by Crissy Smith
Adam opened then closed his mouth. He wanted to hear the rest.
“Things were different back then. Two male weres didn’t openly date or even think about going public with a relationship with another. And I did need a wife to give the Pack pups.”
“Did you see Logan when you were mated to my mom?” He had to know.
“No.” Christian shook his head fiercely. “Logan left the Pack and joined this one. I told your mother the truth right after we were mated and she seemed okay with it. Even asked if I wanted to see him.” Christian laughed. “Your mother was wonderful. She never made me feel bad about my feelings for Logan. After we were together for over twenty years, she went behind my back and contacted him.”
Adam gasped in astonishment.
“Yes. I was quite shocked myself. She knew that I loved her, but without Logan, I was incomplete.”
“What happened?” Adam’s voice was just above a whisper. He had so many questions. He’d always heard how his mother always put everyone above herself. She had been one of the most unselfish and caring person anyone knew. Stories from his dad and others in the Pack were all he really had of the woman who’d given birth to him, but they had always made him feel closer to her.
“Well…Logan came to visit.” Christian’s eyes clouded as if he was revisiting a memory. Adam found himself scooting closer to him, wanting to share it. “At first I was so mad at her I could have strangled her. But then she calmly told both of us that we either needed to get over one another or admit our feelings out loud and in front of her.” Christian met his gaze. “So we did. And do you know what your mother did?”
Adam shook his head. There was no telling.
“She kissed me.”
Adam only frowned. What could he say to that? “Then?”
Christian laughed deeper than. “Then she asked Logan if he wanted to kiss me.”
“He did.” Adam knew somehow.
His father smiled. “He did. When we finally broke apart, we turned to your mother and her smile was as big as the state.”
“She was happy about it?”
“After we kissed, she walked up just as bold as can be and kissed Logan.”
Adam jolted. “What?”
“It seems after years of me talking about Logan, then getting to know him herself, she had gained feelings for him too.”
It was too much. Adam jumped onto his feet and backed away. “Are you telling me that the three of you…”
His father nodded. “Until she died.”
“I don’t think I want to hear anymore.” Adam put his hand one his stomach and turned away. It wasn’t like he was new to the world of ménage. He’d even participated in a few. But they were talking about his mother here. He turned back to his dad, anger burning in his veins. “Why did you tell me this?”
“Because I wanted you to understand I am not betraying your mother. I loved her very much. And she loved both Logan and me.” Christian stood and stepped closer so he could grasp Adam’s shoulder. “As Alpha of the Pack, I had to hide my feelings for him. I won’t hide them anymore.”
Adam jerked out of his hold. “But that is exactly what you’ve been doing!”
“I wanted to give you time to adjust to your position. You’ve been worried sick about me. I have been going crazy with guilt keeping this from you.”
Hysterical laughter escaped until Adam thought he’d fall over. “I thought you wanted to end your existence!”
“I’m sorry, son. I just didn’t want to see disgust in your eyes when you look at me. I love you and I couldn’t take that,” Christian admitted emotionally. His father’s eyes teared up.
Adam wiped the tears from the corners of his own eyes that the laughter had caused. “I just want you to be happy. I don’t care if it’s with Logan or half the men in the Pack.”
His father embraced him. “Don’t let Logan hear you say that.”
Adam slapped his dad on the back. “You got it.”
Chapter Six
True to her word, Tasha was waiting in his room when Adam went up later. He stepped inside and froze at the sight of Tasha sprawled out in his bed above the covers completely naked.
Her legs were wide open and she was playing with her sweet wet pussy.
“You might want to close the door before someone else walks by,” she teased him then ran her fingers up to her clitoris and rubbed.
She moaned as he slammed the door closed. Adam fought to get his clothes off and tripped when one of his pants legs got wrapped around his ankle.
Tasha laughed and began to play with her breasts. “I’m happy to see you’re in a hurry. I’ve been laying here forever. I had to start without you.”
Now nude, Adam stood and walked to the side of the bed. “And who gave you permission to touch yourself?”
She bit her lip as she pulled on one pert nipple. “I don’t believe I asked. Maybe I should be punished.”
Oh, she doesn’t know what she’s in for now, Adam thought to himself happily. Faster than she could have stopped him, he grabbed both her wrists and slammed them above her head into the soft mattress.
He teased her lips with his. “Bad, bad girl. Now what should I do with you?”
Tasha’s eyes lit with delight as he took control of her. “Whatever you want,” she answered.
“Good answer, but I already was.” Adam kissed one cheek then the other before moving to her forehead, eyes, and chin. She tried to stretch her body up to connect with his but he wouldn’t let her.
“Kiss me,” she demanded.
He tsked. “Maybe I will…later.”
He flipped her onto her stomach so fast her surprised gasp was caught in her throat. He straddled her waist and held her down. “Now, let’s see about this punishment.”
Adam reached down and grabbed her shirt from the floor. He easily tore it in half.
“Hey! What are you doing?” she asked, trying to turn her head to see.
“You’ll see,” he told her as he lifted one of her wrists. She didn’t struggle as he tied it to the frame of the bed. Before he tied the other wrist, he nipped the skin and felt her pulse speed up. “You like this.” He chuckled.
