Wolf Home: Paranormal Werewolf Romance (6 page)

He pulled her up by the hair and wrapped his other arm around her shoulders to pull her against his chest. “You're tight,” he groaned, “And you keep jerking when you come – it's so amazing.”

“You – like to talk, don't you?” she asked, trying to control the whines emitting from her throat.

“Yes.” His hands tightened, and she wondered if she'd have bruises on her right shoulder. She kind of hoped so. “You twitched when I did, should I keep talking? Should I tell you that you're fucking – amazing?” He didn't wait for a reply. “You're beautiful, and you're smart and sexy as hell. I love the way you're whining at me, and I love that you made me chase you out a goddamn window, and I love how tight you are around me right now.”

Nicole panted against his chest. He pounded into her, rocking her body to her core, and she couldn't find the words to answer. She couldn't tell him that he was every bit as amazing as she was, that she loved the way he'd jumped out after her unhesitatingly, that she loved his dirty talk, that she loved his hands in his hair and his cock inside her. Instead, she tried to tell her with her body, wrapping her legs around his hips and digging her heels in his back, and pulling against his hands to rock harder against him.

At last, he came with a final curse, dropping her to the bed and fucking her hard into the mattress as he shuddered himself. “God, yes,
please
, you're amazing,” he whispered into her hair, coming to a final rest over her, with his face against her neck.

She'd bite most people for coming anywhere near her throat with a hand, let alone teeth . She hoped when he bit it earlier, he had left a mark. “I love you,” she said, knowing it was true despite how short their time had been. Even as he pulled out of her, leaving her sore body to recover, his mind was still all around her – that taking would never be over.

“I love you too,” he said, and kissed her one last time before he unwound his fingers from her hair.

They fell asleep curled together in her bed like puppies, the moon's glow shining on them as it rose in the dusk.

Epilogue

Nicole turned the radio up before hitting the last stretch of road up the mountain. She pressed down on the gas pedal, feeling the thrill of momentum and the knowledge that a little slowness in her response time might kill her.

It was nothing on the hunt. She was cut off from the wind by glass and steel, and alone. But it was enough to get her heart rate up and her breath fast from joy.

She slowed again nearing the drive, and turned into it at a normal speed. Halfway up, she sensed her mate's presence – a flickering warmth in her mind. It intensified as he became aware of hers, and he sent out a message that was half thought, half emotion –
come play with me
?

Without a second thought, she pulled over and parked the car. She left the keys in the engine and slammed the door. She could get her bag later.

For now, she shucked off her shoes and tossed them into the truck bed, then stripped out of her shirt and jeans before walking out naked across the hill.

It was the same one that had been devastated in the slide earlier that spring, but spring had come regardless. New leaves poked up through the soil, plants that might have been suffocated by the lack of light in the under story. Here and there there were older saplings, planted by the pack in their efforts to speed the return to normalcy.

Normalcy. What was that again? She was returning to the pack, degree complete. The last month had been crazy, trying to catch up on the work she'd missed in the family emergency and complete the last steps to her degree. Now, however, it was all over.

Well, not everything. She hadn't seen Adam in a month, and they hadn't had a lot of time to talk. There had been a few video chats, text messages, that kind of thing.

She reached the edge of the cleared area and found him already in wolf form, curled up at the foot of a tree and waiting for her. He stood as she approached and shook himself, and Nicole realized she hadn't seen him in wolf form before.

He was darker than her, his fur dipping out of its mottle grays into true black in places. His eyes were a glistening golden brown unlike his human ones. A swirl of black was centered over his forehead, making his face distinctive.

She was standing and staring when she should be joining him. With that thought, Nicole closed her eyes and reached for her wolf.

The change was as it always was, wonderful and terrible and ecstatic. Pain folded Nicole as her essence warped, cracking and breaking her mind and then her body to reform it. Her bones shortened and and lengthened, skin shrunk and grew fur, nails became dense and blunt. All the while, her senses changed, intensified. She was not just aware of the earth, she was a part of it. She heard the birds and squirrels and mice and insects, smelled dirt and growing things and water and somewhere off in the distance, deer.

Much closer was Adam. She remembered her own words to him when they first met, that the mate bond in human form was nothing like in wolf form, and stepped towards him, apprehensive.

He extended his head towards hers. She sniffed at his nose, registering things she already knew about him – male, young, healthy – and a few she didn't. It smelled like he'd had chicken for lunch, and had been practicing hunting on mice.

Then their skin brushed, and oh, it was electric. The world seemed to blur, then double. For an instant she was not Nicole or Nicole's wolf, but Adam, waiting for his mate to come home. She saw herself as if for the first time; pale gray fur mixed with fawn, and glowing eyes like the beaten gold of the jewelry she had inherited. She smelled her own femaleness, and the exhaustion from the long drive, and above it in traces, the water from the fountain she'd sipped from at a road stop two hours ago and its truck stop combination of chlorine and staleness.

Then the world snapped back like a rubber band. She was Nicole again, greeting her mate after a long trip. Still, the bond was there in her mind, and the other world, like a deep, reflective pool she could choose to gaze into at any time.

That could come later, though. Nicole shoved her nose against Adam's face, snuffling him in a second greeting, then took off into the woods at a run. She sent her own thought back, bubbling through the pool to the other side:
I bet you can't catch me!

***

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