Defying Pack Law (22 page)

Nathan had tried to obscure his trail, and the
wolves they’d brought along split into groups of four to follow the
false leads. Dana trusted her instincts—and a tugging on her heart.
She ended up leading John and Kody. Her pace through the dark
forest increased as certainty of Nathan’s location blossomed in her
mind.

Approaching the clearing where her
whole life had changed, she slowed, not because of the voices she
could hear, but because of the sense of
wrongness—
evil—
permeating the air.

She walked carefully, lest she give away her
presence, all the while straining to hear the conversation. What
she did hear made the tears roll down her face.

Oh, Nathan,
she thought, her heart joining his in agony,
an agony that increased with Nathan’s screams of
pain.

Regardless of her wolf mates who nudged her to
stay back, she couldn’t stop herself from rushing into the clearing
and crying out, “Stop it!” She had to, for Nathan’s cries of pain
begged an answer. Begged she save him.

Roderick, her old alpha and Nathan’s dad,
chuckled. The slimy sound sent a shiver skating down her spine, and
she sucked in a horrified breath as she got the full impact of the
monster he’d become. Always a big man, his eyes had sunken into his
face and glowed an eerie red. His canines extended past his lips in
a grotesque parody of a vampire.

“
Ah, the little bitch has returned.
I was most disappointed when you escaped my pets. I’d hoped to use
your womb to birth a new generation of pups to serve
me.”

“
Never, you sick bastard. You leave
me and Nathan alone.”

Dana must have caught some kind of insanity
because she faced the monster with her spine straight. It helped
that Kody and John stood on either side, their muscled wolves’
bodies pressed up against her. She wouldn’t allow this part of her
past to make her run again.

“
Brave words. I wonder if you’d
change your mind if you were alone.”

John and Kody began howling, their bodies
contorting in pain, a symphony to join that of Nathan’s renewed
screams.

Roderick leered. “Last time, I trusted my
lackeys to handle you. This time, I think I’ll stick around and
make sure they don’t fuck up. And speaking of birthing the next
generation, why don’t we start right now? I’ll even be nice and let
my dear son do the honors first. Of course, he won’t be the one in
the driver’s seat for his body. I will.”

Dana shuddered as his words penetrated. But the
true horror was seeing Nathan’s body twitch, and then stand, his
movements jerky like that of a marionette. He approached her on
stilted legs, his eyes open wide in horror.

“
No,” he moaned. “Run,
Dana.”

She read the plea in his eyes. She also saw his
love for her as he fought his father’s control. Flight was the easy
path. She had taken that route before and left Nathan to face the
pain alone. She wouldn’t do it again.

“
Hey Roderick, anyone ever tell you
that you suck as a dad?” Dana, who’d worn clothes for a reason,
whipped out her pistol and with an aim practiced over years, shot
the vamp between the eyes.

Roderick fell back with a surprised look on his
face. Not that Dana got to see his landing, because she found
herself suddenly surrounded by male bodies—naked ones.

“
Damn it, woman! What were you
thinking?” John yelled as he hugged her.

“
Hot damn, you gotta give me
lessons,” Kody exclaimed with clear admiration.

Dana pushed them aside to see where Nathan was
and saw him still standing a few feet away, a look of uncertainty
on his face. She walked to him and opened her arms.

When he still didn’t move, she put her hands on
her hips. “Get your ass over here right now, mister. As my mate, I
expect a hug after I shoot really freaky bad guys.”

His lips twitched, but he stopped fighting
himself. He swept her into his arms and hugged her so tight, she
squeaked.

She hugged him back and whispered, “Caught
you.”

* * * *

Nathan held Dana and marveled that, after
everything that had happened, she still wanted him. She’d saved
him, not just from his monster of a father, but himself.

Nathan set her down and, when John cautiously
approached, dragged him in close for a hug, a quick one. They were
naked, after all. “Thanks for coming, brother,” he
whispered.

Kody had no problem with a naked hug, and he
tackled the two of them in his enthusiasm. “Woo! The terrible trio
back in action again.”

