Newmar, Lola - Unzipping Levi [Scarlett Rose and the Seven Longhorns 4](Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever) (5 page)

“I’m not sure. It’s like I can feel not just every part of your body, but your mind, as well. Your thoughts, your disappointments, your passion, it all comes right through when we make love.”

Levi leaned in, his sexy, masculine scent invading her senses even in sadness, and kissed her as he grazed her cheek with his rough knuckles. Every time he touched her, he made her feel so delicate and feminine. “You’ll never be alone anymore, darlin’. For as long as my brothers and I are alive, you never have to worry about that. It seems like I love you the more I get to know you, and putting together all these clues and pieces of the puzzle that is your life is all a part of that.”

“I know,” she replied, nodding. “It’s just all such an inconvenience. I just wish we all could have met under much easier circumstances.”

“Darlin’, nothing in this world worth having is going to be easy, no matter what kind of luck you have. Sometimes things just happen to test our strength. And believe me, honey. We all think you’re doing great, and you’ve been handling all this adversity so well. It will all be over soon.”

It made sense that her father wasn’t always there during her childhood. With her mother gone and her father being the CEO of a major Dallas publicity agency, it shouldn’t have surprised her that she’d lived a lonely existence her whole life. But she had no idea she was such an outsider growing up, away from other children and without any siblings as far as she knew. Suddenly, putting the pieces of her life together wasn’t as satisfying as she’d hoped.

“I need to figure out why all this is happening, Levi. This woman has to be stopped. I’m still trying to figure out my relationship with my father, but whatever it is, I still have a gut feeling that I need to protect him. If she’s trying to kill me, she’s obviously capable of anything, including murdering my father.”

Levi caressed her left breast then dropped his hand to her knee. “Don’t worry, baby. We’ll stop her. Everything will be straightened out, and we can finally start living like normal people, a normal family.” Then he paused. “Well, you know what I mean,” he continued, “as normal as shape-shifting longhorns can be, at least.”

Scarlett couldn’t help but laugh at that statement. It felt good to laugh when she felt so sad inside at the idea of how she must have lived before she met her longhorn mates.

“It’s going to happen, you know,” he stated in a more serious tone. “I can imagine that sometimes our situation seems so impossible, but whatever is meant to happen is going to happen. And we’re meant to be, Scarlett. All eight of us. And before you know it, we’re going to have little munchkins running around like wildfire. And they’ll have your dark hair.”

“And they’ll have your tan!”

“No way! I love your skin color.”

“Ew! I’m so pale,” she said, wrinkling her nose. “You and your brothers all look like Greek gods, and I’m over here looking like I may have died and come back to life at the bottom of that cliff.”

He laughed and kissed her softly. “You just don’t see what I see, I guess. Look at you. You’re as radiant as ever.” He ran his fingertips lightly along the sensitive inner part of her forearm. “Like a little porcelain doll,” he murmured. “Although you’re anything but breakable.”

She giggled. “I think surviving a cliff fall then losing my virginity to seven men has proven how much of an understatement that is.”

He laughed, laying his head down on her stomach as he look up at her. As he stared at her face, he grew quiet for a moment, seeming to be deep in thought, before he continued to speak. “You do trust us, don’t you, Scarlett?”

“Would I still be here if I didn’t?” she pointed out as she combed her fingers through his blond waves. “I would have left the moment y’all had found me if I didn’t trust you. But I believed everything y’all told me. My gut feeling told me it was all right to do so, and at that point, that was really the only thing I had going for me.”

He released a deep sigh before cupping her face with his rough palm. “One day very soon, it will all be okay. You’ll be happy. I promise you, darlin’.”

“Oh, Levi, don’t you realize that even amidst all this violence and chaos, I’m already the happiest girl in Texas?”

She pushed herself up to straddle his narrow hips then leaned down to kiss him. His cock hardened under her pussy as he held her close, his warm, hard body reigniting the flame that had never really extinguished since the moment she saw him through the shower window. He held her tight as he rolled her body in the grass until he lay atop of her. Then his hard cock slowly slipped inside her wet pussy. At least this part of being mated to shape-shifters would always be easy.

Chapter 4

Levi’s mind spun with dream versus reality, warmth versus coolness as his consciousness slowly slipped away from sleep. Any moment now, and he would wake up next to his warm, beautiful mate under his arm as they reclined back on his La-Z-Boy in his big front room, right in front of the open window facing the front of the ranch.

But when the
hell
did lame-ass bird watching become an official televised sport? First cheerleading, now this?
Blasphemy!

It took Levi several seconds to realize the annoying sound of birds chirping, disturbing his slumber, wasn’t actually coming from the television set in the house. A soft bundle warmed his right shoulder, arm, and side, and it sure smelled good, too. Opening one eye, he realized he and Scarlett had fallen asleep in the hammock behind their house. She lay cuddled to his body, still sleeping peacefully.

His eyes roamed over her luscious, naked little body, so perfect in every way. A protective rush came over him when he noticed the faint goose bumps adorning her precious porcelain skin, but then he realized that covering up such art wasn’t worth getting rid of that feeling. He was thankful he had chosen to set up the hammock under a large tree. Otherwise, that creamy skin would likely be tainted in the bright sun.

A fun little challenge suddenly came to mind and made him smile. He carefully shifted his senses a little to get a better look down at her and dared himself to even
try
to find the slightest flaw on his gorgeous, raven-haired mate. After several long minutes, he finally spotted a tiny, light-brown mole just to the left of her cute belly button, which he’d never noticed before. Oh, how hideous, he mused to himself.

