Fierce (Wolf Ranch 5)

“You will?” Levi’s choked response made my heart sing. His eyes were watery, his smile soft, his touch gentle, his voice full of awe.

I nodded. “I will. If you meant it about Pops coming, too. He’s non-negotiable.”

“Of course, he’ll come,” Levi said instantly, without a moment’s consideration. “You can set up a practice out there. Or stay at home and raise our pups. Whatever you want to do.”

“Pups. You mean Shadow’s puppies?”

He laughed. “No, our kids. We call babies pups.”

“Pups.” I repeated in awe. We would have shifter children. Or at least, mixed-species, like him. I was going to join a wolf pack.

This was definitely crazy.

And definitely the best thing that had ever happened to me.

Levi gripped my hips and pulled me over his bulging erection. “You keep wiggling on my lap like this, and I’m gonna put you in that stupid rental card and drive you straight back to Montana to start on those pups right now.”

I smiled, instantly eager to start, or at least to practice. “I have a bedroom here.”

I shrieked as I found myself being hoisted into the air. Levi somehow managed to stand up and keep me wrapped around his waist, and he refused to put me down, carrying me down the block back to my house.

I unlocked the door from my perch, and he carried me inside, following my directions to my bedroom. I toed off my shoes the moment we stepped inside.

“Don’t think I’m not going to spank that ass of yours for leaving Montana without a word to me,” he said when he dropped me on the bed and rolled me to my belly. He gave my butt a firm smack that still stung even through my jeans.

I sat up to face him. “I’m sorry about that. I really am. Dax called from my house to tell me I’d better get him the drugs or he’d hurt Pops. I just loaded up Seraphina and left.”

His expression grew sober. “Fuck, Charlie. I wish I’d known. I wish I could kill him all over again.”

“You can get past it? What I did?” My eyes burned. We’d talked about the elephant in the room. No, the wolf in the room, but not my illegal activities. “I mean with the ketamine? I broke the law.”

“I’m past it,” he promised. “I understand what he was doing to you. How you had no choice. I understand how you got blackmailed into it. It’s over now.”

“Promise?” I gripped his shirt and pulled him down on top of me.

“I promise,” he said. His eyes took on an amber glow.

31

LEVI

I’d found Charlie magnetic before but nothing compared to being with her now that my wolf had come out. That it seemed that every secret we’d kept was now revealed. That there was nothing between us but the clothes on our bodies. I could barely hold back. I claimed her mouth like my life depended on it, grinding the bulge of my erection in the notch between her legs.

She moaned and clung to me, her short nails piercing my skin as she yanked me closer, undulated against me. Yeah, she was right there with me. I ripped open her blouse, sending the buttons scattering across the room.

“Levi!” she cried, but I didn’t hear fear. Only surprise. Eagerness.

With one hand, I reached behind her to unhook her bra, humming softly when her pert brown nipples came into my sightline. “Fucking perfect,” I announced, already moving to the button on her pants. I needed her naked. Stat.

I pulled off her jeans and panties all in one go, Charlie shifting and lifting her hips to help. My nostrils flared as I took in her cinnamon and sugar scent. My beautiful mate.

Mine. Fuck, the full scent of her, recognizing it and her as fully mine.

I stripped out of my clothes and climbed over her, trailing the tip of my tongue from her belly button to her breastbone.

I flicked my tongue over one taut nipple then the other.

“Levi.” She pulled me down on top of her again, and we both gasped when my cock pushed against her sopping entrance. This was going to be a quickie. We were both frantic. Both needing to be as close to the other as possible.

“Is it okay if I go bareback?” I rasped, barely able to put words together. “Shifters are free of STDs, and I really want to take my chances on knocking you up.” Besides, I hadn’t packed any condoms. Unless she had a stash somewhere, that was the only option to get in her.

She only hesitated a moment, which didn’t offend me. My mate was a thinker. Then she nodded. “I’m on the pill, so it probably won’t happen.”

If she wasn’t ready for pups now, I’d respect that. Hell, we’d have tons of fun just practicing. But if she did want them soon, I’d help her flush those suckers down the toilet.