Wolves for the Bears: Book 5, Grey Wolf Pack Romance Novellas (8 page)

Without pausing he pulled his fingers out of her and dragged her over his shaft
, knocking her hands out of the way.  The tip teased her entrance for a few seconds before he thrust into her.  She shrieked in pleasurable surprise.

There wasn’t much room to move so he began taking her with short hard thrusts.  Bracing one hand on the roof of the truck he held her waist with the other, his mouth feasting on her breasts.

She gripped his shoulders and began moving up and down, impaling herself on his thick length. 

Beep!
  Each time she shoved herself down her ass caught the horn. 

The sharp noise impelled them to move more quickly.
  The cab was filled with the harsh sound of flesh slapping together, mixed with their loud moans and the ever increasing regularity of the truck’s horn.

Andy drove himself into
her violently as she crashed her body into his, the horn blaring determinedly.  He pulled his mouth away from her breast as they reached their release together.

Throwing their heads back they roared in unison, competing with the horn.
  Her inner muscles clenched him powerfully as he thrust into her a few more times until finally spent.

She collapsed against his chest, pulling her ass off the horn.
  She shook from the intensity of her orgasm, barely able to move.  He rubbed her back soothingly waiting for his own body to recover.  Her limbs felt like jelly. 
At that moment walking felt like an impossible task!

His bear and her wolf both grumbled that they still had not bonded.
 
They had known each other for almost two months, what was taking so long?

The fog of lust started to recede and she was left with...
regret, self-loathing, despair
...
crap!  Why didn’t she have any self control?

Tenderly Andy lifted her from him and buckled her into the passenger seat.  He brushed his fingertips down her cheek.  “Come on honey, let’s get you home.”

He drove the short distance to her house and carried her inside.  She should have told him she was recovered enough to walk herself but in truth she was enjoying the attention.

He carefully laid her down on her couch and pulled a throw over her.
  He took one of her hands and kissed the palm. 

“Stay, don’t go.”  She murmured sleepily. 
Alright so maybe she was more worn out than she realised.
 

He looked away from her.  “I can’t...
what would people think... Esther...”

She pulled her hand away from him and huffed.  “Fine, get out.”

Andy scowled at her.  “Don’t be like that.”

Her eyes narrowed and she sneered at him.  “Your fucktoy’s tired
, you should leave.”

She turned over to face the back of the couch, and closed her eyes pretending she was going to sleep. 
In truth she just didn’t want him to see her cry.

He sighed and quietly left the house, making sure the door was locked on the way out.
  She waited until she heard the throaty purr of his engine before she allowed herself to sob out loud.

Why did she keep doing this to herself?

*

Esther
stroked her lover’s cheek.  “Stay with me tonight, sleep here.”  She implored.

“What about Andy?”

Esther shook his head.  “It’s fine, he gets in late and you’ll be gone before he wakes.”

“Great, so I get to be a thief in the night.”  Her lover muttered bitterly.

“I’m sorry sweetie...”

“Don’t call me that!  That’s what you call him.”

Esther furrowed her brow.  “You’re right.  I’m sorry.  Loads of people are my sweeties but only you are my mate.  Only you have my heart...”

“Ummm hmmm.”

Esther smirked.  “Feeling a little sorry for ourself are we?”

She was met with a narrowed glare.  “Aren’t you worried your neighbours will see me sneaking out?”

Esther harrumphed.  “Most of my neighbours are over 75 years old, they barely step foot outside of their houses.  Besides they’d probably just assume that you were having an affair with Andy to be honest.”

“Oh very funny!”

Bang!  The front door slammed shut.

“Andy.”  Whispered Esther.
  “He’s back early, just stay quiet and he won’t come in here.”

“You’re sure?”

“Yes, we never go into each other’s rooms... it’s one of our ground rules.”

“What are your ground rules on overnight guests?”

“Shhhhh!”  Esther darted her eyes to the door.  “Andy’s coming up stairs.”

They heard his heavy tread, and the squeak of the floorboards before he slammed his bedroom door shut.

Esther breathed a sigh of relief.  She knew she wasn’t really doing anything wrong when all was said and done, but she didn’t really want to have the conversation about how she had found her mate right at that moment.

Esther wrapped her arms around her mate tightly.
  “Let’s just go to sleep.”

Chapter Seven

14
th
October

It was the night of the p
ack pot luck. 
Mac seriously did not want to be there
.

In the short time since her brother the Alpha and the
Beta had found their mates the pack had become a lot more... social. 

She remembered when she was younger there had always been parties, get togethers, big pack meals.  But that had ended after her mother died.
  After that her father became even angrier and withdrawn.  He didn’t care about being social with anyone. 
Especially his own children...

Now it seemed that the void left by her mother was being filled by Rosalee and Liv, and Adam was even building a recreation centre for the pack. 
She had to admit, the pack did seem to be more like a family than ever, and they seemed to be functioning very well with little dissention in the ranks.  Numerous good wolves had left the pack to join other packs after her mother’s death, not liking her father’s new attitude. 
More like reign of terror...

