Hidden Destiny (Redwood Pack) Page 9

  She was the perfect woman for him, and he was damned lucky he’d found her.

  He just didn’t want to lose her.

  North scented the sweet sugar and peaches before he heard her enter the room. One look at Lexi and all thoughts of loss, war, and her wolf fled his mind.

  Sweet moon goddess.

  He was one fucking lucky man.

  “What do you think?” she whispered, her voice low, unsure. “You like your surprise?”

  North couldn’t quite form a response as most of his blood had gone farther south.

  Lexi stood in the doorway wearing a black lace-up corset with little pink bows on the side that he wanted to untie with his teeth. The corset was so tight that her breasts almost spilled out. He could just see the pink of her nipples every time she took a breath.

  The action alone made him shift in his jeans, his cock pushing against the zipper.

  The little pink bows were tied to a garter belt and stockings that had little skulls etched into them. Totally fucking hot. The black pumps she wore had little lifts on the bottom of the soles making her legs look even longer and sexier than they did on a normal day.

  Considering he loved Lexi’s legs, that was saying something.

  One thing she was missing though was panties.

  Shit.

  She was completely bare for him except for that little trimmed patch of hair. He swallowed hard, taking her in.

  His gaze raked over her again and met hers. Her long blonde hair cascaded around her face, slightly curled as if she’d done it quickly while she’d been getting ready for him. He couldn’t wait to wrap it around his fist as he fucked her…or let it trail across his body as she leaned over him as he fucked her from beneath.

  She bit her lip, uncertainty filling those hazel eyes he loved so much.

  He swallowed hard, not knowing where to start. What to say.

  “How the hell did you get that corset to fit you just right?”

  “Oh good, that was a great way to tell her you want her,” his wolf teased.

  His could just shut up.

  Lexi blinked then licked the spot she’d bitten on her lip. “Bay helped. She knows her way around them.”

  North closed his eyes, trying to burn out images of his brother, Adam, and Bay exploring the uses of said corset.

  “Never mind,” he grumbled. “Jesus, baby, you look fucking amazing.”

  She grinned at him, her eyes lighting. “Really?” She turned for him, and he about lost it. “I wasn’t sure if I should wear panties or not since you hadn’t mentioned them when you were fucking me against the wall, so I went without. You know, easy access.”

  North closed his eyes, begging for control. It wasn’t easy with his mate in front of him looking like a siren beckoning him closer.

  “Turn around for me again, but slowly,” he ground out, his wolf coming to the surface.

  She grinned that little grin of hers then did as she was told. She turned on one foot then looked over her shoulder like some kind of pinup.

  “Stay there,” he growled when her body faced the wall.

  He stalked toward her but stopped just short so he couldn’t touch, only tease. The heels had made her ass high and pert—well, more than it usually was—and he couldn’t wait to squeeze, lick, and fuck.

  He closed his eyes again.

  No, he wouldn’t act like an animal, but he wouldn’t go soft either.

  Not tonight. Not with his Lexi.

  “Why did you wear this, Lexi?” he asked, his voice low.

  She swallowed then blinked. “Because you wanted me to. I thought you’d like it.”

  He let one hand go to her waist, holding her still, and then licked her lips. He pulled back when she moaned for more. “I fucking love it.”

  “What…what are you going to do about it?” she asked on a breath.

  “Everything,” he said then grinned when her eyes widened.

  He turned her around again then walked her back to the wall next to the doorway she’d come through, careful since she was in her fuck-me pumps. Oh, he’d make sure those heels lived up to their name and then some.

  “You look amazing, Lexi.”

  “I’m glad you like it.”

  “I like when you’re wearing ratty jeans and a tank after working all day with the enforcers, I like when you’re wearing a towel after you just got out of the shower, I like when you’re wearing a nice dress when you go to dinner at my parents’, and I like when you’re wearing a corset because I said I wanted to see you in one. I just like you, Lexi. I like everything you wear because I like you.”

  “So I didn’t have to wear this thing? Because it’s kind of hard to bend over without leaning on something.”

