Bear Lake- Book Four (8 page)

A
heartbeat later and the door was being wrenched open. Janice’s eyes were still fuzzy,
but she could still make Marcus out as he leaned in over her and snapped off
her seatbelt.

Then he
was pulling her from the car, crushing her against his chest, with those big
old arms wrapped around her body, and he felt like home again.

“I’m
sorry, I’m sorry, baby….” Marcus growled out in condemnation of his actions.

“Marcus…”
She didn’t understand. This was her stupid, not his…

“I
shouldn’t have taken you. I shouldn’t have loved you…” He wasn’t making any
sense.

Her
emotions were rolling in waves. She felt bereft, drowning alone in the sea of
her misery, and yet she felt loved, safe in his arms.

“I’m
sorry. I don’t know why I’m…” She shook her head against his chest.

“You’re
my mate, sweetheart…” His growled words echoed within her mind.

She’d
read up on it, on shifters, on mates once she’d seen Alex in her office. Mates
were forever. Mates were undeniable… he’d denied her…

What
the hell was happening?

“I
should never have touched you and it wouldn’t have felt so bad for you. I
didn’t know you’d react like this…” Marcus was berating himself as much as
explaining it to her.

“You
sent me away…” She forced the palm of her hands against his chest and pushed
back to look up at him. Confusion clawed at her.

“I
didn’t want to fuck up your life; being stuck with a damn shifter bear…” He
screwed up his face and shook his head on his neck.

“That
wasn’t your choice to make…” She accused. She scowled, she twisted her body in
his arms and pushed against him with everything that she had, but still it
wasn’t enough. His arms were locked around her and he wasn’t letting go, not
this time.

“I get
that…” Marcus nodded.

“How
fucking dare you…” She hissed out as the pure anger rushed through her and she
drew her hand back and slapped him hard across the face.

His
bear roared within him. Pushed forward to be set free. And he growled at the
anger and the pain that his mate had inflicted on him.

It
wasn’t as if she had the weight of one of his clan brother’s behind her touch,
but it was his mate… the woman that had surrendered to him so damn sweetly last
night, and he felt her anger like a stab in the heart.

“Calm
the fuck down before you provoke my bear…” Marcus growled the warning, but she
was already fighting in his arms to be set free, and his little doctor was a
damned wildcat when she wanted to be.

Marcus
grunted as he turned her in his arms and locked her arms down at her sides, her
back to his chest, to try to keep her calm, keep his bear calm. She back heeled
him right down the chin and his bear roared once more. His breath caressed her
ear…

“Don’t
fucking move a muscle or so help me God you will be dealing with two ton of
pissed off grizzly bear…” Marcus growled long and hard, but she kept on
squirming- right up to the point where he wrenched her jacket away from her
shoulder and bit down on her flesh with his blunt teeth…

She
melted against him. Every last inch of her body went almost limp. He caught his
breathing and calmed his bear- the beast now happy that she was once again
surrendering to his will…

“Marcus…”
She whispered his name and he released his teeth, turning her back in his arms
and fisting her hair to bring her head back and her lips where he could taste
them.

He
kissed her long and hard. Backing her body up against her car and bringing her
legs around his hips as he rocked his hard length against her sex.

He
wanted her, wanted to be back inside of her again, but not like this… Not here…

He
broke away from her lips and buried his face between her shoulder and her neck.
Growling, grunting with desire and need for her, pressing against the sensitive
swollen clit buried under too many clothes.

“I hate
you…” She breathed as her head went back against the roof of the car and he
took to running his tongue and his teeth against her neck.

“Yeah,
I know, but you fucking want me, baby. Every inch of you. Mind, body, and
soul.” He growled against her lips, pressing his cock harder against her clit
and making her bite down on her bottom lip.

“Inside
me, I want you inside me…”

“No
way. I’m not getting you naked out here, not like this…” Marcus wanted to shoot
his load inside of his damn jeans just from dry fucking her, but he held on,
rubbing the hell out of her until she cried out with the orgasm that took her,
and then he swept her up into his arms and carried her back to his truck,
gently depositing her in the passenger seat.

~^~

“Marcus
is back.” Jackson growled. He hated that the big man was risking his life in
denying his mate the way that he was.

