Strange Lake Falls Volume 1 (Strange Lake Falls Series)

by KD Jones

  Which reminded her, she should call the bank to see how long she had until they reclaimed the property? With her and Samantha both unable to work with the horses there was no point in trying to keep the business going. It made her sad to think she would lose the house though. A tear trailed down her face. She wiped it away quickly. She had to stay strong for her and Samantha. As long as they were together, nothing else mattered.

  Mary had offered to let them live with her, but that was a temporary option. Maybe she could find a house to rent out in the country. It needed to be out further away from town so that Samantha could run in her wolf form without drawing attention to herself.

  She asked Samantha to stop by the mall on her way home from school to get some new clothes for her, while she and Mary did the grocery shopping. She turned her phone back on and noted six more messages awaited her. She didn’t even bother to listen before she deleted them all.

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  Brock’s cell phone rang. “Yes?”

  “What the hell is going on there? Why isn’t Jacqueline answering her phone?”

  “I cannot say.”

  “Is she okay? Is Samantha all right? The Alpha didn’t try anything did he?” Adrian had never known true fear or panic until now. He had a new family that he was desperate to get back to, and he hated that he left their safety in someone else’s hands.

  “I believe the situation with the Alpha went fine. He is bringing the pack over later this evening to introduce Samantha to them.”

  “Then why is Jacqueline not responding to my messages?"

  “I believe that may have something to do with Elena Belinko paying her a visit.”

  “Why would Elena…never mind. Tell Jacqueline to call me as soon as she can.”

  “I will tell her you request it, but I do not believe she will do so. She looked hurt and angry.”

  Adrian sighed. “Tell her I am coming home.”

  “Yes sir.”

  Chapter 18

  The party was going great and Samantha seemed to be enjoying herself. At the last minute she had called the Alpha and told him that the pool would be available if anyone would like to bring a suit. Samantha was beyond happy interacting with other young werewolves her own age. Jackie frowned seeing how Brock hovered close by. He was the only one not enjoying himself at the party. Christina was in the pool in a borrowed suit flirting outrageously with the werewolf men. Rolled her eyes, Jackie went back to turning over the hamburgers she was grilling.

  “Wow this party is really swinging,” Mary said, trying to sound cool. Jackie laughed and waved her over. “Thanks for bringing the dessert, or I should say desserts.” Mary had made two cakes and four pies.

  “No problem. You know I love to bake. I just hope it’s enough.” Mary smiled watching Samantha talk to two other single female werewolves.

  “I have cookies and ice cream too, so I think we’ll have something for everyone. I’m going to go grab the hotdogs. I think it’s time to start putting out the food for everyone.” Jackie walked back in through the French doors. She nodded at the Alpha who was making his way over to Mary. That man was just asking for trouble. Mary had a hot temper.

  Suddenly the doorbell rang, followed by pounding on the door, and she wondered if it was Adrian. Would he knock or just come in? Brock had said he was coming home but didn’t elaborate to when. Even though she was still a little perturbed, she wanted Adrian back so that she could yell at him in person. Then make love to him before yelling at him some more. Jackie went and opened the door and frowned immediately upon seeing her ex-husband Robert standing there.

  “Robert, you need to call first before you come over here. I have guests …”

  Robert pushed past her through the door. “I don’t need to ask permission to come over to my own damn house! What is going on here and who are all these people?”

  “These are new friends of mine and Samantha’s. They have just recently moved into town. We invited them over to a house warming party. The judge says that you have to ask permission before coming over because both Samantha and I hold the majority of stock in the property.”

  “Are these new friends the reason you were able to make the bank note?”

  “What are you talking about?” This was not the time to discuss such things.

  “I called the bank and they said your bank note on the farm was paid off in full. Where did you get the money?”

  She wasn’t sure what he was talking about with the bank note. “How do you know anything about my bank note? The loan was in my name.”

  “I called to talk a bit with Dick and he happened to mention it.”

