Unexpected Mates (Red Moon Shifters Book 1)

by Grace Brennan

  “That’s my girl,” he said in a voice gone gravelly, before he leaned down and sucked one of her nipples into his mouth.

  Parker gasped and arched her back and heat speared through her body. He filled his hands with her breasts as he lavished attention on her nipple and Parker couldn’t stop the high pitched moan that erupted from her throat.

  Her breasts were so damn sensitive now! She almost couldn’t handle the sensations shooting through her body as he switched his attention to her other nipple, rolling the bud around with his tongue before he bit down gently.

  She had to be soaking her panties right now. She could feel the moisture building up and she shifted her thighs together, hoping to ease the ache that was quickly building to an unbearable point.

  Ty let her nipple fall out of his mouth, lifting up and kissing her passionately. Pulling back, he said, “I wanted to do this slow and gentle. I’m still going to do my damnedest to be gentle, but baby, I don’t think I can go slow anymore.”

  Parker smiled at him as she caressed the nape of his neck. “I don’t need slow, Ty. I don’t even need gentle. I just need you.”

  The warm chocolate of Ty’s eyes darkened to black as he nipped at her lips again. “You can’t talk me out of gentle, Parker. But slow is out the window.”

  With that, Ty pulled back and shimmied out of his jeans, revealing his thick length to her eyes. Her insides clenched as she took in the size of him. She knew he’d fit, even though staring at his thick, long length was intimidating. More than that though, she knew the feel of him inside her, knew what he could do, and knew the way he could make her feel when he was rocking into her. She didn’t want to wait any longer. She needed him now.

  Ty came back over her, hooking his fingers into her sleep pants and tugging at them, along with her underwear. Too full of the anxious need to have him inside of her to care about baring more of herself to him, Parker lifted her hips to help him tug the rest of her clothes off.

  He pulled them off, throwing them over the side of the bed without looking, and ran his eyes up her legs to her center. She couldn’t stop her legs from parting slightly, knowing she was glistening from her desire. Her insides clenched more when he licked his lips, looking for all the world like he would start to eat her alive at any moment. He finally pulled his eyes away and leaned up to kiss her again.

  “I feel like I’ve spent the last four months waiting on this moment, Parker,” he said against her lips. “I just wanted you to know that. I wanted you to know that I’ve never wanted a woman like I want you. Never constantly thought about a woman like I think about you. You, us… this is important, sweetheart. It’s big.”

  Parker’s heart stuttered and then melted at that declaration. She’d dreamed of hearing words like that fall from Ty’s lips, but she’d never, ever imagined that it would really happen. It wasn’t a declaration of love, or even a commitment, but it was more than enough for her.

  Ty trailed his hand slowly down from her collarbone, never taking his eyes from hers. His fingers left fire in their wake as he dragged them between her breasts and down to her stomach where his hand paused its descent. Flattening his hand out and cupping her belly, he closed his eyes and she heard his breath catch. He opened his eyes again as he pulled back and looked to where his hand was resting.

  “Parker…” he said, voice hoarse and trailing off. She understood though. She felt the same way when she touched her belly.

  He scooted down the bed, trailing kisses down the same path his hand had taken, pausing to plant a few lingering kisses on her belly. His hand continued on, delving between her legs and sucking the breath from her body.

  His fingers parted her folds, instantly finding her swollen nub, and oh my God, she was more sensitive there, too. Parker couldn’t stop her hips from rising to meet his fingers as her body writhed on the bed. He dragged his fingertip in a slow circle around her clit before applying more pressure. He rubbed hard and fast around her clit as he leaned up and sucked her nipple into his mouth.

  She was going up in flames, destined to be incinerated at any moment. She’d never felt anything like this before in her life, even that night four months ago. Her fingers tangled in the long strands of his hair, and she knew she was pulling on them hard, but she couldn’t stop herself. She needed to come, now. He hadn’t been touching her long, but she already didn’t know how much more she could handle.