He
taken her the night before, they’d all heard it, over and over, and even this
morning… Then he’d come out of his cabin with her and they’d walked to his
truck, their body language telling him everything that he needed to know…

“I’m
gonna give that big bloody bear a piece of my mind…” Alex started to push up
from the sofa. When she saw Jackson’s head snap forward and almost hit the
window.

“What
the…? Fuck me.”

“Love
too…” Alex beamed him a grin as his eyes snapped towards hers and he growled
out a warning.

“They’re
back.”

“As in
Marcus and the doctor?” Alex twisted her head on her neck and grinned. That was
the best news she’d had in ages.

“Yep…”
Jackson pushed away from the window and stalked across the room towards her. He
leant in and placed a hand on the back of her seat, caging her in.

“What?”
She frowned at the look in his eye.

“Don’t
you damn well tease me with that mouth of yours. No sex, at least- not for a
while til the doc says we can…” Jackson scolded her.

“She
didn’t say we couldn’t.” Alex huffed. “Now get out the damned way I want to see
what’s going on.”

“Damned
curtain twitcher.” He growled, but he pulled back and scooped her up into his
arms, carrying her to the window where they both practically had their
foreheads pressed against the glass.

“Well,
would you look at that…” Alex chuckled at the sight of Marcus reaching in and
lifting his mate out of the truck. He tossed her up and over his broad shoulder,
and stalked towards his cabin.

“Why’s
she just swinging there at his back like that?”

“One
guess and it involves a lot of heavy breathing and fireworks.” She sniggered.
Jackson grinned.

“Good
for Marcus…” He would have slapped the man on the back if he’d been able.

“What’s
good for the goose…” Alex offered with a hopeful grin and Jackson growled in
mock annoyance.

“No.”
He snapped like she was a naughty dog. “When doc says and not before…”

Alex
sighed. She was sure that all around her mates were mating, and she huffed in
annoyance. She liked mating with Jackson… loved it, needed it to scratch that
itch of being in his company.

It
better had be a matter of damn hours and not weeks or months before the doc
said that she could- or this cub was gonna pay for it when he was a man. She’d
make sure he didn’t know what an unattached female was until he was thirty.

The
fire pit was stoked and the steaks were sizzling. Marcus kept going on about
needing to eat his fill to replace his lost energy, and his mate sat on his lap
and elbowed him every time. But his deep chuckle was his only answer. That and
burying his face between her neck and shoulder and doing something wicked that
made her squirm.

“Stop…”
She chuckled and elbowed him in the ribs again.

“You
sure, cos I get the distinct feeling by the way your backside’s squirming
against me that you want me to keep going?” He teased.

“Not
here you big dope.” She chuckled and found herself draped over his shoulder in
a heartbeat.

“Yours
to command…” Marcus tossed over his shoulder as he started back towards their
cabin. She squealed excitedly. Alex frowned- more sex- lucky her…

“Doc!”
Alex called and Janice lifted her head as Marcus slowed.

“Yeah?”

“When
can Jackson and I have sex again?” Alex almost sounded as if she was begging.
Some of the others sniggered. Jackson groaned.

“No
more blood?”

“Nope.”

“Then
it’s all good, just go easy…” Janice squealed out again as Marcus spun her
around and down into his arms.

“Thanks
doc!” Alex grinned at her mate and Jackson squirmed uncomfortably on the log.

“Alex…”
He growled.

“Don’t
Alex
me.” She mocked his tone of voice and he grunted. “Get in that cabin and
get naked.” She demanded and he raised his eyebrows high onto his forehead. He
didn’t move one muscle.

“You
know I’m not a lump of performing meat…” He growled. She leaned towards him and
whispered against his ear.

“If you
get in that cabin and get naked- I swear I’ll give you the best blow job that
you’ve ever had in your entire life…” She pulled back and gave him a wicked
grin.

He
growled long and hard as his cock lengthened. He hadn’t even stroked himself
off in solidarity with her plight for days…

“Damn,
Alex…” He pressed his forehead to hers.

“Then
I’ll tie you down to the damn bed and ride you, only taking as much as I can
handle…” She had a wicked look in her eyes.

That
was enough for him. He’d die before he hurt her again. Before he hurt the cub,
but the doctor had said it was ok, and he wasn’t gonna let her go mad and ride
him like the wildcat that he knew her to be.

He
pushed up to his feet and stalked away. The others chuckled some more.

