Rane's Mate

by Hazel Gower

  Kane growled and took a step toward the general as the general continued. Kirby giggled as the idiot worsened his situation as he gestured to her and Sara.

  “If the women over there can fight and win, then I don’t see a problem.” He pointed at Kirby. “I know you’re human. You’re Lieutenant Logan’s sister.” He raised his eyebrow. “And Rane’s wife.”

  This time Logan growled too, and Rane seemed to force out, “Tread lightly, General. I shouldn’t have to tell you this as it’s not information you need to know, but the reason these women can do this is because they’re supernatural in some way.”

  Kirby sighed as the idiot general then turned to her and said, “What are you? What kind of supernatural?”

  Her brother came to her side. Rane lunged at the general, only to be held back by Jamie and Devlin.

  Her brother spoke before she could. “With all due respect, sir, that’s not something she has to divulge.”

  The general frowned and stepped toward her, which caused Rane to go nuts, and his brothers looked strained holding him.

  “I looked into your family file, Lieutenant Logan Brown, and she has had no defense training. How on earth did she come out of this blood bath? She must have an extraordinary supernatural talent.”

  Kirby shivered as she looked into the calculating eyes of the general, who stared back at her. She straightened her tired and aching shoulders, so she didn’t feel so small. Rane was let go and came straight to her side.

  A pissed off Faith came charging up to the general, pointing at him. “Don’t even think about it! You would be dead before you reached the door. Only the men you brought with you would fight, and I don’t even think they would if you do what you are thinking of.”

  The general seemed to debate something and looked at Faith for a couple of seconds before he took a step toward her.

  Faith continued. “I will kill you before you take another step.”

  This time the general raised an eyebrow at Faith, and his mouth turned to a smirk.

  Major Black, who had been sitting quiet in the corner, spoke up. “Sir, I have seen this woman in action. Do not underestimate her. She’s the woman in the reports who saved me.”

  Kirby could see the shock and the calculating glance that then came into the general’s eyes. All the werewolves in the room were growling now.

  Faith ignored them all and kept going. “Nothing would show up in my blood or Kirby’s. If you’re thinking that way, you aren’t any better than the demons.”

  The general’s face was red with anger as he looked around the room. No one supported him, even the men he brought looked at him with disgust. Logan now joined Rane as they stood next to her.

  The general cleared his throat as he took one last look around the room at the werewolves. “I’ll clear this mess up, deal with the media and all of the survivors.”

  Kane seemed to growl out as he stood in front of Kirby and Faith. “We will be taking any of the survivors who want to come with us. Some of the supernaturals will feel safer. We have been cleared for this already.”

  The general’s face, if at all possible, seemed to get redder. He nodded then turned and walked over to his men.

  Faith turned to them. “We have to keep our eyes on him. I agree we have to step up our training of the women, and make sure our women are never alone with him.” She paused and made sure she looked at all of the werewolves. “Now that I think about it, keep all of the supernaturals away from him.”

  All the werewolves nodded.

  Frowning, Kirby said, “I thought he was the top ranks of the military and had all the power?”

  Rane kissed her forehead before answering. “He is very powerful, little red, but he’s not the top, although he is very close.” He whispered the rest. “They don’t know the head honcho is a werewolf.”

  Raising her eyebrow, she gasped out, “How do they not know?”

  Rane shrugged. “We’ve been hiding from the beginning of time.”

  “You would think that we’d know by now that you guys existed. With all of this new technology, it doesn’t make sense.”

  Faith giggled at her, adding her own two cents. “Normal people see and think what they want to. There has been video footage, but normal humans don’t want to think of what is out there. They’re all too involved in their own lives.”

  Kirby thought that through, then nodded her head, saying, “I felt you out there but I chalked it up to various things.”

  Kirby didn’t even notice that all the werewolves, herself, Faith, and Sara had walked out of the hospital, until they were standing outside by the large tent that was the makeshift hospital.

  “Della and Ava have spoken to the supernaturals, and it looks like they’re all coming with us,” Faith said. “Kirby, I think that we should go around tomorrow at lunch time and meet these new people, have a talk with them.”

