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I watch with my heart swelling with love as both packs disperse and gather the wounded and the dead. They work together to carry everyone home, and when Ryder and Cole come for Chase I unwillingly detangle from his arms and follow behind them.
“That was so crazy…” a high-pitched voice whispers next to me, and I look down and see Cookie walking next to me. She always makes me smile, so full of life and love—for a human. “I tell ya what, I never ever saw peace comin’! Y’all hate each other! It’s hell to clean up after.” She smiles, trying to lighten the moment, and I bless her for it.
“Hopefully they’ll be gentler on the bar after this…” I look down at her and she beams up at me. I can tell she’s faking it, but she’s so sweet for trying to distract me.
“When my Momma was preggers I used to make her these milkshakes in the morning, ice cream and protein powder with a banana and chocolate sauce. She loved it. She also ate saltine crackers like a hoover. You come into the bar anytime you’re feeling icky or just plain hungry and I’ll get you set up. On the house!”
Cookie waves at me then and runs to catch up with Ryder. I watch as she folds her hands behind her back and sways her hips a little bit more as she walks next to him, trying not to seem like a distraction. I almost shake my head. Girl is head over heels for that wolf… too bad it can never be. Poor thing.
Chapter21
Chase
Iburrow into the blankets, rolling over and wrapping my arms around my woman and breathing in deeply through my nose. She smells like strawberries and cream shampoo, and her soft warm body is so comfortable to hold that I’m quickly falling deeply asleep again. She stirs in my arms, stretching sweetly, and I realize part of me won’t be going to sleep anytime soon.
“Chase? Are you awake?” she asks groggily, and I snuggle in closer and press my very stiff cock to her backside.
That's when it all comes flooding back. My eyes fly open and I jump out of bed, instantly alert. The last thing I remember is that monster slamming me into the dirt over and over while Ruby stabbed it.
“Where is it? Where are we?” I shout, looking around and ready to shift at a moment's notice.
The room I’m in is super pink, pink bedding, pink walls, and pink curtains. I blink and rub my eyes, trying to clear the illusion of a pink heaven, but it remains. Ruby sits up in bed, her blonde hair tinged slightly red from blood, and she reaches for me. Hesitantly I crawl over the bed to her side, like a prowling animal scenting out any threat. I’m on high alert and her calm demeanor doesn’t make sense.
“He’s dead, Chase… The monster? We killed him…he was…” She puts her face in her hands and starts sobbing quietly.
I fall back on my rear end and run my hands through my hair, trying to calm down. “Someone important must have died? Was it Cole, your mother?”
“My father…” She sobs harder and I pull her into my arms.
I’m so confused, her father’s been missing for a long time. What does he have to do with this?
“My father was that monster…he was the one killing those kids… Killian told me about the vision you shared with him…did he want to do it? Did he enjoy it?” Her beautiful big blue eyes look up at me filled with so much pain and everything starts to make sense. He hadn’t wanted to, he tried to run away, but whoever it was that was forcing him to do these things beat him into submission.
“No, he didn’t want to, he was forced to. I’m so sorry, Ruby,” I tell her truthfully, squeezing her a little tighter as she cries. Knowing her father is dead, knowing that we did it, sinks into the core of me. She must be…moon I can't even imagine how she must feel. I never had good parents, hell, almost no one in the Dark Moon had that.
“I guess that's comforting…” She sniffles and wipes her eyes as I scoot her over into my lap. For a moment I cradle her like a baby, but I have to ask.
“Is this your room? It’s so…”
“Pink? Yeah I know, I’ve been wanting to change it for a while but I just haven't had time.” She snuggles in closer, rubbing her face on my chest, and I start to remember how I woke up and the feelings involved. I push the thoughts away, this is not the time. She’s mourning, I need to focus on comforting her and not my own selfish needs.
“Chase…?” she whispers, her hand stroking my chest with just the tips of her fingers.
“Yeah, babe?” I kiss the top of her head and she sighs in pleasure.
“I need another shower…will you join me?”
My cock is instantly rock hard, no preventing it now. My thoughts are running wild. Ruby in the shower? Ruby in the shower…with me? Hell yes. Right now. I pick her up in bed almost as soon as I’ve made my decision and she squeaks with surprise.
“Which way to the bathroom?” I ask, no nonsense in this plan. I’m ready to go.
She laughs and points at the door across the room and I walk towards it so fast I almost trip and drop us on the floor. I’ll do everything in my power to make her feel better, to distract her from this loss. If I have to ravish her every moment for the rest of my life… Well, it will be a beautiful life.
Her bathroom is like a spa, the walk-in shower big enough for ten people at least, and her claw foot bathtub gives me all the ideas. I set her on her feet and she walks to turn on the shower, but I pull her back. Kissing her is like a drug, and I haven’t had my fix in too long.
Her skin is like velvet, so soft and supple, and she melts into my body like she was made to be there. Her tongue meets mine and my cock twitches against her stomach and she smiles. She pushes away from me and gives me a warning wave of her finger as she walks to the shower and presses a button on a touch screen. Water falls from the roof like rain, instantly hot and filling the room with steam.
Ruby steps inside, soaking herself as I watch. I can’t move, I can't think straight. She’s touching herself all over, pinching her nipples, and looking at me like she feels just as needy as I do. She reaches for me and I swear my body propels itself into the shower. I pull her back to my chest, stroking her from her collarbone down and around her breasts. Ruby lays her head on my shoulder and moans.
