Queen Bitch of the Callowwood Pack (Siren Publishing Classic)

by Siobhan Muir

  “Shall we make our rounds?” he asked in a hoarse voice as he drew her to her feet.

  “Oh, yes, let’s do that.” Julianna glanced at her dinner companions. “Please excuse me.”

  Tawny and the others nodded with smug smiles wreathing their faces. Julianna didn’t care. Jeff smelled too good, and he radiated warmth and strength. She savored the sexual tension, but she couldn’t tell if it belonged to him or her. She felt like she’d explode from the need burning through her, but he continued to be the perfect gentleman as they made the rounds through the pack.

  The eyes of the other candidates’ families echoed disappointment, but they remained gracious in defeat. Julianna caught Brenda watching her with narrowed eyes, but the threat had no teeth. Brenda conducted herself as a high ranking alpha female for all she’d had the little tantrum on the dais, and she responded courteously when they spoke with her.

  “I never got the chance to thank you for coming to my father’s respects party.” Julianna inclined her head to the blonde. “It was kind when you didn’t know me at all.”

  “I didn’t go for you,” Brenda said without emotion. “I went to pay respects to the future Alpha.”

  Julianna nodded. “I assumed as much. Thank you anyway. I hope you find your Mate, Ms. Solaris, and I hope he’s as Alpha as Mr. Lightfoot.”

  Brenda stared at her for a long time, the icy blue eyes calculating and evaluating Julianna’s statement for hidden meanings. Julianna broadcast only honesty, and Brenda cocked her head a little. The woman smelled like surprise and uncertainty.

  “Thank you, Luna. I appreciate that.”

  “You’re welcome. Enjoy the rest of your evening.”

  Julianna beamed and turned with Jeff to move on to another table of guests, her thoughts racing. Brenda isn’t the one who set me up. The blonde might have been disappointed at Jeff’s choice, but her scent hadn’t been choked with seething fury or malice. She’d been a formidable opponent, but she didn’t smell like an enemy. Julianna was more certain than ever.

  When they approached Cameron’s family, the Winthrops broadcasted cold, forbidding formality. Julianna eyed Cameron for any sign of maliciousness, but the younger female only exuded disappointment and responded graciously to the conversation.

  Maybe I was jumping at shadows. But I was so sure she’d set Brenda and me up. Relief followed Julianna’s departure from the Winthrops.

  Julianna hardly remembered what she said to everyone. She smiled and thanked people for their congratulations, but her awareness centered on her Mate and the feeling of his hand on her body. She did notice that Eloise Farkas sat alone with her parents while Tommy Scatterstone conversed with a group of young males on the far side of the garden. It struck her as odd, especially after she’d attended Eloise’s bridal shower.

  “Did you notice that Eloise Farkas sat with her parents tonight?” They’d finished speaking with a group of betas at the table closest to the doors of the house.

  “Yes, she came in with them.” Jeff buried his nose in her hair. “Holy Goddess, you smell wonderful.”

  “Isn’t she engaged to Woody’s brother, Tommy?”

  “She was.”

  “Was? What happened?”

  “Don’t know, and right now, I don’t care.”

  Jeff pulled her into the house faster than propriety demanded, but Julianna laughed with elation. Her heartbeat sped up when she found herself alone with her Mate. He stopped her at the staircase and looked around for observers. When he saw no one, he grabbed her hand and bolted up the stairs, pulling her along with him.

  Chapter Twelve:

  Mark of the Wolf

  “Now it’s my turn, my lovely Lupine.”

  Julianna spun to face Jeff as he kicked the bedroom door closed and reached up to loosen his bow tie with a quick jerk. He branded her with a look of hungry determination as he toed off his shoes. Nothing would hold him back from what he wanted now, not even mating in his father’s house.

  A frisson of excitement shot up Julianna’s back, and she gave him a challenging grin. “Bring it on, wolf-boy!”

  “Oh, I’m so much more than a boy.” He growled as he unhooked his cummerbund and dropped it to the floor. He stalked toward her while he shrugged out of his jacket and tossed it to the bureau. Then he slid behind her, dropping a deceptively gentle kiss on her neck. “And tonight, you’ll learn just how much more I am.”

