Sassy Ever After: Mate of Honor (Kindle Worlds Novella) (9 page)

Bailey closed
her eyes, the back of her head against the tub. She’d already taken three showers because it had felt like two wasn’t enough to wash away all the blood.

It was only seven at night, but it felt like two weeks had passed since the rehearsal dinner. Forrest had to call an emergency meeting of the alphas to explain what had happened to Victor, and why he’d had to kill him. He’d invited Bailey to attend, but the idea of facing all those guys after everything that happened, especially since Maxine, Victor’s daughter would be there, made her stomach turn.

She’d shifted once after the first shower to quicken her healing. If she’d been human, it would have taken weeks to recover, but as a werefox, she only had a minor headache now. She drew her hands over the suds. The way Forrest had charged in to save her had been epic hero shit. All those years she’d thought of him as cold and unaffected, and today he’d proven he was anything but. He’d been passionate and raw, and willing to do whatever it took to keep her safe.

Thinking about him tightened her lower bits. She slid her fingers down to touch herself, remembering how good it had felt when Forrest had slid his fingers along her wet folds. As she rubbed the swollen nub, she closed her eyes, imagining his mouth on her heat, lapping her juices. His tongue--

“Woman?”

She splashed in the tub and struggled to get upright. Forrest stared at her from the bathroom door. This was his room, so she hadn’t noticed a shift in the scent. Fuck. He’d caught her.

“Uhm,” she licked her lips. “How did it go with the Big Kahunas?”

He narrowed his gaze, his eyes rimmed in gold, his mouth pursed in a deep frown. “That’s my pussy.”

“I…” She blinked. “What?”

He walked over the edge of the large tub and stepped into it with his shoes, black slacks, and shirt still on. The water rose, overflowing the tub, as he knelt between her legs. The heat of passion born of an almost frantic need tightened Bailey’s nipples.

He put slid his hands up her inner thighs, he spread the lips of her sex with one hand and thrust two fingers inside her with the other. Bailey gasped at the invasion.

Forrest’s eyes darkened with hunger. He leaned forward his fingers working inside her and kissed her breast as it floated above the suds. Then he kissed her, his tongue sweeping her lips, thrusting into her mouth with the same rhythm as his fingers.

Too soon, he leaned back and withdrew his hand. He brought his fingers to his mouth. “My pussy,” he said again then he sucked her juices from his fingers. “You’re so fucking sweet. I could eat you up.”

Bailey managed to grab her wits before they completely left the room. “I seem to recall something about me having to ask nicely.”

Forrest grinned, his wolf shining through. “So ask,
Kalinka
. My little red berry.”

Bailey laughed, but Forrest's face grew serious. “Ask me,” he said. “Ask me to eat your pussy?”

Bailey clenched in reaction to his words. Even in the hot water, she knew she’d be slick, drenched with the excitement that raced through her. “I…”

He raised his brow.

“I want you to eat my pussy. Please, eat my pussy, Forrest.”

He growled with pleasure as he looped his large arms under her thighs. Bailey squealed as he lifted her out of the water and sat her on the edge of the tub. He spread her thighs, using his hands to hold her open and he licked from just below her core to her throbbing clit.

“Oh, God, yes.” She braced herself, her ass slick with suds, to keep from sliding forward. He thrust his tongue inside her, fucking her as his thumb rubbed against her pleasure bundle. “I’m going to come,” she panted.

“Good,” Forrest said. “I want to taste your orgasm. I want to feel you come in my mouth.”

“Oh. Oh!” Bailey cried out as his lips melded once more to her swollen pussy. His hands were on her ass, holding her up, his fingers digging in as his tongue dove in and out and over, blood rushing away from her head and down to her groin. She threw her head back and whacked it against the wall when the orgasm hit, her sex contracting in spasms around his tongue, but even that minor pain didn’t stop the rapture as he kept taking her, all of her, into him.

When the last of the shudders dwindled, Forrest withdrew his lips. Kneeling between her legs he eased her down onto his lap, his cock pressing hard through his wet slacks against her aching pussy. “You are sweeter than the ripest berry, my
Kalinka
.” He licked his glistening lips. “You scared me today,” he said. “I don’t ever want to lose you, Bailey.” He kissed her softly, but with purpose before he captured her gaze and held it. “Now I’m going to fuck you,” he told her. “Fuck you so good you’ll never even entertain the idea of running away from me again.”

Bailey breath released in a staggered hiss, her eyes watering with her desire.

“Do you believe me?” Forrest asked.

“Yes,” Bailey said. “Yes.”

****

Forrest couldn’t
even fathom how much he loved this beautifully, curvaceous woman, whom he’d had such brief, albeit quality, contact with. She was his soul’s breath and his soul’s desire. His mate. And before the evening ended, he planned to make it permanent. His cock was so hard. When he’d seen her touching herself, it was all he could do to keep himself from ravaging her.

“Why do you want me, Forrest?”

He couldn’t believe she didn’t know. “You make my heart beat, my lungs breathe, my--”

“Dick explode,” she supplied with a grin on her face.

“That too,” he growled.

