“Nope. She sounded relieved. Happy, even.”

  That news made me happy. “Good.” A loon sounded out on the lake, the call answered by another. “She should come up this weekend and we’ll celebrate.”

  She giggled. “Exactly what I suggested, but she can’t. She has to study for a big test. But we can celebrate without her.”

  “You with Bear and me with Wolfe?”

  “Speaking of--did you two make up?”

  Make up? I didn’t remind Val that in order to make up you had to first be in a relationship, and then have a fight to make up from. Val knew the situation between me and Wolfe because, hello, best friends told each other everything. But she was so wrapped up in Bear that I had a feeling she didn’t really grasp how I felt.

  “I don’t know how to answer that,” I finally said into the darkness. I hadn’t turned on any of the house lights yet, so there wasn’t even a light behind us inside. “We’re going to talk when he comes back.”

  “That’s something, I guess,” Val murmured thoughtfully. “Are you hungry yet? I can fix us something light.”

  “Cereal?” We both laughed. Cereal was my go-to whenever I was upset or sad about something. There was something about it that comforted me, and I’d turned to it since I was a child.

  Val released a loud breath and scooted out of her chair. “What about toast and poached eggs?”

  “I could go for that. Want any help?”

  “Got it covered.”

  As soon as Val stepped inside the house she flipped on a light, and suddenly the porch was illuminated. I giggled when Demo raised his head and glared back at me as if to complain. Daisy didn’t move. I grabbed my phone and decided to phone Steffy, and hear for myself how her breakup with Jimmy had gone. Breakups weren’t easy.

  She answered the phone sounding upbeat and slightly breathless. “Hey, bestie! Val must have filled you in on me and Jimmy.”

  I smiled. “She did.” What was she doing? “You’re not upset over it?”

  “Why should I be?” she puffed out. “I was the one who finally called it quits.” The girl was positively out of breath. “I just got done working out.”

  Oh, that explained it. “For a minute there I thought you were having sex.” We both laughed. “How did Jimmy take it?”

  “Well, considering I broke up with him in a text—”

  “Oh, God, Steffy you didn’t!” Val hadn’t told me that. “That’s something a man would do.”

  “I don’t care, El. Besides, the man prefers text over calling. He’d just pushed my last button, and I lost it. And it felt good, too.” She took a deep breath. “It’s a relief. I actually feel free. Isn’t that odd?”

  “Not at all, honey.” I understood exactly what she meant. “We both got stuck with controlling, narcissistic assholes, and they sucked the life right out of us. Let’s just hope we don’t have another Cory on our hands.” I’d said it as a joke, but deep down I couldn’t help but worry.

  “Not Jimmy,” she was quick to say with total conviction. “I’m pretty sure he was cheating on me with his office assistant.”

  Steffy didn’t sound upset over the possibility, and that told me a lot. “Well, I’m happy that you finally kicked the habit, honey.”

  “Dinner’s ready!”

  “Listen, Val just cooked dinner, so it’s goodbye for now. Come up the first weekend that you can.”

  We hung up and I went in to eat. I loved Val’s poached eggs. They were always perfect. She’d set the table, and when I saw the food, I was suddenly hungry. It was late for dinner. “Nothing from Bear?”

  The corner of her lips turned down as she shook her head. “I’m going to kill him.”

  When she realized what she’d, said her expression turned regretful. I smiled at the apology in her eyes and focused on eating. God, why wasn’t someone letting us know what was going on? Since Val and Bear had been communicating, I hadn’t wanted to bother Wolfe. I couldn’t anyways--I didn’t have his number. “Maybe no news is good news,” I said after a while, not really believing it.

  We finished dinner. I insisted on cleaning up, and then got a shower and went to my bedroom. I lay on my bed, determined to wait up for news, or for Wolfe to get there. But as one hour turned into another, my eyes grew heavy and I felt myself drift off.

  Chapter 40

  Wolfe

  I stared down at Ella with indecision. She’d fallen asleep on top of the covers and was curled up into a tight ball, hugging her pillow as if it were her lifeline. The slight crease between her brows revealed that she wasn’t having a peaceful sleep. I knew that I should leave and come back in the morning, but I needed her, and if my suspicions were right, she needed me, too.

  I stripped off my clothes, letting my eyes eat up her soft curves in the silky nightgown she was wearing. The shortness of it revealed her thong. My dick jerked at all the scrumptious, exposed flesh. The curve of her ass, the long legs, the tits swelling over the low top. The woman was a goddess, and I was ready to worship her. But I wasn’t here for that.

  I was exhausted. Mentally and physically. I’d already stopped at my house and grabbed a shower, but now I wanted to sleep. I wanted to curl up around my woman and feel her soft goodness. I picked Ella up slowly and carefully, lay her back down so that her head was upon the pillow, and then pulled the covers down beneath her body. She stirred slightly but settled once I pulled the covers back over her.

