by Jessica Snow
The groups, yes. You and I? I think I'd rather do business with a rattlesnake. At least it warns you before it tries to poison you, Keith thought as Ben clapped him on the shoulder. A regular old shoulder-clapper was Ben Stormstout, and his claps tended to be the type that were meant more as a way to show off his strength than to foster good feelings.
Just remember, Edward is his son. So not all Aklark are like him.
Keith smiled and clapped Ben on his back in reply. I know, It's why I haven't thrown Ben into the river.
Chapter 36
Taking Edward by the hand, Kimberly led him up the stairs towards her private quarters, glancing at Melanie. She intentionally shut her mind off from Keith, not knowing that Keith was doing the same thing, and focused just on Mel. Wish me luck. I'm taking your advice.
Go get him, girl. And if you need help, I'll be there in ten seconds. I still have my Glock around here somewhere. You remember where?
Kitchen cabinet, next to the Cheerios.
Leading Edward into her quarters, she slipped off her high heels, unfamiliar after wearing flats so often so as to not emphasize her six-foot height. "I much prefer regular shoes," she said, sighing. "So..... we're betrothed."
"Yeah," Edward said, unbuttoning his suit coat. "I'll be honest, I'm still kind of shocked."
"Oh? Why's that?"
Edward blushed, and turned away, hiding his face. Kimberly came over, taking his hands and turning him back to face her. "Come on, Edward. Regardless of where this goes, we need to communicate clearly to make this work. What's shocking you?"
Edward looked down, then to the side before looking Kimberly in the eyes, still holding her hands. “I don’t know. I was angry that my father did this, I don’t like being told what to do, especially putting me on the spot. But that was before I met you."
Kimberly let go, surprised at his words. "Wh... what do you mean?"
Edward huffed with self-derision and looked down at his body. "Come on, Kimberly. I know you’ve noticed. It should be pretty obvious that I’m attracted to you, but I never thought this would work out. The wolves I do know outside the Kenai seem to despise us.”
"But you really think we had no chance?” Kimberly said. "Even after the kiss?"
"Before then, I didn't know what to think. I knew as soon as I saw you in that cheap ass diner that you were the most beautiful woman I'd ever know. Since then you have become more and more beautiful in my eyes, with a brain and a heart just as amazing as your looks," Edward said softly. He never really had to be 'smooth' with women, and beautiful women had always thrown themselves at him back at home, but Kimberly made him trip over his tongue when he wanted to express his feelings. "Then when you kissed me, all I've thought about in my private moments since then is that I'd do anything to have another."
Kimberly smiled and stepped forward, reaching up to tug on the tie at Edward's throat. Freeing the fine silk from around his neck, she looked him in the eyes, and rested her hands on his chest, spreading her fingers and rubbing his massive and chiseled chest with her hands. "Well, I'm right here. Take what you want.”
Edward looked down at her, gobsmacked for a second before his hands came up to rest on her hips. Pulling her closer, he bent his head to hers, their lips coming together in warm affection. His hands slipped closer around her waist, drawing their bodies closer together, Kimberly's soft breasts flattening against his massive chest. Their tongues came out, tasting one another until both of them felt drunk, and Edward had to release her, gasping for oxygen. "I need to get Melanie," he said breathlessly.
"Why? Are you okay?" Kimberly asked, her skin flushed with arousal, but her voice filled with concern. She had been told she was a good kisser before, but she'd never given anyone a heart attack. Still, she could feel her nipples aching inside the cups of her dress, and a warm glow between her legs that she needed satisfied. They couldn't stop now, she didn't care what else happened.
"Because she's the only one here with a gun. She needs to shoot me now before I wake up from this dream," he said, grinning. “But then again, if this is a dream, I don't want it to ever end."
Kimberly stared at him for a moment before she gave in to the joke, laughing with him. "It's no dream, Edward. Or if it is, it's for both of us."
Edward stared at her in pure adulation. “I never expected this, but this could be the greatest day of my life."
