Wolf Moon (9 page)

“I saw these and knew they were made for you, darlin’.” His voice was husky as he slipped a thin gold circle over the distended nipple and locked it into place.

Immediately, Alexa felt the pinch of metal then the quick segue of pain into pleasure. Liquid trickled from her pussy down the inside of her thighs. Jesse’s nostrils flared as he scented her arousal.

“You like that, do you?” That soft chuckle again. “God, you have no idea how beautiful your look with your nipple all hot and red and swollen like that, begging to be tormented. Let’s make it a matched set, shall we?”

In what seemed like forever but actually was probably only seconds, he’d teased and nipped and sucked her other nipple into readiness. Then he clipped the second nipple ring into place.

Finally, he picked up a small piece of rectangular black plastic. “These come with a little something extra, too.”

He pressed a button, sending vibrations into the delicate rings. Streaks like bolts of electricity jolted through her breasts and arrowed through her body. Her pussy began to respond, and she knew more liquid was flooding from her.

A satisfied smile spread across Jesse’s face as he watched he response. “God, your nipples get so red. Like ripe strawberries. Gorgeous, darlin’.”

She looked down and a self-satisfied smiled crept over her face.

Jesse pressed the Off button, the vibrations stopped, and a tiny moan whispered from her lips. “More?” He swiped his tongue across the over-sensitized tips.

Alexa jerked at the touch.

“All right, sweet thing. See how you like this.”

The buzzing began again, but this time, as the sensations vibrated through her nipples, Jesse took first one then the other into his mouth. He suckled them so the little pulsing shocks shot through his tongue and back into her breasts. The muscles in her pussy began to flutter and her belly tightened.

“Good stuff, darlin’. Let’s see if I can make you come without touching your pussy at all.”

He turned up the intensity, watched as her breathing became choppy then used his mouth on her nipples again. Underneath him, she squirmed and lifted her hips, trying to urge his cock closer. He held himself on his elbows, far enough away so his penis only brushed the top of her mound.

When her eyes widened and a low keening sound erupted from her throat, he took both nipples between his lean fingers. A pinch and he sent her flying into space. She arched, she thrust, she begged him to shove his cock inside her. The sense of helplessness generated by the handcuffs only increased her level of excitement. She tried to squeeze her legs together but his lean body prevented her from doing anything but convulsing helplessly beneath him.

When her body calmed again, he kissed each nipple, slid down her body, and ran his tongue from one end of her slit to the other.

“Yum.” He licked his lips. “You taste better every time I put my tongue on you, darlin’. The finest wine is no comparison to the sweetness of your juices.”

The orgasm had only left her wanting more, like a lick from an ice cream cone on a hot day.

“Fuck me, Jesse,” she pleaded. “Hard. The way I like it.”

He lifted her legs and draped them over his shoulders, eyes heating as he stared at her slick, quivering cunt. His thumbs pressed against her labia, opening her wider to his intense gaze. His thickening cock bumped against the globes of her ass.

“Oh, darlin’, there’s so much more I want to do to you. So many ways I want to fuck that sweet little opening of yours. But I don’t think I can wait any longer, either, so hard and fast it is.”

With quick movements of his hands, he sheathed himself and thrust inside her. Sliding through the lubrication of her cream, he began to roll and thrust his hips.

Alexa locked her ankles behind his neck and matched his movements with her own. He pressed the button on the remote again. As the vibrations shot through her system, the muscles of her cunt clamped down on him like a vise. A cry tore from her throat, and she shattered around him, throwing him into his own orgasm.

As the last pulsing sensation died away, he turned off the remote, removed the nipple rings, and unlocked the handcuffs. With the last of his strength, he collapsed on Alexa’s sweat-covered body, pulled the covers over them, and tucked her against him.

Shit
, was Alexa’s last coherent thought.
I’ll never be able to walk away now
.

Then she, too, sank into a dreamless sleep.

