“Don’t you fucking bite me, you mongrel.”
“You know, I think my father is right. When the right one lands in your lap you just take it and run.”
“I’m not the right one!”
“See, there is where you’re wrong,” Holding her tight he moved his free hand down her back and cupped her ass. A squeeze, then he slid it inside her jeans, touching her flesh. She stiffened. “Did you know that you left a mark on me also?”
“I didn’t.”
“Yes, you did.” He moved his hand as far down as he could between the cleft of her ass and touched the small entrance.
“Stop that!”
Moving fingers, teasing the small entrance he licked her shoulder and started to swell in his own jeans. “I have this small bite mark on my chest left by you. Do you know what that means?”
“What are you doing?”
Scraping his teeth along the flesh, he felt her shiver in his arms. Moving his hand back up and out of her jeans, he reached around, gave a hard yank to the snap and pulled her zipper down. Back inside his hand went, cupping her sex, playing with her clit. He moaned low, deep into her ear, pressing his face into her hair.
“Let me ask you something, Ms. Know it all. Do you know what a true shifter claiming is all about?”
“What?”
“You heard me.”
“You’re out of your fucking mind, Thorn, you know that?”
“I’m going to take that as a no. So how about I just show you what a true claiming is. Hope these clothes aren’t your favorites.”
“Why?” Now she was starting to breathe harder, faster.
“Because by the time this claim is over, they’re not going to be worth shit.”
Chapter Twelve
Katrina was stumped on what to do. She also didn’t have much of a chance to do anything with the way Thorn held her. Close and tight. His hand down her pants was working on her and the way he scraped his teeth over her shoulder wasn’t helping either. He wasn’t playing fair, that’s for sure and she had no clue how to stop all of this before it got way out of hand.
When he removed his hand from her jeans, she thought maybe, just maybe he was starting to think clearly. That is, until he grabbed the back of her shirt and ripped it down her back. She cried out and he just kept on pulling until he had it off her.
“You dick!” she yelled at him.
“Come on, Katrina, surely you can think of something better to call me by now.”
That hand went back to her jeans, at her hip and he started to pull hard again. The fabric of her jeans was harder than the shirt, but that didn’t stop him from using more force and he ripped them right off her.
“Son of a bitch!” Katrina yelled.
“Getting better,” he said.
A shove and she went face first on the sofa. Looking over her shoulder, she watched him unsnap his own jeans, kick off his shoes and pull his own jeans down his legs.
“What do you think you’re doing?” she asked, eyes widening as she laid there almost naked.
“I already told you what I was going to do.”
“Oh, hell no!” She jumped up and over the sofa with the intention of going right out the door, only he quickly blocked her from that.
“You make me chase you down and it’ll only make this sweeter for me.”
“You’ve lost it,” she snarled and pointed a finger at him. “You seriously have lost it.”
“I did, and now I’m taking it back.” Thorn came at her, slowly, like a predator hunting his prey.
Katrina backed away and had her hands up as well. “Thorn, you’ve got this crazy look in your eyes.”
“I suggest you take the bra and panties off, Katrina, or I will do it for you.” he kept coming at her, walking her right back into the bedroom.
“Are you even listening to yourself?” she huffed, looking around the room desperately for any way she could run from this.
With a deep growl, Thorn closed the distance between them with a small lunge, his hands banging on the wall over her head and his body so close she could feel the heat coming off him. Eyes flashed from red to normal dark and his nose flared as if he might be sniffing her.
Grabbing the front of her bra, Thorn pulled it right off of her, then he reached down, ripped her panties off and had her up off her feet, kissing her deep, the heat of his cock rubbing against her pussy, seeking entrance.
Katrina moaned into the kiss, fisted her hands in his hair and gasped into his mouth when he did enter her in a hard, powerful thrust. He took her, jammed up against the wall, so much harder than what she ever would have thought possible from him.
His mouth left hers and he started to suck on her shoulder and grazed his teeth on the flesh. It sent chills down her spine. Eyes closed, a hiss slipping past her lips, she tried to hold on as best as she could. Right when she thought she couldn’t take much more and was about to come, he stopped and left her body as he pushed them both away from the wall. Before she could protest he had her bending over the side of the bed, legs spread wide and a hard shove landed him right back in.
She cried out as he surged into her, taking her once more with fury and passion. His body slapped against her own and grunts as well as growls came from him. All Katrina could do was hold onto the bed and pray she lived through the orgasm that was fast approaching.
“Thorn, I—I—” She couldn’t get words to come out and didn’t need to. His teeth sank into her shoulder and she screamed at the top of her lungs because of the climax triggered by his bite.
Thorn kept pumping into her, forcing her to ride it out, holding onto her shoulder with his teeth. She was helpless to do anything but go with the flow. It shocked her however that the one orgasm quickly rushed into another before he released her shoulder, reared back and yelled himself, coming inside her.
He stayed like that, breathing hard, still deep inside her for a few moments longer, then when he started to withdraw she just dropped face first on the bed, gulping air into her lungs.
“Now, you’ve been claimed.” Thorn came down over her, almost laying on top of her backside. “Mate.”