  Ah. Richard ‘Dick’ Miller was an old high school buddy of Robert’s. “Those loans are private and confidential. He shouldn’t be telling people about it.”

  “Where did the money come from Jackie?” He looked at her for the first time noticing the changes. “Where did you get the money to get a body makeover?”

  Jackie looked down at herself. She was wearing a two-piece bathing suit but had a lace cover up shirt on which hid very little and came to mid thigh. Her hair was up in a ponytail and she wore very little makeup.

  “Is there a problem in here?” Brock walked in and looked over the puny human.

  “No. Could you take Mary the hotdogs from the kitchen counter? Thanks.” She waited until Brock went back outside.

  “You should leave Robert.”

  Robert grabbed her arm in a painful grip. “Who the hell was that guy? Is he like your sugar daddy or something?” He stepped up closer to her.

  Jackie inhaled the scent of blood pumping furiously through Robert’s veins. When was the last time she fed? It had to have been the night before last. She was so angry with Adrian she hadn’t felt like feeding, but now, her hunger was almost overwhelming. Not a good thing.

  “You need to let me go and you need to leave.” She tried to keep the panic out of her voice. She had only fed from a live source with Adrian. All her other feedings came from a blood bag.

  “Look at me and tell me if you’re fucking that guy!” Robert demanded shaking her arm.

  Jackie looked up into his muddy grey eyes. He looked back at her in surprise, and then he had a glazed look on his face. Her vamp blue eyes must be out. Was this the thrall that Adrian was talking about? She glanced at the vein in Robert’s neck. Maybe a little taste to tide her over wouldn’t be so bad.

  “Turn your head for me Robert. I’m hungry.”

  “Yes.” He tipped his head to the side and waited.

  Jackie brought him closer to her and slowly sunk her fangs into his skin. The blood poured down her throat and she sucked strongly for more. He didn’t taste as good as Adrian but he still tasted good. She should have been bothered by Robert’s physical reaction to her feeding from him, but she was too hungry to notice.

  “Oh yes.” Robert moaned in pleasure as each suck felt like it was stroking him in his pants.

  She didn’t pay any attention as Robert moved his hands so that one was squeezing her tight ass while the other made its way to her bikini top. The moment he squeezed her breasts she froze. What was she doing?

  “What the hell is going on here?” Adrian demanded from the doorway. He looked pissed.

  Jackie released Robert’s neck shoving him away a little too roughly. He fell onto the floor with a satisfied look on his face. Jackie looked down at the front of his pants and noticed a distinct wet spot. He had come as she was feeding and he had been feeling her up. She looked over at Adrian and saw the angriest vampire she had ever seen and hoped to never see again. Oh shit!

  Chapter 19

  “It’s not what it looks like.” Jackie told him immediately.

  “Really? Because it looks like you were feeding from this human male, he got off on it, as he was trying to get the bikini top off of you.”

  Maybe it was what it looked like. “Adrian, you’re back early.”

  “Don’t try to change the subject. Who the hell is this man?�
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  “It’s Samantha’s father Robert.” She saw the hurt look on his face. “I didn’t ask him to come here he just showed up.”

  “Then you fed from him and started making out?” His eyes took on his vampire blues.

  “I hadn’t fed in a while and he …” Brock and Christina interrupted them.

  “Sire did you need us?”

  Adrian glared down at the male that had been touching his mate. He wanted to tear off his hands and his lower appendage, but it was Samantha’s father so he couldn’t harm him. He looked at his two enforcers. “Take this piece of shit out of here, wipe his memory of Jacqueline’s feeding and send him on his way.”

  “Yes, sire.” The two vampires bent down and picked up Robert who continued to stare at Jackie with lust-filled eyes. Wow, the bite was more potent than Jackie thought it was. She saw Adrian turn his attention back to her. She turned and headed to the kitchen.

  “Where are you going?” Adrian could not believe the woman just up and walked away from him.