Chapter Seven

Shortly before dawn, Alexa left Jesse sleeping soundly and raced for the woods behind her house. This time she kept her clothing on until she reached the safety of the trees. Then she stripped and stuffed everything into a notch between two limbs. Last night’s intense sexual activity had roused in her body the need to change. It had taken more self-control than she thought she possessed to subdue it until she could get away on her own.

Today, she had another purpose for her run. She could follow Jesse and Charlie every night and, when necessary, attack as she had during that one incident with Bang Bang. But if a major confrontation went down, she wasn’t sure how much she could handle on her own. Having him hurt or killed because she couldn’t protect him would devastate her.

So, this morning, with the gray dawn still shrouding the area, she loped through the woods, but, instead of stopping at her usual place to rest, she continued out the other side and down the shoulder of the dusty highway. About three miles beyond the line of trees was the ruins of a once-thriving citrus grove. Harsh freezes and an uncertain economy had driven Barden Groves out of business.

Now derelicts slept in the tumbledown remains of equipment sheds and a variety of wildlife nested there, away from traffic and that great predator—man, the hunter. Alexa had never been here before, although she’d certainly heard people talk about the wild animals that prowled the grounds.

Especially wolves.

She hoped they knew what they were talking about. Since she’d fled her own home and pack, Alexa had avoided contact with wolves of any kind. And certainly rogue wolves like those hanging out here. Not only that, if they weren’t shifters, she could be putting herself in danger of attack from the very animals she sought help from. This would take some doing.

First, she needed to make herself known, let them see she wasn’t poaching on their territory. She wasn’t a threat. So she slunk around the edges of the grove, not foraging for food of any kind, not approaching any of the wolves who’d gone on instant alert.

And maybe today that would be enough.

She still had to figure out how to communicate with them, and she had an uneasy feeling time would not be on her side. Not only that, most wolves were nocturnal—night wanderers—so this morning was to give them a look and smell. She’d have to figure out a way to get back to them during the hours of darkness while still keeping Jesse and Charlie in her line of sight.

So, today, she stood there immobile, on the edge of their lives, watchful, for a long time. As if the scent of non-aggression carried on the wind, they stayed in place also, watching and waiting.

Finally, she turned and headed back the way she came. That was enough for a beginning.

She found her clothes where she’d left them, hastily pulled them on, and laced up her running shoes. She deliberately made noise as she hurried onto her back porch and into the house. Jesse was lying in bed, awake, when she huffed into the bedroom. Her breath froze in her lungs at the sight of the gun in his hand leveled at the doorway.

She had to swallow twice before she could force words from her mouth. “I didn’t think my performance was so bad you needed to shoot me,” she tried to joke.

He stared at her for a long moment, unsmiling, before releasing the clip from the gun and clearing the chamber. Then he put the gun and clip on the nightstand and rolled over on his side.

“It might have helped if you’d left me a note. So. Where did you go before the sun was even up?”

She didn’t have to pretend to gasp for breath. Her heart wouldn’t stop racing. “For a run. Just for a run. You were asleep and I figured I’d be back before you woke up.”

The muscles in his face relaxed and his mouth turned up in a slow, sexy smile.

“I guess I didn’t wear you out quite enough. Shame on me.” He held out a hand to her. “Come here, darlin’. Let’s see if you have any of that excess energy left.”

Exhausted as she was from racing back to the house, the touch of his hand breathed life into her hormones. She yanked off her clothes as fast as she could and crawled up onto the bed beside him.

“Let’s see how those luscious nipples are after last night.” He cupped one breast in a warm hand and rasped the pad of his thumb over the distended bud.

Alexa sucked in her breath.

“Still sore?”

“Yes.” She shook her head. “No. Just…aware.”

“Those little vibrating rings will do it every time.” He grinned.

“Oh?” She tilted her face up to his. “You have a lot of experience with them?”

He chuckled. “I read a lot. Let’s see if we can make them feel a little better.” He glanced at the nipple rings still sitting out on the nightstand where he’d left them. “Maybe I should put them away, though. Don’t want to damage such mouthwatering goods.”

“No. I mean, yes. I mean, don’t put them away.” She touched her nipples lightly with her fingers, sending tiny electric shocks through her body. “I like feeling this way. I can think about you all day.”

