The Shifter’s Hostage

by T. S. Ryder

  “She’s yours,” Clarice whispered. There was a moment of silence, of words spoken only through glances and gestures.

  “I have a daughter,” Thomas said. The words were spoken simply, without inflection as if he were testing them out as if he needed to speak them for her to be real. Another silence followed, one longer than the previous one before he turned to look at her. Everything was the same, yet everything was different. A smile spread across his face, unable to hide itself any longer. This was all he had ever needed, all that he would ever need. This was Christmas, finally.

  “Follow me,” he said, looking her in the eye and holding his hand out to hers.

  He was certain of what he needed to do and why he had cared deeply enough to risk his life for her. She was silent, but he persisted.

  “I love you,” he said. “Follow me.”

  He wouldn’t take no for an answer.

  Chapter Eight: Erotic Reconciliation

  Leading Clarice to a secluded corner of the Grove and absent of any clothes to wear, Thomas found it impossible to hide his arousal from her. She was speechless but knew that he loved her because of how willing he had been to put his life on the line for hers. The two of them kissed, a long and beautiful kiss. Within moments, she too had cast her clothes to the ground.

  The two of them continued to kiss and his hands explored her thighs and ass, greedily. Her lips pushed into his and he descended toward her clit one eager mouthful at a time. His nose pushed into her pubic bone and she stroked his shoulders softly, encouraging him as his tongue graced her clit. Raising two fingers inside of her, he began to push his fingers in and out of her vagina —rubbing his tongue along the left side of her clit, and then the right. He pushed up into her with his fingers and applied pressure toward the front of her body, pulling on her and teasing her with the force of his arm.

  She opened for him, as her legs were spread, and two fingers easily passed in and out of her. With twisting motions, he thrust his fingers in toward the front and then pushed around toward the rear. Clarice smiled as she gripped both hands out to brace herself on the nearest tree trunk. Her hips gyrated into his and her petite body looked like a nymph, being serviced in the woods.

  Thomas’s hands reached up to pinch her nipples and grab a hold of her breast. He luxuriated in her body and brought every bit of attention he possessed to offering himself completely to her. With one hand on her hip, she was at first a bit hesitant against his efforts, but that soon changed when she had experienced enough tongue, and wanted something a bit more substantial in its place. The two kissed before she then knelt down to thank Thomas with some private attention of her own.

  His cock was hot in her mouth and she squeezed his shaft with one hand while working the head of his penis with her lips. The grass was tall around them, the privacy of the grove offered her the chance to let go and truly show Thomas how she felt. The attraction she held for him went deep and it had been such a difficult thing to be apart from him for so long —to lose trust in who he was as a person, but no more.

  With his cock in her mouth and a firm hand wrapped around her hair, she felt a desire inside of her that she knew would be fulfilled. What’s more, she knew she could rely on him and she wanted to show him exactly how valuable that was to her.

  With her hands together in a position of gratitude, she milked his cock, pulling it hungrily into her mouth, in spite of its growing length and girth. Her tongue wrapped around the head of his cock, and she sucked delicately at the head of his dick. He was yielding to her touch, but firm in his own grasp.

  “Sit down,” she commanded, in between mouthfuls of Thomas.

  He leaned back and she kneeled before him, pressing herself forward onto his body. As her mouth rose and fell on his cock, his testicles joined in the dance, swelling with their own desire. Turning around, she sat on his lap and he placed his penis inside of her sweet, wet core.

  “Mmm…” she moaned, bouncing up and down slowly on his cock.

  His spirit began to infuse with hers with penetrative squat. Thomas had been with other women, but his love for them had not gone deep. The intimacy between him and Clarice was something unique to both him and his inner animal.

  With his inner bear seizing control, Thomas lifted her up and began to push her forward onto the ground. His hands gripped her side and he began to thrust his cock inside of her, pounding against her body with each movement.

  “A part of my soul has been waiting for this day. Ever since I first met you,” Thomas declared, grabbing a hold of her shoulders and pushing himself deep inside of Clarice.

  She too was feral in her reception of Thomas and eagerly began bouncing her ass into his body. She was raising her abs up and down in the air while grunting sounds of encouragement to Thomas.

  Clarice's ass began to grow red from the visceral pounding she was receiving, but she didn’t ask him to stop. Instead, she offered herself to him completely.

  Thomas’s soul fused with Clarice’s soul in that moment and the two of them slowed down. The exhausted pair truly began to feel one another for the first time. The two of them were joining together in a dance which was primal and as ancient as all of the humanity, yet totally unique to their current experience. Thomas’s vitality and strength entered Clarice’s body and her compassion and wisdom entered his heart.

  The two of them rolled over, so that he bore down on top of her, plowing her body out from between her legs. He held her to the ground and sweetly kissed her lips. The two savored each other’s breath and looked into each other’s eyes. They realized that this moment was one that they would remember for the rest of their lives. They were scared and for a moment, the passion ceased. The two of them came to the realization that now was a moment when they would be able to connect with each other in an intensely powerful way. Lust had its place, but so did love. He brought himself into her one final time, his hands wrapped tightly around her shoulders, hugging her and looking into her eyes. A silent question formed on his lips and she nodded her consent. An explosion of power and love shot inside of her body. It brought them both to climax, again and again, until they could only hold onto one another, exchanging soft kisses in the shade of the grove.

