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CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN:Hazel Ellis
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Hazel didn't say much of anything as her parents hugged her tightly. My fists clenched and unclenched without her in my arms, the loss of her body against mine already affecting me even though it was only a few minutes and her parents needed the confirmation only a hug could give as well. Chandler and Liv hugged her too, and I fought the instincts screaming at me to haul my mate to our den and hold her until we were both okay again.Hazel walked back to me the moment they released her, leaning against me. Our minds were still open to one another, though her side of the connection was tentative. I got the feeling that she wanted me to pick her up and hold her like I had in the forest. Happy to oblige, I scooped her up. She curled against me, her face against my shirt.I'd have rather stayed bare-chested so I could feel more of her, but with her parents there, getting dressed was the right call.Roman and Henley and the girls moved around the kitchen, forcing conversation all while glan
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Hazel slept most of the next few days, only waking up for food when someone (usually me, Liv, or her parents) didn't give her a choice. I slept most of that time too, holding her to my chest and trying to catch up on all the sleep I'd missed when I was searching for her.Roman and Henley barely left, cooking and cleaning more than the place needed to be cleaned. Chandler and Liv were in and out too, eating with us and peeking in to check on me and my mate. A few others, some I knew and some I didn’t, stopped by to check on my female. Hazel’s parents kept most of them out of our room, but the myriad of scents in the hallway told me that a lot of people had come by to make sure she was alright.I hated having our room open for them to peek in on us, but she had been missing for them too. So, I got over it.When Hazel woke up on the fourth day, it was to me running my fingers over her back in circles. My hands were over the top of her shirt, wanting to keep things non-sexual when her par
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Chandler left and Merrick took a shower after we ate, giving me a chance to talk to my parents alone. They were really worried about me, and I loved them for that, but they were worriers. Whatever healing I still had left to do wasn't going to come while I was living with them, unable to talk freely with my mate.Merrick came out in a pair of shorts after twenty minutes. He hugged my mom and clapped my dad on the back in one of those bro-hugs guys did when they didn't want to look like they liked each other.I wasn’t ready to get back in any car, so Merrick and I shifted and made our way back to our place. I was exhausted after a few minutes, but we moved slow. It was nice to be outside, breathing air and existing in my beastly form for a bit.I ended up shifting back to human form and riding the second half of the trip on Merrick’s back, my fingers laced in his fur and my nose near his neck. He was careful, and I held on tight.After we got back, Merrick set me down in the shower and
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He lapped at my core, his fingers working me along with his tongue. Every time I accidentally drew my mind away from him, he stopped, withdrawing his own until I reached for him again.I got faster and faster at opening for him, giving him access to the most honest parts of my mind and soul. And he moved faster for me, licking my throbbing center with increasing speed and pressure until I reached the edge.My mind pulled back, and Merrick froze. I throbbed against him, crying out in frustration."Open, Ellis. Let me feel your pleasure. Let me feel your climax," he growled into my core.I shoved my mind open, baring my heart as I moved myself against his mouth. Merrick ravaged me, taking me back to the edge in little more than a heartbeat. I held myself open as I shattered, crying out again—this time in pleasure.Merrick snarled with me, his tongue still moving over my core as I rode it out. His teeth partially shifted, and I cried out when they nicked me as I came down from my high, b
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I tried to leave the next morning, to go show my parents that I was still alive. I walked out to the car, climbed in the front seat, sat down, and…Nope.I couldn't do it. Lifting my hands to the wheel? No way. They shook like they had when I was drugged.Merrick came out to meet me, plucking me out of the driver's seat and sitting me in the middle seat without noticing my trembling hands. He turned on the car, and my throat seized.Breathing became difficult, and I started panting, then wheezing."Ellis," Merrick's eyes knitted together in concern, his hands finding my upper arms. "You okay?""Fine. I'm fine." I choked the words out, clearly not fine. But he knew that; he knew I would say I was fine when I wasn’t."Talk to me." He brushed a hand over the back of my head, his worry growing strong enough that I could smell it."Memories of my crash are coming back." I fanned my face, unbuckling my seatbelt and scooting forward a bit, so I didn't feel so trapped. "I'm worried—sad—scared
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Ruby shards downpoured down around the zone the gem had been.A sharp torment tore through my chest, through the same put my Alpha control as a rule lived.Screams and yells overwhelmed the room. Individuals surged toward us—toward the exit. My grizzly thundered, snatching me and holding me to him as he charged to the back of the room, through the froze ruby shifters and toward my father. Father was battling off the fellow who’d assaulted him. My mom’s body was tucked safely on the ground by Noah, who was protecting Chandler with his claim body.Merrick dropped me adjacent to my mother, and my fingers landed on her throat. Her beat was unfaltering, her breathing even.At slightest she was okay.Merrick and my father took the fellow down, Merrick inclining over the guy’s chest with his claws to his throat.“What are you doing, polar bear?” my mate snarled.The polar bears were savage, and known for taking out ruby senior citizens. “Trying to keep this city balanced,” the polar bear gro
