Lee: Emerson Wolves—Paranormal Erotic Wolf Shifter Romance (13 page)

“I was. I guess. For a while there, I think even Steward thought so.” She let him touch her and felt something inside of her curl up against her skin. “I like that. But you stink.”

“I guess I do.” He was naked too. His cock seemed to grow along with his touching her face. “I should go back to the house and take a bath.”

“You should.” She wrapped her arms around him and smiled. It was one of the first things that Steward had shown her how to use. “I’m not really very good at this, so I want you to hold onto me. Don’t let me go, okay?”

He said that he would hold on, and she felt his cock thicken at her pussy. Closing her eyes, trying her best not to think about how much she needed him, Kimber tried to remember everything in their room, where things were placed and where she could land them. When she opened her eyes, she smiled. She’d done it. And she’d not landed in anything this time. Lee tried to guide her to the bed as he kissed and nibbled at her throat.

“No. You need to bathe. I’m not kidding when I tell you that you really stink.” He laughed, then looked around the room they were in. She watched his face turn from joyful to something akin to fear. “Lee, I’m not the same person I was before. I’m…he said that he’d either change me or bury me. I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of glad to be here. With you and Hannah. Are you?”

“Yes. I’m very glad you’re here with us. I think…I had no idea that he had done…I’m fine now that you’re not dead.” His finger grazed over her skin, and that movement was there again. “I can feel her. Your wolf. I guess it worked.”

“Come on. I need to get you into the shower. I need to make sure that you’re not too hurt. Can you shift? I think your arm is broken.” He backed away from her like she’d hit him. “Lee? What is it? Are you afraid of me? Please don’t be.”

“I’m not. I know…I’m not going to shift. Not ever if I can help it. Especially while you’re in the room with me.” She moved toward him to touch him. “How can you even want me to after what he…what we did to you? We nearly killed you. I won’t put you in that position again. Not ever.”

“But you didn’t kill me, Lee. I’m still here.” Kimber moved toward him slowly, and he looked terrified. “I’m just fine now. A little more than I was before. But I’m here now. You’re hurt, you need to fix it. Please, just let your wolf help you so you can be all right.”

“No.”

She wasn’t sure what to do and reached for Steward. But he told her that she could contact Hunter and should ask him. He told her that while he was friends with wolves, he had no more idea what to do than she did. As Lee moved to the bathroom, it felt like he closed more than just the door; he closed off a part of her heart too.

If you don’t get him to shift, I can command him to. It will be extremely painful for him and might hurt him more than if he just healed his arm on his own. And that’s not a guarantee that he’ll want to shift again. He needs you to prove to him that he’s not going to hurt you
. She felt his embarrassment and then the laughter.
Get him…I can’t believe I’m telling you this, but get him aroused. Then you shift. It might pull his own wolf should you do that.

And if it doesn’t?
Hunter said he would do it for her.
I’ll get him to do this. I’m not sure how…aroused, huh? Okay then. Will you keep an eye on Hannah for me? I’m not sure how long this will take. I’m not exactly a femme fatale.

Take as long as you need. We’ll have her at our house. Dad has decided that the three of them, including Kelly, need to do some fishing in the morning. Drowning worms is more like it, but they have fun. He wants to get them to help him gather their gear. I have no idea what he thinks he can do in the middle of the night, but that’s my dad
. Hannah had talked of nothing else but fishing with her grandda before this happened.
Kimber, you’re going to do just fine, and I can’t tell you enough how happy I am that you’re still a part of our family.

Kimber thanked him and moved to the bathroom door. She could hear the water running, almost hear each drop of it going down the drain. Getting used to being able to hear everything had nearly made her mad the first day—was that only yesterday? But now she had learned to think of a volume control knob and turning it down. Opening the door, she moved into the room and started to strip down.

Kimber had no more idea how to seduce a man than she did how to rebuild an engine on a car. But as she took off her clothing, she thought of what she loved about Lee when he made love to her. She went to the shower and let out a long breath. Opening the large door, she moved up behind him and wrapped her arms around him.

“You should have waited for me to be finished. I’m almost done.” He wasn’t, but she kissed his muddy skin anyway. Reaching above his head, Kimber pulled the bottle of soap and the large sponge off and filled it. “Kimber, please, just let me do this on my own. I just need a few minutes, then I’ll be done here and you can take one.”