After they both caught their breaths, they ended up taking a shower together. Katrina was so shocked at how tender Thorn washed her body. When they finished, he even dried her off with tenderness then put her in one of his shirts. Instead of staying in the bed, she wanted to move to the sofa in front of a fire, which he built up without any complaints from her. She felt a bit chilly and was very worn out. Lying down with a sigh, Thorn joined her, lying on his stomach, between her legs with his head resting on her stomach. Katrina watched the fire, running her hand in his hair as she did. They lay like that forever and she thought that he might have fallen asleep.
“You know, very soon I’ll be able to hear the heartbeat,” he said out of the blue.
“Huh?”
“The baby’s heartbeat. I’ll be able to hear it soon.”
“How?”
He raised his head up and looked her in the eye. “We have great hearing you know. If you were full shifter then I wouldn’t be able to, but since you’re half human I will be able to hear the heartbeat.”
“Well, that isn’t fair.” He smiled and lowered his head back down. “How soon will you be able to hear it?”
“Maybe in a few weeks. How far along are you?”
“Not sure. I’m thinking maybe a month and a half. Haven’t had a chance to see a doctor yet.”
“Well, we’ll take care of that tomorrow. Right now I’m not letting you out of my sight.”
Katrina smiled. “You know I think besides Dannie, you’re the first person to ever really give a shit about me.”
“Just wait until my mother finds out you’re pregnant,” he grunted. “She’s going to smother you like crazy.”
Katrina covered her face and groaned. Thorn laughed. “Can we wait to tell them?”
“Nope. You waited long enough to tell me.” He got up and walked naked to the b
edroom. She slowly sat up, watching him. Thorn got dressed. When he came back, he had a pair of her shorts in hand. “You forgot these.”
“You’re going to make me do this now?”
“Yep, so get your ass up. Call it the last part of your punishment.”
Katrina gave him a dirty look, got up and put the shorts on. When she had her shoes back on, he took her hand and almost dragged her out of the cabin. They walked back to the main house and she was surprised to see Logan and Dannie in the house—that they didn’t leave when Thorn told them to. Maybe they were staying to make sure Thorn didn’t hurt her or something.
He let his parents know and Jada got very excited. She was so happy to hear that Katrina was pregnant that she instantly started mothering her. Asking if she was hungry, how tired, then she turned on Thorn about how he dragged her out of the car. She also wanted to know what he did. Thorn said nothing, and that only seemed to piss his mother off some.
Later that night they all sat down for a large meal. Dannie and Jada got lost in their own talk about baby things. Katrina only smiled and shook her head. Thorn looked like he was being put to death.
When the meal was finished, Katrina remembered the drive she had hidden in her bag. Logan brought her bags into the house when Thorn carried her off, so they were at the front door. She went to them, dug inside and found it.
“Jada,” Katrina called out. “How good are you with breaking codes?”
“Depends on the codes,” Jada answered. “Why?”
Katrina handed her the drive. “I’ve been trying to crack these files for weeks and I’m not getting anywhere. It was my mother’s and if it’s encrypted then that means she has something very important to hide.”
Jada took the drive and nodded. “Sure. Let me just finish cleaning up and I’ll get right to it.”
Ignoring Jada’s protests and Thorn’s dirty looks, Katrina helped with the dishes. Jada disappeared to get to work on the drive and when Katrina went in to see how things were going Jada made a comment about big secrets hidden behind this kind of encryption. Jada also said that it was going to take some time, maybe even a few days to crack the codes but she could do it.
Katrina was with Thorn in the living room a couple of days after she gave the drive to Jada. She and Thorn were having a small argument about what she could do and what he wanted her to do. Seemed that being pregnant with a shifter man’s baby meant you were now made of glass. He pointed out to her that since she was half, and only had a small amount in her, that carrying the child to full term was going to be hard on her, and the birth would be difficult. He didn’t want her to lose the baby and wanted to make sure that she stayed strong enough to give birth. Katrina was just about to tell him where to go and sock him a good one, when Jada came out, laptop in hand.
“You are so not going to believe this,” Jada said.
“What?” Thorn snapped. Jada gave him a dirty look and he quickly backed down. “Sorry.”
“Okay you’ve got to tell me how you do that?” Katrina said.
“It’s a mother thing,” Jada said. “You’ll be able to do it too, when that little one comes. Anyway, Thorn, you’ve got to see this.” She handed the computer to him and he started reading.
“That mother fucker!” Thorn growled as he read.
“Yep, sort of what I suspected,” Jada stated.
“What?” Katrina snapped, taking the computer from him. She also read the file, but didn’t understand Thorn’s answer. “Okay, I’m lost here?”
“William Weaver,” Thorn said, getting up and pacing the room.
“Who’s that?” Katrina asked.
Thorn didn’t answer her, Kane did. “He’s Frances’s father.”
“He’s also the son of a bitch banking that fucking killer,” Thorn growled again.
“Wait a second.” Katrina also stood up. “Are you telling me that the girl who rejected you when you were kids, her father is banking some guy who is killing his own kind?”
“Not his own kind,” Kane said. “But families who are wanting to bring back the old ways of our Gathering.”