It was only when they realized that Dana
watched their naked huddle with twinkling eyes and a smirk that
they broke apart with a lot of throat clearing and back
thumping.

“
Um, guys, where did Roderick go?”
Dana’s hesitant words made them all whirl and peer, only to see
that not only had Roderick disappeared, somehow with no one seeing
him, but the rogues had slunk off too, all, that is, except for
their dead leader.

The rest of the pack took that
moment to show up, and Nathan barked out some orders to the wolves
who also hadn’t seen or scented a thing.
A
trick of my father’s to make them vanish, seemingly into thin
air?
Just one of many mysteries and
revelations he’d have to deal with now that it looked like he was
staying.

Dana’s smaller hand slipped into his. She
peered up at him with a smile. “I’m glad I found you. Don’t ever
scare me like that again. I need you, Nathan.”

“
You need all of us,” he corrected.
“And, I’d like to prove it to you.”

“
Are you sure?” she asked, peering
up at him with concern.

“
I was so worried about losing you
to someone else, I let my jealousy push you away. No more. I need
to do this, show you and my mating brothers that we’re a family
pack now. I can’t think of a better way than by making love to you,
all of us at once if you’re up to it. Or was I mistaken in thinking
you wanted to experiment with a ménage?”

“
If you think you’re ready, then I
think I’d enjoy that very much. Boys?” She turned a questioning
look to John and Kody, who grinned. The tantalizing scent of Dana’s
arousal drifted up, and Nathan’s cock rose. “Last one to the house
comes last,” she taunted as she sprinted off into the
woods.

With a look sideways to the men he’d share the
rest of his life with, he shrugged and laughed. “Just remember to
keep your dicks to yourself.”

A moment later, he and his shifted brothers
bounded off into the woods after their mate, following the trail of
clothing she left, and her she-wolf scent.

She led them on a merry chase, but they knew
these woods. Nathan burst into the house first, followed by John
and Kody. They moved into the house, sniffing the air in an attempt
to find her, when they heard a giggle from behind.

“
Oh dear, I guess I’m last. What a
shame for me,” Dana said, sauntering in, naked and proud. Then she
wrinkled her nose. “Okay, I’m sorry, but first we all need a
shower, because I’m sorry, but the reek of evil just isn’t
attractive.”

Nathan hardened further at the sight of her
happy smile. Suddenly impatient to get to the main event, he
scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder. “Come on, boys.
I’ve got the largest shower and bed. I think it’s time we taught
our mate here just who’s in charge.”

Dana squealed. “Hey, what do you think you’re
doing?”

John reached a hand over and tweaked her
nipple. “Preparing to make you come last.”

Kody chuckled. “Hot damn, this is gonna be
fun.”

Nathan slid a hand up to sit between her
thighs, the heat from her core radiating hot enough to stir his
lust. He gave her sex a quick stroke and felt her shuddering
response. “I call dibs on her ass.”

“
My what?” she exclaimed.

“
Mouth,” Kody chimed in.

“
What a chore, I get her pussy,”
John said, an evident grin in his tone.

Reaching his bathroom, Nathan swung her down to
cradle her in his arms as John adjusted the temperature. He caught
her lips in a kiss that set him on fire and wondered if perhaps he
should have opted for her luscious mouth. But the thought of her
tight ass gripping him made him shudder.

He stepped into the shower, glad he’d splurged
on a large walk-in stall version. Although with three large men and
one smaller woman, the space still ended up tight. He knew some of
the body parts brushing his, skin to skin, didn’t belong to Dana,
but he forgave that minor weirdness at the languorous look in
Dana’s eyes. She looked drunk on bliss already.

John and Kody rinsed off quickly and left to
prepare the bed. Alone with Dana, Nathan clasped her tight to him,
his erection throbbing against her belly.

She licked her lips and gazed up at him. “I
love you, Nathan. You don’t have to do this if you’re not
ready.”