  He pulled on one end of her gauzy scarf, and it slid off her shoulders with a sensual hiss. Jeff licked the back of her neck and placed another small kiss at her nape. Julianna shivered a little as his hands slid down her arms, pulling the wide straps of her dress with them. The stretchy material glided down off her breasts, exposing them to his hands as he released the straps.

  He growled in appreciation. “No bra.”

  “You think I’d wear a bra in this dress?”

  “I’m not thinking right now. I’m enjoying.” His fingers gently plucked at her nipples. She moaned as sensation zinged straight through her, pinging her brain and pooling between her legs.

  “Holy Mother, you smell good!”

  Jeff moved around until he stood in front of her, never releasing her breasts from his hands.

  “I love how the wolf pendant looks against your naked skin.” Then he bent down and nuzzled the pendant before he took one hard nipple into his mouth, suckling it gently. She gasped and pushed her breast deeper into his mouth.

  Jeff dropped to his knees before her, releasing her nipple with a soft pop and worked the remainder of her dress down over her hips. It slid off easily, revealing the tiny gold Lycra thong covering her trimmed mound. Jeff let out a sound of excited surprise and buried his nose against the little triangle of fabric covering her pussy.

  “Oh, sweet Goddess!” He moaned as he pulled her to him, holding her tightly against his face with his hands on her buttocks. “You wore that just to tease me!”

  Julianna laughed darkly. “Of course, my handsome lover. You think I have no experience in seduction?” She wiggled her hips back and forth within his grip. “Oh, you have no idea what I’ve learned about eroticism in the eighteen years I’ve been gone. I only held back for the last few months because I wanted you bad enough to be patient.”

  Julianna spun in his grip until his face pressed between the cheeks of her ass, and she bent forward with her hands on her knees. He froze in surprise and took a deep breath, inhaling the scent of her arousal.

  “Is this a toy?”

  The heat from his tongue licking the little drop crystal on her thong just above the cleft of her ass stopped her laugh short. She shivered and arched her back, offering her hips to him in wanton abandon.

  Jeff growled, and he gripped her hips tighter to keep her from moving away from his mouth. He slid one hand around her thigh and pushed between her legs, rubbing her clit. Electric pleasure shot through her, and she wailed with surprised delight, demanding more with every breath. Pressure and excitement built until she writhed against his tongue and his hand, reaching for an orgasm.

  Suddenly, he took his hand away and stood up behind her, letting all that lovely tension fade. Julianna released a mewl of disappointment and gave him a puppy-dog look over her shoulder. Jeff only grinned wickedly and dragged her to the bed.

  “Sit.” She stared at him a moment to see if he was serious. He didn’t smile, but his eyes twinkled with humor.

  She sat and looked up at him with a raised eyebrow.

  “Stay,” he said with a half-smirk.

  Julianna growled at him but sat still as he continued to undress.

  He unbuttoned his shirt, releasing his cufflinks with soft clicks, and pulled it off his shoulders slow enough to tease. Julianna’s mouth watered when his chest emerged from his seductive motions. She adored his chest, his hard, full pectoral muscles covered with a light matting of light brown hair. A slender line of hair ran down the center of his cut abdomen over his navel and disappeared down into his slacks, which stretched over
his very hard and long arousal.

  She loved watching his broad, strong shoulders move as he pushed the slacks and his boxer briefs over his hips. Anticipation dragged a moan from her when his large cock emerged from his clothes with an imperative thrust like the exclamation point.

  Despite his beautiful arousal, her eyes slid down to enjoy the deliciously hard muscles of his legs as he rose and stepped out of his discarded pants. Even his feet held beauty, showing strength and power like his hands.

  “Goddess in heaven, you’re so damn beautiful.” Julianna’s pussy creamed with the thought of that lovely male body pressed up against hers.

  Jeff gave her an arrogant smile as he stepped back up to her, his cock and tight balls at throat-height. Julianna inhaled the scent of his arousal like the sweetest perfume. It was a wonderful combination of desert rain and earthy male. She wanted to bury her nose in his balls to sniff it forever.