Just then, Scarlett’s eyes fluttered open, for a moment looking a little confused until she realized where they were. “We fell asleep.” Her voice was low and sexy with sleep, and the sound alone made the blood rush from his head straight down to his cock.

“You tend to wear a man out, darlin’,” he said then kissed her softly on her full, ripe lips as she giggled.

“Try stepping into
my
shoes, and then we can talk exhaustion!”

“Hmm, touché.” He knew she was just teasing him, but now he was worried.

“You know, Scarlett,” he continued, “none of us intend for you to be worn out. I know it must be a lot on your shoulders to have seven mates, not to mention all the other stuff going on.”

Her eyebrows knit together, and she smirked, shaking her head. “Levi, I was only joking. It’s not like that—”

“But I don’t want it to end up being like that for you.” There was no stopping the image of his mother walking away from him and the rest of the family popping into his thoughts. “Just know that although we love when you take care of us, we love taking care of you even more. We’re not just a family, Scarlett. We’re a team, and that means we’re all equals. We’ll always be here to help you with anything you may need. As you can see, we may not be the most talented interior decorators, but we keep our house tidy, and we’re not lazy, even after a long day’s work.”

“I guess I didn’t really think about how much work seven husbands is going to be. I’ve just been so caught up in this honeymoon stage. But knowing y’all will always give a helping hand does take a lot of pressure off of me.” Her tiny hand grabbed his, and she lifted it to kiss his palm, her eyes drifting closed for a second. “But even if I do end up a little exhausted on occasion, don’t think for a minute that I don’t feel it’s worth it.”

Levi smiled down at her, wanting desperately to believe her sweet, comforting words, but he knew he couldn’t just trust her that easily. Only time would tell how much she really loved him and his brothers. “I love you, baby. I just want you to be as happy in twenty years as you are at this moment, lying here with me.” He wrapped his large hand around the back of her neck and pulled her closer, until their foreheads rested against each other. “When we’re married, it’s not always going to be this easy, darlin’, and I just don’t want you to forget what this is like, being this in love, you know?”

A humored look came over her. “I’d fight the devil himself on a daily basis if it meant coming home to all you boys.”

But damn, it sure sounded nice how she expressed her love for him.

“Are you hungry, darlin’?”

“Umm, kinda.” Stretching her thin arms over her head, she looked like a sexy little feline, her nude body taut and svelte. His cock thumped his thigh with agreement, the motion drawing her lust-filled, sparkling blue gaze. “Well, on second thought, I may be starving much more than I’d realized.”

His heart did a happy dance in his chest as he watched her carefully lower her head to his drooling cock. The pointed tip of her tongue snaked out and flicked the sensitive underside of his cock, and he clenched her hair in his tight fist as the heavenly sensations of her mouth coursed through every muscle and vein in his body. He hissed through his clenched teeth when her lips smacked lovingly against the crown of his dick.

He rested his head back against the hammock and enjoyed his mate’s loving care. He groaned loudly when she finally took his entire rock-hard length down her soft, wet throat. “Fuck, you’re so damn good, darlin’.” She hummed an unintelligible reply, the vibrations almost sending him over the edge already.

She slid her tight mouth up and down his cock like she was on a mission from Obama himself. When he looked down, he realized her lips had become crimson from her exertions and arousal, and soon his short horns pushed through his temples with a brief sting followed by tranquility. He felt his balls tighten as her mouth created almost unbearable pleasure.

Scarlett must have sensed his oncoming climax. Her small hand gently tugged his heavy balls, and the pressure of her mouth increased suction. His hips thrust up and down, his large cock pumping through her full lips as his vision became increasingly blurred. His climax hit him hard, and he moaned loud and low as he filled her throat with his hot, thick cum. Like the perfect mate she was, Scarlett eagerly swallowed every last drop of his seed, licking his cock clean of any left over. For a moment, he almost felt bad for how much semen he was sure he’d produced.

But when her pretty blue eyes met his, satisfaction and happiness shone back at him. “Now I’m ready for dessert,” she said with a smile.

Chapter 5

Scarlett jumped out of Levi’s pickup with a fresh, enthusiastic pep to her step. Levi had devoted his entire day to her sexual desires and cowboy fantasies. His hard body, angelic face, and huge cock made him the perfect lover. He was caring and attentive and almost selfless at times.

But more than anything, she was thankful for the talks they’d had all day as they lay naked in the Texas fields. Not only was he a hardworking cowboy, rugged in every sense of the word, but Levi was also a very emotionally mature young man. She’d watched him handle the baby cows and horses, and the connection he seemed to have with them was unbelievable. Anyone with eyes could see it was his life’s passion to take care of the innocent, defenseless animals. As silly as it sounded in her head, she couldn’t help but to be confident he’d be a very nurturing, amazing father if he was like that with just the livestock.

Levi held his arm out for her to take as he led her to the diner door. “You look good enough to eat yourself, darlin’,” he observed, his eyes scanning her body up and down with those gorgeous blue eyes that constantly held her captive.

She giggled. “Thank you, Levi. You’re such a sweetheart.”

Scarlett hadn’t gotten out of the house much in the last week, so this was a real treat for her. She’d spent almost an hour getting ready, going for full hair and makeup just to get some pie. Levi hadn’t rushed her. He even seemed to revel in her excitement.