re dating.”
“Well, if you want to be really accurate,” Taryn chimed in, “this is our first date.”
“So you two just met?”
Roxie laughed and said, “Not really. The first time would have been when Taryn unmanned him in the parking lot out back.”
“Roxie!” Wade glared at his sister-in-law. “Can we just forget about that and move on like adults?”
“Hell, no. The thought of you rolling around, cupping yourself, will be one of my fondest memories of you.”
Wade turned to Beowulf with an exasperated expression on his face. “Can you not control your wife?”
Holding up his hands, Beowulf shook his head. “Do you think I want to get bashed over the head and then chained out in the backyard like a dog, or worse? No thanks.”
“Ah, I see your point.” Seeing the confused look on Taryn’s face, Wade took her hand and pulled her to her feet. “I promised Taryn I would show her a good time tonight, so I won’t be working the bar with you tonight, Beowulf.” When it looked as if Roxie was going to join them, he said sternly, “I promised I would show her a good time, alone, just the two of us. You can spend more time with Taryn tomorrow before we go back to The Pines. We’ll be spending the night at the house.”
Grabbing Roxie around the waist, Beowulf pulled her onto his lap. “Enjoy yourselves. We’ll try not to disturb you when we get in later tonight. And I’ll get to work getting the men you need, Taryn.”
Chapter Six
Sipping at the glass of wine Wade had gotten for her from the bar, Taryn couldn’t stop staring at the people around her. Over half the patrons of Wulf’s Den were drop dead gorgeous, men and women alike. She was surprised there weren’t any modeling agents around trying to get them to sign up with their agencies. Hearing Wade clear his throat to get her attention, she smiled crookedly at him.
“Sorry. Honestly, what is up with all the good-looking people here? I’m starting to feel a little inadequate. There is no way I can compete with half the women in the room.”
“You don’t have to. You’re perfect the way you are.”
Taryn snorted. “I’d like to believe that. But you can’t tell me you don’t find any of them better looking than I am.”
“Enough, Taryn.” Wade laced his fingers through hers and brought her hand to his mouth. He brushed a light kiss across her knuckles. “I’m not attracted to any of them. To me, you outshine them all.”
Her heart sped up at the feel of his lips against her skin. And the way he was looking at her, as if he was slowly stripping off her clothes with his eyes, sent her body into overdrive. The room fell away, leaving only the two of them. The need to have Wade inside her body, driving himself deep, caused an ache to build between her legs. Wetness pooled as her breasts grew heavy. Sucking in a deep breath, Taryn could only focus on one thing—the man sitting beside her.
Wade pulled her chair closer to his until they sat with shoulders and thighs pressed against each other. He put his arm around the back of her chair and buried his nose in the crook of her neck, taking in a deep breath. Taryn shivered with longing. She had the feeling he could smell her arousal as he made a low growling sound at the back of his throat. She had to bite back a moan as the growl vibrated against her neck.
She had no idea what was happening to her. She’d never experienced such arousal from having a man innocently kiss the back of her hand. And she was very much afraid if she couldn’t do something very soon about it, she would do something to embarrass both Wade and herself.
Pulling his face away from her neck, Wade looked into her eyes. Taryn saw the longing she was feeling mirrored in their depths. Without saying a word, he pushed her wine glass closer to her. She quickly picked it up and downed the rest of the wine in one gulp.
Wade pulled her to her feet and whispered in her ear. “Try to hold on, Taryn. I’ll have us at the house in no time. Then I’m going to lick and kiss every inch of you.”
Taryn gasped as another wave of desire hit her. Not caring who saw them, she nodded and wrapped her arm around Wade’s waist as he put his arm around her shoulders, holding her plastered against his side.
In a matter of minutes Wade had them both in his car. He quickly drove down the city streets until he pulled up in front of a gated drive. With a push of a button the gates swung open and they were driving up the curving driveway. Wade parked the car and was at the passenger door helping her out of the car in no time at all.