  “I love it when you do that.” Jeff stared down his body at her, his eyes glowing nearly gold with his desire. “It turns me on like nothing else.” Then he gave her a rueful half-smile. “Hell, just seeing you tonight turned me on. I’ve been hard since Wednesday morning!”

  “I did try to take the edge off, you know.” She inhaled his wonderful scent again.

  “I know.” Jeff lifted her head away from his groin. “That was the only thing that stopped me from finding you and fucking you so hard you couldn’t walk tonight.”

  “We’ll see who fucks whom into submission, won’t we, my Alpha?” she challenged through bared teeth.

  Jeff snarled at her with lust and pushed her onto the bed. He followed her down as he braced himself over her with his arms, his eyes blazing. He pressed his hard cock against her mound, and Julianna hissed with the hot, hard contact. Flexing his hips, he rubbed his hardness against her, and she writhed beneath him with a little whimper of pleasure.

  “Yes, we will, my Luna.”

  He retreated, dropping to his knees between her legs, and widely spread her thighs with his shoulders.

  Shoving his hands under her butt cheeks to lift her, Jeff challenged her with his eyes as he held her open pussy before his mouth. Julianna gasped in surprise when he leaned forward and placed a soft teasing kiss upon her nether lips.

  The sensation of his mustache and goatee rubbing softly against the hairs surrounding her pussy robbed her of all coherence. He tickled her, breathing on her sensitive skin, and she moaned. The sensations began to build up her orgasm, but slowly, teasingly. She wanted to shift her hips back and forth, but his hands held her still while he sampled her.

  Julianna thought she’d go out of her mind, and she whined her frustration at his touches. He chuckled evilly just before the hot warmth of his tongue hit her clit. She shrieked with delirious pleasure and jerked her hips, but he held them fast and taunted her with little flicks of his tongue on her clit and swollen lips.

  “Oh, Goddess, Jeff!” She writhed. “Please!”

  “Please what, Julianna?” he murmured with amusement.

  “Stop torturing me!”

  “I told you it was your turn, my sweet Luna.” He growled as she tried to move again, and his hands tightened. “You got to torture me Wednesday morning. It’s my turn to do the same to you.”

  “Ahhhhhhh!” Julianna wailed when he inserted his tongue between her lips and wiggled it back and forth.

  She bucked her hips against his lips, and he dug in like a man starving for a special delicacy. He fed off her, licking the entrance to her pussy and sucking on her clit with precise pressure. He groaned with approval as she moved faster.

  “Oh, Jeff! Goddess, please, Jeff! Harder!”

  He growled and obliged, shoving his tongue as deep as he could into her hot, wet slit.

  The extra sensation of his warm, slick tongue in her pussy pushed her over the edge into ecstatic bliss. She shrieked with joyous release and cascaded with the falling stars behind her eyes.

  At last, she came down. “Oh my Goddess, Jeff.”

  Julianna panted as she looked down her body at him. He smiled with satisfaction, licking the remaining cream of her release off his lips and chin.

  “I needed you so much.” He grinned as he placed a small kiss on her mound. He rose to his feet and gestured to her to move farther onto the bed.

  “I’m happy to give you that any time you want, Julianna.” He crawled over her body. “All you have to do is ask and I’ll bow to your glorious pussy.”

  She laughed, and he closed his eyes with delight.

  “I love that.”

  “What?”

  Gold overtook all the green in his eyes as his lust increased. “Your laugh. I want to make you laugh like that all the time. No more sorrow, frustration, or pain.”

  “I’ll make you a deal.” He raised an eyebrow. “I’ll laugh more if you smile at me.”

  His grin filled his whole face. “Like this?”

  Julianna nodded and pulled him down for a kiss. It started out soft and sensuous, just lips against lips, until she opened her mouth. When his tongue slid between them, she tasted herself on him. Arousal built inside her again, and she slid her hands over the taut muscles of his back.

  Jeff growled with her touches and pressed his chest against hers. The crinkly chest hair rubbing against her nipples pulled them into hard little points begging for more sensation. He pulled back to trail kisses down her cheeks and neck until he paused, poised over her breasts. Liquid heat slid through her with each brush of his lips, and she moaned when he skimmed his cock and balls down her inner thigh.

