“Oh yeah.” Jesse licked his lips, and she saw his erection grow as she stared at it. “Better run, Kate. ‘Cause when I find you, I’m gonna fuck the fight right out of you.”
Snarling at his challenge, she raced away, feeling Logan’s excitement inside her, spurring her on. But she didn’t feel Jesse as much, and that bothered her. Time to set that to rights.
She raced through the acres of woods beyond their central compound, awash in the scents and sounds of the earth that filled her. Birds chirped, squirrels chattered. The light press of insects over the ground and the occasional bug flying, all of it registered. But none of it mattered as much as finally joining with her mates and taking down the last barriers between them.
She knew Jesse would be the hardest to overcome. Logan had already admitted his love, and he breathed it in his heart andguer. She felt him inside her all the time, but not Jesse. She growled low at Jesse’s stubborn attitude. Time to break him of that. With Logan’s help, she knew just the way to do it. Fuck the fight out ofher?She didn’t think so.
With a grin, she leaped over fallen trees, dodged branches, and avoided the scent of distracting prey. Kate had better things to do than stalk deer. She had a Ravager to break in.
Once at their meeting spot,Jesse watched Kate as he shifted back to full human. “So you want to watch me and Logan get it on?”
The crafty gleam in her eyes warned him to beware. Of what, he wasn’t sure, exactly.
“That’s right. I want to watch you fuck Logan.” She and Logan exchanged a glance and shifted into their human forms as well.
Her heat swelled, enveloping the three of them in their own little world out in the forest. A flowing creek bordered their grassy bed on one side, while a group of large boulders protected them from the winds that blew through the trees, knocking the leaves all around.
Kate’s scent, and the sight of her wearing nothing but skin, had him hard in a heartbeat. And he wasn’t the only one. To Jesse’s dismay, he could feel Logan’s arousal echoing through hisguer. Shit, it was back. By claiming them, Kate had truly joined them all together. He didn’t know how he felt about that.
On the one hand, being a part of Logan and Kate was like breathing. Natural, right, and necessary. But on the other hand, he wasn’t sure he could handle it. His parents had been mated, and they’d fought more with each other than with other packs or clans. The only thing that had saved them from outright killing each other, ironically enough, had been the Dekken. The parasitic aliens had invaded the Ravager homeworld and sent them careening through the Voids as a last ditch effort for survival. He’d been the only one from his family to make it here to Cross Step.
Jesse remembered enough about the past to be wary of the future. Rationally, he knew Cross Step was different. The Savage clan respected mates and families. Prime’s pack seemed to get along. The few other packs he’d seen in town and at the compound coexisted peacefully. Mostly. But there were still instances of fights and rages that grew out of control, mostly within breeding packs.
Pregnant females totally changed pack dynamics. A male’s protective instincts flared, hisguerin a constant state of aggression to defend his vulnerable female. Then again, when dealing with Ravagers, control was usually the first thing to go during a fight.
Fortunately, he and Logan had an understanding. Logan was his and had been for years. The smart-ass Ravager could make him laugh with little effort. And though they both liked to play around, Jesse knew he could count on Logan. He felt comfortable with their relationship. But Kate was a whole new ballgame. A female. A breedmate.
The thought of his own young made his palms sweat. Fuck. He wasn’t ready for that, not yet.
“Jesse?”
Logan and Kate were looking at him with concern.
“What?”
“Kate wants to watch me fuck you,” Logan said quickly.
Shake it off, dipshit. You’re killing the mood. Besides, it’s Kate’s first heat. No way she’ll conceive yet.“What?”
“Kate wants you to show her how to submit.” The twinkle in Logan’s eyes warned him not to take Logan seriously.
“Bullshit. She needs to watchmefuckingyou, that way she can see how it’ll be when she takes it up the ass.”
Logan chuckled. “You’re such a charmer, Jesse. ‘Takes it up the ass?’ How romantic.”
Kate laughed. She looked between the two of them, her smile so heartfelt Jesse couldn’t help smiling back at her. “I never knew you two were into the D/s thing. Kinky.” She rubbed her hands over her body then over theirs, registering their arousal. “I like it.”
Jesse growled. “You’ll love it when I do to you what I’m going to do to him.”
“Jesse,” Logan warned, but Jesse knew Logan got off on submitting.
“You want to know what it’s like, Kate?” Jesse pulled her closer for a kiss that made her even wetter. He could smell it. “Then come here, right next to me. And watch.”
Kate obeyed without question, enthralled. And that easily, he was hers, wrapped around her little finger.
“You know I don’t need lube with Logan. I’m already slick for him.” Built for sex, if male Ravagers hadn’t been able to secrete a natural lubrication, penetration would have been painful. “Logan, come here, on your knees and get me ready.”
As if he needed help. But he wanted Kate to see it all, to know what he liked, what he wanted to see her do.
