Ruby (8 page)

“
I get all kinds of perks.
A car, credit cards. They’re even going to pay my insurance.
Medical as well as malpractice.” She looked at her sister. “I have
to turn this down.”

“
Why? I thought that was
your dream, to work in a hospital where you could be proud of the
turnout. I’m pretty sure that this is just what you were looking
for, right?” Ruby nodded. “Then I don’t see…unless it’s because of
Josh. You’re running from him.”

“
What else am I supposed
to do?” Her sister snorted. “You know what I mean. I can’t have a
mate, Sapphire. I’m not a nice person. I’m a bitch most of the
time, and worse than that the rest of the time. What happens if I
fall in love with this guy and it turns out that he’s not what I
want? Or me him?”

Sapphire stood up and moved to the
door. “You at least owe Diamond. She did you a big favor by keeping
Bri there to mend. She did that because you asked her to. And this
is what she’s asked you to do for her.”

“
I know.” Sapphire was
almost out of the room when Ruby called her back. “This guy, do you
know what he does for a living? I’m assuming he’s got more money
than sense.”

“
He does. And you can ask
him when you come down. He’s in the living room with Blair. I think
he was trying to figure out what he’s supposed to do with you when
I left. Then that nice man Bart came over.” That pissed off Ruby,
and she stood up. “Apparently he thinks that you’re not something
he wants in a wife either.”

Ruby was out the door and walking into
the living room when she realized she’d been had. Before she could
turn and go back to her room, her grandmother was shoving her into
the room and announcing that dinner was in five minutes. Blair
winked at her when she sat in a chair as far from Josh as she
could.

“
Did you take that money
back?” Josh only stared at her, and Ruby had the urge to wipe her
nose. He seemed to realize he was staring and shook his head. “Why
the hell not? I told you to.”

“
I don’t want it back. And
besides, it wasn’t that much.” She stood up and so did he. “Is this
the part where you shift into that wolf of yours and hurt me? Or
are you going to be reasonable and sit down and talk to me? I’ve
just as much to lose in this as you do.”

“
Oh yeah, what the hell do
you think you’re going to lose? I’m going to have to bow down to
your rules, and you’re going to expect me to quit my job and stay
home and raise the pups, aren’t you?” He looked at Blair, and it
occurred to Ruby why he looked so panicked. “We don’t have pups,
you moron. They’re babies, like everyone else.”

“
I’m just learning here.
Give me a break.” She flushed because he was right. She was rude.
“And what the hell century do you think I come from? I’d never
expect you to quit something you love. Much less something that
you’re good at. Not to mention, do you really think I’d have any
luck at making you do anything you didn’t want to do?”

Ruby didn’t answer him but did start
to pace. She noticed that Blair had left them, and she wasn’t sure
if that was good or not. The rest of them were gone as well.
Sapphire and Bart, and whoever else he might have been talking to,
were all gone. Right now she wanted them back in there with them,
but she’d been foolish and didn’t want her entire family to see her
shame.

“
I don’t want a mate. I
don’t have the time or the energy to have you hanging around all
the time. I saw what a mate can do to a person, and, frankly, I’m
not into the lovey dovey shit.” He laughed and she turned to him.
“What’s so funny about that?”

“
You. Did you know that I
would have at one time tried to wine and dine you? But you just
don’t strike me as the type. You’re more of a…I was going to say
bike rider through the open fields, but that’s not quite it either,
is it?” He was nearly right. “Except…well, except I think you’d
enjoy being wined and dined, wouldn’t you?”

He took a few steps in her direction,
and she backed up when she realized he was coming for her. She
didn’t want him to touch her, and yet she needed to touch him. When
he had backed her against the wall, all she could think about was
how he had smelled the other day at the hospital.

“
Back off.” He moaned when
he buried his face in her neck. She wanted to wrap her arms and
legs around him, but she wasn’t going to take him as her mate. If
she did that, they’d both be naked in no time. “You’re going to
regret this if you keep this up.”

