Mate is very yummy, my leopard announces.
Yes, he is, I reply as I bump against his side and nuzzle his neck. He swings his beautiful head my way and the heat I see in his eyes has me turning around to head back to the clubhouse. He spins on his paws and follows me and soon, the rest of the crew are doing the same. Thankfully, we’re quite a bit ahead of them because despite being a shifter, I’m still a bit shy when it comes to others seeing me naked, either before or after a shift. Once we’re both on two legs again, he grabs our clothes and tosses me over his shoulder, calling out, “Church in two hours.”
Two hours? Oh my!
Knox
I make my way to our room and once we’re behind the closed and locked door, I stalk into the bathroom. Letting Jayda down, I smell her desire and want nothing more than to push her against the wall and thrust into her over and over again until we’re both spent. First, a shower.
“Two hours?” she questions as I begin to undress her.
“Yep,” I reply, turning the water on to heat. I see her shiver and grin when her scent hits me. Tossing my clothes aside, I take her hand and pull her into my arms before I carry her into the shower stall. “It’ll take that long at least to get cleaned up, then dirty again, then shiny,” I inform her as I let the water sluice down our bodies. “Can’t get enough of you, Jayda.”
“Good thing because I feel the same way as you.”
Despite the timeline I gave everyone else, I’m running behind and expect my brothers will give me a ton of shit for it. Chuckling, I glance over at my sleeping mate. I hate to wake her up, but she wants to be a part of taking Roberts down, so I gently shake her. “Baby? You need to wake up or you’re going to miss church.”
She opens her eyes and I see one glaring at me before she rolls over and sits up. “Right now, I want sleep, Knox,” she grumbles.
“When church is done, we’ll come back up and sleep as long as you want, sweetheart,” I tell her. “But I know this is important to you, to be a part of his demise, which is why I woke you up.” Now fully dressed, I watch her pull on clothes then take her hair and wind it up into some kind of bun thing. I know it’s probably tangled as fuck since we went from the shower to the bed and back to the shower before collapsing into a sated, blissful sleep.
We’ll help her later, my leopard states.
Abso-fucking-lutely, I reply.
“You promise?” she asks.
“Yeah, baby, I promise,” I state before pulling her toward me for a kiss. When it begins to heat up, I pull back and say, “Later for that as well.”
“Spoilsport,” she mumbles, her cheeks flushed.
406
Knox
We stop by the kitchen to grab drinks before heading into church. As we walk in, I see that we’re not the only ones running late; Gray and his mate aren’t here yet either. Regardless, the rest of the guys are giving me shit and I see Jayda’s face turn red.
“Y’all knock it off,” I state as I sit down and pull her into my lap. I’m about to say something else when Gray walks in, his mate’s hand in his. He raises his brow at me and I smirk at him but say nothing as he sits next to me and pulls her into his lap. All four of our old ladies are rocking that ‘freshly fucked’ look and I know, despite the teasing we’re getting from the single brothers, that each one of them would love to find their own mate.
“So, how are we gonna smite this asshole from the face of the earth?” Bomber asks.
“Smite?” Brace retorts. “How is it possible that you even know what that word is, let alone how to use it properly in a sentence?”
“Word of the day calendar, asshole,” Bomber replies. “Do you need me to get you one for Christmas?”
I barely resist rolling my eyes. There are times I wonder what the hell our national president was thinking when he put me in charge of this band of misfits. Most of the other clubs are predominantly cats. Me? I’ve got fucking otters, owls, bears, and a dragon to deal with and each of them is a pain in my ass. “Enough!” I bark out. No need in the old ladies seeing how their men revert to children when we’re in here, right?
“Okay, Pidge, Aces, what have y’all found out?” Gray inquires, pulling everyone’s attention back to the matter at hand.
“He’s not really going anywhere,” Pidge replies.
“Waterway has been clear as well,” Manic inserts.
“Watching and listening to the comings and goings, I believe he’s going to be by himself until this weekend,” Aces states. “So we need to do something before more women are brought to him.”
I nod. “I know there are a lot of trees. My thought is that we shift and hide in the trees nearby, Wooly and Mammoth have the front and back of the cabin, and Bomber, you’ll fly out of sight overhead. We need to cause a distraction that gets him outside and then we’ll pounce on him and take him down. Should he get into the air, Bomber will heat him up enough to drop him back down. Then, before we destroy him, Chantal and Jayda both get their shot at him, y’hear?”
Nods and assents go around the table once I’ve finished outlining the plan. I know a lot of shit can go wrong, but I have confidence in my brothers, as well as my old lady, and I think we’ll be able to accomplish our goals. “We’ve got more of the lotion,
