Emerald [Pyrate's Treasure 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) (5 page)

“What the fuck? You’re a virgin?”

Shock slammed through Nick when the thin membrane of virginity tore as Emerald slid down his shaft. Once she sheathed him fully and before she could move again, he grabbed her hips and forced her to keep her still. Her pussy muscles rippled against his cock, massaging it and sending his mind-blanking need higher.

His surprise continued when she lifted her head from his shoulder and smiled at him. “Not any more. My mate just claimed it.”

His cock jerked in response to her peaceful tone. He stared into blue eyes that were now nearly navy in color. His balls tingled and tightened as his orgasm gathered there. His hunger threatened to put a fast end to this coupling, which was the last thing he wanted. She was a virgin and should not be riding him hard and fast. Their loving should be slow, easy, and drawn out.

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

Emerald looked away, appearing shy, uncertain, and hurt. Then she shrugged. “I didn’t think it would matter.”

When she made a move as if to climb from his lap, Nick tightened his hold on her hips. “You didn’t think it would matter?”

Emerald leaned closer to rub her cheek against his, distracting him. Her nipples dragged across his chest had his cock twitching deep inside her in response. “Honestly, I hadn’t given it any thought,” she whispered.

Pulling one hand from under her skirt, he ran it up her back and shoved his fingers through the wild waves and curls of her hair. Using her hair as a leash, he pulled her head back and met her startled gaze.

“Emmy, my gypsy woman, of course it matters. Everything about you is important to me. How are you feeling?” Unable to help himself, he canted his hips upward. This pressed his cock even deeper into her hot, wet tunnel.

“Horny,” she moaned as she shifted in his lap.

Whatever pain she had felt must have passed. Instead of helping her move on him, Nick bent his head and took a nipple between his lips. Batting at it with his tongue, he worked to keep his arousal under control as he built hers back up to a level somewhere near his own.

It took only a few seconds before she was mewling with need. She began to move despite his attempts to hold her still. Finally, he released her hip and slid his hand back to her ass. He shifted lower in the chair as she began to ride him. As one, they sighed as she began to slide up and down his length. He pressed back into the chair as he fought to keep his own hips still.

“Slow and easy, sweetheart,” he instructed. “We’ve got all night if you need it.”

As she rode his cock, moving faster and faster, she stripped the last of his control from him. His hips began to rock in counterpoint to hers. He gritted his teeth as he fought to keep his movements slow and easy though it was difficult. His control was shredding fast, and it took everything in him to keep from driving hard and fast up into her hot, silky hold.

The hand in her hair dropped to her thigh then made its way up the inside of her leg until he reached her clit. He was close to exploding, but was determined she fly over the edge first. Finding her wet, knotted clit, he began to stroke it lightly with the pad of his thumb.

“Need more,” she whimpered. Grabbing at his shoulders to steady herself, she started to move even faster.

With her admission of need, the last threads of his control disintegrated. Pulling his arms from under her skirt, he wrapped them around her back.

“Hang on,” he said as he surged to his feet.

Emerald squeaked and wrapped her legs around his waist when he stood. He took a second to shove the food containers out of his way before laying her on the table. Leaning over her, he kissed her again as he began to move, fucking her hard and fast. Wrapping her arms around his back, she held him close as her hips canted up to meet him.

“Come for me, gypsy,” he murmured as his own orgasm gathered in his balls. He worked his hand between them again and gently pinched her clit between two fingers.

Emerald cried out as she bucked underneath him with her orgasm. Her pleasure feeding his, he thrust three more times before his cock jerked and he came. Semen surged with an almost painful pleasure before it exploded out the tip of cock deep into her pussy.

At the same instant, he felt a sharp pain bloom where his shoulder and neck came together. It took a few seconds for his thoughts to clear enough for him to realize Emerald had just bitten him. A second orgasm slammed through him, and his hips jerked several more times, pushing even deeper into his woman’s wet heat.

* * * *

Emerald licked the bite in Nick’s shoulder closed as he groaned, the heat of his juices filling her sending her into a second, smaller release. She dropped her head back to the table and tried to recover her breath and her control. All she wanted to do was drag her mate up to her room so they could start all over again.

In the next second, Nick collapsed over her. The feel of his warm body pressing hers into the table felt so good all she could do was sigh as a never-before-felt happiness flowered in her.

She had found and claimed her mate. She would not spend the rest of her life alone and lonely. There would be someone beside her from now on.

She held him with trembling arms and legs as their breathing returned to normal and they slowly recovered. Finally, Nick lifted his head and then rested his upper body on his elbows as he studied her intently. “That was incredible, but you bit me.”

“No, I claimed you. There’s a difference,” she said, her words slightly slurred. She felt almost drunk with the depth of her release and his blood entering her system. “We are now mates for life.”

He smiled down at her, looking more than a little relaxed and content himself. “So, what’s next?”

“Mmmm, I think we need to get dressed before someone shows up and catches us in this somewhat compromised position.”

He opened his mouth to speak, but she laid two fingers on them to silence him. Her sensitive hearing picked up voices coming from beyond the yard. Closing her eyes, she was able to pinpoint them to be coming from the woods out toward the beach. Another second and she concluded they were not pack members. At least two strangers were trespassing on pack lands. Were they guests or treasure hunters?

Pulling her fingers from Nick’s lips, she whispered, “I need you to go inside as fast as you can. Call Silver and tell him someone is trespassing in the woods near the beach behind the house. His number is on the card by the phone in the kitchen.”

“What?”

“Nick, please just do as I say,” she urged as she pushed him off her.

