Bear Lake, page 6
“Calm down, Alex. It’s healing just fine.” His eyes snapped towards Marcus as the man sauntered towards them, keeping his eyes down on the ground, and his hands firmly dug into the pockets of his jeans.
“You’re brave, bringing Alex with you.” Shane offered towards Marcus as the big man stopped beside him.
“He didn’t bring me.” Alex snapped towards Shane. Then she turned her attention back towards Jackson, still trying to pull her hands from his. “Let me see, damn it.” Jackson let her hands go and she reached for his shirt and lifted it up his chest. The large angry red welt looked like a burn and she sucked in her breath between her teeth at the sight of it.
“Alex…” Jackson tried to pacify her but her eyes had already snapped up to his and were alive with the fire of rage.
“I’m going to kill that…”
“Too late.” Shane offered and Jackson head snapped around as he growled a warning at the man. Shane held up his hands. “Didn’t think it was a secret.” He offered and Marcus frowned.
“Seriously?” Marcus shook his head in disbelief and Shane groaned.
“Not from her.” He tossed up a hand towards Alex.
“He’s…?” Alex looked to Jackson. The man looked pensive, worried, and she had no idea what was going through his mind but it didn’t look good.
“It was self-defence.” Jackson offered. He didn’t want his mate to hate him. He didn’t want her to fear him or his bear…
“It would have been murder if I’d gotten to him first.” Alex bit out. Her words reassured him but her eyes filled with tears.
“Alex?” Jackson thought he might not be able to make this better for her and his heart ached.
“Happy tears.” Alex offered him and he snapped his head to one side and stared back at her in disbelief as Shane and Marcus chuckled.
“What?” Jackson didn’t get why the hell she was crying, but then she was female. Either she was happy or sad, how could there be both at once?
“I’m glad he’s dead, Jackson. I’m sorry you got hurt…” She tried to explain it, but from the confused look on his face she didn’t think she was doing a good job. “I’m happy it’s over. I hate him with a vengeance. I’m sorry I wasn’t the one to kill the bastard…” She was rambling as the tears rolled down her cheeks. Relief washed through her.
“O-k.” Jackson frowned as he reached out and brought her into his arms.
“Females.” Shane offered towards Marcus and the big man grunted.
“Paradoxical.” Marcus nodded and Shane scratched his head.
“I don’t know what that means, man.” He shook his head on his neck and slapped Marcus on the chest motioning towards the back garden. “Dead guy for you to get rid of.”
“I’m getting used to that.” Marcus muttered as he set off with Shane away from the mates.
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It worried Jackson that since they had come back from her house Alex had been curled up on the sofa watching nothing much of anything on the television. He’d taken a shower to wash off his blood, changed, and walked back into the living room to find her still there. He didn’t think that boded well for them as mates.
The knocking on his front door annoyed him and he stalked across the room and yanked it open to find Chance standing there looking hopeful. Jackson sighed inwardly. Right at that moment he wanted nothing more than to punch the man in the face…
“What?” He demanded and Chance shrugged his shoulders.
“We’re cooking…” Chance motioned with his thumb over his left shoulder and tried to look around him inside the cabin for Alex, but Jackson’s large frame blocked his view.
“It’s nice you learned what fire’s for…” Jackson growled at the man and Chance scowled.
“We thought that Alex might like…”
“Alex is…” Jackson scowled.
“Hungry.” The remote control that she’d been fisting for the past hour in her hand as if she was reluctant to put it down in case someone else snatched it away from her was tossed aside and Jackson watched as she eased her body up from the sofa.
She was showing signs of life again and that couldn’t be a bad thing in his book, and she was moving better. He hoped that meant that she was healing. Jackson turned back towards Chance and the man was grinning like he’d just won a damn prize. Jackson growled.
“Meet you by the pit.” Chance rushed out as he turned on his heels and stalked away. Jackson turned towards Alex just as she came up behind him.
“You sure you’re ok?” Jackson’s concern rang out in his voice and Alex frowned.
“You mean apart from the busted ribs, the dead ex-husband, and the bear mate?” Alex offered up to him with a blank expression.
“Y-e-a-h.” Jackson didn’t know what to make of it. Alex gave a small shrug off her shoulders.
“It’s all good.” She grinned. Jackson frowned harder.
“Good to know.” He didn’t move until she lifted her hands and shooed him out of the doorway. Then he took a step to the side and allowed her to pass. In truth, he still didn’t know what to make of it.
“Women are… strange.” He muttered to himself as he reached up and scratched his head.
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Jackson was having his most vivid and erotic dream about his mate so far. He’d put her on her hands and knees in front of him and was taking his own sweet damn time stroking in and out of her body. Every stroke felt like heaven and even thought his mind told him that he needed to thrust harder, move faster, take her deeper with every stroke; he just couldn’t get his body to do it. This just felt too good and he never wanted it to end…
He growled with every stroke. Needed more. Her scent was all around him and it called to him more and more…
Jackson’s eyes snapped open. His hand came down around hers. Her fingers were wrapped around his hard cock and she was trying not to giggle. He groaned.
