“I’m sure that in some way, she knew.” Sampson watched as she walked the paths, ending up by the tree when she was finished. Sampson saw a large picnic table and chairs in one place with a large canopy over it. “You’re adding as she thinks of things, aren’t you?”
“Yes, but you as well. The pool is from your thoughts. And a good one it was. I’m thinking she has not a clue that we’re doing it either.” Sampson could believe that. She was excited, and her ideas were making their yard and home a showplace. “I’ve added the lights to the tree, Lord Sampson. They’ll change when she wishes it, and be as bright as the sun when they’re on. But not too much in the nighttime. It would scare young animals away, and you’d not like that, I don’t believe.”
“No, I don’t think I would. Thank you for the lights, as well.” Shin bowed and told him that he must find a spot for a kitchen garden. “Does she cook? I do, but if you got that from her, it would be wonderful to have a nice garden.”
“She’s thought of learning if that helps. I don’t believe you made it to the kitchen as yet. Since the kitchen in the other home was being upgraded, we took the things from the thoughts of the homeowner there and made the improvements here. As well as the sub levels. I’ve no idea if you would want a wine cellar, but the room is there should you want to. Or we can figure it out for something more.”
“She has a friend by the name of Morgan. He’s a vampire. Perhaps we can set it up so that he and his lover Kenny can visit for a time.” He said that he knew Morgan and Kenny. “Good. Then you can see about making it for them. I’m to understand that they’re older, so perhaps they could come and go as they pleased as well.”
“Excellent idea, sir. Excellent. I have taken the liberty to add a barn to the back of the property, as well. I’m to understand that you wish to continue growing things. There is all manner of things inside of it to get you what you need to take on such a venture. If you were to grow grapes as well, I think I’d be in heaven. People don’t grow those much anymore.” Sampson agreed with him that it was a good idea. “Oh sir, you’re going to do so much with this land, I can see it now. This house, too, it will know laughter and happiness like none other, with the exception of your other brothers. All of you together will make this whole wide world a better, happier place. I just know it.”
After Shin left him, Sampson went to find Allie. She was in the little cove near the pool that had not only a swing but a child’s swing as well. As she sat there, staring out, he sat beside her, taking her hand into his. When she looked at him, he could see tears in her eyes.
“What is it, baby? Did someone say something mean to you?” She shook her head and laid it on his shoulder. “Tell me what has you so upset before I check myself. Are you upset at me?”
“No. You’ve done nothing— This house is much too large. I mean, those poor faeries must think I’m about the worst person in the world for selfishly having them work so hard on this place. I don’t know what I was thinking.” Sampson asked her if she loved the house as much as he did. “Well, yes. You’d be a fool not to love a home as wonderful as this one. It’s perfect. But who on earth would we have visit us? All your family is right here. Mine is either dead or going to prison for a long time. That’s another thing. With your family being so wonderful, how on earth can you even think to love someone like me? You must be off your noodle.”
“I’ve never been accused of that, but I can see where you’d think that. I am off my noodle when it comes to being in love with you.” Allie hugged him and didn’t let him go. She was worried—he could almost taste it on her skin. “What’s wrong, Allie? I can tell that you’re upset about something. Tell me what it is, and I’ll go and slay the dragon for you. Or whatever it is.”
“I’m not going to help Howie. I mean, nothing unless they want me to testify that he admitted to me that he killed our parents.” Sampson held her tighter while she seemed to be dealing with her decisions. “He’s only fifteen, I know that, but I’m not willing to put my happiness on the line for him to be set free to do something like this again. And I have a feeling that’s just what he is planning to do.”
“He is.” When she started to pull away from him, Sampson held her tighter. “I’ve not known how to tell you this, but I’ve had people watching him. A faerie has been with him since he was arrested. Howie is going to carry through on what he and the other two would have done had either of them lived instead of Howie. He plans to kill you. It’s what he promised he’d do when and if they were ever caught.”
Sampson let her look at him then. He wasn’t sure what expression she had on her face, but he had a feeling that it wasn’t going to bode well for Howie. When she turned around but didn’t leave him, only leaning against his chest, Allie asked him for the rest of it.
“He knows about your bar, and that most nights you’re there alone. Also about where Morgan and Kenny live. They were going to hit your place the night before the bank robbery, but Serenity said the bank first, then they were going to kill you.” She asked him if they’d all agreed to that. “Yes. Heath was all for it. He said something to the effect that having you out of the way would give them the insurance money that your parents left. Howie thinks that you’re a sap and that it’s only a matter of time before you give in, and he gets free. You should also know that he’s been playing on the empathy of the police that are watching over him. He has most of them duped.”
“I’m not even going to ask you if that’s true or not. I know you’d never lie to me about something like this.” Sampson told her that he could never lie to her, not that he ever wanted to. “Who else knows about this? Your family? They’re the reason that I’m so torn up about this thing with my brother. I don’t want them to dislike me or even hate me because I’m basically going to toss him to the curb and let him deal with his own shit.”