“I’m complicated,” Bailey said.

Forrest laughed. So was he. “We have a lifetime, thanks to you, to figure out just how complicated you really are.”

“You’re going to need it.” She laughed. “Are you sure you wanna be stuck with me?”

“Stuck with you, stuck to you, stuck in you. It all sounds good. You?”

“We hardly know each other.”

He slid his hands up her sides, and she trembled beneath his touch. “You know me.”

“Do I?” Her long eyelashes glittered as she spoke.

Forrest understood. Like him, she had insecurities when it came to trusting people, especially the opposite sex. “This will be magnificent.” He kissed her perfect bow lips.

“Promise?”

She had doubts, and while Forrest couldn’t blame her, he didn’t know how to assuage her fears. “I promise on my life.”

“Kiss me again,” she breathed against the skin of his neck. “Make me a believer.”

He pulled her gently into a kiss, slipping his tongue past her barely parted lips. Bailey leaped into his arms. Fiercely and fearless, she matched his passion. She ran the tip of her tongue over the part in his lips, before slipping it past his teeth. And Forrest fed from her mouth as if she were his last meal.

He slid his palms under her ass and lifted her out of the tub. He carried her to his bed then stripped from his wet clothes. He crawled over her, kissing her stomach, her breasts, her neck. Bailey’s nipples drew to tight nubs as he played them between his fingers. He loved the soft feel of her large breasts in his hands--the way her skin shivered with excitement at his touch.

“Mmm,” she hummed against his mouth. A sound of pure pleasure. His cock jerked against her thigh.

She pushed her hand between them and wrapped her fingers around his shaft, rolling the rigid flesh with her palm. She rubbed the pearl of his desire with her thumb.

He moaned, slipping his hand between her legs. Her pussy was swollen and wet with readiness and desire. Forrest slid a finger over her clit.

“God,” he breathed against her skin. “I need to be in you. I need you so much.”

“Need me?” she teased. “Like the trees need sunshine?”

“Yes.”

“Like the flowers need the rain?”

“Yes.”

“Like Hans needs Leia?”

“Ye--Huh?”

“Never mind.” She grinned. “I get it.” Bailey gazed around the deserted parking lot. “Okay, I’m in.”

“Oh, thank the gods,
kalinka moya
.” He cupped her lovely, large breasts again, taking one nipple into his mouth, then moving to the other for rough lick.

****

Bailey bit her
lower lip hard.
Moya
is Russian meant
my
. She was
his
red berry. The little endearment set off a flutter of emotions. Love, lust, happiness.

She gasped as he spread her thighs, kissing down her stomach again to her wet and ready sex. His firm hands grasped her buttocks as his mouth finally made its way to her pussy, his tongue flickering against the clit, licking and sucking the swollen bud sweetly between his lips.

Bailey’s legs quivered. Tight tension coiled itself within her--the sharp edges of another orgasm sliced through her abdomen. His tongue moved incredibly fast as it made its way into her pussy, sliding in and out, flicking against her clit then back in, fucking and sucking her while his teeth grazed her sensitive flesh.

“Oh, fuck, I’m going to come again.”

In the next second, Forrest was up between her thighs, his erection butting against her pussy like a compass pointing due bliss. “Not yet,” he growled.

She grabbed for him, his hair, his arms, anywhere she could find purchase and pulled her to him. “Get in me. Now.”

Forrest thrust his hips forward, pushing his cock deeply into her. Lacing an arm around her waist, he lifted her up while keeping them joined.

Unbelievably, even with her body on fire from the wake of the last orgasm, she could feel another one mounting. Forrest expertly slid in and out of her, controlling his strokes, the head of his cock gently nudging the sweet spot inside her channel with every passing sweep.

“Oh, God. Yes!” she cried out, then screamed his name. “Forrest!”

“Who am I?” he asked her, his eyes pure gold now. “Tell me.”

The last time she’d asked, she said his name, but instinctually, she knew it was something else he needed from her. Something else he needed to hear. “You’re mine,” she said.

“Fuck yes,” Forrest grunted as he pumped his hips harder between her legs. “And who are you?”

“I’m…” Her breath caught in her throat as pleasure took her toward another climax. “I’m yours. I’m fucking yours.”

“Damn straight,” he roared. “You are fucking mine!”

“Yes,” Bailey cried out as Forrest yanked her close and bit down hard on her shoulder, his teeth breaking through the skin bringing on a combination of pain and ecstasy. “God, yes. Forrest, yes!”

****

Feeling possessed
, Forrest roared as her tight, hot pussy milked his cock. His mouth filled with her blood as he made sure his mark would stay. Bailey was his. His mate. He wanted her and everyone else to know without any doubt that he would take no other. He thrust harder, burying his shaft until his balls slapped against her ass.

Bailey’s moans grew louder, and she pushed harder against him, thrusting her hips forward, hands clutching at his chest. He released his teeth on her and tangled his fingers in her hair. Her pussy clenched against his cock as her orgasm detonated in a series of tremors and shudders. Pushed to the edge, Forrest came, pumping inside her until every bit of his hot seed released inside her.

