Stripe Search: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance (Furocious Lust Shorts Book 5) (6 page)

TWELVE

Holy crap on a cracker! If she hadn’t slowly been falling for Slade, love would have hit her just now with the force of a two-by-four.

“I’m so happy for you, Janie! Really. I... It couldn’t have happened to someone more deserving,” she said, the lump in her throat almost killing her ability to speak.

“It’s all thanks to you. This means more to me than you know. I’ve been wanting so hard to get Jill out of this dump. Child support has helped a lot, but this will be the change we need to start fresh. This can never be repaid. Thank you.”

Gabby showered faster than she ever had, rushing out of her bathroom with a robe stuck to her still-damp body. When she got to her backyard, she saw him sitting by the edge of the pool in a pair of swimming trunks. Her already-tense muscles burned with need.

She shrugged out of the robe, leaving her completely naked. Thankfully, she had a high fence, and none of her neighbors had two-story homes. She walked around him until she could see him from the front steps as she descended into the water.

His gaze ate up every inch of exposed skin, leaving her flushed and breathless. “You look beautiful.”

She couldn’t help the smile that tugged at her lips. “Thank you.”

She waded deeper, until the water floated around her shoulders, and headed in his direction. He slid into the pool, his feet hitting the pool floor at the same moment she reached him.

There was so much care and concern in his gaze as he stared deep into her eyes, so much passion and possession. All of it made her feel so wanted, so desired…something she wasn’t used to.

She curled her arms around his neck and pulled his head down, meshing their lips together in a toe-curling kiss. “Thank you.”

He ignored her words and continued kissing her, grabbing her ass and lifting so she could get her legs around his waist. When he finally pulled back, they were both breathless and panting. “Why are you thanking me?”

She nuzzled his jaw and neck, her nipples pebbling tight at the manly scent of him. Wild. Sexy. Part clean and part woodsy. “What you did for Janie. I can never thank you enough for it.”

“I did nothing special.” He lifted her higher, flipping them over and setting her on the edge of the pool. He spread her legs wide and pushed his body between her thighs. She sucked back a moan and loved when he grabbed her breasts and thumbed her nipples.

“You,” she moaned, her pussy contracting, ready for more. “You did something I couldn’t. I tried to solve the problem by giving her everything I could. What she needed was to feel like she was making progress in her life. That she could take care of herself and Jill. You’re amazing.”

He pushed her big legs wider, dropping a wet hand between her pussy folds to stroke delicately at her clit. Up. Down. Round. “So what do I get as a thank you?”

She shuttered at his low, hungry words. “Anything. Everything.”

He slipped a finger into her and pressed his thumb on her clit. Sucking her tit hard, he finger-fucked her slowly, driving the fire in her body into a giant, blazing inferno.

“Oh...” She gripped his shoulders, digging her nails into his flesh, hard. “Slade, please. Don’t tease.”

He released her nipple with a resounding pop and grumbled against her chest. “You just gave me everything. I’ll tease and fuck and tease and fuck you until your body’s a mess of nerves.” Her body’s response was another hot shudder down her spine and straight to her clit. “Your tight little pussy’s going to squeeze hard around my fingers when you come and wet them with your scent.” He groaned. “I can’t fucking wait to get another taste of you on my tongue. It’s going to be so fucking good. Your slick folds dripping on my face.”

Holy mother of pool sex. He was so good at giving her images. Dirty, dirty images…stuff she thought she was the only one imagining.

Tension coiled in her belly. “Keep going! Talk to me some more,” she said, shocking even herself with her words. “It makes me wet, and I’m so close.”

“Ah, baby. You like thinking of my mouth on your slick little hole,” he mumbled on her chest, licking circles around a nipple.

“Yes! Good god, I do,” she groaned, pushing her hips closer to his fingers and her chest into his mouth.

“You want my dick inside you, don’t you? Want me to fuck that little pussy raw?”

“Hell yes!” She whimpered, her stomach clenching along with her pussy on his driving fingers.

“You’re a dirty girl. I fucking love that.” He nibbled on her tit. “I love how fucking wet and hot you are. Tight and wet. It’s like heaven.”

“More...”

“Greedy aren’t you?” He chuckled and bit on her nipple hard enough to make her whimper again. “Fuck that’s sexy. I bit you, and your pussy squeezed at my fingers. That’s what I want around my cock. All of you shivering and clenching and fucking coming so hard it hurts me every time your pussy closes around my dick.”

That took her over the edge faster than her brain could process. Tension unraveled with reckless speed inside her—so quickly it left her breathless. Her legs shook, and her pussy grappled around his thrusting digits.

“That’s it, baby. Keep doing that.” He slid his fingers out of her and replaced them with his mouth and tongue, licking and sucking at her tender sex. “
Yesss
. I love the taste of you coming. So fucking sweet.”

She was still gasping and trying to get her ability to move back when he picked her up and moved toward the steps leading into the shallow end of the pool. He placed her on all four and didn’t give her a second to breathe before he was pushing into her from behind. He grunted and drove deep, pounding into her without stopping. Water lapped at their sides with each harsh dive.