  “I need to get a bucket of ice for the drinks outside.” Jackie bent down to grab a bucket out for under the kitchen cabinet. She heard a growl and turned to see that Adrian was staring with anger and lust at her ass. She straightened up quickly.

  “I am gone just a few days for business and come home to find my mate feeding and making out with her ex-husband.”

  “I was not making out with him!”

  “You are barely dressed walking around a house full of lusty werewolves!”

  “Hey I look damn good and am proud of that! I covered up with this thing anyway. Besides, they haven’t noticed me hardly at all.”

  Adrian stepped closer to her pulling the edges of the cover-up away from her body. “Oh, they noticed.”

  She heard the desire in his voice and her body immediately responded. No no no. She was angry with him. She tried to shove his hands away. “I’m not talking to you.”

  “Mmm. What have I done to cause you to give me the silent treatment?” His fingers rubbed the edge of her bikini bottom making her shiver with need.

  “Stop it! I am pissed at you! You left me here to have to deal with all your ex-lovers!”

  “All?” He raised his eyebrow.

  Damn if she didn’t find that to be sexy too. “Well, Christina and Elena.”

  “I told you Christina was a one time thing.”

  “And Elena?”

  He paused. “She was a little longer than a one time thing.”

  “What about your recent orgy with Elena?”

  Adrian ran a hand through his dark hair. “I attended her party out of courtesy and yes, I drank and fucked a human woman. But I didn’t touch Elena. I haven’t touched her in years.”

  “She made it sound as if you had a relationship with every woman that you turned and that you would want me to attend these orgies with you, participate in them.”

  “No I have not slept with every woman I turned. I did with Christina and I did with Elena, but both ended the same. Neither of them were my mate. You are. I won’t ever take you to a tasting party. I don’t share what’s mine.” He growled the last bit.

  She couldn’t stay mad at him any longer. Not after that confession. “I wasn’t making out with Robert. He came over to yell at me about the bank note. I hadn’t fed and became overwhelmed with hunger. I just meant to take a little. I needed the blood but I wanted you.”

  “You will feed from me only!” He gripped her head and forced her face to his shoulder. “Feed!”

  Jackie’s fangs dropped down and she sunk them into Adrian. His delicious blood filled her. It was like night and day. Robert was a diet soda, but Adrian was the regular full strength Dr. Pepper. She heard him moan with each pull she made and she was overwhelmed with the need to touch his skin. She wanted no barriers between them.

  Jackie ripped open his shirt making the delicate buttons on his expensive shirt pop off and fall to the floor. She got to his skin, his beautiful hot smooth skin, and shoved the sleeves down his arms and accidently ripped the thing in two.

  She released his vein licking and sealing her bite. “Sorry about the shirt.” The shirt was completely ruined. It probably cost more than everything in her entire closet.

  He smiled down at her with hunger in his eyes. “I’m not.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her like a starving man. Good thing she didn’t really need oxygen. She wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck and kissed him back with just as much need and desire.

  She felt herself being lifted to the counter and pulled to the edge. Adrian wedged himself in between her thighs and she groaned feeling his hard arousal pressing against her center.

  The flimsy lace cover up was shredded. She didn’t care. She just wanted to get him inside of her. “Please.” She begged.

  Adrian reached down and slid a finger beneath her tiny bikini bottoms. Her pussy lips were drenched with her juices. Oh she was ready for him. He pressed a finger inside of her and felt her inner muscles grip him. He couldn’t wait for her.

  He undid his pants and moved her suit to the side as he centered himself. Then without warning he plunged himself deep inside of her. Nothing felt as good as his Jacqueline. The thought that another male touched what was his made him more aggressive.

  “You are mine and mine only Jacqueline!”

  “Yes, only yours.” Jackie threw her head back as she arched towards him. He felt so good. So hers. She had never felt possessive before but with him, she was. She didn’t want to share him with anyone. She reached up for his head pulling him down for a fierce kiss. Things were knocked off the counter but she didn’t care. All that mattered was being with Adrian.

