Crave

by Serena Simpson

  I sat at the foot of the bed and looked at him. He was right. I feared rejection. I feared what he might say if I asked him to become my partner, to spend his life with me loving me.

  “They did things to me, Noah. I think I’m over it; that it’s in the past. Then something happens, a trigger…”

  He came from under the covers just a naked as I was. I managed to put my state of nakedness aside until I saw him.

  “I have my own scars.” His hand rubbed his chest. “And my own demons. We can compare them one night if you want to. No matter how bad or deep yours are I’m not leaving you.”

  He went down on one knee.

  “Cole, I don’t have a ring, but will you marry me?”

  “Noah?”

  “I want it all. I want the mating, the bite, the wedding. Probably not in a church, especially if we take a third. I want it all.”

  I pulled him to me and held him against my chest. “How Noah, please tell me how.”

  “How?”

  “How I ended up with the perfect person for me.”

  “There was this falling star.” I kissed Noah. His voice was breathless when he went on. “I made a wish for my perfect other half.”

  I kissed him again longer this time. My tongue was caught up in his playing a game of hide and seek.

  “The response came… came back. I’ll give you what you need, not what you want.” Noah’s voice was thick with need.

  He pushed me down by my shoulders and took my mouth in a deep kiss that might have bordered on dirty. I loved it just like I love him.

  “I love you, Noah.”

  “I love you too.”

  I sat up and moved to the center of the bed taking him with me. Then I flipped him. He was lying there allowing me to run my eyes over him. I loved the more pronounced muscles on his arms, chest, and legs. He looked like the stronger one between us. It made my stomach jump and knot into balls of pleasure that went through my entire system.

  I leaned over and sucked on his neck and shoulder testing where I would bite him.

  “I never thought this would happen to me, Noah.” I kissed down his chest running my fingers over his skin. I stopped to play with his nipples. The sounds coming from his mouth made me want to slow down and go faster at the same time. I loved how he was touching me back.

  His blue eyes were dark with passion, then light with mischief as he teased my nipples. A groan was pulled from me when he pinched one.

  “Your nipples are so sensitive, Cole.”

  Noah was learning my body one sensitive spot at a time. When he found a spot, he would work it slowly until I came undone in his hands.

  I had one spot in my mind as I kissed down his chest. I discovered it when we made love the first time, but I was saving it for tonight. I stopped and ran my finger around his belly button the same way I would do his ass before my tongue came out to lick him.

  I loved how his eyes got big, and his breath started to catch in his throat. I allowed him to thrust up before I stiffened my tongue and probed that shallow hole.

  “Fuck Cole.” He screamed as his body tried to leave the bed.

  “Thanks, I’ll take you up on that offer.” I went lower even though his hands were now clutching my hair. I licked the head of his dick watching as it begged for my attention.

  “Does little Noah like this?”

  “Fuck you, Cole, I am not little.”

  I chuckled it amazed me how concerned about size humans could be.

  “No, you’re not baby.” I opened up and swallowed him until he was hitting the back of my throat. I used my hand to work the rest of him.

  His head was thrashing, but I needed to work harder because he croaked out the word ‘teeth.’ I decided when your prize possession is close to being chomped it didn’t matter how good the blow job was. He had a valid point, so I sucked him again and kept my teeth to myself.

  “I wonder what would happen if I bit you there?”

  “We would have a wonderful sexless life.” I turned him over and tried not to laugh.

  Laughter and sunshine were now part of my life, all thanks to Noah.

  “You’re not going to believe this.”

  “What?” I eyed him my breath getting caught in my throat as the curve of his spine, and the indent at the base of his spine teased me. Then there were the perfect globes of his ass.

  “There is this story, urban fantasy that if you’re ever in a situation that you need lube, it will magically appear on the bed next to you.”

  He held up a bottle of lube and a small bottle of lotion. I had either Dante or Jace to thank for that. I was indebted to them.

  I took the lotion and squirted it into my hand. I rubbed my palms together to warm them up before I started giving Noah a back rub.

  I caressed his back and dug into his shoulders that were too tense until he relaxed with a sigh. I played with his spine and nipped at the indents at the base of it. I ignored his ass and went down to his thighs working my way down his legs until I was at his feet. I massaged each toe until he was spineless laying on the bed.

  “Please Cole, I need to feel you.”

  A smile stretched wide. That’s what I was waiting for. I squirted a little more lotion and began to massage his ass.

  “No one ever did this to me before.” His confession was hesitant, and I rewarded him by kneading his ass. The breathy sound that came from him was my reward.

  I opened his ass cheeks, but he was still relaxed. I took my tongue and began to ream his hole. A deep sound of shock and need came from him. My arm was lying against him to keep him in place.

  “What are you doing? Are you supposed to do that? How come it feels so good?”

  I stuck my tongue in deep whatever came from his lips was unintelligible. I licked and sucked while he cried out and shook his ass in my face.

  “I need more baby.”

  I could hear the need in his voice. I was so close to the edge that I couldn’t wait much longer. I drizzled the lube in his ass allowing the shock of the cold to penetrate before my first finger slid in. The intrusion didn’t register as he started to warm up. I added a second finger that had him catching his breath.

