Untamed Force (Force of Nature Series) (3 page)

When she had been in his bedroom that
morning, she had been tempted to crawl into bed with him. But she had not
because, beyond that, she did not think she could please him. He would expect a
woman in his bed to pleasure him and not be a novice like her. But her breasts
still prickled when she thought of his voice this morn. Full of lust and need.
It made her want to find him now and have him take her.

When he appeared in front of her
suddenly she thought she had called to him. But he had not seen her as yet, so
she pressed low into the earth and stilled herself. He was stomping around the
dirt and muttering to himself. He was saying things that made no sense to her,
but she stayed where she was. Now would not be a good time for him to find her.

When he stopped suddenly she felt the
hair on her back rise. He’d seen her. “Show yourself or I’ll attack. I’m in the
mood to have a go at just about anyone.”

She didn’t shift, but stood. He looked
at her for a long time and she felt her hackles rise. If he wanted to fight she
was probably in the same frame of mind to take him on. When he started to strip
down to his skin, she nearly bolted.

“You leave and I’ll chase you down. If
you want to spar with me, I’ll have you know that I’m not going to go easy on
you because you’re a female.”

She growled low, letting him know that
she did not think he could best her anyway. When he was standing before her
naked she tried her best not to stare at his hard cock.

“We could spend our energy another way
if you’d come to me in human form. Right now, the thought of burying myself
into your heat has me seeing stars.”

She was glad she was wolf and that he
could not see her blush.

“What’s it going to be Stacy?”

