West, Kiera - Shane's Need [Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska 4] (Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever)
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Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska 4
Shane’s Need
Shane has always been the joker of the Dillon clan, but he does it to hide the scars from his childhood. He has never shared what the years away from the pack with his mentally unstable mother were like. As he starts to fall in love with Eve, he finds himself unable to ignore the nightmares that haunt his nights.
Eve has always sensed there is more to Shane than he shows the world. As she tries to find out what lies beneath the surface, she sees the dimensions of his personality and attempts to help him deal with the wounds that resurface. But an argument leaves them at odds, and Eve in the path of danger.
NOTE! You are purchasing Siren's newest serialized imprint, the LoveXtreme Forever Series. This is the fourth book in the Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska collection. These books are not stand alone and must be read in the numbered order. Each book may end on a cliffhanger but usually with a happy-for-now for the heroine and one or more men. The final book contains a happily forever after for the heroine and all her men.
Genre: Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Vampires/Werewolves
Length: 22,407 words
SHANE’S NEED
The Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska 4
Kiera West
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SHANE’S NEED
Copyright © 2011 by Kiera West
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First E-book Publication: September 2011
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SHANE’S NEED
The Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska 4
KIERA WEST
Copyright © 2011
Chapter One
Eve MacMillian lifted her face to the weak winter sun, trying to gain what warmth she could from it. It seemed that lately, she had felt the bite of the Alaskan winter even more. It sunk into her bones and chilled her from the inside out. The wind shifted, something in the scents telling her that someone had joined her.
She knew without turning it was one of the Dillon men. Each of them had their own scent, and she knew this was Shane. There was a tinge of the same scent for all the cousins, but each of them had a particular aroma around him. She was beginning to easily tell them apart. Eve didn’t know if she should be happy or upset about that development.
“I thought I would find you here,” Shane said as he stepped up beside her, the crunch of his boots against the snow so loud to her now. Ethan had told her things like this would start happening. The better sense of smell and hearing took some getting used to that was for sure.
“I just thought I would catch the last of the sun for the day.”
He nodded but said nothing else. There was something about Shane that told her he knew when to push and when to leave her alone.
“What’s going on?”
She sensed his shrug. “Not much. The rents went back home. Not much they can do now. They needed some privacy I think. Both of them were very close to Uncle Mike. The mourning will be longer than they can stick around.”
Still now her heart hurt to think of their most recent loss. The Dillons had all loved their uncle so much, and losing him had been a blow to all of them. Two weeks later, she could still feel their pain. In the short time she had known their Uncle Mike, she had realized how vital he was to their pack. It had been painful to watch, and the empathic twinges she felt had been worse. She was more connected to Noah and Ethan, and their pain had kept her awake at night. Even though she had gone through the sympathy pains, if she hadn’t felt them, she wouldn’t have known any of them were hurting. Not one of them spoke about it. But they did. Very deeply.
She glanced at him now and found that he was looking out over the valley. The weak sunlight cast shadows on his face, which should have made him more intimidating. Instead, it seemed to make his skin glow.
“I don’t know what it’s like to lose a family member.”
Shane looked at her then. It was odd to see him so reserved since he was usually the one to keep everything light. He seemed to weigh every action which was out of character. Of course, losing someone like Mike would definitely turn anyone solemn.
“You’ve never lost anyone close to you?”
Now it was her turn to shrug as she looked back over the valley. The sun was already dimming, and it would soon be dark as midnight.
“My folks were both only children and much older when they had me. I was an only child.”
“That must have been tough.”
She didn’t like talking about her family, or lack of one. It was odd that it would not have made she and her parents closer. They barely spoke even when they were in the same room. “I
really didn’t know anything different. I’m not sure if I could handle another sibling. Although, it would’ve been nice to have someone to take some of the attention.”
She could feel Shane’s intense study of her, and she immediately regretted her words. Shane might play the jokester like all the others, but he also was a keen observer. “Your parents were tough on you?”
