The Final Chase (Final Love Book 2) (7 page)

Chapter Eleven

Wild Rescue was home to twenty-six big cats, including lions, tigers, a liger, panthers, and two cheetahs. We also passed by the home of a big grizzly bear. For some reason, the bear was scarier to me than the big cats we saw.  Jake told me a few of the stories of the animals we stopped to watch. One of the panthers was abused. The owner wanted a big cat, but then as it got bigger, he used to beat it on the head with a shovel.  Then we saw a bear who was retired from the circus. 

One of the tigers, named Nala, used to be drugged so that people could take pictures with her for money.  I felt sick to my stomach when we came to a stop at a house that had a large pond behind it.

“I’m not a big lover of animals. However, I’m really glad you do what you do, Jake, and that you’ve found a way to give these poor babies a home.”  I wasn’t a very emotional person. Truth be told, I’ve only cried twice in my adult life. Once when Rayne accidentally hit me in the nose.  It hurt so bad, I swore it was broken. Thank goodness it wasn’t.  The other time was when my parents split up. I was upset because I thought everything was great, but apparently it wasn’t.  They were just growing in different directions.  I still talk to both, and when we are all together, they get along nicely. My sister and I both had nice childhoods, and aren’t bitter about it. But when I first heard they were splitting, I was sad. Then I moved on. Life was too short for a lot of tears and sadness. So the fact that on my first day with Jake and the animals I was close to crying, made me feel a little uneasy and out of my comfort zone.

“This is where our vet lives.  Over to the right you can see the intern and employees’ homes.”  He pointed to the right and I noticed a couple of houses. All different sizes. My guess was it was like a dorm type of situation, unless you had a family.

“Come on, I want you to meet the doctor.” We walked into the house, and it was not what I was expecting. It looked like a doctor’s office. I could see a big surgical room with a window to the right, and a wooden desk right before that.

Jake was kind of cute, how he wanted me to meet all the people that he worked with. I’ll admit I was intrigued by the man and what went on in his life. I still said we were different, but I knew he had a wicked tongue and he cared deeply for this rescue.

“Hey, Doc, I want you to meet someone,” my tour guide called out. I snickered at the thought. Jake was my little safari guide. Cute.

“Well, hello there. The young lady that was bitten by the wallaby!” The same older man who had tried to explain to me why Jake had his arm up a horse’s ass walked into the room. He was tall, in decent shape, and had a trimmed white beard and gray hair. He looked to be in his sixties, but I wasn’t the best at the age guessing game. 

“That would be me.” I flashed him my middle finger that was now bandage free.

“I’m Cammy.” I waved. He smiled, then his green eyes looked at Jake with a different type of smile. Like an “I’m proud of you, son” type of smile.

“I’m just helping out for the week.” I tried to put that out there. In no way was I staying here for good. Nope. Not happening.

“Cammy, I’m Doctor Nick. My wife, Hannah, is assisting Casey right now with her lunch, but you can meet her in a minute.”

“Hannah!” a voice that sounded just like the doctor’s screamed in the room. I looked to my left and saw a big birdcage with a large gray bird sitting on the top. He screamed again, and I felt a little creeped out that it sounded just like the doctor. I would hate to be here at night and have it start talking. Nightmares galore, right there.

“That’s Booma, our African Grey.  He has a very extensive vocabulary, and as you heard, can imitate tones of voice.”  The doctor walked over to the bird and scratched its neck. The bird obviously liked it, but I was still leery. That beak looked sharp. Everything on this rescue could bite me or kill me. I eased over closer to Jake, ready to take cover should it fly over and attack me.

“He won’t hurt you,” Jake whispered to me, and I stuck my tongue out at him.

“He’s an animal, they all bite,” I countered, using his own words against him. He didn’t say anything, but his eyes skimmed over me, then came back up to meet mine, desire burning in those blue pools. He wanted to bite me. I felt my cheeks blush a little, because to be honest, I wanted him to. My mind had started thinking about all the wicked things I wanted to do to him, when a woman entered the room, carrying a little tiger in her arms.

“Casey is eating better; she drank the whole bottle in a snap. Oh, hi, Jake!” She had really curly black hair and deep brown eyes.  She was in decent shape, but then considering the load she was carrying, I could see how she looked good. 

“Give me my girl.” Jake walked over to her and lifted the little orange tiger right out of her arms. Did tigers purr? Because I’m pretty sure I heard it purr as it snuggled in his arms.

“I’m Hannah, Nick’s wife and other vet on the premises. We help take care of all the animals when they need us.”  She smiled and rubbed the tiger’s head.