“I’m glad to hear that.” They both looked at his mom when she spoke. Sampson hadn’t been paying attention, or he might have alerted Allie. But Mom came and hugged them both before asking them to have a seat. “First of all, I’d like to tell you how much I love this house. I can see a lot of fun here for all of us. And your lawn back here makes me jealous a little. But as for your brother, you need to do just what works for you. There isn’t a person here, family or friend, that believes you should do anything but what’s in your heart. I have to tell you, Allie, I’m so glad to hear that you’re going to make him pay for his crimes. I cannot imagine what you must have gone through when you found out that he’d killed your parents. Not to mention that he and the other two were out killing people weekly and getting away with it.”
“I was afraid that you’d judge me by their actions.” Mom told her that they’d never do anything like that. “You have no idea how much better you’ve made me feel. I don’t mind telling you this, but you and your family have come to mean a great deal to me. But you are tigers, and I don’t want to be eaten alive because I have a dumbass family.”
“You don’t have to worry about us, dear.” Mom patted him on the cheek before speaking again. “Sampson, you and this pretty girl will have to come over for dinner tomorrow night. I’m guessing you have a great deal more to do to your new home, so we’ll be leaving you to it. Until tomorrow then.”
As she walked away, Allie looked at him. “Did your mom just give us permission to have sex so long as we’re at her house for dinner?” Sampson laughed, and it felt wonderful. “You might just be as loony as I thought. But I do want to see the rest of the house before you take me to bed. I will warn you, I’m not the least bit impressed with the erection I felt earlier. But I suppose it will have to do.”
She was running away before he realized she’d been playing with him. As he stood up with full intentions of going after her, he saw something that he’d not noticed before—a gate at the back of the property that seemed to have a lot of vines over it. Overgrowth that he was sure the faeries wouldn’t have left behind. Bu
t when Allie laughed again, he decided to check it out later. For now, he had a mate to make love to.
Chasing her through the house was much more exciting than he’d thought it would be. He could have found her immediately but decided that he loved this game she was playing. The last of his family had left by now, and he was planning a long and fun evening and night getting to know his mate in an up-close and personal way. Several times, if he could manage it.
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The bedroom suite was perfect for them. Even the furniture was just what she thought of when she’d seen the house. Not that she had any idea what sort of things were in the house. But she had loved the outside simply because of the way it looked sitting there along the street, with flower baskets hanging from the porch ceiling and the lazy fans that seemed to never stop creating a quiet, soothing breeze over anyone that wanted to sit there.
Allie touched the things in the room, mostly old furniture that she was sure was as perfect as it might have been when it was made. The quilt on the bed was so pretty that she didn’t want to use it. It looked to be handstitched, as well so large for their oversized bed that it hung over to the floor on each side.
“I love this room. I’m assuming that you liked this bed? I’ve never slept in a bed this big before. Unless you count sleeping under the stars.” Sampson grinned at her as he spoke. “Are you nervous? I am if you want to know the truth. I’ve never had a mate before. And having you here, in our home, I feel like we’ve been here together for a long time instead of only a few hours.”
“I am nervous. It’s not that I don’t like sex—I do. But—” Her face heated up, and she looked away, mumbling something. Sampson asked her what she’d said. “I’m noisy. The last time I had sex was ages ago. And the reason I don’t do it often is because the guy I was with told me that it was too much having me make so much noise that he couldn’t concentrate on his own enjoyment.”
“I see.” He so desperately wanted to laugh. Not at her, but at her embarrassment. But he knew if he did, she’d never forgive him. “Did you call out his name? Perhaps order him around about the way he was doing things? I can’t think of any other reason why a man would not want to have copious amounts of sex with you every single day.”
“Are you making fun of me?” She glared when a little laughter slipped out. “Sampson, go home. To your home with your parents. I don’t care if we ever have sex. To think that I wanted to tell you how much—”
He leaped at her, taking them both to the floor. But she wouldn’t look at him, nor would she smile. Then he saw the single tear fall across her cheek to her lips. Kissing it away, he adjusted them so that he was between her legs, and his cock had some relief. She was just too sexy for him, and he thought that he might die if she really did send him home.
“I’m sorry, honey.” Allie still wouldn’t look at him. “I’m nervous, I told you that, and sometimes I say stupid things when I’m that way. Also, you might not believe this, but I’m terrified of disappointing you.”
When she snorted at him, he just barely caught another spillage of laughter.
“You are so full of shit that I can smell it on you. I bet you’ve never walked away from a woman who was unconscious from you making love to her in your entire life.” He nipped at her neck before she looked at him finally. “Don’t make fun of me if I’m really loud. Just— I don’t know, put some tape over my mouth, and I’ll try to remember not to hurt your eardrums when I come.”
“Think of being naked for me.” When they were both naked, he could feel her heat at her entrance like a volcanic opening. “Christ, you have no idea how often I’ve thought of you here beneath me. This morning, I had to come three times before I was able to get out of the shower without hurting myself.”
Allie moved her legs up and over his. He nearly begged her to move again. When she did, moving her hips up to meet his, Sampson leaned into her neck to smell her deeply. Then, before he could think about asking, he bit down hard on her throat, feeling her hot spiked blood fill his mouth.
