Perfect Reflection (14 page)

Their table was on the edge of the floor at the head
of the room. She sat, laughed with Vander and Benny, who both
danced with her before she began to wonder if her feet were going
to be deformed because of the high heels.
Her feet were killing
her
.

“Break,” Jewel said to Ret and laughed when he
frowned at her. “My feet are killing me.”

“Ahh, well next time you must wear more comfortable
shoes, I love having you in my arms dancing,” Ret teased and then
led her to the edge of the floor where Lex was waiting.

“I have to sit,” Jewel moaned and longed to kick off
the shoes and wiggle her scrunched toes.

“Here, Benny and Vander are off to the bar, put your
feet up,” Ret said and then tensed when he heard both of his mates
suck in a breath.

“Mother Fucker,” Jewel said and reached between her
legs and looked around the room. Lex pulled his phone out and
called the precinct. It took Ret a minute to figure out what
happened.

“Holy Shit,” he muttered and stared incredulously at
the table, on Jewel’s plate there was a baggie. When he walked
around the table, he became pissed when he realized in the bag was
an ear with the earrings still attached.

“Now,” Lex barked into the phone and Ret turned
around, they had to get these people out of here.

“I will make an announcement that we are moving to a
different dining room, let me talk to the coordinator,” Ret said
and walked to where the man stood.

Lex wrapped an arm around her tense waist, pulled her
to him, and whispered in her ear, “Do you see anyone?”

“Nope, Vander, Benny and us, were the only ones I saw
at the table,” she said briskly.

“There were three hundred people here at one time or
another, it could have been any of them, or the wait staff,” Lex
said, scanning the crowd also. He picked out Enforcers from his
pack and signaled them to come over.

“This room needs locked down,” she demanded and
continued to scan the crowd,
he was here, she could feel him
staring at her
. The goosebumps on her arms were proof of that.
“He is still here, watching, waiting.”

Lex swore under his breath and whispered to his men
quietly. They moved and began to smile and gather the humans,
shuffling them out of the room.

She closed her eyes and lifted her head; she could
scent him, that strange scent that plagued her thoughts. It was
familiar, because it was close to Ret’s scent, but there was
something else—something she was missing. Pausing, she allowed her
mind to open and focus.

She thought about the cases that Vander and she
worked, the way she saw the scenes, the perps. They flashed in her
head, and then she focused on the crimes scenes, what she needed to
see, what was hiding from her. However, Ret’s face flashed before
her eyes, she shook her head in confusion. He was not the killer,
why was she thinking about him? Sighing, Jewel opened her eyes, the
room had been mostly clear and Vander and Benny were walking toward
her with a grim expression.

“Just got a call from the NYC Detectives, they are
searching all of the active and non-active construction sites, the
body has to be there somewhere if he stayed to his M.O.,” Vander
said sourly and looked at the baggie on her plate and grimaced.
“This is a new level of psycho.”

“Yeah, well, like the others, the earrings were mine
also, send someone over to the cabin. I am pretty sure that is
where they were. Benny bought them for my graduation,” Jewel
gritted out, then turned, and frowned at Lex and Ret who were
whispering in the corner.

By the time the lab techs came and left, and the
security tapes were acquired, she was pissed off. All she wanted
was to go and take these fucking shoes off and find something solid
to eat, none of this bird food they served tonight. She was about
to go on a stress eating tour, the likes these men had never
seen.

“Ready?” Lex asked and she nodded brusquely.

They rode back to the hotel in silence, each of them
thinking about what this latest little present implied. None of
their victims had their ears cut off, so this meant a new victim,
somewhere there was a victim. They needed to find her and bring her
home.

When they entered her suite, she turned, ready to
tell the guys good night, but both took off their jackets and shut
the door behind them.

“Uh, sorry, guys, I am not going to be very good
company tonight,” Jewel said.

“Neither are we, so let’s just say we are all even,”
Lex said and sat down on her couch and put an arm over his
eyes.

“Whatever, I am going to get comfortable, crawl into
bed, and try to get a few hours of shuteye, before we get called,”
Jewel said and walked into the bedroom and began stripping.