“Cammy, Jake’s hostage for the week.” I smiled, then went to peek at the kitty in Jake’s arms. I was curious about the mysterious Casey.

Now, maybe it was my maternal clock ticking away, or maybe it was like what happened with Jacob imprinting on Renesmee in
Twilight
, but when I looked into that little tiger’s eyes, something in me clicked. I wanted to care for that little cub. I wanted her to grow into a big tiger and be happy.

“Hi, baby. Oh, you are such a pretty girl,” I cooed at the cub. I walked over and for the first time in my life, I wasn’t afraid that an animal was going to bite my fingers off.  I knew she could eat me, even at her size, if she wanted to, but I was oddly unconcerned.

Her big, blue eyes were watching me as she brought her paws up to bat Jake’s face playfully.

Be still my heart.

“Yes, you are going to grow up and be a bad ass tiger, aren’t you?”  Something had to have possessed me. I was baby talking to a tiger. I reached out and her paws touched my hand. I felt claws, but not in a bad way. She was batting my fingers.

“She likes you.” Jake’s voice was husky. My hand moved back to my side and my eyes flew up to his. He was looking at me with even more hunger in his gaze. Oh hell.

“I like her too,” I admitted. I heard a growl from the man consuming my thoughts and looked down at the tiger. I didn’t want to embarrass myself by jumping on him in front of the doctors. Swiftly Jake walked towards Hannah and handed Casey back to her. I may have heard the little tiger meow
nooo
, but that could have been in my head.

“I’ve got more to show Cammy; I’ll be back later for Casey. It’s my week.” I barely had time to say goodbye before Jake was dragging my ass back out to the ATV.

“I wasn’t done talking to them, you brute!” I took a step back but was lifted up and placed on the machine in seconds.
Holy strong arms, Batman!
Instead of Jake sitting in front of me, this time he was behind me, his chest against my back. His surprisingly hard cock was pressed against my lower back. A little shiver coursed through me. I wanted that cock.

My head fell back a little and my eyes closed, my thoughts solely on getting pleasured by the man behind me.  I felt like a cat in heat around him; all I wanted to do was lift my ass in the air and wave it around like
come and get me big boy
! I thought I felt his chest rumble behind me, but he also had just turned on the four wheeler.

My back pressed against his torso even more since he was speeding us somewhere. I mentally crossed my fingers that we were heading back to the lodge for some naughty time, but instead he drove off the beaten path and into the woods. My mouth pursed in confusion. Uh, did he take me for a woodsy type of girl?

Chapter Twelve

We passed by a shed with doors and he parked us to the side of it. We were completely alone. Hmmm, maybe being out in the woods wasn’t such a bad thing after all right now. The ATV was still rumbling, and I won’t lie, feeling horny, combined with the subtle vibrations of the machine between my legs, was making me feel extra frisky. When I started to turn so I could figure out what he had planned, Jake turned off my vibrations. I pouted a little at that but decided we could play another time this week on the ATV.

“It’s very quiet out here,” I commented, looking around. I wondered what was in the shed. I kinda noticed two dirt lines that went through the trees like a path. Maybe from a car or truck?

“Jake?”  He hadn’t said a word. My body turned back towards his and he looked pained.

“Jake?” Should I shake him or something?  I got up onto my knees and faced him. He was looking off in the trees, but switched his attention to me now that I was facing him. Staring into his blue eyes made me want to kiss him again. And even though we already had our first kiss, I had a feeling that more kisses from Jake would feel like a first kiss every time.  Free falling into his blissful touch.   He didn’t make me wait for it. He knew exactly what I wanted.

His fingers wrapped lightly around the back of my neck and pulled me down to him. He was assertive in his kiss, taking control, while giving me what I craved. My fingers gripped the tops of his shoulders, wanting to be closer. His other hand went to my hip and pushed me so I clashed with his body. Oh, heck yeah.  I straddled his hips and ground down on him a little. I was a tease, but to be honest, I just straight up wanted him. Sex on one of these things could be interesting. 
“Plans have changed, not fucking you yet,” he stated as I moved over that big piece of man meat. Those blasphemous words stopped me mid-grind. I tried to pull back to question what the hell he just said, but he lifted me off him, swung off the ATV and laid me down on the seat cushion.

“What the hell do you mean,
plans have changed?
I want sex.” I lifted my head to look at him just as he nipped my clit through my leggings. A yelp flew from my chest. He nuzzled my sex and I was starting to forget what I was saying. Something about plans?

