Caden (The Wolves Den Book 4)

by Serena Simpson

  She pasted a smile on her face and went to find Caden.

  “You look beautiful.” A true smile graced her face. She loved the way she looked in this color.

  He lifted his hand and waited. She walked over to him; he was still seated on the bed and placed her hand in his. He tugged just a little, and she sat by him.

  “It feels like forever since I held you in my arms.”

  “Do you want to hold me?” The question was redundant; she acknowledged that. He was already holding her tight, but she needed his words.

  “Yes. Sage, when a madman attacks, there’s no rhyme or reason. If they hadn’t of fixated on you, they would have done it to someone else. This wasn’t your fault.”

  “Logically, I know that. Then I think of the women. I wonder about their children, husbands, parents and I feel guilty. I keep thinking I should have done something to stop this, and I can never let this happen again.”

  “Can you stop the next person from getting hit by a car?”

  “No, but—.”

  “Can you stop the next bank robber or person who chooses to pick up a gun.”

  “No.”

  “And you can’t stop the madman that kills, whether he’s killing woman who look like you, or killing because it gets him off.”

  “I know.” She leaned into his chest breathing in his scent. “You smell like you just got out of the shower.”

  “I used Xander’s shower. When I left him, he was complaining about mated males and brothers.”

  Her lips kicked up, and a laughed came out. She loved the way they irritated each other but would kill for the other.

  “What if I’m like you?”

  “What do you mean?”

  “Let’s say I wanted to kill those that hurt me, Rose and those women and I don’t want to stop until there is nothing left of them.”

  “I’d say that is sexy.”

  He leaned over and kissed her. His tongue stroked against her lips tickling her before she opened her mouth. He pulled her into the kiss with him, taking her to new heights as his tongue played with hers exploring her mouth like he had never kissed her before. The way he sucked on her tongue had her pussy convulsing begging her to speed things up.

  “I love the way you kiss,” she whispered as he began to give her little bites along her throat.

  Her fingers went to the bottom of his T-shirt playing with it until she pushed it up stroking his back. The pads of her fingers played with creating designs that only made sense in her head.

  “Your hands are so soft, sensual, and tantalizing.” His voice was thick with need.

  She backed up from him. Placing her hands on his chest, she pushed him to lie down. He went back easily. She crawled over his body and then hiked up her gown until it was around her waist. She sat on the bulge trying to escape from the joggers he was wearing.

  Leaning over she licked his neck before blowing into his ear. His body shivered making her bolder. Her mouth slid down to his shoulder placing small bites on it as she licked and sucked on him. Her tongue swiped over the same place several times before she nipped at him.

  “Do it.” His voice was deep the desire in it was pulling at her. Not pretending to misunderstand she bent over and bit his shoulder. Her teeth sank in, and she felt his blood seep into her mouth.

  He flipped her biting her on the shoulder. Her body went up in flames as an orgasm took her away. The mutual exchange of blood made their bond tighter. He was never going to get rid of her because her heart belonged to him.

  “Beautiful.” His deep voice stirred her from the peaceful place he sent her to.

  “I think you’re beautiful.” He chuckled and licked the bite he placed on her shoulder.

  “I love you, Sage. I never thought I could feel this way. You make me happy. My heart beats faster when you walk into a room. Your delicious scent makes me hard. I go to sleep thinking about you and when I wake my first thought is about you.” His finger caught the tear that was sliding down her cheek.

  “I love you, Caden. I was so sure I’d be alone forever then you showed up watching me from a distance. That simple move caught my attention, and I began daydreaming of what you were like. You are so much better than anything I could have dreamed up.”

  She lifted her head and caught his lips in a kiss. The way his lips moved against her would continue to surprise her for the rest of her life.

  His hands went to the bottom of her gown and inched it up her body as if he was revealing someone so precious that he needed to take his time. When she was naked, he sat back and looked at her. The wonder and love in his eye made her feel special. This was what she always wanted but thought she’d never find.

  “I can’t believe that you’re my mate. I spent so much time on the battlefield with bombs exploding around me. The average life span of a created Kur’ik is only a few hundred years. I should have died a long time ago, but somehow I survived to meet you.” He buried his head in her neck and breathed her scent in.

  Sage held him close knowing that he revealed himself in those few words. It might take years to understand it all, but that was okay because she was dedicating her life to loving him.

  He laid down and pulled her into his arms. His hands were caressing her.

  “Tell me what happened to your back.”

  “Jim.”

  “What?”

  “He tied me down and beat me.”

  “Tell me I can kill him when I finally come face to face with him again.”

  “We have to turn him over to the cops.”

  “What will they do?”

  “Put him in jail.”

  “Tell me I can kill him.”

  “You can kill him.” It was wrong, she screamed in her head, but that didn’t stop her. He had killed; he would kill again. He would hurt others like he hurt her. If there was no other way to stop him than death, then he would die.

