When Hunter opened door to the room without knocking, Katie stood looking in the mirror, passing her hand over her large protruding stomach. “I must look terrible. It won’t be long, Hunter,” she said fishing for a compliment.
“No, you’re as beautiful as ever. Being pregnant agrees with you.”
She turns and smiles at him, “I’m eager to be pregnant with your pups.” Hunter slants his head to the side looking at Katie as she raises her blouse and rubs her bare stomach.
“I didn’t come to discuss that now. I want to know what happened. What is it you need to tell me?” He stands still looking at her. Both hands tucked into his jeans.
Katie is aroused by the sight of him. Her arousal becomes more intense the more she’s pregnant and the more she’s near him. It’s something about him that makes her breathless in his presence. Passion is hammering through her as she remembers her first time with Hunter. With a werewolf and his large manhood pushing through her tender opening and pulsating in her when they first made love.
She can’t understand her fascination because he looks like Devin but she’s not attracted to Devin the way she is with Hunter. Since he came home he exudes raw magmatism and sexuality. He has an air of confidence that she doesn’t see in Devin and she can’t wait to lay in his bed and in his arms. Hunter’s desire for Haley and his coldness to Katie makes her more intent on making him hers once more.
Katie wants Hunter to throw her on the bed and take her from behind. She desires the animalistic sex that she knows he has performed with the werefemales in the wilds of Alaska and the nurse he had gone to because he couldn’t be with her. The thought of it is turning her on.
Katie walks to Hunter and slides her tongue across his lips and brace her body next to his. He looks down at her breasts. They are large and full and he feels attraction to her only because he is a werewolf, and he has an insatiable desire for sex. But her affections had come at the wrong time. He no longer wants anything from her, but to tell him what happened to Haley.
She’s too late and the feeling is gone. It disappeared the night she wed his brother.
He had wanted her to show this type of affection to him for so long, and now that he has what he dreamed of, he doesn’t want it anymore. He thought she was what he wanted most of all in life. But now was too late. Her body didn’t appeal to him and it wasn’t because she was pregnant, it was because he had mated with Haley and was devoted to her.
Pulling himself away from her embrace he said, “Tell me what happened.”
“Do you want all the details? she questioned, a bit annoyed at his rejection. She thought it was because she was pregnant. She didn’t want to think it could be any other reason because she had been certain of his attraction to her.
Hunter gazed at her and sat at the edge of the bed. “Tell me only the part where Haley said that she would go with the Lion shifter willingly.”
Katie paused to sit near Hunter trying to gauge his temperament. “He said he wanted her for his own and she would want for nothing. Not love, money, or protection. She seemed to be receptive when he said he would love her forever and she would have his devotion.” Katie glanced at Hunter. His eyes sad. His eyes lowers as he looks at his hands.
“You know how that is when someone doesn’t get the love they crave,” Katie said turning to Hunter placing her hands over his hoping to ignite warmth from the coldness she feels from him.
Hunter’s eyes locked with Katie and he said, “I know exactly how that is.” Katie wasn’t looking for that response from him. He turned away as if he was remembering something different. Katie touched his leg close to his groin. He glanced up.
“He is a very handsome man. More like a father figure. Maybe she’s looking for that since she lost her own father. I know how she feels. That’s why I can relate to her. But Robert was my father figure.”
Katie watched at Hunter. She saw his eyes darting back and forth. She knew what he was thinking, and she thought she had convinced him with her little lie hidden beneath the truth.
“Forget her, Hunter. I can make you happy. I can give you what you need.” Her hand cupped his cock. He didn’t pull away. They looked at each other. Tremors of need burned through Hunter.
Katie dropped to her knees in front of Hunter. Placing both hands on his hard thighs. Not to beg him to forgive her for not waiting for him, but instead, her hand moved up his thighs stroking them as she reached for his zipper. She pressed down on his hard length growing harder and longer the more she massaged it. His head falls back and she unzips his pants and reaches for his cock. Her hand is warm and Hunter closes his eyes. She releases his length and it springs free. Her lips and tongue touches it and he realizes what is happening to him. It’s not Haley. This is not what he wants. It’s his brother’s wife.
