Lee: Emerson Wolves—Paranormal Erotic Wolf Shifter Romance (7 page)

“I can smell you. You’re wet and aroused. Take off your blouse for me. Let me suckle at your nipples while you ride me.” Lee groaned when she cupped her breast over her blouse. “Feed me, Kimber. Let me taste you while you take what you need from me.”

“I’m so close now. This is so wrong, but I need this. And I feel like you’re the only one that can satisfy me.” He told her he would be from now until forever. Taking her blouse up and over her head, Kimber held him to her breast as she fumbled with the back clasp. He was driving her crazy. And when he lifted her bra up and out of his way, the feel of his mouth over her skin made her wrap her legs around his hips to get better leverage.

“I want to take you right here.” He rolled her to her back, and his cock was grinding against her now. Kimber wanted to come with him, feel him inside of her when she did. Reaching between them, she moaned when she felt his cock instead of the snap of his pants. He so was full and hard, he filled her hand and she knew she needed more. “If you touch me right now, I’m going to take you, and damn the people who can hear us.”

“Please.” He tore her pants off. Her body wasn’t on fire as much as it felt scorched by him. Everywhere he touched her, each brush of his fingers, brought her skin to life. And when he sat up, pulling away from her, she reached for him only to still in her movements. “You’re beautiful.”

His cock was in his fist, his juices streaming from the tip in a long thick cream. The crown of his cock was dark, his shaft long and hard. Running her finger over the tip of him, catching the precum that was there, she took it to her mouth and licked it off, and only looked at him when he moaned.

“You should see you the way I do right now.” Lying back, she cupped her breasts in her hands, tugged at her nipples, and her body grew wetter knowing that he was watching her. When he took just the tip of her breast into his mouth, she lifted her hips up to take his cock into her. The crown of it just sliding into her heat had her coming hard and quick.

When he took her, slamming forward hard enough to take her breath away, Kimber bit into her hand to keep from screaming. Wrapping her legs around him, her feet locked behind his back, she held him to her, digging her nails into his flesh as his cock pounded her. When his mouth moved down her throat to her shoulder, Kimber tilted her head, giving him whatever he wanted, knowing that she was taking more than just his body. And when he bit her, tore into her throat, Kimber screamed out, her body bowing up off the floor as he commanded her to bite him as well. Sinking her teeth into whatever she could reach, Kimber tasted his blood, felt his cum fill her even as she felt her vision blur and blackness reach up and slap her out.

Opening her eyes, she knew that she’d not been out for long. He was still atop her and his breathing was still harsh and hot against her neck. When he lifted his head, looking down at her from a short distance, Kimber kissed him gently on the mouth, then pulled him back to her.

Lee rolled to his back and she went with him. His cock was still inside of her, and she could also feel that he was still hard. Sitting up, she watched his face as he held her hips still when she tried to ride him.

“I’m going to take you again if you keep this up.” She told him she hoped so. “You’re going to be very sore later. I’m not able to hold back when you scream my name like you did.”

“Fuck me. Or let me fuck you.” Her movements were quicker, her body burning to feel him fill her again. “I want to come this way. I’ve never…this isn’t something that I’ve done before.”

He held her to him, his hands, strong and firm, digging into her muscles. Kimber wanted him to take her again, roll her over and fuck her like he had, but the thought of coming like this, feeling the power she had over him right now…Kimber didn’t think there was anything more erotic. Leaning down to his nipples, she nipped at first one then the other as Lee lifted his hips into her. When she found herself on her back again, he lifted his body from hers again and she reached for him.

“Not yet. My wolf, he wants you.” She started to shake her head when he was suddenly gone and his wolf was there. Kimber started to back away from him when he buried his head between her thighs and licked her clit.

Nothing could have prepared her for the feeling of his rough tongue on her pussy. He ate her, licking her to three orgasms before she finally reached down and curled her fingers into his fur. It was soft, silky, and warm.

Come for him again. He loves your taste
. She came again, her body so worn out she could do no more than cry out. When his mouth changed, the fur in her hand suddenly gone, she looked at Lee as he took over where his wolf had been. Kimber begged him to stop. Pleaded with him to please let her rest, when his fingers slid into her pussy again and he touched off something that made her scream out his name once more. Then everything was gone.

This time when she woke, she was in a bed. There weren’t any sheets on it, but the thick comforter was wrapped around her tightly. Struggling to get at least her arms out, she realized that she wasn’t sore like she’d thought she’d be, and that she, incredibly, wanted Lee again.

The envelope with her name on it that was leaning against the lamp had her reaching for it.

“Love, you have no idea how much I’d like to be waking next to you right now instead of finishing up the move. But if we get this done, then I can join you. I wanted to tell you that Hannah and my dad are together. He’s taking her to dinner and then they are going shopping. I can’t even begin to tell you how much that frightens me. My dad is not known for his shopping abilities. But he will protect her with his life.

