Aspen clung to his shoulders and went lax beneath him. She'd seen the struggle for power that Skylar and Xavier exhibited when they'd made love in the clearing that night. She'd felt the satisfaction Xavier got from her submission to him, and if that was what he needed how could she not give it to him?
Xavier growled and licked her lips. He moved slow tunneling through her sheath filling and stretching her. She released her breath and moaned when he bottomed out deep inside of her. She looked into his brown eyes and smiled. Finally.
***
Xavier growled as he bottomed out inside of Aspen, her vaginal walls squeezing his dick. It'd been so long since he'd been with a woman. Thought he would never want a woman like this, but his first scent and sight of Aspen changed his mind. She was soft and small where Skylar was rough and large. Not that he was complaining. He wouldn't change his mates for anything in the world.
He pulled his hips back and Aspen moaned her eyes closing. He bent and nipped at the swell of her breast and her eyes fluttered open.
"Keep them open, baby. I want to see you as I fuck you."
He winced at the crude word, because this was more than just a fuck. This was his Aspen. He cupped her face and kissed her gently.
"I want to see your eyes as I make love to you."
Aspen smiled, her claws scoring his shoulders.
"I need you to fuck me Xavier. With us it will always be in love."
Her legs wrapped around his hips and she tightened her hold drawing him back into her welcoming core. She pulled his head down to hers and kissed him, just a small peck. Her grey eyes glowed and her small fangs flashed a moment before she sank her teeth into the flesh between his shoulder and neck. Although she was careful not to break his skin, this snapped any control he had. His hips snapped back and he tunneled himself just as quickly back into her core. Her teeth released him and she cried out. Her nails scored him lightly as he pounded into her over and over.
He wanted this to last forever. Feel the pleasure of her vaginal muscles milking his cock when he tunneled in and out, wanted to hear her moan, and to see her eyes dilate and glow from pleasure but he knew he wouldn't last.
The tingle at the base of his spine signaled the beginning of the end, and he sighed in relief when she keened her body jerking and her vaginal muscles nearly choking his dick as she came. His clarity left him when he found his own completion, their scents mixing set him on edge and he clamped his teeth on the delectable piece of flesh between her shoulder and neck. Blood coated his tongue drawing out his orgasm while he continued to slowly move inside of her.
He licked at the wounds on her throat a sense of dread and rightness settling at once. He'd claimed her, but she'd not done the same. He rolled off of her his mind a mess.
She rolled into him and placed her head on his chest. He didn't dare look at her. He wasn't sure what he'd find there. He felt her move to straddle him and he moved his arm. Her smile blinded him. She bent down and kissed him, her small tongue licking at his lips. He kissed her back grateful that she didn't hate him. The kiss ended and she laid atop him a purr vibrating her body.
"You claimed me."
"I did. I lost control. I should've waited for Skylar, we should have claimed you together, but I'm not sorry."
"Good, because I'm not sorry either."
Aspen slid down and her ass bumped his already hardened shaft.
"Again?" Her smile was breathtaking and her tone unmistakable. She wanted him again. And she proved it by straddling his hips and taking him deep inside of her where he belonged. This time he allowed her to move unhurried as she flexed her hips taking him in and out of her body. Her breasts bounced with her movements and it made his mouth water to take her hardened nipples into his mouth. She braced herself on his chest, her hips keeping to the slow and sensuous rhythm. Their initial frantic joining had slowed their ardor so they could just enjoy each other.
Aspen's rhythm faltered and Xavier placed his hands on her hip to move her.
"Xavier!"
"I've got you, baby, touch yourself."
Aspen braced herself on one hand and her other hand circled her clit. Aspen moaned and fell forward when she came, her vaginal muscles milking his climax from him. Her teeth sank deep and he could feel his soul reaching. One moment he was Xavier, Skylar's mate and the next he belonged to Aspen and Skylar. He'd never said it before, although being mated to Skylar had felt right he'd never felt that completeness that everyone talked about when you mated. Now, as that feeling washed over him he understood. He'd never been complete until this moment.
