Kolby chomped on the shadows, trying to argue through the gag. Jacob gave Kolby a wary look before turning his attention back to me, not even acknowledging Kyren.
“Tate, we’re your family. Are you really going to turn your back on us for...him?”
I breathed out a sigh. My beast calmed with each stroke of Kyren’s shadow and hand on me. “You don’t seem to get it.” I stepped closer to Kyren and wrapped an arm around his waist. “Heis my family now.”
“But... Tate...” Jacob huffed and looked at Kolby for some guidance, but he obviously had none to offer. “Who’s going to be alpha?”
I shrugged. “That’s not my problem. You decide. Though...” I frowned at Kolby. “I would suggest not Kolby. He’s likely to start a war ‘cause he can’t keep his mouth shut.”
Kolby glared at me.
“Yeah...” Jacob sighed. “I guess you’re right. I... I’m sorry, Tate.” Jacob shook his head. “I had hoped this would have gone easier.” He stepped towards Kolby and then grimaced. “Can you...?”
Kyren’s shadows released Kolby and slithered back beneath his feet.
Kolby spat, swiping a hand over his mouth before stalking toward us. Jacob grabbed his arm.
“Enough, Kolby.”
Kolby looked at Jacob and then back to us. “You’re just going to let him go? After we came all the way here? You know the council won’t be happy if we don’t—”
“We’ll deal with it,” Jacob interrupted, giving Kolby a pointed look. “There’s nothing more we can say. Tate has obviously made his choice.”
Kolby’s eyes switched back to normal. The tension of his oncoming change lessened as he rolled his shoulders. His gaze landed on Kyren and me before he sniffed and turned his back on us as if we were nothing more than fleas to him.
“Bye, Tate,” Jacob murmured, leading Kolby away.
When they had climbed into their vehicle and left, I turned to Kyren, leaning my forehead on his shoulder. “What the fuck.”
Kyren patted me on the back. “Do not worry, I won’t let them take you.” His fingers curled around the back of my neck, lifting my head so I met his gaze. “You’re mine after all.”
“Yes,” I smiled softly, “I’m yours.”
His mouth pressed to mine, his hands clinging to me as much as I was clinging to him. Kyren pressed me into the half-opened door to the house, using his shadows to close it behind us.
We pulled at each other’s clothes with as if it were the first time we’d ever touched one another, each of us desperate to feel the others’ flesh against them.
It wasn’t surprising. It had been days since we’d made love, between Kyren brooding about Jack and the Durands and me trying to play devil’s advocate between the two of them. While touching Jack had been wonderful and a big step forward to getting her back with me and Kyren where she belonged, I missed him.
Kyren’s shadows joined his hands, undoing my clothing, showing his own impatience to be close again. He walked me backward through the hallway and then, suddenly, I was falling my back pressed against the soft mattress of our bed.
I laughed and let him roll me over, my pants jerked off leaving me bare before him. I knelt on the bed, elbows digging into the mattress. Kyren left a trail of open mouth kisses down my spine, spreading me apart before licking me from taint to asshole.
I groaned and pushed back into him, as I heard a drawer opening before the cool, familiar feel of lubricant dripped between my cheeks.
Fingers circled me, pushing in and then out with a squelching noise that only made me buck my hips back for more. With on hand in between my shoulder blades and his otherotherwise occupied, I shouldn’t have been surprised to feel my cock being tugged. Kyren’s shadows stroked me up and down in firm grip.
“Please, Kyren. I can’t wait any longer,” I gasped and groaned, a pressure building in my cock already.
Kyren growled, his fingers slipping out before he lined the blunt head of his cock up with my ass. He pressed in slow and deep, not giving me the fast rough pounding I wanted. His mouth on my shoulders as he murmured against my skin.
“You chose me.”
Thrust.
“You’re mine.”
Thrust.