She turned around and started walking back to the cabin. She didn’t want to deal with those problems. Part of the reason she had come to Alaska was to escape them, to ignore the issues she had with her parents. It was what her family was good at. Stony silences and long distances. She knew a man like Shane wouldn’t understand. Their family was close, so close that she would think it would be suffocating to someone like her. Usually, though, she only felt comfort.
As usual, Shane fell into step beside her. He was always accommodating to women. She had noticed the way he acted around them from time to time. Didn’t matter what the age, Shane always gave women what they expected of him. And every one of them loved it, she thought with a frown.
“Gonna tell me about your folks?” he asked.
She sighed and tried to hide her irritation. Her parents were famous in the scientific world. People heard their names and instantly asked for an introduction. Her first real date—and unfortunately her first experience in bed—had been a grad student trying to get an internship with her parents. It really didn’t help her ego to know that even if she had wanted to, she couldn’t have helped the weasel.
“What’s there to tell? We don’t get along.”
Even she heard the way her voice thinned out. She despised any type of whining. Intellectually she knew she didn’t need her parents’ approval. Still, being an adult didn’t help with the feelings of inadequacy.
“Okay.”
He said nothing else but took her hand. He forced her to slow her pace, which was odd because she usually had to walk fast to keep up with all the long-legged Dillons. As they crunched through the snow, she waited for him to ask more, to prod the information out of her. But, in true Shane fashion, he didn’t. He waited. Out of all the cousins, he was the most patient.
“You’re not going to ask me for more information?”
He shook his head. “It upset you. I didn’t want to upset you. It’s been a bad few weeks.”
She sighed again feeling the weight of the cousins’ grief. The last few weeks had been a whirlwind of strangeness. She went from practically living like a nun to taking on one lover, then six, then she found out they were wolves. On top of that, apparently, someone wanted them all dead. Or gone, or something.
“Has Noah talked to Vic?”
Shane nodded. “He’s had a few video conferences on the computer with him and a few of the other bears.”
“Anything at all?”
They had reached the front of the house, and he shook his head. “Have no idea what the hell is going on. It has been downright odd how it just went completely silent when Mike was killed. It was like they went too far and decided to pull back.”
“Maybe, but they almost killed Ethan before this.”
“And both of them seem completely over the top. The fire, the attack, now Mike’s murder, all seem over the top.”
A chill that had nothing to do with the cold wind slinked down her spine and filtered into her blood. “This doesn’t have to do with the oil.”
“No, but we can’t ignore it could have in a way. What if someone within the company has gone rogue? There would be a lot of jobs if we allowed them to drill. With the economy the way it is, people can be a bit desperate.”
“But, it wouldn’t do much good. There is very little oil there, just enough to cause people to pay attention.”
He shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. We own the land.”
“Are you two going to stand out there and freeze to death?” Rand asked from the open doorway. She glanced at him and couldn’t hide the smile. He was eating, again. These men never seemed to have enough food…or enough of her. Since first going to bed with Noah, she found herself the sex toy for six very sexually hungry men, and she loved it. It had been something she was missing from her life, and would miss again when she went back to the lower forty-eight.
“It was like you said, Rand. She was out there watching the sun.”
She started walking toward the door, then stopped in her tracks. Settling her hands on her hips, she looked from one brother to the other. “What is that supposed to mean?”
Rand took another bite of apple and smiled, but said nothing. She looked at Shane.
“We all know you like the sun.”
She shrugged as she started trudging through the snow again. If anything, by the time she left Alaska, she would have some world-class muscles in her legs and rear. “I like it, but I actually am more of a winter person. I just make sure I am out there to see it for the few hours it’s around each day.”
Rand stepped back to allow her room to step into the mudroom. When she pulled off her cap, his gaze went to her hair.
“I can see why. I take it you don’t tan.”
She laughed as she unbuttoned and unzipped her jacket. “My skin only burns. It is the bane of my existence.”
Shane snaked his arms around her waist and pulled her back against him. “But, it’s so soft.” She felt his warm breath against her sensitive flesh before he nuzzled against her neck. Her body reacted as it always did when one of them touched her. Heat infused her blood, and an ache to be with them, to feel that connection, started to develop. It was something that was growing by the day. There were times when she was alone that she had to fight the need to hunt one of them up even for just a hug.