  He grinned, letting a little growl come out. “Oh, baby, I fucking love you in this thing, and we’re going to have a lot of fun with you wearing it. And as for bending over? Oh, I’m going to fuck you hard bent over while you’re wearing it, so we’re just going to have to make sure you’re leaning on something.” He looked over his shoulder. “Hmm, how about the couch? Can you walk over there in those shoes, or should I carry you?”

  She let out a shaky laugh, but he could scent her arousal flare. “I can make it to the couch, but that’s about it. I’m not really a heel kind of girl.”

  He traced her cheek with his finger, and she leaned into the touch. “You’re anything you want to be, Lexi. Remember that.”

  She gave a sad little smile. “Whatever you say, North.”

  He reached around and slapped her ass. She made a little sound on a breath, her eyes darkening. “Don’t placate me, Lex. Now walk to the couch, slowly. I want to watch that ass.”

  “Then what do you want me to do? Bend over?”

  He thought about it then shook his head. “No, sit on the arm if you can.”

  She frowned then widened her eyes as if getting his meaning.

  “I can do that.”

  She walked carefully to the couch, swaying on the heels so her hips moved from side to side. North’s gaze trailed over her back and her ass, watching the way the globes moved with each step.

  Hell, his mate was hot, and she didn’t know it. Not enough. He’d make sure she understood though.

  He stripped off his shirt as he walked to her then toed off his shoes and socks. Her eyes never left him just as his never left hers. When he reached her, he stood between her spread legs and took her chin between two fingers.

  “Can you breathe sitting like that?”

  She nodded then licked her lips.

  The couch was low enough and he was just tall enough that she was the perfect height for what he had in mind. He pulled his hand away, undid the button on his jeans, and then slowly unzipped the zipper.

  He hadn’t bothered to put on underwear that morning since he’d shifted for a run, and as soon as he unzipped, his cock sprang out, ready for his mate’s lips.

  “Ready?” he asked.

  In answer, she licked the crown of his cock, and he groaned. Just that little touch almost had him going. If he didn’t hold back and rein it in, he was going to come right away, and he didn’t want that to happen.

  He twisted her hair around his fist like he’d wanted to the first time he’d seen it then flexed his hips. Her mouth opened, and he slid in.

  “Hell, your mouth is perfect, Lex.”

  She hummed in response then sucked him down to the back of her throat on the first shot. He held her there for a moment before pulling her back. Her cheeks hollowed as his dick slid from her mouth. Before he could take control, however, she’d swallowed him down again then bobbed her head, gaining a rhythm that made his balls tighten. Her hands went to his ass and massaged, pressing, spreading. He felt her fingers dance to the crease, and he pulled her back.

  “You do that right now, and I’ll blow. I don’t want to come down your throat tonight, not when I want to come in you. Okay?”

  She gave a wicked little grin then nodded, letting his cock go w
ith a pop. “Whatever you say, North. I trust you.”

  His heart warmed, even as his dick throbbed. He took a step back, stripped out of his jeans fully, then pulled her to her feet. “Ready?”

  “Always.”

  He grabbed the back of her head and brought her lips to his in a hungry kiss. Their teeth collided at the roughness, and their tongues fought for dominance. His little wolf was feisty tonight, and he loved it.

  When they pulled away, they were both breathless and beyond ready. Lexi turned, took two steps to the back of the couch, and then bent over. She looked over her shoulder and grinned.

  “Okay, Doctor. You’re up.”

  North threw his head back and laughed. “Hell, woman, only you can make me laugh by playing naughty nurse or patient or whatever you are right now after what we just did and what we’re about to do.”

  “Shut up and fuck me. Okay?”

  He shook his head and smiled then gripped her hips. She opened her mouth to speak again, and he slammed into her in one stroke. He held there when they both gasped. She was so fucking tight around his cock he could barely think.

  Once they were both able to breathe, he slid out then pumped at a steady pace that had Lexi bucking against him and sweat rolling down his back. He leaned over and kissed her shoulder, nibbling at her neck and the spot he so desperately wanted to mark but knew he wouldn’t—not until he could do it in truth.

