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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX:Merrick Blake
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“Damn.” I whistled, walking around the ruby in a slow circle. It sat nestled in a set of gigantic golden prongs, and Darius was right; it was bigger than me. If I’d opened my arms, I couldn’t have wrapped them around the massive jewel. “All I have to do is put my hand on it?”“Yup.” He nodded, his eyes flicking between me and the ruby.We were in a circular underground room. The walls were white with swirling red and gold designs shimmering on their surfaces, the floor some sort of dark stone. Though the place looked nice, it felt almost sinister.And that feeling had me thinking I needed to ask a few more questions. “Why did you tell me the truth when Merrick wouldn’t?” I asked, taking a step away from the ruby.“It’s been a long time since the jewel has had a wolf’s power, so we don’t know for sure what will happen when it tastes yours. Our best guess is that you’ll take command of the city through this.” He gestured to the ruby.“Blake isn’t ready for the fighting to end. He likes
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It took both of my hands to hold a spare t-shirt of Noah’s against my nose in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Liv connected her phone to mine and went through my texts and missed calls while Noah drove and I bled. Mine and Liv’s phones were both frequently lost, thanks to frequent shifting, so we both had an app that let us into each other’s devices from any distance.“Your parents felt the power leave them and they’re freaking out.” She paused. “Shit. All the werewolves felt the power shift, and for some reason, they’re all feeling a pull toward Shifter City. Some of them are already headed our way.”“Fantastic,” I mumbled into the shirt against my face. All I had on was another of Noah’s spare shirts, and my body was still flecked with blood.“Darius finally gave out your business cards—you’ve got about two dozen messages from unmated ruby dudes who want to bang.”I groaned, and Noah grunted. “Fuck my life.” I muttered.“That’s exactly what all these guys want.” Liv shot me a smirk
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“Put me down,” Hazel commanded, her voice muffled by the shirt against her face.“You’re bleeding,” I growled back, my beastly-side completely in control. Humanity fled when my True Mate was injured, and wouldn’t return until she was healed.I set her down on a large rock, far enough away from our vehicles that her friends wouldn’t hear us. My fingers grabbed the shirt, and hers wrapped around my wrist. “Careful,” she warned.I may have been more animal than man, but I didn’t want to hurt her.Only a monster could physically injure the woman he existed to love.Gently, I peeled the cloth away from her nose. She helped me, and I rumbled with worry when I saw that she was still bleeding. “The power is too much for you to hold alone. Mate with me, female.” The words spewed from me without thinking, my pheromones blasting like a damn furnace and ripping control away from me.“Back off, Grizzly.” Hazel’s leg kicked out toward me, her palm reaching for the shirt that stank of her blood and
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My friends didn’t ask what happened when I came back smelling like desire and anger. I’d wanted that grizzly so damn badly, and he’d shot me down… just like I’d told him to.It was frustrating. Part of me had hoped he would ignore my request and let his instincts take over so I could walk away from him in confidence, knowing he didn’t care enough to tell me the truth or respect my wishes.But he didn’t. He listened, and he respected me. Even when it was clearly difficult for him—his claws were entirely embedded in that tree when I left. It’d take him at least a minute or two to get free.Of course, he and his Harley caught up to us on the highway. He followed us all the way to the damn cabin, and I didn’t ask Noah to lose him. It seemed like a waste of effort when he so clearly planned on following one way or another. If I didn’t let him follow us, he’d just call one of the many other shifters who Liv had given the address of my cabin to and get it from them.When we parked in the gar
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While I walked with Lenard back into my house, I realized something: I might not even be able to be with anyone but Merrick.Since I’d met him I hadn’t been attracted to any other men. I hadn’t even really been able to admire any of the good-looking guys we’d met after him, despite Liv’s oohing and ahhing. I saw them, and I felt nothing. I saw Merrick, and I felt everything.Leading the mosquito into my living room, I gestured for him to sit down on one of the couches. I sat on a couch across from him, leaning toward him.“I need a favor,” I said.Lenard’s head bobbed. “What’s the favor?”“I need you to kiss me.” I paused, then corrected myself. “I need you to make out with me.”“That’s hardly a favor. You could ask any of those guys, and I can promise every one would say yes.”I nodded; who didn’t want to make out with an eligible bachelor or bachelorette? “This would need to stay between us. Merrick would be pissed if he found out.”“That’s not a problem,” Lenard agreed.“Afterward,
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He was on too much of her—more than he should’ve been if she’d just given him a quick kiss. My growling grew deeper, angrier, as I continued. Though I couldn’t smell any desire from either of them, mine was the only male scent that she should’ve worn.“Stop growling at me, Grizzly,” she complained.I didn’t stop. Probably couldn’t, until she was clean and I saw some kind of confirmation that she was still mine.“I had to know if it was even possible for me to be with another guy. Before I spent the rest of my little bit of time interviewing morons, I needed to know if I could even stomach sleeping with them while our souls were still all connected or whatever.” She gestured at me.I continued my licking and growling, though my growl grew quieter as she spoke. When she didn’t continue, I nipped at her belly. She smacked me on the head, her little hand and swat doing nothing. I did lick her fingers, though.“If you’re trying to ask what happened, the answer is that I straddled him and k
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My nose started bleeding halfway through the interviews. I was calling them mate interviews, because I was considering all the guys candidates for the job of my mate. I was pretty certain I’d found the right candidate in Merrick, though.It bled worse with every change of the guy sitting on the couch across from mine. My mind kept going back to the grizzly in the forest, the one who I had too many mixed feelings toward to really sort through them.There were things I liked about him, and things I didn’t like about him. Things I loved about him, and things I hated about him. But the one thing I knew, with one hundred percent certainty, was that I could learn to love the man as a whole. Hell, maybe I could even learn how to love those things I hated about him.I felt more apathetic toward every guy who walked through my door. My nose kept bleeding, though just barely, so when I started to get dizzy I finally went outside and told all the rest of the guys to come in at once.After an unc
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I took the controller first.Merrick sat beneath me—his choice—and started with his hands on my arms and legs. I was pretty sure he’d come up with the idea of the game just so he’d have an excuse to touch me as much as he wanted, and it seemed like I was right on the money. His hands slowly stroked my ribs and lower belly, then my thighs, before the round ended.“One point for me.” I handed him the controller, turning to face him before sitting down on his lap, straddling him.His erection pressed against me, and thrill had my heart pumping.As the match started, I leaned my chest into his so my tits barely brushed him. He jerked back and his jaw clenched, but he didn’t look down.Rubbing my boobs against him a few times, I watched his jaw clench harder as he continued to focus.He was making it a challenge… and I loved challenges.I slid my hands into his hair, slowly rocking against him as I played with the strands, tugging gently with one hand while the other trailed down the back
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