  She’d been yearning for his touch again forever, and it was potent. Almost too much, on her sensitive body.

  He dipped down, easing two fingers inside her, causing her to moan, before he pulled them back to her clit. She felt empty after feeling him inside her, even if it was just for a moment, but he doubled his efforts on her nub, and within moments, she was flying apart. She shook and trembled as her body clenched, and she came so hard, she thought she would black out.

  Panting, she slowly drifted back down to find Ty smiling at her with a look of smugness mixed with pain. He hadn’t gotten any relief yet. As relaxed as her body was now, she knew they were just getting started, and the thought instantly had her core heating up again.

  “What happened to going fast?”

  Ty leaned in and sipped at her lips. “I don’t care how badly I need to be inside you, if I don’t make you come first, I’m not much of a man.”

  “How about making me come while you’re inside? I need you inside of me. Now, Tyler.”

  Ty growled low in his throat as he positioned himself over her, nudging her entrance with his thick cock. “Making you come while I’m buried inside you is a given, sweetheart. Every time. But that’s only the main course. I had to give you an appetizer first.”

  Leaning on his forearms, Ty kept his eyes locked with hers as he slowly pushed into her. Her breath caught and her eyes rolled back in her head as she felt herself stretching and giving way for him. God, the feel of him inside her… he was barely in, but she felt it clear to her toes.

  “No, don’t close those pretty eyes. I want to look into them as I have you. I need to see you.”

  Parker slowly opened her eyes and forced them not to close again as she locked gazes with him. His eyes were full black, barely even discernable from his pupil, heated and intense. He pushed into her a little more and then paused, clenching his jaw. It felt amazing, but she needed more, and she needed it now.

  She pushed up a little bit, trying to move things along, but he wouldn’t move. “Tyler…” she groaned.

  Ty cursed through clenched teeth. “Slow, Parker. I’m not going to hurt you.”

  “Giving all of yourself to me is not going to hurt me, Ty. I need you inside me, all the way inside, now. Before my body explodes from want.” She knew she was pleading with him at this point but she didn’t even care. “Now move.”

  Ty muttered “Fuck it,” under his breath before in one smooth move, he pushed all the way inside her.

  He froze once he was seated to the hilt, and Parker couldn’t stop her eyes from sliding closed again for a moment as she took in the feeling of having him fully inside her again. She felt stretched full, almost to the point of uncomfortableness but it felt good. No, good was an understatement. It felt amazing. The feelings racing through her body were indescribable.

  And her heart felt as full as her body.

  She managed to open her eyes and immediately locked eyes with him again, and the emotion in his stole what little breath she had left.

  “You feel so fucking good, Parker. So right. Like home.”

  He began to move after that, slowly pulling out before pushing back in just as slow. The pull and drag was sweet torture as her every nerve ending felt engulfed in flames that each thrust just added more fuel to.

  She wrapped her legs around his waist for leverage and began moving with him, and it wasn’t long before the bed was rocking with the force of his thrusts. The sound of their bodies slapping together was the sweetest noise she’d ever heard, and she dropped one of her legs as he leaned up and wrapped an arm arou
nd the thigh of the other.

  The new position changed the angle of his thrusts and Parker threw her head back as she moaned low and long. “Oh, God, Tyler. That. That right there. Don’t ever stop.”

  “Never,” he gritted out as he increased the speed.

  The headboard was banging against the wall and Parker was louder than she’d ever thought she could be. She hoped like hell that no one was in the rooms around them because she had no intention of quieting down.

  His cock hit that spot inside her again, the one that lit her up inside and made her eyes roll back in her head. She dug her fingers into his back, uncaring of whether she drew blood or not, and urged him on. She was so close. So… close…

  She felt the breath whoosh out of her, and she froze as sensation after sensation crashed through her body. She clenched down on his cock, over and over, and was only vaguely aware of Ty cursing and then freezing. She felt him pulsing inside her, coating her in warmth, and it only pushed her higher.

