“I’m driving.”
“But ma’am..”
“No buts, Luke. I’m driving. Think of it this way. Your gun hand will still be free.” He sighed, before nodding in agreement. He wasn’t going to win, and he knew it.
The truth was, his reaction to his wolf was making me nervous. The combination of my succubus freaking out, my wolf feeling cooped up and now him nearly losing control was a recipe for disaster.
He’d never looked that close to losing control before. He might not have been my age, but he was still pushing 200 and he had some of the finest control of his wolf that I’ve ever seen.
And yet he nearly lost control with me pinned in between him and the wall. Figures.
Before we even knew it, we’d pulled up outside the pack house of the local wolves. The current alpha and luna were outside waiting to meet us.
“Ophelia, this is an unexpected visit.” I could feel the power in Edward’s voice as he spoke. Anyone else would have been forced to submit to that power, but the open secret was that my unique genetics meant I was much stronger than him, but had absolutely no desire to challenge him for his position. He knew I’d win if I did make the challenge, so he was perfectly content with our little agreement.
I nodded.
“Luke, good to see you. I hope Ophelia is treating you well,” the luna, Belinda, replied.
Luke smiled, his head bowed.
“How is Nathaniel?” I asked.
He grimaced. “Sleeping off the alcohol. Thank you for bringing him home, I hope he didn’t cause too much trouble.”
“Nothing we couldn’t handle.” I gave him a small smile. “He did start to get close to shifting though, and I would hate to have my security team shoot your son because he’d hurt my patrons.”
He winced again. “I understand. He’s drinking more because he’s stressed.”
“Which, dear, is no excuse for his behaviour,” Belinda interjected. “He needs to cool off before he can start taking on any duties.” Edward’s face was deflated.
The silence was loaded.
“Ed, we need to discuss our arrangement with your son. That’s why he was in my club in the first place, he seems to think when you step down, he can force me out. But that’s a problem for another day, that’s not what we’re here for.”
He sighed. “Agreed. What can we do for you, Ophelia?”
I glanced at Luke, his head now raised again. “We both need to shift and run, somewhere less risky than the city.”
They nodded in tandem. “You’re of course welcome to our forests.”
“Thank you, Ed.”
“I’ll call the patrols, dear. Let them know our Enforcer is going to be running in the woods.”
Probably for the best that they did, I’d rather not have young wolves freaking out about my presence.
We waved our goodbyes, leaving the car on their driveway and heading into the woods. There were handy huts dotted around the pack territory where we could leave clothes so they didn’t get shredded in the shift.
I stripped off quickly, very aware that Luke was watching my every movement.
My wolf didn’t care.
I shifted mid step on the way out of the door, landing on all fours. Luke met my gaze. “I’ll meet you out there,” he said, with a smile.
I turned and ran into the woods, I’d missed this. I’d missed sprinting through the trees, letting my wolf stretch her legs. I slowed, waiting for Luke to catch up by the side of the lake, watching my reflection in the water. My red fur was rippling in the wind, my eyes a deep red that had specks that looked like blood in the moonlight.
My quiet reflection was interrupted by a massive splash. And that splash was Luke’s sandy brown wolf jumping straight into the lake in front of me.
I shook my head, before opening the pack link between us. “I’m going to run. Enjoy your swim!”
“Come on in, the water is lovely!”
“Maybe later, Luke. I need to stretch my legs.”
I turned and ran deeper and deeper into the forest, jumping over fallen trees and sprinting past the wolves on patrol. Every single one of them stopped in their tracks, bowing their heads as I ran past.
My wolf was loving this. She needed this.
As I ran, she calmed. As she calmed, I got better control over my succubus side. Breathing a sigh of relief, I shifted back, and lay in a clearing looking up at the moon. It was peaceful.
A crash through the undergrowth told me I was no longer alone. A scent I knew, but not a truly familiar one.
“Nathaniel. Good to see you again.”
He trotted over and sat beside me, still in wolf form.
He shifted back, his brown fur shrinking away and eyes returning to their normal brown.
He sighed, laying down next to me, watching the moon.
“I hope you’ve sobered up now, Nathaniel.”
My wolf was snarling at him. She might not have had a problem with his dad, but she saw Nathaniel as a threat. She did not like him one bit, not anymore.
He sighed. “What is your problem with me, Ophelia?”
