Cal found Tara looking rather guilty and worried about where he’d left her. Had she’d thought he’d forgotten her? Not likely with the stiff one he was hiding in his pants for her. He’d have to fuck her sooner rather than later. The thought of sinking into her and surrounding himself with the feel of her body and her scent. The noises she made when he touched her were just putting his rules to the test. Would he lose face for breaking his own rules when others found out she wasn’t just his new submissive by his mate as well? He hoped not. Because she wasn’t ready yet to accept anything tender from him. She was still in flight mode. If he gave her an inch, she’d run. That he couldn’t let happen, because he’d not be able to protect her from Elmwood and his fools. That’s the excuse he fed himself, at least. The only one he was willing to face currently. Tara watched him like a creature cornered and trapped in a fight-or-flight state of mind. “Well, we n
Tara watched Cal tell her that her life wasn’t her own anymore and he was in control of her world and her. She had no choice in anything by the way he spoke. It was frightening. What if she angered him? Would he turn on her as fast as he’d forced this on her? Even her clothing was out of her control now. He controlled her body and soul; it appeared. But why was he doing this? What was in it for him? How did he think she would benefit from any of this? Tara wasn’t sure if she could do anything to change this? If she escaped, where would she go? Where was Eddie? She felt paralyzed and unable to find a way out of this. “What happens if I say no?” Her voice sounded tiny and timid. She was sure it was because he sat there fully clothed. While she sat there in a collar and a barely there dress. She didn’t have the seat of power or the force of personality that the Alpha had. She was self-conscious of her body and her small curves felt exaggerated to her. His hot gaze
A long time later, with his sex drive calmed, and his fear of this being a mistake was over. Cal was now assured she was his fated mate. He’d resisted biting her and sealing the deal. But he’d fucking filled her pussy up with his cum. He’d glimpsed his cum slipping a little from her lips, telling him he’d done well in that boat. She’d orgasmed several more times as well. He didn’t rely on that and ensured she’s orgasmed once more after he’d been able to slip from her. Now was the time to get her addicted to the pleasures he would give her. Before the trust came, the addiction to the experience would bind her to him. He was euphoric from pounding her as she came on his cock. This was what he searched for, and he couldn’t be happier that he’d found it in her. Cal took a closer look at Tara. He realized their first sexual encounter had overwhelmed her mind. She’d need time for her mind and body to process this auspicious event. He needed her to rest and recover now.
Cal returned to his office to find Tara awake and confused as she looked around her surroundings. “Did we actually? Are we really…?” She asked Cal as soon as he entered his office. Her hands unconsciously pulled the blanket closer to her. Cal put his Dom face on. He felt she’d struggle if he got all mushy on her. Tara needed to learn the rules and the boundaries. She’d be happiest then. “If you can learn to obey properly, this will happen smoothly, and everyone will be happier in the long run.” “Wait a minute, you’re saying that we’re mates, but only if I obey your rules. Clearly, I’m not good enough for you. Why don’t you just reject me and find someone who will satisfy you and make you happy?” Cal stopped dead in his tracks and his stare hardened as he studied her. “You dare to tell me what to do and how to do it? Did you not hear me? You’re not leading from the bottom. What you are doing is learning the rules and proper behaviour. Then we’l
“So this we call the conditioning chair. Here we can train you to enjoy my tastes in enjoyment.” Cal stood there now between Tara’s open thighs. He saw everything about her most intimate bodily and that’s when she realized he could now do what he liked to her. The wall behind him was windowed and the main room where they held the sex parties and events was full on the other side of the window. “Now we’ll start this by turning you on. Then we’ll amp up your experience until you beg to tell me everything. Just so you can find some ease from your need to fuck. It’ll take some time to achieve this, but you won’t notice the time passing.” Cal was studying her body as he spoke. His hands and eyes were exploring her taut belly and silky thighs. Cal parted her nether lips and smiled. “Ah, I was correct. Look at you weep with anticipation. I knew you were a natural, hm.” Tara wasn’t crying, she was laying there feeling her liquid heat ease from her pussy and Cal’s
Tara moaned, and in the heat of the moment, she told him what he wanted to hear. “He wanted to kick me out when my brother became useful, and my mother didn’t return. But Eddie wouldn’t stay unless I stayed. I’m a waste of time, effort, and space.” She tried to hold back her cute, sex sounds, but Cal wouldn’t have that. He wanted to hear her; it did delicious things to his cock as he shed his pants. He threw back his hair, enjoying his cock’s throbbing need to fill her. The anticipation was killing him and his rules, but now her torture was becoming his. He knew he was kinky, but he was treading on sick fuck levels of fuckery. “That’s my good baby girl. A little taste of your reward, though you will have much more to answer for before this is over.” He leaned forward and gently let his hot breath run over her quivering pale thighs until he opened her nether lips and blew on her heated flesh. It caused Tara to buck and cry out in an age old, excited response. Quiv