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Hazel was pacing again. I wanted to pull her into my arms, to set her on my lap and kiss the hell out of her until her uncertainty was gone and we were both confident in what we were facing. But I couldn’t.I couldn’t fucking touch her.I was pretty sure it was the universe’s way of punishing me for something, though I wasn’t entirely sure what I was being punished for. I’d been a dick to a number of people, and wasn’t exactly sensitive, so there were plenty of possibilities on that front.Not only could I not touch my mate, but her family was also determined to protect her from me. They wouldn’t even leave us alone in a damn room together, like we were toddlers who couldn’t be trusted not to break shit.Anyway, it was 2 AM, Hazel was still pacing, and I was sitting on the couch beside Chandler. She was the lucky one elected to remain between us from 12 AM to 3 AM. Following Chandler, it was going to be Roman’s turn, then Henley’s. There was a fucking rotation already, and we’d only b
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I’d just finished explaining the plan to Liv when a quiet knock on the door caught my attention.I turned, frowning. “Who the hell knocks at 3 AM?” “Who the hell knocks so politely?” Liv countered.Chandler’s eyes caught Merrick’s. She knew exactly who knocked that politely. “I’m going to go change,” she said quickly, though she was already in her pajamas.Liv crossed the room to open the door. She’d practically lived at my house growing up, so it wasn’t surprising that she already felt like my parents’ new place was her turf.She pulled the door open and revealed her True Mate on the other side.No wonder Chandler had left. I knew Jay had been in love with her since they were kids, and that she’d never felt the same way. Since Liv was his True Mate, I imagined the whole thing was pretty weird for her.“Great, it’s you,” Liv said unenthusiastically. “Go home.” She tried to close the door, but he caught it with both his hand and foot.“Can we talk?” he asked.“Why? So you can reject me
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“I don’t know if I can do it.” Hazel stared at the gorgeous machine.“You don’t have to. We can always call your parents and invite them into our sex-den, and ask them to take her,” I offered with a grin.Hazel’s nose wrinkled. “That’s off the table.”“I’m sure we can think of another way around it. I can always go, drop her off, and come back.” I didn’t want Hazel to feel like she had no other choice. Feeling trapped would do nothing to help her become comfortable on the bike again.Shooting me an exasperated look, Hazel slung her leg over the seat and sat down. She made no move to turn the bike on, and instead, simply sat there.Our bond was wide open, the way it had been since she took down her walls in the truck on our way to the cabin, and I felt her surprise.“I don’t feel any panic.” She said, her voice a bit amazed.“Good. That’s a good thing.” I slid my hands in my pockets. We’d be riding our own bikes back to Shifter City, which was a bummer. I loved riding with my woman.“I
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The days began to blur into each other, and before we knew it, a month had passed. My body was growing stronger, my mind sharper, and my heart happier.A knock on the door interrupted our morning though, and ended our honeymoon.“Hazel!” Liv hollered from the front of my house. She knocked again, harder. “Haze! I can smell you in there; I know you’re here.”Merrick and I exchanged uh-oh glances across the table. We’d been keeping in contact with our friends and family, but an unplanned Liv visit wasn’t usually a good sign.We were working at the kitchen table, so I got up and crossed through the living room to open the front door. Pushing it open, my eyes landed on a dirty, determined-smelling Liv.“I need your keys.” She held her hands out. “Why?” I put a hand on my hip.“I told Jay I’d mate with him if he could catch me, and then took off. I’m fast, but he’s no couch potato.” She jiggled her hand, glancing over her shoulder. “Hurry. He’s going to be here any minute.”“He won’t be ab
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I drummed my fingers on my knee. “I've never ran away from my problems before.”“We’re running away to deal with shit, not to pretend it doesn’t exist,” Merrick countered.“Still, it feels selfish.”“Sometimes you need to put yourself first, Ellis. You may not have noticed, but you’re not in a great place mentally right now.” Merrick squeezed my thigh, where his fingers were already wrapped around a good chunk of my leg.“Thanks,” I drawled.“Hey, you’re the one who locked me out of your mind. If that’s not a warning sign, what else is? We’ve been completely open for weeks.”“I’m f—”He interrupted. “You’re fucking beautiful, but you’re not fine, so quit saying that.”“You’re infuriating.” I sighed, leaning my head up against the window. I’d texted my parents to let them know we were taking off. They’d ended up calling, of course, and then had insisted on talking to Merrick. When I tried to hang up, he grabbed the phone and talked them down. He’d explained that we needed time to figu