“Let me see. The last time I saw you, you told me you wanted me to be your luna when you took over running the pack. I declined, which you didn’t take very well. Besides, we both know you didn’t want me as your luna, you wanted to control me so I wouldn’t be a threat to your position, because you knew then and you know now that I could take it quite easily if I chose to. Since then, I haven’t seen you for what, fifty years? Tonight, you turned up at my club out of the blue, throwing your weight around and making threats about when your dad steps down. I can’t have that, Nathaniel.”
My wolf was growling at him. “That club is full of humans. If anyone loses control and shifts or hurts any of my patrons, they will get taken out by my security team. You’re lucky you got your shit together and I got you shipped off home before it really went sideways. If you pull that again, I will end up calling your father to tell him I’ve had to kill his son.”
I felt his wolf submit. My wolf was growling, showing her strength. She could not let this stand.
“Why don’t you want the position? You could take my father if you wanted to.”
I shrugged. “I’m happy where I am. However, I did make it very clear to your father when he took over the pack and I’ll make the same thing clear to you when you take over, if any of the wolves start coming to me with concerns about corruption or abuse from the incumbent alpha and luna, I will be forced to act. I have been the enforcer for nearly 250 years, and whilst I do the alpha’s dirty work, my true vow is to the pack, and they have to come first.”
“Now who is throwing their weight around?” Edward had appeared in the woods behind us. Nathaniel jumped up, his head bowing towards his father. “Nathaniel, go home.”
He scrambled off, metaphorical tail between his legs.
“It’s the same thing I said to you, Edward.”
“I remember, Ophelia. I hope it never comes to that.”
“Me too. I’ve had to do it once before, and I’d rather not have to do it again. The first time there was a strong beta ready to step up. I’m not so sure this is the case now.”
“My beta is still in training, Ophelia.”
“Well, fingers crossed I don’t need to follow up on that vow any time soon.”
“Luke, I know you’re there. Come sit down, I was just leaving.” Edward stood and turned away from the clearing. “You know you’re welcome here whenever you need to be, Ophelia. I just pray to the moon goddess that the circumstances are never bad.”
Luke sank down to the ground beside me. He’d shifted back at some point and was laying on the ground in all his naked glory.
Jeez what was wrong with me! I should not be noticing him this much. We’re wolves for fucks sake, nudity is just a fact of life. If you didn’t strip off, you shredded your clothes. When you shifted back, you’d be as naked as the day you were born.
I closed my eyes, relaxing under the moon.
“Ma’am, I…”
“Effie, please. At this point, call me Effie.”
I could hear the slight smile in his voice. “Ma… Effie, I wanted to apologise about what happened earlier, I don’t know…”
I opened my eyes. Apparently at some point he’d moved whilst I was focusing on the sound of the water and he was now leaning over me, hands on either side of my head.
His gaze dropped down to my mouth. “Can I…”
Before he could finish the sentence, I wound my fingers into his hair, pulling him down on top of me. He settled in between my legs, and crashed his mouth into mine, his hands sliding down my sides and around to squeeze my ass.
I instinctively lifted my hips, pressing us together, his erection pressing against my entrance.
I broke the kiss, tilting and lifting my hips to start guiding his tip inside me. He threw his head back, eyes closed, before giving in and pushing all the way inside me with punishing force. He didn’t move yet, just leaned over me trying to catch his breath, buried as deep inside me as he could be. I squirmed around him, having him this deep was enough to drive me crazy. “I won’t last if you do that, Effie,” he groaned into my ear.
“I don’t need you to,” I whispered, “I just need you to fuck me.”
He groaned, lifting up off me, holding his weight on his hands on either side of my head, the only part of our bodies still touching being his cock buried inside me.
“Please, Luke,” I begged. “Fuck me.” Why was I begging? I don’t beg anyone.
“As you command,” he whispered, pulling out of me until just the tip remained.
I moaned at the loss, I felt so empty.
Before I could think about taking back control, he thrust back inside me, hard, and deep, somehow even deeper than before. He stayed buried inside me again, for what felt like an eternity. “Luke…”
“Luke what?” He smirked. “I like it when you beg.”
“Fuck me, please.”
I cried out as he pulled back out again, this time leaving me completely empty. I couldn’t deal with this torture, I needed to take back control. Before I could flip him onto his back, he caught my wrists in his right hand and pinned them above my head. I struggled against him, but I didn’t really want him to stop. Which was new, I never had liked someone else taking charge.