"Well, maybe it’ll get even better," she said, taking his hand and leading him to her bed. “In the time since we met, I've found you just as sexy as you've found me, and maybe I was hoping that you'd want me as much as I want you. Maybe, just maybe, this could be more than just political.”
Edward's face looked like a man in a trance, unbelieving of what was in front of his own eyes as she reached behind her, undoing the zipper on her cocktail dress and letting it pool on the floor at her feet, her glorious body revealed totally to him other than her black bikini panties. She finally reached out and slapped him lightly on the cheek, smiling at him. "Hey, Edward? What I'm saying is that I want you to make love to me."
Edward started, coming back to reality, Kimberly's words soaking into his brain. Sinking to his knees, he leaned forward, kissing her stomach before resting his cheek against her baby soft skin, his hands coming around to pull her to him again. Whispering unintelligible words into her skin, words that Kim still understood, he kissed her stomach again before looking up into her eyes. "I swear, I will be the best First Mate I can be," he said, reaching up to stroke her hair as it cascaded down her back. "I will always honor you."
Kimberly knelt down, taking Edward's face in her hands. "And I’ll honor you, and be your First Mate as long as you want me to," she promised, kissing him again. Her arms went around his neck, pulling him closer and feeling her already aroused nipples brush against his shirt, sending tingles through her body.
She thought about the words they had said in front of everyone, and how they had felt so empty before. Meaningless. But here, their words were from the heart, full of meaning, and worth more than any thousand words sworn before an assembly of others. Still, the time for words was over. "No more talk, Edward. Show me."
Edward nodded, kissing down her neck and reaching down, his hands cupping Kimberly's butt, pulling her into him. She was thrilled as he stood up lightly, as if she weighed little more than a feather before laying her on the bed carefully like something precious that needed to be cherished. She supposed that to him at least, she was, and it made her feel sexier than she had ever felt in her entire life. Keeping her arms wrapped around him, she pulled at his shirt, not caring when it tore with a purring, zipper sound as it parted down the middle.
Edward's enchanted lips wrote burning runes on Kimberly's skin as he shrugged off the remnants of his shirt, finding her right breast and leaving her gasping. His broad tongue traced her nipple while his hands roamed over her legs and hips, stroking and massaging. Kimberly had never felt such restrained power, and she hungered for more.
"Oh God Edward," she moaned, delicious heat filling her belly from his touches. She had always been sensitive over her backside, she thought most Lycan women were, but whatever the reason, Edward knew just how to touch her, to thrill her and send liquid desire shooting through her body. "More."
"As you wish, my Lady," he said, kissing lower. He lowered his lips farther and farther until he was pushing Kimberly's legs apart, tracing the silky flat V of her panties as they narrowed and disappeared in between her legs with the back of his knuckles. Kimberly writhed and wiggled, wanting to feel him against her most tender places, but every time she moved, he somehow shifted away just enough to keep his fingers skirting the edge of her mound. "You're so beautiful. So fragile.“
"Take off your pants," Kimberly said, smiling even as she felt the playful frustration build inside of her. "I want to see all of you."
Edward nodded, unbuckling his belt before pushing the trousers down to pool at his feet, then stepping out. He looked at them for a second before chu
ckling. "I wonder, does that ruin dress pants, sitting there like that?"
"We'll get them dry cleaned," Kim growled, her canines extending slightly. "Now take off my panties before I go feral on you."
"That could be fun every now and then,” Edward said, the flecks of blue in his gray eyes glowing slightly. "But not tonight. Tonight is about more than just our animal instincts."
Hooking his fingers in the waistband of her silk panties, he eased them over the swell of her hips and down her long legs, kissing her toes with their freshly washed and quickly pedicured nails as he finished pulling them off. Kissing the swell on the pad of each toe, he smiled as she giggled. "I'm ticklish there!"
"Good to know," Edward replied, setting her foot aside to take in the rest of her. His gaze traveled up her legs to the space between, where he was shocked.