Ret looked at his best friend and shook his head. So
having two brooding cops at one time could be interesting. Lex
tended to be quiet when he couldn’t figure out a case. Now he knew
Jewel was like that, too.

“Sweetheart, let us take care of you,” Ret said
quietly and stood in the doorway, watching her. She was standing in
a lacy half bra and silky matching underwear. Damn, she was sexy,
her smooth stomach and firm ass, he wanted to take a bite out of it
right now.

“”I don’t need anyone to take care of me, and I will
thank you to remember that. I need to decompress.” Jewel frowned
over her shoulder.

“I think I can help with that, but first can we ask
you a question?” Ret said and felt his friend come up behind him.
Good to know, the sight of a sexy mate would snap him out of his
thoughts.

“What?” Jewel said tiredly.

“We were going to do this romantic and stuff. But we
were going to ask if you would mate with us tonight,” Ret said
slowly and looked at his partner.

Jewel looked at them, “Finding a body part on your
dinner plate was kinda a mood killer, don’t you think?”

“I just think maybe if we are mated you would be
safer. The Enforcers will recognize you formally as their Alpha
female and the rest of the pack will, too. It would be added
protection, this guy is coming for you. I know you will never allow
us to have you guarded twenty-four seven,” Lex said smoothly.

“You are damn right!” Jewel said, pacing in front of
the bed. “Do you know how hard I have worked to make sure the men
in this field respect me? Twice as hard as anyone, I am not going
to sit by and wait while the big, strong men go and find the mean,
awful killer.”

Lex sighed and shook his head, “Not what I was
saying. Listen; think about it, you would have every wolf in the
state watching in case something happened. We want you safe.”

“And I want to believe Santa Claus is fucking real,
but we don’t always get what we want,” Jewel stormed and Ret rocked
back on his heels.

“Whether you want to believe this or not, you are
going to be the next Alpha female of the NYC Pack. There are
certain things you will have to accept,” Ret said.

“Oh really, well since I have not accepted the
position yet, I guess I can still back out,” Jewel said and knew
she was going to pay for that, her wolf pushed against her and
growled. Even if she didn’t say it aloud, her wolf already accepted
them as mates, it was not a jump to know the woman had, too.

Ret growled and stepped forward. “I have been patient
because I know you had a job to do, I respected that, I also know
about your past mate, I get it. However, we are your true mates and
you fucking well know it. If you have any question about it, let me
clarify this for you. Yes, you have a job; will I stop you from
doing it? No. I know if I did, we would battle like Lex and his
father did. In the shifter world, we have to be flexible, blending
into society. I support that, but you are going to be the Alpha
female, you will have certain responsibilities. One of them being
you HAVE TO BE ALIVE TO FULFILL THEM,” Ret said, yelling the last
sentence to her. She turned with a look of surprise on her face. It
was the first time he had gone all-Alpha on her and damn, but her
girly parts really liked it.

It was as if someone flipped a switch on inside of
her. It was crazy. Fighting with him was a lost cause, her wolf
wanted to obey, but the woman was not ready to give up yet.

“I have been a cop for a long time. I think I can
handle myself. So, things are going to go like this. Maybe I will
allow you to mark me, and maybe I will be the Alpha female when I
finish this case and put this mother fucker behind bars,” she
snarled and Lex smiled, then stepped to one side while Ret moved to
the other, they were stalking her. “What are you doing?”

“I know exactly what you are doing, you don’t pull an
Alpha’s tail and get away with it. I hate to tell you, but you are
not in charge here. We are a team,” Lex said and stepped
closer.

Jewel snapped her head back and forth between them
and laughed. “Right, go team.”

“Will you accept our claim?” Ret said slowly.

“Make me,” Jewel said and jumped on the bed, standing
in a defensive stance waiting for them to attack, just what she
needed, somewhere to release all this energy.

“We could but we really want to keep our balls
intact.” Lex laughed.

“Okay, tell you what, if you can knock me off this
bed I will accept your claim, one shot each, but if I win, you
leave.” Jewel smiled.

