Fire in the Smokies (Durham Wolves) (6 page)

“Relax, Bri.” He stroked her temple with his thumb. How could he be so calm? “You can’t catch anything from me and you can’t get pregnant right now either.”

“What? Are you crazy? How do you know?” She narrowed her gaze at the crazy wolfman trying his damnedest to soothe her.

“I’m clean. Wolves don’t carry any human diseases. We can’t catch them and we can’t transfer them. And…you aren’t ovulating.” He grinned, cocked his head to one side and actually winked at her.

“Ovulating?”
Do men even know that word?
“What? Now you’re going to tell me you can sniff out my best breeding time of the month? Come on…”

Jaxon nodded, his face growing serious. “I have so much to explain. But, yes. I can scent everything about you.”

“That’s just…wrong.” She finally relaxed. It wasn’t doing any good pushing against his chest anyway. He was a rock.

“I’m sorry. Normally I would have taken more time…eased you into my life…but this…snuck up on me.”

“Normally? You’ve done this before?” She bit her lip.

Jaxon shook his head. “Never, baby. And I never will again either. You’re the first and last woman I will ever claim.”

There was that word again. Claim. Perhaps she should have paid closer attention. Asked a few more questions before she essentially let this man fuck her senseless. She’d been driven by the strongest hormones she’d ever experienced.

Could she possibly consider believing what he said? He seemed so sure of himself. Men did not usually intentionally avoid condoms and then act cocky about it.
Cocky. Ha. Pun intended. He’s cocky all right…

God. He was still stiff inside her.

“That went a bit too fast for me. I couldn’t hold back. Let’s try again.” He smiled, a devilish grin that made her melt. When he slid almost out of her in slow motion and then pressed back inside like a man with a mission, her body turned to goo. Her world shrank to the pleasure in her pussy.

She moaned, wishing she could hold on to a thought for one second.

Right when she reached the edge of sanity again, Jaxon pulled out. “Flip over, baby,” he whispered.

Huh? She stared at him. Was English even a language she understood?

Jaxon grabbed her torso and lifted her, helping guide her onto her hands and knees. He grabbed their shirts from under her head and stuck one under each knee.

Holy God Almighty. He was going to take her from behind? Nothing had ever been so erotic in her life. Sure, she’d had a few boyfriends, but none that were this adventurous in bed.
Or in a cave
…

Jaxon ran his hands down her spine, danced them really. Goose bumps rose all over her body and she shivered.

“Spread your legs, baby.” He tapped the inside of one thigh and then the other until she complied.

Her pussy pulsed. She wanted him back inside her so bad. His hands gripped her ass cheeks and squeezed. “Sexiest ass I’ve ever seen,” he murmured. “How do you stay so tan? You don’t even have bikini lines.”

“Spray.” She choked the word out.

“I have no idea what that means. You can explain later. I don’t really want to chat right now.” He accentuated his words by swiping his cock over her pussy.

Brianna rocked forward.

“So wet from both of us now.”

She wasn’t prepared for him to pinch her clit. She flinched.

Jaxon chuckled. “And still so responsive…” He laid a palm on her lower back and spread his fingers wide. “Your arousal is increasing. I can scent it,” he whispered in a deep gravelly voice. “Does it make you hot knowing I’m going to take you from behind?”

Brianna’s arms shook. She leaned lower, planting her weight on her forearms. No way could she respond to his rhetorical question.

With his free hand, Jaxon spread her pussy open. When he entered her, she had to set her forehead on her hands.
God, that feels so good. Who knew?

Holding still, Jaxon snaked one arm around Brianna’s middle and held her around the waist. With his other hand, he reached around to circle her clit.

Her vision clouded. Or maybe it was just the smoke. She couldn’t see with him holding her so possessively and stroking her clit so tenderly.

Jaxon started a slow rhythm that defied reason. She couldn’t imagine how he could fill her so completely, his cock still rock hard inside her after he just came.

“I could stay like this forever, Bri. You feel so good.”

She couldn’t breathe. He pushed in and out of her in a perfect rhythm, his finger circling her clit in a lazy pattern as though he had all day.

Brianna rocked back against him on each pass. She bit her lip, silently begging him to stop teasing her and flick his finger over the sensitive nub still begging for attention even after two glorious orgasms.

“I don’t want you to come yet,” he whispered, as though he’d heard her thoughts. “I want to take this one slower. Enjoy your sexy ass.” As he spoke, his finger left her needing more. He released her waist and used both hands to knead her butt again, pulling the cheeks apart as he did so.

A chill went down her spine at the exposure. She’d never experimented with anything anal before. She’d thought about it. In fact she’d even purchased a butt plug at some point, but it still lay in the wrapper in the drawer of her bedside table—with all the other toys she’d bought over the years. But something about Jaxon… He made her want on a new level. She moaned as she realized the direction of her thoughts.

“Oh, trust me, baby. I’m gonna take your ass too, but not today. You aren’t ready for that. It’ll take some preparation first.”

Preparation? Why on earth did the thought of him stretching her turn her on?
Because you’ve always secretly wondered what it would be like to have both holes filled at once. That’s why you bought the plug…and the lube.

And more importantly, how was it he seemed to be reading her mind?

Brianna didn’t care right now. All she could focus on was his hands and his cock. He seemed to grow even larger, harder as he increased his thrusts.

“Please…”

“Okay, baby.” Jaxon reached back around her and pinched her clit. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight off the orgasm looming beneath the surface, but it was a losing battle.

With a long moan she never would have believed herself capable of, Brianna came, her pussy clenching Jaxon’s cock, her clit throbbing between his unrelenting fingers.