  “Cole?”

  “I’ll take care of you Noah.” And I would for however long he lived. Since I was about to bestow long life on him, I hoped to take care of him until my dying day.

  “I trust you.”

  I thought my heart would burst when he said those words. I added a third finger and opened him up. Then I pressed against his prostate just to give him a feel of what was coming.

  “Again Cole.” His deep voice rumbled.

  I pulled him to his knees; I wasn’t going to last much longer.

  “Breathe baby, push against me,” I said against his ear as I pushed my thick cock against the tight ring of his muscle. My hips drove me forward slowly. I was too worried about hurting him to go fast.

  Small sounds of need combined with noises of distress, but I knew I wasn’t hurting him.

  “I feel you stretching me.” I pushed further in. “Shit, the stretch is becoming a burn.” I stopped. “Keep going, I want to see what comes next.”

  His voice was hesitant, but I pushed on until every inch of me was cradled in the safety of his ass. I waited as he caught his breath. He adjusted flexing around my stiff dick before he finally moved. Nice slow moves at first until they became a little uneven and faster.

  “Move Cole.”

  I moved nice and slow until his breath kicked up, and he was moving against me freely. When his ass tightened around me, I let go. My restraint was gone. I thrust in hard rubbing his prostate with every stroke.

  “Please, Cole. I need you so bad. Baby, do that again.”

  I reached down and tugged on his thick dick using my hand to stroke him in time with the thrusts of my hips.

  “Cole please!” I felt his balls tighten, and his back stiffen before he screamed. His body convulsed. My teeth came back with a vengeance, I bit
. My release poured out of me.

  He shook in my arms. I was the only reason he didn’t collapse to the bed. My teeth were still in him pouring my mating fluid into his body. My dick was semi-hard and still in him. When my teeth finally retreated, I licked the wound healing it with my tongue. Finally, I laid down. Noah was already asleep. I stayed up as long as possible not wanting to miss any of what was happening.

  Chapter Eighteen

  Noah

  Sunlight streamed through the room touching Cole’s skin making him glow in his perfection. Wait… what the fuck. Did I really think that? I looked up to see Cole grinning at me.

  “Do you feel different?” Cole asked me.

  Yeah, now that he mentioned it, I did.

  “Tell me you’re not a romantic?” I replied.

  He grinned; I groaned. It could be worse; I think. He lifted his finger to caress my neck.

  “What does it look like?”

  He pushed the covers down so I could get a good look at his waist. The red that had marked him as neither black nor red was gone. In its places stood two rings intertwined. Each ring was made with intricate Celtic knots. The design was repeated every few inches taking the same space as the old design took.

  “It’s beautiful.”

  His eyes were shining as he looked at me. “Yes, it is.”

  Cole leaned over and kissed me. I forgot all about knots. “Wait, Angel.”

  “He’s gone.”

  That was the last thing I remembered until we both were sticky and satisfied.

  “We need breakfast, then we have to go see Leta.” Cole said.

  “Yes, sir. I’m taking a shower you’re welcome to join me.”

  We didn’t have time to shower together. I knew what was going to happen. I got up and went to take a shower.

  “I’m driving; you're eating,” I told him as we hustled to the car not wanting to be late.

  “I can eat and drive,” Cole said after sitting back and opening his first breakfast sandwich.

  “Do you think she’s waiting for us?” I was nervous. It didn’t make any sense, but I had a feeling the day wasn’t going to go as planned.

  “She invited us.”

  I noticed he didn’t answer my question. We fell into silence until Leta’s mansion came into view.

  “Cole?”

  “Drive up to the door.” I did. I parked right there in her circular driveway.

  When we climbed out, I noticed he was expecting problems by the tool he picked up. I grabbed another that was sitting next to it. We walked to the door; I noticed that he was paying even more attention to the surrounding area than I was.

  I knocked on the door several times before a young woman answered. The thick chain kept the door from opening all the way.

  “Hi, we have a meeting with Leta today.”

  “She didn’t tell me about a meeting. I’m sorry you’re going to have to leave and come back later.”

  She took the time to run her eyes over my body. I leaned forward.

  “Are you sure you can’t announce us? I know she would want to see us if she knew we were here.”

  “Tina.” A male I couldn’t see barked her name.

  “I’m sorry; I have to go.”

  “I’m sorry too.” Cole took my place in front of the door sticking his foot in before Tina could close it. He raised the bolt cutters in his hand cutting the chain keeping the door in place.

  The man behind Tina reached for Cole. Cole picked him up and threw him against the nearest wall. One look at Tina, she gasped and held back a cry as she moved.

  I knew Cole was a protector, but I’d never seen it on display like this. He was standing in the doorway refusing to allow me to enter until he was sure that there wasn’t another threat hiding.

  “Noah go upstairs and find Leta.” I moved towards the grand staircase as he moved around the first floor.

  There was another maid. I assumed it was a maid at the top of the steps who planned to halt my forward motion.

  “You can’t come past.” I picked her up and set her aside. The extra forty pounds I had on Cole was muscle not fat. I hadn’t been in a gym since we started this case, but I never needed to work out every day.

