Barely Winging It (18 page)

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Nix was slightly alarmed when he saw his mate pass
out. Perhaps he got too carried away and injured her. He didn’t want to take
any chances. He watched her breathing and didn’t see or hear anything unusual.
Then he remembered Seamus saying to give her something to drink first.
Oh shit! I got so totally swept away with
her proclamation that I totally forgot.

Worried he’d harmed her, Nix carefully climbed out of
bed and made sure
Bronya
was covered before he
quickly
threw
on his sweats and went in search of the
doctor.

Entering the
kitchen,
Nix saw
Enzo at the breakfast bar eating a sandwich and reading a magazine. He looked
up as Nix approached, and after his nose flared slightly, he smiled.
“Congratulations.” His face knitted in concern. “You don’t look like you’re as
happy as a newly mated shifter should be, so what’s wrong?”

“Nothing.
Where’s Seamus?”

Enzo’s brows climbed his forehead, but he didn’t
question him.
“In the medical office with
Alphy
and Gale.”

Nix nodded and quickly made his way outside and
towards the garage. It wasn’t too far from the house. He entered the bottom and
saw Slate and Ryker in the boxing ring. He could hear Slate instructing Ryker
on maneuvers as he made his way around the gym equipment to the stairs that led
up to the apartment above the garage.

Nix opened the door and walked into the apartment that
was being used as their “hospital” until a real hospital could be built.
Inside, he saw Katie sitting in a chair next to Reese, both bent over a book.
It looked like she was teaching him something. They looked up as he entered.

“Hi, Nix, what can we do for you?” Katie’s smile was
genuine.

“Uh, I need Seamus. I was told he’s here.”

“I am.” Seamus’s voice came from the side where a
bedroom was made into a hospital room.

Nix turned to him. “Can you come take a look at
Bronya
?”

Seamus’s forehead scrunched as his brows rose, but he
didn’t say anything. He just nodded and grabbed a backpack then held his hand
out towards the door indicating to Nix to lead the way.

Nix waited until after they stepped into the soggy
outside before explaining why he came and got him. “She passed out. I’m worried
I might have hurt her. I forgot to give her water, and then you said to go slow,
but my brain shut down when she told me how much she wanted me, and then when I
claimed her, the need and feelings were so intense...”

Nix couldn’t think of the proper words to really
describe what had happened, but Seamus seamed to understand. He placed a hand
on his shoulder and gave Nix a reassuring smile. “I’m sure everything will turn
out all right.”

They stepped into the house and made their way to
Nix’s room. Nix loved the way
Bronya’s
black curly
hair covered her pillow and how her dark skin was complemented by the light
yellow of the sheets she lay beneath. He tried to concentrate on being positive
as Seamus walked calmly, but not slowly, to the side of the bed and knelt down
beside the bed. As he watched, his anxiety built, as Seamus took her wrist to
gage her pulse and looked into her eyes.

Seamus stood up and walked over to Nix. He spoke in a
low whisper. “You didn’t do anything to harm her. She’ll be fine. Your bond is
complete, and her body is now fully healed. Make sure she gets food and water
when she wakes. Don’t forget this time. And a reminder—her parents will be here
soon.” Seamus placed his hand on Nix’s shoulder again. “Congratulations.” With
a final pat, Seamus grabbed his backpack and left the room, lightly closing the
door behind him as he went.

Nix stood there for a few moments longer, taking in
the picture before him and letting it sink in.
I’m mated
. His eyes followed her lines as his stomach flipped and
fluttered. He had a pack, and now he had a mate. After chucking his sweats to
the floor, Nix crawled into bed with his mate and molded his body next to hers.
He wrapped her in his arms and smiled into the thick curls on her head as his
muscles relaxed. He hadn’t felt this happy since before his family was killed
when he was a kid. Tears pricked the edges of his eyes at their brief memory.

Beside him,
Bronya
stirred.
He squeezed her closer to him, which seemed to have woken her. Her eyes
fluttered open, and she turned to face him. Before she could do anything else,
Nix jumped out of bed and retrieved the orange juice and insisted she drink as
much as she could. She didn’t fight him, drinking half the glass before giving
it back. Nix placed it on the side of the bed with the glass of water he
retrieved while she drank the juice, and climbed back into bed with her.

He loved the smile he saw on her face as they situated
themselves to be more comfortable. When she settled, she was facing him with
her soft breasts compressed against his upper stomach, and he could feel her
nipples had hardened as they poked against him. Their legs intertwined, and his
now hard again shaft was poking her lower belly. She let out a low contented
hum, and he felt her muscles relax.

Looking down, he saw he was looking into her soft
brown eyes. “What are you thinking about?” she asked.

“About family.
It’s been so long since
I
…”
Nix couldn’t finish that sentence.

The look of concern spread across her face. “What is
it, Nix?”

