by Julia Talbot
Mystic U: Midterms
Julia Talbot
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Mystic U: Midterms
Julia Talbot
City and country wolves don’t always mix…
Danny has decided to stay at Mystic U in the wilds of Wyoming because his new lovers, Heather and Lee, are just too hard to resist. A lot of people want Danny gone, though, and some of them aren’t afraid to show it in dangerous ways. Lee and Heather are resolute about keeping Danny with them, and alpha male Lee is determined to keep them all safe. Can Danny pass his classes and manage to stay alive?
Chapter One
City wolves had no damned business being out in the wild. No goddamned business at all. Especially when they were coming to Wolf Creek, Wyoming, and stealing the local natural resources.
Heather was a local resource. It had been bad enough when she’d just been wasting time with that Lee boy. Now, though, they were both fucking around with that slick Danny kid. The one who was sitting out there on the quad, drinking some fancy-assed, half syrup, no whip coffee.
He’d seen the boy order it. The urge rose in him to go and kick the kid’s ass right here and now, but he stopped. He’d have to wait. The full moon was coming, and then the hunt would be on. Then it would look like someone just got out of hand, got too excited.
They’d take him down, and maybe take that alpha wannabe Lee as well. Then things would be back to normal. Well, as normal as anything could be with the damned college right there in town.
It would do.
* * *
Danny hummed, hauling his overloaded laundry basket out of the dorm, completely bypassing the basement laundry room. Who needed it when Lee let him come do laundry at the house. House. Wow. House.
Lee had a house. So much for the whole bachelor male thing. Danny thought maybe the pack was pushing that kind of thing because they wanted Lee and Heather to settle down and stop playing with him. Oh, it was almost spring break, and Lee had been right; the pack had come around to him a little. They didn’t love him, but a lot of them were nice to him now, and he could have dinner with some of them without feeling like he was being judged and found lacking.
Okay, so a lot of them grumbled at him, but damn. He, Heather and Lee were getting along really well.
Simon, his roommate, thought he’d lost his mind. Still, Simon liked Heather a lot, even if he gave Lee a wide berth. Speaking of Lee, the man himself pulled up in that big old pickup, just in time to help him put the laundry basket in the back of the king cab. “Hey, man.” Lee grinned at him, his hand coming to rest on Danny’s leg when he settled into the passenger side.
“Hey. Thanks for picking me up. Hard to haul this shit on the bike.”
“Uh-huh. Not to mention that you’d never scratch up the bike by strapping shit to it.”
“That, too.” Yeah, his bike was his baby. So sue him.
“You ready for the full moon?”
Danny wasn’t sure if he was, so he pondered that a moment. He was going to run with the pack this time, not with the wolves at the school. He’d had another three moons since that first one, and he figured he was pretty good at taking care of himself. Maybe. He hoped. “Yeah. Yeah, I think I am.”
“You could sound more enthusiastic.”
“Yeah, yeah. I’m just not a hick yet, okay?”
Lee laughed, the sound warm and fond, and Danny was amazed at how fast he’d gotten comfortable with what was, admittedly, the strangest relationship he’d ever had. He genuinely liked Lee, even if he would never have become friends, or lovers, with the guy if it wasn’t for Heather. Pushy little girl. He did adore her.
They pulled up at the little frame house that sat on the edge of town, fields of snow-tinged green out there. Spring was really getting on them. It was kind of glorious, what with the mountains still covered in white and all. Maybe he was turning into something of a country boy after all. Or at least a nature lover coexisting with a city boy.
Lee led the way, and the door was unlocked, just like always. No one locked their door in Wolf Creek. Well, until they got inside. Then Lee locked the door and pulled the laundry basket out of Danny’s arms, tossing it to the floor.
“Hold on, babe. If I don’t start the laundry now it will never get done tonight.” Danny put a hand on Lee’s chest, holding the big guy off.
“You can wait five minutes. That’s all it will take for our first orgasm.” Lee brushed his hand aside, pulling Danny up against his chest and kissing him hard.
Oh. Maybe Lee was right. His cock went hard in a heartbeat, just pushing against the fly of his jeans. Damn. Lee could kiss. Toothy, hard enough to press Danny’s lips against his teeth, the kiss made him moan and start to hump, his hips grinding against Lee’s.
An answering hardness met his, Lee hot and ready, even through their clothes. The clothes started to come off seconds after that, Lee’s big hands easing off his shirt, then opening his jeans. “You’re damned good at that, babe.”
“Uh-huh.” Lee grinned at him, eyes twinkling. “You know what you’re best at?”
“Sucking?” Shit, he didn’t need Lee to tell him that. It seemed impossible that he’d given his first blowjob last semester. He’d learned to love it since then, to love the taste and feel of Lee between his lips, on his tongue.
“Bingo. Wanna?” Stroking Danny’s lower lip, Lee raised one brow, waiting.