Cal’s meeting concerned for them both. He could see how everything could get out of hand. If they didn’t honestly communicate, there’d surely be war between packs. They were lucky because mostly there was an uneasy truth between most of the packs that called places within the Toronto home. But with things going missing during robberies and arsons. Then showing up at attacks within neighbouring territories as if his pack were attacking them. It was a smart tactic to cause chaos. But the Fae were attacking locations nearby as well. It was getting more difficult to figure who was guilty of doing what. With their rogue population in flux recently. The rogue population took several hits with a Liche surfacing almost a year ago. Many rogues followed lies and false promises here only to die at the hands of other rogues or the Liche’s army for replacement part for its army. A horrible thought they would kill a rogue because the army needed a spare arm. After that, when it b
Tara hadn’t thought about birth control. She never needed it before this, and she couldn’t afford it. Now her anxiety moved in and started paying rent. One of his people interrupted them. There was someone there to see him, and it was urgent. Cal’s face went from trouble to seriously annoyed. “Who is it?” Cal demanded irritably at his staff member. If the man’s response to the irritated tone of the alpha’s words meant anything, then his reaction was not typical. Tara was sure this was a bad thing. “Alpha Richards of the Parkside Pack is here, and he says it’s the Toronto Council business. Some incidents have occurred that he must speak with you about because it affects both packs.” “Great. I have to see him. Take Tara and settle her into recovery room one for me.” “Yes, Alpha Nichols.” “She’s resting, drink, and eat if she can.” “I’m not hung…” Tara tried to explain. She didn’t need much in the way of food. She didn’t want to be any
One Year Later —Tara sat out on the poach behind the packhouse with a laptop open to a spreadsheet. She and Emily were working out the next year’s budget and the projects they’d tackle.With Emily looking after the club while they were up here. It was interesting, to say the least.Tara gave birth on schedule. It was about the only thing that was on schedule these days, and Cal was sitting on a blanket on the grass with one-year-old Natalie Nichols. The apple of her daddy’s eye. She had him wrapped around her little finger and he’d have it no other way.Eddie and his Lycan girlfriend were now running the kitchens here for Rachel. They’d mated and, well… Tara expected to hear that they’d have pups soon enough.Jaxon, well, he was back in the city. Tara wasn’t sure what was happening with him. Cal wouldn’t speak of it. But Jaxon took a leave of absence from his position for a bit. Tara wasn’t receiving the full story. But as far as she could tell. Jaxon may have two mates. One wasn’t d
Five Months Later —Tara felt like the size of a house. She propped her ankles up on her desk and she had to eat her fries with no salt. It wasn’t the same, nothing tasted the same. The poking from inside was regular now and she couldn’t wait for the last six weeks to go by. She’d been six weeks pregnant when her symptoms started and since then, if it wasn’t one symptom, it was another. Tara would be more than happy for these little monsters to enter the world.Cal was everywhere and nowhere, it seemed. He told her to clear her calendar today because he wanted to show her their new territory. The thought of trudging out there was exhausting to her. But she’d do it because he was just so insistent. He promised they’d stay the night out there and come back the next day at a leisurely pace.“You ready to go?”“Yes, I just don’t understand why we have to do this now. When all I want to do is take a nap.”“You can nap in the vehicle on the way. Don’t worry, I’ve packed everything we need a
Tara could feel the ball of conflicting emotions rolling about in her head and her belly. She had a new life inside her. No matter what, she’d never be alone again. But how did she explain all of this to them when the time came?How should she explain this to Cal? He had to be expecting this. Look at the second floor. She didn’t like it necessarily. Their pups living completely separately from us with someone else looking after them. Why hadn’t they spoken about this before?Tara’s eyes closed as the elevator dinged and opened. She’d not thought that it was important before this because she wasn’t pregnant, and they didn’t have any pups. Now she thought of it.This morning, Cal was gone before she got out of bed. This was a day she didn’t train, because there were other things she needed to get done. Which, of course, didn’t get done? A few steps brought her to Cal’s office over the club.She knocked and entered when she received the okay to enter. Tara lucked out because Cal was alon
