Foxy Lady (8 page)

He was beginning to understand Julia a lot better the more time he spent around her. The controlled front she presented at home was just that, a front. The reality of this precious vixen was that she had needs, wants and fears, like everyone else.

Personally, he’d never much liked her aunt and uncle. Too bent on outdoing everyone else in the clan, the older Eastons only cared about pedigree and clan standing. Funny that Julia and her sisters didn’t reflect that one bit.

He leaned down and sucked on her earlobe, gratified when she hissed and arched into him, grazing his chest with hard nipples.

“Remember my conditions? Meet them and I’ll help your sister with the council.”

“Oh, yes.” She moaned when he licked her ear and skimmed his lips over her soft throat toward her mouth.

He kissed her with a deep, driving need to possess.

She kissed him back with a dose of passion that drugged him with lust.

He nudged her thighs wider and angled his shaft so that his tip rested at the entrance of her sex. The warm wetness coated his slit, and he shook with the effort to hold back.

“Answer a few questions honestly and I’ll do everything in my power to help Meghan, Gabby and you,” he said thickly, wanting nothing more than to thrust home.

She shifted under him, and he slid farther inside her. She stopped and moaned his name. “You’re doing something to me. Stop it.”

“Stop what?” he whispered, and leaned down to take her nipple in his mouth. Though small, she was gently rounded. A perfect fit for Ty’s mouth and hands. He sucked and inched deeper into her slick pussy.
Fuck me, my head’s going to explode if I don’t come inside her in the next two minutes.
Though he’d taken her as a fox, sex while human beat animalistic mating any day of the week.

“I want you so much.” Julia grabbed his head and pulled him back to her lips with a vicious tug.

He lost his hold on his position and penetrated her while she took command of his mouth. With a low groan, he stilled inside her once fully seated and gave himself up to her touch. Warnings of commitment and her probable fertility paled against the desire riding him hard.

She licked and bit, teased with her tongue and stroked his with such skill he nearly came. Unable to help it, he rocked in and out of her. Light thrusts with his pelvis tilted to graze her plump clit while he rubbed his chest against her hard nipples.

“Yes, yes,” she hissed, and locked her ankles around his back. “Harder, Ty. More.”

“
Fuck.
” He grasped her ass in his palms and pushed into her, again and again. Pounding inside the delicate woman, he could no more stop himself than he could stop the flood of ecstasy rushing through him when she cried out and tightened around him.

He’d had sex before, but it had never been so complete. His body touched hers. His mind filled with thoughts of her and only her. But his animal spirit connected with hers in a way that astounded him. As if he’d finally found that part of him always missing, loving Julia was making him long for kits, for home and hearth. For forever.

An image of her round with his child intruded, and the spice of her need overwhelmed him.

“I’m coming,” he said on a breath as he exploded inside her. The orgasm left him lightheaded, awash in two very different sensations.

Pure pleasure: because sex with Julia was like dying and going to heaven.

Pure panic: because for the second time in his life, counting the first when he’d taken her in fox form, he hadn’t used protection. And despite the fact that foxes bred once a year, Julia was definitely in heat.

Julia could barely breathe. Sex with Ty had been both inevitable and incredible. At this point, what remained of her pitiful willpower could go to hell. He remained joined to her, his cock semi-hard and deliciously full.

Together, they smelled right. His scent covered hers yet didn’t overwhelm, rather, he smelled sweet, a combination of them both.

Running her hands over his strong arms, she kept her legs locked around his waist, not wanting him to pull out just yet.

“Hmm. You feel so good.” She kissed him again. He resisted for a moment, which surprised her. Then he groaned and deepened the kiss.

When he stopped, she was shocked he’d hardened again inside her.

“Ty?”

“I know. I just came and I’m hard again. I can’t help it. It’s you.” He groaned as if in pain, but didn’t withdraw. “Julia, I— When you look at me like that, it’s all I can do not to turn and take you hard. My fox wants to fuck you all over again,” he said in a husky voice.

“How am I looking at you?” she asked coyly, imagining herself on her knees, his cock in her mouth. She felt wicked and wild, and had no idea she could feel so free. Nothing seemed to matter right now but riding that pleasure train to climax all over again. “Move inside me.”

Ty’s eyes turned. “God, you’re making this hard.”

