Troy slid off her body, gathered her into his sweat-slicked arms, both of them spent. He tenderly stroked her hair, and kissed her temple.
“Damn, that was worth waiting for, Jenny. You were worth waiting for.”
For a few minutes they lay together, looking at the bright blue sky overhead, the sun dappling the pine and oak trees, listening to the song of the rushing river and the birds calling to each other from the treetops. She had never felt so exhilarated nor so content.
Then she raised herself on one elbow, her strength returning.
“That was wonderful.”
He smiled, playfully tugging at a lock of her hair. “Better than wonderful. That was just the first time, Jenny.”
“I know. How long before…”
Glancing down at his groin, she saw the answer. His penis was pulsing upward again, showing his eagerness all over again for her.
Troy’s smile widened. “Yes?”
“Let’s do it again.”
Troy couldn’t hold back this time.
The first time, he’d been gentle, not wanting to scare her. This time he had no control.
So beautiful, lying on the blanket, flushed with passion, her long hair spilling around her, her eyes so blue like the ocean. He could drown in her.
He hovered over her, sweat from his forehead dripping onto her bare breast. “You sure, Jenny? Because I don’t know if I can control myself.”
In answer, she hooked her legs around his hips. “Do it.”
Troy slid his cock between her legs, found that sweet wet spot of paradise that he’d dreamed about for weeks.
He nudged inside and her core encased his cock, squeezing it as he pushed deeper.
Jenny arched upward, making him penetrate deeper still.
Troy lost it.
He angled down, and she took more of his muscled weight, her arms hooking around his back, urging him on. Troy didn’t hold back. He thrust hard and deep, pushing her, pushing himself, grunting as he watched her beneath him. Jenny moaned, her gaze locked to his as they fucked. No, this wasn’t fucking like he’d done before meeting her with women who were happy to have him in their beds and didn’t’ care that he slipped away when the sun rose.
This was making love, their two souls tangling together, two lone wolves coming together in one flesh.
Impossible to keep this pace, because he felt the pressure rising, his climax hovering. Troy angled his cock to hit her secret spot, knowing it would push her over the edge as well. Jenny’s breaths increased and she arched upward, taking him all inside her. He could feel her quiver around his cock. So close…
As she opened her mouth and screamed his name, climaxing around his thrusting cock, he let go.
Flinging back his head, he shouted her name as his balls tightened and his seed shot out of his cock, flooding her passage, shooting deep inside her. He kept coming, each release making her orgasm again, a Lupine’s special secret.
Their cries echoed in the forest, drowning out the river’s roar.
Chapter 10
After a long swim in the river to refresh them, they walked back toward the lodge. Jenny felt different. It wasn’t merely the heated intensity between them, and the shift in their relationship from friends to lovers.
For the first time in her life, she felt comfortable in her own skin. Troy did that for her.
They decided to take the four-wheeler to explore the access road near the Timberline wolf pack. Scents abounded in these woods, a miasma of smells, along with a faint, but discernable, smell of metal shavings. The metal shavings scent bothered her the most. She’d never smelled anything like it, and her instinct warned it wasn’t natural.
Or benign.
All the previous contentment leeched out of her. She glanced at Troy, who frowned.
“Something’s not right here,” he said, his fingers tightened on the wheel.
“Let me check on the wolf pack.”
“I’ll go with you.”
But the female alpha and the pups were safe inside their den. They peered down to see her asleep with the pups, another wolf guarding the entrance. The wolf growled at them, and they retreated.
As they returned to the four-wheeler, Troy shook his head. “I don’t get it. The wolf pack is okay, but there’s something not right about this area. Are you able to detect anything with your magick?”
She shook her head. “I just want to get out of here.”
Finally they cleared the woods and entered the open pasture, much to her relief. He stopped, hooked an arm around her waist as they looked at the jagged mountains in the distance.
“So beautiful,” he murmured. “Serene.”
Troy glanced down at her.
“Do you think you’d like to remain here, Jenny? Because I like it here, the more time I spend.”
Staying here for good took a leap of faith. More like a canyon leap. Jenny didn’t want any of them getting close to her. Sam was right. She did push people away from her.
Those who did tended to get close lost their lives. It happened before, and she never wanted it to happen again.
Only Troy, stubborn, darling Troy, her best friend, refused to abandon her. She’d taken it one step further and made love with him. Sharing her body was one thing.
But sharing a life with him here?
She opted for caution. “It’s too soon to tell, Troy. But it is nice, all these surroundings. Beats sleeping on a forest floor.”
He laughed.
When they returned to the lodge, Troy put away the picnic items in the kitchen while she sat on the sofa, feeling her body sink into it as if it were a giant marshmallow. She ran her fingers across the tan leather, sighing wistfully at the butter softness beneath her touch.
Despite the July warmth, a fire crackled in the stone hearth. The Mitchell Ranch Lodge was warm, welcoming and dangerous. Filled with Lupines who would turn on her in a heartbeat if they saw her
