Wanted By The Alpha Lion (Heroes of Shifter Creek 2)

by Clara Moore

  “We don’t think so,” Camilia said. “Our crew spotted quite a few emerging from another opening further back on the property. But we don’t know how many were hurt by the explosion.”

  “I’m going to have to get out there and take a look,” Janelle said. “This is all going to have to be documented.”

  “We’ll do that in the morning,” Jorge said. “Right now, the Marshalls are securing the scene. We need to make sure there’s no more dynamite on site before you go in.”

  Janelle nodded. “But that means we still don’t know what happened to my car.”

  “Millet Baynard paid for his beer with a hundred dollar bill this evening,” Jorge said, looking at Danny. “And you know he’s never had that much money at one time in his life.”

  “Did he confess?” Danny asked.

  “He will,” Jorge said. “If he hasn’t already.”

  “That man burned up my car for $100?” Janelle said, eyes wide. “That’s just ridiculous!”

  “Millet’s not the brightest turnip in the truck,” Camilia said. “When we were growing up, kids would pay him to eat fire ants. Five for a dollar.”

  “So what’s going to happen to him?”

  “He’ll be charged for the arson,” Jorge said. “But those charges may be reduced if he agrees to testify that it was Roger that put him up to it.”

  “Do you think anyone will believe his testimony?” Janelle asked. “I hate to think of him walking free if it doesn’t have any impact on Roger’s case.”

  “In this town?” Danny snorted. “People will have absolutely no difficultly believing Millet did what Roger told him to do. The only trick is keeping Roger from talking Millet out of testifying against him.”

  “Roger won’t be talking to anyone. The dynamite charges alone are enough for us to keep him locked up until trial,” Jorge said. “And I can’t even begin to tell you how many other laws he’s broken with regards to the bats.”

  “He did tell us he was just getting started,” Janelle said.

  Jorge nodded. “And they’re going to need you all to come down and give us a sworn statement about everything that happened.” He glanced at his watch. “You all will be doing that first thing in the morning, right?”

  Janelle and Danny nodded. “And then I have to see what about getting an insurance adjuster out here to look at my car,” Janelle said. She took a deep breath and forced a smile. “At least I don’t have to worry that there’s someone out to get me at this point.” She cocked her head and looked at Jorge. “Do I?”

  “I really don’t think so,” Jorge said. “The rest of the guys were eager for the jobs Roger was promising, but they’re quite a bit smarter than Millet. They’re not going to get themselves into any serious trouble on his behalf.”

  “Especially now,” Camilia added. “You two may be the last people in the county to know we’ve got him locked up.”

  “Well, thank you,” Janelle said. “I appreciate knowing he’s behind bars.” She shook her head. “I really can’t believe he took things to this extreme.”

  “Let’s just hope he hasn’t scared the bats off for good,” Camilia said. “I know I wouldn’t want to stick around if someone was blowing up my house.”

  “Time will tell,” Janelle said. “We’ve seen the bats nesting in some fairly turbulent areas in Mexico, right in the heart of cartel country. But I don’t know if any of them have had their caves attacked in this manner.” She shrugged. “If nothing else, it’ll be something new for our scientists to think about.”

  “Every cloud has a silver lining,” Jorge said. He touched the front of his hat, and smiled at Danny. “Now, if you folks will excuse us, my bed is calling me. It’s been a surprisingly long day, and I’m tired.”

  “Good night,” Camilia said. “We’ll see all y’all in the morning.”

  “Thanks for coming by,” Danny said. He stood by Janelle, watching as Jorge and Camilia returned to their vehicle and took off into the Texas night. Then he reached out and took Janelle by the hand. “Every cloud has a silver lining.”

  She laughed. “I could have met you without my car getting blown to smithereens, you know.”

  “That’s true.”

  “And I would have liked to have finished those enchiladas,” Janelle added. “They were delicious.”

  “Rosalee’s will be there tomorrow,” Danny said. He grinned. “I have to go back and settle up our check anyway.”

  “Well,” Janelle said, giving Danny a side eyed glance, accompanied by a flirtatious smile, “I’m going to need to be well-rested before a meal like that.”

  Danny smiled. “I happen to know where there’s a very comfortable bed, available right this minute.”