“I want to say it’s been so long since I had a real
family, but that would be a disservice to Enzo and
Alphy
.”

“This has something to do with your parents and
sister, doesn’t it?”
Nix nodded.
“When you are ready,
I would like to hear what happened.” Her voice was gentle and reassuring.

Nix kissed the top of her head and sighed. “You’re my
mate, and you have a right to know.” He felt her hands rubbing soothing circles
on chest as he told her about the darkest day in his past. “You remember I told
you shifters can live longer than humans.” At her nod, he continued. “I was a
baby boomer.
Born in nineteen forty-seven, in northern
California.
Those were difficult times for someone with dark colored skin.
In nineteen sixty, I had just turned thirteen and had started shifting.”

Nix paused a moment and thought how best to
carry on before continuing.
Bronya
stayed quiet and listened attentively. “Shifting is like a muscle. You have to
work at it to make it painless, smoother and even faster. For most shifters,
that’s the basics, but for avian shifters like
myself
,
we have to learn how to fly on top of everything else.”

His pictured his memory in his mind. “They must have
suspected something because they drilled me hard to practice my shifting and
flying. They taught me how to hunt and even had set a designated emergency
spot. I thought I was invincible, so I never thought I would have to use it.”

Nix took another breath in and let it out to steady
himself. “My father woke me up one night and told me to shift and fly to the
emergency spot. After I shifted, before I flew off, he told me not to trust
anyone in the rest of the cast. Just so you know
,
a
cast is what the avian shifters call their pack. Gargoyles, like
Dultyn
, have clutches, because they actually have eggs.” He
saw her nod her
understanding,
and he continued. “I
made it there, but my parents and sister never did. It was a racist killing by
our own falcon cast. I didn’t have any other relatives.” Nix paused and took a
steadying breath while his mate rubbed her hands up and down his arms and
planted kisses under his chin, saying soothing words to him. It worked, because
he felt strong enough to continue.

“Enzo’s family caught me, and after finding out what
happened, they took me in. They weren’t as caring as my parents, but they kept
me safe and raised me. That’s how I met Enzo.

“Enzo and I became best friends. We were inseparable.
When I witnessed his family and the pack turn on him when they discovered Enzo
was gay, I enlisted with him when he joined the military. We stayed together
the whole time. Our first deployment was in the Vietnam War.”

“Wait, if his family was ok with you, why would they
discriminate against their own blood?”

“They believed I was natural, because you can’t choose
the color of your skin or the race you are born. But they believed being gay
wasn’t natural. Enzo refused to change—
psh
, like he
had a choice—so they banned him and spread the word amongst other packs so they
wouldn’t take in an abomination.” Nix heard her slight intake of breath.
“Anyway, the war was so chaotic that when we were forced to fake our deaths
after a bombing we were supposed to have been at, we were able to reenlist in a
short period of time. It was the same time
Alphy
did.”

“Oh, so that’s how you met
Alphy
?
You guys really have known each other for a long time.”

“Yeah, we have. We had been
nearly inseparable since. Over the years, we met the others that are part of
Alphy’s
inner circle here. I don’t count many people as
family, but these men I do.
And now you.”
He could see
her eyelids getting heavy. “Get some rest, Dove. Your parents will be here
soon.”
Bronya
stretched up and placed a chaste kiss
on his lips before she settled herself back down.

Chapter Twelve

Sunday after sundown

Dultyn
felt the last of his transformation release him from his petrified sleep,
allowing him to take in a breath from the air around him before he opened his
eyes. The first thing he scented was his mate … and arousal.
Dultyn
growled, and his shot eyes open. What he saw had his
dick growing hard, as his heart speed doubled and his lungs constricted. His
mind went blank as he stared at the raised rounded bare ass of his mate. He
could see the tips of her fingers reaching between her spread legs, rubbing
circles between the lips of her wet pussy.

“You can take me slow the next time, but I’m ready for
you now. Claim me now,
Dultyn
.” Her voice was low and
seductive. He always loved to hear the sound of her voice, but he had never heard
her like that before. With everything that had happened on top of seeing her
like this, his self-control snapped and he couldn’t stop his movements if he
wanted to.

Dultyn
released his loincloth with one hand as he reached out in front of him with the
other, gently palming one side of her soft ass. Once his garment dropped to the
floor, he used both hands to rub and squeeze the creamy soft flesh his mate
presented him.

Hooking his fingers around her lower hips, he pulled
his mate closer to the end of the bed, slapping his leaking, engorged cock
against both sides of her soft inner thighs. He felt her fingers press around
his aching appendage holding it against her wet folds as she rotated her hips,
rubbing his cockhead over her nub.
Dultyn’s
hands
squeezed her hips, and he groaned along with his mate in pleasure. Through the
head of his dick, he could feel her heat radiating from her core as his fingers
smoothed over her sinuous flesh.

