by Alice Brown
Lucas stayed calm through her rant. He had prided himself on total self-control for a long time now. In a deceptively calm voice, he replied. “Baby, I am in no way manhandling you. But as your mate, it is my job to protect you. And, darling,” he paused and raked his eyes down her body. “It is blatantly obvious that you are not a child. What I see before me is all woman. My woman,” he growled out the last few words as he snatched her up. He reached around and squeezed her ass cheeks. “My woman,” he repeated.
She cocked an eyebrow up at him, giving fair warning he was still skating on thin ice with her. He sighed deeply, loosening his hold just marginally. “Babe, look, I am worried about this situation with McDaniels. I have been a Ranger for several years now. If we get caught in a situation, I don’t want to worry about whether you will listen to me or not. I am going to protect you, babe. You might not agree with all of my decisions. That’s fine, I don’t expect you to. But, I do expect in a crisis, if I tell you to do something, just do it, okay? We can disagree, argue, and have all the makeup sex you want, but later,” he ended with a grin, hoping to salvage the situation.
Meredith looked at him for a long moment. Now that he had softened his tone and had taken the time to explain things a bit, it didn’t sound too unreasonable. Maybe she had overreacted. She had been following Walter’s orders for almost a year now. The difference was Walter always made it sound like he was giving her a choice, even though she knew he didn’t.
“You know, you could have phrased things a bit nicer the first time around.”
“Yeah, well, I plan on keeping you around so you can keep me in line.” He chuckled, and then quickly added, “You know, I am trained to apprehend the bad guys, not sweet-talk them.”
She frowned at him, but didn’t get any further than that. Holding onto her ass cheeks, he pulled their bodies tightly together. He nibbled on her chin, then trailed his tongue straight down her throat. “God, you taste good, baby.” He kissed the bottom of her throat, then laved the spot with his tongue. “At the risk of scaring the hell out of you,” he stopped and pressed his very hard, very large erection into her center, “if the beast doesn’t get released pretty soon, I think I’ll be pulling a Hulk trick and busting out of my britches.”
She grinned as she reached between them, rubbing her hand down over his erection. He felt rock hard and hot; she could feel the heat through his jeans.
“Now, you keep doing that and I am not going to last but a couple of minutes.” He moved away from her, effectively taking himself out of reach as he pulled his shirt over his head. Then, climbing off the bed completely, he gave her the best strip down show she had ever witnessed.
He toed off his boots, then standing in front of her, unbuttoned the top button on his jeans. The head of his dick peeked through the top of his jeans, making Meredith swallow loudly. Then he slowly lowered the zipper, inch by agonizing inch. The weight of his cock forced it to start falling forward when the zipper was barely half way down, and when he reached the end, it was pointing straight at her.
She licked her lips as she watched him slowly roll his jeans down his hips, his huge cock bobbing up and down in front of her. “Like what you see, babe?” he drawled, as he finished kicking off his jeans and leaned over the bed.
He grabbed her legs and pulled, causing her rear to slide across the bed, and her to fall back. He stopped when he had her ass at the very edge of the bed. Kneeling, he took both feet and placed them on the very edge, leaving her wide open for his enjoyment.
Once he had her positioned like he wanted, he glanced up at her and winked. “Just lay back and enjoy, sweets.”
He swiped his tongue from hole to clit, scooping up juices as he went. “Mmm, you taste so good, baby. I could stay here and suck down your juices for hours,” he moaned.
Every time he touched her pussy, every time he talked dirty, she could feel her juices escaping her body. It must be the mate thing, she concluded, because she knew she had never felt anything half as good as this.
And then Lucas got busy and she didn’t have any more time to think about it as her body started quivering like a bowstring pulled tight and ready to release its arrow. He lapped up her juices, sucking them down with relish. Poking his tongue into her extremely tight hole, he then moved upwards to flick her clit with his tongue. He clamped his lips down on the little bundle of nerves as he gently inserted a thick finger into her. The current running through her, the zinging that had her body bowing, had her hovering on a precipitance of something big, something that felt like it would consume her entirely.