  “Silver lining indeed,” Janelle said. “Lead the way.”

  This time, they got out of their clothes at a more leisurely pace, shedding garments one at a time between kisses. Danny’s cock was already half-hard before he undid his belt; Janelle had to help him ease his jeans off.

  “My goodness,” she said with a smile. “That looks good enough to eat.” She sank to her knees in front of Danny, and slowly slid her lips over the length of him.

  “Oh, god,” Danny groaned. His hands rested lightly atop Janelle’s braids. He closed his eyes and let his head fall backward. “That feels so good.” He lost the ability to speak as Janelle intensified her attentions, but then managed to say, “Stop. I need to be inside you for real…”

  Janelle started to pull Danny into bed with her. Then she stopped and smiled. Her smile was so wide that dimples appeared in her cheeks. Her eyes sparkled with mischief. “Do something for me?” she asked.

  “Anything…” Danny said.

  “Get your cowboy hat. Put it on,” she said. “I want you to wear that while you’re riding me.”

  Danny stepped back, blinked, and smiled. “Well, all right.” He grabbed his light grey Stetson and put it on. “Is that better?”

  Janelle lay back against the pillows and spread her arms wide. “Much.”

  Danny slid between Janelle’s lush, soft thighs, bracing his hands just on either side of her. They were belly to belly, with the warm swell of her breasts pillowed between them. It was the perfect position for kissing, and they did for a while, savoring the moment.

  “What a day,” Janelle murmured, before stealing another kiss, “this has turned out to be.” She opened her legs wider, tipping her hips to bring her desire up against Danny’s. “And you are the very best part.”

  Danny didn’t say anything. He just sighed, a deep, shuddering breath that shook him all the way from his shoulders down, and then slowly slid forward until he was just inside her.

  “Oh,” Janelle breathed. Her eyes widened, and she put her shoulders back against the bed, arching her back just enough to push her breasts upward. Then she rocked forward, bringing her hips up and making it easy for Danny to slide just a little bit more inside.

  “Hot damn,” Danny said. “You’re so hot and tight.” He let his head drop against Janelle’s chest for a moment, resting on their silky softness for a handful of heartbeats before pushing forward once more.

  Then he was in and she was suddenly, gloriously wet with excitement; they found a comfortable rhythm easily, as if they’d made love a dozen times before. Janelle’s body cushioned his every stroke with a delicious shaking. Her sighs quickened and grew louder, becoming groans, then deep throaty moans interspersed with cries of “Oh God”.

  “Oh, baby,” Danny warned. “If you keep doing that, I’m gonna lose it.”

  In response, Janelle raised her thick thighs and wrapped her legs around Danny’s side, pulling him closer and deeper into her. “Give it to me, cowboy,” she purred. “Give it to me now.”

  She flexed her pussy muscles, squeezing the length of him in a way Danny had never been squeezed before. He yelped, and he was done, then she was done, shuddering against him. After, they lay tangled together until they fell asleep.

  Janelle’s cell ph
one started ringing before the sun came up. Danny lay in bed and watched as his curvy lover paced around the room naked, talking into her phone. “Yes, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, Mom, but I didn’t know I wasn’t going to be home when you got there,” she said. “I didn’t know you were coming into town!”

  There was a pause, and then Janelle snapped, “Because some ass… because I had a car accident, Mom. I’m way out here in the middle of nowhere, working on a permit appeal, and my car is wrecked. So maybe you could just not give me a hard time right now, okay?” Another pause. “Well, I’m not surprised he pooped on the floor, Mom. He doesn’t like having his routine disrupted either.”

  Danny smiled. Janelle shot him a glare, and then wiggled her butt at him and winked. “Listen. Mom. I’ve got to go. I will call you back but I have the insurance adjuster on the other line, all right? Bye.”

  “The insurance adjuster?” Danny asked. “I don’t know about that, but if you come over here, I’ll do any adjusting you need done.”

  Janelle bounced onto the bed. “That sounds like a great idea, but don’t we have to go down and give our statements? I don’t want the police busting in on us this morning.”

  Danny smiled. “I think Jorge will make sure that doesn’t happen.”

