“It was your own energy. The powerbase
you used was nothing but you. You’ve always had it, but not until you mated
with Mac did you have the strength to use it. It tends to drain those who use
it without other magic to sustain them.” Everyone looked at Mel when she spoke.
“I’m so happy for you, Bradley. You’re very lucky that Mac here decided to
stick around.”
Mac hugged Brandi tighter to him. “You’re
very tricky, Aunt Melody. I may yet forgive you for making me take on this
assignment.”
She grinned at him.
“But that doesn’t mean that it’ll be any
time soon. Just so you know.”
There were enough people around to start
to draw a crowd. Mac told them he was taking Brandi home and as they were
getting ready to leave the police showed up. At one time, David had been on
their force, but now he worked only for his brother and alpha. Mac and Brandi
left before they could be questioned. He needed to get her to his bed.
They were barely in the room when she
lifted her head to his. He took her mouth with passionate hunger. He needed
her, needed to mark her again and to claim her as his own. Lifting her up he
pressed her against the wall and tore at her clothes.
“Mac. Please. I hurt.” He stopped
immediately without letting her go. “I think my ribs are broken and my mouth
hurts. I’m so sorry. I want you too, but it hurts right now.”
“I’m the one that’s sorry. Baby, please
don’t cry.” Her tears hurt him in ways he couldn’t control. “Here, baby, drink
from me. Then I’ll run you a warm bath and put you to bed. Come on.”
When she buried her nose in his neck, he
had to restrain himself from taking her anyway. Then, when she ran her tongue
down his vein, he nearly went cross-eyed with need. Moaning her name he asked
her to please stop. “You’re killing me, love. Right now all I can think of is
burying my cock deep into you and never leaving. I want to take you hard right
now against this wall and—”
“I want to bite you.”
He stilled at her quietly spoken words.
“When I needed to give that girl my
blood I could bite myself to do it. It felt weird at first, but I think I’d
very much like to bite you.”
Cupping her face in his hands while
still holding her against the wall, he looked into her eyes. They were swollen
and bruised, but he could see her lust there as well as her fear. When she
opened her mouth he looked down. She had fangs.
“Brandi, do you…have you any idea what
I’d like to do to you right now?” His voice was husky, deep, and full of
emotion. He pressed her head to his neck again and took several deep breaths
before he trusted himself to speak. “Run your tongue along my neck until you
find the pulse. That’s it, baby.”
He rocked into her and heard her moan
against his skin. He wasn’t going to make it. Sometime before she bit into him
and suckled at his throat he was going to die, he just knew it. When her mouth
opened over his pounding pulse, he moaned again. Before he could tell her to
bite there she sank her teeth into him.
Stars burst behind his eyes. Need,
nothing like he’d ever felt, coiled inside of him and he rocked into her again.
And when she drew deeply he wrapped his fingers tighter into her hair and held
her to him.
Running his hand down the back of her
ass he lifted her up higher. He needed to taste her while she fed from him and
he doubted that he could wait much longer. When he felt her warm skin against
his, Mac turned toward the bed and walked…staggered really, to it.
As soon as her back touched the bed she
licked the wound closed and looked up at him. Christ, he wanted this woman. He
touched the side of her cheek that was now fully healed. Her grin made him
smile.
“I made us naked.”
He grinned larger.
“And you’re still not inside of me. Do I
have to do all the work?”
“I thought maybe I’d take a drink from
you. Sip from your nectar and feast on your pussy before I fucked you until you
can’t walk.” Suddenly, he was on his back and she astride him. “Or you could
ride me until I can’t walk. But I still would love to take you in ways you’ve
never dreamed of. I want to lay you across my lap and spank your tight little
ass until you come. Then I want to bend you over that chair and fuck you.”
Her moan made him think she’d like that
as well. “Can’t we do all of that? I’m up for it if you are.”