“Luke, please…”
He smirked again, before leaning in and whispering in my ear. “And how precisely do you want me to fuck you?” He started circling his hips so I could feel him rubbing against me.
“I can’t think when you do that,” my voice breathless.
“I know,” he whispered, trailing his lips down my neck, over my collarbone and towards the top of my breasts. I took advantage of his temporary distraction to flip him onto his back.
Before he could try to stop me, I’d guided him back inside me, and was fucking him, hard, fast. He grabbed my hips to stop me moving, and my wolf whined in response. “I’m in charge this time, Effie,” he growled. He stood up with me in his arms, my legs around his waist and his cock still deep inside me. I tried to move against him as he walked, but he held my hips tight so I couldn’t move.
My nails dug into his neck. This was too much, I couldn’t take it anymore. Every muscle was tight waiting for release.
Before I could beg again, I ended up with my back against a tree. He leaned in, meeting me for a hard, aggressive kiss. He had finally started moving, his pace slow, gentle. “Please, faster,” I heard myself beg against his mouth.
He started to pick up speed, thrusting inside me again and again, building up to a punishing pace, never once faltering or losing his rhythm.
I was close. He groaned when he felt my muscles starting to spasm around him. His right hand snaked between us until he could reach my clit, rubbing hard circles around and around until I exploded around him, crying out my pleasure into the night sky.
Only then did he start to lose his rhythm, as he chased down his own release whilst my body still spasmed around him.
He found his release buried as deep inside me as he could be.
We fell to the ground at the base of the tree, still tangled together, with him still inside me.
Our breathing was still erratic when we heard footsteps.
Guess who was back again.
“What do you want, Nathaniel,” I groaned, burying my face in Luke’s neck.
“You.”
Luke tensed beneath me.
“Absolutely not. Go back to the pack house, Nathaniel, before you do something regrettable.”
“No. The full moon is just days away, your wolf is about to go into heat. She called out to me. You would be the perfect luna, we’d be unstoppable.”
“That’s nice. It’s still a no, Nathaniel.”
The following three days were uneventful. I didn’t skip meals, my wolf didn’t act out and I hadn’t needed to spend time alone with just Luke. I kept thinking about him and what we did, so it was probably for the best that we hadn’t been in a room alone.No matter what else I thought about or tried to do, I just couldn’t get the memory out of my mind. I ended up reliving it so many times a day that by the end of the Sunday, I was a horny mess.I spent Sunday night after the club closed hiding in my office, under the pretence of getting work done. I knew the only other person still working was Luke, the rest of the security and bar staff had left an hour ago.I hadn’t plucked up the courage to talk to him yet, and I really should.I yawned. Definitely time to call it a night. Even ultra-awesome succubus-werewolves need their beauty sleep. I giggled.Giggled… like a schoolgirl.Oh the full moon was very definitely starting to play havoc with my body and hormones. In less than 24 hours, t
His hands and mouth were everywhere.Kissing along the edge of my bra.Under my dress, his hands were fighting with the clasp.My body quivered and I moaned; he was driving me crazy. “Quiet,” he whispered in my ear, “we don’t want to be interrupted”.Under his hands, I was putty.As I thought I couldn’t take it, he dropped to his knees in front of me.The feeling of him settling in between my thighs was enough to send my body into a frenzy.I needed him, and I needed him now.The first kiss to the inside of my thigh was gentle, soft. The next was far from that. He held my legs as far apart as he could; punishingly wide. Before I could even think, his mouth was on me.He licked around my clit, the movement unforgiving. He licked up and down, again and again whilst I moaned above him, my hands tangled in his hair, nails scraping along his scalp. I cried out, seeing stars, as he thrust two fingers inside me, never once letting up the onslaught on my clit.Just before I could reach my c
Of course I felt something for him.How could I not feel something for him?I groaned, sinking back into my chair. We needed to head to the club to get going on the day’s to-do list, but I could tell work was the furthest thing from Luke’s mind. To be fair, it wasn’t particularly high up my priority list either.The delicious man in front of me, however, that was a different story entirely.Before I even knew what was happening, he ended up on his knees in front of me, hands still cupping my face. He leaned in, lips brushing against mine in the chastest of kisses. I don’t do chaste.I wove my fingers into his hair, pulling him in for a deeper, harder kiss. He groaned against me, his hands sliding down my sides, fingers digging into my hips.Breaking the kiss, I stood, taking his hand and leading him towards my bedroom. I have to say, it’s nice having an actual bed this time.Immediately after stepping foot in my bedroom, I turned to face him, undoing the buttons of my blouse, pushing