“There are some clothes for you in the bathroom. Sloan brought something for you from her house to wear since I tore yours to pieces. Damn, woman, you are amazingly wonderful.

“Come down when you’re ready. I think that dinner is at six, but if you miss it, the ladies said that they’d make sure that all the leftovers are put up for you to enjoy later.”

Looking at the clock, she saw that it was just after five. Feeling stupid that she’d been in bed for nearly three hours, Kimber got up to take a shower. That was when she realized that she was living here.

The shampoo and soap, while not manly, were his. The large sponge was obviously new, but she could see that it was too big for her small hands. There was no razor in the stall with her, but there were two toothbrushes. One of them was still in the package and the other very used. Taking the one with the wrapper still on it, she made a mental note to get herself a new one to replace his. Getting out, she reached for the warm towel just as someone knocked on her door.

“It’s Dawn. We met today downstairs.” Kimber told her that she was dressing and would be out in a second. “Do you mind if I talk to you like this? I wanted to get you up to speed on a few things.”

“Sure.” Dawn told her good and then was quiet. As Kimber pulled on her bra and panties, a new set that she’d never seen before, she asked Dawn if she was still there.

“Yes. I’m trying to think how you want this. Straight up? Sort of around the bush, or are you the type that likes details as you go along?”

“Straight up, with a little around the bush if you please.” Dawn laughed. “You’re making me very nervous. Is my daughter all right?”

“Oh yes. She and Dad got back a little bit ago. And so you know, we just love her to pieces. You did a wonderful job with her. She’s adorably polite, and she just says it like it is.” Kimber opened the door, holding onto her socks that had been with the rest of the clothing. “It did fit. Good. I’ve never been very good at it, but Sloan, now there is a shopper. I’m sorry. I should just get to it.”

“Yes. But thank you about Hannah. She’s my joy and I love her with all my heart.” Dawn sat down when she did. “You were going to tell me something.”

“I was. It’s about…I’m to tell you a little about us. The Emerson women. Sloan wanted to do this, but she had to take a nap. The baby is wearing her out. And Jack said that she warned you a little, but she can be scary sometimes, don’t you think?” Kimber nodded. “Anyway. Sloan first. Do you know who she is?”

“I do. Even in France, where I’ve been the last few years, I read about her interview with the newspaper. I don’t know how she did it. But she’s the one that was hurt by her stepmother when she was a child. And she’s rich.”

“Right. It’s really Addie that I’m here about. She wanted me to tell you if you don’t want her to intrude in your mind that you shouldn’t touch her.” Kimber paused in pulling on her socks. “She can read your mind, your future as well as your past. She wanted you to know that. I think…I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t have to touch you to read you, but she’s at least polite in asking you if you want what she can do.”

“And if I don’t want her to know, then what?” Dawn looked away. “She already knows, doesn’t she?”

“Yeah. Your aunt is one crazy fucking bitch. And she’s going to kill you.”

Chapter 7

Cash tried to figure out what his newest grandchild was telling him, but he was too distracted by the conversation that was going on across the room. Kimber was trying her best to hold her tongue, quite well as a matter of fact, but she was getting more and more upset with them all just the same. When she looked at him, he nodded to her and stood up, putting Hannah on the chair where they’d been sitting. It broke his heart to leave the child, but he’d get more of her loving later. She was just the sweetest little thing he’d seen in a while.

“You’re not helping her.” They all turned and looked at him when he stood in front of her. “Look at what you’re doing to her. She’s about to explode like a bag of manure did last summer when it laid out in the hot sun too long.”

“I’m not sure I like being compared to a bag of manure, but you’re right. I’m overwhelmed right now.” He sat down on the heavy table that he’d help put together not an hour ago when Kimber started talking again. “There’s just too much.”

“’Course there is. Now, this here is what we’re going to do.” He looked at Lee. “He’s gonna hold onto your hand and then Hunter is going to talk. When it’s too much, what he’s telling you, then we’ll move onto something pleasant. Like…I don’t rightly know, but you can think up something.”

“I want to talk to Addie.” He nodded, then frowned. “I know that she can…I don’t want to die.”

“Not going to happen. You tell her, Addie. Things in your visions, they can change, can’t they?” He hoped he was right, and when Addie nodded, he could have kissed her. Might even later, after Jarrett was gone again. That boy was a might possessive. More than the rest of them were.

“So I might still die, but maybe not.” He nodded at her. “That’s not helpful at all. I think…I have no idea what to think right now. I have a family that I never bargained for…not that I mind having you all here, but there are so many of you. When Hannah and I were living in our apartment, it was just her and me and Fern, my housemate. Now it seems I have five brothers-in-law, four sisters-in-law, a nephew, and a niece on the way. You, Mr. Cash, as well as an entire pack that will protect me with their life. And you want to know what the funniest part is? I’m not even married.”