He frowned but straightened. Stepping back, he pulled pants up and fastened them. She sat up then climbed from the table. Once on her feet, she pushed her skirt down her legs and stepped out of it. She straightened to find Nick staring at her with a hungry expression.

“What are you doing?” he asked, catching the skirt that she picked up and tossed at him.

“I’m going to investigate. Now go inside,” she said just before she shifted to her wolf form.

“Holy fuck, you really are a shape-shifter,” Nick said, his eyes going wide. “Wait, what do you mean you’re going to investigate?”

Wishing she could speak, Emerald instead stepped toward him and used her shoulder to nudge him toward the back door. She waited until he had crossed the patio and entered the house. Once he closed the door and was be safe, she turned toward the woods.

* * * *

Stunned by Emerald’s blink-of-an-eye transformation into a sleek black wolf, Nick found himself unable to move until she came and pushed at him toward the house. Once he was inside with the door closed, he turned to look out the window at the wolf. He watched as she trotted off the patio and disappeared into the woods. He stared into the bushes where she had disappeared, half hoping she would walk back into the yard in naked human form.

After nearly a minute, the rest of Emerald’s words came back to him. He looked around and found the list hanging on the wall across the room. Hurrying to it, he found Silver’s number on the list and quickly dialed it.

“Hello?” Silver answered after the second ring, but the background noise was almost too loud for Nick to hear him. “Hang on a sec.”

It was closer to twenty seconds before the background noise diminished and Silver returned, “Hello? Em? What’s wrong?”

“It’s Nick. Emerald asked me to call and tell you there are trespassers in the woods behind the house. She’s out there alone,” Nick said, trying to remain calm though he felt anything but.

“Okay. I’ll be there in a couple of minutes. Stay in the house until we come back.” Silver’s tone changed, and suddenly he sounded more serious than Nick had heard since meeting the man a few hours before.

Before Nick could reply, Silver clicked off his phone. Hanging up, Nick returned to the back door. He stared toward the spot where Emerald had disappeared into the woods. When he started thinking about what had happened, his legs went weak. Instead of collapsing to the floor, he leaned heavily against the counter next to the door. He continued his vigil for the woman who had captured his heart. As he did, he wondered what other secrets his black-haired gypsy had to share with him.

* * * *

After pocketing his phone, Silver took off running toward the house. Fear for his cousin caused him to use the extra speed being a shape-shifter gave him. As he ran down the street, he hoped none of the guests saw him moving faster than humanly possible.

He rounded the outside of the house, pausing at the fence just long enough to punch the code into the electronic lock. Shoving the panel open once the lock clicked, he stepped through and began stripping off his clothes. He folded his shorts, put them in his mouth, and then shifted. He doubted Emerald thought to take clothes with her. If the trespassers were guests, he would shift back and escort them politely to their side of the fence with a stern warning about what the fence meant.

If it was the people who had been digging holes on the island and had taken a shot at Goldie a few weeks before, there was no telling what might happen. They were under strict orders to keep the pack lands safe while at the same time guarding the family secrets, but if the assholes had come back to do some more treasure hunting, Silver might just need to tear them apart and worry about the consequences later.

Crossing the patio, he glanced toward the back door. He saw the outline of a man in the window and knew Nick stood there waiting for his woman to return. Thankfully he was now Emerald’s problem. As he passed the patio, the earthy scent of sex reached his nose. He smiled around the pants he carried. So, the literary agent was now a member of the family. Good. Maybe he would be able to talk Emerald into leaving the island and seeing the world.

Silver tracked his cousin’s scent as fast as he could through the thick brush. When he lost it, he put down his shorts and lifted his head, barking three times before howling long and loud. Picking up the shorts again, he listened for a response. A moment later Emerald returned the signal. She was to his left and on the beach that encompassed the entire island.

* * * *

Emerald found the trespassers on the beach within sight of the fence that went all the way out into the ocean. They did not seem to be the ones who had been hunting for treasure, but were a couple of guests. They must have swum around the fence as they were now playing naked in the surf. As she watched, the man lifted the woman and carried her up onto the beach where they began making love.

They were so caught up in one another they did not see her sitting just at the fence line. Neither did they hear her barking and howling in response to Silver’s call. Knowing she and Nick had just done the same thing though under far different circumstances, Emerald turned her back to the amorous couple and waited for Silver to join her.

He arrived within minutes. Once she showed him the situation, he shifted. “Go to your mate. I’ll take care of these two,” he said as he pulled on his shorts.

Emerald nodded and left, picking her way along the edge of the forest to the fence. Once she reached it, she raced as fast as she could back to the patio. She could feel her mate worrying about her, so she picked up her pace. She could not wait to see him and confirm he was okay as well.

Reaching the edge of the patio, she shifted. Instead of going straight inside, she stopped long enough to bag up the forgotten food boxes before she walked to the back door. She jumped several inches into the air when it flew open as she reached for the door handle. Her feet barely touched the ground when Nick pulled her into his arms. She tossed the bag on the counter and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.

“Are you all right?” he asked, hugging her so tight she could not breathe.

The arousal she thought they had satiated by mating returned even stronger as she kissed his cheek. “I’m fine. Are you okay?”

“Me? You’re worried about me? I wasn’t the one who ran off into the night chasing after trespassers,” he said, frowning at her.

Before she could argue, he kissed her. His hands slid down her back to cup her ass cheeks. She lifted her legs and wrapped them around his waist as the kiss swept her away. She shifted her hips against his. Frustration grew when she felt a long, hard, cloth-covered cock brush against her clit.