  “The scars will be gone soon.”

  “What?”

  “They are fading.”

  She got out of bed and went to look into the mirror. He was right they were fading, but something else was taking their place. It was too faint to see what it was.

  “I’m free. I always felt those marks on my back kept me in some prison that I couldn’t break out of.” She moved toward to the bed making her breasts sway gently.

  When she got close enough, he took her by the arms and pulled her over him. She kissed down his chest getting to know the feel of it. She licked at his flat nipples even as her hand moved over the space where his belly button should be.

  “I love how you look. I expected there to be subtle differences that scream not human. Each of those differences turn me on because they are a part of who you are.” She bit a nipple and watched his nose flare while his eyes shot green fire.

  His hand came up and cupped one of her breasts before his fingers found a nipple and pinched it hard. A high keening sound left her lips as she begged silently for him to do it again. Her hands roamed over his body touching him until she reached the waist band of his pants.

  “What’s this?” Her voice was thick with desire, and her eyes were cloudy with need.

  “Nothing.” He rolled her over so that he could stand and get rid of his joggers. His thick dick sprung out making her lick her lips.

  She climbed to her knees and moved to the edge of the bed taking his dick in her hands.

  “What are you doing?”

  “Nothing,” she whispered before her tongue came out and licked the head.

  “You don’t have to do that.” There was a tremble in his voice. It fascinated her so much she did it again making sure she twirled her tongue around the head of his dick this time.

  “Sage.”

  “Shh.” She opened wide taking him as deep into her mouth as she could.

  He wanted to close his eyes, but he couldn’t. No one had ever done this to him before. He was a created being, not born. He wasn’t worthy of a female treating him with such desire
and respect as a male. His Sage didn’t care how he was born. All she saw was him, a male worthy of being her mate.

  She sucked on him, and he growled his pleasure. His hand tangled in her beautiful red hair. It was soft and silky tickling the palm of his hand while she kept sucking on him making him harder. He let out a sound that only a male in the midst of pure pleasure could emit. He tried to hold still to just receive but his hips wouldn’t obey, and soon he was thrusting into her mouth. He was careful not to hurt her, but the sounds she made around his dick were ones of pure pleasure. Her hands went to the base of his dick making him want to spill in her mouth. The feeling in his spine was tingling, and he knew that he wouldn’t be able to help himself soon.

  He was wild needing her. Her mouth was so hot and tight around him that he thought he was losing his mind.

  “Sage, you have to stop, or I’ll.” He couldn’t say anything else. He didn’t want her to stop. Could she want to do this, care enough about him to want to taste his seed?

  She sucked harder as if she was desperate for what only he could give her. His hand clutched her hair as fire raced up his spine and his hips punched out going deep into her mouth. He roared his pleasure as spurt after spurt of his seed went deep inside her mouth, and she swallowed humming a sound of contentment.

  His hand stroked her hair until finally, she allowed him to withdraw. She looked up at him, a smile on her face while she licked her lips getting the drops of cum that had escaped.

  She moved over on the bed, and he joined her. Never in his life had he known anything like this. The possessiveness he felt shot up a thousand percent. No one would ever hurt what was his. His mate.

  “I love you,” he whispered again as her body curled up against his.

  Chapter Twenty

  Caden woke to find Sage standing in front of the window. Her head was bowed, and her shoulders were tense. He got out of bed silently and went to stand behind her.

  “What’s wrong?”

  She didn’t hear him move, but he rubbed his mind against hers when he first woke. She was expecting to feel his hands on her and his voice in her ear, which is why she didn’t jump.

  “I have two days left.”

  “Meaning?”

  “The sacrifice it’s supposed to happen in two days. That means Jim must have some type of plan in place to capture me.”

  He slid his arms around her pulling her until her back was snuggled up against his chest. The words of comfort he wanted to give his were stuck in her throat. Jim and whoever was helping wasn’t going to stop until they found a way to get their hands on her.

  “We’ll defeat them, Sage. I’m not saying it will be easy.”

  She leaned her head back on him agreeing with what he was saying. However, it wouldn’t be easy. Jim was so determined that at times she was sure it would be impossible.

  “What should we do until the big showdown?”

  “I never finished showing you around.” He took her hand and led her out to the hallway that ran through his section of the house. He took her down to the next opening.

  “This is my private living room. I can come here and brood without Xander bothering me.”

  “I bet that doesn’t stop him, he simply talks to you in your head.”

  “You officially get Xander.”

  “Where’s the furniture?” There was a straight-back chair sitting in the middle of the room.

  “I didn’t need any.”

  “So far, we have to finish off the bedroom, get furniture and decorate the living room. What are the other rooms for?”

  He led her into the room on the other side of the living room. “This room doesn’t exist.”

  “I’m pretty sure I see it.” It was a bedroom not as big as the master, but she could see a son or a daughter loving the room. “It’s a room for a child.”

  “We’re not allowed to have children.” His voice was soft.