After letting them both into the large house, Wade pulled her into his arms and kicked the door closed behind them. He locked it as his lips came down on hers in a searing kiss. Taryn whimpered with need and wrapped her arms around his neck. Lifting her off her feet, Wade took the stairs two at a time. Taryn didn’t care where he was taking her. All that mattered was that he was taking her someplace where they could assuage the raging desire that flared between them.
It barely registered that they were now in a bedroom. Once the door was closed behind them, Wade put her down on her feet and began to strip her of the black dress she wore. Taryn obligingly kicked off her high heel shoes and stepped out of the dress, which Wade had dropped causing it to pool at her ankles. At Wade’s sharp intake of breath, she looked up to find him staring at her body.
“For a woman who thinks conservative is her middle name, your underwear says otherwise.”
Taryn grew breathless as Wade stared at the sheer black lace bra and thong she had decided to wear under her conservative dress. It had been a last minute decision on her part, but from his reaction, she knew she had made the right choice.
With none too steady hands, Taryn reached for the buttons on Wade’s dress shirt. When she began to struggle with them, he grabbed the edges of his shirt and pulled, sending buttons flying. Once he was free of it, he placed her hands on the center of his chest.
“Touch me, Taryn. I need you to touch me.”
Having wanted to touch him in this way for what seemed like hours, Taryn eagerly complied. With her fingertips, she trailed them across the hard slabs of muscle across his chest. Before moving lower, she circled each flat male nipple with the tip of her finger. Next, she ran her hands across his washboard abs until she reached the top of his pants.
Taryn cupped the hard ridge of his cock through his pants. Wade appeared to be a large man in every way. She took her bottom lip between her teeth as she thought of how good it would feel to have it deep inside her pussy.
Slipping open the button of Wades’ pants, she unzipped them and reached inside to take his cock in her hand. Wade groaned and pushed himself against her. Lifting her face to him, she kissed him as she pumped her hand up and down his hard length.
She had a brief moment of unease when Wade roughly pulled her to him, but as he continued to kiss her, sucking her tongue into his mouth, it quickly went away. Releasing him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and rubbed herself against him.
Wade picked her up and carried her to the large king sized bed that sat in the middle of the room. Gently he laid her in the center of the bed and continued to kiss her as he followed her down. The feel of Wade lying atop her, having the full length of his body against hers, drove her desire to greater heights.
She clutched at Wade’s back as he trailed his lips down her jaw to her neck. He dragged his teeth against the large vein in her neck before continuing his downward travels. Reaching her breasts, he undid the front clasp of her bra. With her breasts now exposed to his view, he laved each taut nipple with the flat of his tongue. Cupping first one and then the other in his hands, Wade sucked each nipple deep inside his mouth.
Taryn threaded her
fingers through his thick hair, holding him to her. But it wasn’t enough, she wanted all of him. Pulling on his hair she dragged Wade back up her body. She let go of him and impatiently tugged at his pants, trying to push them down past his hips. As Wade lifted himself off of her enough to strip his pants and her thong off, Taryn looked him in the eyes. They were glowing mutedly. The sight of them caused something to come to life inside her. As if something had clicked into place.
With her body clamoring for Wade to take her, Taryn wrapped one hand around the back of his head and bit his neck where it met his shoulder. She used her other hand to guide his hard cock inside her body. Wade moaned and sheathed himself to the hilt in one stroke.
When he moved on her, Taryn squeezed her inner muscles around his shaft. He pumped in and out of her body in slow strokes. She could feel something reaching out to Wade, wanting to connect with him. The closer her climax grew near, the more intense the feeling became. Taryn lifted her hips to match his strokes.
Wade moved to rest on his bent arms so he could look down at her. His pace increased as he rammed into her body. “Look at me, Taryn. I need you to look at me when you come.”
His eyes were still glowing. When her orgasm tore through her, Taryn kept her eyes on him. As her body clutched at his cock, milking him, she felt her soul reaching for his. He continued to move in and out of her, as wave after wave of pleasure surged through her. His pace grew faster and his cock swelled inside her. Soon Wade threw back his head and moaned as he climaxed. Taryn gasped as she felt a part of her being join with Wade.