“You aren’t ready to talk about it yet. We’ll wait until you get more accustomed to this.” His fingers gripped the waistband to my leggings and started pulling them down. Even though I was confused by his words, I lifted my hips so he could get them down to the tops of my boots. I was bare and on display for all the woodland creatures to see, but I wasn’t shy. Jake was looking at me like he was going to devour the shit out of my pussy and I was salivating with anticipation for him to do it. I didn’t wait long.

He latched on and I moaned as he licked, sucked, and paid special attention to that little bundle of nerves that was driving me wild. My fingers gripped the handle bars above my head, anything to tether myself to this ATV and what the tongue between my legs was doing to me.  He lapped at my core with force. He was out to prove something. What? I did not fucking care at the moment. My body tensed, my hips lifted in sync with his tongue. I felt so close.

“Please, Jake,” I begged. I needed this release like I needed to breathe. A finger entered me, and my back bowed.

“Holy fuck!” I cried out. His finger moved in and out, curling right at my sweet spot. My vision blurred and my body froze up and then exploded. Like screaming-louder-than-the-damn-lions-roar-in-the-fields type of exploded. Jake’s hand gripped my waist, keeping me pinned to his mouth.

“Jake, come in Jake. We’ve got a problem.”  And the good feeling I had just been graced with vanished. Problem? What problem?  Jake untangled himself from my legs and grabbed his walkie.

“Jake here.” He looked me over; a little gloss from my wetness coated his lips. He noticed me looking and licked his lips clean. Did I just orgasm again? Maybe…

“Juno snuck out.” 

“Shit,” he cursed, while turning a knob on his walkie.

“Attention, we have a code red. Find the nearest indoor enclosure and wait until I say it’s over.”  Then he switched the knob again.

“Derek. Get the tranquilizer.”  I pulled my leggings up faster that you can say freak out. Which I was doing, a little.

“Who snuck out?” I asked as I sat up on the ATV and Jake sat in front of me.

“Juno, a twenty-eight-month-old lion cub. She is mostly harmless, but could still kill someone if she wanted to.”  And there it was. I kept thinking all the animals were going to get out and eat me and it was now a possibility.  Instead of panicking like I wanted to, I just held onto Jake’s waist as he sped off toward the big cat that was on the loose.

Derek was waiting by the lodge with a large gun. Oh shit.

“She’s around the porch. Probably wanting one of the goats,” Derek said, as Jake jumped off the ATV and grabbed the gun.

“Stay with Cammy.” He pointed to Derek with a fierce look.  Jake slowly started walking around the porch, probably so his boots wouldn’t make noise on the wood. Could one really sneak up on a lion though? I wasn’t so sure that I wanted to stay here anymore. I mean, if lions were going to be getting loose and running around, I would probably get eaten. I wasn’t very fast, or graceful. One stumble and I’d be kitty food in a heartbeat. My armpits started to sweat from nerves as Jake got closer and closer to the corner of the house.

“Come on, sweetheart.”  Derek’s voice brought me out of my panicked state. He was holding his large calloused hand out to me. I was confused.

“You’ll see; you don’t want to miss this.” I was still confused as hell but I grabbed the man’s hand and he led me, very quickly, to the back of the house where there were a bunch of people.

Waiting for Jake.

Waiting for Jake to come around the corner with his tranquilizer gun for a lion, that, from the looks of the cake and balloons, was just a ploy to get him over here.

A few thoughts drifted through my mind as Jake came around the corner, gun up and ready to fire. Everyone yelled
happy birthday
!

While I thought it was cool that they wanted to throw him a surprise birthday party, I had just come on the man’s lips. Couldn’t they have waited like, half an hour?

Jake dropped the gun and a smile broke out on his face. His eyes went to Derek’s, and I could tell he wanted to throttle the flannel-wearing man. His eyes moved to me next and I mouthed happy birthday. Maybe I would give him a birthday blow job or something of the sort. Ever since I saw his dick yesterday in the shower, I had been wanting to get my hands on it. While everyone stopped Jake to say hello, I noticed that he was not shaking hands with anyone. Which in turn made me giggle a little, thinking of where that hand had been not too long ago. It was like a dirty little secret between us.

“Enjoy your toys?”  Derek asked, shoulder bumping me. Because he was larger than me, I stumbled a little.  I was about to answer when I spotted a little fluffy creature rolling in the grass by Hannah.

“Yep, be right back.” My eyes were glued to the little baby tiger having fun with some small toy.