“What’s that?” Katrina frowned.
“It is where we go with hopes of mating,” Thorn said. “William does, or didn’t I should say, want his daughter to be forced into a mating. He wanted her to pick or pick himself, I don’t know. I wasn’t good enough for her because of my father.”
“I’m lost again. Are you trying to say that all of this shit started because of your father?” she asked.
“Yeah, Kane wasn’t born,” Jada answered. “He was an experiment.” Kane growled at the statement. “Hey, I don’t like it any more than you do, but she needs to know.”
“I already told her,” Kane said through his teeth.
“All of it or just the parts you wanted to?” Jada turned to Katrina. “Long time ago, there was a family fight I guess you can say. This nut wanted to prove to the world about the existence of werewolfs and all. His daughter ended up marrying one and had a set of twin boys. Her father couldn’t accept it and somehow ended up getting a hold of one of the boys. He experimented on him.”
Katrina gasped, “That’s horrible!”
“Yeah, well things he took from that child he turned around and decided to make his own wolf. He decide the world didn’t need to know, but should be protected. Anyway, the egg split and they let one grow, which is Kane here. Later on they let the other grow to control him, but what they didn’t seem to see is the more they screwed with him the meaner he became.”
“In other words, I wasn’t born the normal way, so I’m a freak to her family,” Kane added. “Not good enough for Weaver’s damn daughter.”
Katrina went up to Thorn and put her arms around his waist, hugging him tight, “Yeah, well he’s good enough for me. Perfect in fact.”
Thorn smiled, wrapped an arm around her and kissed her quickly.
“Told you that the perfect one would come someday,” Kane said to Thorn.
“Still doesn’t change the fact that Weaver is funding this extermination,” Katrina said. “He has to be stopped.”
“The Cabinet needs to be informed,” Kane said. “He’s breaking our laws by doing this and it’s them who need to punish him, not you.” He said, pointing at Thorn. “I know that look in your eyes. You don’t need to start shit with them again
“Who said anything about starting any shit with them?” Thorn said.
“I’ll start it,” Katrina said.
“Oh, hell no!” Thorn snapped. “You’re not starting any shit with that damn family in your condition.”
“Will you stop!” she yelled, shoving him away. “I’m not going to break. Hell, I’m not even showing yet. And I have just as much right to fight by your side as anyone. This dickhead has been paying that creep to kill people and then gives the young guys to my mother. Or have you forgotten that?”
“I haven’t forgotten I just don’t need you to get hurt,” Thorn started to raise his voice now.
“How am I going to get hurt by going with you to confront him?”
“Yeah, I’d like to know the answer to that one?” Jada asked, crossing her arms over her chest, eyes on Thorn.
“Please don’t encourage her,” Thorn said to Jada.
“I’m going with you. End of story. Besides, I want to see this little bitch for myself,” Katrina added.
Thorn opened his mouth, only Kane came up behind him and put one hand on his shoulder. “Son, don’t try to win this one. You’re just going to lose in ways that you really don’t want to lose.”
“Don’t stand there and tell me you’re okay with this shit?” Thorn turned and asked Dannie who was sitting on the sofa with Logan.
Dannie only nodded. “Hey, I never did try to tell her what she could and couldn’t do.”
“I say let her go,” Logan smiled.
“I think it will be good for Frances to see you’re mated to a fine woman.” Kane smiled. “After all, I hear she is still unmated.”
/>
“There, it’s settled.” Katrina smiled at him. “I’m going with you.”
Thorn growled and glared at each one in the room. Kane ended up chuckling. “Get used to it son. You’re never going to win battles like that ever again.”
Thorn left the house and went to arrange for them to head for William Weaver’s home. He also contacted the Cabinet, and they were sending men to join them. Katrina was also looking forward to seeing the woman who almost crushed Thorn’s heart.
When they got to the house, she was surprised to see that they were going to crash a party. Following behind him, the small group walked right up to the front door. Thorn didn’t bother with knocking either. He just turned the knob and walked in as if he owned the place. What kind of party they were having, she didn’t know, but when they all walked into the large ballroom type room, everyone inside stopped talking and turned to them.
Each person in the room was dressed up. Suits, long gowns, jewels sparkling in the lights and wine glasses in hand. Thorn stood out more than any of them. He was back in his dark black jeans and shirt, shit kicker boots, ass-length leather jacket and dark sunglasses on his face. He even had a good two-day beard. Dark and dangerous, just how she liked him.
“What the hell are you doing in my house!” A man broke away from the group. He also was dressed up in a tux, with diamond cuff links at his wrists. He had a finger pointed right at Thorn. “I told you last time, never to come to my property again.”
Thorn didn’t move an inch. When the man kept coming up to him, his hand out as if he might hit him, Thorn grabbed his wrist and twisted it so hard the guy dropped down to his knees, yelling in pain.
“Careful,” Katrina said low so only he could hear. “You start acting like that and I might get all hot and bothered.”
Thorn turned his head to her and she winked at him.
“Release my father!” a woman about the same age as Katrina pushed through the crowd and came up to them.
Untamed Beast Page 14
