I sniff the air and catch Dean’s scent this time. I run fast and hard, and it doesn't take me long to find him drinking from a stream of water where Bunny and I used to meet. I crouch low, sneaking up on him slowly, and pause when his ears perk as I step on a stick.
“Claim your mate, Luna,”Quil tells me softly through our new bond, and my Wolf turns to see him watching me. He’s different right now. Is it because his Wolf is the one in control? His instincts have taken over, and he’s no longer the asshole I’ve come to know. Or is this the real Quil? Maybe it was the blow job. I think my theory about them lightening up after a blow job is probably correct.
I turn back to Dean and leap from the clearing ready to attack, but Dean jumps out of the way, and I splash into the water instead. I narrow my eyes and spin to watch him as he leaps for my back. He nearly pins me, snapping his jaws at my neck, but I want to be the one to claim him, so I toss him off of me with my paws, and he jumps back up quickly. I attack once more, latching onto his throat before he can stop me, and growl as I taste his blood from my claiming bite.
“Mate,”I growl and release him. I shift, and when hedoes too, he spins us until he’s above me, his hips resting between my spread thighs.
“Fuck, I’m so glad you’re okay.”Dean nuzzles my neck, breathing hard as his blood drips from his shoulder onto my chest.
“You’re mine forever, now,” I tell him, wrapping my arms around him, and he shakes against me.
“Matteo is coming, or I’d beg you to let me slide between these sweet thighs right now.” Dean nips the skin of my neck, and I turn, giving him better access, thinking he’s going to claim me, but he shakes his head. “I’ll claim you when my knot is locking you to me,mate.” With one last kiss, Dean breaks away from my body, shifting again.
The winter scent of Matteo is growing stronger, so I shift and then spin to face my first love.
Matteo approaches us from between the trees, and Dean and Quil stand back, giving us space. He faces off with me, and I tilt my head, wondering what he’s going to do.
Matteo growls low in his throat, and I stalk him slowly. He was always meant to be mine.
I watch as he bows his head, keeping his amber eyes on me, but exposing his neck all the same. I walk up to him slowly, and just as I'm about to bite, Matteo jumps out of the way. At first, this upsets me, thinking he’s attempting to reject my bite, until I look up to see his tail swishing through the air playfully. Matteo lays down in the grass, rolling over and showing me his belly. The ultimate sign of trust and submission. When we were younger, he’d done it often, but the meaning behind it never registered until this moment.
I approach slowly this time before crouching low and wiggling my ass in a way to show him I’m being just as silly in my new form.
“Claim him, flower,”Coal urges, making me wonder why he sounds so worried. As soon as I’m done here, I need to find him. “I’ll be there soon, flower. Do not come for me.”The panic in his voice hurts, and I whimper slightly at the thought that my mate might be in pain. “If I was, you’d feel it too. Don’t worry about me, claim Matteo.”
I watch Matteo roll onto his side, giving me easy access to his throat now, so I take my chance, moving slowly, and bite him more gently than my other men. The bond snaps into place in my mind and in my heart, and I feel alive with a buzzing happiness.
I feel loved and wanted for the first time in my life. I feel like I belong. I nudge him with my nose, encouraging him to return the mark, and when he does, the feeling of love only grows in my chest.
“Come on, you three. We have to move,” Quil interrupts the moment, once again in his Human form, naked and confident. My Wolf practically preens at the sight of such an attractive mate. I tilt my head, looking up at him. My eyes drop to his dick, and I wonder if biting it would teach him a lesson.
“I can hear you, Delilah. There will be time to regret your decisions later. Right now, you need to shift and get dressed. Coal will be here shortly, and we have something we need to do immediately. You two are needed as well, so hurry the fuck up,” Quil snaps, and I just glare at him, refusing to shift just because he demands it. He can ask nicely.
“He can stand there all day. I bow to no one.”My Wolf is not having it, no matter how sexy she thinks he is.
Matteo, not yet shifted, rubs his body against mine, making me smile. “I’m glad you claimed me. When Coalgave you his mark, I thought I was going to lose you,”he admits, and I nuzzle his side, comforting him.
“Never. You’re mine. All of you are mine,”I insist.
The power inside of me feels like a flame, and I’m ready to set the world on fire.
Delilah
“She’s a Luna, Quil. You know she won’t listen to demands from any of us if you’re rude about it,” Coal says as he walks into the clearing, followed closely by my mother. The sight of the frail woman distracts me from my standoff and makes me shift immediately, rushing over to her.
“Mom, what are you doing out here?” I ask, feeling nervous, and searching her for injuries, wondering what she’s doing out here.
“Come on, we need to move. You can talk on the way. Here,” Quil says, handing me a pile of clothes, as Matteo and Dean step up behind me, now shifted once more. “Here.” Quil hands them clothes as well, and after I dress in the loose pink dress Coal brought for me, I turn back to Coal and my mother.
“We need to hurry. I’m going to carry your mo-”
“No, I’ll carry her,” I insist, cutting Coal’s words off. Mymother was easy enough to lift before I found out I had the ability to shift; now, it should be like carrying a feather. “I need to talk to her,” I say when my mother interjects.
“I will walk. Thank you all very much. I have a lot I need to say, but I won’t be saying it whilst being carted around like a child.”
“We need to hurry. We don’t have time to waste going slow-” Quil snaps at my mother, but I step between them and shove the large Wolf away, growling at him. The instinct to put him in his place is taking over, and I realize my Wolf has some control over my Human form now. Images of him on his knees for me, begging me to let him taste me, flash through my mind like a movie. Apparently, we have different ideas of what it means to put him in his place…
“You will not use your superior size or power to intimidate my mother, or I’ll be the one you have to deal with,” I snarl, as Quil attempts to face off against me. He stares me dead in the eyes, and I can feel the power of my Luna as she rises to the surface, demanding submission.