“Let go, love. Come for me.” She could no more deny his soft spoken demand than she could resist him as her mate. Immediately, as if she had no control over it whatsoever, her body convulsed, the orgasm so great she began to see spots in front of her.
Lucas gentled his touch, lightly running his tongue through her slit to catch all of her juices. He interspaced soft kisses to the inside of her thighs, and gently caressed her lower abdomen with his free hand, allowing her to come down slowly off her peak.
When the last of the orgasmic tremors had wracked her body, Lucas stood, leaned over and picked her up to move her up onto the bed. He quickly followed her down, caging her in as his weight rested on his elbows on either side of her head. He leaned down and plucked one cherry-red nipple into his mouth, laving the sweet red berry with his tongue, loving her big tits.
His cock felt even larger as it was wedged between them. She tilted her pelvis upwards, wanting him to fill her. Now that he had given her that wonderful orgasm, she suddenly found herself feeling very needy. Very edgy, like her body needed her hole filled up with him inside her.
He placed the head of his cock at her opening and slowly worked his way inside. Thankfully, she was still good and wet from her release, making the way a bit easier. When he reached about halfway, he stopped, allowing her to get used to him. She might not have been a virgin, but she was as tight as one, and he wanted as little pain as possible for her. He leaned forward and kissed her. “Baby, I’m only about halfway in. Stay loosened up, and I’m going to get this over with in one move.” The words had just left his mouth when he reared up and pushed, hard, slamming up inside of her, not stopping until he was seated entirely.
Meredith yelped and froze as she attempted to breathe through the pain. “Shh, it’s okay, love. It’s over now. Your body will adjust in just a moment. Breathe for me, baby, that’s a girl, just breathe and relax. I’m not moving,” he crooned in her ear, pressing kisses down the side of her neck. When he reached the spot he wanted to mark on her, he purposely scraped his teeth across the area. “Hmm, right there is where my mark is going to go, baby.”
Hmm, she thought. I wonder if my nursing skill will come in handy here. She wondered if he knew that biting a vampire during sex would send them into immediate ecstasy. She had learned that little secret while in nursing school. It was called blood sex, and according to what she had learned, most of the time increased one’s normal orgasm, or pleasurable moment as the textbook called it, considerably. Males were known to both thicken and lengthen, and females were known to succumb to an intense, immediate orgasm that could easily last for five minutes or longer. So it was with a clear mind she tilted her head, giving him better access and whispered in his ear, “Go for it, big guy. I am yours to claim.”
His fangs dropped down immediately, and he seemed physically unable to stop himself from sinking them into her skin where her neck met her shoulder. The moment his fangs were embedded into her shoulder, she felt her pussy start pulsing as if it had a life of its own. Her juices gushed out of her, and she quickly wrapped her legs around Lucas, hooking her ankles together over his ass cheeks, as he began to move without warning. One thrust was all it took for her to fall over the cliff of ecstasy. Her entire body shook as she gave in to the orgasm, letting it take her for however long it wanted.
Her orgasm seemed to go on and on forever, and she realized Lucas was still pumping in and out
of her channel like a jackrabbit. Without another thought she tilted her head and bit down on his shoulder. The moment her fangs were embedded in his skin, she felt him thicken considerably, and was amazed. Lucas Calloway had a big dick to begin with. Throw in blood sex and she would guess his dick would be something out of a porn movie. Before she could conjure up another thought, she felt jet after jet of warm liquid as his cum bathed her womb.
Once they were totally spent, and after all tremors had stopped, Lucas carefully pulled his fangs out of her skin and licked the wound closed. He felt her doing the same to him where she had sunk her fangs into his shoulder.
Rolling and falling back on his back, Lucas was amazed at how little energy he had left. The only time he had felt at such a loss of strength was two days ago when he was frying under the sun. He wondered if he was still dealing with lingering effects from the ordeal, or if he would be like this every time they had sex. If this was normal for mates having sex, he was all for it.