Wade collapsed on top of her. Trying to catch her breath, Taryn realized he was still hard. Holding him close, she kissed his cheek.
*
Lifting some of his weight off Taryn, Wade brushed feather-light kisses over her face. They were mated now. Their souls had joined, he’d felt it and was sure Taryn had as well. Still buried deep inside her, he didn’t know where he ended and she began. Even though he had climaxed, he hadn’t lost his erection. It was something all male werewolves could do. Being able to keep an erection for hours at a time without losing it did have its benefits.
Taryn brushed his hair off his sweaty forehead. “You’re still hard. How did you manage that?”
“I’m not done with you yet, Taryn.”
“Again?”
“Yes. You’re mine now. I’m going to make love to you until you can’t think of anything else except for how it felt to have me buried inside you.”
Wade felt her inner muscles grip his cock. Pulling out of her, he moved to lie on his side. He rolled Taryn onto her side with her back pressed against his chest. Moving her hair away from her neck, he licked a path up to her ear. Taking her earlobe between his teeth, he gently tugged on it. He reached around her, cupped her breast in his hand and rolled her taut nipple between his thumb and index finger. Taryn pushed her bottom against his cock. Releasing her nipple, Wade slid his hand down her side in caressing strokes to her leg.
Taking hold of her leg, he placed it on top of his, opening her body. Placing a steadying hand on Taryn’s hip, Wade entered her from behind. The feel of being sheathed completely in her hot, wet core, made him moan with pleasure. Taryn pushed back against him with each of his inward thrusts. The wolf rose up inside him, so both the wolf and the man were joined as they took Taryn as their mate.
With a growl of need, Wade reached around their bodies until he found Taryn’s clit. Needing to possess her as a werewolf male would his mate, he nipped the back of her neck with his teeth as he rammed into her body. Caressing her clit, he pushed Taryn ever higher, needing to feel her body climax around his.
Taryn whimpered as she reached her peak. Wade’s cock grew harder as he continued to thrust into her. Before her orgasm finished, he pulled her closer and pumped his hips once as his climax tore through him, filling her with his cum.
Still hard, Wade kept their bodies joined as he pulled the blankets over them both. Holding Taryn to him, Wade kissed her shoulder. She was well and truly his—mated to both the man and the werewolf. Her scent was all over his body, as his was on her. Sighing with contentment, he decided he could let Taryn sleep for a few hours before he made love to her again.
* * * *
Taryn awoke the next morning unable to move, held tightly in a strong male embrace. She started to panic briefly, but still in the stage of not quite wakefulness, images of the night before rose up in her mind. She felt herself blush thinking of the things Wade and she had done to each other during the long night. She was a little shocked by her behavior. Normally it took a lot to get her to that state of arousal. Where all she could think of was having a man take her, and nothing else mattered but having him buried inside her.
Now that she was awake, she needed to use the washroom. Hoping to not to wake up Wade, she tried to slide out of the bed. The arm around her chest tightened. Taryn turned her head and looked over her shoulder to where Wade lay behind her. He was awake.
“Did I wake you?”
Wade rolled Taryn onto her back and brushed a gentle kiss across her lips. “No. I was just waiting for you to wake up. I like holding you in my arms as you sleep, among other things.”
Taryn cringed when she saw the bite mark on Wade’s neck. With a finger, she gently touched it. “I’m so sorry. Does it hurt? I don’t know what came over me. I can assure you I don’t normally go around biting people.”
“Relax, Taryn.” Wade grabbed her finger and gently nipped the end of it. “You were just marking me as yours. You can bite me like that whenever the urge takes you.”
“You want me to bite you?”
“I know you think it’s weird, but it actually turns me on.”
“Okay, I think.”
Wade chuckled. “Don’t look at me like that. I’m not into the S and M stuff. How about we forget about your little love bite and get out of bed? I’m starved, and I bet you are too. You can have the shower first and I’ll get us some breakfast.”