His hips moved
on their own
.
Havana’s fingers lined him up. When his mushroomed head nestled into her wet
pussy, he couldn’t stop himself from plunging in to the hilt. Her hot and wet
channel wrapped tight around his shaft rocketing pleasure through his body as
her body accepted his joining.

“More,
Dultyn
, take me fast
and hard!” She almost whined with need as she pushed back against his thrusts.

Dultyn
was so overwhelmed with desire that his ears roared and his pleasure overtook
him. He snapped his hips forward and pulled her back in a fast heavy pace that
slapped his heavy balls against her nubbin at the top of her pussy. He watched
through hooded eyes as each jarring thrust caused her skin to ripple with each
impact, and he reveled in every pleasured moan, and groan, and every grunt,
scream and shout, his actions pulled from her. A carnal pride invaded him at
hearing those sounds.
He
caused those
sounds.
He
was the one bringing her
such wanton pleasure. As
Dultyn
plundered his mate’s
tight slit, he was overwhelmed with the need for everyone to hear what he was
able to bring his mate to.

His hands gripped her hips hard, slightly scratching
her flesh. But instead of it hurting her, she acted as if it was a turn-on,
shouting “Yes!” over and over again. He could see her breasts flopping forward
and back with each thrust and impact.

His orgasm was rising fast, and he couldn’t wait any
longer. Reaching one hand down to place under her belly, he reached the other
hand forward onto her shoulder and pulled her up until her back was flush
against his sweating and heaving chest.
Dultyn
wrapped his top hand around one of her breasts and squeezed while the other
hand he held against her lower
belly,
and his fingers
cupped her pussy, hooking under to continue to bounce her up and down on his
rigid staff.

Her shouts of pleasure intensified as she placed her
hands over his and moved with him. She bent her head, exposing her neck for
him. That was when his balls pulled tight and his cockhead expanded, shooting
his essence inside his mate.
Dultyn
roared a moment
before he sank his fangs into the soft flesh of her neck. Her orgasm was
screamed out as her muscles milked his pulsing cock. Her blood coated his
tongue as he drank in her essence, starting the bonding that would forever tie
her to him.

As
Dultyn
started coming
down from his intense explosion of euphoria, he licked his bite mark to seal
it. With his hand still cupping her pussy, he felt the muscles in his hand
flutter as his tongue glided over the mark. He kept her tight against his
heaving front while he teased and tweaked the nipple on the breast his other
hand still had custody of. His shaft hadn’t gotten fully deflated before it
started to fill once more. He wanted Havana again.

He let his canines scrape over her skin on her neck
and felt her shudder. He released a low breathy chuckle. “You like a little bit
of pain, don’t you?”

“I guess I do.” She sounded out of breath, and he felt
her
gyrating
her hips to ground against him. His
fingers rubbed over her still pulsing clit.

He rotated his own hips to grind against her and let
out a pleasure filled groan. “You guess?”

“
Mmhmm
, I haven’t had any
other lovers before you,
Dultyn
. I’ve played with
toys, but I’ve never been with anyone else.”

Dultyn
tensed and froze. He didn’t know what to process first, that he was technically
her first, or that he was her first and he could have harmed her with his
exuberance.
Wait, toys?
Ok, first things first, is she all right?
Dultyn
slowly pulled out and urged her to bend forward.

“
Dultyn
, what are you
doing?”

“If I’m your first, toys or not, I could have harmed
you. And we’ll discuss your ‘toys’ later.” His tone let her know he liked the
idea of using her toys on her at a later date.
Dultyn
pulled her ass cheeks apart and nearly swallowed his tongue with the sight before
him. His seed was dripping from her stretched opening. It gave a slight spasm
as light glittered off her juices. Havana was denying she was harmed, but his
growl of approval stilled his protesting mate.

“You are beautiful everywhere, Havana. I love that I
am the only one who will ever have you.” Sticking out his tongue, he flattened
it against her heated folds and slowly licked from her hood to her feminine
chamber. He didn’t mind that he was licking his own juices. He loved savoring
their combined fluids. It affirmed his claim on her, that she was his.

Dultyn
nipped at her tender flesh, causing her to jolt and squeak, but he felt her
spasm against his mouth. He held her tight and in position as he sucked the
skin he nipped,
then
repeated his action. Her scent
grew stronger, and her groans grew guttural. He chuckled against her skin,
letting the vibrations add to her sensations.

Dultyn
gave a harder nip at the apex of her pussy. “I think you would look sexy with a
piercing right here.” He nipped the spot again then hummed as he sucked the
sting away. “Would you like that, Havana? I would love rolling the stud with my
tongue and tugging on it by sucking it into my mouth.”

Havana mewled and tried to move her hips, but
Dultyn
kept a firm hold on her.