  She was flying and drowning all at once.

  She floated slowly back down, unaware of how much time had passed. She and Ty were both still panting, their chests heaving in perfect sync, and his head was buried in her neck. She slowly unwrapped her legs from his waist and let them fall, limp, to the bed.

  She was a boneless heap.

  Her fingers were tangled in his hair, and she didn’t even remember putting them there. The last she remembered, her hands were busy using her fingernails to gouge holes into Ty’s back. She slowly untangled her fingers, and then just ran her fingers through his hair, slightly damp with sweat, as their breathing calmed.

  Ty finally pulled back as almost unnoticeable tremors began to run through his arms. So there was a limit to his strength.

  He leaned down and kissed her lips softly, lingering for a long moment, before pulling back to search her eyes.

  “Parker, baby… I have no words for that. That was amazing. And well worth a four-month wait.”

  He pulled gently out of her before collapsing to the bed and pulling her into his arms. Parker snuggled up to him, uncaring that they were slightly sweaty. She stroked his chest as her heart finally settled into its normal rhythm.

  “Almost five.”

  She felt him kiss her head. “Almost five?”

  “It’s been almost five months. Five very long months.”

  He felt his chest vibrate as he chuckled. “Amen to that, sweetheart. But the wait was worth it, and we don’t have to do that again. Ever.”

  Parker smiled as she snuggled in even closer. She’d never get enough of him saying stuff like that, and her heart warmed to think she might never have to.

  Tyler stroked Parker’s fingers with his own as they rested on his chest. He felt drained, emotionally and physically. When he’d come in from tracking the rogue wolf shifter, all he’d wanted to do was lay eyes on Parker again. See for himself that she was alright. He’d never intended to do more than that, but when he came up the stairs and saw her standing there, face freshly scrubbed, looking soft and adorable in her pajamas and clearly getting ready for bed, he hadn’t been able to help himself.

  He hadn’t intended to talk about Cassie or his fears, either, but how could he not tell her what was really going through his mind at that point? She’d looked so dejected and so fucking hurt, and he couldn’t just let her go on thinking she disgusted him, or that he didn’t burn for her with the intensity of a thousand suns.

  He wasn’t even being dramatic with that thought. That’s what it felt like.

  How could she not realize how she looked? How beautiful she was, especially when she smiled and her light colored eyes twinkled at him? How alluring her deliciously curved body was?

  She’d had a lifetime of people looking down on her and making her feel inferior because of her body type. People like Wendy and Hannah. He would skin them alive, let his wolf have them, if they ever made Parker feel like she was less than them again simply because of her body type. He didn’t even care that they were girls or humans. They wouldn’t get away with hurting her again, Wendy especially. She was the worst of the two, and from their interactions at the diner, she was definitely the one out to make Parker feel low about herself.

  And there Parker was, outshining all of them. With her personality, her caring nature, her wit, and yes, that delectable body. One that pregnancy just made even more attractive. She was absolutely irresistible, and it was heady stuff to know that a woman like Parker was carrying his pup.

  It felt disloyal to Cassie’s memory, but he was suddenly fiercely glad for the first time in his life that she’d chosen Jared. If she hadn’t, if she’d chosen Ty, he never would have met Parker. He never would have had what he had now. Sweet, beautiful Parker who didn’t see herself the way the sane half of the world did. And his pup, who he was sure that he already loved more than life itself. He’d do anything for them.

  “What are you thinking about so intently?” Parker asked, raising a hand and smoothing her finger over the slight furrow between his eyes.

  He captured her hand and placed a lingering kiss on her palm. “About how five months can feel like forever long and no time at all, all at once.”

  “For me as well,” she replied softly. “I should have come back sooner, but I didn’t realize I was pregnant until I was almost three months along. And then I had things to take care of before I could. The honest truth, though, is that I was scared. Scared of seeing you again, scared of how you’d react. Just scared in general.”