A few seconds behind her, Jaxon stiffened and held himself deep inside her. If she didn’t know better, she would swear she could actually feel him pulsing into her womb, his hot come shooting into her possessively.

When they were both spent and gasping for breath, he eased out of her and laid her gently on her side, curling up along her back and wrapping his big hands around her middle.

“I can’t believe we just did that.”

“Which part?” He chuckled into her ear, making her shiver.

“The…whole thing I guess.”
I came three times in the span of what? Ten minutes?

“It’s been more like fifteen, but I’m glad I could wow you with my abilities as a lover.”

Brianna stiffened. Was he in her head? She’d assumed it had been a coincidence before.

“I told you, we’d be connected mentally after we mated.”

Brianna jerked from his arms and sat, turning to face him. “You just spoke into my head.”

“Yes.” He nodded.

“Oh my God. You weren’t kidding?” She hadn’t truly believed any of his ramblings until now. Truth be known, she still felt uncertain, but holy hell she was having one doozy of an illusion.

“It’s not an illusion, baby.” He tentatively reached for her and stroked his fingers down her arm. “You’ll get used to it.”

“Why can’t I hear all your thoughts then, wiseguy?”

“Because I’ve been doing this my whole life. I know how to block you. You’ll learn to block me too, over time.” He reached for her neck and wrapped his fingers around it to pull her forward. “Lucky for you, Juliana can help you understand all this. I’m afraid I’m kind of ignorant when it comes to blocking, but she’s apparently getting pretty good at blocking my brother Sergius.”

Powerless against the magnetic pull he had on her, Brianna leaned toward him and let him kiss her lips. She didn’t really respond appropriately, but what did he expect? Her mind was swimming with all the information she tried to process.

“Come here. I liked having you in my arms. We need to rest while we can. I’m not sure how long we’re going to be in here, but I have a suspicion we’re going to need all our brain cells when we finally get out.” He tugged her neck until she complied and allowed herself to be snuggled back into his embrace.

He fit her perfectly. She felt…cherished.

Relaxing once again in the protection of his arms, Brianna closed her eyes. She needed rest. Exhaustion took over.

Chapter Five

“What’s going on, Serg?”
Jaxon communicated with his brother while he smoothed his mate’s hair away from her face.

She was asleep and he would never tire of watching her at rest. Her face had a peaceful angelic look. Her lips parted slightly, tilted on each side almost in a smile. At least he liked to think she was smiling.

“Well, hello. Where have you been? You’ve been blocking me for half an hour.”
Sergius chuckled into Jaxon’s mind.

Micah added to the mirth with his own laugher.

“Where do you think I’ve been? Claiming my mate. Figured it would make McKinney less of a threat if I claimed her as soon as possible,”
Jaxon responded.

“Good plan. Now you can communicate with her,”
Micah said.
“Bet that was a hardship,”
he continued.

“Listen,”
Sergius interrupted,
“McKinney has been circling closer to you from behind that cave ever since you entered. There is no doubt he knows you’re in there. The question is why? Is he after you or the woman—”

“Brianna.”
Jaxon cut him off with his mate’s name.

“Okaay. Brianna it is then.”
Micah got serious again.
“Anyway, while you’ve been claiming your woman, McKinney has been planning his next move. And the real question is, what is he waiting for? It seems our theory is correct; he isn’t fond of fire.”

“That’s certainly good information to stash away for later. Never know when it might come in handy.”
Jaxon squeezed his mate closer as though he could somehow protect her better if she were nearly attached to him.
“Speaking of fire…”

Sergius jumped back into the conversation.
“The flames surrounding the entrance are almost contained. Sheriff Hardin is close by, waiting to get you out of there. Don’t take any chances though. Wait until we let you know either the coast is clear or you have company.”

The kind of company Sergius was talking about was unwanted.

“There isn’t an entrance on the other side of this cave, is there?”
Jaxon knew these caves as well as he could. But the truth was there were so many small entrances all around the national forest it made it difficult to remember every detail.

“Can’t say I remember such a thing, but judging from McKinney’s position, I wouldn’t take anything for granted. That man probably knows better than any of us. He’s been here hundreds of years and he’s practically foaming at the mouth. I’m staying a distance away, but even from here I can tell he’s so focused on you two that he isn’t even paying attention to me.

“Granted, the wind is in my favor, blowing in this direction, so that’s keeping my presence a secret.”
Micah was on the move. Jaxon could tell by the way his thoughts were coming through. Over time, they’d grown even more aware of the subtle nuances of telepathy that included the differences between communicating while running and standing still.

“Jaxon,”
Sergius interrupted.
“Is Brianna okay? Will she be able to move fast when the time comes?”

Jaxon stared at his mate and grinned. Certainly not at the moment. Right now, she was naked and dead to the world. Not to mention well-fucked.

Jaxon responded,
“I’ll work on that now.”

He hated waking her, but his brothers were right. They didn’t want to have to run from the cave butt naked, that was for sure.

Jaxon stroked his mate’s arm and then skimmed his fingers up her stomach and between her breasts. When she didn’t even squirm, he circled one nipple several times and finally flicked his thumb over the distended tip. That did it.

Brianna bolted upright. The headlamp that had been lying next to them this entire time jolted at her movement and began rocking on the ground, sending long shadows all around the room.

She caught her breath, her gaze landing on Jaxon. “How long was I asleep?”

“Not long. I’m sorry. I hated to wake you, but we need to get dressed. We should be ready to go when my brothers give us the all clear.”

“Has the fire moved away from the entrance?”

“Not yet, but the moment it’s safe, we’re getting out of here.”

“What aren’t you telling me?” She eyed him, her gaze narrowing in on his face.