“I know.” She wiggled under him and grinned.

“Hell.” Ty grunted and began pistoning again. “Those questions, Julia?”

“Oh, you feel so good. Ask whatever you want, just don’t stop.” She shifted until he brushed her clit as he took her.

She hadn’t thought they’d fit. She was tiny, he…wasn’t. But he filled her right up.

Instinct demanded he spend inside her again. Her animal spirit whispered her longings, her needs and desires. “Take me, Ty, and I’ll give you whatever you want.”

“Julia,” he breathed and stared at her while he fucked her. Brutal, beautiful, wild. Her silver fox reveled in Ty’s conquest. He’d run her down, the only silver fox ever to do so. And he’d beaten her challenge without hurting her. She could see scratches and bite marks all over his arms and chest. They’d fade over time, but right now they marked him as hers.

“Come inside me,” she encouraged.

“Fuck yes,” he groaned. He inserted a hand between them and rubbed her clit, gliding over the slick nub with enough pressure to set her off again.

“Ty, please.” Julia begged him to end the painful hunger setting her on fire.

“Take it, Julia. All for you,” he growled and pinched her clit.

She screamed and came around him. He removed his hand and thrust fast and deep inside her before reaching the pinnacle of release again.

Ty shuddered, climaxing. When he pulled out, he milked the rest of his come over her belly and rubbed it in. “Yeah, that’s it. I want it all over you. So everyone knows where you belong,” he rasped.

His warm hands soothed her, and she basked in the waves of her climax until the cold air dragged her from her sex-induced stupor.

“That was incredible.”

“And something that’s going to be happening a lot in the near and far future,” Ty murmured with contentment. “You’re finally mine.”

“Yours,” she repeated softly, thinking how wonderful that sounded. Fox to fox, woman to man… “Holy crap!”

“And there you are. I was wondering where the real Julia had gone.” Ty chuckled.

She glanced at him and saw his canines flash sharp and white in the dark. “I, ah, that is, I didn’t mean to—”

“To wave that pretty tail at me? To get me so worked up I couldn’t think past the need to fuck that sweet pussy?” His crude words aroused her, and he seemed to know it. “So many secrets. Prim and proper Julia likes it rough, and she likes it dirty. If you hadn’t already wrung me dry, I’d do you all over again.”

Her face felt hot enough to melt the sun. “Ty.”

“It’s true. And I came hard inside you, baby. Too late to stop that now, but next time we’ll use protection. Maybe.”

She couldn’t miss the odd look on his face, nor could she mistake his intention when he rubbed her belly.

“Wh— I didn’t— I can’t—” She couldn’t breathe. What if she had kits? What if her babes came out…different?
Oh my God. What a mess.

“Julia?” Ty frowned and withdrew. “It’ll be all right. No matter what, I’ll take care of you.”

She started hyperventilating, and he shushed her and rocked her in his arms.

“I know neither of us planned this, but you have to admit it’s been building for a while. How about we let this relationship run its course? You and me, what’s not to like? Even your aunt can’t say I’m not good enough for you.”

“True,” she agreed, still blindsided from her stupidity. How could she have let him come inside her?

“We could get married to seal the deal,” he teased. “Want to hang around until Saturday and let Ned walk you down the aisle to me?” The sudden passion in his bright eyes blinded her. “Honey, what’s wrong?”

“I can’t marry you.” Her sisters would be disowned and cast out. Ty would hate her as soon as he learned what she really was. The good girl she’d strived to be her whole life would no longer matter once she lost what meant so much to her. Acceptance, a place in society. Her home. Ty’s love.

He paused and glanced away. “I was just teasing, Julia. Relax.”

Her face flamed. Of course Ty wasn’t asking her to marry him. The most eligible bachelor in town didn’t want Julia. Though an Easton, she was little more than an orphaned fox with little standing in the community.

“Question number one, why wouldn’t you marry me, if I was asking, that is?”

“Are you kidding me? You want to play twenty questions
now
?” She couldn’t believe she’d acted so uninhibited with him.
God, I actually begged him to come in me. I am seriously losing it.
Because thoughts of having Ty’s baby pleased the hell out of her.

“You want me to smooth things over with the council, answer my questions.
Honestly.
I can smell a lie.”