Once her hands were secure, he rubbed his body down hers as he moved to the foot of the bed. His shirt was hanging there, so he picked it up and tore it like he had hers.
Tasha began to move under him, which turned out to help him more. He was able to tie her ankles to the bottom of the frame, using the extra material since she wasn’t tall enough to reach. It left her a little wiggle room but not much.
“Now what are you going to do?” She tossed her hair to the side. “You do have a plan, don’t you?”
Adam smiled as his hand came down to smack her pretty little ass.
She yelped.
“Oh yes, sweetcheeks, I have a plan. How it goes from here is determined by you.” He spanked her other ass cheek.
Tasha hissed and tried to move her legs. “I was just playing about the punishment,” she complained.
“I wasn’t.” Four more times his hand came down.
Tasha moved around but didn’t tell him to stop. He straddled her upper legs and massaged her now pink bottom with his hands. “Those were for talking back to your Alpha.” He pinched her skin. “These next ones are for touching yourself without permission.”
Quickly his hand came down half a dozen more times. She jerked in her restraints and cried out. But Adam was a wolf shifter—he smelt her arousal.
He used two fingers to slide between her folds and spread the juices. “Oh, my naughty, naughty girl. You like that.”
Tasha moaned in response as he continued to tease her.
“Now I can fuck you or…” He pressed his coated fingers against her small opening in the back.
“Oh!” She groaned loudly as he inserted just the tip of one.
“You like that?” he asked, pulling his finger out and slowly pushing it in a little deeper.
“Uh huh.”
/> “Good.” Adam withdrew again but moved up to press his erection against her. “I want to take you there. Hell, baby, I want to take you every way.”
“Mmm hmm,” came her muffled response.
“But I’m not going to.” He moved off her and stood by the bed. “Yet.”
“What?” she yelled and snapped her head around to glare at him.
Adam shrugged as he looked down at her. “I kind of like you in this position. Spread wide open for me.”
She blinked several times at him, her mouth opening and closing. “Adam White, if you don’t get on this bed and fuck me hard, I swear I’ll… I’ll hurt you,” she threatened.
Adam laughed full out and started to stroke his cock. He was wound up so tight with wanting her he was already ready to explode.
“I’m not kidding,” she screamed.
“Now, darling, maybe you should keep you voice down. You wouldn’t want your sister to hear you and come investigate, would you?”
She growled, a low warning from the back of her throat.
“I swear when you untie me I’m going to make you pay!” She had lowered her voice but the threat was still there.
“Don’t make promises you can’t keep, sweetheart,” he said, delighted with her. The thought of being tied down and bound for her pleasure was almost enough to have him exploding. He squeezed the base of his shaft to control his needy cock.
The look on her face was comical. Adam had no doubt she would make good on her statement but he was enjoying himself. “Now I haven’t had dinner so I am just going to…”
He moved from the side of the bed, waited for her cursing to stop, then once again positioned himself between her legs. “Feast.”
He bent his head and ran his tongue over her swollen sex. Tasha shuddered under him. Pushing her cheeks apart, he stabbed his tongue inside, filling his mouth with her cream.
Tasha panted and tried to push into him. His tongue lapping inside her, he used one hand to tease and pinch her clit.
She came with a low, sexy groan but he still didn’t stop. Licking up her climax, he pushed two fingers deep inside her hungry pussy. The walls of her vagina gripped him and his cock jumped wanting to feel her.
Soon, he wouldn’t have a choice but to come inside her or on the bed. But not yet.
He moved his tongue up and circled her puckered hole. He pushed inside, his fingers still working in and out of her pussy, getting them good and wet before he added a finger along with his tongue. He worked her back entrance open.
She shook and pleaded for him to take her. He moved his mouth and lapped around her firm, round ass checks as he used two fingers inside her anus. Oh yes, he was going to take her there.
She was so tight his fingers barely had room to move. He scissored his digits, opening her wider. Adding some spit so there wasn’t any discomfort, he inserted a third finger and she wailed with need.
Not being able hold off any longer, he ripped the ties that bound her ankles from the bed. She scooted her legs up on the bed under her stomach, leaving herself open.
Adam gripped her hips and impaled her with his steel rod in one slow, long slide. Tasha screamed, convulsing around him. He had to clench his teeth as she almost pulled him over the edge. She fell face forward onto the bed.
“I’m not through with you yet,” he told her, slowly pulling back. He could feel the aftershocks in her body as he moved inch by inch. He slammed back in, hard. “No one else will ever be enough for you.”
Withdraw and thrust.
“Me, only me.” He plunged harder and faster. “You’re mine.” He pounded harder. “Mine. Mine. Mine,” he chanted.
“Yes! Adam, yes.” She screamed as she climaxed. He didn’t hold back any longer. He let himself go, each stroke more brutal than the last until he howled his own completion and emptied inside her.
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Tasha listened to the water turn off in the adjoining bathroom and sighed in pleasure. Adam had offered to carry her into the bathroom and bathe her, but she wanted to stay in bed and bask in what had just happened.