  Kirby liked the idea, but now that the adrenaline was wearing off she was too tired to talk, so she agreed by nodding. Without realizing it she had been leaning on Rane more and more, so much so that she didn’t think she had really been walking. She gave up on the pretense and leaned all of her weight on him, almost collapsing into him. Rane chuckled, kissed her forehead, and picked her up.

  She smiled as she heard, “Thank God, I didn’t want to be the first to show how exhausted I was.”

  Kirby didn’t want to admit it either, but hurt too much to care who caved first. Sara fell into Tray’s arms.

  It was Jamie, who she had completely forgotten about, who said, “Think how the regular human military men feel. You have extra strength and healing, thanks to mating one of us. It’s one of the reasons we haven’t trained humans to do this until now, and the only reason we’re doing it is because we have no choice.”

  That brought her back from almost falling asleep in Rane’s arms. She looked around and asked, “Where is my brother?”

  She couldn’t see Logan. She did notice that the werewolves didn’t even seem tired. A lot of them were leaving.

  Rane whispered in her ear. “They’re going patrolling. Don’t worry, I’ve sent Logan back to the base. He’s been with us all this time, while the others were only there for the last hour. We had already been there fighting for over an hour.” He kissed her forehead again and sighed. “I hate to admit this, but Logan did really well, although he’s pretty beat up and it will probably take him a couple of days to get back to one hundred percent. We’re going to need him for Wednesday.”

  Kirby nodded into his chest, too tired to respond. He placed her in the car and gently kissed her lips.

  * * * *

  Rane woke the next morning at six o’clock, which was a good hour later than he usually woke. He’d slept in. He shut his eyes and took a deep breath, wrapping his arms around the lush, naked woman next to him and pulling her even closer. Rane chuckled as he remembered getting Kirby out of her clothes last night, she had moaned out, “Don’t make me do anything please, I’ll be good. Give me five minutes more sleep.”

  When she was naked, he’d placed her in bed, and as he walked away to do some work she moaned. “No, don’t leave. You’re so warm.”

  Rane had chuckled and forgotten about the work that needed to be done. He got naked and hopped into bed, and she had snuggled into him, muttering, “Mmm, smells so good, so soft and warm.”

  She hadn’t made another noise after that, falling straight back to sleep. Looking at her now, she was gorgeous, her bright, fire engine red hair was everywhere, and he brushed a curly lock off her face. Her cheeks were a healthy pink, and her lips were slightly parted. His eyes drifted down. The sheet had fallen to her waist, and her breasts were pressed against his chest, the pink nipples pointed as the morning air hit them.

  Kirby sighed in her sleep, snuggling into him more. He smiled, because he felt so happy and content—the best he had ever felt. He loved waking up with his little red on him. It was his idea of bliss. Rane knew he was lucky to have found her. She was
strong, stubborn, and brave. One of the things he loved most about her was she was always thinking of others. Kirby was never afraid of him. She always stood up to him and didn’t let anyone walk all over her. All the women he knew, bar his sisters and mother, never questioned him or would be game enough to say no and argue with him, they would never even dare walk away from him. Kirby was perfect for him. Rane couldn’t have imagined someone like this for himself.

  He smiled as Kirby rubbed her body all over him, moaning as she trailed her fingers up and down his chest. She leaned in and started kissing his chest.

  “Please tell me the crews that are working on the house aren’t going to start at six-thirty again. I need the hot water and power. I want to sleep in until at least nine o’clock.” Kirby groaned out against his chest.

  Chuckling, he moved his hands down her body, lifting her so she could give him a morning kiss. “Morning, little red.”

  Kirby moaned into his mouth as his tongue met hers. She lifted her hands and ran her fingers through his hair. He laughed as she mumbled against his lips, “God, I love waking up to a hot, naked, turned on man.”

  Rane moved her over the object she moaned about. She turned bright red and groaned.

  “Please tell me I said that in my head and not out loud.”

  He laughed again and pressed his rock hard cock against her. He breathed in her scent. The apple and cinnamon was stronger than it had been since he’d met her. It was filling his head and blocking all his other senses. Rane’s wolf was prowling in his head.

