The Bear Essentials (Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection) (13 page)

“What?” Rob shouted as he turned to look at Casey so quickly, the truck swerved.

Casey’s caramel eyes were big and luminous. “Do you hate me?”

“Of course not.” Rob frowned. “Why would you think that?”

“Because I got us kicked out of your clan.”

“Casey, you…” This was never going to work. Rob pulled over to the side of the road and turned the truck off, ignoring the vehicle that pulled up behind him. He unbuckled his seatbelt and the held out his arms. “Come here, cub.”

Casey didn’t even hesitate. He unbuckled and slid across the seat, right into Rob’s arms. Rob tucked Casey to his chest, holding him tight. “Now, you listen to me, Casey Newton. I don’t care what the reasons are that we have to leave. We were planning on finding a new place to live anyway. This just means we move a little farther away than we anticipated.”

“But where will we go?” Casey whispered. “Who will have us once they learn what I am?”

“Casey, if we can’t find a clan to take us in, we’ll make one of our own.”

Casey’s eyebrows were raised when he tiled his head back. “A clan with just the two of us?”

“No.” Rob grinned as he nodded to the back window to two trucks he could see coming up behind them on the road they had just come down. “We’ll be making a clan with them.”

Casey sat up and turned. “Who is that?”

The two trucks slowed, pulling off to the side of the road behind Garret. Rob was in no way surprised when Billy Ray, Jed, and Dwayne climbed out of the vehicles and started walking up to his truck. The surprise for him came when he saw his brother climb out of the passenger side of Dwayne’s truck.

“I suspect that is our new clan, cub.”

Rob watched as Garret climbed out of his car and met up with the others as they walked toward the front of the convoy of vehicles. They all stopped to talk to Garret except Harvey, who simply nodded at the man and kept on walking until he reached the driver side window.

Rob kept one arm wrapped around Casey’s shoulders as he rolled the window down. “Harvey. I wasn’t expecting to see you here.”

Harvey leaned in and rested his arms on the window seal. “You really expect me to stay in a clan that kicks my baby brother out because of some demented idea about an omega creating chaos?”

“He could be right,” Rob insisted even though he didn’t believe it. Casey was too sweetly natured to cause the kind of trouble Alpha Barker had talked about.

“Bullshit.” There was something haunting in Harvey’s eyes, something dark. “I’ve seen chaos, brother, and Casey ain’t it. If anything, we should be rallying around him and keeping him safe from people that want to exploit him. He needs a safe haven, not a clan that won’t stand up for him.”

Wow
.

Rob’s heart beat a little faster. He licked his lips, nervous and excited at the same time. “What did Mom and Dad say?”

Harvey chuckled as he reached into his pocket and held out a wad of cash. “When Mom heard what Alpha Barker did, she pulled a bunch of money out of her savings and told me to give it to you. She also told me that if you need more, contact her and she’ll get it to you somehow.”

Rob blinked back his tears. In everything important he had done in his life, his parents had always supported him. Even in this, they had shown once again how much they loved him and accepted the choices he made in his life.

“I’m going to miss them.”

“Not for long.”

Rob’s gaze snapped to his brother. “What do you mean?”

“Do you really think Mom and Dad would stay somewhere that their sons weren’t welcome?” Harvey snorted as he rolled his eyes. “Even now they are putting the house up for sale and Dad is making arrangements to have Alpha Barker buy him out of the construction business. Hell, Mom has already started packing.”

Casey cried out as he pushed himself out of Rob’s arms. Stunned by the misery he could hear in his mate’s voice, Rob didn’t realize what Casey was doing until the man had the door open and was sliding out of the truck.

“Fuck!” Rob growled as he watched Casey take off into the woods.

“You’d better catch him,” Harvey said as he stepped back to allow Rob out of the truck.

Rob was out of the truck and racing around the front of it in the next moment. He could hear Garret yelling out his name as he ran into the forest. He didn’t have time to stop and explain the situation to the man. Hopefully, Harvey would and Rob could find Casey and get back before trouble started.