“
Dultyn
, take me again.
Please.” She panted as she begged.

“Nope, you said I could go slower later. Now is later,
and I’m going to take my time exploring what’s mine. I’ve waited a long time
for you. I’m going to savor this moment.”
Dultyn
meant it, too. It had torn at him not to acknowledge his mate when he first met
her. It hurt him deeply when he denied her and saw the hurt it inflicted on
her. And he had come close to going feral when he’d heard she was abducted. How
he managed to listen and follow orders was beyond him, but he was glad he had.

Dultyn
released one hand and brought it down on her ass with a loud smack. Her yelp
morphed into a moan as he let the sting warm her, and then he brought his hand
down again. He loved the sight of her skin pinking as he rubbed at the print
his hand had made. When he brought his hand down again, this time he slapped it
at a different angle. Her body jolted forward at her pleasure filled yelp, but
he kept her close with his other hand.

Dultyn
nipped her other ass cheek and brought his hand down, swatting her the same way
as before. “
Dultyn
, please, I need…” she panted. “I
need…” She squeaked and moaned as he brought his hand down on her again.

“
Shh
, I know what you need.”
Gargoyles usually had a difficult time finding lovers for a number of reasons,
but between the vampires and their donors, he hadn’t.
Dultyn
wasn’t about to spoil the moment and let her know that unlike her, he had had
lots of lovers in the past decades while he lived with the vampires. But he was
going to use that experience right now to give his mate the best experience he
could possibly give.

Dultyn
leaned up and used his strength to carefully flip Havana onto her back. He
helped her move further up the bed, following her on his knees and resting
between her legs. His wings fanned out over them. He moved them up and down
creating a wind current to cool them as he stared down at the one person he
could never live without.

Her skin had
a sheen
of
sweat, creating a kind of glowing effect. Her hair spanned the pillow she now
lay on, and her eyes were hooded, begging him to continue loving her. Her pink
nipples were hard and poking into the air. Her pubic line was neatly trimmed
and wet from his administrations. His cock jerked so hard at the erotic sight,
it hit his abdomen with a resounding smack.

Dultyn
let out a low, deep, possessive growl, pinning Havana’s eyes with a predator’s
gaze. Her entire body shuddered, and her breathing hitched. He crawled over her
and leaned his head over hers, so close he could feel her breath on his lips. “I’m
going to fuck you hard, Havana. Do you want that?” Havana’s eyes grew wider as
she nodded. “Good. You’re going to claim me this time.”

He rubbed his cock up and down her slit as he spoke to
her. Again, she nodded.
Dultyn
let another growl of
approval. “Bring your legs up and hold them.” As she did what he ordered, he
rolled his hips and rubbed his cockhead over her labia, mixing his pre-cum with
her own juices, spreading the natural lubricant around.

“Higher, my Care Bear.” He hid his amusement at her
pointed look at his term of endearment. He only returned her look with one of
his own and slapped his straining cock between her opened folds. That got her
to gasp and pull her legs up higher.

Leaning down, he sealed his lips over hers for their
first kiss. He put all his love, passion and desire for her into that first
kiss as he could. She returned the kiss with equal fervor and rolled her hips.

Dultyn
couldn’t wait any longer to enter her. He angled his hips to bring the head of
his dick up and nudged her opening without using his hands. Pulling his head
back, he watched her face as he drove his shaft to the hilt into her willing
core. His balls slapped the crease of her ass. He felt her body squeeze around
him, and he had to fight hard not to let his eyes roll back into his head. He
wanted to watch his mate as he took her.

Not waiting for any breather,
Dultyn
pounded into his mate. The bed bounced and banged hard against the wall, but it
wasn’t loud enough to drown out her cries of pleasure. She wasn’t alone in her
shouts.
Dultyn
grunted and growled as he hammered
into the hole especially made for him. He frequently changed his angle to
discover which she would like best.

Dultyn
paused for just a moment to lean back onto his clawed heels. He brought her
legs down and wrapped them around his waist. His hands wrapped around her ass
cheeks, and he pulled her down as he pushed up into her. He kept up a brutal
pace as he watched her pull and
tweak
her nipples.

Dultyn
let the tips of his claws push against her skin, not enough to draw blood, but
enough to give her a bite of pain. Havana cried out and arched her back. Her
inner walls clamped hard around his shaft.
Dultyn
fell over Havana and exposed his neck. As he felt her canines sink deep into
his flesh, his orgasm barreled through him and a shout tore from his throat,
only to be restricted by all his muscles clenching with an extreme intensity.
His balls
pulsed
their contents through his shaft and
coated her constricting walls with his seed.

When his muscles began to release their hold,
Dultyn
couldn’t help but lean up and bite his mate again.
He sank into the other side of her neck and let her essence flow over his
tongue. Havana shouted again, and he felt her walls pulse around his softening
length.