Hunter gently pushes her away and cups his penis with both hands placing it into his pants and zips up.
“What about Devin?” Hunter’s eyes are blazing with concern. “I can’t do this and I can’t let you do it. You and I both will regret this.”
“I won’t regret anything. I was yours first and now I want that again. Devin’s happy with all the shifter whores he’s been fucking.” At first Hunter was taken aback by her talk, but he was seeing another side of her face. Now he was convinced that not all what she had said about Haley was exactly the truth.
Hunter pushed away from Katie still on her knees, and got to his feet. “Devin must have known you didn’t really love him. You should have waited for me, but instead you took my brother and now both of you are miserable. You will not bring me into this. You need to find common ground with each other or you never will be happy.” Hunter looked down at her on her knees and helped her up and placed her on the bed. He turned his back on her.
As he walked to the door, Katie cried out, “Where are you going, Hunter? You know I love you.”
“It’s too late, Katie. I’m going to find my happiness.”
“You will never have it without me. I need you, Hunter.”
“Haley needs me more.” Hunter left the room and met up with the others downstairs still discussing what to do about the Lion shifter.
Standing at the rear of the room in the doorway he slowly walked up to Wilder and sat beside him. “I’m going after Haley. Don’t try to discourage me or stop me.”
“I would never do that my son. You have no mate and no pack to worry about. I wish you well, but I can’t send anyone with you. You’re on your own.” This would not have been the first time that he was on his own. He thought about how he waited for his father to come for him when he languished in Alaska waiting to die.
“He’s not on his own. I’m going with him,” Tracker said to Hunter’s surprise. Hunter turned smiling at Tracker who was standing to his right. He extended his hand and when Tracker took it he brought his close to him.
“Lycell, are you going to let Tracker go with Hunter? He’s not quite a yearling,” Wilder said. Not because he didn’t want Tracker with Hunter, but because he wanted Lycell’s blessing to allow his first born to accompany his first born on a dangerous undertaking.
“It doesn’t matter. My sons are as fierce and strong as I was at that age. Look at Tracker, arms like steel and tall as Drayton but much smarter,” Lycell said to Drayton with Drayton holding up his middle finger to Lycell. Very few things bothered Drayton now that he had a son too.
“And unpredictable. And erratic. And impulsive,” Wilder said. “Is there anything else you want to add?” He said looking at Lycell and then Tracker.
“And horny,” Lycell said looking around for a laugh which he had been successful in getting.
“I’m not going to stop Tracker because I don’t have the authority over your sons and mine are too old to control,” Wilder said surrendering to Hunter. “All I can do at the moment is give you some advice, Hunter. And that goes for you too, Tracker.” Wilder’s eyes scanned the room. Although he was talking to Tracker and Hunter it was a lesson to the other pups who would become yearlings soon and matured werewolves.
“Never underestimate that Lion. He’s like a human. More so than any of you. He never knew he was a shifter. He was raised by humans, but his lion instincts are there and they are lethal. He will roam at night to track his prey, and at night he is beyond deadly. During the day he is a man, wearing a suit, owns property, owns companies, and employs humans who are unaware that he is a shifter. Nevertheless, his employees are dedicated to him. Much like the ones in our town.”
“Thank you father. That is the greatest help I could ask for. I understand why you can’t send anyone with me. I understood why you sent us after Katie. It was to keep Devin’s pups safe. To grow the pack. To protect our family.”
“Yes because we have enemies everywhere. Even in our own town. They want to destroy us and see us weak. Your mother is what made us strong again,” Wilder said looking around the room to his sons and to Lycell’s sons. Drayton shook his head up and down in agreement without saying a word.
Although Hunter tried to understand everything, it still bothered him. Always putting the pack above his sons, he thought of Wilder. Hunter didn’t have a pack, he didn’t have a mate now, but he felt he would never put the good of his pack over his pups if he ever would have any. And the way it was turning out he may never have any.
“Get ready, Tracker. Get some sleep. We leave just before dawn.”
“Don’t forget to see your mother, but don’t tell her anything. She will worry. And don’t forget what I said about the night. He owns the night,” Wilder said.