  I went to the other side of the bed and climbed in. As if we were magnets, she was drawn to me. My arm automatically curled around her to hold her close. I kissed the top of her head after she placed it on my chest and snuggled in, her slow, warm breaths against my skin. Finally settled, I let out a long exhale and relaxed fully for the first time that night. I closed my eyes and hoped like hell that daylight brought us good news.

  Ella

  Something big, hard, hot, and naked was wrapped around my backside. A muscular arm just beneath my breasts kept me from moving away from the inferno blanketing me. I roused slowly, slightly disoriented, surprised at how deeply I’d slept once I’d let myself go. I knew instinctively that it was the morning after, just like I knew that it was Wolfe behind me. How had he ended up in my bed without my knowing?

  We were spooning. My short nightgown had ridden up to my waist, which was how I knew that he was naked. His cock was nestled against my ass, so hard and hot I clenched my thighs at the sudden ache there. Was he still asleep? It was hard to tell from his breathing. But when his hand snaked beneath my nightgown and cupped my breast, I got my answer.

  I caught my breath when his thumb raked across my nipple, and I quickly squirmed around to face him with something else on my mind. “Tyler?”

  “Still alive, but critical.” He pulled his eyes from mine and rolled onto his back, a heavy breath escaping him. “He died three times on the operating table, babe. Three fucking times we almost lost him.”

  I shivered at the savage emotion in his raspy tone.

  “He still might die.”

  I pulled myself up against him and cupped the side of his face, forcing his eyes back to mine. “No! Don’t say that. He’s still alive and he’s going to stay alive. Tyler is young and strong and, and…” Tears stung my eyes as emotion prevented me from finishing. I lay my head upon Wolfe’s hard chest and sniffed. “I’ve never been so close to something like what happened yesterday.”

  Wolfe’s arm tightened around me protectively. I felt safe with him. Even when he was being all growly and mean and saying hurtful things without thinking, I knew that he would never hurt me. Not on purpose. And look how fast he’d taken control to protect me from Cory.

  Cory!

  “Wolfe—”

  He moved rapid fire fast, and I found myself being flipped over onto my back with him on top of me.

  “We need to talk, but not now,” he growled. “I can’t go another minute without being inside you, Ella. I need to fuck out all the bad.”

  Wolfe’s kiss was brutal, full of the intense and destructive emotions that were clogging his mind. I could feel the tension in his body, and I ran my hands down his back, hoping to reduce some of his stress. To show him that he could let go and be himself with me. That I would hold his secrets gladly. I opened my mouth to his seeking tongue, and once his connected with mine we turned into animals trying to consume one another. The passion between us was raw and real, and we were expressing it in the most fundamental way.

  I arched my body beneath Wolfe’s rough caresses, pleasure exploding through me when his hands trailed a burning path over the peak of my breasts down to my pussy. He impatiently tugged the thin silk from my body and tossed it aside. Next his hand curled around my thong, and with a grunt it, too, was torn from my body. I gasped and raised my hips when his fingers teased my sensitive flesh.

  “Wolfe, please,” I whimpered, throwing my head back against the bed. “Don’t tease me!” He knew just what to do to drive me insane with arousal.

  “You want my fingers inside you, baby?” His voice was deep and rough, sending sparks of pleasure down my body.

  I didn’t hesitate. “Yes!”

  “Or my tongue?” he asked against a nipple, sucking and flicking at it with his tongue.

  Just the thought caused my body to convulse with a mini-orgasm. “Oh, God!” I panted.

  Wolfe didn’t wait for me to say yes. He peppered my body with hot kisses and nibbles as he traveled down to my wet pussy. When he reached it he wedged his big shoulders between my thighs, and stopped and looked up at me, his face dark with arousal, his nostrils flaring as he inhaled my scent. Then his powerful hands moved beneath my bottom, and he tilted my pelvis toward his waiting mouth. I held my breath as he pulled my body closer and buried his face against my pussy. He proceeded to eat me out noisily and thoroughly.

  My eyes rolled, I dropped my head back on my shoulders, and the moan that escaped me was loud and drawn out. The man had a magic tongue! My core clenched at the feel of Wolfe’s tongue thrusting deep inside me. His hands squeezed my bottom as he held me tightly against his ravishing mouth. I felt my orgasm building fast, and I cried out at the deep pleasure holding me captive.

  “Oh, God!” I cried out when he licked my slit up to my tingling clit and then took it in his mouth. As he sucked it hard, he thrust a finger inside me but it wasn’t enough. “More!” I demanded, losing my hands in his short hair. “I need more!”

  I heard his laugh. “You want more? Baby, I’ll give you all you can handle.”

  He added another finger and then I was being driven over the edge. With his mouth tugging and biting on my clit and his fingers curling against my sweet spot, I let myself be carried away. “Wolfe!” I screamed, convulsing from his wonderous, tortuous assault on my body.

  I felt his tongue lap up my juices, and while I was still coming, he crawled up my body and entered me in one, deep plunge. He slammed his mouth down on mine, and the taste of my pussy on his tongue renewed my waning orgasm and I was coming all over again. Wolfe swallowed my cry, fucking my mouth with his tongue like he was fucking my body with his cock. Thrust after thrust, hard and fast, he took my breath away and rocked my world.