  Ty angled his head down to look at her, but she wouldn’t meet his gaze. “You were scared to see me again?”

  He felt Parker’s sigh against his chest. “I’m not great with people, even on my best day. I don’t always react like a normal person does. It’s hard to be around others. Which is why I chose a job that I could work from home to do. I was able to be around you easily in March, but who knew if that was a fluke or not? And maybe you wouldn’t want to see me again. Maybe I’d been a one night stand and you never had any real interest, and I’d just been a warm body. Then there I am, showing up pregnant and asking to talk. I had a lot of worries over coming back here again.”

  He frowned. “You were never just a warm body to me, sweetheart. I looked for you every time I went into town after that night. I wanted to see you again. I didn’t even get your last name that night. Hell, if I’d known you were Tiffany’s sister, I would have tracked her down to find you.”

  She laughed wryly. “Me and Tiffany are so different, you couldn’t have realized. I didn’t exactly run in the same circles as my sister, or you. I had such a crush on you back in high school, but you never even knew I existed.”

  Ty felt his eyebrows raise. “You had a crush on me?”

  “Uh, yeah,” she said, her cheeks heating in a blush. “A pretty big one.”

  “I wish I’d known that then.”

  “I never would have told you. I couldn’t even look you in the eye when I passed you in the hall. My social anxiety was off the charts then, even worse than it is now.”

  Ty was quiet for a moment. “It doesn’t matter, I guess. I wasn’t in the best place then, so maybe it was for the best. We’re here together now. That’s what matters.” He slid his hand down to her stomach. “And we have this beautiful life now. It’s okay that you waited to tell me. You could have not told me at all. I’m not upset, Parker. Not in the least.”

  “I’m glad. Did you know you were my first?”

  Ty froze. “You’re first? You were a virgin?” He felt her blush and nod against his chest. “Shit. I didn’t know that. And I just fucked you in a hotel room, like it was any old day.”

  Parker leaned up and kissed him, shaking her head as she pulled back. “It wasn’t just any old day. It was the most amazing night of my life, Ty. I wouldn’t change a single thing about it. And it gave us this precious baby.”

  Ty slid out from under her, placing a tender kiss on her lips before scooting down the bed. He gazed at her belly, r
ubbing his palms over it, before placing kiss on the swell of her belly and resting his cheek against it.

  They laid like that for long moments. Parker smoothed his hair from his face as Ty closed his eyes, just listening and feeling for a moment.

  His pup was so close to him right now. Right under his cheek. He felt his heart swelling with tenderness. He wondered what they were going to have. A strong little male wolf cub, already fierce? Or a little girl pup, just as fierce, but delicate and beautiful like her mother? He honestly didn’t care what sex the baby was, but he suddenly longed to have a little female wolf cub, with the long black curls and light bluish gray eyes of her mother.

  Maybe… Maybe one day he could have that, even if this pup was a boy. Maybe he’d get to keep Parker, forever.

  Wolf, he thought. Tell me that Parker is our mate. Tell me she’s destined to be with us forever.

  Nothing. Nothing but his wolf sighing in the satisfaction of the moment. He was infuriatingly quiet, and now Ty was more sure than ever that he really was broken. Shouldn’t he be telling Ty what to do? Telling him if Parker was theirs or not?

  Deliberately trying to push back the rapidly encroaching frustration that threatened to disrupt the quiet peacefulness of the moment, Ty turned his head and placed another long, lingering kiss on Parker’s belly. He froze as he felt the barest of bumps against his lips. Was that…?

  “Ty?” Parker asked, fingers stilling in his hair. “Did… did you feel that, too?”

  He pulled back, placing his hand where his lips had been. Sensing what he was trying to do, Parker reached down and moved his hand slightly, pushing his palm harder into her belly.

  There it was again. Just the slightest of bumps, barely there, and the most incredible thing he’d ever felt in his life.

  He looked up with a grin. “That was the baby, wasn’t it?”