He was nervous, she realized then. At what she had no idea, but his arm cradled against his body made her ache to help him. And if this worked she was going to give Hunter a nice gift. Not having a clue what to get a man that had it all, she knew that she’d have to make it special. She thought of giving her daughter a bath when she was little, then the soaps that had meant so much to her.

“When Hannah and I were in France, there was this little shop about a block from our house. They sold the most amazing soaps and candles. I couldn’t afford them, of course, but I did love to go in and just smell them. There was one that smelled like the earth. Like you do. Not dirty, but earthy I guess.” Rubbing the soapy sponge down his back, she was happy when he didn’t tell her to go away again. “One year Fern got me a bottle of this strawberry soap for my birthday. I used it only when I needed a pick-me-up. Which, now that I think about it, was almost every day. I might see if they have a shop online and see about getting some.”

Washing the mud from his back, she saw all the cuts that he’d gotten. Kissing the first one she saw, Kimber ran her tongue over it and was surprised to see it heal almost immediately. Doing the same for the rest of them, she heard his heart rate pick up, and went to her knees to wash his legs.

The water coming off him wasn’t nearly as dark now. The soap bubbles made pretty swirls as they went down the drain. Washing his legs, she wasn’t surprised to see that he’d cut himself there as well, and licked the one on his inner thigh. His moan had her running her tongue over it twice more before she moved to his feet.

“You’re not going to change my mind about this.” She asked him about what. “Shifting. I’m not going to do it when you’re around. I don’t want to hurt you again. I know that as a vampire you’re sort of a super person, but I won’t hurt you again.”

“You’re not going to.” This time she ran her fangs down his leg, and then nipped at him until she drew blood. Licking the fresh taste of him, Kimber moaned and then licked him again. “You taste different now. Your blood is spicy and hotter. Is it because I can taste it better, or is it because you’re so aroused?”

Turning him was work. He fought her as much as he could, but she won in the end. His cock was so hard and stretched from him that she leaned into him and licked the thick cream at the tip. He curled his hands into her hair and held her there before pulling her back.

“I feel him. Your wolf.” Rubbing her head against his thigh, Kimber moaned when he did. “I can smell him too. He wants to taste me, doesn’t he?”

Lee’s voice was strangled, his “No” nearly hard to understand. But when she took him into her mouth, his crown and as much of his shaft as she could, he rocked into her over and over until she felt his wolf again. Cupping his balls in her hand, she sucked him hard, feeling his balls tighten against his body even as she held him. When he pulled from her, she knew that he was going to tell her to back off, but he jerked her from the floor and lifted her.

“I need to fuck you like this. Christ, I need you.” His cock slammed into her as he pressed her against the wall of the shower. His mouth moved from hers to her throat, where she felt his teeth graze her skin. He never bit her, but he did growl low. Kimber moved his head to the side and licked the pounding pulse, then sank her fangs deep into his throat.

The taste was amazing. Overwhelming and somehow not enough. As she swallowed, her mouth filled again and she heard him cry out, his body pounding her harder than he had before as he emptied inside of her. Kimber loved it. Sealing the wound at his throat, she pulled his head up and looked into his eyes.

“Bite me.” He tried to shake her off. “Bite me now, Lee. Taste me.”

He growled again, and she felt her pussy tighten. When her head was jerked to the right, he didn’t bother with licking the flesh so that the pain would be lessened, but bit her deeply, tearing at her skin as she screamed out her first release. Lee lifted his head then, his mouth covered in her blood, his wolf, so close to the surface, seeming to beg her for something. Doing the only thing she could think of, she pulled from him and let the wolf take her.

Lee turned the water off and stared at her. She knew that she was making his wolf wild with need. Not only could she feel him, but her wolf could as well and wanted him to come out and play. So when she licked his thigh, then his cock, she backed from him and nearly fell on the tile floor. Moving into the room, pacing back and forth, Kimber reached deep inside of Lee and called for his wolf.

Come to me.
The wolf snarled at her, and she could see the affect it was having on Lee. He was fighting her, fighting both of them. But she had a feeling that the two of them were winning. Kimber called to him again.

The wolf took him. Not easily either, if his cries were any indication. She watched as he shook his huge body, then looked at her with his teeth showing and his fur standing on end. But for some reason, even with all his anger, she wasn’t afraid of him. Instead she moved to him and rubbed her body to his.

