Alpha On the Run: A BBW Wolf Shifter Paranormal Romance Page 8

  Joshua swore. The force of his breath tickled the back of her neck. “If Stephen won he'd have executed Jacky for treason against the pack. That kid...”

  “If he didn't help Stephen would have won.” Anna got up and out of his embrace reluctantly. “Zip me into my dress?”

  Joshua played his fingers across her shoulders. He stroked down her back and traced the skin exposed by the open zipper. The opening went down her spine, nearly to the cleft in her butt. She shivered, enjoying the feel of his touch against her skin. “Think we have time to have a quickie?” Joshua murmured into the nape of her neck.

  “Mm!” Anna said. She turned her face into his hand. He stroked her cheek.

  “Well, how much time do we have left?” Anna asked. It was hard to think with his hands on her.

  Joshua checked his watch. “Just enough,” he said. Then he moved Anna's stool aside. He took her by the shoulders, turned her to face him, and backed her into the mirror.

  The glass was cold on her skin. Anna shivered again and smiled at Joshua.

  He grinned back. “We have fifteen minutes. Think you have time to take the dress back off?”

  “Definitely not,” Anna said, and almost kissed him. Then she backed off. “Better not smudge my makeup.”

  She thought she was good with makeup. Gina, the pack’s disguise specialist, had disagreed. The woman had cornered Anna for over an hour. She would hate to wreck Gina’s hard work, as much as she missed Joshua’s lips on her face.

  He could always put them other places.

  “Yes, my alpha,” he said teasingly. “I'll just have to kiss you other places,” he added, apparently reading her mind. Then he pressed his lips to her collarbone.

  Anna tossed her head back. The circlet clinked against the mirror. She froze, afraid of breaking it. She stayed very still and watched Joshua drop to his knees.

  He looked up at her from the floor, eyes smoldering. His hands slid up under the dress, cradling her thighs. She was normally so embarrassed about those thighs – they were pudgy and, she thought, shapeless. But Joshua thought she was beautiful, anyway.

  He pulled down her panties. Then he lifted each of her ankles in turn to delicately slide them over her pantyhose covered feet. “No time to rip these, I guess.”

  “You had better not,” Anna groaned. “I don’t have time to get new ones.”

  “Aww,” he said, mock-pouting, and lifted her right leg again to press a kiss to her ankle, then her calf. The pantyhose caught on his stubble lightly and pulled away a little when he sat back with a soft sigh.

  Once her panties were off, Joshua hiked her skirt up to her hips. He took one of her hands away from its place pressed into the mirror and wrapped her fingers around the fabric. “Hold this up?”

  “Sure,” she said.

  Then Joshua kissed up her thighs. Once he reached the top of her pantyhose, he added tongue to the kisses. He lapped at her skin like it was a delicious treat. Anna jerked and twitched. She closed her eyes and concentrated on sensation as he kissed her labia over her clit. Then he parted her lower lips with his tongue.

  He nibbled, licked and stroked between her legs. He gripped her thighs tightly as he did so. Anna leaned against the mirror for balance. It lasted just long enough to make her twitch with excitement before he stood up.

  Joshua turned her by her shoulders again. Anna braced herself on the mirror with her forearms and spread her legs. Her breath came in quick gasps. It fogged across the mirror. She heard the condom wrapper open behind her. Very shortly, Joshua's hands settled on her hips. “Still having fun?”

  “Mm, hurry up,” she said.

  He laughed. The sound went right through her and made blood rush to her cheeks. It was a rich, male sound full of arousal.

  Joshua’s teeth grazed her neck again, and he thrust into her from behind.

  She gasped and cried out. Her hips rolled with the delicious sensation. She rocked back into him with each thrust. Her eyelids fluttered, but she tried to keep them open. She watched Joshua’s face in the mirror. He was intent, his eyes half closed. He was so handsome, fucking her. The need on his face filled her with ecstasy.

  Then she gasped as he bit the back of her neck outright. His teeth marked her skin. She moaned loudly. When they went before the pack, everyone would know she was his mate, not just his fellow alpha.

  “Is that good?” he asked.

  “God, yes,” she said. “God, please don't stop – yes!”

  His golden eyes burned with lust. But his face shone with more, with his love for her.

  Anna dropped her eyes from his face. She watched the muscles in his arms and chest tense with each thrust. He bit into his lip with concentration and pleasure. His arms squeezed around her as he came. Watching the desire on his face, and feeling the pleasure in his mind, she fell over the edge herself.

  She felt weak and dizzy with orgasm, braced precariously against the mirror and off balance. The tile floor against her stocking-covered feet didn’t help. She had to clutch at Joshua for balance.