He rolled her to her back and sat up. Lifting
one leg at a time, he licked down it until he got to her knee then put them on
either side of him. He looked down at her openness. She was wet, soaking wet,
as a matter of fact. And he was very thirsty.
Moving down to the end of the bed, he
leaned down and opened her wider with his fingers. Her scent was enough to make
him whimper. Moving closer, he licked her from gate to clit and then buried his
tongue deep inside of her. Her climax nearly took his head off when her legs
tightened around him.
Mac lapped at her for several minutes. Taking
as much of her into him as he could before he moved his fingers deep within her,
he realized that this woman would sustain him forever. She was dancing off the
bed now, her body reaching for more and begging as well. She came three more
times before he had to have her.
“Get up on your knees. I want to take
you hard from behind. And hang on. I’m not going to be gentle.” She moved to do
his bidding and when she had her ass up and her head down he opened her sweet
ass up and licked at her tiny puckered hole. “I’m going to take you here soon. Fuck
this little ass of yours and make you scream.”
“Please, Mac. I need you.” She moved
back against him and rubbed her ass against his cock. “Fuck me.”
He fisted his cock as he pressed his
fingers in her heat. He nearly came all over her ass he was so close. Moving
his cock to her entrance, he stilled there. When she moved back again he
brought his hand down hard onto her ass cheek. He didn’t know what he expected,
but her climax wasn’t anywhere near it. He entered her hard, his cock having a
mind of its own, and filled her to the hilt.
“Fuck, you feel good.” He leaned down
over her and braced his hands on either side of her body. “Brandi, I’m sorry if
I hurt you, but I can’t wait for you this time.”
He took her hard. Over and over he pistoned
into her. When he felt his cock tingle and his balls tighten against his body,
he licked her shoulder. As much as he wanted her throat, he was enjoying this
too much to roll her over. As soon as he bit her she screamed out his name,
screamed out that she loved him. Mac came with a roar, lifted his head from her
and roared out his release. He felt his climax come not just from his cock, but
through his entire body. When he emptied himself in her he dropped. Knowing he
was probably too heavy made him want to roll over, but his body was completely
drained.
He woke some time later. He knew it was
daylight out, his body knowing it as if he had a window to look out. When he
reached for her she was gone and he reached for her through their private
connection. She was in the kitchen with Duncan and he closed his eyes. She
would be safe within the house and he knew that Duncan would find him if she
tried to leave.
Chapter 13
“Oh yes, miss, Master Mac has always
been a very good boy. There were times I despaired of him ever being like other
young men of his caliber, but soon discovered he was simply being himself and
did not care if the he was liked or not.” He set a cup of tea in front of her
as he continued. “Of course he was well liked. Even those he had to help that
had not moved on seemed to like him.”
Lizzy reached over and took her cup of
tea. Andi had told Duncan that she didn’t care for it, but he seemed to be
nervous for some reason and was doing all sorts of odd things. Lizzy got up and
kissed him on the head.
“Duncan, why don’t you have a seat and
I’ll fix a glass of tea for Andi. Daniel will be here soon and you know he
loves your spicy chicken salad. While I fix this, you can tell her about the
time Mac got his first kiss.” Lizzy winked at her and Andi smiled. She really
liked this young girl. Then something occurred to her.
“You’re not really as young as you look,
are you?” Andi flushed when Lizzy raised a brow. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it
like that. I just meant I don’t know a great deal about Mac. Nor anything that
he claims he is.” She believed he was a vampire. After they’d made love the
third time last night, he’d explained to her about him needing her to live. He
told her that he could eat, but it was more of a restricted diet, one like
maybe a diabetic would eat.
“I’m Mac’s twin. He’s older by several
minutes, but that’s only because I allowed him to be born first.”
Andi didn’t comment. She had a feeling
Lizzy wasn’t kidding.