She had hemmed and hawed about coming for a good two hours.  She had thought about saying she had a headache but her
obedient nature eventually won out.  She was the sister of the Alpha and a Sheriff’s Deputy, she had responsibilities.  She had to be there.  It was expected of her.

Yep that was her, always a good little girl
.  Always had been, always doing what her father said, then what her brother said, never acting out of turn, always following the correct path. 

Well apart from the part where she had sex with a married man...
 
Her father would be horrified with her if he were alive, and honestly she couldn’t imagine Adam feeling any different.  If it was any other female pack member they probably wouldn’t even care, it was different because it was her. 
She was damn well sick of it!

Finally after she gave in she had agreed to attend with Luke.  As a friend.  Only as a friend.  It was not a date.  Definitely not.  He had quickly agreed to that without arguing. 
That made her more nervous than if he had tried to quarrel with her
.

He had pick
ed her up promptly and now she was enjoying sampling the many offerings people had brought with them, whilst studiously avoiding Andy’s gaze. 
His presence was the main reason she seriously did not want to be there.

A lot of no
n-pack members had been invited to the pot luck, she knew Andy was among them. She just wasn’t certain that he would show up. 
Or that he would bring his wife
.

Esther had greeted her warmly, making Mac tense up.  How could she be friends with Esther?  On one hand her wolf was growling at the she-bear who was sleeping with her mate,
although she had to admit she could never smell Esther’s scent on him or vice versa, which was pretty unusual... 
On the other hand Mac was racked with guilt at having slept with the she-bear’s husband. 
She couldn’t look her in the eye...

Esther was chatting animatedly to the she-wolf Felicity.  Andy was stood a little away from them intermittently glancing in her direction, a look of displeasure on his face. 
She imagined that was more due to the fact that she was there with Luke than anything else
.

But then she was also wearing a dress
, heels, make-up, and had dried her hair so it fell in soft ringlets.  She looked pretty, even if she did say so herself.  A complete change from her normal tomboy style.

Even Luke had been struck dumb at her appearance for a few minutes and he had seen her naked before!  Loads of times.  At both the full moon gatherings and when they were...
together in bed
.  She tried not to think of those times, those memories made both her and her wolf uneasy.

Luke had told her she looked beautiful, whilst his
eyes had been filled with lust and the air had flooded with the scent of his arousal. 
She was starting to think that being friends with Luke was a bad idea.

Luke
tugged on her elbow.  “You want a drink?”

“Please, I’ll have a beer.”

“You go grab a table, I’ll be right over.”  She watched as he walked away a little relieved to have a respite from him.

Mac found an empty table and began eating.  She could feel the
hairs on the back of her neck stand up and her sex quivered a little. 
Andy was watching her
.

She had an urge to turn round but she fought it with every fibre of her being.  He already looked too handsome for words, in tight jeans and a tight long sleeved jersey shirt, she wanted to rub herself all over hi
m. 
If she saw him right now she might just run over and do that...
 

She breathed deeply willing her
own desire to abate. 
Think unsexy thoughts
.

Luke joined her
and they soon finished eating.  He turned to her.  “Can I speak to you in private?”  He asked lowly.

“Ummm, sure.” 
Uh-oh!  Alarm bells started ringing
.

Luke took hold of her hand
pulling her to her feet, she tensed slightly but he didn’t seem to notice as he pulled her towards the cover of the trees.

Mac gently extricated her hand from his grip and crossed her arms over her chest.
  “Everything okay?”  She asked tentatively.

A muscle ticked in his jaw for a second before he lurched forward dragging her into a kiss.
  Her lips parted in surprise and he took advantage to slip his tongue into her mouth.  His hands gripped her arms as he pushed her backwards, pinning her to a tree.  She was so surprised she didn’t react for a few moments.

Her wolf howled. 
This was wrong, every part of it felt wrong, this man was not their mate!

She tried to squirm but he held her tightly, she tried to move her mouth away from him but he pushed her more firmly into the tree. 
She was trapped
.

No, she didn’t want this.  Pulling on all the strength she had she pushed him away from her.  “Stop please!”  She gasped, her eyes were wild turn
ing to amber.

Luke staggered back a few steps breathing heavily.  He licked his lips savouring her taste.

Her body was shaking slightly, angry at the enforced kiss.  “Why did you do that?” 

His nostrils flared. 
He was angry too
.  With an effort he remained calm.  “Because you weren’t going to.”

“I told you I needed time.”  She said, her voice laced with hurt and accusation.

He growled throatily.  “Delilah, it’s been two months.  It’s time to move on.  Your mate doesn’t want you, but I do.  I’m willing to be with you even though I know you’ll be wishing that I’m him.  How many other men do you think are prepared to say the same?”