She did indeed scream out her release. It was, to him, like music to soothe his soul. Even his cat purred along his skin as if he was enjoying her as well. Entering her, lifting her up so that he could fill her to the root of his cock, he felt her squeeze along him as her body adjusted to his.
“Come again. Christ, that was amazing, love. Come again so that I can feel you milking my cock over and over.” He took her hard, his body not caring how much he wished to go gentle. When she begged him for more, Sampson lifted her up with his magic so that they were in the bed together. “Come for me, Allison. Come hard.”
She came hard enough that he wasn’t able to move inside of her. His cock felt strangled but in a wonderful way. When her nails raked down his back, tearing into his hard flesh, he cried out too as his body emptied over and over inside of her.
Sampson was still hard. His body ached with the need to take her again. Allie looked up at him, the silliest smile on her face that he’d ever seen, and he grinned back at her. When she moved—innocently, he hoped—Sampson felt his cock tighten again, his balls fill with his need to fill her again.
“That was super-fast. Was that my fault?” He laughed and told her that it was in a way. “I don’t think I’ve ever come that hard before.”
“If you keep moving like you are, I’m not going to be able to last long enough to taste your luscious breasts this time. And that, to me, would be such a shame.” He took one of her nipples into his mouth and nibbled on it. She responded by lifting her breast up higher for him to take the entire morsel into his mouth. “Allie, I can only hope that you’re not too sore. I’m so ready to take you again, I can hardly think around it.”
“You’d better not be kidding me right now. I’m so close to the edge right now that if I were to simply move, I’d come again.” Instead of begging her to do that, as he really wanted her to do, he rolled to his back and sat her up over him. “Oh, yes. Riding you sounds like so much fun. Are you going to sample my wares, Mr. Prince? I can help you with that if you wish.”
She was a tease and an imp. Sitting up enough to taste her wares, he took both her breasts in his hands and pushed them together. Tasting them both at the same time, he loved how her nipples tightened up for him and elongated while he suckled them.
Allie was riding him like she was on an unbroken horse. Holding onto her ass while he held her to him, he watched her face. The thought of seeing when her peak took her made his need seem secondary to hers.
He could feel the moment that she was falling over the edge. Her panting got harsher; her breasts flushed a bright pink. And when she dug her nails into his shoulders, holding on like she was actually falling, he took her to the bed again and pounded her as hard and as quickly as he could until his own release hit him at the same time she screamed to him that she was coming, and hard.
Never would he forget the way his body felt as he took her. Sampson was sure that parts of him after his release would never be the same again. Not only did it feel like he had been shattered by the way they came together, but putting him back together had done something to him that made him think he’d never be the same man again.
Rolling to his back, he didn’t have the strength to pull her with him. Sampson was happy when she curled her body around his until they were as close as two people could get without one of them being inside the other. The blanket, when he called for it, laid over them, and he thought that he was asleep before it was completely over them both.
Sampson woke up. Lying there as still as he could make himself, he didn’t move so much as his eyes to open them. A touch to his hand, a movement in the room, alerted him that he wasn’t alone. Catching Allie’s scent as she moved to the window made what they did last night come over him in a quiet wave.
“There are lights on the tree.” He whispered back that Shin had done that for her. “It’s so beautiful that when I woke u
p to go to the bathroom, I had to see them better. But, as I have no idea where I’m going to get something to wear, I have to watch it from in here. With your snoring self.”
“I do not snore.” She laughed, and he loved the sound of it so much that he thought about recording it some time so that he could listen to it when he wasn’t close to her. “Just like you did to get naked—which I’m glad you didn’t question me about at the time—think of clothing and shoes, I guess, and you’ll be dressed.”
She was out the door before he could get out of the bed and dressed to follow her. Laughing at her antics, he watched as she danced around the large tree. The bright white lights seemed to get brighter the closer she stood to it. When she suddenly stopped, it occurred to him that they weren’t lights, but faeries. And they were making Allie aware of them.
“They’re beautiful. I’ve seen Shin, but no more of them. Oh, look at their tiny wings, Sampson.” Moving to where she was standing, he laughed when he noticed that she was covered in the little creatures. Putting out his hand, several of them landed on him, all of them a shade of something from the forest. “How could you not want them around you all the time? They make you feel good, don’t they?”
“They do, but it’s more that you’re making them feel good. When you laugh or look happy, they take that as a sign that they can come to you. Faeries live to help others. Especially us.” She asked him if she was included in that “us” part. “Of course you are. You’re my mate, from now until forever.”
They let the faeries play around them for several minutes. Sampson went to have a seat on one of the many benches around the tree as Allie was learning their names. Aurora came to sit beside him, and he asked if she wished to meet his mate.
“In a moment. She is the life that was needed here. The sounds that she makes when she is happy are something that others could learn from, I think.” Sampson agreed with the faerie queen. “I have a favor to ask of the two of you. Should you say no, it will not change anything between us. I only ask because with her at your side, things will be easier for you.”
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