“I
guess she’s staying…” Chance frowned off into the distance as the door closed
at Marcus’s cabin. There was an emptiness inside of him that he couldn’t deny
any longer.

All of
his clan were mated and Jackson was expecting a cub… It was time he left.

“Your
time will come soon…” Alex offered him comfort but he pushed it aside.

“Never
going to happen, Alex. I’m not good mate material.” Chance pushed up to his
feet and thrust his hands deep into the pockets of his jeans. It was getting
harder each day to control the bear within…

“Bullshit…”
Alex called him on it. Sure, Chance had his problems and he was the most
troubled of the clan, but deep down he was a damned good man.

“Haven’t
you got a mate waiting for you?” Chance asked with a nod of his head towards
where Jackson was disappearing into their cabin.

“You
ok, Chance?” Alex asked as she got to her feet.

“I’m
fine.” He said.

How she
hated that word. Fine. She’d been fine a lot in her past and it never ended
well- until she met Jackson and the clan.

“If you
need to talk…”

“It’s
fine. Jackson’s waiting.” Chance turned on his heels and skulked away from the
gathering. He preferred to be alone. She just hoped that he wasn’t alone for
the rest of his life.

“You
guys need to get him out there and laid.” She scowled in turn between Shane and
Reece.

“Like
that’s gonna happen, Alex.” Reece scoffed.

“You
know what he’s like.” Shane shrugged his shoulders.

“Fine.
We’ll get him laid…” Alex motioned to the females of the group.

“Sounds
like a plan.” Suzanna nodded.

“Count
me in.” Lucy agreed.

“Right
now, I need to get laid.” Alex groaned as she promptly turned on her heels and
stalked away.

Reece
wrapped a hand around Suzanna’s waist and pulled her onto his lap. He nuzzled
her neck and took her scent.

“All
this talk of getting laid…” Reece offered.

“Yeah,
me too…” Suzanna rushed back, not even letting him finish his sentence.

“How
about you, sweetheart? You wanna be bounced up and down on my cock a while?”
Shane chuckled as his mate considered it.

“Nah…”
She shrugged her shoulders and Shane deflated. “But we could get all bear and
go and fuck in the woods.” She growled at him possessively and his ears pricked
up along with his cock.

“You
say the sweetest things.” Shane went to reach for her but she was already up
and running for the trees.

He was
hot on her heels when she seamlessly shifted into her bear and kept going. He
growled long and hard as he let his bear burst from within him. There was gonna
be a lot of mating going on tonight.

~^~

Marcus
liked to mate, but what he liked just as much was having Janice in his arms for
their post mating cuddle. He’d never considered himself the kind of guy who
cuddled until her. Now he wanted nothing less every time he was close to her.

“I
can’t ask you to move in here with me and Fuzz…” Marcus broached the subject
that they had only briefly touched on after screwing like damned rabbits
earlier in the day.

“Because
I’m a doctor, right?” She teased him.

Everything
that he’d told her, every reason that he’d given her for the way he’d acted
towards their mating came down to one thing. Marcus felt that she was too good
for him because she was a damned doctor.

“Exactly.”
He frowned hard.

“Marcus,
you need to get over this hang up that you’ve got about what I do for a damn
living.”

“I’m
trying…” He admitted with a shake of his head.

“I take
your dick like a regular female…” He scowled.

“You
got a potty mouth…”

“I got
a potty mouth like a regular female.” She teased back. He growled. She turned
towards him in the bed and fisted her hand around his hard shaft. Damn, he was
ready to go again- already. That made her very happy…

“I suck
your cock like a regular female…”

“No
baby, you don’t. Nobody has ever sucked my cock like you, or come around it
like you, or taken it deep and hard the way you do…”

“Sure?”
She stroked down his length and he growled.

“Damn
certain…” He growled. Even the way she touched him was different to anything
he’d ever felt before. “You let me be myself…”

“Then
let me be myself. Not the doctor. Your mate.” She ran her tongue against his
chest, moved lower in the bed. He growled at the sight of her disappearing
beneath the covers. Then he felt her lips wrap around his cock and his head
went back against the pillow as she loved him.

“You
can be whoever the hell you want, baby. Just as long as your mine.” He growled.

“Good,
then I’m staying right here…” She breathed out quickly and went back down on
him.

“Oh,
yeah… right there, baby. Right there…” Marcus was in heaven.

The
End.