"Now, I've claimed you," she said after they’d both caught their breaths.
He kissed her and she sank into him. He rolled pinning her beneath him. She smiled up at him, but slowly her smile faded.
"How will we tell Skylar?"
Xavier smirked. "I'll tell him in exactly the same way he told me about you."
"And how was that?"
"Oh, I sniffed it out of him."
Aspen laughed her grey eyes lighting up. He loved putting that look on her face.
"Sniffed it out of him?"
"I could smell you on his skin and I must say I wasn't happy at first."
Her mouth formed into an 'O' and he couldn't help but kiss her pretty mouth.
She rested her head on his shoulder and her hands petted his chest.
"I'm sorry, Xavier. I didn't know."
He rolled pinning her beneath him and captured her face with his hand.
"I'm not. I didn't know what I was missing until I met you and I understand now how Skylar could lose control. From the first moment I met you, I've wanted to strip you bear and taste every inch of your skin."
Her breath hitched at his words and she wrapped her legs around his waist. The scent of her arousal thickened and he growled. It seemed his mate was ready for another round.
A pounding at the door made him growl for an entirely different reason. Xavier bent and kissed Aspen's lips one last time the incessant pounding at the door ruining his once lax mood.
"Don't move," he said when he rolled off the bed and pulled on a pair of sweats. "I've got plans."
Aspen laughed and he went to answer the door. The strawberry-blonde smiled and Xavier growled. He remembered this kid from when he picked up Gunner. Zackary.
"We've got a situation and Skylar is requesting your presence."
Guilt assaulted him, but he beat it down. Aspen was his and now all Sky had to do was to claim her.
"What situation?" He hated the growly way he addressed the male, but couldn't help it. He had other places he wanted to be. Although, if Skylar joined them...
"My, someone is growly this morning. Anyways, there was a body discovered on pride lands. Skylar processed the scene and then requested you. Caleb didn't give me all the particulars, but well I'm just the messenger."
Somehow Xavier doubted that Zackary didn't know entirely too much about most of the situations going on in Pinewood Creek. The boys hazel eyes were full of intelligence, and he couldn't even call him a boy. No, he may be only on the cusp of manhood, but he knew that look. Saw it in the mirror at times. This cougar had seen things that shocked him out of his innocence quite early. Skylar's eyes held the same look, but Xavier had always accounted it to his job.
"I'm coming. Let me-"
"Tell Aspen and then I'll show you where to go. Oh, and tell Aspen that I said hi."
Xavier growled and Zackary raised his brow. Xavier shook his head trying to dispel the need to rip the boy limb from limb. Aspen had confided that Zackary always looked out for the well being of those in the pride. He was Caleb's beta after all. She'd even relayed how he'd almost absently nursed her back to health right after she'd learned she was pregnant. Maybe that was the root of his jealousy, the fact that Zackary was there for a moment in Aspen's life when it should have been Skylar and himself. But, Xavier knew better than anyone that the past couldn't be changed. One just had to look toward the future.
His future laid in bed her eyelashes lying like crescents on her cheeks. He sat on the bed beside her and picked up strands of her hair that lay across the pillow. Her eyelashes fluttered and he stared into her grey eyes. Her smile was beautiful, just like her.
"I've got to go help Skylar."
Her body tensed and she shot into a sitting position.
"Is something wrong with him?"
He cupped her cheek. "Zackary didn't say, just said that Skylar wanted me there."
Her brows drew together. "I don't-"
"Understand? Me neither, but I'll make sure Sky is okay then we'll both come back to you. Deal?"
Aspen nodded. Concern still etched her small smile and he bent to kiss her lips.
"Zackary says hi."
Aspen smiled and he left her. Now to see what his other mate was up to.