“You’re not yet healed…” He started for the third morning in a damn row.
“Take the Goddamn hint, alpha or tomorrow I’m just going to straddle your hips and slide down your cock until…” Her words were taunting him into action and he growled long and hard as he tried to bite down on the urge to take her there and then…
“Fuck sake, Alex…” This was torture.
“Fuck? If only…” She gave him a wicked grin and her eyes were fired up with desire for him. How the hell was he going to keep denying her?
“You’re killing me here, sweetheart.” He growled as he eased her hand from his length. She was more than reluctant to let go. A moment later and he’d unwrapped his body from hers and was pushing up from the bed. His eyes caught her pout.
“Ditto.” She huffed as she rolled over onto her back and scowled up at the ceiling.
“I need a cold shower.” He growled as he set off on fast feet out of the room. He’d have to take care of himself again and then, this time, he was going back into the damn bedroom to take care of his mate before she took matters into her own hands…again. He didn’t need to wake up like that every morning and not be able to do what comes naturally.
“Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing in there, bear.” She called after him and Jackson stopped at the bathroom door and gritted his teeth as he rolled his eyes. “Maybe I should do some of that…” She yelled.
He growled, groaned, and turned back on his feet towards the bedroom. He would take care of her first and then he would… Jackson came to a dead stop at the bedroom door at the sight of his mate with her legs drawn up in the bed, her inner thighs were open for him to see her naked glory, and her fingers were stroking her wet flesh…
CHAPTER EIGHT
“Like what you see, mate?” Her voice was breathless as two of her fingers disappeared inside of her channel. Jackson growled out with desire, need. The scent of her arousal hit him hard and his bear roared within him.
“Alex…” He growled out a warning, but he couldn’t drag his eyes away from what she was doing…
“I need to feel your hard cock stretching me out, Jackson…” She teased him with her words and he was more than jealous of her fingers. He covered the distance to the bed in a heartbeat. His palms hit the mattress and he started up the bed towards her looking every inch the wild beast that she was desperate to see.
“Fuck, Alex…” He took in the sight and scent of her sex. His cock was twitching and straining to be inside of her. His hand reached for hers and he eased it away with a long, hard growl of need. He was practically drooling to taste her.
“Mate with me, Jackson…” She goaded him. Pleaded with him with her eyes as his flicked up to hers and down again. Then with a muted roar he dipped his head and thrust his tongue inside of her channel. He heard her gasp, felt her hips push up from the bed, and he lost his mind to the taste of her.
With his face buried against her sex; he gave her no time to second guess herself or him. His tongue swirled inside of her before he licked up her folds to her clit. He nipped, sucked, and licked against the sensitive nub as two thick fingers pushed deep into her channel. The sound of her gasps and muted moans was music to his ears and urged him on… Then he felt her fingers in his hair and she fisted the silken strands tightly, wrenching his head up and meeting him eye for eye…
“No.” The word shattered his mood and slapped him hard. “I need your cock inside me. I won’t settle for anything less.” She demanded and his beast roared within him. His mate was challenging him…
“Alex…” He growled out a warning that she wasn’t about to heed. She yanked his hair harder and he flicked his head on his neck and yanked her hands free… “Don’t challenge my bear…”
He moved up her body and caged her in with his arms either side of her. Alex pushed her hips up from the bed. The feel of his hard length as it lay against her inner thigh was electric, causing her sex to clench in desperation and her womb jolted with need.
“I need you…” She ran her hands up his naked chest and loved the feeling of his muscles dancing under his skin at her touch. She got as far as his shoulders before she raked her fingernails back down his chest.
Jackson growled out and snatched at her wrists. Wrapping them with his large hands; he gently eased her hands over her head, mindful of her damaged ribs. She didn’t flinch…
“You need a damn straightjacket. You’re still injured.” He growled out and saw a wicked look in her eyes.
“You want to tie me up and stretch me out with that thick cock of yours, alpha?” He rolled his head on his neck as he growled in desperation. His mate was going to drive him straight to hell…
“Don’t tempt me, Alex…” He bit off his words when she wrapped her legs around his hips and tried to pull him closer.
“My pain is all but gone…”
“So not yet gone.”
“Jack…”
“Alex, I’m warning you…”
“If you don’t put your cock inside of me I’m going to snap the damn thing off the next time you go to sleep and do it myself…” She scowled up at him and for one long moment he thought that she meant every word. Then a grin burst out over Jackson’s face and she scowled up at him even harder… “Jackson…” She hissed and he couldn’t help but chuckle. He dropped his head forward and snagged one hard nipple between his teeth… that stopped her talking.
He sucked the flesh into his mouth, nipping it with his teeth and running his tongue against the peak, and every inch of her melted around him. He lowered his body down over her. Rubbed his cock against her sex until she gave a small whimper… Then he eased his head back and let her nipple slip from his mouth.
“You think you can take me when I’ve got you on your hands and knees and I’m fucking you hard?” He growled against her lips just at the thought of it.
“I’d lay money on it.” She had the kind of wicked smile on her lips that drove him wild and he wasn’t about to hold back now.