  He ground them against her knee for a moment before his lips descended to her aching nipples, and he nipped a swollen little peak. Julianna yipped deliriously with each scrape of his elongated canines against the soft swells of her breast. He tended to one nipple, pulling it into the warm cavern of his mouth. He soothed his bites with his tongue while his hand massaged the other peak, flicking it gently. Waves of ticklish pleasure flooded her senses, and she moaned. When she’d fantasized about making love to Jeff, her imagination hadn’t even come close. Even her dream had been a pale shadow of this.

  Jeff pulled his mouth away from her breast and descended on the other one, his free hand stroking her side with feather-light touches. The combination of sensations made her shiver and filled her pussy with more cream. She whined and squirmed, but he only renewed his attention to her breast, working the nipple with his tongue before gently nipping it.

  “Ah, Julianna, you taste so damn sweet,” he purred against her skin.

  Rising up on his elbows, Jeff pressed his cock against her mound, grinding it back and forth. It felt like heated steel, and Julianna loved its hardness rubbing against her over-sensitized clit. She brought her hands to his hips, sliding them over his buttocks and grabbing his ass. Hard.

  She wanted more.

  Rolling her hips, she tried to capture his hardened flesh between her nether lips and engulf it. He laughed smugly at her and grabbed one of her hands to hold it above her head.

  “Be patient, little Luna,” he warned her huskily as he tried to capture her other hand. “You’ll get my cock when I’m ready to give it to you.”

  “I’m ready now!”

  Julianna pushed against the bed with her free hand and one of her feet. He didn’t have leverage to stop her, and she slammed him onto his back with a grunt of surprise. She pivoted around her secured hand and straddled him, his cock pressed between their bodies.

  Julianna looked down at him with a triumphant grin, and he huffed a surprised laugh.

  “Very impressive, my Luna. But can you keep me here?”

  Before she could reply, he wrapped his arms around hers and sat up. Then he flipped her over onto her back and pinned her to the bed.

  She squirmed fiercely under his weight, wriggling her hips opposite her shoulders. She tried to get out from his grip, but he held her tight. She snarled at him, but he just growled in reply and nipped her shoulder beside her neck a little, using
his weight to hold her down.

  “And where do you think you’re going, little Lupine?”

  “I want to touch you.” She twisted beneath him.

  “Ah, but you had your turn on Wednesday.”

  “That wasn’t enough! I want to touch you more.”

  Jeff chuckled but didn’t let her go. Instead, he grabbed her hands and pushed them into the bedding over her head, pressing his hips against hers. Julianna wiggled her pelvis until his hot, rigid flesh pressed between her nether lips. When she tried to shove him inside, he held himself away from her, the tip of his cock only teasing her.

  She growled in frustration and twisted, trying to buck him off of her, but he dropped more of his weight onto her. He dragged his tongue over the side of her neck, and she keened as pleasure shot through her, making her tremble. He continued to lick her neck and shoulder, nipping gently with his teeth.

  Julianna gasped. Would he bite her? Oh, yes, Goddess, please!

  “Stop teasing me!” She thrust her hips at him. She only succeeded in rubbing his tip against her clit, torturing herself more. “Oh, Goddess, just fuck me!”

  Jeff chuckled darkly against her shoulder and pushed his hips forward, allowing the head of his cock to slide between her lips. Then he stopped.

  Julianna writhed, seeking more of him. She narrowed her eyes. Tease her some more, would he? She’d just see about that.

  “Is that the best you can do, Jeff?” She gave him a feral grin. “Is that all I’ve been waiting for? I’ve held myself away from you all these months, driven myself crazy from wanting you, and that’s all you can give me?”

  His laughter turned into a fierce growl, and he slammed his cock into her with one rough thrust. She shrieked at the intrusion and arched her back to take more of him. He pulled back and thrust again and again and again until it became one constant motion. The sounds of flesh hitting flesh blended with their erotic snarls and groans. Her pleasure built, and the scent of joyful sex filled her nose.

  Julianna bucked against Jeff, and her passion rose like an oncoming storm. Each time his hips met hers, pleasure slammed through her and her body arched. She moaned her excitement and rode him hard, looking up into his golden eyes.