“We’re both just over seventy-five. My
dad is nearly seventeen hundred years old and my mother nearly a hundred.” She
kissed Duncan again. “And Duncan here is nearly as old as Dad. He and Dad are
bonded by blood and love, though I’m pretty sure that love has kept them
together longer than blood. Duncan was my dad’s manservant back in the day. Now
he’s a part of the family as much as you are.”
“Thank you, Miss Lizzy. I am touched by
your words. But that does not get you out of cleaning your room. You know that
your mother gave you strict orders to have it cleaned up or she would.”
Andi laughed. She had a feeling that
these two had been doing this forever. She looked up when the back door opened
and Bradley walked in, his mate right behind him.
Andi had never been one for hugs. These
people, all of them, seemed to live for them. Especially these two. She
wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that they were wolves and the
pack mentality. She looked up sharply at Airic. “You’re really a wolf, aren’t
you?” She flushed at her own outburst and then at her laughter. “I’m sorry. I’m
just realizing that I’m supposed to be mated to a vampire and one of my bosses
is a wolf…are you a werewolf or just wolf?”
Bradley sat down and took her hand. “Both.
I have something for you. I have to do this without your mate here or he’ll knock
the shit out of me. Not to say he won’t anyway, but here you go.” His fingers
morphed into a paw and suddenly, there was a searing pain in her wrist. “Don’t
lick it. I’ll have to do it again if you do.”
Suddenly Mac had Bradley against the
wall and at least a foot off the ground. She had to hand it to the alpha, he
didn’t move. Not even when she could see that Mac’s eyes had turned a deep,
bloody red. She moved up behind him and touched his shoulder. He growled low.
“Be careful, Andi. He doesn’t know that
you’re the one touching him. While he can’t harm you intentionally, he might
inadvertently do so.” Lizzy spoke softly and Andi nodded. “Talk to him.”
Talk to him. What was she supposed to
say? “What the hell do you think you’re doing? Put that man down right now and
tell him you’re sorry.”
Both men looked at her. Mac looked
glazed-eyed, but Bradley looked…well, she thought he looked like he was going
to laugh.
“You heard me. Put him down this minute
and go back downstairs if you can’t be nice.” He dropped Bradley none too
gently and turned to her. “What the hell was that all about?”
“He hurt you.” She quirked her brow at
him. “He caused you pain and I felt it. He should know better than to touch
you. Especially you.”
“Why especially me? I mean, people have
been hurting me a long time before you came along so why now and why especially
me?” He looked around the room and then back at her without answering. “Well?
Am I some sort of fragile being that needs a big, powerful vamp to protect me? I’d
think about my answer if I were you. It could get you hurt in ways you can’t
imagine.”
“You belong to me now and I’m
protective. A lot. And he should know that.” Mac glared at Bradley, who
laughed. “He doesn’t like it when people, particularly men, touch his mate. What
if I were to cause harm to her? How do you think he’d react?”
“I’d be more inclined to be worried
about her. She looks like she could chew you up and spit you out without a
problem.” Andi looked over at Airic. “No offense.”
“None taken, and thank you. I think you
and I are going to be good friends.” Airic took Andi’s wrist, the one her mate
had cut. “You’re marked now. Anyone who sees this will know that you belong to
the Brotherhood of Gray pack.”
Mac took her wrist gently and then
glared at Bradley. “You could have told me what you were doing. I might have
been…no, I would have still thrown you against the wall.” She slapped him. “Well,
I’m not sorry. He knew what he was doing when he did it.”
Bradley shrugged. Andi pulled her arm
from Mac and looked at the scar. But it wasn’t really. It was a small wolf that
looked like a birth mark. She looked over at Mac when he raised his own sleeve
up. He had one too. Then Lizzy showed her the one she had.
“We’re all pack to them. Daniel, our
brother, too. It’s been that way for all my life. Bradley and my father,
normally enemies because of what they are, have been friends since they met
when one of my aunts pulled a gun on him.” Lizzy set down a glass of tea and
nodded toward Duncan as she continued. “Duncan, too. We’re all indebted to each
other in ways you can’t fathom.”