He used his knees to open her wide and pressed the bulbous head of his cock inside of her. The groan that rolled through him with mixed with a hearty growl as he pushed his hips towards hers. The tightness of her channel squeezed around his length has her hand had done and sent a shiver up his spine.
He watched her lips part wider the further inside his hard length opened her up. He couldn’t stop himself from thrusting to the hilt, taking her down his length, and gloried in the sound of the moan that left her lips. She was more than made for him; those silken inner walls clenched around his cock as if she never wanted him to leave her.
“Fuck, baby, you feel so good…” He growled against her neck as he nuzzled into her scent.
Jackson’s large frame was caging her in and Alex had never felt so excited in her whole life, and so safe. The feel of his thick, long cock thrusting into her over and over again sent jolts of electric deep within her womb. She could already feel her muscles starting to tighten around his length, demanding that her body come around his, and she wasn’t going to hold back.
The grunts and growls that came from his lips against her neck sounded so damn good and she didn’t hold back the moans or curses in return. She felt his hands tighten against her wrists as he lost himself inside of her and it only added to the fever that raged within her body. She could feel that knot tighten inside of her and it was close to breaking point. She whispered his name over and over again…
“Come around my cock, Alex…” He demanded against her ear and thrust faster, deeper, harder, taking her over the edge and launching her body and mind into oblivion.
Jackson felt the hard clench and release of her inner muscles around his length demanding his seed, and he fought the urge. He wasn’t close to being done with his mate yet. He felt the wildness within him. The urge to take her the way he needed it to be.
As she was coming back to him; he yanked his cock from inside of her, released her wrists, and turned her over in the bed. Putting her onto her hands and knees in front of him; his large hands came down on her hips and he thrust back in to the hilt. The sound of her deep moan set his bear off and sent him wild with his own needs.
His body acted on instinct and that instinct was purely carnal, feral. He needed to fuck like a wild thing and he did. His hips slapped against the curve of her backside, over and over, his balls slapped against her clit, and the sound of it was even more potent than her moans.
The air was thick with the scent of her arousal mixed with sweat. He reached down and hooked his arm against her body, bring her back up against his chest, as his other hand travelled down over her mound and into the wet juices that clung to her sex. His fingers worked over her clit and made her clench those inner muscles around his cock once more.
He grunted like a wild thing against her ear. Lost to the feel of her body, to the feel of his cock pounding inside of her, taking them both up towards the pleasure of a release that he needed after the torture of so many nights with her lying in his arms and not being inside of her sweet body. He nipped against her flesh, the sharp points of his incisors just piercing the skin, placing his mark on her body so that no one would dare harm or try to claim her.
He felt her hand around the back of his neck, keeping him close, and that to him was pure gold. He could feel her tightening once more. The feel of her nails biting into his flesh only hyped up his fever and his thrusts became erratic as his balls tightened and even more blood pumped into his thick cock.
Alex’s curses and moans were beyond dirty and when she bit down on the last of them, he felt her inner muscles clamp down hard around his length a moment before the pulsing started around his cock and her body suckled his seed from his balls to as deep as he could get within her body. He roared at the intensity of the orgasm that tore through him. Over and over, he grinded his cock inside of her, pumping his seed out, and claiming her as his life mate.
By the time that his brain cleared; he found that he’d sunk back onto his knees on the bed and Alex was locked against his chest inside of his strong arms. He lifted her with him; taking them down onto their sides on the mattress, and he curled his body around hers protectively. The scent of their bodies was mixed with the scent of sex in the air and he nestled close to her, listening to her heartbeat and her breathing as she came back to him.
“Are you hurt?” Jackson heard her chuckle through the need to pull in vast amounts of oxygen into her lungs.
“Not even close.” Alex wiggled her hips and rubbed the cheeks of her backside against his semi hard length. His gentle growl made her chuckle. “If that’s all you’ve got, bear, I don’t think you’re in any danger of breaking me.” It was a challenge…
“That was just the start of what I want to do to you, Alex.” It was a promise wrapped up in a sexy growl as his hands ran over her body and fired her imagination. “I want to taste every inch of you. I want to explore every inch with my tongue, my fingers, and my cock. Bury my length deep inside of you and take you to the very limit of what you can handle.”
“When do we start?” She liked the sound of that. His deep chuckle sent her toes curling against the covers.
“As soon as you say the word, baby. I was thinking about taking you to the shower and washing you clean, then putting you onto your knees and feeding you my cock…” She moaned at the thought, and his length pressed hard against her backside. “Then I’m going to fuck you, over and over…” His cock nudged against the tight hole of her backside. “Everywhere that you’ll let me…”
“Did I ever tell you that I’m open to new ideas?” She looked at him over her shoulder and gave him a wicked grin.
“Then we’ll take that one slowly if it’s a first for you…” The thought of sharing a new experience with her sent a heat within his blood. “You’re mine, Alex, and I won’t ever do anything to hurt you. You know that, right?”
“I know.” Alex stroked her fingers down his arm as he held her close. Her mate was a living, breathing cage around her body, but she didn’t feel trapped, she felt loved, protected, and safe.
