“She-wolf, what are you doing?”
“Ssshh.” She informed him, laughter in her voice. “I’m waking you up.”
Inside her, her wolf paced anxiously, loving the new playful side that Leah had just discovered. What could she say? Az brought out the best in her.
He tried to sit up and she pushed him gently back on the bed. Truth be told, he let her push him back down. If he wanted to, he was much stronger than she was. She couldn’t help her small smile. It was a real man who knew when it was time to let his partner be in charge.
Gliding her mouth up and down his hard length, she heard his intake of breath.
“Leah, baby, let me touch you.”
She shook her head, not wanting him to take control from her yet. She needed Az;
moreover, there was nothing in the world she wanted to do more than she wanted to take him deep inside her mouth at that very moment. His breathing changed, becoming faster.
She could feel him becoming harder by the second and the idea that it was she—Leah St.
James—making him that way made her even hornier for him.
She moved faster, taking him deep within her throat and pulling out fast until she was all but removed from the tip of his hard erection. At his gasp, she plunged back down, taking the whole of his length into the back of her throat. Over and over she deepened her embrace until she was wild from the experience.
“No, no, Leah, I want to come inside you. I need you desperately.” He tugged at her shoulders.
“Come in my mouth.” She longed for him to. More than she wanted to breathe.
“No.” He pulled hard at her shoulders finally dislodging her from her task. “I’m desperate for your warmth. I need to feel your core around me, baby. I need it so damn much.”
Az rolled her beneath him. The feel of his weight above her made her feel small and protected. She loved it. “Az, I want you so bad. I was going to come when you came in my mouth.”
“I’m going to make you come more than once, Leah.”
She raised an eyebrow. “Do you promise?”
He growled—the sound all wolf—and plunged inside her. She cried at out at the penetration before gasping and closing her eyes as the sensation of his hard length filling her became all there was in the world. She threw her head back in ecstasy.
“Please, Az, more. Don’t make me beg.”
“What if I want you to beg?” His tone was amused, not mocking and she opened her eyes enjoying the play between them.
“I’ll do anything. Just do it. Please.”
He stopped moving and she opened her eyes to stare into the depths of his brown eyes. “You never have to beg me. I’ll always do whatever you want, when you want it. You’re my everything.”
Reaching up to press her lips to his, she tried to show him with passion what no words could ever adequately illustrate. Azriel Kane was her life force. Not only had he saved her from what was sure to be death but he had reawakened her soul and shown her parts of herself she had never known existed until he presented them to her. She needed to be his mate, his wife, his love, and his destiny. Fate had given her these things. Why was she so lucky?
Lifting her rear end, Az pushed her back up against the headboard plunging in and out of her with such force she wanted to scream from the pleasure. Reaching up she grabbed the top of the burnished wood bed frame that she was afraid wouldn’t survive their sexual assault and braced herself for dear life.
Az flipped her over and she used the chance to grab the headboard even more securely. She pushed herself up on her knees, screaming her pleasure as his thrusts forced her closer and closer to the end of the bed.
“Hold on baby, hold on.” Az’s words seemed far away, so lost in the pleasure his movements created in her body.
“More. Gods, Az, give me more.”
“I want to, she-wolf, I want to so badly. Oh hell, Leah, you’re so tight, baby, you’re killing me.”
And just like that she exploded. The world became a dazzling array of colors and sounds, all of it fueled by Azriel and his love for her. Seconds later he shouted her name, finding his own release. In unison, they both collapsed on the bed, Az falling down next to her.
With her eyes closed, she listened to his breathing or rather to the sound of Az trying to catch his breath.
He laughed and she opened her eyes as he kissed her hard on the mouth. “Are you going to awaken me like that every morning?”
“Who knows? I’m like a whole new person since I got my wolf.”
Az pulled his weight off her body and she felt slightly bereft for the loss of his warmth. Not wanting to let go, she rolled next to him to fit herself in the crook of his arm.
“You’re not a ‘new’ person. Your wolf just might be letting you do things you prevented yourself from doing before. It’s kind of easier having them around. They let you know if you’re doing something dumb before you do it. It’s like one more filter from the things we think to the things we actually end up doing.”
Az yawned and she felt a tiny bit guilty about having woken him. “Do you have time to go back to sleep?”
He shook his head. “It was actually a good thing you got me up. I’m leaving for Texas in about three hours.”
She jerked upright. “Don’t even tell me you’re thinking that you can go without me?”
Looking at her sideways, he smiled. “I kind of hoped you might stay here but the truth is I doubted that you’d agree to it, which is why I told Cullen you were probably coming.”
Slightly pacified, she relaxed her back a little bit. Az hadn’t been totally foolish. If he’d told her he expected her to stay there would have been a small war between them.
“What is the plan once we get to Texas?”
“Tristan, who is insisting on coming too, wants to do some recon. It’s beyond time that we knew exactly how large a number Kendrick’s wolf army actually is. Also, he’s determined Rex is going to capture us a witch. Then, he wants me to use my barely functional serum that I whipped up to see if I can stop the wolves from shifting.”
Az closed his eyes at whatever thoughts were bothering him the most. She sighed and reached out to stroke his cheek.
“You know you’re not responsible for all the ills of the world, not even all the problems facing the pack. You had less than twenty-four hours to do the impossible and create a formula to stop what it presumably took Kendrick thirty years to create. I don’t even know when you did this.”
Opening his eyes to look at her he grinned. “After you snuck off like you were escaping a mob scene, I stayed up most of the night and did the best I can. My brother expects miracles. He has no patience for things that take time. With magic, you say a spell and boom you get your result. The things I do, they take time. Unfortunately, lately that is a luxury we never seem to have.”
Using her index finger she jabbed him lightly in the chest. “You’re magic too, Az. If it wasn’t enough that you can shift from wolf to human and back again with just a thought, you can travel through people’s memories.”
“I still think it’s a bit of an abomination I can do that.” He raised his hand when she would argue. “I’m always going to feel this way. It’ll just have to be one of those things we agree to disagree about. Any more out of body possessions for you?”
She shook her head and shivered at the memory. There had to be a way to stop the ghosts of the Westervelt pack from invading her body any damn time they felt like it. It had only happened twice but she could already see that it was going to be a problem if it just happened whenever and wherever the ghosts felt like it.
“There is something I have to do before we can go to Texas and it’s going to require you finally taking me to that drug store.”
He raised an eyebrow. “Hair dye?”
“Exactly.”
Oh good. I just think…well, I think we look ridiculous.
Leah silently laughed at her wolf’s comment. She couldn’t agree more.