“Hell, yes.” Danny sank to his knees, knowing it wouldn’t take long for both of them to come this way. He opened Lee’s jeans and pulled that amazing, thick cock out, licking his lips.
Moaning a little, Lee pulled him forward, pressing the head against his lips. Danny opened up and took him in, sucking at the loose skin just underneath, then pressing his tongue to the slit.
Fuck, yes. The first taste made Danny’s hips rock, his cock pushing up toward the hand he moved down to meet it. It all came together in the most amazing circle of pleasure, his mouth, Lee’s cock. His hand, his cock. Perfect.
Licking his way down, Danny worked more of Lee’s cock in. He’d been afraid of choking once, but now he knew better. Lee would never give
him more than he could take. Lee grunted, moving now, thrusting into his mouth. Danny stilled, taking it, letting Lee do what he needed to do. Only Danny’s hand moved up and down, stroking his cock until he was dizzy with excitement.
“Dan. Oh, fuck, baby.” Lee called him baby. It had started right after Christmas, and Danny knew he ought to protest, but it was kinda hot. Way better than dude or buddy.
He let Lee feel the tiniest bit of tooth, just a touch at the base, and Lee shouted for him, bucking up. He would swear he could feel Lee’s balls draw up against his chin.
Danny scraped his thumbnail over the head of his cock, his hips rocking. There. Oh, right there. His belly pulled in, his heart pounded, and Danny came all over his hand, trying not to bite down on Lee.
The threat of the bite did it for Lee, too, his come filling Danny’s mouth. Fuck, he’d thought that was gross once. Now he fucking loved it. All he could do was pant, leaning his head against Lee’s thigh.
“Man, it’s a good thing you came to do laundry. You came all over both our jeans.” Lee laughed, the sound breathless as anything.
“And I am so not cleaning the floor, either.” Danny and Lee both jumped, whirling to see Heather standing just inside the front door, keys dangling from her fingers. “Start without me, boys?”
“Mmmhmm. But if you let us get the laundry going, we can give you an instant replay.”
Danny grinned, loving the banter between these two who knew each other so well. Heather wiggled her hips, her amazing tits bouncing, and Danny’s grin widened. Man, he’d better get the clothes in the washer. It was going to be a busy night.
Chapter Two
She reeked of sex.
Little slut. How dare she? How dare she think she could flaunt her crimes against the pack that way and get away with it? The next full moon would show her. They would take her little baby wolf and cut him from the pack, run him to the ground and kill him. Then they would teach Heather and Lee what it meant to be part of a pack and to do their duty.
It would be a lesson no one would ever forget.
* * *
“Hi, Heather! Are you bringing Danny to the ice cream social? I know Lee has to work.”
Heather pushed her ponytail off her neck, the hot spring sun making sweat plaster some of the heavy strands down. She tried to summon a smile for Denise, who she’d grown up with, but the bitch just seemed to know more about Heather’s social life than she did. It was maddening. “Nah. I figured I would just take him somewhere and fuck.”
“Heather! It’s no wonder the pack is talking. I swear, we’d all accept this more readily if you weren’t so awful about it.”
“Awful?” She squinted, trying to decide what that meant. “You mean blatant, or mind your own business?”
“Both.” Her voice going low, Denise moved close. “It’s not like it doesn’t happen. Heck, it’s not like the pack won’t take him in. But you have to learn to play the game a little.”
Heather bared her teeth. “I am. Lee and I are waiting to have sex. We’re not having babies until the pack sanctions it. I would say that’s about all the game I got, Denise.”
“Well, it’s not just about you. That’s what you don’t get.”
“No, I get that just fine. I also get that the pack sent me to college so I could sow my wild oats and get ready to take my place in the pack, blah-blah. If that’s the case, you have to let me do it.”
She turned on the heel of her cowboy boot and marched away, grumpy that she was going to miss out on the ice cream. She really had planned on taking Danny to the ice cream social, but now she would just have to do something else with the guy while they waited for Lee.
“Hey, babe.” Danny met her at the student center, confining himself to a kiss on her cheek when she really wanted him to plant one on her mouth.
“Hey, honey.” Patting his ass relieved the need deep inside her to shock people. “Change of plans.”
“Yeah? Not in the mood for ice cream?” He followed her easily, his hand coming up to hold her elbow.
“Actually, I really want some. How about we go to the store and grab a carton of mint chip?” They could go to the house, or go out to the ranch, or something. Anything where prying eyes would leave them alone.
“Sure. We gonna call Lee?”
“Nope. Maybe we’ll let him find us by scent.” Lee had an amazing nose. He could do it. Oh, that might be fun. Lee would be so damned mad by the time he tracked them down that he’d be ready to tear them up. Both of them. Literally or figuratively. Hell, yes. “You know, we could go to the campus store and then wander, end up at the grove. Can you imagine what Lee will be like when he finds us?”