Luke had tried to get in my pants another three times before we made it to the club, including once in his car, which made us even later.By the time we did eventually get there, the rest of the team were waiting outside the doors for us to open up. The two keyholders ending up late because they were too busy screwing each other isn’t really an ideal situation, or one that I particularly wanted to explain…Fortunately, no one questioned it. They possibly didn’t want to know either. A lot of the team was supernatural in one way or another, so a good chunk of them probably would recognise the smell of sex.Oops.Tonight’s team was on it, they were prepped and ready to go for opening time, even though Luke and I were nearly an hour late.The club was roaring within ten minutes of the doors opening. Mondays were a strange night. Once upon a time, they were deathly quiet. Then we launched the Monday night shots specials, and suddenly they were as busy as most other days. It was mainly stu
Nathaniel was still sitting across from me in my office sipping another whiskey and I was halfway through my third mojito when Edward called.“Ed, what can I do for you at this late hour?”“My apologies, Ophelia, I’m sure you’re busy, but I have some concerns about something going on in my territory.”I held my finger up to my lips, telling Nathaniel not to say anything. I needed to hear where this was going to go.“Carry on,” I replied.“There seems to be a couple rogue wolves that have been hanging around, we’re concerned that they may pose a threat.”“What kind of threat?”“They’ve been loitering predominantly around my house and Nathaniel’s house, I’m concerned someone is planning a takeover.”“Ed, you know I can’t get involved with any challenge attempts. Has anyone threatened you, your son or anyone else?”The door opened. Luke was back, finally. I gave him a small smile, before turning my attention back to Ed.“No, but rogues are always a concern.”“They should be, yes. Have th
We parked a mile away from the location of the sighting. We’d go the rest of the way on foot, the cars are too obvious. On foot, we could all slip through the trees, and hopefully not draw too much attention to ourselves.Hopefully being the operant word.“Alpha, in position,” I called over the radio.“Beta, ready to go,” came Luke’s voice over the radio.Once teams Charlie and Delta called in, we all got going.“Call in any trouble, people. We need to keep this tidy and above board. Beta, please be subtle, there are probably civilians on the beach, even at this time of night.”“Always, alpha one.” I stifled a chuckle. Luke wouldn’t recognise subtlety if it bit him on the backside.My team fell into step behind me, fanned out, ready to go at a moment’s notice.We moved through the woods, over tree roots, around bushes and under branches. The woods were cold, misty, and visibility wasn’t very good. Not the best conditions for this kind of trip.The full moon added a whole new layer of
The rest of the team finally caught up and I’d changed back into my own clothes. Fingers crossed I wouldn't need to shift quickly, I liked these leggings. I also would rather not rip another holster, but that’s just inconvenient. Maybe I should just start stocking spares.Fortunately, I had my radio and earpiece back now. I should really commission something custom so I had access to it even in wolf form… but that’s a problem for another day.Rather than filling Nathaniel’s house with all 28 of us, I sent Beta, Charlie and Delta (excluding Luke) off to carry on searching the woods for any hint as to what was going on. The rest of Alpha was close by, hiding in the trees. Fives, Luke and I sat down in Nathaniel’s living room.“So,” I said, voice firm. “We know there are at least thirty, if not more, and there’s something or someone very old and powerful with them. Would you agree, Fives?”He nodded. “The air is thick with it.”“What else do we know?”“Ma’am, one of the scents we found e
“FUCK!” I kicked the wall on the way into HQ. Possibly broke a couple toes, but that’s an inconsequential detail, it’d heal within a matter of minutes.“Ma’am, are you okay?” Luke asked, hanging behind me, ever the diligent shadow.“I swore to take care of those people, Luke. A long time ago, before many of them were actually born. I protected their parents and some of their grandparents, and I’m going to continue to do so. Right now, I’m just not sure how.”I sighed. “Let’s just debrief, try to work out what we’re dealing with, and go home for the night.”The leaders had already debriefed their individual teams and sent them home for the night. Just Luke, Julienne, and Grayson remained. “Right,” I said, leaning on the table in the middle of the room, my head tilted down. “What do we know?”“We know Edward was with the rogues and likely Maximillian at the beach, and that there are a minimum of 30 wolves, plus Maximillian.”I nodded to Luke. “Julienne, did Charlie find anything?”“The