She lunged at him and thought to catch
him off guard. She should have known better. He was an enforcer and prepared at
all times to be attacked. His shift was quick and fluid. He was a human male
one second and snarling wolf the next. She attacked again, showing him she was
not afraid.

~~~

Dallas didn’t think she’d go for sex
over fighting. But one could hope, he supposed. He wanted her so badly right
now that he almost wanted to command her to shift so that he could have her. She
was keeping him up at night, or at least thoughts of her were keeping him up at
night.

When she lunged at him he nearly forgot
to shift; she was so beautiful in motion. But he had shifted and was glad for
it because it seemed she wasn’t holding back either. Her canines nearly missed
his throat. The second attack had him thinking this was going to be fun. But
when she came at him again he thought he might be in trouble.

He would never hurt her, no matter what
he said to her. She was a female and much smaller than him. But she had been
trained to fight and she was fucking good at it. When he pinned her twice in a
row he nearly let her up, but he decided that he’d had enough fighting and
wanted her just where he had her. He shifted, holding down her wolf for several
seconds to see if she would as well.

“Shift. Now, Stacy.” She whimpered and
tried to get away, but he held her down. “Shift.” He’d put as little command in
his voice as he could, wanting her to shift because she wanted, not because he’d
commanded her to. When her fur started to recede, he held himself off her
slightly, but didn’t let her go.

“You cannot make me have sex with you.”

He was reasonably sure he could, but
said nothing to the furious woman beneath him.

“Get off me Dallas. I am not your
female.”

“You could be.”

She shook her head.

“I want you. I want to make love to you
right now, Stacy, but I won’t take you against your will.” He nuzzled her
throat and licked along her pounding pulse. “I want to taste you. Lick you over
your entire body until you beg me to take you.”

“No. You cannot.”

He moved down to her hard nipple and
licked it before taking it into his mouth and sucking.

“Please do not do this. You should be
with someone else if you only wish to ease your need.”

He rocked into her soft folds and felt
her wetness. He looked down at her again as he rocked harder. “You’re wet for
me. Let me show you how much wetter I can make you. Or let me eat your pussy
until you come. I want to taste you when you come down my throat.” She moaned
when he rocked this time and he thought that he had won, but then he saw the
tears in her eyes and he couldn’t do it. He rolled off her and onto his back.

He heard her roll away from him, but he
didn’t look. He was afraid if he saw her nakedness, he’d forget that he was a
gentleman and take her anyway. His cock ached for release and he didn’t think
he’d ever be able to jerk off enough to ease this one.

“I can send another female to you if you’d
like. I am sure there are many that would ease—”

“Don’t. Just go please and leave me to
myself.” He closed his eyes and thought of her taste on his tongue. “You’re the
one I want and no other will do.” He looked at her when he felt her shift. “You
and I aren’t finished, Stacy. You will have to either tell me a good reason I
can’t have you or I will do just that. Something is between us and you feel it
too.”

She took off through the woods without a
sound. Dallas laid there for several more minutes before he felt if he stood up
his cock wouldn’t hurt him. He laughed when he pulled on his pants. If this
kept up, he was going to have to have himself neutered just to be around her. He
doubt that would help.

He pulled on his boots and headed to the
pack house. He wasn’t going to be fit to be around anyone for the rest of the
day so he might go see if he could get Connor to fight with him. Probably. He
was always up for a good run if not.

The woman, Georgia Reynolds, had awakened
around six this morning. She’d been in his kitchen with his mom when he’d come
down after going up to shower again. He’d been trying to help Alexis with a
heavy crate to take to the shop when one of the bottles of bath oil had broken.
She’d laughed at him for twenty minutes before he told her he’d send someone
else to help. She was still laughing as he left her. Women. He neither
understood them nor did he figure he ever would.

“She said that she has to do something
to help out. I let her feed the children.” His mom shook her head when he
started to ask why that would have been a problem.

“I’ve not had the pleasure of electric
for some time, master. It is a great deal easier to cook when you’ve no need to
build a fire.”

Dallas looked at his mom when Georgia
said that.

“They aren’t allowed any luxuries at the
other place because it is an unnecessary financial drain on the pack. She said
only the alpha has running water and heat. He is allowed this because he cares
for them.” His mom looked at the woman before she continued. “They don’t get
paid for working either. If they grow a garden or have fruit trees on their
property they owe half of it to the pack and the alpha uses the money he gets
from selling it as support to the pack as a whole.”

Dallas had a thousand questions run
through his head. Most of which had to do with how to find this bastard. He
tried to find a way to gently ask something while he tried to control his
beast. “And when he killed your mate, did he give you a reason for that? I mean,
how badly was he hurt that he felt justified the death of a family?” Dallas
watched the woman stiffen then his mom pulled her to the table.

“Georgia, I swear to you, you’re safe
here. Austin is a good pack leader and he’ll keep you safe. And he would never
treat anyone as it looks like you’ve been treated.”

She took a tissue from his mom before
she spoke. “My mate, Tim, hadn’t been his enforcer for long. They just don’t
last long in that position with our alpha. And he’d been afraid from the
beginning. When he and the others had gone with the alpha on a hunt Tim had
told me to hide until he returned and if he didn’t, I was to run with the
children. We were packing up to do so when Lord Sterling returned.” She took
the tissue and began to tear it into shreds. “We’d been in this pack for some
years, but never…it was forbidden to leave, you see. He said…he would hunt the
runners down and bring them back. I only saw it happen once. He would tie them
to the ground and…” She stood then and went to the sink. “My sister and her
family knew that things weren’t right there and decided they’d had enough. We
all thought the same thing, but we had nowhere to go. When he tied them to the
ground and then set fire to them I thought I would die. I can still hear their
screams in my dreams.”

Dallas had to clear his throat twice
before he could speak. His mom was crying softly beside him. “Children? Were
there any children that he burned?”

Georgia nodded. “Four little ones. Two
under the age of five, the other two just nine and ten. If I go back, or he
finds me, he’ll do worse to mine. He was extremely angry that Tim had allowed
him to be hurt.”

Dallas had to leave. He had wanted to
hunt the man down himself and stake him to the ground and set fire to his nuts
first then work his way around other body parts. But he couldn’t. First, it
would bring the pack down on his brothers and, if he didn’t win, the man…no, he
was an animal, would know where Georgia and her family were.

Then he’d run into Stacy. And he’d
fucked that up too. Christ, could he not get a break? He came to the pack house
just as Austin was going at it with another male in the yard. Both men were
bloodied and Dallas wanted more than ever to join in. And from the looks of it
the other man wasn’t going to be walking for some time.
Good,
Dallas
thought.

He knew what kind of man he was and
Dallas stood to watch, hoping that some of his own anger would be satisfied by
proxy. Watching Austin beat the shit out of the slimy bastard was fun, but he also
wanted to make sure the guy didn’t get the upper hand. Not that he had much of
a chance from the looks of things.

Austin stepped back when the other man
didn’t rise. Dallas was sure that he wanted to finish the man off, but by law
he couldn’t. He loved his brother very much, but there were times, like now,
that he wished he would bend the rules a bit.

“He nearly killed another man’s mate.”

Dallas looked over at his brother Gordon
when he stepped up beside him.

“Alexis heard about it from Stacy and sent
us over to catch him. We were nearly too late. The doctor is looking after her
now.”

“What was he going to do with another
male’s mate? Or was simply beating her what he had in mind?”

Gordon shook his head.

“He went there to rape her?”

“Seems so. He didn’t expect her to be
able to fight back. I guess this isn’t the first woman he’s tried this on. Only
this one was ready for him.” Gordon laughed as he continued. “She took a hot
poker to his ass. If he’d caught her in the house she said she would have shot
his sorry ass, but she’d been out burning brush from some of the clearing they’d
been doing.”

They watched as the man crawled away
finally, begging Austin for forgiveness. There was none, of course, and the man
was given two hours to get his crap gathered and get out of the territory. Dallas
hoped he didn’t make it.

“I think he’s finished with his lesson,”
Dallas said as they all, including Austin, walked toward the house. “Do you
think it’s possible I can sit down with you two later? I have something more to
add about the pack leader. I’ve had a conversation with Georgia. It seems this
other pack leader is a bit of a sadist, more so than the one you just knocked
the shit out of. And even more so than we’d first thought.”

“Like what? Does he try to rape innocent
women in their own homes? Does he blame them for what he considers simply a
fuck and nothing more?” Dallas looked toward where the man had gone and Austin
patted him on the back. “You can have him if he returns. I’ve had my fill of
the prick. What does this other leader, Sterling, do that so much worse than
nearly killing a babe?”

Dallas looked at his brother as they
entered the house. “Nothing. Not really. But he doesn’t allow them any luxuries
such as heat and electricity. But he has them. I’m not even sure they have
running water.”

Austin shook his head and cursed for
several second. He shook his head as if to clear it before answering. His
brother didn’t have a short fuse, but today had tested him. “Sure. I’ve a bit
to add myself. And I think bastard is a tame word, don’t you?” Austin picked up
his jacket and tossed it to Gordon as he looked at Dallas. “You can help me
take this prick to the other side of the grounds. And just so you know, you
smell like female. Might want to get that off you before Stacy smells her on
you.” Gordon started to walk away, but Dallas called him back.

“You can smell Stacy on me?” He flushed
when Austin looked at him hard. “Nothing happened, but…you can scent her?”

“No. Just female, but nothing more. By
the way, you might what to talk to Alexis. She told me if I saw you I was to
tell you to find her. Something about promises she made and how she needs to
talk to you.”