“Lucas, is everything okay? You’ve grown very quiet.” He could hear the weariness and unsureness in her voice. As if she had done something wrong. Little did she know, if she had done anything else more, he would have passed the fuck out in the middle of his orgasm.
He rolled over to his side, propping himself up on his elbow. He took his free arm and wrapped it around her waist, pulling her close. “Everything is fine, love. Better than fine. Amazing. You drained me. Just needed a moment to recuperate.” He kissed up the side of her neck, stopping to nibble on her earlobe for a moment.
“Oh, okay. I…I wasn’t sure.” There was still a bit of doubt in her voice, but he was fast making her lose her train of thought as he flicked her earlobe with his tongue, then ran it around the shell.
“Believe me, baby, you were wonderful.” He moved his mouth down her jawline, then slowly sipped from her lips. “Simply the best,” he moaned between kisses. His cock seemed to have a mind of its own as he felt it trying to stir to life. Unfucking-believable! This mate business is going to kill me, but what a way to go!
Chapter Four
Meredith and Lucas spent the next three days in bed, only leaving the bedroom to go to the kitchen for blood or food, and the bathroom for showers. Lucas was beginning to wonder if his dick was going to fall off from all of the activity. He hadn’t been this horny, ever, even as a randy teenager.
After three straight days of sex, both knew the real world needed them to crawl out of their little hideaway and face a few problems. The most pressing of those problems was to find out where Eddie McDaniels was hiding and eliminate him once and for all.
Lucas met Walter in his private office. “Any new leads yet?” he inquired, placing a cup of coffee on his boss’s desk. While it was true he could only drink a couple of sips, he absolutely loved the aroma. Most mornings if he was in the office, he could be found carrying around a piping hot cup of coffee.
“Nothing concrete yet, but I am running a few leads myself, to see if we can catch a break on this case. How’s Meredith?”
“She seems to be doing well. She was going to check in with Doc and see if he needs her for anything. She feels helpless, though, and it bothers her. She feels like she is a sitting duck painted with a target, just waiting for someone to come and attack her.”
“I know. I do have one lead I wanted to talk to you about. I have done some digging into Lorelei Publishing. Some things don’t add up, which are making me even more suspicious of Eddie working there. Such as bills haven’t been paid in two months and no new work has gone out in about the same time. And of course all of this lines up almost directly in time of Eddie showing up. I’d like to go take a look around. Figured I’d go in on horseback. The place looks to be surrounded by woods, which makes me suspicious right there. Care to join me? I was thinking we could take Meredith over to my house. Both Sissy and her sister will be there, and they are both vamps. She wouldn’t be alone. And I’ll post Kade as bodyguard while we are gone. I trust him completely.”
“Hell yeah, I want to ride out with you! And I agree with you about Kade. He is a good guy. No matter what else is going on, Kade can be trusted. So, when do we leave?” Lucas was more than ready to go check out this location. He wanted his mate safe. He wanted her happy. And he damn sure didn’t want her spending the remainder of their long lives looking over her shoulder, always worrying. He had watched her do it for four days now. She, however, had been doing it for almost two years. He didn’t know how she hadn’t gone bat-shit crazy yet.
"Oh, shit, how do we get Meredith out of the building?"
Walter sat back in his chair and sighed. "Well, I was hoping since the two of you have mated, she would trust you enough we wouldn't run into problems," he paused and frowned. “Guess it was just wishful thinking."
Lucas chuckled at his boss, but realized the seriousness of the matter. He ran his hand down his face. "Yeah, I'm going to have my hands full!" Because he had no idea how he was going to accomplish this.
“Well, if we can get her out of here, let’s head out late this afternoon. We’ll sneak Meredith out the back entrance and drop her off about three o'clock, and then we’ll go check out our bad boy and see what he is up to.”
*****
As Lucas predicted, talking Meredith into leaving the confines of the building was a challenge. Knowing he would be late getting in this evening, he took some downtime before lunch and went to hunt down his mate. He found her sitting at the nurse’s station working a crossword puzzle.