She had taken the time to carefully shave just that afternoon, and her skin still glistened with the moisturizing lotion she had rubbed in to prevent irritation. She wondered if even then she had known what she was going to do, but then decided it didn't matter. "You don't like it?”
“Oh, no, I love it," Edward said, blinking. “It’s just….not what I was expecting."
Kimberly giggled sexily as she looked at Edward. His cock was already jutting out hard and heavy. "Well, I think it’s very, very sexy," she said. "Or can't you see?"
She stroked her fingers up and down the lips of her labia, spreading them for Edward's gaze. The moist excitement made the pink folds shine in the light of her room, and her body was already opening, excited and ready for him. "Edward, do your people have anything special about Mating?" she asked suddenly, sitting up and reaching for him. She rubbed his chest and stomach, letting her hands play lower and lower, but not touching his cock at all.
It was Edward's turn to growl in frustration, as he knew exactly what Kimberly was doing to him, and knew she was paying him back for his teasing caresses earlier. "No, it's a mental and spiritual thing more than anything else. Why, do yours?"
"Yes, there is a very specific physical thing that must be done," she said, her mind awhirl with the possibilities and wondering if she had the courage to do what her instinct was screaming for her to do. "If we do, we will most likely form a bond similar to what Keith and Melanie share. It's why for us, there is a difference between having sex and Mating. One can be for fun, the other had a lot deeper meaning."
"I see," Edward said, coming forward again to kiss her lips. “Well, I do hope that day comes. But first, I want something else."
"What?" Kimberly asked, kissing him back. His hand cupped her breast, teasing her nipple and sending a small spark through her that made her jump.
"This Bear wants some of your honey," he joked, pushing her back and spreading her legs. Kimberly's laugh was cut short as his tongue dragged across her clit, a thick moan replacing it. "Delicious."
Edward licked her up and down, slowly relishing the delicious flavor of the woman he could now call his wife, his mate. He knew that now, in his heart, she would be the one. He had always sought someone like Kimberly and had almost lost faith that it would happen. Now, with her spread before him, powerful and vulnerable and commanding all at once. Darting deeper, he found the source of her nectar, lapping it up greedily into his waiting mouth, her taste searing its way into his mind, unique and superior to anything else in the world.
Kimberly could only throw her head back as Edward licked her. She'd had a few lovers in her time, and some of them were considered good, but Edward, perhaps because of the fact that she knew deep down that he was the one, or maybe because of his actual skill, was doing things to her she had never dreamed of. Her mind flashed with colors as he licked and sucked on her pussy, and more than once her eyes rolled back involuntarily it felt so good. When he pulled his tongue back, she had barely a moment to catch her breath before the feeling of his tongue on her clit sent her reeling again. He circled and fluttered over her clit before tracing up and down again, his tongue searching every fold of her pussy until Kim couldn't stand it any longer. Grabbing his head, she ground her hips into him, her body feeding its need as she rushed over the edge of orgasm, her legs pushing on the bed as he fluttered his tongue inside her, she cried out, biting her lower lip to prevent her screams from echoing around the Manor.
Sagging into the bedspread, Kimberly let her body relax as Edward came up, his face covered in her wetness. "Damn I didn't know I was that messy," she said, stroking a droplet of wetness off his forehead. "Sorry about that."
"I did it on purpose," Edward said, smiling. "I want your scent all over me."
Kimberly stroked his face, looking Edward in the eyes. "Edward, you're a fine man, and you make me laugh. I have a very serious question for you. Can you answer me honestly?"
"I swear," Edward said, his fingers stroking her hair and along the curve of her ears. "I will never lie to you, ever."
Kimberly nodded, semi-distracted by the feel of his fingers on her sensitive skin. "Edward, can you accept Lycan law and my position as Alpha Female? And damn that feels good."
"I'm glad," Edward replied, continuing his caresses. "And yes, I can. I don't care about my or your standing in any Clan. I just want to be with you."
"Even though you may face prejudice and racism?"
"Even though. If anything, Melanie can help me. From what some have told me, she faced it bravely."