Her worries dissolved the moment she felt Shane’s teeth tug on her earlobe. Heat filtered through her blood, chasing away the chill from being outside. Instantly, her nipples tightened, her body already starting to prepare her for their lovemaking.
Rand stepped in front of her. His lips quirked as he looked down at her. His face was so familiar, yet so new to her. Each time they made love together each of the cousins looked a little different, a little more feral.
“I love to touch it. You might not be able to tan, but I’ll take this silky skin any day.”
He cupped her face, brushing his thumbs over her cheeks. She shivered as Shane’s mouth moved over her neck, his teeth grazing her pulse point. Rand bent his head and took her mouth in a hot kiss. His tongue delved in, sliding along hers. Delicious, it was the only thing she could think of. The only word that came to mind. They’d turned her into a glutton.
Rand pulled away before she was ready and she moaned in irritation. Rand chuckled, causing his breath to feather over her skin. “That’s a sound I like to hear.”
“You don’t think we want to build the anticipation, honey?” Shane asked. She could hear the amusement in his voice. Eve wanted to cuss at the same time she wanted to laugh. All of them were really good at teasing, but Shane was an expert. Her pussy lips were already damp with her need for both of them. Her inner muscles clenched at the thought of having both of them inside her. She loved being conquered, taken.
“Just so you know, I’m not going to be that patient.”
Shane’s chuckle slipped down her spine and added another level of heat to the building inferno.
“You’ll be just what we want,” he said.
Eve should have objected to the arrogance in his tone but there was a part of her who loved it, reveled in it.
Rand took her hands in his and tugged her through the door and into the family room. There was a fire roaring, the room warm and inviting. As they made their way to the couch, Rand stripped her shirt off her and then started devouring her mouth again. Shane shimmied her pants and panties down. She was hot, burning up with need for both men. When would it end? Would it end? Eve always thought something would give. That they would grow bored with her, or she would somehow think that this was a bad thing.
Rand fell back onto the couch with a lau
gh, pulling her with him. She smiled at the joyous sound, the way they made her feel alive. She had never felt so alive as the time she had spent with all the Dillon men.
He kissed a path down her neck to her breasts, latching his mouth onto her nipple. She moaned when she felt his teeth graze the tip. The simple touch shot straight to her pussy. Shane kneeled behind her, his mouth moving down her spine. He bit then kissed each of her cheeks then slipped his tongue between her legs. He licked her slit, slowly, leisurely, sliding his tongue into her cunt. She moaned again, unable to keep the sound from escaping.
Eve bit her lip, trying to hold back another moan. Shane wasn’t playing fair of course. In and out he moved his tongue, the slippery movement all but driving her absolutely insane. Rand cupped her face and bent her head to look at him.
“Don’t. Don’t hide your pleasure. Let us know how we make you feel. It adds to our own enjoyment.”
In that next instant, Shane touched her clit with his tongue. She shivered, feeling the first wave of a possible orgasm hit her. But, he pulled away, causing her to growl.
He laughed. “I like that, hun.”
She felt his bare skin against her legs, knew that he had already gotten rid of his clothes. His skin was warm, the scent of him surrounding her. She wanted nothing more than to live that moment forever. When she was like this with any of the Dillons, they made her feel real, safe, whole.
He rose off the couch, and Rand was moving her so he could undo his pants. His cock sprang free, already wet with his pre-cum, waiting for her. Everything in her throbbed, needed, wanted these two men. It was madness, something that she should be better at controlling, but she wasn’t. They touched her, and she melted.
Shane wrapped his hand around his cock and stroked it. The head was engorged and she wanted nothing more than to slip it into her mouth. Rand started working his cock into her. Then, he groaned her name. She closed her eyes, enjoying the full feeling, the connection to him.
“Damn, you’re so fucking wet, baby. You still fit me like a glove.” She started moving as Shane moved closer, holding his cock out for her to taste.