“At your pace,” he said, gritting his teeth against the urge to take her deep and hard. “Take me in.”
She rocked back again and again, each time taking him just a fraction deeper. Her cunt creamed against his hand, proving her enjoyment outweighed the pain. She moaned. She whimpered. She sighed. And then she jerked hard, and he was inside of her. All of him, and she cried out.
“Fuck,” he gasped.
“Yes. Fuck me. Please!”
And so he did. He started at a slow pace, but it wasn’t long until she met his thrusts with her own, crying out as he slammed into her. He bent her over until she grabbed the back edge of the tub, and then he rubbed her sexy ass as he watched his cock disappear again and again into her body. Her moans encouraged him to thrust deeper, faster.
He wanted to mark her now, but Reidar would castrate him if he did. Still, the idea of claiming his mate was more than he could take. When he knew he couldn’t last another second, he pinched her clit and nipped her on the nape—not hard enough to mark her, but enough to give her the hint of pain she enjoyed with the pleasure.
She screamed, and her inner muscles tightened on him until he thought he’d die. He came with a shout and fell to his knees, taking her down with him.
She wilted against him, her body limp, still impaled on his cock. “Oh…I never…”
He kissed her neck. “Wait until you have both of us inside you.”
“I don’t think I’ll survive.”
“We know CPR.”
She chuckled. His softening dick slowly slid from her body, causing them both to moan. But then she turned in his arms, wrapped her own around his neck, and kissed him hard.
“I want to know all your secrets,” she said when she pulled back and looked him in the eye.
“And we’ll tell you someday. All of them. I promise. You already know the biggest one of all.”
She grinned and caressed his face. “Thank you for trusting me.”
He dipped forward to kiss her again.
“Come on, you two. It’s getting late,” Reidar said.
Kelan got to his feet and helped Beth quickly wash. As he knew he would be, Reidar stood on the other side of the curtain when Kelan pulled it back, a thick towel in his hands, held out for Beth to walk into. He wrapped her in it and used a second to dry her hair. She smiled at Reidar and then rested her head on his shoulder as he dried her back.
“I do love you,” she said, reaching out to place her palm over his heart. “Both of you.”
“Good.” Reidar kissed the tip of her nose, probably because he feared a real kiss would lead to more. When she lowered her hand to rub her palm against the bulge in his jeans, he gripped her wrist and stared at her with passionate promise in his gaze. “We love you too, but as much as I want to let you continue, I can’t. It’s time for all of us to make appearances at our respective jobs. Do you know what you’re going to tell your boss?”
She made a face and stepped out of his arms. “Yeah. I do. I don’t really have to answer for the blood test yet, since it’ll be at least a couple of days before he hears it hasn’t gotten to the university.
As far as he knows, I mailed it, and I’ll swear to that.” She took the second towel from Reidar and rubbed it over her hair as she moved past him into the bedroom. “You got the video deleted?”
“I deleted the hour block that we were in, copied one of the other hours into its place, and renamed it to match the deleted file. I did what I could with the time stamping, but if anyone digs too deep, they’ll figure out it isn’t exactly right. I can work on it again tonight when I’ve got more time.
I’d like to get the manipulation right so it can’t be traced back to a fake.”
Kelan, toweling his own hair, followed them out of the bathroom.
“That’s fine,” Beth said. “I don’t think Tim has the ability to dig too deep into computer stuff.”
She bent over the open suitcase by the wall, baring her ass very nicely to Kelan and Reidar’s view.
“And I’m not sure Whitmore would bother, if I tell…” She stood up straight and turned with a frown.
“When he called this morning, he as much as accused me or Tim of being the ones to destroy the computer files.”
“Shit, sweetheart,” Reidar said.
“He didn’t come right out and say it, but I could tell he thought it was possible.” She waved her hand in the air and dropped the towel from around her middle to pull on a rather shapeless sports bra.
“I’ll just convince him otherwise. In fact, what I’ll do today is tell him I’ve spoken with you, and you have agreed to try and help convince the others to allow me access to Falke so that I can obtain another sample.”
“Uh, Beth…”
She cut off Reidar. “No, just listen. You’re wilderness guides, right?”
“Yes.”
“And cougars. You could track another quicker than any of us could. What if you guys took Heidi out to get another sample, one we could pass off as Falke’s? I could swear I took it from Falke, and when the results come back differently…”
Both brothers smiled.
“With the data gone, there’s no DNA for comparison. He’d have to conclude that the original sample I took was contaminated. What else could account for the anomalies?”
She bent to put on her underwear. Kelan was entranced by her smooth motions, and the fact that she wasn’t the least bit shy around either of them. She was sexy as hell. And brilliant too.
She pulled on a pair of khaki shorts then moved to sit in the chair to put on her socks. “Of course, with Falke’s sample in hand, he’ll probably want to move on to the next spot on the grid. That means I won’t see you guys for a while. The next base camp on the map is fifty miles north of here.”
“What?” Kelan demanded, her words pulling him out of his reverie.
“I told you I had work to do this summer. We’re going to be moving from place to place for two months.” She laced up her hiking boots with quick efficiency while Kelan rushed into his pants. Then she stood, put on her glasses and started packing her laptop into its case.
He knew she had a job and didn’t want to stop her from doing it, but the thought of not seeing her damn near ripped his guts out.
She slung the strap over her shoulder and picked up her purse before coming up to him, going on tiptoe and brushing a kiss over his lips. “It’s not forever, just the summer.”
“And then you’re back in Seattle.” His heart clenched. He didn’t want to move to Seattle. But if Axel and Gunnar had been willing to move to Vegas for Dakota, they couldn’t fault him and Reidar for following their soon- to-be mate to Seattle. At least it was in the same state. Only a few hours’ drive from Leavenworth. They could come back on the weekends.
She ducked her head for a moment then smiled up at him. “After this summer, all I have left is to complete my dissertation. I’m finished with everything else I need to do, and there’s no rule that says I must work on it within the confines of the university’s campus.”
“What does that mean?” Reidar asked, pulling her attention away from Kelan.
“That means,” she said hesitantly, “that if you think—if you want me—if this is really happening…Hell.” She shoved her glasses up her nose. “It means if you want me to, I could maybe move to Leavenworth for a while.”
Relief flowed through Kelan, and Reidar grabbed Beth and kissed her hard. “We want. Definitely want.
“Okay. Make sure the door locks when you leave.” She gave Kelan another quick kiss and touched his cheek. “You are such a contradiction.” With that, she headed out the door.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Kelan demanded as he pulled on his shirt.
Beth’s laughter could be heard as the door swung shut behind her.
“What’s that mean?” he asked his brother, who was pulling on his socks.
Reidar shrugged. “How the hell would I know what a woman means?” Then he grinned. “But she’s ours, on
