Force of the Dark Wolf (Force of Nature Series) (35 page)

She looked out the window and watched his reflection as he came up behind her.
When he cupped her breasts and pulled her back against his chest, she moaned.
His cock nudged her ass and she felt her pussy cream.

“Run with me.
Let’s go outside and run for a while.
Then
,
if you’re really good, I’ll lay you on a carpet of spring flowers and take you to heights you’ve never been before.”
She turned her head to look at him as he spoke.
“I can and you know it.
Come on.
Then we’ll come back here and sleep the day away.”

It was tempting.
Very tempting
,
as a matter of fact.
She felt something stir inside of her and startled when Gordon growled at her.

“Your wolf is stirring.
She wants mine.”
Gordon lowered his hands to her hips and held her still while he rocked into her ass again, his cock hard as stone.
“I want you as well.
Come outside with me and play, Alexis.
Shift into your wolf and let
’
s run through the fields again.”

The last time she’d been a wolf they’d had sex several times in the open field.
It had been fantastic.
Then they’d made love as humans several more times until neither of them could move and took a nap out of doors to regain their strength to walk back to the house.
She pulled from his arms and moved to the door to the passage as his cell phone rang.

“It’s Dallas.
I have to take—
”

“Don’t,” she begged him.
“Please
,
not yet.
Text him. Tell him…tell him whatever it is that…tell him that we need one hour.
Just one hour.”

Gordon looked undecided and she let her wolf stir again. Once she’d figured out what it felt like it was easy.
His moan/growl had her wet and needy and he knew it.

“You’re going to pay for this,” Gordon told her as he start
ed
doing as she asked.
“Once we get outside you’re so going to pay for this.”

She didn’t wait for him
,
but ran laughing for the door.
She was stri
p
ping off her clothes and shifting before he nearly caught up with her.
By the time she was flying out of the waterfalls she could hear him cussing at her to wait.
She was soaring to the sky again when she felt the danger.
By then it was too late.

Chapter 19

The pack of wolves were just below her.
She could see that Gordon was just coming out of the lake when he saw them too.
He looked up to where she had landed
,
but kept low too.
She didn’t know why they looked so different
from
Gordon until he spoke to her.

“They’re wild.
We’re bigger and stronger and
,
because we can think like a human even as a wolf
,
we tend to fight better too.”
He moved as he spoke to her
,
but still remained hidden
.
“Stay where you are and I’ll see if I can draw them away from you.
Then I want you to—
”

“No fucking way.
I’m way up here and you’re down there at their level.
I’ll be the one to draw them away from you.
I can go into places that you—
”

“Alexis,”
he growled at her.
“If you
so
much as move from that branch I will beat your ass for you.
I’ll not have you endangering your life for me.
Now, I want you to stay up there. I’ve contacted Austin and Dallas and they are coming here now.”

She growled back at him.
It was either that or shift, beat the wolves
,
and then him.
She was sure that she’d hurt herself badly if she tried shifting to a wolf from this height
,
but might have been willing to chance it except for the man who came into the clearing behind another dozen or so wolves.

Tom was walking along a seemingly narrow path. She couldn’t really make out how wide it was as she’d never seen it from this vantage point before.
She could see that it led to the lake and even down along it for a ways.
She was just telling Gordon that when she saw Paddy going from tree to tree behind the pack and Tom.

It occurred to her that he was stalking Tom, not with him as she first thought.
As she watched him move she also came to the conclusion that he was really terrible at sneaking.
She wondered why he didn’t simply shift into his wolf
,
who had to be much quieter than his human was.

“If he does
,
then he’ll be naked when the time comes to fight.”
She startled at the voice that sounded right next to her.
“You should know that taking your blood was sort of an open highway for us to speak.”

She thought about Phil and then she cut off his dick with a sharp rock.
She knew he got the message because she could feel his pained thoughts.
She was grinning to herself when she saw that Darcy was being dragged toward the group with the pack. That terrified her to the point she nearly shifted and attacked.

“
Don’t.
If you go in now
,
all will be lost.
Think, love.
What is it you think you can do and not get anyone killed?”
She wanted to snarl at Gordon
,
but before she could Phil started again.

“If you go in half
-
cocked
,
then…well
,
my own will be much safer.
However
,
if you get killed in the process, your mate will suffer as well.”

“You do know that at this moment I hate you both very much.”
But she did stop to think.

Tom was below her now
,
but there were also several dozen wolves
,
all of which had very sharp teeth and could cut her to ribbons.
Behind them was Paddy
,
but he seemed to be doing nothing to help.
She didn’t think he was with the vampire below her
,
but she just couldn’t be sure about that.
Then there was her niece.
Darcy was as innocent as they all were evil.
Suddenly the girl looked up at her and smiled.

“You can hear me?”
It was really too much to hope that she could
,
but she’d never tried before to communicate with the child this way before.
Darcy dropped her head and Alexis nearly cried out in frustration.

“Yes.
You sound funny
,
but I can hear you.
I can hear…it sounds like Mr. Gordon too
,
but I’m not sure.”
Alexis moved a branch lower as Darcy continued.
“He wants to change me.
He wants me to be his day walker.
I don’t want to do that
,
Aunt Alexis.
Please help me.”

“I am
,
baby.”
She looked over at Gordon who was crouched low behind a fallen log.
She wondered why they hadn’t seen him yet and remembered her vantage point.
“Gordon is coming toward you from the tree just to your left.
Can you see him at all?”

Darcy raised her head only to have her face slapped.
Alexis let out a sharp cry and flew off so that she wouldn’t be tempted to go down and rip Tom’s eyes out.
She wanted the man dead in the worst way.

“I can’t see him. And don’t worry about this man hitting me. When you save me
,
I’m going to kick his bottom.”
Alexis came back
,
landed just above the group in another tree
,
and sent her niece all the love she could.

“Darcy, love
,
can you pretend to faint?
I can come a bit closer to you if you distract them for me.”

Alexis wanted to tell Gordon no
,
but before she could Darcy did just as he’d asked her to.
Gordon moved up another ten feet or so and was nearly to them when the group seemed to turn as one to the left.

Alexis could see the larger wolves coming at them at a full out run.
She was both terrified and awed by the beauty at the same time.
She knew that the larger wolf at the head of the pack was Austin and could see why he was alpha.

“I’m much prettier than him,”
Gordon told her
.
“You should know that.
And when this nonsense is over, I’m going to show you just how much bigger I can get when you’re naked beneath me.”

Her entire body reacted to his words.
And she nearly moaned
before
a movement caught her eye. Paddy was moving up behind Tom with a knife in his hands.
She knew the exact moment when the vampire knew he was there.
She watched in horror as Paddy put his knife down and spoke to Tom.

“I’ve come to make a bargain with you.
I don’t want you to kill me like you did Jessie.
What will it take to keep myself alive?”
Paddy nodded toward his daughter.
“Her?”