He felt so good inside. So deep. So fucking big.

“Fuck,” he grunted. “I can’t wait to have you full of my cum. Sticky and slick with your scent and mine combined. Your pussy,” he groaned, each thrust harsher, deeper than the last. “Clinging to my cock. Wanting every drop of my cum in you. I want to feel your body drinking it in. Taking it all thirstily.”

“Yes, yes, yes, yes,” she mumbled. It sounded perfect. She wanted all of him in her. Everything. She’d take it all—all he had to give—and then give herself fully to him.

Another plunge and she could barely breathe. Her focus was him. Fucking her. His cock going in and out of her body, and the raging fire he fanned in her pussy. That’s all she could see, smell, and feel. The branding of her body with his dick.

His fingers bit into her hips, hard, so hard she glanced down and noticed they’d turned into claws, and there was blood dripping from how deep he’d dug them into her hips. She didn’t give a fuck. Hell. Knowing he’d lost his control for her only turned her on more.

He rotated his hips, hitting her at a new angle. She gasped, her eyes rolling to the back of her head with the new move. “Oh, my god!”

“That’s my girl. Come on, sweetheart. Let go.” He breathed by her neck, licking her shoulder. “Come so I can fill your pussy with my cum. Fill it until it slides out of you. Then we’ll fill it again and again. When your pussy can’t take any more, we’ll fuck that tight little ass and make it spill my cum too.”

She tried to grip the slick pool tile. Her body shuddered, her release knocking her so hard that she dropped her head forward and screamed.

He fucked her harder, each plunge stronger than before. And suddenly, he stopped, his body so tense he vibrated behind her.

“Fucking hell, that’s amazing!” he roared, the sound almost deafening as he came into her. His cock thickened and spilled his warm semen into her channel. “So fucking sexy.”

He pulled out and stroked his slick cock on her asshole. “This is next,” he rumbled by her ear. “My cock in your ass will be fucking amazing.”

She’d never done that one before, but as sexy as he made it sound, she had no doubt she’d enjoy anything he did to her.

It was long moments before either could breathe without sounding like they ran a marathon. By then they were laying on a massive set of beach towels on her new sofa.

“What you did for Janie,” she began, glancing into his eyes. “Thank you.”

“I don’t want you stressing over something that can be fixed, Gabriella,” he said, pushing a long strand of hair behind her ear, the soft gesture not lost on her. “I want you to be happy. With less stress.”

“I’m always going to have stress with Joel.”

He nodded. “Yes, I get that. But you can share the burden with me now. I’m here for you. I’m not going anywhere.”

She loved hearing him say that. It was a matter of acceptance on her part. She knew shifters had a deep sense of the right person for them. At that moment, she had no doubt he was the man she’d been hoping for her entire life. If only her brother wasn’t such a pain in the ass.

“Joel is always going to be my brother,” she said, half-warning him of the chaos he was asking to be involved in.

“I understand that. I’m not asking you to stop being the loving, caring person that you are. What I’m hoping is that now you can share some of that stress with me. I’ll happily listen, and if I can help, I will.” He snuggled her tighter in his arms.

The safety of being with him lulled her into relaxation. “I appreciate that.”

She more than appreciated it. She loved it—loved him, for it.

THIRTEEN

Gabby walked out of Charlie’s excited. Janie had called. Things were going good with the move, and Jill was adjusting, which was something they’d both been worried about. She turned the corner of the building and saw Slade’s car parked at the other end of the filled lot. It had been one crazy night, with multiple private parties filling the club to capacity.

Slade got out of his car, and she smiled. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a figure coming her way fast.

“You fucking bitch!” the man said, grabbing her by the arms and squeezing so hard she screamed. “You better give me my fucking money.”

It was the same man from the hotel casino. He screamed in her face and dug his fingers into her arms. She had been caught off guard and didn’t get a chance to catch her bearings when a loud roar filled the air. Then the man was yanked away from her so fast she fell to the ground.

She scrambled backward, watching a massive tiger toss the evil man like he was one of Jill’s rag dolls. She got up slowly, aching from the fall and knowing she’d have bruises on her arms where he’d grabbed her, and scrapes on her legs too.

The tiger tossed the man against one of the back walls, from which he bounced and landed on his face. The guy got up and pulled out a knife. Her heart jumped to her throat as fear clogged her lungs.

The tiger leapt forward and took the man down. She couldn’t see enough to know if he’d been injured from the knife. She rushed forward, completely ignoring the common sense that screamed “Stay back!”

“Slade?”

The tiger turned to face her. Suddenly a mass of cars showed up, and the tiger rushed off into the woods. A group of men she recognized wearing the Tigris Striped logo picked up the injured man and put him into a van.

Had she blinked, she would have missed it all. She wasn’t sure what to do. Slade had run off so fast she didn’t get a chance to see which way he’d gone. She decided to go to his car and wait. He’d have to come back at some point.