  “You think he knows?” Janelle asked, shocked. She cocked her head. “Really?”

  “I think he guessed. Or hoped, for my sake,” Danny said with a grin. “Because you are a truly beautiful woman.”

  Janelle kissed him. “What did I tell you about flattery?”

  “And look! It worked!” Danny said. He started kissing the side of Janelle’s neck. “I’m sure we have enough time for this.”

  “All right,” Janelle said, “but this time, I get to be on top.”

  Danny grinned from ear to ear. “Yes, Ma’am.”

  Janelle swung her caramel colored thigh over Danny and settled herself atop his shaft. “Now this is nice,” she said. Her hands were very dark against his white shoulders, Danny couldn’t stop himself from reaching for her large, pendulous breasts.

  They moved together easily. After a few strokes, Janelle shifted position, sitting more upright with her arms up over her head. She rocked her hips forward and back quickly; the motion set her breasts bouncing against her belly, up and down, faster and faster.

  “Oh, god almighty,” Danny said. He grabbed Janelle’s hips and thrust himself upward as hard as he could, trying to push every last inch of himself into her wetness. “I can’t…”

  “It’s good, baby, it’s good,” Janelle said. She pulled Danny up into a seated position, crushing his head against her breasts. “We’re all right.”

  They rocked back and forth together for quite a while, before parting with a kiss.

  “That,” Danny said, after a moment had passed, “that is how every morning should start.”

  “Well, we’ll see about that,” Janelle said.

  Danny raised an eyebrow.

  “Sometimes I like to sleep in!” Janelle protested. “There’s nothing wrong with starting the afternoon that way, either.”

  “Fair point.” Danny said. He scooted out of bed, and said, “Care to join me in the shower?”

  “You know what is going to happen if I join you in that shower,” Janelle said. “And we really don’t have time for that. There is a bunch of business I need to take care of today. And I want to get out to that cave site as soon as possible.”

  “Showering together means we’d be on the road that much faster,” Danny pointed out.

  “No!” Janelle said with a grin. “It’s not the shower that will take the time. It’s everything we’re going to do instead of shower.”

  “I promise I’ll be a perfect gentleman,” Danny lied.

  “I can’t promise you I’ll be any kind of lady if we’re getting all up in the shower together,” Janelle said. “So let’s not even go there.”

  Danny laughed. “All right. I’ll take a rain check on the shower.” He went three steps toward the bathroom and then paused. “You’re sure?”

  “Oh, all right,” Janelle said, with a playful sigh. “Since we’re going to save so much time this way.”

  Danny took Janelle in his arms and pressed his lips against hers. “We’re going to save tons of time. Minutes. Hours.”

  Janelle kissed Danny back, a long, lingering connection of lips and tongue and breath that brought their heartbeats into time. “Hours,” she agreed. “Days. Weeks.”

  They moved together, not toward the shower but instead back to bed. The pillows and blankets fluffed off as they tumbled down onto the sheets, kissing the whole while. “We’re never going to make it anywhere on time,” Janelle murmured.

  “I don’t care,” Danny said. He moved gently against her, sliding back into her warmth with ease. “I can’t stop wanting you.” He bent his head for a quick kiss, tracing his fingertips over Janelle’s cheek. Then he smiled. “You are the silver lining,” he said. “It’s all you.”

  “It’s you,” Janelle countered back. They were moving faster now, building their pleasure with every motion. “You’re the silver lining.” All of a sudden, her body stiffened, and she pulled Danny close. Her body shook with the force of her orgasm. She closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip. “It’s you, it’s you, it’s you.”

  “There you go. There you go,” Danny said with a smile. He held Janelle until she stopped shaking, and then kissed her forehead. “I don’t know about you,” he said, “but I’m definitely ready for that shower now.”

  Janelle laughed. “Lead the way.” She stood up and rubbed her palms against her thighs. “After that, I’ll probably be able to control myself long enough for us to get clean.” Danny walked in front of her to the bathroom, giving Janelle a great opportunity to ogle his ass. “Maybe. I’ll do my best. No promises.”

  “I wouldn’t want you to make any promises like that,” Danny said, looking back over his shoulder with a grin. “So we should be all right.”

  ***

  THE END

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