  “You’re on Earth now. You can have children. What about baby Jade?”

  “She’s beautiful and so is Mia. You haven’t met them yet, but they make you want to have a child.”

  “You love them.”

  “Mia lives next door with her parents.” He ignored her statement and took her into the next room that was a bathroom. Then there was one more bedroom and a den.

  “What do you do in here?”

  He placed his hands against a panel and part of the wall moved away. “In here I can monitor the compound, space, and the planet. I have an alarm system for the house as well. I have a control room, and so does Xander.”

  “What good does it do if you’re not here to hear the alarm go off?”

  “I’m synced up to it mentally.”

  She nodded and walked around the small space. Of course, he was synched up to it mentally.

  “Our overhead barrier was down, and we were invaded. They took Mia.”

  Aww, now that made sense to her. Mia wasn’t his daughter, but she and Jade represented something they were told they could never have, children. So, his incredible mind came up with a plan to make sure they were always warned if there was going to be a problem.

  “I love your house.” She walked over to him and placed a kiss on his lips. “Now the question is, when are you going to feed me?”

  “After you take the shower you're thinking about.” He ran his hand over her backside before he gave her a swat. Her laughter trailed behind her as she left the room.

  After her shower, she walked into the kitchen to find Caden and Xander sitting across from each other not saying anything.

  “Am I interfering?”

  “I’m trying to convince Caden to start breakfast, but he refused to budge until you got here.”

  “I have arrived breakfast can commence.” They didn’t deny that they were talking to each other. That made her feel like she was welcome although if she had to bet on it, she’d say they were talking about more than breakfast.

  Caden walked over to her to give her a kiss before he made sure she took a seat.

  “Any request?”

  “Whatever you make is fine with me.”

  “I’ll take French toast and sausage. Do we have any fresh-squeezed orange Juice?” Caden turned to look at his brother.

  “What? You asked.”

  Sage raised her hand, so she could laugh into it. “That sounds pretty good to me.”

  “Be happy Sage is here.”

  Xander raised his hand for a high five, and she relaxed on the chair. This was her new family.

  “Sage, Caden mentioned you thought you only had two days left. What makes you think that?”

  They were talking about her. This is what family did, they had your back.

  “Did you notice the calendar on the wall in the living room in my old apartment?”

  “I did. I also noticed that there was a date circled with a two by it.”

  “The two meant it was his second choice. There is also a date circled next month; it's his third choice. It took me a while to tie the dates together. When I started thinking, I understood that the first date on the calendar was the day I escaped him. Eventually, it all fell into place.”

  “We have two days to stop him.”

  “How do you stop someone when you don’t know what they’re going to do?”

  “You have to be prepared for anything.” Caden brought over her plate before he brought over his brothers and his. “I do have fresh-squeezed orange juice, although some of us shouldn’t get used to it.”

  Xander tossed him a grin then ignored him. “Here’s what you need to know about Caden. When Ven came aboard our ship, there were those who thought his blue eyes gave away our position when fighting. They didn’t want to kill him, just blind him.”

  “Being blind when you have to defend yourself on a ship designed for fighting was a death sentence.” Caden’s eyes were cloudy with the memory.

  “Caden was on his way back to our shared room when he came across Ven trying to hide from them.”


  “He was so small back then. I was amazed by him because I’d never seen a child. We are created grown when our eyes opened we are programmed with everything they couldn’t stuff into our brains during the process of creation. Ven was small just a little taller than my knees.” His lips lifted in a smile.

  “You know that I can see through Caden’s eyes.”

  She nodded.

  “I had never felt so much fury pouring off him. I took a back seat in his head to see what was happening. That’s when I saw Ven, he was bloody. Four male had ganged up on a child. One had his claws drawn while the others were chasing him. They planned to pluck out his eyes.”

  “Protocol stated that I call security. Protocol be damned.”

  “He grabbed the first male and slit his throat like it was an afterthought because he was already reaching for the second male. They tried to taunt him hoping to distract him enough to get away. Caden loves to plan. I watched him fall back like he was going for Ven. When the first tried to edge past him, he caught him by the shin and skinned him alive before he killed him. The other two called security hoping it would save their lives. Security came. Two weeks later, they were both dead. No one knows what happened to them.”

  She understood what Xander was saying, Caden didn’t stop until the job was done. He never let anyone hurt those that were under his protection. She was under his protection but so was Ven and Xander and baby Mia and Jade. When Caden loved, he loved one hundred percent.

  Standing up she took the plates to the sink. “I was thinking about making something special.”

  “I like the sound of that, will it better or as good as breakfast?”

  “Better. I thought maybe we could invite Jessie, Cole, and Mia over for a little.” She was standing at the sink washing the rest of the dishes.

  “They would like that.” Caden was sitting watching her.

  “Where’s the flour?” She was opening cabinets looking for different ingredients. “Tell me you have chocolate chips.”