You don’t play fair.
Kimber laughed.
But I will say this for you, you are the most beautiful wolf I’ve ever seen. Christ, you’re red. Do you know how rare that is?

No. I only know that she makes me feel like I can take on the world. Especially with you at my side.

Moving along his skin again, she went to the door. Turning to look at him, she flicked her tail at him and moved out. She knew that he’d follow her.

The stairs were harder to maneuver than she would have thought. But once she was down them, the hardwood floor of the hallway was a little slippery. She did manage to fall a couple of times before she realized there had to be a trick to this. Kimber heard Lee laughing at her as she tried to get her feet under her, and turned to look at him.

It’s all in the way you step. Walk like you would as a human on ice. Just keep your feet under you and take smaller steps.
He laughed again when all four of her feet went out from under her and she fell on her body.
You’re still thinking of yourself as two footed. You need to walk on all four at the same time.

Well, come here and show me, smart ass.
When he made it to the door without falling, she could have stomped her foot. And she might have had she not been afraid of falling again. The door, thankfully, had been left slightly ajar or they might not have gotten outside. As soon as she felt the earth under her feet, Kimber knew a new kind of joy.

Chapter 12

Lee watched her running around like a small child, leaping in mid-air, then landing on her feet. He sat back and laughed at her antics until she fell once and didn’t get up. But as he approached her, he saw why she was so still. The deer had come out to eat.

They’re beautiful.
He told her that they’d been around since he’d bought the house.
We’ll have to make sure that we feed them this winter too. I don’t want them to come to harm.

They won’t here.
He moved up beside her, careful to not frighten the little herd.
Last spring that little guy with the buttons on his head was just a baby. This year I bet we have a few more.

I can smell them. And while they smell like meat to me, I can smell something else
about
them too. What is that?
He lifted his head to the air and let the scents come to him. He could smell it then and lay down beside Kimber as the deer ate by moonlight.

Two of them are breeding. I think the darker one with the light spot on her nose and the one that is closest to the buck. It’s hard to tell from here, but I think maybe this fall. We’ll have to make sure they have more than enough food for the offspring too.
Lee laid his head on her and thought about her being gone from him.

I’m all right.
He nipped at her shoulder but said nothing.
I was terrified when I woke up. I was…the dirt was so dark and there wasn’t anyone close to me. Then I felt Steward. He wasn’t breathing, and I thought we’d been buried alive and that he’d not survived. He told me that when he needs to, like when he’s really hurt, he can go there and feel better in hours. I guess that’s why he took me there.

He told us…when you were bleeding out that he wasn’t going to be able to save you.
She said nothing as he continued.
I left without making sure. I could have been there for you when you woke. But…well, Hannah was hurting too and I know that it’s no excuse, but I couldn’t help me, much less her.

I don’t think that would have been a good thing had you been there when I woke. I wasn’t really…I wasn’t right in the head. And I might have hurt you. I know that I did Steward.
Lee told her good.
He was really kind and gentle with me. Told me over and over that you were all right and that Hannah was as well. I guess…he said that I’d have some of him and you in my body forever.

Yes. I’m guessing that while my wolf changed you, it was too much on your body. You’ve been under a lot of pressure and stress lately, and you weren’t up to your full strength. I don’t know what I would have done had…well, I know what I did. I was going to kill myself. A wolf without his mate goes rogue, wild, and kills for no reason other than it is in their nature. My dad was lucky that he had us when Mom died, but there were times that it was close. I was nearly there as well.
He watched the deer as he thought of Hannah.
She doesn’t trust me, she said. I hurt her too when…Steward had to go and get her from her school to have her invite him into the house. She hates me.

She was scared, but she doesn’t hate you. I think…the two of you will be fine. I know that. I talked to her before coming to find you. And your dad. He’s going to come and stay with us for a little while. Then he said he wants to find his own home. I think he’s sweet on Mabel.
Lee told her he thought she was right.
I have to talk to Hannah about this. About what happened. She might be a little cool toward you for a little while, but I think she’ll come around quickly.

He hoped so. Lee loved the little girl so very much. When the deer were startled out of their dinner, he stood up as well. There were things that he wanted to show her on their property, and now was as good a time as ever. Plus, he wanted to take her to the boundaries of his land and that of the neighbor. A man that wasn’t all that nice.