Kimberly nodded, smiling that Edward already had such a high opinion of her Sister. She wanted Edward to make the Waldwyck trio a full quartet, and still be just as close at they were before. There was one more question to ask. "And if we Mate, would you be willing to have a child with me?"
“That would be a dream come true,” Edward replied, stroking over her belly.
“Good," Kimberly said with a smile. “I don’t recall it ever being done. We’ll make history.” Pulling him down, she kissed Edward slowly and sensuously, reaching down with her free hand and finding his cock still hard and ready. "Give me some room," she said, turning over and getting on her hands and knees.
"Edward, do you know what this means?" she said, wiggling her backside at him. It was hypnotic and frisky at the same time, and the look in Kimberly's eyes was so sexy it stunned Edward for a second.
Finally, he blinked and shook his head. "You like it from there? Not that I mind, I've heard it is very popular with many people."
Kim chuckled and shook her head. "Edward, I'm inviting you to Mate with me. But be warned, if you do, there are serious consequences. The Link is one of them."
Without responding, Edward got on his knees behind Kimberly, his cock brushing against the cleft in between the perfect globes of her ass. "This bond.... is it permanent?"
"It can be, if we want it to be," Kimberly moaned, lust filling her as she felt the warm pulse of his cock against her skin. "I want you, Edward. I want to be your Mate."
"I want nothing more,” Edward replied, taking his cock in his hand. He traced it up and down the already soaked slit of her pussy, groaning at the heat that teased the tip. "Can I tell you something?"
"If you take more than ten seconds I'm going feral," Kimberly threatened again, her voice dropping to a throaty growl. "I swear to blood I will."
“Yes, ma’am. No more talking,” he said. He lined his cock up with her pussy and pushed, both of them sighing as their desire was temporarily quenched. Edward paused when he felt Kimberly's body start to pull away, letting her adjust to him by drawing out before pushing in again, this time finding nothing but the delicious embrace of her body around his cock as he filled her up.
"Now show me how strong you are," Kimberly said, gripping the edge of the mattress. "No holding back."
Edward pulled back before pushing forward again, his cock sending waves of pleasure through Kimberly's body as she lowered her head and whimpered. Edward's massive hands rested on her back, rubbing the muscles as he pulled back and pushed in again, and again. Without pausing, he reached under her body, finding her breasts and m
assaging them. Kimberly, who had never in her life submitted to any man in bed, felt herself taken by this man, her Mate, who stroked in and out of her with amazing strength and speed. He pushed her down into the mattress, her body flat, and she could feel his hands sandwiched between her breasts and the sheets, still somehow moving enough to continually stimulate her nipples.
Kimberly felt the change in her mind, and the first soft tendrils as she began to feel Edward's thoughts and sensations. The first feeling that came was a pure, unadulterated love and adoration of her, something that was as erotic as the feeling of his cock pistoning in and out of her, each stroke faster and faster. Reaching beneath her, she found his left hand and clasped it over her heart, letting him feel her love as well. The connection made, both of them felt the building tide of energy within each other, doubling the sensation they felt and driving both of them wild. Edward's hips pushed harder and faster, smashing against Kimberly's upturned ass until she was sure she would have bruises there tomorrow, bruises she would happily carry until they faded far too soon.
Edward was so close, she could feel. Opening her mind more, she drew on his feelings, fueling her own body until they were in perfect sync. With a muffled cry as she buried her mouth into the mattress, she felt her second orgasm tear through her as Edward came, filling her body with his seed. Over and over he exploded, until she thought it would never end, and they would spend the rest of eternity on this high.
When the light finally started to filter back into their perception, they stretched out on the mattress, cuddling. Kim turned around to trace her fingers through the hair on Edward's chest, twisting some of it around her finger. "Edward?"
"Yes, Kim?" he asked, stroking her hair. "What is it?"
“I could get used to this” she giggled, looking at his gray eyes.
Edward smiled and kissed her nose, knowing that it was one of Kimberly's favorite tokens of affection from their Link. "I'm more than happy to serve you, my Lady," he said.