Casey wasn’t too hard to find. Rob heard his sobs before he spotted him curled up beside a fallen tree. Rob raced over and dropped to his knees next to his mate. Without hesitation, he scooped Casey up in his arms as he turned and plopped down on his butt, settling Casey on his lap.

“Oh, cub.” Casey’s sobs tore at his soul. His sweet little mate should know nothing but happiness and joy. His life before now hadn’t been stellar, but at least he’d had a home. Now he had nothing, and Rob didn’t know when that was going to get better.

Rob buried his face in Casey’s honey-blond hair when his own tears welled up in his eyes. “Do you want me to let you go, cub?” It would destroy him, but he would do whatever Casey needed.

“What?”

That one word was spoken with such shock that Rob hurried to explain his reasoning, even if he wasn’t real sure what it was.

“Maybe if we weren’t mates anymore, your scent would go back to normal and you could return to the clan and live your life.” Those words sank in his stomach like a lead weight, but Rob would do whatever it took to put a smile back on Casey’s face, even give him up.

“You’re leaving me?”

Rob tried to hold onto Casey when the man struggled to get away from him. He was actually kind of surprised at how hard it was to subdue one skinny little human. He ended up pressing Casey down into the dirt, using the weight of his body to hold Casey in place. Casey was crying and whimpering, yanking at the hands Rob had grasped around his wrists.

Rob did the only thing he could think of. He fisted his hand in Casey’s hair to hold him still and then covered the man’s mouth with his own, claiming him in a way that left no doubt that he was demanding Casey’s submission.

The kiss was hard and demanding. There was an urgency to it that made Rob growl against Casey’s lips as fire heated his blood and thickened his cock until it ached. His body sang with delight when Casey lifted into the kiss, his lips opening and allowing Rob in.

Rob moved his mouth over Casey’s, devouring its sweet softness. He delved inside, exploring with his tongue, conquering. As much as he wanted Casey to be happy—even if it wasn’t with him—his bear knew exactly what it wanted, and it wanted Casey.

As Rob lifted his head and stared down into Casey dazed caramel colored eyes, he knew he couldn’t give the man up, not even if it was for Casey’s own good. “I’ll do anything you want, Casey, go anywhere you want, but I can’t give you up.” Tears of failure filled his eyes. “I’m sorry. I just can’t.”

Casey reached up and smoothed a hand over Rob’s cheek. The mere touch of his hand sent a warming shiver through Rob, making him wonder if it would always be like this. Would he always crave this slim man’s touch?

“I love you, Rob.”

Elation thundered through Rob like a summer storm, followed quickly by a need to reassert his claim on his mate that he couldn’t deny. Rob tightened his hand in Casey’s hair, pulling until the man was forced to tilt his head back, baring his neck.

Rob leaned down and licked a path over the rapidly beating pulse at the base of Casey’s throat. He gently mouthed the soft swanlike curve of Casey’s throat, lavishing the skin with his tongue. The heady moan that filled the air wrapped around Rob like a lover’s caress.

Casey’s body squirmed beneath him as if he was trying to get closer, to climb under Rob’s skin. His hands grasped at Rob’s shoulders. His legs bent and parted, allowing Rob to settle between them. Even through the thickness of their jeans, Rob could feel Casey’s hard cock pressing against his.

When Casey’s fingers dug into his skin, the last thread of Rob’s control snapped. His claws extended as he grabbed the edges of Casey’s shirt and ripped until the thin material tore. Casey’s jeans were next. In a matter of moments, Rob had Casey naked and pinned beneath him once more.

Rob unbuttoned his jeans and pushed them down his thighs. He grabbed his cock and brushed it against Casey’s tight hole, only remembering at the last second that he had no lube. Rob racked his brain for an alternative. All the lube he had was either in the glove box of his truck or back at home in his nightstand.

Casey whimpered and flexed his hips, driving Rob’s lust to sweltering heights. But it also gave him an idea. Rob spread his hands wide enough to hold Casey’s hips and part of his ass cheeks before lifting his bottom into the air.

Using his thumbs to separate the luscious butt cheeks, Rob stroked his tongue up between them and over Casey’s ass. Casey’s cry was so loud, Rob was pretty sure people back in King City heard the man.