  “Leta,” I called hoping she would answer me.

  “I’m calling the cops.”

  “Great, tell them my name is Noah, and I’m looking forward to talking to them. Have them bring the paramedics. I have a suspicion that we will need them.”

  I walked down the hallway opening one door after the other until I finally came to the last door.

  The door didn’t open as I turned the handle. I looked down to find a lock on it. I looked at the woman who had followed me down the hall. She had a triumphant look in her eyes. I reached into my back pocket and took out my lock picking tools.

  “Peter!” She screamed.

  I ignored her and went to work on the lock. The door was opening as Peter made his way to me.

  “You can’t go in there.”

  I opened the door with such force that it banged against the wall. Leta never moved. Her body was on the bed in an awkward position as if someone had broken her and dropped her.

  “Cole, I need you now,” I called out before I went to see if she was still breathing. He didn’t answer me, but I wasn’t concerned.

  Leta’s heartbeat was shallow, and her pulse was too slow. I looked up to see Peter and the woman smiling. They thought Cole wasn’t coming. I waited; they both hit the floor, Cole restrained himself from doing any real damage to them. The beautiful thing about Cole was you couldn’t hear him coming.

  “I can’t wake her up. I think they drugged her.”

  We switched places so he could look at her.

  “You’re right they drugged her. Can you carry her?” He asked me.

  “Yeah.”

  “Then stay behind me.”

  I picked her up and stayed close enough to be protected by Cole, but far enough away to not get in his way if he needed to fight.

  “You can’t take her,” Peter called out. “This is kidnapping; I'm calling the police.”

  “Thanks, don’t forget the paramedics,” I told him as I followed Cole down the stairs.

  “Should we go back for clothes, purse, cellphone?” I asked Cole.

  “Nothing but what she’s wearing. We’ll deal with the rest when she wakes.”

  I nodded. The two downstairs were staring at us with wide eyes when we walked out the door and put her in the back seat of our car. I half expected the cops or at least more muscle.

  “Call Angel tell him I need a blanket, a shirt, and a new car.”

  Sure, why not? Angel whimpered when he answered the phone.

  “What do you need?” He snapped at me.

  “Angel?”

  “Yeah, sorry Noah. Times are hard.”

  I told him what we needed, but now I was split in different directions. Cole pulled over to where we had hidden the car the first time we surveilled her house.

  “Sorry to do this to you love.” Cole got out the car and stared at me before his form started to grow fuzzy, then his whole body shifted.

  I waited for my head to tell my body to hightail it out of there. I decided this was how you knew you were in love. When you finally saw what your mate really looked like. There was no way he was walking down the street like that without causing a stampede.

  What freaked me out the most was his tail. I climbed out the car not sure what I was going to do. I mean how was someone supposed to respond when they realized the person they loved didn’t look like them. Holy hell, what a cliché. How many wars had been fought because they didn’t look like us, and I was still steeped in that way of thinking?

  Cole wrapped his tail around me and pulled me close. I was so lucky he loved me. I didn’t care that he didn’t look like me. I loved that he was a secret romantic, and he was rubbing off on me. I loved that he was the protector while I was the nurturer. I loved him.

  “Let’s
get out of here.” He was back in his human form now.

  “What was that about?” I asked him.

  “In my natural form, I can feel electrical interference. The car has tracking devices on it. There are two on Leta’s clothes. I didn’t feel anything coming from inside her body.”

  I nodded but stayed silent. I didn’t want to talk until we dumped the car and clothes. Angel was already there when Cole pulled up to a deserted street in the city.

  “We need to strip her.”

  “Invasion of privacy we can’t do that.” My gut tightened at the thought of her thinking we violated her.

  “Noah, we have to give her a chance, unless we strip her; she won’t get it.”

  I wasn’t sure I agreed with him, but I decided not to argue. Each of us had been traumatized in some manner. The two of them more than me. Cole took off his shirt then he made quick work of stripping Leta and helping her into his shirt.

  I looked over to see Angel standing by the car he brought. He was facing away from us. His body rocked slightly like he was in pain.

  “Pick her up.” Cole said.

  I did what he said and walked over to him. His tail could be seen. He wrapped it around me caressing me and then he wrapped it around Leta in my arms.

  “You pick up the signal through your tail?”

  “I do. You’re both clean.” He took his tail and ran it over his own body. “We’re ready to go.”

  Angel came over and brought a thick, soft blanket and gave it to me. Cole helped me to wrap Leta in it and lay her down in the back seat.

  “What about the car and the clothes?”

  “Angel will get rid of them.”

  “We need to go shopping first. I’ll sit in the car while you get the things we need.”

  I nodded. Strange that I never thought of taking care of a woman not even in my ‘When Harry Met Sally’ moments. Now I was taking care of one with my mate. One who may end up being my other mate. This is where I should be panicking. Only I wasn’t, I was trying to figure out how I was going to tell my mom. The dishonorable discharge had been easier.

  Cole gave me a list of what we needed. I found myself replacing clothes and getting acceptable bedding.