Lex and Ret stared at each other and shrugged, “Naked
mattress wrestling, I am in,” Lex said and took off his shirt. Ret
nodded, he did too, and turned to Jewel who was smiling.

Lex started and walked around the bed, keeping out of
the reach of her legs and arms, he dove for her and she moved fast,
Lex caught her ankle and they wrestled for a minute, but Ret knew
his friend, he was toying with her. Moaning, his Beta shook his
head into the bed when he allowed her to pin him.

Ret grinned and waited for a moment while she stood
and ignored Lex, and waved a hand at Ret to come at her. He walked
to the side of the bed until she was turned to face him and Lex
moved quickly, getting up on all fours and Ret kicked the bed hard,
making it move a few feet, and knocking her off balance over Lex’s
back and onto the floor, knocking the air out of her.

“Shit,” Ret said and ran for where she landed.

Jewel laid there for a second and then started
laughing. “I need food.”

“Fine, first we feed you—then we fuck you.” Ret
shrugged and walked to the phone and called room service.

Lex helped a laughing Jewel to her feet and kissed
her soundly before Ret hung up the phone and kissed her as well.
Spanking her on the ass, he said, “Fifteen minutes.”

Jewel stuck out her tongue and then sauntered to the
bathroom, intending on taking off all of the female goo she put on
her face earlier. By the time she came out, with only a towel
wrapped around her, she grinned at the feast Ret had ordered.

Retten and Lex could hardly eat with Jewel so close
to them, in a towel no less, and the sounds she made were making it
very hard for them to control themselves. They watched as Jewel
tasted another dish, then she closed her eyes, and moaned from the
incredible food, that was the men’s undoing. They knew between the
mating pull and the seductiveness of the simple task of eating by
Jewel, they were toast. Retten grabbed her and slung the food off
the table. He placed her on the table and began kissing her.

What the hell just happened? I was enjoying my
meal, and now I am on a table with hot lips roaming my body,
she thought. That was the last of Jewel’s coherent thinking because
she couldn’t hold back the moan. Retten’s kisses were killing her.
She wanted them everywhere.

Ret pulled back allowing Lex to kiss her next.
Wow, Lex tasted so good, too
. Jewel was so caught up in the
moment as she continued to allow them to have their way with her.
Lex continued to kiss her as Retten jerked the towel off, tossing
it to the floor. He spread her legs before she could stop him. He
forced his way between her thighs, bent his head, and started
sucking on her like a man starved, causing her to cry out. The
orgasm took her by surprise. Her body shook with desire. She
couldn’t control it any longer. Ret sucked on her while he pushed a
finger in and out, building the sensations up again as Lex pulled
her shirt up, sucking and squeezing her breasts. Moisture
lubricated and poured from her center as Retten licked and sucked
it all up.

Her cream was like eating strawberries
, Ret
thought. Jewel moaned again louder from the attention the men were
giving her. She was so close again when Retten suddenly stopped,
causing her to immediately miss his touch. He looked up at her and
asked.

“Jewel, I want and need you now. If you want us to
stop, please say so now while I have some sense left in me,” Ret
asked Jewel as he continued to push his fingers in and out of
her.

She couldn’t think of what to say. The urge to mate
consumed her. Jewel wanted this more than anything, and she
couldn’t say no. “Yes, God, please don’t stop,” Jewel
whispered.

Ret quickly stripped his pants off. He stroked his
cock once before he lined it up and pushed inside her slowly. He
wanted to fuck her hard, but he didn’t want to scare her. He didn’t
know if she would like his lifestyle. Lex and he kept it private,
but he so wanted to introduce her to all the pleasures.

Jewel gasped, trying to hold her breath when Ret
pushed deep inside of her. Retten’s cock was so big and long. She
had never had anyone near the size of this man. Jewel held her
breath until Ret was planted into her all the way, filling her
completely. Ret grabbed her legs and placed them on his shoulders.
He started to move in and out of her slowly.

Lex continued to lavish her breasts, taking his time
swirling his tongue around her nipple and then biting down gently,
all the while he squeezed and pinched the other bud. Both men
taking their sweet time, enjoying the fact they were finally going
to be mated.