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“Alright, get furry.” I ran my hand down Hazel’s dark hair. She was beautiful—so damn beautiful.And by some miracle, she was mine.After a few more rounds of our distraction game, all of which ended in far more than one climax, I’d finally lost one without taking Hazel over the edge with me. It was a low blow, but I more than made it up to her with my mouth and fingers afterward.She hadn’t stopped grinning since she won, and I was glad I could give her that win. Even if it meant a bare-back ride through the forest at lunch time.“Don’t pet me while I’m in human form,” she complained, still grinning.I petted her boob, and she smacked my hand away. “You like it,” I told her.“And you like to bug me.” She shifted forms, shaking out her fur as she landed on four paws. It was odd to see her as a dark-haired wolf now that she wasn’t a ruby shifter, but in a good way.“You’re fun to bug.” I scratched her head. She leaned into my hands, and I scratched harder. “If I’m too heavy, you drop m
Bound by Blood: Last Ruby Wolf and Her Fated Mate CHAPTER NINETY SEVEN:Hazel Ellis
Merrick scooped me up and carried both me and my plate to our couch. He somehow grabbed a blanket too on the way. Sitting down, he settled me on his lap and wrapped his arms around my middle after settling the fuzzy blanket over our lower halves.His erection pressed into my ass, but he turned the TV on like his dick wasn’t hard and aching. One of his hands wrapped around my front, his fingers slowly stroking my stomach as we waited for the TVs and consoles to turn on.“Maybe we should play a different game,” he murmured, his teeth catching my earlobe and dragging over it gently. I bit back a groan, and when I moved against his erection, he pressed me against him to trap me. “For the sake of distraction, of course.”“Of course,” I agreed.“You try to focus on the round.” He hit a few buttons, setting the game up. “And I’ll try to get you off before it ends.”Shit.That sounded like hellish heaven. It was the game we’d played the night we mated, and it sounded like the perfect way to w
Bound by Blood: Last Ruby Wolf and Her Fated Mate CHAPTER NINETY SIX:Hazel Ellis
Hauling me to the bed, he pulled his boxers on and finally put me down on the edge of the bed. His knees knocked mine as he tugged my shirt over my head, and he groaned when he saw that I wasn’t wearing a bra.His hands cupped my breasts, and then I was flat on my back with his mouth on my nipple. His chest idled as he sucked me, and I arched upward, my legs wrapping around his hips so I could press myself into his hardness.He moved to the other nipple, and then his hands slid into my shorts His finger stroked the most sensitive part of me, and I gasped.Fuck, his fingers felt good.Merrick paused, stopping his movement on my nipple and clit. He groaned again. “Shit. I wasn’t supposed to do that.”“Says who?” I shot back, moving my hips so his fingers rubbed against me.“Says me,” he grunted, withdrawing his hand.“No.” I grabbed his arm, holding it in place. “You can’t start this and not finish it.” My eyes bore into his.“You’re hurting, Ellis.” His eyes darkened. “So much that you
Bound by Blood: Last Ruby Wolf and Her Fated Mate CHAPTER NINETY FIVE:Hazel Ellis
I slept in, then stayed in bed replying to emails and trying to catch up on work I’d been slacking on for weeks. Hell, months. There were responses to emails I hadn’t sent in my inbox, and scrolling through, it looked like one of my parents had tried to take care of stuff for me.That meant a lot.My mom peeked in around noon, and I could smell food with her. I wasn’t hungry, but I also wasn’t in the mood to argue about food.“Hey, cutie.” My mom stepped inside, closing the door behind herself without asking if it was okay. I wasn’t going to turn her down anyway, so it didn’t matter.“Hey. Were you answering emails for me?” I asked.“Yeah. I tried, but you know how I am with business stuff.” She shrugged, and I smiled. My dad was the business mind out of the two of them.“Thanks.” I gave her the biggest smile I could muster—a tiny one.She sat on the edge of the bed, a plate of steak and mashed potatoes and veggies in her hands. She knew about my love affair with steak, and was trying
Bound by Blood: Last Ruby Wolf and Her Fated Mate CHAPTER NINETY FOUR:Merrick Blake
I sat down at one of the picnic tables, legs sprawled in front of me as I turned my mind inward. The Alpha power in my chest had shrunk by a hell of a lot, but it was still there. Pulling it to the surface, I focused on those it connected me to, and pulled. The ruby itself had called all the wolves to the city, so I assumed it was something the power could do.I felt a pull against me, like the shifters were fighting my power, so I tugged harder. Their will gave out, and I felt the agreement flow from them to me.Then, it was just a matter of waiting.My arms rested on the table, my thoughts drifting back to the female who would always have a hold on me the way I had a hold on those shifters. There was still a wall between us, and the state of it said she was still sleeping.Hazel was hurting. She’d been ignoring her trauma since that time the teenage snake nearly killed her. But the thing about trauma was that you could only ignore it for so long.I’d been a damn idiot, taking her to
Bound by Blood: Last Ruby Wolf and Her Fated Mate CHAPTER NINETY THREE:Merrick Blake
I followed Hazel to our room. Her parents asked her how the fight went as we passed them, and she answered with the same infuriating word she’d already repeated a dozen times or more.“Fine.”Shutting the bedroom door behind us, I locked it and followed her to the bathroom. She tried to shut that door in my face—to block me out. I caught it, and she spun to face me.“Talk to me, Ellis. Don’t shut me out,” I growled.“There’s nothing to say.” She let go of the door. “I need space.” “If there’s nothing to say, why do you need space?”“Back off, Grizzly.” She turned around, abandoning the door and walking into the shower in her bra and shorts.For the first time since I got her back, I let her go.Continuing to reach out to her, I tried to figure out how to help her.I wouldn’t walk away—I’d made that mistake once. The last time she’d asked for space, she hadn’t actually wanted it. But this time was different. This time, she was hurting. Not because of something I’d done, but because of