She’d been waiting for about ten minutes when a woman jumped out of a taxi, glancing around the parking area. She recognized her as the crazy man’s wife. The woman saw her and ran forward.

“Oh, my god. He was here, wasn’t he?” She glanced around, her gaze filled with panic. “What did he do to you?”

“Not much, thanks to someone helping,” she said, rubbing the sides of her arms, which hurt like hell. “What the hell is wrong with your husband?”

The woman glanced down, her shoulders dropping and embarrassment written on her face. “It’s my fault… You see, the day we saw you at the hotel, I’d gotten a small check from my mother for groceries. He wanted to go gamble.”

“But you didn’t?” Gabby supplied, seeing the answer in the woman’s face.

“No. I couldn’t say no, or he’d get angry and break everything. So I went with him, and I put some of the money into a machine, let it load, and then pressed the max button by mistake. I won five thousand dollars.” The woman glanced at her with pure disbelief. “I’d never won anything. I don’t even like gambling. Anyway, he didn’t want to leave the machine in case it was hot, according to him, so he told me to take the ticket and go cash it.”

Realization dawned then. “You didn’t cash it. You ran into me!”

She nodded, shame making her pale features crimson. “I didn’t want him to get ahold of that money, so I accidentally dropped it into your coat pocket and told him I lost it all on a different machine.”

“He didn’t believe you, did he?”

“He’d been watching and saw when I bumped you. I think he realized what I’d done, but since I’ve never lied to him for fear of being hurt, he assumed you stole it out of my hands when I wasn’t paying attention.”

Wow. All that time she’d had the paper and had no clue. She’d hung up that coat and hadn’t bothered to check the pockets since. “How did you know to drop it there? What if I’d been a real thief?”

The woman shrugged. “It was a chance I took. I just didn’t expect him to obsess this much. I had hoped that I’d be able to catch up with you and explain and hopefully you’d give it back. Either way, it’s not like I would have been allowed to keep it if I gave it to him.”

“Your husband was hurt tonight,” Gabriella blurted out. “I feel the need to tell you that. I don’t know how badly, but it was bad.”

The woman didn’t even blink. “I needed that money to run away from him. I’m tired of his gambling and his anger. It would be a fresh start.”

Gabby nodded. “If it’s in the pink coat, it’s yours. I’ll go inside and check. I’ve got it hanging in the club. Come with me.”

They went back into the club, and Gabby ran into the section reserved for her costumes and extra clothing changes. She reached into the pocket. Sure enough, she pulled out the piece of paper from the Striped hotel for five thousand dollars and change.

She turned to face the woman and handed her the casino payment voucher. “I wish you luck.”

The woman’s eyes filled with tears, and she nodded. “Thank you. You’re so kind. I’m getting as far from that man as possible.”

She gave Gabby a hug. Gabby stopped a security guard and asked him to put the woman safely in a cab.

She was walking out the back of the building a second time when she saw Slade. No longer in tiger form, he was dressed in sweats and a T-shirt. She ambled toward him slowly, unsure if he still wanted to be alone or what.

Then she saw the insecurity in his eyes. He was afraid of what she might think over what he did. She marched with more power in her step and threw herself in his arms.

“I was so worried about you,” she whispered.

“I’m sorry I scared you.” He held her tight. “When I saw the guy grab you, I lost all control of my tiger. The tiger wanted him dead, and I wasn’t going to stop him.”

She glanced up into his molten-gold eyes and nodded. “I understand. I’m yours to protect.”

“I thought seeing that would have made you disgusted or scared.” He searched her face, looking for something.

She shook her head. “I still love you. Probably more now. No one has ever come to my rescue before. We’ll just have to work on your mauling your way through the Strip.”

A smile broke over his lips. “I’d do anything to protect you. I didn’t want to rush you, Gabriella, but I love you. You’re the one woman I want. The only one.”

She hugged him again. “You’re the man I want, Slade. I’m sure of it.”

He glanced up at the club at her back. “Do you have to keep working here?”

She smiled, knowing why he asked. “I’d been saving to open up my own curvy dance studio. I’ll get there sooner than you think.”

He cupped her cheek and brushed his lips over hers. “What if I want to invest in this studio? Can we get this done sooner?”

She nodded. “I’m open to negotiation.”

A sly grin curled his lips. “Great. I’m about to negotiate us being together forever.”

She laughed and kissed him. “You don’t need to. I’m in agreement with you there.”

He turned her to face his car. “Good. Let’s go home, so we can fine tune these new ventures between us,” he said, guiding her to the car and opening the passenger side door. “Just remember, you’re never alone. Never again.”

She leaned back into the seat and let the stresses of most of her life slide off her shoulders. She still had Joel to deal with, but with Slade by her side, she could do it. Her heart filled with love for her tiger. He’d given her more than she’d thought anyone could. The shy girl finally got her man. And he was a more than just wild in bed.

THE END