“I’ll hurry.” Sophia quickly brushed one cotton swab over Drake’s shoulder, then sampled the inside of her mouth. Finally, she handed several more swabs to Sylvan. “Alpha, if you could help her with the rest, I’ll wait outside.”
After Sophia hurried out, Drake said to Sylvan, “You should go. I can do it.” She was barely holding on. She wanted Sylvan inside her so much. She wanted Sylvan coming in her mouth.
“You’re shaking too badly to do anything right now.” Sylvan slid her hand along the inside of Drake’s thigh and gently opened her legs.
She carefully parted Drake’s sex and swabbed her. A rumble rolled from her chest. “Look how ready you are. So strong and beautiful.”
“I’m sorry, I can’t…I have to…” Drake closed her eyes and massaged her clitoris. Her glands pulsed under her probing fingers and she moaned. “Please go.”
Sylvan brushed Drake’s fingers away. “I’ll do this.”
Drake rolled her head from side to side, whimpering as Sylvan stroked and squeezed. “You’re so good. You’re going to make me come all over myself.”
“No,” Sylvan grumbled, leaning down to kiss her, “I’m going to make you come all over me.”
Sylvan plunged her tongue into Drake’s mouth, teasing and sucking and biting. Drake gripped Sylvan’s shirt and shredded it, then tore open her own T-shirt. Rearing up, she dug her claws into Sylvan’s shoulders and rubbed her breasts over Sylvan’s. She thrust against the hand working between her legs. “If you stroke inside me, I’ll come for you.”
“Wait,” Sylvan growled against her mouth. “Let me get what Sophia needs the first time. If I take you, I won’t stop until you’re empty.”
“Hurry.” Drake propped herself on her elbows and watched Sylvan masturbate her. “Oh yes, like that. Like that. It’s close. Close now.” Her hips jumped and she roared at the first shock of release. Pumping into Sylvan’s hand, she fell back onto the table. Then Sylvan was inside her, thrusting into her, driving her to an even more powerful release.
She came hard and immediately came again. Then she was being lifted into Sylvan’s arms and her legs locked around Sylvan’s waist. Sylvan’s canines latched on to her shoulder and she was coming all over Sylvan’s belly, flooding her, marking her.
“Don’t let me bite you,” Drake cried. “Oh God, don’t let me bite you.”
“Don’t worry.” Sylvan dropped to her knees, her head buried in the curve of Drake’s shoulder, clutching Drake against her chest as she erupted inside her leather pants. She shook uncontrollably and her wolf went wild, howling for Drake’s bite and the final release. “I won’t let you.”
Chapter Twenty-Four
Niki grasped Sophia’s arm and pulled her down the hall and outside the infirmary. “What’s happening in there?” Sophia wrapped her arms tightly around her middle and leaned against one of the porch columns. “I think you should ask the Alpha.”
“I’m asking you.” Niki crowded close behind Sophia, her mouth nearly brushing Sophia’s neck. Sophia shivered, and Niki sensed need and fear and confusion. Instantly protective, she gripped Sophia’s shoulders and pulled her back against her chest. “What happened? Did someone hurt you?”
Sighing, Sophia relaxed against Niki, as if welcoming the support.
“No. Nothing like that. It was just…hard.”
“What did Drake do to you?” Niki remembered her caution to Drake. Find someone else to mate. Drake had coupled with the Alpha just a short while ago, but she could easily be in frenzy again and looking for release. Release with an unmated female like Sophia. Niki rumbled with an unexpected rush of territorial hormones and her sex surged to readiness. She wrapped her arms around Sophia’s waist and whispered hotly in her ear. “Did she tempt you with her call?” Sophia arched in Niki’s arms and tilted her head back, whimpering softly when Niki licked her neck.
“You know who she wants.”
“Who do you want?” Niki tugged Sophia’s earlobe with her teeth and rocked her pelvis against Sophia’s ass. “Who do you want, Sophia?”
“Please.”
Sophia rubbed against her, her plaintive cries of need forcing Niki’s claws and canines and clitoris to throb. Niki tried to think. She was harder than she should have been so soon, almost as if she’d been running with the Alpha for hours and absorbing her powerful pheromones. Sophia, always so careful not to be caught in a frenzy, even when she ran and hunted with the Pack, was ready. Too ready.
“It’s the Alpha.” Niki sucked in a breath, understanding why they were both on the verge of full-fledged sex frenzy. Sylvan was broadcasting sex and fury. Every Were in the vicinity was probably feeling the call. “Is she all right?”
Sophia pulled away abruptly, her chest heaving. “Is she all that matters to you? Don’t you even care what Drake is going through? How much pain she’s in?”
“No, I don’t care about a Were with the power to hurt the Alpha,” Niki snarled, incensed by Sophia’s need and knowing she couldn’t take her. “I only care about the Alpha, and so should you.”
“That’s not fair,” Sophia said softly, rubbing her arms as if she were cold when she had to be on fire. “I would do anything for her. All of us would, you know that.” She reached out, but stopped herself before she touched Niki’s cheek. “I know that you would die for her. But maybe that’s not enough.”
Niki growled. “It’s the best I have to give her.”
“No,” Sophia said with a gentle shake of her head. “No, it’s not.”
“Don’t mistake me for someone else,” Niki said darkly. “I wasn’t born for tenderness.”
Sophia started to protest when the front door slammed open and Sylvan stormed out, shirtless, blood welling from shallow gouges on her shoulders, her face and body in mid-shift.
“The Rover,” Sylvan ordered, the muscles in her throat and chest straining. “Get it.”
“Right away,” Niki said, signaling across the Compound to Lara, who stood at wary attention by the side of the vehicle.
Sylvan rounded on Sophia. “Drake. See to her. Take care of her.”
“Of course,” Sophia said. “I’m sorry if I hurt—”
“No,” Sylvan said. “You did nothing wrong.”
“Wait.” Niki grasped Sophia’s arm, preventing her from going back inside. “If Drake is in frenzy—”
“She isn’t,” Sylvan snarled. The lacerations on her shoulders had already closed, but the purplish bruise above her left breast remained dark and angry. She threw off Niki’s arm and said to Sophia, “Go to her.”
“She’ll ask for you,” Sophia said quietly. “What shall I say?”
Sylvan strode down the stairs as Lara pulled the Rover in front of the building. She yanked open the rear door and Niki jumped in after her.
“Tell her I’m gone.”
“Home,” Sylvan said from the back of the Rover. She needed to shower and change and leave the Compound until both she and Drake were more in control. With effort, she reversed her shift enough to retract her claws and canines. The thin band of silver pelt persisted down the center of her abdomen; her clitoris and glands remained full and hard. She closed her eyes, ignoring Niki’s worried rumblings, while the Rover tore through the woods. When they reached her cabin, she leapt out and vaulted onto the porch, tearing off her pants as soon as she was inside.
She groaned as she stepped into the shower. Even the water beating against the bite on her chest was agonizing. The pain of the uncompleted bonding was so excruciating she finally gave in and curled up on the shower floor, her arms wrapped around her middle, knees drawn up to her chest. Her sex was too tense and swollen to even attempt temporary relief. Her body screamed out for Drake, and Drake alone, to finish her. Drake’s bite would force her to release every unique chemical and hormone that defined her. She would flood Drake’s mouth, her skin, her body until they were linked physically as powerfully as they were emotionally.