  Adrian wasn’t going to last much longer. He pounded into her pushing her back flat on the counter. He rubbed her labia with his deft fingers and she shattered milking his release from him. It took a few minutes for them both to catch their breath.

  He pulled back long enough to look at her in the bathing suit. “Damn woman, you cannot wear stuff like this in front of other people, especially horny werewolves.”

  She blushed. “Do you like what you see?”

  With one hand he moved a cup off revealing a bare breast. “Oh I definitely like what I see. I want to see more. Unfortunately, Samantha is waiting outside the kitchen for us.”

  “Fuck!” Jackie moved her bathing suit bottom to cover herself. She was blushing when she and Adrian walked out of the kitchen.

  Samantha rolled her eyes at them. “Man can’t you guys go like five minutes without jumping each other’s bones?”

  Adrian laughed. “Not even five.”

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  Jackie saw the last of her guests out of the house. She closed the door and sighed. Well that was done. She turned to head back to the family room.

  “Thanks Mom,” Samantha said as she paused at the bottom of the stairs.

  “What for?”

  “Hosting the party, letting the werewolves in, and for taking care of me. I love you.”

  “I love you too and you’re welcome.” She watched as her daughter headed up the stairs and realized that in a few months Samantha would be leaving for college. What was she going to do all alone in the house? That reminded her about the bank note, and she went outside to the pool area where Adrian was straightening up the chairs.

  “So, is there something about the banknote you want to tell me?”

  “Yes, I paid it off.” Adrian’s answer was short. He was still a little angry over the whole Robert feeling her up thing.

  “Why would you do that?”

  “You’re mine. I would never allow you to lose your home. I take care of what is mine.”

  She stared at him for a few minutes. He really meant that. But just how many women was he taking care of? “Did you take care of Elena the same way?” Why the classy long legged Elena bothered her, she didn’t know, but the woman sure knew how to hit Jackie’s insecurity buttons.

  “I take care of all
my people.”

  Did he count her as just one of his people? She needed to let this drop. She was too tired to deal with the whole Elena relationship thing at the moment. “I’m going to bed. Are you coming?”

  He shook his head. “I have some business to take care of before I come up.”

  “Okay.” She stared at him but he wouldn’t look at her. He was basically dismissing her, and it hurt. She turned and headed back inside. Tomorrow, she would talk things through with him tomorrow. If they were going to have a relationship, she needed to know what exactly she meant to him.

  Chapter 20

  Vampires didn’t dream. That’s what Brock said. So why was Jackie dreaming now? And even stranger, she was dreaming of a place she had never been before. It was the same every time, she was on a beach where the sand was pure white, and the water was so clear she could see all the way to the bottom of the ocean. Why would she dream of this place?

  “You are in my dream, so to speak.” A woman with a deep accent spoke from the water’s edge. Jackie watched her walk out of the water like a water nymph. With her long black hair and beautiful dark eyes, she was hands down the most beautiful woman Jackie had ever seen.

  “Who are you?” Jackie asked as the dream woman came closer.

  “I am Lila, Adrian’s maker, and you are Adrian’s mate Jacqueline. He has waited a long time for you.”

  “You’re his maker? I thought you weren’t around anymore.”

  “I am in ground, but I will rise soon.” She smiled and reached out to cup Jackie’s face. “You are lovely.”

  “Thank you.” Jackie blushed. She wasn’t used to other women complimenting her. “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Are you Adrian’s lover?” Fuck she did not just ask that.

  Lila released her face and patted her shoulder comfortingly. “Not for a long, long time now. We are not mates.”

  “What does a mate mean exactly? Adrian keeps saying that, but I am not sure what it means.”

  “You were born for him and him alone, as he was born for you. You are mates of the heart and soul, two pieces of the same half. Without you he has lived a shallow life. Now that he has found you, it will be complete and whole. He deserves that. It is what all vampires and other paranormals long for. Some give up hope of finding it after living a long, lonely life. I am so glad that Adrian held out and waited for you.”