It had been the best sex of her life. She rolled onto her side where she could see the bathroom door. It had been more than sex. It had been all-consuming erotic pleasure she was sure had ruined her for all others.
But if what Adam had said during sex was true, she wouldn’t have anyone else. She was his.
Her heart sped up at the thought. She closed her eyes as she thought about belonging to him. Oh, how she wished she could believe that. That he wanted to keep her. In only a few short days, she had fallen head over heels in love with him. Still, how seriously could she take seriously declarations made during sex?
“Penny for your thoughts.”
Surprised, she glanced up and saw him leaning against the doorframe. She smiled and lifted the bed covers, inviting him to join her. He dropped the towel from around his waist, revealing his already hard cock. It was a beautiful sight standing tall and long from his body. She licked her lips, wanting to taste him.
He slid in next to her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. “As much as I think I would enjoy what you’re thinking right now by that gleam in your eye, I want you to tell me what you were thinking about so intently when I came back in the room.”
She propped her chin on her hand and met his eyes. She had never been a coward and she wouldn’t start now. If he didn’t feel the same about her, it was better to learn that now than when they got back in the territory.
“I love you.” She spoke the three most important words of her life and waited.
Adam’s eyebrows lifted in surprise, but didn’t say anything.
Tasha’s heart fell. “Forget I said anything.” She started to move away but his arms tightened around her.
“I will do no such thing.” He growled. “Did you mean it?”
She glanced around the room, trying to think of a way out of what she had said.
He rolled them over until she was under him. “I asked, did you mean it?”
Knowing she had just messed everything up, she tried to blink back the tears that threatened. “I said it, didn’t I?” she snapped.
Adam’s mouth slammed down on hers so hard she felt his teeth cut into her lips. She opened her mouth to tell him but he didn’t give her the chance. He swept his tongue inside, mating with hers.
Tasha wasn’t sure what it meant but just the feel of him on top of her kissing her like the world was ending was enough to arouse her once again. She kicked at the sheets, trying to get them lowered so she could wrap herself around him.
His hands moved to help her then he was sliding inside. No foreplay or pleasantries, he just entered her body and held still.
Finally, he released her mouth to stare into her eyes. “I never believed you would fall in love with me. I thought I would have to fight to convince you.”
Slowly, he withdrew before gliding back inside. “You don’t know how hard it’s been for me not to mate with you.”
Her eyes had started to drift closed but at his declaration they popped open. “What?”
He knelt back, taking her body with him, lifting her hips as he went. This angle made every thrust inside deeper. “I love you, Tasha. I want you in my life forever.”
Tears fell from her eyes, but she didn’t try to wipe them away. Instead, she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pulled herself up. Pure joy flooded her heart. He wanted her. It didn’t matter anymore whether or not she was good enough for him. She wasn’t going to let him go. He was just as much hers as she was his. And she would prove to him and everyone else she could take care of her mate. The man she loved.
She took over the rhythm and rode him gently. “Say it again.”
He caught her chin in his fingers. “I love you.”
Just those words were enough to send her over the edge. A slow, soft climax took over her body as she shuddered in his arms.
Adam gripped her hips and plunged up faster. “I love
you.” he said again, releasing his seed and sealing their fate.
Adam paused outside her father’s door. He could hear the low hushed voices of Christian and Logan inside. They should have heard or sensed him coming but it didn’t sound like they had. At least he wasn’t walking in blindly this time.
He knocked softly on the door, not wanting to wake everyone else in the house. He needed to talk to his dad and it wasn’t something that was going to wait.
After some rustling of clothes and who knew what else, the door opened slightly and Christian stuck his head out.
“Adam,” he said surprised.
“I know it’s late, but I wanted to talk to you if I could.” He didn’t think his father would turn him away.
Christian looked over his shoulder then back at him. “Well, Logan’s here.”
Adam shrugged. He’d meant what he had told his father about the two men’s relationship. Now was the time to prove it. “I don’t mind if he doesn’t. Actually, it would be great if I could share this with him too.”
Christian opened the door wider, clearly not sure but letting his son in.
Logan sat at the foot of the bed. It was obvious the two men had rushed to get dressed. Both of their clothes were very wrinkled and crooked, plus his father had buttoned his shirt wrong. Adam smiled at the other man and took a seat in the only chair in the room. “I’m sorry to disturb you so late, but I wanted to talk to you tonight. We’ll be leaving in the morning.”
Christian sat next to Logan and sighed deeply.
“I hope you don’t feel you have to leave,” Logan told him. Adam noticed as he reached out and grasped Christian’s hand.
Adam shook his head before smiling widely. “It’s time for me to get back to the territory and my job. Luckily, a lot of the members are vacationing, which was why I was able to leave without a lot of fuss, but I want to go home.”
Both men nodded. “That’s probably a good idea,” his father told him.
Now was the time for the big news. Adam took a deep breath. “There’s more.”
Christian visibly tensed.
“I’ve asked Tasha to mate with me and she’s accepted. We want to wait until we get back in our own territory before we go ahead. Which is the main reason we are in a hurry to return.”