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  THE END

  The Werewolf's Secret Baby

  Description

  A BBW in danger PLUS a sexy alpha Wolf Shifter who is her ex PLUS a rival alpha and a deadly duel!

  Desmond is the top dog in Louisiana and everyone knows it. When he gets an anonymous call about a group of blood enraged wolves attacking a local cabaret, he and his second in command go to investigate immediately.

  Unfortunately, the place he’s led to happens to be the very place he’d been trying to avoid for years.

  Now he’s being confronted with the love of his life, his ex, Marceline and becomes tangled up in her problems with the rival Louisiana alpha, Ramson.

  Will he be able to get Ramson to back off of his mate? Or will Marceline leave his life once and for all?

  Chapter One

  Marceline’s. There was something off about the cabaret and it wasn’t that it had been ravaged by blood enraged werewolves from the rival North Louisiana pack. There was a draw here, something Desmond could feel deep in both his human soul and his beast spirit. A deep burn that left his stomach in a knot and his heart racing. Unexplained arousal and testosterone surrounded him in a cloud of musk so strong, even his own nose could detect it.

  He’d tried to avoid this place ever since his mate had left him. He sure hadn’t expected the punch in the chest that seeing it, even in its ruined state, caused him. His heart ached at the sight of the ruined stage that he had helped to build...

  With a rough shake of his head, he tried desperately to shake the thoughts away and focus on the task at hand. He tried hard to push away thoughts of her.

  “Desmond,” Arin, his second, called out to him. He didn’t turn around, instead just listened as the other man picked his way past the splintere
d tables and upturned chairs of the strip club.

  “Speak,” he ordered, once his pack mate had reached his side. The rich, iron tang of blood assaulted his nose, serving as a tell-tale sign of the other’s injuries. Not that he was surprised. When Ramson’s rouge wolf tipped him off that some of the rival alpha’s pack were plotting this attack, he’d expected some of his own would have to fight to drive them off.

  “The place is cleared of wolves. Corwin and Larson took a few of the new bloods to track down the ones that ran off before we could finish them,” Arin reported. From the steadiness with which he spoke, his injuries couldn’t have been too bad.

  “How many?”

  “Total? Five. We killed three of them in here, the other two escaped. I just wish we’d have gotten here sooner. There were a few humans still alive when we got here, but...” he trailed off.

  Desmond didn’t need him to finish, though. He understood. They hadn’t survived the bites, either because the damage was too great, or their human souls rejected the chance to harbor their beast spirit and accept the change. Most didn’t survive a werewolf attack. Out of the ones that did, many would have to be killed by their alpha after their first moon if they couldn’t get both halves of themselves, both beast and man, to exist in harmony together.

  That’s what he suspected had happened to these wolves, though why Ramson hadn’t put them down before they attacked, he didn’t know.

  “Did you happen to find any wolf bodies that didn’t belong?” he asked. The question would have sounded offhand, had his voice not cracked with tension and fear. Arin understood the implications behind his question. The shaggy-haired man rested a hand against his alpha’s shoulder.

  “We all looked out for her. We didn’t find her. She must not have been here when they attacked.”

  Desmond hadn’t realized he’d been holding his breath until it whooshed out of him in a great sigh of relief. The tension that had coiled his muscles and squared his shoulders released marginally.

  As if he knew the alpha wouldn’t want to talk further on the matter, Arin immediately continued on with his report.

  “We’ve also called Perrine. She’s going to bring a few supplies from her shop to get this place cleaned up.”

  “Good. I’ll wait here for her. Join Larson and Corwin. If you can, bring one of the blood enraged wolves back to me alive. It is best to make sure they just couldn’t handle the change and that there isn’t something bigger going on here,” Desmond ordered.

  Arin bowed his head respectfully, then turned to sprint out the broken back door. Before he’d made it ten steps up the alley, his skin rippled, his head elongated and fur sprouted in patches across his skin.

  Desmond turned away only when a fully shifted, smoke colored wolf let out a low, drawn out howl and turned the corner onto the main street, tongue lolling as he padded away. Only Arin could get away with running through the middle of town as a wolf without getting an earful from him.

  He turned away from the back door with a shake of his head, itching to run with his pack mates, but the strange pull to something in the cabaret kept him there.

  Chapter Two

  Within moments of Arin leaving, the sound of a pistol being cocked behind him alerted him to the presence of another living creature seconds before an achingly familiar scent hit his nose. The pull that kept him so enthralled, attached and unable to forget, swelled overpoweringly until his entire ribcage seemed to vibrate with the sensation. She was here. Marceline.

  “You take one step and I fire. These bullets are silver, you hear?” a distinct, creole accented voice of a female called out to him. His beast surged through him in response to the threat to the point it was hard to contain it.

  “Turn around, right now. Go on.”

  Desmond did as he was told though his skin had begun to ripple and his eyes shone with the silver of his wolf instead of the blue they should have been.