“Hey, babe. Thought I’d have a little Meredith for lunch today,” he whispered in her ear.
“I thought you were working all day today,” she responded, accompanied by a low moan when he lightly nipped her ear and then ran his tongue over it to soothe it.
“Well, we had a slight change in plans. I am working, but Walter needs me to accompany him on some recon later this afternoon, so I have the next few hours free. Have any ideas on what I can do with so much free time?” he asked seductively as he wiggled his eyebrows up and down at her.
“Hmm, I might,” she replied. She was still a bit nervous around him, but was coming out of her shell. Picking up his hand, she shyly bit her bottom lip and led him back to her little studio.
Lucas had been hoping she would be free. He planned to make love to her until she couldn’t think straight before springing it on her that she simply was not safe staying there while both he and Walter were gone.
He waited only long enough for her front door to close before taking her in his arms and capturing her lips in a kiss that threatened to scorch their lips. He let her up for air a few minutes later, but kept her firmly in his arms, pressed up tightly against his front. Unfortunately, her brain decided to catch up with her at that moment.
“Wait a moment! Did you say a few minutes ago that both you and Walter had recon? As in neither of you are going to be here?” Lucas could hear her heartbeat increase, and the distinct sharp scent of fear started coming from her.
He sighed deeply, knowing that his well-made plans had just gone up in smoke. “Yes, I did. And no, before you start to hit the panic button, we had no intention of leaving you here unprotected.”
She cocked her eyebrow up at him. At him. A Texas Ranger. “And just what exactly do the two of you have cooked up for me?”
*****
Lucas purposely remained calm as he led a very nervous Meredith out of the elevator and over to the back door. He could feel her hand shaking under his own, but other than just getting her outside and into his car safely so she could see for herself that he was going to take care of her, he simply didn’t know what else to do.
He had argued the point for almost an hour earlier, and then when she had reluctantly given in, spent the next hour making slow sweet love to his woman, in the hopes it would take her mind off the matter.
They had just reached the backdoor when he heard Walter call behind him, “I’ll be right behind you guys in just a moment, I am waiting on Kade to finish up on a
phone call.”
Lucas nodded over his shoulder and opened the backdoor. The door slammed shut a few seconds later, effectively locking them out since it locked automatically. They were about halfway across the parking lot when the problems began.
The first shot hit the gravel directly in front of Meredith’s feet. Lucas automatically wrapped his arms around her middle, bending her over as he went, trying to shield her body as best he could. He drew his gun to return fire, but didn’t see any targets. When the second shot was fired, he realized it was coming from somewhere on top of one of the nearby rooftops.
Three more shots, in rapid fire, went off as he and Meredith took off in a run toward his truck. It would have done no good to try to get back to the office; they would have been sitting ducks while Lucas unlocked the door.
Still, he was happy to see Walter come out of the building in a hurry with his gun drawn, accompanied by a bunch of his coworkers. By the time they reached the truck and were safely inside, the gunfire had stopped.
Lucas knew Meredith was scared. Hell, he was so damn pissed right now he could have punched down a brick wall. Two fucking years she had been running and eight months of it not stepping foot outside. And the first time she did, her attacker lay in wait for her.
As soon as his ass hit the seat he was starting his truck and peeling out of there as if the hounds of hell were on his tail. He watched closely to assure no one was following him, as he sped away from the Ranger headquarters just as fast as he could.
Finally, satisfied that no one was following him, he pulled off into a small park and cut the engine. He hopped out of the truck quickly and went to the front of it. Lifting the hood, he checked over everything. Satisfied all was well, he lowered the hood and came back over to his door.
As he opened the door, he glanced over to his mate. “Baby, I’ll be right back, I need to check this vehicle for any bugs.” Meredith’s first thought had been, why would he be looking for insects under the hood of his car? And then she felt like smacking her own head as he lifted out of the rear a long pole with a mirror attached to one end. He wasn’t talking about insects, he was making sure someone hadn’t planted a bug or tracker on the truck.