Chapter 13
Warmth surrounded him from behind and a familiar scent tickled his nostrils. Xavier. Skylar grabbed Xavier by the hand and pulled him deeper into the woods and away from prying eyes.
"Where are they going?" Daphne's voice rang out.
"Give them some time," Zackary's voice said as they left the group behind.
Skylar turned and took Xavier's mouth, their heights almost identical. Xavier never hesitated but kissed him back. Still he didn't understand what affected him so about this case. It was just another case, but something had unsettled him and his wolf. Everything faded but his kiss with Xavier. It was exactly what he needed. Well, if he were honest, he needed Aspen too, but refused to expose her to such travesty. Xavier sucked his bottom lip into his mouth and nibbled before pulling away.
"Are you going to tell me what's going on?"
Skylar nipped at Xavier's jaw. "I don't know, but something isn't right."
Skylar bent to nip at the mating mark he'd left on Xavier years ago only to pause. Small and fresh, a new mating mark met his eyes. Skylar sniffed his mate and rage and hurt flooded his veins. The smell of their mixed passions only made it worse. He pushed Xavier.
"You mated with her?"
Xavier reached out for him, but Skylar stepped out of his reach.
"It just sort of happened. She's been trying to seduce you for three days. Even asked me how to tempt you-"
"And that doesn't explain how you mated her."
"Look, you of all people should know how hard it is to resist her. I couldn't help myself."
Skylar shook his head and everything snapped into space. He reached out for Xavier and jerked him into his body.
"I know, but something is driving me crazy lately."
Xavier bit gently at the mating mark that he'd recently made fresh and Skylar groaned.
"You need to claim her. We need to claim her together and I think you'll realize that being this close to her and not claiming her is what’s messing with your mind."
Skylar nodded. He needed to get his head in the game.
"This murder shouldn't have happened."
Xavier's brows drew up. "I don't think any murder should happen."
"That's not what I mean. The patterns, the scents, and the victims they all match my last case."
"But didn't you finish your last case."
Skylar ran his hand through his hair. "I executed the guy, a wolf shifter who enjoyed hunting his victims before killing them."
Xavier never said a word. Probably surprised Skylar had shared this much of a case with him. He was notorious for taking a day or three away from everyone and everything after a case so he could forget. This time he was stumped and with the mating heat riding him hard he had to enlist the help of Xavier. He needed information.
"Anyways, just now while checking over the crime scene I scented that same wolf shifter. I remember every detail of his death, so it's just not possible."
Xavier nodded. "What is it that you need from me Skylar?"
"I hate to ask you this, but I need you to find out some information-figure out what's going on."
Xavier clapped him on his shoulder. "Of course."
"How does it feel to be mated to her?"
Xavier smiled. "I didn't realize how incomplete I was until that moment that I claimed her and she claimed me. I can't wait for you to make her yours."
Skylar felt his fangs burst free. He couldn't wait to claim her either.
***
Aspen squealed when something wrapped around her foot and started dragging her down the bed. She'd just dozed off after making love to Xavier her dreams teasing her with what was to come with Skylar. She kicked out only to have her other foot captured in a big hand.
"You're all mine now Aspen."
Aspen stilled at the husky timber of Skylar's voice. Her whole body tensed in anticipation and she looked into his green eyes.
"Skylar?"
He pulled her to the edge of the bed and parted her thighs to bend at her knees.
"Don't move, baby."
Aspen froze and her body trembled at the intense look he gave her. It seemed he'd finally gotten the message.
He bent and nipped at her thighs. Her channel clenched in anticipation when she felt the heat of him get closer and closer to her core. She let her thighs fall open farther, wanting to feel his mouth on her.
"Please, Skylar."
He didn't make her wait and she cried out when his mouth settled over her clit. So good. She couldn't believe this was happening. Months of wanting him, her body so sensitive that she thought she would burst into flames and here he tasted her. Taking her to new heights. His tongue was relentless in its assault of her intimate flesh.