He didn’t care.

Casey could shout his pleasure to the world.

Using his tongue to press his advantage, Rob
circled around Casey’s puckered hole, giving a prolonged lick. He probed his tongue inside again, in several firm thrusts, adding a finger, leaving Casey shaking.

Rob tongue-fucked Casey over and over, then alternated with a finger and finally two, and then three, until the man seemed to be barely hanging on the edge. He pulled all the way back out and pushed back in, fucking Casey with his fingers for a few strokes.

Once he was assured that he wouldn’t hurt his mate, Rob lowered Casey’s body until he could fit the head of his cock to the man’s stretched hole. Rob’s clawed hands dug into Casey’s hips as he slammed forward, burying himself balls-deep in his mate’s sweet ass.

Rob felt Casey’s body welcome him with searing heat and slick tightness. His body began to vibrate with liquid fire. Casey’s body held him snug, the man’s ass massaging his cock like the tight grip of a lover’s hand. He shuddered with increasing arousal when Casey cried aloud.

He eased Casey up to sit on his widespread thighs. Keeping one hand curved around Casey, Rob brushed the other one over his cheek and then back to grab a handful of Casey’s hair. He locked eyes with Casey. His heart jolted at the love he could see shinning in their caramel depths.

His pulse quickened as he moved, driving his cock deep into Casey’s sweet grip at an ever increasing pace. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he was obsessed with Casey or what a simple look from the man did to him.

Casey was his world.

Pleasure pooled at the base of Rob’s spine and tingled along his nerves. He could feel his cock beginning to thicken at the base and knew he was mere moments away from coming. He wanted Casey to come with him.

He rammed his cock harder and harder into Casey, rocking the man with the force of his thrusts. He was overwhelmed by the heated tightness surrounding his hard shaft and the look of pure ecstasy on Casey’s face.

Rob moved his left hand down between their bodies, tracing his fingers over Casey’s hard shaft before wrapping his fingers around him. Pumping with his hand, Rob used every trick up his sleeve to build his mate’s pleasure.

He felt Casey’s tight channel contract around his cock with almost brutal intensity. Casey’s shattered wail of completion echoed through the trees as he sprayed white ropes of cum that spattered Rob’s fist.

Rob grabbed Casey’s hips and started to piston back and forth, his cock completely buried in Casey’s ass by now. He swelled inside Casey, stuffing his ass full, his rhythm faltering as he neared orgasm. Rob leaned forward and sank his teeth into the soft curve of Casey’s throat. Sweet ambrosia flooded his mouth, the taste of apples and cinnamon almost overwhelming in its intensity.

With a flurry of hard and fast thrusts, Rob froze, his cock buried as deep as he could be in Casey’s ass, his fangs buried in the man’s throat. He roared his completion as his seed erupted into Casey’s still-spasming channel. Rob gripped Casey’s hips, shuddering as the man’s ass clenched around his cock and milked him in the most provocative manner.

Rob carefully extracted his teeth and licked the bite wound closed. He winced when he saw the red abused flesh. He might have bitten Casey just a little harder than he should have. The poor man looked like…well, he looked like he had been mauled by a bear.

Go figure.

Guilt ridden, Rob raised his eyes to Casey’s, opening his mouth to apologize. The serene smile he found made his snap his mouth closed. Had he ever seen someone look so peaceful before?

“Are you okay, cub?”

“Yeah.” Casey’s eyelashes flickered as he raised them. “I’m perfect.”

“Yes, you are.” Rob doubted they were talking about the same thing but Rob knew what he felt. Casey was perfect in every way. He had truly been blessed by the Earth Mother when she had chosen Casey as his mate. “And you’re mine.”

Casey winced as he stood up and started pulling pine needles out of his hair. As much as he had enjoyed getting fucked by his sexy mate, he wasn’t particularly thrilled to have done it on the ground—again.

“We really need to try to do that in a bed one of these days.”

Rob chuckled. “Cub, you’re mated to a bear. The number of times I ride your ass in the great outdoors is more than likely going to equal the amount of times I take you in a real bed…or on the floor…against the wall…in the shower…”