  Joshua dropped back onto the stool and pulled Anna into his lap. She put her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. His heartbeat echoed against her ear.

  “How long do we have?” She didn’t want to move.

  “A few minutes,” Joshua said. He stroked her hair and murmured sweet words into her ear. Their breath and heartbeats slowed again in unison.

  Once recovered, Anna got up. She went for a wash cloth to clean up. That dealt with, she fixed her underwear and stockings, smoothed her dress back in place, and turned. “Zip me up for real this time?”

  “I promise,” Joshua said with a laugh. He finished washing his hands and pulled the zipper up from her hips to the bottom of her neck. She shuddered with his touch. Once done, he placed a single, chaste kiss on her shoulder.

  Anna pulled her shoes on. She grabbed at Joshua's arm. She wasn't used to heels so high. “I don't understand why I have to wear these to a ceremony for wolves. Wolves don't wear shoes at all.”

  “We're humans, too.” Joshua smiled at her. “Besides, you picked them. You could have gone with something easier to walk in.”

  “I must have been suffering temporary insanity,” Anna grumbled. “That, or I was just afraid I'd look short next to you.”

  “I'm very sorry?” he asked. He widened his eyes and grimaced in a mocking mimicry of a wolf's submissive face.

  She was familiar with that tease by now. She flicked his ear. “Clearly I should have just cut you off at the knees instead.”

  “Clearly,” Joshua said dryly. He pushed open the door.

  Joshua had told her before that the pack didn't own a lot of real estate suitable for ceremony. Stephen had picked and chose the traditions he felt aided his control the best. He had little use for the supposedly frivolous.

  But after his defeat, the pack had put up a stage in the main hall of the pack’s headquarters and took the weapons and trophies down off the walls, and cleaned the long cold hearths at either side. It was almost beautiful.

  As Anna and Joshua walked into the room, the hearths were lit. Fire rushed down the room on each side in a flash. Its light cast the dim room in warm shades of light and flickering shadow. Anna looked over the room and the way the light reflected in the eyes of the pack. She corrected herself – it was beautiful.

  The walk down the aisle took an eternity, and at the same time happened far too fast. She spent an age suspended in what felt like a dream or a fantasy. Only Joshua's hold on her kept her steady. But then they ascended the makeshift steps to the stage and turned to face the room.

  “Packmates!” Joshua roared. “Challenge was declared! Challenge is over! Stephen is disgraced! I and my mate, Anna, are your alphas!”

  Everyone present already knew. Anna had spent most of the last few days introducing herself to people. Joshua had spent those days sorting out who needed to turn themselves in for crimes and who was safe to keep. The ceremonial part still had to proceed.
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  It was her turn to talk. “Do you accept us?” Anna asked. She projected her voice carefully. “Are there any challengers?”

  There was a pause. The world hung in the balance. Then, like a ripple, the pack dropped to their knees, starting at the back of the room. Finally, when the ripple reached them, Joshua helped her down, and knelt himself. They returned the pack's gesture and accepted it in one.

  The fight Joshua had brought into her life was over. The pack now had time to heal. And Anna, as Joshua's mate and a pack alpha, would be there for it.

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  When they got out of the car, they were met by her father, two more cousins, one of the Fannon alphas, and a man with startlingly blue eyes, like a wolf child's. His skin was either tanned or naturally light brown, and his hair was a dark crew cut.

  Nicole had reunited with her family earlier in the day, before they all headed out to the fields to check the damage. Now, she trailed her mother over to the others, resisting the impulse to stare at the man. Either it had been way too long since she'd had sex, or her wolf was responding to being among her own kind again.

  “Nicole,” Sheila Fannon greeted her, extending a hand. “Nice to see you again, how've you been?”

  “Good, thanks.” Nicole accepted her hand and shook it. “I heard about Andrew, I'm sorry.”

  “We miss him, but it gets better with time.” Sheila smiled tiredly, the lines around her eyes creasing. “Now. This here is Adam Langley, who your mother tells me you're interested in meeting. He's the first generation in his family, but he works hard, and you can hardly tell the difference when he's shifted.”

  That was good. A lot of first generation wolves had problems, whether because they didn't get the trick of changing forms or just because they hadn't grown up around wolf behavior and never really understood it. Not everything was instinct.

  Nicole smiled at him, careful not to show her teeth and maybe scare him, and he returned it confidently. “Adam,” Sheila continued, “This is Nicole Blackwood, the Blackwood pack's heir. She's been gone to school for a while now, but I remember her as a kid, and I think you'll get along okay. Just bring up your old job, and you should have plenty to talk about.”