  The darkness at that thought pulled at him, and he moved, twisting Lexi and lifting her so she was sitting on the edge of the couch.

  “North,” she panted as he pumped into her. She wrapped her legs around his waist, her heels digging into him, but he didn’t care.

  “I needed to see your eyes. Needed to see you,” he grunted, his pace never slowing.

  She framed his face with her hands and kissed him. He leaned into her, tasted her, and came at the same time as her, his Lexi.

  His everything.

  They broke apart, sweat-slick, aching, and in tune with one another.

  “Loved the corset, baby,” he rasped out.

  She smiled and kissed him again, shifting slightly on his cock. “I know.”

  “Best surprise ever.”

  Chapter Nine

  “So, tell us all about North,” Hannah said as she sat down next to Lexi on her own stool.

  They were in Hannah’s greenhouse the morning after she’d totally rocked North’s world. Lexi smiled at just how she’d done that and how he’d reciprocated.

  “Oh! I know that look,” Melanie said as she sat down on the stool opposite of them. “She totally got some.”

  Lexi felt her cheeks heat up and cleared her throat. “So, uh, we’re here to grind plants, right?”

  Hannah nudged her with her shoulder. “Oh no you don’t. This is the sacred ritual of women bonding here. We want to know all about North and how he put that look on your face. Well, not all about him.”

  Thank God.

  “We’ll wait for the really juicy details for when Willow, Ellie, and Bay are with us. I’d say Cailin too, but since North is her bother that might be a little awkward.”

  “Just a little,” Melanie agreed, a devious grin on her face.

  Lexi hadn’t had real girlfriends for almost a decade. Even within the Talons she hung out with Logan and his friends. Sure, she was friends with the Talon princess, Brynn, but it had been a long while since she’d had a chance to dish with the girls.

  “Um…it’s good?”

  Hannah threw up hands. “Oh please, you’re so talkative. It’s like I can see every detail in my mind.” She narrowed her eyes. “Now give us the deets, woman. We all know North has to have some secrets in bed. He’s all dark and swoony.”

  Melanie laughed. “Geez, woman. You have two men for yourself, and you want the dirty details on North? Are you looking for another for your harem?”

  Hannah threw a plastic baggie filled with seeds at her sister-in-law. “Shush, you. I’m very, very happy with my men.” She grinned. “Oh, yes, mated to a wolf and a partial demon? Best. Ever. But we’re not here to talk about my tremendously amazing sex life. And it is that. Tremendously amazing. We’re here to talk about Lexi’s sex life. She’s a Jamenson now. She has to share.”

  “I didn’t know that was part of the code,” Mel said wryly.

  Lexi swallowed hard, that slight pain that had always been there arching.

  “Hey, I didn’t mean to make you cry,” Hannah whispered. She wrapped her arm around Lexi’s shoulders and brought her in for a hug. Mel hopped off the stool and came to Lexi’s other side to hug her as well. “What is it, honey? I can back off. We’re just so happy North’s found someone and now we have another woman in our club.”

  Lexi pulled away to wipe away the tears she hadn’t known had fallen. “I’m sorry. I guess I’m just a little emotional.”

  Melanie moved so she was in front of Lexi. “Tell us what’s wrong. It’s not about us prying, is it?”

  Lexi let out a breath. “I’m not a Jamenson.”

  Hannah tilted her head. “Well, no, not technically. But you and North are mates. You’re an unofficial Jamenson until we party and make it legal. You’re part of us.”

  Melanie frowned. “You know we don’t care about who Parker’s father is, don’t you? I mean, we care in the sense we want to gut that motherfucker for you, but Parker is innocent in all of this. You’re innocent in all of this.”

  Well then.

  It looked like the cat was out of the bag.

  Oh, Lexi had known the Jamensons had been filled in on her past, but it was a whole other thing to have it out in the open like this. She’d never talked about it, not really. She’d told North, and that was it. She and Logan had always tiptoed around the actual topic of conversation.