“
I don’t think so.” He
licked along her throat, and she nearly melted. When he wrapped his
hands around her ass and pulled her to him, it was all she could do
not to bite his throat. It was so close to her mouth, and her wolf
wanted a taste of him as well. “I can feel her. I can…Christ, I can
almost taste her.”

He nipped at her throat again. This
time she felt his teeth break her skin, and Ruby put her arms
around him to hang on. As soon as he suckled at her wound, Ruby let
her wolf go just enough to mark him, knowing that this was going to
be the biggest mistake of her life.

The bite took her breath away. His
blood filled her mouth, and she rolled her hips forward to feel his
cock. She’d come before like this, a man bringing her to peak by
touching her. But she had a feeling this was going to be epic and,
if she survived, better than the best sex she’d ever had with her
toys.

He lifted his head and looked down at
her. His need was palatable, and she knew hers was just as bad.
Josh rocked into her again and again while he watched her. And when
he spoke, she had to have him repeat it twice before she
understood.

“
Where’s your room?” His
mouth crushed over hers, not giving her a chance to answer him.
When he looked down at her this time, she had to think where it
was. When she told him, he grinned. “No time. Seven floors is a
long way to go for making love, and we’ll get to that. Right now I
just want to fuck you.”

He tore her shirt off, and as she
worked at tearing his from him, she felt his mouth at her nipple
before she just ripped the buttons off the stupid shirt and held
him to her. He bit down on her breast. Her body nearly came apart
when he slid his hands into her tear-away pants and cupped her bare
ass. She’d be going on a run later and was glad now that she’d not
bothered with under things. As he rocked into her, bringing her
closer and closer to her peak, he nipped at her ear and then took
her mouth again.

Her body was on fire. She was so close
she could almost taste it. When he sat her down on her feet, she
whimpered and he took a step back. Ruby thought if he left her like
this she was going to kill him.

“
I want to taste you.” Her
lust-filled mind had no idea what he was talking about. If he
wanted to taste her, why did he leave her? Then he dropped to his
knees in front of her, and Ruby had to hang onto the wall. “I’m
going to drink from your pussy while you come. Then I’m going to
fuck you hard against the wall until I can’t stand up.”

“
Yes.” He grinned at her,
and she watched him unbuckle his pants. As she watched him, he
freed his cock, and her mouth watered at the sight. “I would rather
taste you.”

“
You will.” He continued
to fist his cock, and she licked her lips when a steady stream of
precum leaked from the tip. “Strip for me. I want to see your body
before I claim it.”

Her heart was thudding in her chest as
she pulled her pants down to her knees, then kicked them the rest
of the way off. She was naked but for the shreds of her shirt, and
she tore it off as well. Standing before him, naked, she put her
hands over her pussy, and he told her to stop.

“
I’ve never done this
before. Sex, I mean. I have a few vibrators that I use, but I’ve
never had intercourse.” Josh moved his eyes over her body before
looking at her face again. “Say something.”

“
Come here.” She took a
step toward him and then a second. “Spread your legs for me. I want
to see your clit.”

Doing as he asked, she was surprised
when he told her to sit in the chair. She was just getting settled
when he walked to her on his knees and pulled her to the edge of
the seat. She started to pant as he leaned slowly to
her.

His tongue touched her navel first. It
was enough to make her pussy gush with juices, so she tried to
close her legs. He put her thighs up over the arms of the chair,
and Ruby realized how exposed she was. But as soon as he leaned in
and took her pussy into his mouth, she didn’t care what he
saw.

“
Come,” he told her as he
slid his fingers into her. “Come now.” Her body did as he
commanded, and she screamed out her release, begging him to give
her everything.

Her hips moved up to his mouth again
when he lifted his head, and she could see her juices on his chin
and mouth. Ruby felt her moan come from her feet, and it felt as if
it slid over her pussy then tightened around her nipples before it
spilled over her lips. When he continued to slide his finger in and
out of her, she watched his face.