She looked away from him. 
He was right, who would want to spend their life with a person knowing that they were aching to be with someone else? 

He took a step toward her and she
recoiled.  He scowled in annoyance.  “Look I want you Delilah, I love you, but I won’t wait for you forever.”

Mac bit her lip. 
Hadn’t she said the same thing to Andy?

He moved slowly, getting nearer and nearer to her. 
Like a predator stalking his prey
.  “I’m not asking for anything that we haven’t already done before.  There was a time when you wanted me to touch you...”  His voice became husky with need.

She cringed remembering the things she had said and done in the past. 
Like when she asked him to take her virginity... 
Was this it for her though?  Either she gives in to Luke’s demands now or she’d be alone forever?  Were those her only options? 

She just... wasn’t ready yet.

He was now stood directly in front of her.  He gently rubbed his thumb down her cheek. 
She shivered
.  “Do you think it’s fair, keeping me on the hook like this?  You can’t really expect me to hang around without some kind of reward.”

“Reward?!”  Her eyes flashed with anger.
 
He was trying to force her into having sex!
  “I told you I couldn’t promise you anything.  I told you not to expect anything from me and yet here you are acting like you have a claim on me.  You know what Luke?  You want sex then go find yourself some willing wolf groupie because you’re not getting it from me!”

With that she pushed past him and tramped back to the gathering.  She quickly joined Rosalee, Liv and Terri who were all sat together at one of the tables.  Luke followed her, a murderous look on his face.  She scowled at him until he went away.  She slipped into conversation with the other three women seamlessly, pretending like nothing was happening.

Her wolf danced around, pleased that the other male had been dismissed. 
Asshole!  She thought furiously. 

*

It was the night of the pack pot luck. 
Andy seriously had not wanted to attend
.

Esther had nagged and nagged him to go.  He had told her just to go on her own, but she insisted that she couldn’t go without him as she barely knew anyone in the pack.  She had pouted and gotten upset and of course good old Andy had caved.

Who cares about what Andy wants right?

Thankfully he had been able to keep to himself for most of the night.
  Esther had spent most of the night talking with a young wolf called Felicity.  Andy had hung around them half-heartedly pretending to listen.

He wasn’t particularly in the mood
to spend the night with a group of wolves.  There was only one wolf he wanted to spend any time with and she certainly didn’t want to see him.

He had planned on saying hello to a few pack members, getting Esther settled and then making an excuse so he could leave. 
Or at least that was the plan...

He was about to say goodbye to Esther when his mate arrived.  His heart virtually skipped a beat when he saw her.  She looked strikingly beautiful.
 
Not that she didn’t always
...  But she was wearing a dark blue dress that clung tantalisingly to her supple, slender body.  Her silky black hair fell in soft large curls and she had painted her lips a dark red. 
Her mouth looked even more delectable
.

His bear had growled at him
excitedly whilst his desire for her soared until... he noticed that she was there with another male. 
Her fucking ex-boyfriend Luke
.

The bear snarled and Andy almost did too.
  Luke had put his hand on her back lightly leading her. 
How dare he touch her?!

Andy had trembled trying to keep himself under control.
  His only consolation was that Mac didn’t seem overly thrilled at his close presence.  It did however feel like a knife to his heart when Mac assiduously avoided his own gaze.

He watched Mac and Luke all night with ill-concealed loathing.
  They got their food together, sat together, ate together... god how he wanted to tear Luke’s head off!

For a second he caught Luke’s gaze and Andy could have sworn...
no that couldn’t be right
.  He thought he saw Luke smirk triumphantly at him.  Had Mac told Luke who Andy was to her?  No, she wouldn’t have.  She already hated herself for perceiving herself as being ‘the other woman’, she couldn’t possibly have wanted anyone else to know.  Perhaps Luke just suspected...
maybe he was slightly less dumb than he looked
.

Andy growled gutturally and Esther elbowed him in the ribs, frowning at him.
  He winced at the pain scowling at her.  She quirked an eyebrow before turning back to talk to Felicity.

He rolled his shoulders trying to relax his taut, coiled muscles.  He had tensed the moment he saw Mac together with Luke.

Groaning his eyes roamed back to his mate.  He did a double take.  Her table was empty. 
Where the fuck had she gone?  Had she gone somewhere with Luke?!

He felt panic and fury pour through his body
.  He stood up abruptly looking around wildly. 
Where had she gone?
 
Had she left with Luke?  Were they leaving to be alone?  God what if they were leaving to have sex!

He suddenly caught sight of her disappearing into the trees with Luke,
fuck he was holding her hand
.  Without thinking he followed, his bear controlling him.  Vaguely he was aware of Esther calling after him but all he cared about was getting to his mate... and definitely stopping anything that was about to happen.

He considered
marching up to them and violently pulling her away shouting ‘Mine’ but... he didn’t imagine she would like that,
or forgive him for that
.  He decided on a less aggressive approach,
although he had to admit it was somewhat creepier
.