Her laughter was a little on the manic side, and Cash could understand that. He took her hand in his and said her name until she looked at him. Fear was there, and the overwhelmed feelings she’d been talking about. But Cash could see her inner strength too, and was glad for it.

“You wanna marry my Lee?” She didn’t answer him. “I can see where you’d be a little upset on that front, but you two have already mated and bonded. You know that, don’t you? So marrying like humans do ain’t really that necessary. But we do it for the things that the law says we need to have. Like insurance, for one thing, and property. Understand?”

“Yes. Dawn explained it to me. She also said that you all would be able to smell it on me.” She glared at Lee, who grinned like a fool back at her. “Someone should have explained that part before the pantry.”

“The pantry?” Cash felt his face heat up when she got red in the face too. “You’ll have to forgive me, child. I’m just so proud of my boys for finding the right mates. And making sure that they’re marked.”

“I don’t want anyone to get hurt on my account.” Cash wanted to tell her that wasn’t going to matter if she needed them, but she lowered her voice as she continued. “I don’t just have me to watch out for, I have my daughter too.”

Cash looked over at the child. Good heavens, he’d fallen in love with her the moment she’d come up to him and asked if he really was her grandda. And taking her shopping had been the most fun he’d had in ages. He was looking forward to more outings with Kelly and her together. He had a feeling it would be a hoot. Cash looked back at Kimber.

“You don’t have to worry none about her either. That girl has my heart almost as if she’d wrapped her little hand around it and took it from me. And that Kelly? Those two are going to get in the best kind of mischief, and I’m going to be right there egging them on.” Hunter laughed, and he looked at him. “You tell her, son. Tell her that we’re never going to let them get hurt again.”

But Luke cleared his throat, and Cash nodded. She did need to know what she was up against so they could start keeping them safe. When he started to pull his hands free of hers, she held him tightly and he stayed right where he was. Cash had a feeling that of all his daughters-in-law, this one would take some convincing that she was stronger than she thought she was. Making sure that Lee was all right with him holding her hand, his son winked at him and he could have burst, he was so proud at that moment.

“Your aunt has some things lined up for you that you need to be made aware of.” Mrs. Mantle, Addie’s grandmother Clemmie, came into the room then, and Luke waited until she was settled before he continued. “The things that you overheard today, that was only the tip of the iceberg on what she’s done to manipulate your life. Some of it…most of it isn’t even legal.”

“She killed James, didn’t she? Or she had someone do it.” Luke nodded, and the fingers on Cash’s hand became painful for just a second. “He tried to tell me that he’d been doing things that he wasn’t proud of. But I was so happy with him and the baby that was coming. He kept Hannah’s conception from her on purpose, I guess.”

Kimber kissed Hannah on the head when she came to sit by her mom, then asked Cash if he’d mind taking her into the other room.

“Sure enough. Me and this one, we got us a mean game of some candy game going on. And I’m not even disappointed to find out that there’s no treasure at the end of it, am I, sweet thing?”

“You’re silly, Grandda.”

His heart did a little flutter every time she said that to him. Kelly had started calling him that too, after Hannah had told him that was her name for him. Up until then he’d been calling him Cash. Grandchildren were the way of the world as far as he was concerned.

Cash wanted to be there for Kimber, almost needed to be there, but this was important, shielding this little one from the terrors that her aunt was bestowing on her. When they were settled around the conference table in Lee’s office, she looked at him and he was almost afraid.

“My mommy is hurting in her heart, huh?” He told her that she was at that. “I wish I could fix it for her. I don’t like it when she’s hurting. She’s the best mommy in the whole wide world.”

“I think you might be right there, darlin’.” She toyed with the game piece a little more, and he decided to just talk to her for a bit. “You know that my son, Lee, won’t hurt you two, don’t you? He’s about half in love with your momma now, and he’s about to bust, he loves you so much.”

“He needs to be all the way in love with her. She needs him to love her more than anything, even chocolate. My mom…she thinks I’m the only one that will ever love her, and I think that’s just sad.” Cash nodded. “And he has to marry her too.”

“I agree.” She played with the little plastic piece that came with the game. He watched her, wondering if she’d tell him the rest, but she only sat there. “What is it, honey?”

“I want to be a wolf like Lee is. Kelly said he was one already. I want to be a wolf like they are.” Cash had no idea what to say about that, so didn’t say anything. “Can you fix that for me? Kelly said that he’d do it when I was older and all. On account of me being his mate. I don’t know what that is, but he said he would protect me forever. But I thought I’d be better at it now.”

“What?” She nodded and picked up the die to play. “When did he tell you this, darlin’? You’re too young to be anyone’s mate.”