David Monroe struggle with the enforcer training. His heart wasn’t in it and his skills lay in other places, but everyone lumped him in with the other male Lycans because he was a Lycan. He’d exhausted almost every avenue trying to explain to them he’d rather be patching people up and treating pups with fevers. While he was moping during a break, his phone rang, and it surprised him to see that Emily’s name came up on his phone. “Hello, Emily. What’s wrong? Why are you calling?” He couldn’t think of a reason she could be calling him for, but any chance he got to speak with her was better than nothing. “I’ll tell you, but you have to be very careful with what you say. No one can know why you’re about to be ordered to the Luna’s office. What we need you to do, is slip out of the packhouse. If anyone asks, you’re running an errand for the Luna. That’s it nothing more. What you need to do is go to the closest pharmacy and pick up a pregnancy kit. Come back here
Again, Tara was up late the next morning. Cal was determined he wouldn’t let her feel like he neglected anything about her. From sympathizing with her, to how her emotions were toward absolutely everything, and he didn’t forget to include planning their future together.Well, he talked, and she mostly listened. What he said wasn’t bad. Tara didn’t have a problem with any of his ideas. She didn’t have much to add or at this time have an emotional connection to any of it.Now, though, Tara needed to get her day going, and she felt like something that had been dredged from a swampy pond. It took only minutes for Emily, her newest staff member, to realize there was something wrong with Tara.“If we had a cat, I’d say you look like the latest thing it dragged home. When will we see you going to a healer?” Emily eagerly asked Tara as she returned from her latest flight to the bathroom. Tara looked at her with an expression of exhaustion.“I’m fine and I’m not planning ongoing to see one.” S
“Stone dear, you know I love you. I’m your mate and partner in life. I have always advised you about everything honestly and in your best interest.” Elaine still quietly sat in the sitting room and calmly spoke to Stone. The others had slowly filtered out to go on with their day or to watch their guests leave. “Of course you are, and you have.” Stone looked out the window and watched the vehicles leave. Elaine could see he was distracted by what was going on and his own thoughts. “Then why are you being an ass and not listening to anything I say now?” She let her irritation slip into her voice and she dryly responded to him. Her annoyance was obvious. Stone’s instincts instantly alerted him to the fact that not all was good between himself and his mate. Over the years, that instinct helped him avoid many different disasters from exploding in his face when it came to their relationship. “I’m listening Ellie. I’ve always listened.” “Then explain to me if you listened to me, then why
No one said much of anything on the way home. The privacy divider between the front of the vehicle and the back raised then never went down. Cal pulled Tara to him and sat her in his lap. He didn’t do anything more but let her soak up his warmth and strength. He buried his head into her neck and hair. The smell of the wool sweater mixed with the natural spice of her scent. He instantly felt his aggressive feelings smooth out and gentle. It’d been difficult watching her get so wound up from it all. Tara sat there, and all but purred. As their vehicle made slow progress through traffic, it’s darkened windows gave them the privacy that Cal didn’t care, Tara turned and straddled his lap instead. She didn’t do anything more than that. But his body felt her skirt hike up and he groaned, knowing how naughty she was instinctively gravitating to for comfort. That wasn’t what their mating would ever be based on. He’d never satisfy his needs while she was seek
Kole wanted to get back to the gathering as quickly as possible. He didn’t want any misunderstandings between anyone, let alone the two packs. There was no way he’d explain to the pack that their beloved elder and ex-alpha alienated his first born grand pup with blind stubbornness, hateful questions, and fear. That wouldn’t be happening today or any day. Kole wouldn’t risk fighting with Cal. How would it look when the Council of Alphas met? His father always forgot about that. Though the council of alphas didn’t exist during his time in control of the pack. He’d been a forward thinker of his time and moved his pack to a territory that was being noticed by the local humans. It meant he could settle their businesses in, and those humans would see those businesses as founding members of the business community. “Let’s go back down now and please be nice to her. She’s so much like Heather and you wouldn’t talk to Heather that way. Just apologize and let mother do
“That’s my third pup there and his mate. Your uncle, Stephen, and his mate, Ariel. Their grown pups, Erin, and Eric. That about covers your living family here, dear. Everyone sit please. Stone has created enough excitement and drama for one day. She has a sweet soul. Stephen, treat her like you would your sister and don’t act like your father if you know what’s good for you. As for the doghouse, it’s an old guard shack that’s been turned into a bunkhouse for single wolves who, for one reason or another, don’t want to make the trip all the way back to their homes to sleep. It’s affectionately called the doghouse because often there’s trouble between the few mated wolves that stay there.” “Oh, good grief. That’s horrible.” “Oh, don’t think your grandfather hasn’t stayed there a time or two. Though these days he’s more likely to use a guest apartment.” Tara looked over the tissue at Elaine with a shocked expression. “You’re joking.” “No, I’m n