Aspen tunneled her fingers into his tawny hair and moved her hips against his lips. She could feel the climax building and wanted it with every fiber of her being. Skylar's tongue dipped into her pussy and her back arched off the bed as completion rolled over her like a blanket. Everything seized within her, even her vocal cords wouldn't allow for any sound to be emitted as she climaxed.
Aspen panted as she came down from her orgasm, and her heart skipped a few beats when Skylar gathered her in his arms and placed her on the center of the bed. He pulled his shirt over his head and all she could do was stare. She watched as he bared his sculpted chest with is light dusting of hair. Taut abdominal muscles tapered off into lean hips and strong thighs, each bared as he pushed his pants down and freed his erection.
She moaned as her channel clenched in anticipation of him joining her, moving deep inside of her. How had she been reduced to this? Just this morning she'd had sex not once but twice with Xavier and had been well on her way to a third when they were interrupted. Now she couldn't help herself but want--no need--Skylar to take her. Fuck her.
Skylar stroked his heavy shaft and Aspen could remember the taste of him sliding down her throat. Remembered every detail of their first time together.
He stepped forward and Aspen moved back to the end of the bed and reached for him. Her hands skimmed his chest and moved down over his taut abdomen. Even lower her hands ventured until she took him in her hands. Soft and hard at the same time, she thought while she stroked his shaft. He growled and pulled her hands away from him.
"I want to be inside you, baby."
Aspen nodded and then leaned back once more spreading her thighs as far as they could go for him. Skylar was just tall enough that he had to bend at the knees. He stroked her pussy coating his dick in her juices three times before he growled in frustration. Skylar bent and lifted her and placed her in the middle of the bed. Aspen wanted him so badly, her channel clenching as he climbed in the bed to get to her.
She groaned as he aligned their bodies, his shaft bumping her clit again before lodging at her entrance. Her breath stilled waiting for him to fill her, but he stayed poised his green eyes seemingly penetrating her soul. Aspen wiggled her hips and a low moan broke from her throat.
"Skylar, I need you."
He took her mouth capturing her next needy moan and all too soon he pulled back.
"I'm going to claim you Aspen. I have
to make you mine."
Her whole body already burning with need felt as though it would combust with the wave of love and lust that coursed through her veins. Skylar growled low in his throat before tunneling his cock into her channel. Slow but never stopping he bottomed out deep within her and clamped his teeth on the opposite side of Xavier's bite. Anticipation zinged through her as he slowly fucked in and out of her channel, his teeth never breaking skin though her body needed to feel the pleasure/pain of his bite. Her soul reached for his, ached to join with its other half--or third. Its need to feel complete jarred her animal side. A side she kept mostly in check, but she couldn't--not this time.
A strangled feline growl forced its way past her vocal chords as her claws popped free. She tried to keep from scratching Skylar, her human side appalled at hurting him, but tried though she might, Aspen knew she was scratching his shoulders. She moved her hips aggressively hoping he'd catch the hint and fuck her. She needed to feel him pounding into her, claiming her. Needed to feel his bite. She needed it now.
"Skylar! Fuck me."
Skylar released his hold on her neck and Aspen wanted to weep with frustration, but the look in his green eyes stole her breath.
The whole world seemed to stop on its axis as they stared at each other, as his wolf rose to the surface to stare at her cougar. Time stood still.
Chapter 14
Aspen's grey eyes glowed as her cougar rose to the surface. Already the scratches on his back burned in a way that made him want to howl. Her hips that had wiggled furiously had stilled and the tension in room almost stifling. His cock throbbed and his balls ached with needed to move. Needing to claim what was his.
Skylar's wolf whined and for a moment took his control. He bent his head back and howled. Aspen's eyes glowed even more and he clamped down on the place where her shoulder and neck met hard, the taste of her blood coating his tongue. She released a strangled feline growl and her hips snapped upwards taking him deeper inside her.
Astrid Cielo Page 10