  Kirby rubbed herself all over him moaning, groaning. She didn’t seem to be able to get enough of him. She licked, sucked, and raked her nails down his body. Her smell intensified, and he could feel her wetness against his body.

  His penis was the hardest it had ever been in his life. Kirby moved her hands down, rubbing his dick with her smooth, soft hands, which were barely able to close around it. He couldn’t take any more, and he finally snapped.

  Pulling her mouth back up to his, she growled, pushing him back against the bed with the strength only a full-blooded shifter should have. He howled, grabbed her waist, and placed her over his dick. She fought, fighting for control and dominance.

  Growling, his little red shoved his hands off her waist, positioned her pussy over his cock, and slowly moved down until his cock filled her completely. She screamed with a look of ecstasy as she raked her nails down his chest.

  Her scent kept getting stronger, assaulting his every breath. Her pussy muscles clamped tightly around his dick. He was sweating, telling himself not to come like a teenage boy with his first woman.

  In the very back of his mind, he remembered one of the elders and his parents telling him the signs of a woman in mating heat. Fuck! His little red was in heat. Shit! He knew he had to say something, because if they continued, she would end up pregnant. He needed to stop now or use something to prevent it.

  It wasn’t that he didn’t want Kirby to be pregnant, he just didn’t want to be like his brother Kane and take her choices away…ever.

  Blocking the heavenly smell as best he could, he growled out through clenched teeth. “Kirby, you need to stop and listen to me.”

  She froze as soon as he said her name. “You never call me by my name.”

  He chuckled. His mate was in heat, and the only thing that stopped her was him using her given name. “You need to listen to me, Kirby, you are in heat.”

  She growled back. “I know. You make me so hot.”

  “Kirby, focus. No, I mean in heat like an animal. Like a female werewolf. If we make love today, or while you’re in heat, without protection of some sort, you will get pregnant.”

  “God, I love your lips, I want your lips wrapped around one of my nipples or on my pussy.” She moaned and moved up and down his cock. He groaned as she continued. “Mmm, I don’t know what I want, your cock makes me so full, but when you put your mouth on me…ahhh, ohhhh.”

  Rane closed his eyes, fighting his wolf like he’d never had to in all his life. He needed her to trust and love him. Rane didn’t want his little red to wake up later, angry with him, and leave him when she came to her senses.

  Grabbing Kirby to still her, he ground out, “Listen, because I am on my last thread of control.” He reached up and held her head down to his so their eyes met. “Kirby, if we have sex right now, you will get pregnant and have a baby in seven months. Do you understand?”

  She seemed to come back to him for a moment. “Seven months? A baby takes nine.”

  “When I bit you, and from our first exchange of body fluids, I made you part werewolf. Remember I told you about the extra strength, healing faster, living longer, and so forth? Another difference is that the baby bakes faster, six months for full werewolves, and seven for humans. Also, you’ll go into heat, like you are now. As much as I’m dying to have you, I don’t want you angry with me if you don’t want to have children now.”

  Moving her head, she kissed his hand as she said, “I never thought I would be lucky enough to have a man like you to have children with.”

  She started moving up and down his dick again, moaning. Kirby bit his hand, and he had to count to fifty with his eyes shut. She was gorgeous, her head was thrown back, her back arched, and her breasts pointed toward him in offering as she moved up and down.

  When he opened his eyes it was to lust filled brown ones staring at him, and her mouth hovered over him as she purred, “Mmm, I want to have your children. I would be honored to have a child with you. Do you want to have a child now, Rane, or do you want to wait? I…ah, oh, ah.”

  He roared with joy and happiness. She leaned forward to his shoulder and bit so hard he knew she drew blood. She writhed on top of him, coming around his cock.

  He flipped her over so she was on all fours. She fought back for the dominant place. He spread her legs as far apart as they would go and smacked her curvaceous, round bottom. Then he leaned down and licked her from clit to pussy, lapping up her juices. “Ah, little red, you taste even better than you smell.”