“I love you,” she whispered with jagged breath.

He nodded against her chest, choked with emotions he never thought he’d experience. Forty years was a long time to go without a true mate.

Bailey stroked his hair. “Are you all right?”

Forrest kissed her, letting all the tenderness he felt for her pour into that one action. When he finished, he said. “I love you too.”

Bailey had
just checked on the bride for the gazillionth time since early hours of the day. The wedding was less than an hour away. The maid of honor gown, which was a perfectly lovely shade of pale green, had an unfortunate off the shoulder cut that put her new mate mark on display for all the guests, including the rival pack alphas in attendance. If anyone had any doubts about who Forrest had chosen, that had been assuaged by mark.

Bailey stepped outside for a minute to get some fresh air.

The backyard had been turned into a bride’s fantasy. The chairs were all covered in white and decorated with pink and green ribbons. Lilies lined the rolled out carpet that formed an aisle in the center. At the end was a large, circular gazebo covered in ivy and baby’s breath. Howling wolf ice sculptures were strategically placed in the yards, and a soft breeze lent itself to the magic of the day.

Tory, wearing a golden, shimmery dress that flattered her and made her even more gorgeous, if possible, bounded up to Bailey. “Did you look at the information Dale gave you?” She owed him a debt she could never pay, he’d saved more than her own life by sacrificing his.

Tory’s brown eyes gleamed. “It’s pure gold, darling. With this information, we can’t lose.” She shook her head. “But today is about other things. Like what the hell happened to your shoulder?”

“Remember when I talked about the mate mark?”

“You mean the permanent, no going back, until death do you part, mate mark?”

Bailey smiled.

“Wow.” She looked around. “Who?”

Forrest, dressed in a sexy-ass tux, picked that moment to walk outside. “The who would be me.” He looped his arm around Bailey’s neck. “I can’t wait until our wedding day.”

Tory’s eyes grew huge like two saucers. “I better be your maid of honor.”

Bailey laughed. “Of course.”

Forrest drew her into his arms and kissed her as if she were breath itself. When he came up for real air, his father was waving at him. “Excuse me for a minute,
Kalinka
.”

Bailey tried not to
squee
. She loved his little pet name for her. It was perfect. As to his parents, they’d congratulated Forrest for finding a good mate, and that was the only apology those two alphas were going to issue.

“
Kalinka
methinka
that man is a duh-reamy!” Tory said. “I have a date to the wedding too, by the way.”

“Oh yeah.” Bailey tried to read her face. “Who?”

Tory pointed toward Luke Blackthorn and Landon Gilly.

“Is your date Luke or Landon?”

“Yes,” Tory said. She wiggled her brows.

“No.” Bailey looked at her BFF then over to her soon to be brother-in-law and his BFF. “Both of them?”

Tory laughed. She waved her fingers at the two men, and they beckoned her over. “Gotta go, babe. Love you.” She kissed Bailey’s cheek and took off toward her dates.

Dorian sidled up to Bailey next and nudged her shoulder. “You ready for all this?”

Bailey sighed. Happily. “I think I am.”

“Well, Forrest has definitely proven he doesn’t need a marriage alliance to be strong.” Dorian smiled. “You’re good for our ice king, little fox.”

Bailey rolled her eyes. “We’re good for each other.” Maxine Silverback walked across the yard toward Forrest and his father. Bailey’s hackles rose, and her body went rigid.

“Don’t you worry, sis. That isn’t about you. Turns out Maxine had no idea what her old man was up to. She knows Forrest is off the table, and she’s okay with it. She doesn’t need to go to another pack now that Vic’s dead. She just needs to mate with an alpha who needs a pack.”

The way he talked about Maxine peaked Bailey’s curiosity. “You think you have what it takes to tame that bitch?” She was glad Maxine hadn’t been part of Vic’s operations, but it didn’t mean they were going to be friends.

Dorian chuckled. “This is nothing wrong with Maxine Silverback that a dozen orgasms won’t fix.”

At that moment, Maxine looked up at Dorian. Bailey couldn’t read the look, but it didn’t say, “Come get me.”

“You have your work cut out for you, Dorian.”

“And what pleasure I will take in the task.” He tipped his head to her as Forrest came back up the steps.

He wrapped his arms around Bailey and held her tight. Safe. “You ready to run away from all this yet?”

“Nope. Not even a little.” She tilted her head back, and he dipped down to kiss her.

“Good answer.” He smiled and surveyed the pack members filling up the seats. “These are our people, Bailey.”

“Ours.” She had never had a pack, and it had been so long since she had a family, she hadn’t even realized how much she had missed out on. “I will love them as I love you.” She wrinkled her nose. “Except the sex stuff, of course.”

Forrest laughed. “That’s a given.”

Lila Blackthorn rushed out of the house. “It’s time everyone. Take your seats. Wedding party. Inside.” She clapped her hands. “Let’s go, people!”

“The mate of honor better not keep the bride waiting,” Forrest murmured in her ear.

“Maid,” Bailey corrected.

“You are no maid, my love.” Forrest kissed the mark on her shoulder. “Not anymore. Not ever again.”

The End.