Wade got out of bed and stretched, standing in all his naked glory for her to see. The man had a body on him. And she should know since she had been able to touch and kiss every inch of him during the night. Before her thoughts got too carried away, some of what Wade had said finally registered.
“Breakfast? You’re going to get us some breakfast? I’m not sure that’s a good idea.”
Crossing his arms over his wide chest, Wade looked at her. “You’re not going to let me live that one down, are you? When I said I’d get us breakfast I didn’t mean I was going to be the one cooking it. We have a cook here usually. Even though it’s her day off, Beowulf and Roxie are home and they both know how to cook.”
Taryn gave him a sheepish grin. “Sorry. I worked up an appetite last night, so burnt eggs and bacon won’t cut it.”
“I can’t have you getting weak with hunger,” Wade said as he pulled on a pair of jeans. “I have to keep your energy up. Last night was only the start.”
Having no idea how to respond to that last comment, Taryn silently watched Wade leave the bedroom. If last night was any indication, she’d be lucky if she would be able to walk in a week’s time. The man had the stamina of three men. And his ability to keep an erection after climax just kept him going and going. Getting out of bed and heading for the en suite bathroom, Taryn felt soreness in muscles she hadn’t even know she had. She’d be lucky if the man didn’t kill her, but she had to admit it would be one hell of a way to go.
Chapter Seven
Taryn took a long hot shower. The shower in Wade’s en suite bathroom would put any spa to shame. The walls were tiled in slate with a glass surround. More than one showerhead sprayed warm water on her. There was a large one set in the middle of the ceiling, but there also were smaller ones set in the walls that she could adjust to any angle. She felt as if she were in heaven. By the end of her shower, Taryn decided she would have to look into how much it would cost to get her shower back at the winery redone like this one.
Turning off
the brass taps, Taryn grabbed one of the fluffy towels piled on a shelf above the toilet and began to dry herself off. Just looking around at the bathroom, she came to realize how much money Wade’s family had. She had known he had money from the expensive car he drove, but she had a feeling it was a lot more than she at first thought. The telling would be when she left Wade’s bedroom and explored the rest of the house. Last night she had been too impatient to have Wade to look around at her surroundings closely.
After slipping on a well worn pair of jeans along with a long sleeved cotton knit top, which was her usual attire when working in the vineyard, Taryn opened the bedroom door and headed for the large staircase. Once she reached the bottom of the stairs the sound of voices coming from a room to her left let her know where to find the other people in the house.
She found Beowulf, Roxie and Wade all in the large kitchen. Beowulf was standing at the large gas stainless steel stove cooking. Roxie and Wade were sitting at the kitchen table talking. When they saw her, their conversation ceased. Feeling as if she had intruded on a conversation that she wasn’t to know about, Taryn gave everyone a small smile and went to sit at the kitchen table beside Wade.
He wrapped an arm around her shoulder. “See? I told you I wouldn’t be doing the cooking. So you have nothing to fear.”
Roxie looked over at Taryn and shuddered dramatically. “Wade tried to cook for you? That in itself would be a traumatic experience. Wade is the only person I know who is so unskilled in the kitchen he can burn water.”
“Don’t exaggerate, Roxie. I’m not that bad,” Wade shot back.
Both Taryn and Roxie turned to look at him with matched expressions on their faces, as if to ask who he was kidding. Taryn patted his hand. “You burned the eggs and bacon beyond recognition, but I won’t hold that against you.”
“Gee, thanks. See what I get for trying to do something nice?” Wade spoke to Beowulf who had finished cooking and was now placing plates of food in front of everyone.
“Just be grateful Taryn isn’t only attracted to you because of your cooking skills, Wade. I’m sure you made up for your lack in that department in other areas, and more than once last night.” Beowulf sat down beside Roxie, then grunted when she elbowed him in the ribs. Taking hold of Roxie’s arm, he pulled her up against his side. “We’re all adults here. We all know in whose bed Taryn slept last night. So you can quit elbowing me in the ribs, Rox.”
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