I’d like to have a baby with you
. Lee nearly fell over the log he was stepping over.
Soon. I want several, but I want us to have this one now.

You’re not in heat.
He felt his inner self flush at his words.
That came out wrong. Wolves have to be in heat to have a baby. It happens several times a year. We can try when you…why are you shaking your head like that?

I’m not all wolf. I’m vampire too.
He nodded, not sure what she meant.
I can have one whenever you want. Whenever we want. I asked Steward about it when we were talking about my new and awesome powers.

Awesome powers, huh? And just what kind of powers do you have?
He sat down, his wolf as amused as he was. But when she shifted, her body coming out of the wolf dressed and beautiful, he whimpered.
You can do that? Christ, you’re beautiful in either form.

“You will be able to as well when you drink from me again, this time deeply.” The wolf seemed to like that idea and moved toward her. But Lee was terrified of biting her again. He could still see her when she’d been as white as a ghost with blood all around her. “You’ll have to sooner or later, Lee. I need you to be like me.”

Like you how? We’re already wolf, so what else is there?
She moved toward him, her body seeming to shimmer in the moonlight.
Stay back, please. He wants you.

“And I want him. He likes to lick me until I come, doesn’t he? Drink from my wet pussy over and over until I can’t move. Then he marks me, and that makes me spin with pleasure. Do you know how hard I come when he does that?” He told her to stay back again, but she began to undress. There wasn’t much to remove, a shift of a dress and then her panties. “Come here and show me how much you enjoy my body, Lee. Come and taste me until I come down his throat, then fuck me as a man.”

No.
But his wolf, like before, was winning out. Not that Lee wasn’t enjoying her this way, but he wasn’t going to bite her.
Kimber, I don’t want to hurt you again. I can’t do that to you, ever.

“I’m an immortal, Lee. If you bite me now, all you’re going to do is drink my blood. And then I want to bite you.” He felt his wolf shimmer along his body in agreement with her plan. “You only need to drink from me once to get what I have to offer. Then twice more and you’ll be just like me. A vampire that can be wolf too. I want to feel you inside of me, Lee. Please come here and eat me.”

His wolf lunged at her when she sat on the ground. Her body was open for him, and when his wolf licked her from gate to clit, he threw back his head and howled. Kimber cried out with her release. Then she looked at him.

“Bite me.” The wolf moved slower this time. He whimpered slightly again before licking the long length of her thigh. When he nudged her thigh up, Kimber lifted her leg and his wolf sank his teeth into her gently but firmly. This time Kimber cried out with the powerful release. As soon as he licked the wound closed, Lee knew the difference in her taste but didn’t think on it too much.

His wolf wanted more. He wanted it all. As he ate at her, using his tongue to bring her several more times, Lee thought of her taste, and how her blood had felt filling his body. And it had too, filled his cells until he felt like he was all powerful. When he lifted his head up, Lee took his body back and watched Kimber as she sat up and smiled at him.

Burying his mouth over her heat, he slid his fingers into her and curled them around until she flooded him with her cream. Every time he touched her, set off tremors in her that he’d never been able to touch before, she cried out his name over and over until she was hoarse from it. Lifting his body up, Lee made his way up hers until he paused at her breast. Even they felt different, tasted better as well.

“Fuck me.” He nodded at her command but didn’t move to fill her. He wanted to take his time with her. Fill her slowly and make her come around him while he watched. “Please. You’ve teased me enough.”

“You’ve come more times than I’ve ever imagined. Who is teasing who?” He suckled at her breast again and then bit down on the pert nipple. Tasting blood, he licked the tiny wound closed. Fisting his cock, he teased her clit as he felt her heat pull at him.

“Please? Please, I need you.” He told her he needed her as well. “Fill me, Lee. Please stop this before I hurt you.”

He entered her slowly, his body aching to fill her completely. Lee moved in and out of her, filling her then taking away until he was buried to the root. Lying atop her, all he could think about was how he felt at home, his heart and soul belonged to no one but her. As she wrapped her legs around him he moved carefully, trying his best to make it last. As sweat slid down his back, his cock aching to fill her again, Lee leaned to her throat and felt his teeth shift in his mouth. As he bit down, tearing once more into her flesh, he felt as if he fell in love with her all over again. Filling her with his seed, Lee hoped that they made a child so that the world would know how much he loved his mate. When she cried out her own pinnacle, Lee knew that for as long as he lived no one could touch his heart the way that she did at this very moment.