Nathan chuckled as he traced her full lower lip
with a finger. “Oh, I’m ready. The question is, are you afraid of
me taking your ass?”

Her eyes glazed, and she swayed into him. “Yes.
No. I know you won’t hurt me.”

“
Never again,” he whispered as he
leaned down to kiss her.

Afraid he’d do her up against the wall before
he’d proven himself to her, he grabbed the soap and rubbed himself.
He didn’t say a word when she stole the soap from him and washed
his back, her hands lingering over his buttocks. She pressed
herself against his back, her pebbled nipples poking into him as
her arms reached around. Her soapy hands grabbed hold of him and
stroked his jutting cock, and Nathan sucked in a breath.

Good as it felt, though, he wanted more. He
wanted to sink his shaft inside of her, feel her clench around him
as she came.

He turned. Breaking her grip and holding her at
arm’s length, he rinsed them. They emerged to find towels being
offered by his mating brothers. Nathan dried himself, but watched
with glittering eyes as Kody and John shared the task of drying
Dana. Their hands lingered on her body, tweaking a nipple here,
stroking across her cleft there.

Nathan waited for his enemy, jealousy, to rouse
and breathed a sigh of relief when all he felt was arousal. They
led her to the bedroom and the bed, stripped of its comforter and
pillows, a cleared area ready for the main event.

Without words, they laid her down and crawled
onto the bed, John and Kody each to a side, while Nathan got the
spot between her legs.

Then they went to work, playing with her body,
preparing her for their cocks.

* * * *

Dana basked in the attention they
laved on her. What a change. She’d gone from playing alone with
herself to having three men—
my
mates
—determined to please her.

Kody and John had each laid claim to a breast,
but while they both tortured her, their technique differed, from
the way John liked to swirl his tongue around her areola, to Kody,
who liked to nibble. She would have arched at their touch had they
not held her down. She craned to find Nathan, suddenly fearing he’d
left, unable to handle the situation. But she found him, kneeling
between her legs, stroking his cock.

He caught her perusal and smiled, a slow,
sensuous thing that made her quiver at the promise in
it.

He let go of his rod and bent forward, his
mouth hovering over her sex. Dana moaned as he blew on it. He
cupped her buttocks and lifted her up. She clenched tight, waiting
for his touch, but when it came, it wasn’t where she expected. He
licked her anus, his wet tongue sliding across her rosette, an odd
sensation.

She both feared and anticipated his claim that
he would take her ass. She knew women did it, but in her
inexperience, she’d never imagined she’d be one of them. But as he
probed that tight ring with his tongue, that, along with all the
other touches to her body, made her relax. After everything that
had happened, it seemed only fitting that Nathan got to be first to
claim that virgin hole.

His mouth slid away and covered her sex. Dana
moaned loudly at the hot feel, then gasped as he poked a finger at
her rosette.

“
Relax,” he murmured against her
mound.

Kody and John redoubled their efforts on her
breasts and distracted her enough that Nathan pushed his finger in.
She tightened again at the strange sensation. Nathan bit down
lightly on her clit. Dana tried to thrash, but pinned, she could
only tremble, the sheer pleasure overriding the strange sensation
of her ass being penetrated.

“
Push out against his finger,” Kody
coaxed, his lips wandering to the shell of her ear.

Dana did as told and found the pressure
lessened. Nathan pushed a second finger in, and she concentrated on
pushing out, a concentration lost when Nathan began eating her
pussy in earnest. His lips tugged and sucked on her sex, then
probed it to lap at her.

Dana found herself thrusting her hips against
his mouth and only belatedly realized her arching was in rhythm
with his fingers thrusting in her ass. She also noticed that the
sensation had veered from uncomfortable to strangely enjoyable.
There was movement on the bed as bodies shuffled position, and she
lost a mouth on her breast as a new finger penetrated her. She
opened eyes heavy with desire to see John had joined Nathan, his
fingers replacing Nathan’s in her ass and then adding one more.
Nathan moved until he lay beside Dana. He pulled her face close for
a kiss, and she sucked in his tongue.