Like a Fox, Ridgeville Book 7 (4 page)

“Look at all those muscles. Elise, you never
said he was hiding all that yummy.” He rolled his eyes at Maddy’s
words. The woman had broken out of her shell and then stomped on
the thing.

“Dude. That’s gross.” His sister wrinkled her
nose.

“Will
somebody
tell me why we’re
yelling?” The little squirrel, Elly, sure could scream. But, she
got ’em quiet. Thank God.

The scent of his mate reached him before her
delicate hand slid around his waist. She pressed her body against
his, slinking beneath his arm so it was draped over her shoulders,
the smooth fabric of one of his shirts sliding against his
palm.

Only problem was that her appearance started
them all again.

“You can’t
leave
! It’s an evil place,
I tell ya.
Evil
. Ricker tried to do that with Maddy and she
bit him.” Maya snapped her teeth. “Well, I think she did. If she
didn’t, she should have!”

“It’s the foxiness, isn’t it? It’s just like
a fox to be all…foxy.” Now Carly clicked her little rabbit teeth at
him.

“Hey, Gina, how’s the lickin’?” Maddy’s
comment had his mate hissing and then it was quiet.

Utterly silent.

“Madison?” Gina spoke through her teeth and
his cock twitched in his jeans, perking up at his mate’s anger. He
couldn’t help it. He was twisted that way.

“Uh-huh?”

“Zip it.” His mate snapped the words then
took a deep breath. A soft shudder went through her, a slight flex
of her muscles, and then she calmed. “Now, what’s the number one
reason y’all don’t want me to leave?” They all opened their mouths,
and Gina held up a finger. “A real reason, not just a ‘because I
said so’.”

Four mouths snapped shut and then Maya spoke.
“Because I’m the Queen of Booblandia?”

Gina growled. Really. His cock went hard.
Right there. Six to midnight in an instant.

“No, you used to be, but the twins aren’t
nursing anymore. They’re coming up on
two
. Try again.” She
took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“Fine.” Maya glared at him and then turned
her attention to Gina. “Because, I might, you know… Maybe. Could
be.” The lioness looked at the sky. “Did you know there’s a chance
of sun showers? And what’s with the weathermen being wrong all the
time? And is it weatherwoman or weatherlady?” Gavin should have
remembered that Maya tended to babble about nothing before she got
to the point. “And, hey,” the next words were whispered. “I’ll miss
you.”

“Aw, you know she’s a bitch when she’s sad.
You can’t do that to us.”

“Seriously.”

“Not enough ice cream in the world to fix
it.”

The women all spoke on top of each other, and
he had a hard time figuring out who said what. But, the bottom line
was: the Prima would be upset.

Gina turned her attention to him, a hint of
tears shining in her eyes and his heart melted. Their move would
tear her from her home, from her friends and family. He could see
the unasked question, recognized her silent begging, and he
relented, willing to do anything to keep her happy. Even invite
half the town to come to Chicago to visit.

“Okay, no more than four of you at a time,
and the twins count as two regardless of whether the airlines
charge you for their seats or not. Honestly, I should count them as
three since they destroy damn near everything.”

Maya glared at him for a moment, but he stood
fast. His fox couldn’t stand against a lion when shifted, but
human-shaped Gavin could take the tiny female. Maybe.

Finally, Maya nodded and stepped forward to
brush a kiss across his cheek. His mate hissed and snapped at the
woman, and then the ladies were gone. All of them tromping back the
way they’d come.

“Did you see that? It’s just like a fox. He
hypnotized her with all that foxiness.”

“Carly, do you even know what you’re talking
about?” He could hear the frustration in his sister’s voice.

There was a slight pause, “Not really,
no.”

Unwilling to listen to any more of the
women’s banter, he pushed the door closed and leaned against it
while staring at his mate. His gorgeous, beautiful,
too-good-for-him mate.

“C’mere.” He opened his arms and she stepped
forward, falling into his embrace. “I suppose you’re gonna miss
them.”

“Yup.”

“And we’ll end up with more than four at a
time?”

She nodded, a grin playing on those
freshly-kissed lips. “Probably.”

Gavin growled and nipped her nose. “Fine. But
right now, I’m gonna drag you back into that room. We can deal with
the rest tomorrow.”

He slipped past her, snagging her hand as he
brushed by her seductively lush body, and tugged her toward the
bedroom. More importantly, the bed.

Gina pulled her hand from his grip. He heard
two heavy stomps, and then she was on his back, thighs wrapped
around his waist and hands clutching his shoulders. She nibbled his
earlobe and whispered to him, heated breath fanning his ear. “You
gonna be all foxy? Like a fox with the foxiness?”

The happiness and pure joy were evident in
her words, and he couldn’t wait to spend the rest of his life mated
to her. “Yeah, baby. Just like that.”

Forever and ever, like that.

The End

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