“I’m his to protect and he’d take care of me. I told him I was able to save myself. But if I needed somebody, there wasn’t going to be nobody else but him.” She tossed the die out, and he watched her count out the number of moves. “I’m going to love him until forever. It’s your move, Grandda.”

Cash couldn’t help it. He laughed so hard that he hurt from it. Picking up the little die, he tossed it like she had and then picked up the card that went with it. He was still laughing when he had to move all the way back to the start.

~~~

Luke handed the file, much thicker than the one that Kimberly had given him this morning, to Kimber. The only difference was, everything in his was true. And it wasn’t nearly as prettied up either, just straight up information. He watched Kimber, and while she looked at the newspaper clippings that he’d printed, he started telling her what he’d found, being mindful of Sloan, who slept on the other couch.

“When your mother died just after you left for France, there was a lot of speculation that she’d killed herself. There are still a few that believe that, but she didn’t. I have a couple of contacts in the county, and her death certificate is still pending. I have no idea why it’s not filed with just unknown on it as cause of death, but it’s still in her file. And that is why we think your aunt wants you here.”

“My mom was sick. I mean…she had cancer, but it was just the beginning stages of it. The doctor said she’d be all right for a while if she had treatments. Could that be what killed her?” He shook his head and sat down. “Then why do
you
think she was killed?”

“First, I need to explain something to you. Your mom was the sole heir to the estate of your grandda. Did you know that?” When she shook her head, Luke knew that he was on the right track. “He had inherited his money from his dad, and him from his. There was a great deal of money there when your great-grandda died. Millions of it. But your grandfather made more, doubled it and then some. When he died, the will was read in a private office with just your mom and the attorney. She got it all. Your aunt, his sister, got nothing. And you were named as the heir to your mom’s estate, while your aunt got nothing. But she is able to live in the house that she’s in until such time as she dies or you decide to take it over. She can neither sell it, renovate it, nor can she do anything other than maintenance to it unless you allow it and approve it in writing only. Which, I’m sorry to say, you have been. Or so the attorneys for the estate thought.”

“I don’t understand. I’ve never had to give my permission on…. My mom didn’t have any money. She had to borrow money from the bank to send me to school.” Luke shook his head. “Yes, my aunt told me when I came home that she’d had to pay that outstanding bill, and I had to pay her back for that too. She showed me the paperwork.”

“There was no loan because she didn’t need to borrow anything. I’ve gone to the bank and had Hap look into it for you. He said that he’d have it in the morning. But I can tell you right now that the money that your mom took was from her own personal account.” Luke handed her the current balance sheet from the bank and the account her mother had. “The reason your aunt needs you home and under her thumb is because without you, she cannot get to the money in the bank. Among other things. The insurance policy that’s in your name isn’t doing her any good, because she needs someone to sign off on the death certificate. Once that is done, she’ll do the same to you as she did to your mother…have you ruled incompetent. I think that’s why she hates you having a child. Instead of her inheriting everything, as she would because you are all she has left, Hannah would get it all.”

“You think she killed Mom and made it look like she’d killed herself, don’t you?” Luke nodded. “Why would she do that to her? Why not just keep my mom around when she had all the money? And why did my mom not tell me about it?”

“I don’t know why she did it, but I know how we can find out.” He looked at Addie when she did. “Addie would only have to touch her and she’d know everything. And while I’m not really keen on using her powers for most things, I think, as do the rest of us, that you deserve to know. If your mom killed herself, then I will tell the old bat I’m sorry. But I don’t believe she is as innocent as she wants us all to believe. Not that she’s made any sort of bones about being a real bitch about everything, but on this I think she has plans that will ruin you, and harm Hannah too.”

“She’s not innocent at anything. And I think we all know that.” Luke smiled at Kimber. “When I got here, she gave me these contracts. There were…one was the rent that I’d have to be paying to her, and there was another one. One that…let me get it. I kept that one.”

When she left the room, Addie moved to sit near her grandmother. The two of them had their heads bent together and Luke looked at Hunter. Nothing good could come of the two of them conspiring, and he was pretty sure that Hunter thought the same thing. When Kimber came back, she not only had the contract, but she had a thick file of her own.

“This is all the conversations I’ve ever had with my aunt. Dates and times too.” He looked at the file and the copious notes that she’d written. “I don’t know if you can use any of this or not, but there is also a sort of signed confession from James. We were never married, so you know, but I did have his name put on the birth certificate. He was…I don’t think we were in love as much as we were very happy. Does that make sense to you?”

“Yes it does. Who’s to say you wouldn’t have fallen in love had there been time? But I’m glad you had each other. As for you not marrying him, I was getting to that too. You should know that as of this morning, James Walden’s parents have been notified of his daughter’s existence. I didn’t do it…I believe your aunt did. And I don’t think they’re going to be happy with her when they find out that everything they were told about you and Hannah is untrue.” Kimber asked if she’d painted her to be a horrible mother. “You have no idea.”