  It was too hard to deal with otherwise.

  Lexi let out a shaky breath. “I might not ever be fully mated to North. You understand that, don’t you?”

  Mel nodded. “I know that you might not be able to fully bond with North. We all know that. We also all know that Corbin will die. There’s no other outcome for him and not just because of this situation. No, he’s deserved to die for a long time now and has used pain and dark magic to keep living. We’re in a standstill now with the Centrals, but that won’t always be the case. When he dies, you and North will be free to mate fully.”

  Lexi shook her head. “But what if that doesn’t happen?”

  “If you have to look negatively on that, then know that it won’t matter to us if you don’t fully bond with North,” Hannah said. “Yes, it will matter to you because, God, the pain, but to us? You’ll be our sister-in-law. In fact, we pretty much already think of you that way. And if the bond doesn’t happen, and you can’t have babies, you can always adopt.” The pain in Hannah’s eyes looked fresh at the thought of not having babies. She didn’t quite understand that, considering Hannah had twin babies, but that seemed like a whole other story.

  Lexi ran a hand over her face. “Let’s start over for the day, shall we? I need to not be so emo, I guess.”

  Mel cupped her face, the Heir’s mate’s eyes glowing gold as her wolf rose to the surface. “Honey, you’re entitled to feel whatever you want. This situation? It sucks. God, that’s not even a good word for what’s going on right now. I know what we need to do to fix it, but I don’ t know how to get there. At least not yet. But no matter what happens, know this, you’re ours. You’re a Jamenson in our hearts if not in bond or in name. It might be working too fast for you right now in some respects, but remember, we aren’t human. We’re wolves. I learned the hard way about what happens when you try to slow things down for fate, and I don’t want you to go through that too. So just breathe and be with North as you can now, and we’ll all work on a way to make that permanent.”

  Both women hugged her hard then started back to work. Today they were grinding up some of the leaves and plants that Hannah had been growing in her greenhouse. As wolves, witches, and partial demons, in Josh
’s case, they couldn’t use normal human medicines. Yes, as the Healer, Hannah could Heal wolves and the like, but it was costly. Each time she used her powers, she drained herself and had to wait to recharge herself using the bonds with the Pack and time. She would do it daily if she could, but everyone knew she needed time to rest.

  So Hannah would only Heal those who truly needed it.

  As they were at war, that need increased daily it seemed.

  The medicines they made were old recipes handed down for generations. They would be too potent for humans, but for wolves, they helped alleviate pain, headaches, and other small things.

  They were also very time consuming and annoying to make.

  Cailin used to make them on her own for almost five years because she wanted to shoulder the burden. The Pack hadn’t had a healer or a witch within the Pack who dealt with herbs on a primary basis, so Cailin had stepped up.

  Lexi had a feeling the young wolf had wanted to prove herself, though to whom she didn’t know. Being the Pack princess had to be hard, considering everyone thought she had everything yet needed to earn it more than others.

  Or, at least, that’s what Lexi thought.

  It would be interesting to see how Logan and Cailin would actually fit together if they ever stepped over the barrier they’d put in front of themselves.

  “So, where are those beautiful babies of yours?” Lexi asked as she curled her lip, grinding the pestle in the mortar with a little more vigor than she should have. The plant smelled disgusting, and the quicker she got rid of it, the better.

  Hannah grinned. “Kaylee and Conner are both with their daddies at the moment. They wanted to have a kiddie date I think.”

  “I love the fact that Reed and Josh are a couple too, you know?” Mel added in as she bagged up her herbs.

  Hannah smiled, that dreamy, in-love look on her face heart-warming. “I know. Plus, it’s fun to sit back and watch them get all hot and sweaty together.”

  Lexi barked out a laugh. “What is with you and sex today?”

  Hannah shrugged as Mel shook her head, a smile on her face. “Last night and all day today it’s been all about the men. They don’t get much time alone since we all like to cuddle together, so I get I’m a bit lonely. Not that it’s their fault. We all need time together and apart as duos and as a triad, but I’m spoiled.”