“They took Lolita. The sheriff came by and shut us down. Lolita and I remained to close down everything. Those assholes showed up, the guy we banned along with a huge group, and Harpy. She was working with them… to take me down. She paid them with Lolita.” His raspy voice was full of pain. “It happened so fast. I’m sorry.”
“Flint, no one is invincible,” I offered in sympathy.
“Once I’m healed, I’m going after her.” His words were firm and with a nod he allowed Boris to walk him from the club.
“We need to put together a team to go with him,” I said to Roark.
“Agreed.” Roark patted Chance on the back and headed over to where Harpy was laying on the floor.
“They’ll take care of this… can you take me home, Chance?”
“Home?” he asked as he looked down at me.
“Yeah, you’re my ole’ man, right?”
Laughter burst from his lips as he swung me into his arms and walked toward the exit.
329
Dorain
Koroleva had given me the scare of my life. Hearing and feeling her fear, when shit went down at the strip club had killed me. I never wanted to go through that again. I would tie her to the damn bed if I had to. My mate was hell bound and determined to prove she was a badass.
I knew it was instinct for her, but I needed her to learn to trust me. She wasn’t alone anymore. Hell, she had Roark and them before I came into the picture. Why was this woman so stubborn?
“If you aren’t going to fuck me again, then go away so I can fuck myself,” Koroleva growled beside me.
“Sorry, love,” I chuckled.
“Sorry my ass,” she pouted.
“Did I not satisfy you the last time?” I asked, nibbling up her ear while brushing the tips of my fingers along the inside of her bare thigh. She trembled at the touch and purred. “Are you not satisfied, my mate?”
“I just want more.”
Her sex drive was insatiable. No matter how much sex we had, she always wanted more… and more.
“Determined to dry me up?” I asked, rubbing my hand across her stomach. “Or maybe you just want me to fill you with something else?”
I smiled at the thought of her being pregnant with my child. I couldn’t wait for the day. She was going to be an amazing mother.
“What are you smiling about?” she asked, looking down at my hand that now rested on her stomach.
“Do you want kids, one day?”
“What?” she sucked in a sharp breath.
“Kids. Do you want to one day have kids… with me?” My confidence in the topic suddenly dwindled and my words faded.
Internally I kicked myself. I didn’t want to spook her. We were mates, but we still hadn’t known each other very long. For all I knew, she could still consider us in the dating stage.
“I never thought about it,” she whispered. “Never thought I’d find my mate.” She snuggled against my chest and wrapped her arm around my waist.
“Well, you found me, love.” I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her against me.
“It all still seems surreal,” she admitted softly. “One day I’m a VP and the next day I’m your mate.”
“You’re still a VP, Koroleva,” I reminded her.
“I know, but it’s not the same anymore.” She looked up at me and smiled. “You come first, now.”
“I’d never make you choose between the MC and me. We’re all your family.”
She smiled, and when she started to blush, she buried her face against my chest.
“Someone’s being shy?” I teased, which earned me a whack to the arm. I flinched at the pain. How could someone so tiny be so powerful?
“You forget I can read your mind, mister.”
I sighed heavily and rolled onto my back. She sat up on her elbow and looked at me with a shit-eating grin.
“Are you pouting?” she laughed.
“You try feeling like a man when your mate is Billy Badass.” My words made her frown.
“We’re shifters. Our strength isn’t based on gender?” she pointed out. “Besides, there are some things you are better at doing?”
I rolled on my side and raised an eyebrow.
“Like what?” I asked despite the feeling I had. It was going to be some smartass answer, and I was walking right into it.
“Like…” She pretended to think long and hard. “You can pee standing up and I can’t.” She rolled onto her back and burst into laughter.
And there it was as I expected.
I pounced on top of her and tickled her under her arms and on her sides. She laughed even harder and tried to escape my hold.
“Chance, stop! Stop! I can’t breathe,” she said while laughing. I didn’t stop. This was the only way I knew how to torture this mate of mine. I continued tickling her until she had tears streaming down her face from laughing so hard.
“Do you tap?”
“Never!” She shouted, making me laugh. I sucked her nipple into my mouth and circled it with my tongue.
“What about now?”
“Maybe,” she moaned. I grinned and repeated my action on her other nipple. Her back arched.
“Just maybe?”
“Don’t stop.”
“Tell me, you tap and I’ll give you the world and countless orgasms, beautiful.”
“I tap,” she blurted. “Now fuck me!”
“My naughty VP. What do you want this prospect to do for you,” I looked up at her and smirked. She bit her bottom lip.
“I’d like my Dark Leopard Enforcer to show me just how manly he is,” she said vixen-like.
“Enforcer?” I perked up. She smiled brightly and nodded.
“You’ve been promoted, but I can still boss you around,” she grinned.
“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” I replied as I thrust inside of her giving her every inch of manliness that I had to give. She could have control outside the bedroom, but right now all I wanted was to make her darkest wishes come true.
Epilogue
Banshee
Six months later...
“How many times do I need to tell you assholes to pay attention?” I bellowed at
