“We need to move fast!” said Sarina.
Brody looked at Sarina, who seemed much more recovered than he felt. The ringing in his ears echoed back to him as if the walls of the cave could hear it as well. Pointing to his ears, he motioned that he didn’t understand.
“The babies are this way,” Sarina said. Finally the ringing abated and Brody followed Sarina, trusting that she knew what to do. “Make the change.”
Brody did as she asked, taking in the breathless pain as his human shape shifted to that of his wolf. It was never an easy transition. The wolf, dominant in nature, wanted to be done with it as quickly as possible and as bones snapped and lengthened, elbows and knees broke to bend backwards, bones in his nose and mouth grew out from his former jaw. Brody embraced the change, knowing it’d hopefully save his boys and get them all back to the portal alive.
Brody halted when Sarina’s hand landed softly on his coat. He sat, turned his head toward her and grinned inside himself, as the human nature tucked away in the wolf, ached to devour her. Still naked, she radiated an inner light that enraptured him. She leaned close to him to whisper in his ear. “The boys are in there. I just don’t know how many of them are in there as well. Don’t leave my side, okay?”
Taking pleasure in the task, he licked her jaw, smearing slobber halfway up her face. He could have just whined lightly to let her know he understood, but licking her satisfied the man as well and both he and the wolf were laughing. Her hand left his coat and touched the wall of the cave where their twins were. He noticed the way the light around her shimmered and then there was an ear piercing screech that made his ears ring so badly that he could hardly walk. Coming around the corner, he noticed the way the other wolves cowered as Sarina walked into the room. She picked up the boys, cuddling them for a moment.
“Thank you,” she said simply and turning, she and Brody were confronted by a band of wolves that weren’t prone to her outward show of force. Clutching the twins tightly, Sarina stepped behind Brody who stood to his full height, growling menacingly at the three smaller dogs. The first one, clearly the leader, leapt up, managing an aim that sunk his teeth into the flesh on Brody’s shoulder and his resulting yelp of pain shook Sarina from her state of shock. She watched him shake off the first wolf only to have the other two take its place. Sarina could see his struggle to defend her and the twins. It was a terrifying choice, to choose between holding her twins and helping her mate. Setting the twins near her on the floor, Sarina called on the power inside her to aid the man she loved. Seeing them in her mind, Sarina sent short bursts of lightning shooting from her hands.
The two wolves fell away, yelping as they licked the spots where they’d been injured. The leader started to come back at Brody who’d rallied to protect her and their sons. Needing to end this scrimmage so they could make it back to the portal, Sarina used her telepathy to ask Brody to shield the twins. Stepping away from them, she called the lightning to her, letting it soak her skin so that bolts radiated over her body. Then she shot repeating bolts of energy at the three wolves. Grabbing a metal pole that lay close to the table she stood by, Sarina stood it on its end and charged the pole so that it repeated the charges at the three wolves as she’d done. Then, like a switch, Sarina turned off the electrical charge and scooped her boys off the floor.
She fought the fatigue that swept through her like quick-sand and ran with Brody back toward the portal. She knew once she was out of sight, the pole would stop working and the wolves would be on their trail again. “Run,” she said to Brody, who instinctively put himself between the three who were pursuing them and her.
Finally the portal came into view and Sarina wasted no time taking her boys through. This time when she touched the wall, it became part of her so quickly that she was engulfed in it before she even knew what had happened. Then they were back home and Brody was changing into his human self. When he reached out to touch the wall, it was once again solid.
“How in the hell did that just happen?”
“I told you that the powers my mother passed to me are full and rich. They’re also incredibly amazing.”
“How did you?”
“I think I got her powers when she was pregnant with me and Jason. I have no idea if he’d have gotten them as well or if it’s just a female, mother to daughter sort of thing. I’m hoping a talk with my mom can add some insight into these new and sometimes scary powers.”
“I’m going to get a shower and put some clothes on before I scare someone.”
“I’ll bring your clothes down. You can use the shower down here.”
“Alright,” he said. Giving into the need, he pulled her close and while she held their sons in her arms, kissed her soundly. Her soft moan made him thankful that he didn’t have to walk through her house with his ass hanging out. A pillow wouldn’t have done much to hide his erection at the moment.
He let Sarina lead him out the door and then headed for the shower, thankful all over again that he lived in an era with indoor plumbing. He stepped into the shower and sighed as the hot water soothed the damp that had saturated his flesh, despite being in his wolf. He was shampooing his hair when the shower door opened.
“Mind a little company?”
“Heck no,” he chuckled. Closing his eyes, Brody rinsed his hair and yelped when Sarina turned the other faucet on and cold water sprayed his chest. “Hell, Sarina!”
Her giggle rang out as she dipped her dark head under the warm water. Smiling at her, Brody yanked her closer, steadying her when her feet slipped. He caught her around her waist, enjoying the way her beautiful breasts pressed against him. She’d changed physically when she’d been pregnant with the twins. Her stomach had been shoved out of the way to make room for their growing boys and her skin showed the scars they’d left behind. Her breasts, still full from breastfeeding, called to him constantly. Grinning with pure male pleasure, Brody pressed small kisses to the moles that speckled her nearly flawless, cream-colored skin. The pleasure bloomed as her nipples tightened at his touch, satisfying his fingers as they circled those hard tips.
***
Sarina sighed as Brody tortured her slowly. His hands mastering her body as only he’d ever done. Letting her boys sleep out from under her watchful eye wasn’t easy, but in this moment she needed this with Brody, to know that in the light of day, when everything was as normal as it’d ever be for them that they could steal a few minutes to remember that they were more than mother and father. They were mates, soon-to-be husband and wife. She hoped now that things were taken care of as far as Lilith was concerned, that their wedding plans could finally move forward.
By the time they got things done, the boys would be able to walk down the aisle as ring bearers. “You’re thinking,” Brody whispered as his lips pressed soft kisses over her shoulder. “I’m going to have to ask you to stop doing that for a moment.”
“Sorry,” she said, giggling. “I just—”
His lips claimed hers in a kiss that seared her soul with the love he carried for her. The force of what she felt for him swamped her and Sarina met Brody with that same measure of love and complete acceptance. If she’d doubted whether or not he was truly the person she trusted most, she knew now there was no one with whom she shared all of herself besides him. Brody was and would always be hers and nothing, she prayed, would ever change that.
As Brody pressed her against the shower wall, Sarina enjoyed the way he touched her, his hands teasing her so that her body wept for their joining. Gone now though was the need for the fast and frenzied finish. He slipped into her slowly, awakening her senses to him. Her body welcomed him deeper as Sarina gave herself up to desire. Each stroke, slow and steady, took her higher. And the need to reciprocate that feeling, urged her to clench her warm pussy around the thickness of Brody’s hard cock. Sarina knew next to nothing about men beyond Brody, but somehow, she knew he was perfect for her. She smiled with an inner knowledge of how wonderful it felt to be filled by him. Would he ever know how he pleased her?
Jerking her hips forward, Sarina met Brody’s thrust and took him into her fully, feeling the press of his tip against her. Moaning as his mouth suckled her breast, Sarina pulled him closer, the need to be touched by him saturating her. She felt his hands slide up her thighs to cup her ass and whimpered as he filled her over and over again. His mouth claimed hers now, hungry for climax. Their tongues tangled as their bodies pleasured each other and Sarina was flooded by their mutual love as she orgasmed, her body trapping Brody deep inside the hot walls of her tight pussy.