  His hands grasped my hips as he powered into me, grunting with every slam of his body. He was claiming me like a male animal claims his mate. I raked my nails down his back, and he punished me with a bite in the space between my shoulder and neck. My body closed around him as he expanded and turned even harder inside me.

  “You with me, baby?” His voice was breathless and hoarse.

  “Yes!” I sank my nails into his taut buttocks. “Harder, Wolfe! Faster!” I clenched my muscles around him as hard as I could.

  He grunted. “Fuck, Ella!”

  I wanted to make him lose control. I wanted to feel him come. I kissed his upper chest and neck, sucking the moisture off his skin as I went. We were both covered in sweat. I put my mouth to his ear and whispered, “I want your cum inside me, Levi.”

  “Fuck!” His expletive was reinforced with surprise, and he lost control.

  He threw his head back and let out a roar that equaled the lion’s ferocious call in the Serengeti. All the while, his body shuddered and his cock released streams of thick, warm cum deep inside me. I welcomed the grind of his loins against mine. Welcomed the weight of his body against me when he finally collapsed, his cock still twitching inside me.

  “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck,” he chanted, out of breath. “Where the fuck did you learn my name?”

  Chapter 41

  Wolfe

  Hearing my name on her lips had made me come so fucking hard that I’d almost blacked out. I didn’t give out my real name to chicks, ever. Hell, my last serious girlfriend didn’t know it. But I hadn’t known the power it held when it was whispered in my ear by a woman that meant something to me, all but demanding my cum inside her. Jesus, fuck, what was she doing to me?

  “Hey, big guy.” Ella tapped me in the side. “I love your weight on me when we’re fucking, but when you’re just laying here like dead meat it’s kind of crushing.”

  We both laughed as I rolled off of her.

  “Delta—”

  I groaned. My sister had a big mouth.

  “I’m sorry if my using your name bothered you.”

  I rolled onto my side and peered down at her, seeing the uncertainty in her pretty green eyes. When her teeth sank into that plump bottom lip, I leaned forward and gave her a brief kiss. “I wasn’t expecting it. Hearing my name pass through these pretty lips blew my mind.”

  “Something certainly blew,” she agreed playfully. “Are we going to talk now?”

  “Baby, the last thing I feel like doing when we’re naked and in bed is talking. Why don’t we get dressed and ride into town for breakfast? We can talk there.”

  There was a twinkle in her eyes. “Afraid to be alone with me?”

  “Terrified,” I joked. I turned away and sat up, taking a moment to stretch my muscles.

  I could feel Ella’s movement behind me as she left the bed. I stood and turned around. We both froze, staring at each other completely naked as if it were the first time. With the sun shining through the sheers at her windows the lighting provided us with a perfect and vibrant view. It was clear from her expression and the appreciation in Ella’s eyes that she liked what she saw.

  She licked her lips, her interest lingering on my dick, which was growing harder by the minute. “You’re a magnificent example of man-flesh.”

  My lips twitched. “Man-flesh, huh?” I began to walk toward her. “Are you talking about all of me, or just the muscle between my legs?”

  Her eyes shot up to mine, filled with appreciation. “Definitely all of you. You’re like a freaking god, Wolfe.”

  “God?” I snorted with humor. I’d never been compared to a god before. “Not sure I can live up to that.”

  “Hercules, then? You could definitely be Hercules.”

  There went her teeth, tugging on that bottom lip again. The laughter gradually faded from her eyes the closer I got to her. “You take my breath away, baby.” She did. I’d been with a lot of pretty women, even beautiful women, but Ella surpassed all of them in my eyes. She had the whole fucking package. Not only was her body designed to mesmerize men and sink ships, her zest for life and easy-going nature was just as powerful. Her ability to brush off meaningless shit and make the most of a situation was appealing to me too. She didn’t play games.

  Her lips quivered with the smile she was trying to hold back. “So I’m perfect?”

  I curled my arm around her waist and drew her against me. A hiss of awareness escaped me at the contact of her tits and the feel of her hot cunt. “So fucking perfect that it scares me that I might fuck this up and lose you.” I could see the confusion taking over. I kissed the tip of her nose and released her before I couldn’t. “Let’s get going. I’m hungry.”

  We didn’t say much after that. We dressed and headed out to the small restaurant I knew of on Main Street. It wasn’t much to look at from the outside, but the food-- especially their breakfast--was the best in town. It was a short ride, and I parked my bike on the street where I knew I could see it from inside.

  I took Ella’s hand once we’d climbed off my bike and led her inside. As soon as I opened the door, the aromas enveloped us with the smell of coffee being right at the forefront. As we paused at the small podium, I looked around the place to get a read on the customers inside. While most glanced up when we came in, their interest didn’t last long. My club was welcomed in our town, and most knew we were the good guys.

  I wondered how long that would last. My thoughts wandered to Tyler. I expected Eagle to text me with an update any time now. He and Lynx had spent the night at the hospital.

 

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