He took a long time using his mouth on her breasts, attending to more than her nipples. He licked the sides and the underslope, drawing lines with the tip of his tongue. He blew on the wetness his mouth had left then licked again. Lying over her, braced on his elbows, he pushed her breasts together and swept his tongue in a steady rhythm back and forth from nipple to nipple.

Before long, Alexa writhed beneath him, rocking her pelvis against him, trying to capture his hot erection between her thighs. He skillfully avoided her. The heat continued to build, radiating from her breasts to the rest of her body, setting up tiny flutters in her pussy.

“Please.” The word was a whisper on a long sigh.

“Please what, darlin’? Please let you come?”

She nodded, thrusting against him.

“Please slide my cock into you and fuck you with it?”

She nodded again, head thrashing on the pillow.

“Oh, not yet, sweet thing.”

He continued to tease her breasts, arousing her more, until he felt her body clench beneath him. With his knees pressed against her inner thighs, he spread her legs wide and moved one hand to her dripping cunt to test her readiness. She was already convulsing, flooding his hand the moment he slipped one finger into her.

“Fuck me,” she cried. “Damn you, Jesse.” She bucked against him as her orgasm gathered in intensity.

He reached for one of the condoms on the nightstand then pressed his hands against the backs of her thighs. With no preamble, he lifted her legs high and wide and rammed himself home.

She wasn’t the only one ready. He exploded the moment he was inside her, the walls of her cunt gripping his pulsing shaft, his seed filling the latex inside her still-spasming vagina.

The only sounds in the room were the ragged rasp of air being dragged into their lungs and the lazy swish of the ceiling fan as it cooled their sweat-slicked bodies.

“I think we broke some kind of speed record that time,” Alexa said at last.

“You have the most incredibly responsive nipples.” Jesse smiled. “I think I’ll keep trying to see how fast I can make you come stimulating those alone.”

She swatted at him playfully. “I hate to break up our little love fest here, but I have a project due for a real estate client.”

“And the captain wants all of us in this afternoon for a general meeting.”

Alexa’s stomach knotted. “More trouble than what you told me?”

“Bang Bang’s got to defend his position after the attack on him. Otherwise, his gang, as well as others, will perceive him as weak. That could mean one of the other gangs will see this as an opportunity to strike. Or, it could mean Bang Bang will go on the offensive. Either way, we need to be prepared. Plan how to allocate our resources if all hell breaks loose.”

“Jesse?” She reached up and stroked his beard-roughened cheek.

“Yeah, darlin’?”

“Be careful, okay? Please?”

“Believe me, I’ll do my best.”

She worried about him while she worked on the research project for the developer. They’d never met, but she’d been researching properties for him for a long time. He bought and sold projects based on the information she provided, so she always tried to be meticulous, as she was with all her clients.

The work completed, she worried about Jesse while she puttered around the house, keeping herself busy. She baked a chocolate cake, thinking she’d have something nice to tempt him with at the end of shift. Maybe they could even find some interesting ways to devour the mouthwatering confection.

Finally, she stood at the living room window, watching until she saw him jog down his porch steps to his car in the driveway.

“Hey.” She pulled her door open and hurried over to where he was standing.

“Hey yourself.” He wrapped his arms around her and captured her mouth, nibbling her lower lip then sweeping his tongue inside. “What’s up? Miss me already?”

She forced a grin. “Always. Are you off to your meeting now?”

“Yeah. Captain’s giving us two hours to get our shit together with the other shifts. Gotta run.” He dusted a light kiss on her nose then searched her face. “You be up when I get home?”

“Aren’t I always? I even have a special treat for you.”

He laughed, a warm sound. “I don’t know how many special treats I can take, darlin’.”

Then he was gone.

Alexa tried to calculate time. If she went to the orange grove now, the wolves might be sleeping and resent her intrusion more than they normally would. On the other hand, Jesse and Charlie would be starting their shift, heading out right at the beginning of darkness this time of year. Could she make a quick visit to the grove and still catch up with them?