“I don’t think we’re losing anything,” East says, looking at me with a hunger I hadn’t seen before. A hunger that sparks a need in my belly. Waking something that has been dormant for all my life.
“No?” I ask, suddenly wondering if I’d read them all wrong. Silently hoping I hadn’t.
He shakes his head. “No, Remedy, tonight, we get you.”
Chapter 6
East
Her eyes rake over us, but she doesn’t pull back or step away. No. She wants this.
“You ready?” I ask, having waited for this moment for years.
“You really want to have a foursome? I mean…” Remedy runs a hand over her bandaged arm. “Look, I know I put on this brave face but…”
“But this is all new territory?”
“Yeah,” she says, pushing back the hair that’s falling in her face. With the red strands away from her eyes, I’m taken aback by her beauty. By her pink lips, the full curve of her breasts, her dark eyes. Eyes that have seen a hell of a lot. “I don’t want to fuck it up, you know; embarrass myself?”
“Do you always say what’s on your mind?”
She snorts. “Yeah, and it usually gets me in trouble.”
I step closer, wrapping my arms around her waist. River and Callum stand back, giving us space. I’ve known them my entire life, and we’ve talked about being in a group relationship before. The way our pack leader runs things doesn’t sit well with us. Women aren’t seen as equals to them, they are treated as objects and slaves.
We want more.
We’ve all seen shitty things happen to those we love. Both my mom and Callum’s were ruined by their husbands—our fathers. And River’s sister, Becca, was given to a mate that forced her to become a shell of the girl she once was. We knew a few years ago when we left the pack, that if we were going to do something different, hold out for our one true mate, we would share her. Lavish on her all the love we know she deserves. But we knew we couldn’t do it alone. We may be animals, but we aren’t lone wolves. We run as a pack.
“I don’t want to embarrass myself either,” I tell her, her chest pressed against mine. “I plan on letting my animal instincts take over. Does that scare you?”
She dips her chin but raises her eyes. “It doesn’t scare me. I like it. The idea of this being about primal desire not, you know, anything else.”
I give her a crooked smile. “Like feelings?”
“Exactly. When my emotions get involved things tend to get a little unbalanced.”
“So tonight, we are leading with our bodies.” My cock is eager and ready.
She nods, her breathing shallow, her heart pounding. “Exactly.”
Then I kiss her, unable to hold back and knowing she doesn’t want me to. I’ve never kissed a woman, always waited for the woman whose scent called to me.
I’m fucking glad I held out. Remedy’s mouth presses against mine, her lips parting, and she lifts her hands, her fingers threading through my hair. With a hand on the base of her neck, I draw her nearer still, wanting her hips lined up with mine, wanting her tits against me, inhaling her beauty and memorizing her smell—knowing I’ll never forget this kiss.
We’re panting, hot, and losing control.
All from one fucking kiss.
She steps away, practically pushing away from my arms. She presses her fingertips to her swollen lips. Her eyes are written with a story I can’t begin to understand.
“Holy shit,” she whispers. “What are you?”
My brow creases. “What do you mean?”
“That wasn’t a kiss.”
I cock my head to the side, fully aware that River and Callum are watching, craving her mouth as much as I am. “What was it then?”
“It was…” She drops her hand. “I don’t know. It was… like… really intense.”
“In a bad way?”
She traces her lips with a finger, slowly shaking her head. “No. It was amazing.”
A grin spreads across my face, relief flooding my veins. Callum steps forward. “In that case, let’s see if my mouth possesses the same power.”
He takes her in his arms and kisses her hard. A gasp escapes her, and she runs her hands over his back, as Callum massages one of her tits. Her body melts against his, and they kiss with fervor, like they can’t stop. Passion enveloping them as they devour one another.
Watching them is strange, but also fucking erotic. I love the idea of Remedy feeling so wanted. And she is. We trailed her scent for miles knowing she was the one we wanted; the one we’d been waiting for.
And now here she is, eyes closed and mouth open, and fuck, my cock is as hard as a rock just watching the way she’s enjoying herself.
River steps forward, and Callum, though I know it kills the cocky fucker to step away, lets River take over.
And suddenly the mood shifts, no longer frenzied kisses—with Remedy in River’s arms, the moment slows, the desire growing into something more than heat. It becomes a stocked fire, ready and pulsing.
In River’s arms, he unclasps her bra, tossing it to the floor, his mouth moving from her lips, lower. To her collar, her breastbone, her nipples.
In a fluid motion, we begin to undress. Remedy doesn’t have to fumble with her clothes because River is on his knees, unbuttoning her jeans slowly, teasing them over her hips and looking up at her, as if silently asking if this is okay.
She nods. “I want this. I don’t want to be alone.”
River stops undressing her. “Remedy, we don’t have to sleep together in order for you to feel safe, you know that, right? You can slip under the blankets and we can go outside, keeping watch all night.”
“No,” she says loudly. “It’s more than not wanting to be alone. I want to be held and touched and… I want this.”
River presses his lips to Remedy’s bare belly, arms around her narrow waist. “Good, because, Rem, I want this too.”
Maybe it’s the way he shortened her name, the intimate way that he held her, or the growing desire between all four of us—whatever it is, it's clear the evening has turned from excitement to something more.
River has helped her out of her jeans, and she stands in nothing but a pair of panties.
“You’re all overdressed,” she says with a smile playing on her lips. I can already tell that her smiles are few and far between, I can sense that when she offers one that it is something precious, something to hold onto.
“We can fix that,” I tell her, taking off my pants, my boxers. This is all new territory for us, but I’m not going to let fear drive me now. It never has before.
Her eyes widen as she takes me in. I may be a wolf, but right now I am nine inches of man.
Chapter 7
Remedy
I’ve kissed a few guys before—but not much else. I didn’t have time for guys when I was trying to keep my life in one piece.
So, I know what a kiss feels like.
Or at least I thought I did. Turns out kissing a wolf shifter is not the same as kissing a man.
Because they don’t kiss. They devour. They inhale. They use all their senses.
And holy shit, it feels good.
More than good… it feels like a part of me has been sleeping for twenty-one years and just now woke up. It feels like everything I thought about sex was a stupid school-girl notion.