Foxes couldn’t do that, could they? She never had been able to smell with that degree of precision, but Ty was the sheriff. Perhaps his sense of smell accounted for what she’d always attributed to a cunning mind.

“But, Ty—”

“If I have to ask again, I’m going to go back and tell the council Meghan not only left Cougar Falls for a man, but that his family is a bunch of hunters who kill for sport.”

“That’s a lie.”

“It’s true. They hunt for sport. They’re just not Hunters.”

She fumed. “Blackmail?” Before he could open his mouth to retort, she stopped him. “Fine. I wouldn’t marry you because I don’t—” Love you? That would be a lie. She loved him. And that was a big part of the problem.

“You don’t what?”

“I don’t want to get hurt.” There. That was the truth.

He frowned. “I’d never harm you, Julia. I admit, I was a bit rough before, but I’m the one carrying bite marks.” He glanced down at his arms, looking pleased.

“Not physically harmed. Emotionally. You have a lot of girlfriends. I couldn’t marry a man who wouldn’t be loyal.”

“
Had
a lot of girlfriends, and there weren’t actually that many. Does it bother you I dated women who weren’t fox?”

“Not at all. I think the clan’s too narrow-minded for their own good.” The one thing she’d always respected about Ty, he didn’t seem to care for outward trappings. Though the women he’d dated were pretty, each had substance. To Julia’s annoyance, she actually liked the women he’d been linked with, silver fox and otherwise. “I think we should be able to date whoever we want, provided they’re Ac-taw.” Visions of her mother dying outside of town never quite left her thoughts, and worry for Meghan returned full force.

“If I was mated, there would never be another for me, or for my wife,” he added in a hard voice.

She thrilled at the possession in his tone and had to push past silly dreams of forever with Ty. “On that I’d agree.”

“Good.”

“Fine. But you’re not looking for a mate, right?”

He didn’t say anything, and his silence bothered her. Granted, she wasn’t offering, but plenty of men in town had thought her pretty enough to at least want to date. Apparently to Ty she was nothing more than an easy lay.

She frowned. “I’m not looking for a man.”

“Too bad you found one.”

Chapter Six

Ty entered the house after Julia, slipping through her opened window into her bedroom. They fell into bed together and slept the minute their heads hit the pillows.

Movement wakened him and he blinked up into the sun peering through the open window. Julia didn’t spare him a glance as she got up, pulled on her robe and headed to the bathroom.

He heard the shower start and sighed. Not that he wanted to talk, but he and Julia had a lot left needing to be said. He shoved his legs through his jeans and buttoned up seconds before Gabby burst through the door.

She stopped upon seeing him and her nostrils flared.

“Well it’s about time.”

When she continued to stand there staring at him, he sank back onto the bed. He’d had a long night. Having sex with Julia hadn’t sated him, though it should have. His animal spirit yapped at him to stop dicking around. He’d had Julia, naked, in bed, all night long, and he’d only come inside her while in the forest—once as a fox and twice as a man.

But he needed to slow down.

The idea he might have already impregnated her freaked him the hell out. On the one hand, he wasn’t ready for kits and family. Single-guy living suited him just fine. On the other hand, he’d made love to
Julia
. The only woman who’d ever wormed her way under his skin—and dammit, into his heart—didn’t want to mate with him.

He should have been happier about her not wanting any ties. Instead, her independence insulted him. She belonged to him. He could feel it, much as he almost wished he couldn’t. She’d been so tight around him, so new. Not a virgin, but not an experienced woman by any means. He’d never heard of her dating anyone in town, and his curiosity about her past consumed him.

“I’m so happy for you two. I’ve been waiting years for this.” Gabby stunned the hell out of Ty by jumping on top of him, knocking him flat on the bed. “She’s always had a thing for you, you know. Not that she would ever admit it.”

Ty stared at Gabby in fascination. Julia had a thing for him? “What are you talking about?”

“Come on, Ty. When’s the last time you saw Julia drinking at a party?”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

Gabby grinned. He’d never seen her so cheery before. It gave her already cute features a beauty all their own. Her golden skin flushed with pleasure as she rolled off him and sat next to him on the bed. “She’s so serious all the time. I didn’t even know what she’d done until she confessed it while drunk at the last celebration. You dropped her off and I found her slurring her sorrows a few minutes later.”