“Cammy, nice to see you again.” Hannah’s sweet voice called out to me.
“Yes! It feels like it’s been so long,” I joked, then went down on my knees by the little cub.

“She is adorable.” I wanted to pet her but realized that I knew nothing about baby tigers. I doubted that they were like sweet little kittens that would curl up on your lap while you petted them.

“That she is. She’s our little trooper.”  Hannah smiled at the cub and took a sip out of her red Solo cup.                      

“What’s her story? Every animal here has one, or so I’m learning.” I sat there as Hannah told me Casey’s story.  A man was looking to make some money, so he travelled around the U.S. to festivals or big parties, and accepted cash in exchange for people having their picture made with a tiger cub. They could pet her, handle her how they pleased, and pose for the camera. He made a lot, sadly. Poor little Casey had been ripped away from her mother and thrown into the world of “cub petting,” as I learned that it was actually called that. He fed her, and housed her, but not like he should have. She got sick because she was like a newborn and had no real immune system yet. Thankfully, before he could sell her off, kill her, or God knows what else, the State stepped in and she was brought to the rescue. Hannah, her husband, and Jake took personal care of her, alternating weeks because she still required nighttime feedings. She was eleven months old and soon would be big enough that she wouldn’t need milk anymore. They’ve only had her for four weeks now and she was happy and at home.

“But she has gotten sick once since she’s been here. When that happens we have to monitor her closely so she doesn’t get worse.”  Hannah ended her story.  Poor baby Casey.

“I know this sounds stupid to say, but does she bite you?” I had to know.

“Oh, yes. She used to not know how her teeth would hurt, but she has learned to be gentle.”  She demonstrated by putting her hand in the tiger’s mouth, which she opened for but didn’t try and take her fingers off. Interesting. 

The tiger yawned, and laid across Hannah’s feet and relaxed. Sleep was probably going to overtake her soon.

“So, Cammy, what brings you here to help out at a place like this?” Hannah asked nicely. The only reason I was here was because I lost a bet to Jake, instead of helping for the cause of the animals, which made me sort of feel bad. But I was not one to regret anything, so I told her the truth.

“Jake and I made a bet, he won, and I’m here for the week. Not sure what help I will be; as you can probably tell, I’m not a hard labor type of girl. But I’m always up to try new things.” It was the best answer I could give. I looked around and saw Jake looking at me. His blue eyes melted another layer I had built up against him. He did so much. Everyone around him was smiling and having a great time.

“He’s a good man. Needs to settle down, though.” Subtle much? I looked back at Hannah to see her watching me watching Jake.  Unsure of what else to say, I stood up.

“He’s all right.” I winked and strode off toward the man of the hour.

“Happy birthday. I didn’t know I was getting the honor of being in your presence on your birthday. I am so humbled,” I teased.  The two people that were talking to him struck up a conversation between themselves so it was like Jake and I were alone.

“Best birthday gift a man could ask for,” he uttered as he stuck his finger in his mouth. Oh God.

I felt like Oprah, handing out gifts to everyone. You get an orgasm, you get an orgasm, everyone gets an orgasm! Mini-orgasms were happening everywhere just by him sucking the remnants of my wetness off his damn fingers.

“Maybe if you convince me, you’ll get an even better birthday gift.”  I pressed my tongue to the side of my cheek, hinting at a blowjob. His eyes narrowed at my cheek and took a step closer.

“A better gift would be stripping you down with my teeth, your hands gripping the full-length mirror in the guest room, while I palm that sweet ass and feed your tight pussy my cock…inch by inch until you are so full you are up on your toes to accommodate me.”  I wanted to hold onto his body because I felt like my knees were going to give out.

“Definitely sounds better,” I whimpered, need strangling my throat. Never in my thirty years had I ever been on fire like this. He lit me up and kept me burning for him. It was something I could easily get addicted to, whether I wanted that or not.

“But it won’t be this birthday.” He pulled back with a smug smile. Was he enjoying riling me up like this, then letting me sit on it? And not sit on it in a
good
way.

“What is your deal? I gave in; I’m willing to let you have your wicked way with me. I’m here. What do you want?” I whisper-raged, totally up in his face. Thank God no one was paying attention to us, because I was sure this looked a little heated.

“What I want, you aren’t ready to hear yet. So relax, sweetheart. Enjoy the ride. I promise you there will be one….just not today.”  He leaned in and pressed a sweet kiss to my cheek before walking away, as if he didn’t just get me all hot and bothered, then throw some Arson-like shit on me. Arson.

Rayne! I needed to talk to Rayne.