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“Come on. We better clean ourselves up and get packed.”
Nathans pouts adorably, trying to grab my waist and drag me back into his lap. When I slap his hands away with a giggle, he lifts his eyes to the heavens and growls.
“Fine, but on one condition.”
Intrigued, I laugh as he stands with me wrapped around him like a koala bear, legs clamped around his waist and arms around his neck.
“Oh? And what’s that?”
Without hesitation, he walks straight to his room, or our room for the last few days, and into the enormous bathroom. He sets me down and peels my top up over my head, a wicked grin on his face as he tugs my sleep shorts down my legs and helps me step out of them.
“I’ll let you wash my cum off your thighs…”
I laugh out loud as he finishes stripping off and reaches past me to turn on the shower, turning it up after the chilly temperature I’ve needed to calm my heat.
“You’ll let me?”
Amused, I wait, curious to see where he’s going with this. He crowds me into the shower enclosure before turning me, so his broad back shields me from the spray of the shower while I look up at him. With water sluicing over his shoulders and down his chest, he looks good enough to lick. Looking down at the rivulets of water and how they run down his muscly body, I decide that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Resting my hands on his chest, I slowly drop to my knees until I’m at eye level with his perfect cock. He’s fully erect already, long and thick. I drag my hands down his body until one wraps his hard cock and the other cups his heavy, swollen balls, feeling their weight and rolling them gently.
His eyes roll into the back of his head, and he stifles a groan before regaining his composure and putting his smug, cocky grin back on. One of his hands wraps itself in my hair, holding me in place as he looks down at me mischievously.
“Yes. I’ll let you clean up, but only if I get to eat your pussy before we leave, so I have your scent and taste on my lips the entire way home.”
Slack-jawed, I stare at him. He’s totally serious, and it’s only now without the haze of the heat to blame, I realise what a dirty mind my mate has.
Nathan takes advantage of my mouth hanging open and shifts forward, swiping the broad head of his cock across my mouth and past my lips. I dart my tongue out to lick him, swirling around the ridge and along the bulging vein on the underside, never taking my gaze from his. He curses, banging a fist against the cream marble tiles, and I grin, loving the control I have over him in this moment.
“It’s a deal.”
CHAPTER 37
NATHAN
Leah offered to arrange a family dinner when we arrived back in Grey Ridge to celebrate our mating, but it didn’t feel right. The pack is reeling from the discovery that Kim and Beth were the traitors who allowed Toby to go free, almost killing Leah and the wolf who had been guarding Toby. Beth was always in and out of trouble, and we knew she was hanging out with Leon Lennox’s crew, so she was always a suspect, but Kim was so good. Model employee, nice to everyone, nothing that would hint she would fall for our prisoner and betray us all.
My role in her unhappiness weighs heavily on me.
I had always assumed that because Kim said nothing, she was happy being friends with occasional benefits. It’s made me rethink my harmless bachelor lifestyle and wonder about the careless way I conducted myself previously. I have some apologies to make once the dust settles.
Everyone’s thoughts are on Carla now. Did she run away because she thought she was going to be blamed for her sister's actions? Or has something worse happened to her?
Alpha Steel has secured support from the council to fully investigate what kind of threat Leon Lennox really is to the local wolf packs. Is he just a thug for hire or does he have a bigger plan? With Toby dead, we had hoped Leon would go away, but he could still become a thorn in our side if he’s harbouring disgruntled wolves from the territory. Much as we would like violence and retribution for the attacks he facilitated on my family, it’s not in the interests of shifters to get caught up in a very public battle with the leader of the bear clan. We’ll leave it to the council to prove his guilt and punish him appropriately in the swift, secretive manner in which they normally operate.
After leaving our bags at Cooper’s cabin, our home for the foreseeable future, I drive us to the lodge. Both Maya and I are tense, not relishing the idea of rehashing our ordeal with everyone and reliving all the sordid details. Wrapping my fingers around my mate's, I lift them to my lips, pressing a kiss on the back of her hand.
“I don’t know why I’m so nervous. They were all lovely to me before,” Maya muses out loud as she stares out the window, watching the dense forest getting darker as the evening light fades.
“Because you just broke a lot of ladies’ hearts,” I joke. Maya rolls her eyes and ignores my attempts to lighten her mood. Maybe it’s too soon for those jokes. Pulling in beside a dark SUV I recognise as Dean’s, I come around to the passenger side and practically carry her out of her seat. She looks down at the ground, the light in her normally bright eyes dims, and it breaks my heart.
“They won’t blame you for Kim. She made her bed the second she hid that key card to help Toby escape.”
Maya nods but looks unconvinced. I press a gentle kiss on her forehead before wrapping an arm around her shoulders and steering her toward the front door.
“We won’t stay long. Dean can beat me up and then we’ll go home. It’ll just be you and me again,” I offer, and she smiles at that. For the rest of my life, I’ll do whatever it takes to make her smile.
Murphy’s law, the first person we see as we walk into the busy living area is Ethan. I feel Maya go rigid under my arm. Ethan stops and turns slowly, his piercing blue eyes going to both of our marks before he nods, smiling. I couldn’t be happier to see him back in the packhouse where he belongs, but Maya’s embarrassment flares to life. She hates how Ethan saw her and how her heat drove her to behave.
She fidgets awkwardly and I hesitate, not sure what I can do to make my mate feel more comfortable. I needn’t have worried, though. Ethan crosses to us in a few long strides, muttering congratulations to me before enveloping Maya in a massive hug. Leaning back, he lifts her so her feet dangle in the air and shakes her from side to side like they’re old friends. Maya freezes in shock before relaxing and returning his embrace tentatively.