He was gorgeous. His face looked like
it was sculptured from granite. His body had been used, she was
sure, to model the great works of art. His eyes bore into her soul
like it knew every single secret she had, along with all her
needs.

He lowered his head again, and she
felt his tongue join his fingers. Ruby curled her fingers into his
hair tightly and held on. Christ, she was going to die from the
pleasure of this. And at the moment, she didn’t care if she did
die.

He ate her through three more
climaxes. She could hardly breathe, but when he pulled her down
from the seat, his cock was right at her entrance. She held onto
him as he lowered her over him. Ruby felt him at her maidenhead
when he stopped. She was both afraid of what was to come and
excited too.

“
I’m going to hurt you.
When I take you, it’s going to hurt. I know you are aware of that,
but I want to…I’m so sorry about this.” She nodded and tensed up.
“No, don’t. If you’re tense, it’s going to hurt more. Just relax.
Think of my cock deep inside of you touching off several more
climaxes while I fuck you. My cum filling you as I suckle at your
nipples.”

“
I’m afraid.” He asked her
of what. “I mean, I’m a doctor, so I know you’ll fit and all, but
it’s still…you’re huge.”

“
Thank you.” He grinned at
her. Then he leaned in and took her nipple into his mouth. As he
suckled at her hard, then softly, she felt her body rolling up to
take more of him in. When he pulled her down over him, breaking
through her virginity, she cried out against his mouth as he kissed
her. She was lying on her back on the floor when she realized how
good it felt to have him inside of her. But still he didn’t move to
do anything more with her. She rolled her hips, telling him, she
hoped, that she was ready.

“
Christ, you’re so tight.
I can feel every ripple of your pussy.” He moved then by pulling
her hips forward, then back. When he moaned, Ruby wrapped her
ankles around his hips.

Josh cupped her ass then as he moved
in and out of her this way. She wanted him to take her, pound deep
inside of her so she could scream out her release, but he seemed to
slow more and more until she wanted to scream. When he leaned into
her neck, she bit down on his shoulder and heard him cry out
against her own flesh. His teeth sank into her muscle just as her
own release took her this time, and she bit him hard enough to draw
blood. He took her to the floor then, slammed her head against the
wood slats, and took her as hard as she wanted and then some. Her
climax, when it came, not only took her breath away but her vision
as well. Her last thought before screaming out again was that this
was way better than the climax Rufus had helped her
with.

~~~

Josh held her to him as his
body…Christ, if his body was ever in need of a rest, it was right
fucking now. He raised his head to look down at her and could see a
drop of blood on her lip. He licked it away before he could think
he shouldn’t do that. But then, if he were going to get anything
from her, he would have gotten it already when he’d bitten
her.

“
We’re mated and bonded.
Do you know what that means?” He nodded. He did know, more than she
thought he did. Not only had he had a long talk with Blair, but
Bart had talk to him as well. The old man had a great deal to say
about paranormals.

“
It means that we’re a
couple until death we part.” She nodded, and Josh realized how
heavy he might be and rolled to his back, taking her with him. His
cock was still semi-hard, and when she moved over him, her legs on
either side of his hips, he felt his cock harden again. “I want you
again. But I bet you’re sore.”

“
No.” To prove she wasn’t,
she sat up and rode his cock as he held her. “You know that I’m a
wolf and that I can take sex a little harder than a human. Also, I
can heal a great deal faster than a human. You will, too, now that
you’ve bitten me.”

“
Bart told me I’d reap the
benefits of having a wolf mate.” She nodded, but he could tell she
was enjoying herself more than she was paying attention to him.
“Are you going to let me come with you?”

“
If you want.” Her ride
became quicker, her strokes across him harder until she was leaning
over him with her fingers curled in his chest hair. “I’m going to
come. Oh Christ, yes.”