Danny shivered, glancing over at her, his pretty green eyes dark with sudden need. “Oh, God, babe. That sounds like an amazing plan. We’ll buy some condoms too, yeah?”
“Heck, yeah.”
“Come on.” Now Danny was dragging her, heading for the campus store. They went by way of the little auditorium where the ice cream social held forth, because that was where Lee was supposed to meet them and where he would pick up their scent.
They were probably both throwing off enough pheromones for Lee to track them in five seconds, but it only seemed fair to give him a good trail to follow. Heather stopped Danny in the back shadow of the campus store to give him a kiss, her lips meeting his hard enough to make him grunt.
She wanted to laugh right out loud for sheer joy. Being with Danny improved her mood about a hundred percent. Thinking of Lee and Danny and her together did even more, and getting away from prying eyes like Denise’s was the cherry on top. “Ooh. Cherries. We should get some of them too.”
Danny panted, staring at her, his lips swollen. “Huh?”
“We should get cherries at the store. Whipped cream. We can have sundaes.”
“Lee’s a little fuzzy for that,” Danny said, grinning like the big bad wolf he was becoming.
“Ha, ha. We could shave him.”
“Ew.” Danny shook his head, reaching for her again. “You’re already all smooth.”
Heather ducked. “True. Come on, Dan. Ice cream.”
“You’re such a tease.” There was no heat in the accusation, and he dutifully followed, coming along with her to the store and carrying all the shit she picked out. He earned his boy points these days, having learned from Lee that a man had to cowboy up and carry heavy shit. That was why she kept men around, after all. Carry stuff, kill spiders and have hot sex.
They headed to the grove, and Heather was relieved to find it empty, no one else taking advantage of the warm spring day. She planned to take advantage. A lot.
“We should have gotten a cooler.” The ice cream did look a little melty when Danny pulled it out.
Heather just grinned. “Lee can lick the carton like a good dog.”
“You’re so mean.” It wasn’t like Danny wasn’t grinning back, though, playing right along.
“Shut up and give me a bowl.” The little paper bowls wouldn’t hold up for long, but they would do what she and Danny needed them to. Ice cream, cherries, Reddi-Whip. Yum.
Danny was way more fastidious, layering his components carefully, one atop the other in thin layers. By the time he was done, he almost had an ice cream cake-like thing. It was fascinating.
“You’re such a girl,” Heather said, snorting a little.
“Fuck you, babe.”
“That’s the plan!” She dug in, the ice cream so cold it was a bit of a shock. The whipped cream was fluffy and light, the cherries tangy, and all in all, it was way better than sitting at the auditorium and eating those cheap mini-cartons of vanilla and chocolate.
“I thought you two were going to be at the ice cream social.” The growl came from the trees to her right, making Danny jump. Heather had heard Lee coming.
“It was a drag. We left you a trail.”
“You did.” Lee appeared, wearing Wranglers so tight she could read his pulse right through them. “I have to admit, it was
a fascinating one too. Especially back by the store. Hey, you.” Bending to kiss her, Lee grabbed her ponytail, holding her there while he tasted her mouth. “Mmm. Mint chip.”
“We saved you some.” Though looking at the sun through the gap in the grove told her that nearly a half hour had passed. “It might be soup.”
“Damn, baby. You know how I feel about cold soup.” Lee grinned before crouching next to Danny and kissing him too.
God, that was pretty. It made her ache down between her legs, made her want to howl a little. Lee took Danny’s mouth deep and hard, low growls sounding. She squirmed, waiting her turn to touch, letting Lee say his hellos.
A very dazed-looking Danny sat back and blinked when the kiss was over, and Lee settled between them in a classic cowboy sprawl, taking his Stetson off and setting it brim-up a few feet away. Cowboys and their hats. Always brim-up, so you didn’t ruin the shape. Lee had installed a hat hanger right inside the front door, so he didn’t have to worry about it at home.
“As revved up as you were, by the smell, I figured you’d be all over each other.”
“Heather was in a rotten mood.” Danny dished up a bowl of cream and cherries for Lee. “She needed an ice cream fix first.”
Lee’s gray eyes went dark, his gaze searching. Knowing. “Who gave you trouble?”
“No one. Denise was just being a shit.”
“Denise? No shit?” One of Lee’s brows went up. “Do I need to talk to Logan?”
Logan was the pack alpha, and he and Lee had gotten close over the last year. Oh, not that kind of close, though the one time Logan had torn Lee up had been obvious from the bite marks and shit. That had just been a rite of passage, though. “No. I mean, not right now.” Heather bit her lip. “It’s been better with you, right, Dan?”
Danny nodded, his green eyes just as intense as Lee’s. “Yeah. I mean, people have been a lot more accepting since you guys took me under your wing. A few have been growly, but that’s always in town.”