  She mewled and pushed her pussy back against his face, demanding more. “Suck me harder, Rane. Come on, I need… Oh, just fuck me, fuck me.”

  Rane smacked her arse again and growled against her pussy. “No moving.”

  She shivered as he added a finger to her pussy whilst he sucked her clit. Kirby screamed her orgasm out as he added another finger and gave her clit a gentle nip.

  Moving up her body, Rane blanketed her back, which held her more securely in place. He positioned his dick at her pussy opening and slammed home. She screamed out his name chanting, “Oh, yes! More, harder, Raannee.”

  He moved one of his hands around and played with her plump, jiggling breast. Shutting his eyes, he concentrated on the feel of her satin smooth skin and moved his other hand so he could explore her perfect, lush body. Her back arched. She shivered and writhed, pushing her body back against him.

  He moved one hand back to support her, and she picked her pace up, pushing back on his dick, yelling, “I need to come. Rane, harder, make me come.”

  Kirby taunted him, and started fighting again for dominance. So she’d had enough of Mr. Nice, Gentle Guy. He growled and gave her what she wanted, pulling almost all the way out, then launching into her at the same time as he bit down on her shoulder to hold her in place.

  She screamed in pleasure. “Yes, yes, that’s it, I’m going to… Oh, Rane, I’m going to… Rane.”

  Her pussy muscles squeezed the life out of his cock. He pinched her clit and gently stroked it whilst she came. He roared his own release as he slammed home twice more. She bit his hand when the base of his dick swelled.

  He moved them to the side to snuggle, and she rested her head against his chest and mumbled, “I love my werewolf.”

  He froze, wishing he could see her face. Scared that he had imagined it, hoping this time she said it she wasn’t in heat and meant it. He wrapped his arms tighter around her, debating whether he should ask her if
she meant it.

  Sighing, he leaned down and kissed her neck, whispering, “You okay, little red?”

  “Mmm, soooo good. Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll be ready to go again.”

  He chuckled and kissed her neck again. Noticing her breathing had slowed, he moved himself so he could get a better look at her face, only to see she was fast asleep.

  Chapter 12

  By five PM Kirby was out of heat, and Rane knew that she was pregnant. He tried not to think of that as they drove to the military base. She sat beside him because she wanted to come along and practice controlling her animal element. He glanced at her. The only reason he said yes was because she’d promised not to overdo it. It had also helped that with her being with him he could keep a better eye on her. He really did have to do some work and he had to check on her brothers.

  He frowned as they walked into a too quiet military base. Rane pulled his phone out only to swear as he saw he had missed three messages. Putting the phone up to his ear, he listened.

  Message one: “Rane, you have become a pussy. The training course you have here is for children. There is nothing hard about it. I have taken all of the men out for a challenge, so when you stop getting your dick tickled come find us on the beach.”

  “Fuck, Cullen.”

  The second message was from Faith. She wanted to be the first to congratulate them.

  The third message was from Jamie: “Rane, get your arse down here before Cullen kills all of the humans. Look, I will take over for you, I do like redheads.”

  Rane growled, thinking of many ways to smash Jamie into a thousand pieces. He turned to Kirby and said, “Little red, we need to get to the beach now.”

  She smiled at him, moving her hand up his chest.

  He grabbed it and kissed it. “I really wish we were going to the beach for something nice.” He pulled her along and continued. “Come on, a werewolf named Major Cullen needs to take a break.”

  She frowned but followed him.

  * * * *

  Kirby couldn’t believe what she saw when she walked down the beach. Eleven men were in full gear with huge backpacks on. They were jumping off the highest cliff into the water then swimming back, repeating the process again and again. Her brother Hayden was one of the jumpers. Another six men were buried, and all that she could see were their heads as the wave receded. A large man, werewolf she felt, was kicking sand in their faces and yelling at them. Kirby continued to watch as waves crashed over their heads, keeping them submerged until the waves receded again, and again. Kirby saw red and ran toward the large werewolf. Rane tried to grab her but she was so furious she glared at him straight in the eyes and said, “Stay, freeze.”