He lay there atop her, trying his best to catch his breath when she touched her fingers to his back. Lifting his head, Lee looked down at her and she smiled at him. Lee kissed her then, taking from her as much as she was giving him.

“I love you.” He grinned at her. “Well, I do. I have never said that to anyone before. Not even Hannah’s father. I thought I loved him, but I know better now. This is everything. I know the difference now between what we had and what you and I have.”

“And I love you. Very much.” She looked so sad that he held her to him as he rolled them to his back. “I’m so sorry that I hurt you. I never meant for that to happen.”

“I know that. Even when I knew that I was dying, I knew it. You’re a wonderful man, and I could not have asked for a more loving and kind person in our lives right now.” Lee thought about Hannah and hurt for what he’d done to her. “I’ll talk to her, I promise. I’m not sure of what all happened, but she’ll come around. It just might take her a few days.”

“I’m going to work on this too. I have a few things in mind to win her over.” Kimber asked him what. “You just let me handle it. If I fuck up, you can step in, but this is between the two of us now. All right?”

“Yes.” He could hear that she was a little leery of what he had planned, but he knew this would work. Lee was willing to get down on his hands and knees for her if that was what it took. “You love her, don’t you?”

“Yes. As much as I do you.” He added another thing to his list of things that he wanted to do for Hannah, but knew that he’d need Kimber’s permission for that. “I want to adopt her. Give her my name. Not right now, but soon. I want her to be my daughter in all ways.”

“I think she’d like that very much. And if that is what she wants, then I’m all for it.” He nodded when she sat up. Lee watched her as she closed her eyes. Then just like that, she was dressed. “Steward said that you might be able to do this too if you think on it hard enough. But he did say that you’re about as stubborn as Sloan is rich.”

He started to deny it but didn’t. Instead, he tried to think of ways to get back at his friend. As he stood up, he also wondered if this thing with dressing would work too. But almost as soon as he thought of it, he was standing with a suit and tie on, his usual mode of dress.

“Yeah, that’s got to go.” He thought of jeans and a tee-shirt as she laughed at him. “Better, but you do know that it’s the middle of May? I’m thinking shorts and no shirt.”

“It’s also the middle of May in Ohio. We won’t be ready for shorts until June or July. It can be seventy today and ten below tomorrow.” They were both laughing when they got back to the house. The sun was just coming up over the horizon. Lee didn’t think he could have been any happier.

~~~

Kimber watched Hannah. She was completely ignoring every attempt Lee was making to bring her over to his side. Not that she wasn’t caving a little, but Hannah was strong willed, something that Kimber had just begun to notice about her daughter.

“I’m sorry. Sorrier than I could ever be about what you saw. Steward is too, as a matter of fact.” Still nothing from her, and Kimber could see that Lee was getting frustrated. “Steward had to go and get you, or you would never have had to see your mom that way.”

“I wouldn’t have had to see her like that either if you hadn’t tried to kill her.” Lee looked as if he’d been slapped. Before Kimber could say anything to him or her daughter, Hannah continued. “You tore her up and left her for dead. You couldn’t even stay and make sure she was all right. You always make sure someone is okay before you run away. Why should I trust you anymore?”

“I didn’t want to live.” Hannah looked at Lee when he spoke softly. “I wanted to die after I did that to her. And when you told me that you would never like me again or trust me, my heart just fell silent. There wasn’t anything I had left to live for. Not when the two people that I love more than I do my own life were no longer going to be a part of it.”

“You hurt me.” Lee nodded and put his hand over Hannah’s. This time she didn’t jerk away from him. “When Steward came and got me he looked so scared. And then I had to be there while my momma lay there dying.”

“I know. I was wrong. I’d like to blame it on my wolf, but I won’t. He’s as much a part of me as I am him. We both love your mother and you.” Hannah moved her hand but didn’t take it from his. When she wiped at her tears with her free hand, Kimber wanted to snatch her up into her arms and protect her. “I love you, Hannah. With all my heart, and I hope that someday you’ll forgive me for what I did to you and your mom.”