  “I didn’t think you’d forget me so much that you wouldn’t recognize me from behind,” he said, voice low and gravely. As he turned around, his eyes immediately sought out the curvy form of his ex, and his heart all but shattered in his chest at the pain and anger that raged rampant in her dark eyes.

  The pull he’d tried so desperately to ignore for years drew him to her and his entire frame flooded with the heat of desire. One look at her dark, satin skin and thick, exposed thighs and his beast spirit went from challenging to aroused. Sparks of longing shot straight to his groin as his mind flooded with the images of passionate nights of making love to the very woman he stared at.

  Mine.

  Only, she wasn’t his. Not anymore. She’d made that very clear when she stormed from his house, straight out of his life. A full body shudder rolled down his spine and he clenched his eyes shut with a nearly imperceptible whine.

  “I’m not taking your crap, Desmond. You’re redhanded in my territory. I knew you were petty and vengeful, but I didn’t think even you would destroy everything I had left to care about!” she snapped, as she lowered her gun at the sight of him and the faintest traces of grief and longing colored her dark eyes. Her dark, beautiful eyes. They still captivated his very soul even after all this time.

  She felt it, too. He could see it in the way her hostile stance softened. The pull. Imprinting. He’d thought it’d only been legend and myth, but that was before they’d met. Everything between them was fiery and rough, hot and heavy, full of a passion he hadn’t been able to find with anyone else he’d tried to mate. None of them were as good as her.

  “I didn’t do this. Use your nose, sweetheart,” he whispered.

  Desmond had to force himself not to move as she moved closer to him and further into the destroyed cabaret. The way her thighs trembled with each step she took was maddening, not to mention her breasts. He wanted to bury his face in them. They were just as perfect as he remembered. She was just as perfect as he remembered.

  “You lost your right to call me that, Papa Dog.” Marceline snapped. The causticness of her previous words had faded away significantly, instead being replaced with sadness. “But, you’re right at least. They smell like Ramson and his wolves.”

  The other alpha’s name hit him like a freight train.

  “You’ve been talking to him?” he growled out, stalking forward with a furious gaze until he stood mere inches from her. The very scent that rolled from her body, spicy, dominant and all too feminine, only fueled his anger that she even knew the other alpha’s name. She was his! She belonged to him and him alone.

  A lesser wolf would have backed down from the display of aggression, but she held her ground and met his gaze evenly, not as a lesser, but as an equal. Just serving another reminder of how much he had loved her once. How much he still loved her.

  “I belong to no pack. Ramson agreed to leave me alone so long as I provided his wolves with... entertainers here. I don’t give up my freedom for anyone anymore and I wasn’t about to ask for your pack to protect me after I went rogue.”

  A low growl rose in Desmond’s throat. She belonged to him no matter what she claimed about her freedom or rogue status. Neither he nor his beast spirit wanted to let her go. And yet, that was the exact attitude and mindset that had driven her away.

  Sighing, he deflated his dominant stance and bowed his head, a look of pain scrunching his face together.

  “Desmond. I’m happy this way, can’t you see?” Marceline asked. She was so close, he could feel her breath brush against his skin as she spoke and he had to swallow hard to keep himself from pressing their lips together. As it was, he rested a possessive hand against her hip, the touch electrifying every nerve ending in his body.

  “We were happy together, too,” he reminded softly.

  “We were, I’ll give you that, but Desmond,” she shook her head and rested her hand on top of his. “I couldn’t just lay down and be your bitch. I couldn’t give up my own free will to be the mate of an alpha. I can see the feral look in your eyes and smell your arous
al, even now, and I know you still think of me as belonging to you. But I am my own person and I can’t be that as your mate.”

  Desmond had to swallow hard to quell the whine that tried to rise in his throat. “Marceline, please... I know I was stifling and that the pack treated you as something fragile and weak instead of as an equal. But sweetheart, we could have fixed it! We can still fix it!”

  “Desmond...” Marceline sighed, pain flashing in her dark eyes as she slowly pushed his hand away. “You still haven’t changed... I don’t think you can change and that isn’t a bad thing. If you can seriously change the entire pack’s mind on me being your equal, I might consider, but do you truly believe you can do that?” she asked. Her eyes met his, searchingly as if she thought all the answers might be revealed in his gaze. Apparently she didn’t find what she was looking for though because she sighed and stepped away from him.

  “Marceline, I—“

  “Get out of my cabaret. I’ve got another alpha to deal with and he isn’t going to be happy that you’ve been here.”

  Desmond hesitated. His pain was hardening over into anger at the thought that she’d rather deal with whatever had angered Ramson enough to destroy her home, rather than deal with him. Shuddering, he towered over her, his eyes blazing with a pain-fueled anger and a bestial snarl resonating through his chest. He’d half a mind to put her in her place for trying to get rid of him.

  “Don’t be stupid. If Ramson did this to your cabaret, what do you think he’s going to do to you when he finds you?”

  Marceline’s dark eyes stared at him evenly, unperturbed by the alpha. She reached out for him, gently stroked his cheek with the back of her hand. He all but melted under her touch and the pull that drew him to her thrummed achingly in both his groin and his heart until his head swam with emotion.