Hungry for Red (A Salem Experiment Book 1) Page 3
He frowns down at me, but I smile at him to reassure him. “I’m feeling a little sore, actually quite sore. You’ve got a baseball bat for a dick. I’ll need a day or so to recover before you come anywhere near me with that massive thing again.” As I nod at his dick, he throws back his head and laughs at my teasing before I ask, “Where does the Little Kitten come from?”
“The name came to me when you used your claws on me last night.” When Aaron rolls over and shows me the little crescent shaped rips in his skin, I feel awful but he quickly continues. “Don’t worry, I loved every second of making you mine. Now, let’s go get some breakfast before I forget that you’re sore and take you again.”
We spend the rest of the day getting to know a little about each other. I tell him all about my boring former job as a receptionist at Traditional Ted’s Auto Shop. As I’m telling him about Terrible Ted making my life a living hell, Aaron growls under his breath and gets up to pace the room, and I realize that I’ve made a mistake by sharing that part of the story. “It wasn’t really so bad. I always made sure to leave before I was left alone with Terrible Ted. He was just an annoyance, really.”
Aaron stops and stares at me for a second then shakes his head. “You mean, until he tried to rape you in the woods? I won’t let that asshole come near you ever again.”
When I see the vein pulsing in his temple and his clenched fists, I decide to change the subject. “Tell me about your job.”
Aaron stops pacing and takes a few deep breaths before turning to me and holding out his hand. “Why don’t I show you instead?” He tugs me along behind him down the hallway to a room under the staircase.
Behind the door is the most complex office I’ve ever seen. The entire side wall is covered in computer screens; not monitors but big, huge screens. The French doors that open to the backyard have heavy drapes that can be closed to conceal all the natural light.
I can’t contain my amazement. “Wow, do you work for some secret organization?” I can feel Aaron’s chest shaking from his silent laughter behind me as he leads me over to the black leather sofa across the room from the monitors. After dropping me onto the sofa, I watch as he hits a button and the monitors come to life.
He leans on the big oak desk and points at the screen as a well-known computer game logo pops up on the screen. “No, I run a computer software and gaming development company. I’m a big computer nerd.”
“You created Salem Splice? Oh my God. You are the best-looking computer nerd I’ve ever seen.” Hmm, it’s time to play with my computer nerd. I pout a little while batting my eyelashes and biting my lip. “I love to play Salem Splice, but I know I’ll never beat the creator unless he’s distracted or something. Maybe we could play a game I could win.” He crooks his finger, and I point at my chest and mouth, “Me?”
When he tries to look stern and shakes his head, answering, “Yes,” I get up and slowly make my way over to him. “Are you sure you’ve healed enough for the game you want to play? I’m one tough opponent.” He growls as I get close.
I shake my head and look at him, smiling. “My mouth was never injured.” Then I drop to my knees and pull his sweatpants down his muscular legs. After his thick cock pops out in front of my face, I lean forward and lick the silver ball on one side, causing him to groan loudly and grab the back of my head. Using one hand to hold on to his massive thigh, I wrap my other one around his dick and massage him while playing with my tongue.
“Don’t fuck around. You’re killing me,” he hisses as I toy with the hardware in his cock. Finally, I wrap my lips around his cock and suck. Pre-cum and spit drip down my chin as his pierced cock slides to the back of my throat. “FUCK!” His hold on my head tightens, and he begins to rock his hips in rhythm with my movements. After a few moments, Aaron starts to tug back on my hair and warns, “I can’t hold on anymore. Your mouth is heaven.” I decide to finish this and suck harder while relaxing my throat so his cock slips even deeper. My moaning around his big stick causes Aaron to lose control, and cum coats the back of my throat as he comes while shouting my name.
When Aaron slumps back onto his desk, I crawl onto his chest and whisper, “Game over. I won.”
He starts laughing before deciding, “I’ll let you win that game anytime you want to play.”
Kitty and Mouse are waiting for us in the living room. The big dog walks over to me and pushes his head under my hand, demanding some petting, while the large black cat watches jealously from the corner. After I give the dog attention, I walk over and scratch the cat behind the ears and along his back.
“The attention you’re giving my animals is making me jealous,” Aaron observes from the doorway.
I roll my eyes and remind him, “I want your animals to like me, too,” before I go back to giving the two animals love.
Aaron sits on the sofa and signals for me to sit next to him. “They’ll come over here and sit next to us. Come watch a movie with me.” Just as he predicted, the two animals curl up next to us on the sofa. While we watch the movie, I pet Mouse, who’s curled up half on my lap and half on Aaron’s lap. At some point during the movie, I doze off and wake up later to find myself laying across Aaron’s lap with both animals curled up around me.
5
Aaron
I’m taking things as slow as I can with Isla. My wolf keeps urging me to mark her and be done, but I can’t take the decision away from her. We are completely in love with her, and I need to convince my wolf to give her the time to catch up. My animals love Isla just as much as I do, and she keeps asking for me to explain their names to her. I’m running out of excuses to stall. How do I explain that, before the accident that turned me into a werewolf, my dog was a cat and my cat was a mouse, so I named them Kitty and Mouse? I want to ask Max and Frankie how to proceed, but they’re caught up in drama of their own. It looks like I’ll have to figure this out on my own.
My dick really did a number on her poor virgin pussy the first time we made love, so now we have to abstain for a couple of days to give her time to heal. In order to control my wolf, I sneak out several times each day to shift and run through the woods. Hopefully, tonight, her pussy will be up to another round of lovemaking, so I don’t die of sexual frustration and overexertion from my daily runs.
After my thoughts are interrupted by a knock at the front door, I race to the door and fling it open, ready to attack whoever is stupid enough to pound on my door this late at night. As far as I know, the bridge is still impassible, so there should be no one out in this part of the woods. To my surprise, Max is standing at the door with his hand raised, about to knock again. “What the fuck?” I don’t even try for friendliness.
He pushes past me and walks into my foyer before responding, “I thought you’d want to know the bridge is repaired. Nice to see you too, Asshole.” Isla walks in from the living room as he’s speaking, and he winks at me before turning to her. “Now, I see the reason you’re so moody. I wouldn’t want any other men around her either.” Then, he walks over and holds out his hand to Isla and introduces himself. “My friend isn’t going to have manners and introduce me, so I’ll have to do it. Max Dunn, pleased to meet you.”
Isla smiles shyly at the smug bastard, and the urge to tear him to shreds moves through me. She takes his hand and responds, “Isla Redmond, nice to meet you, too.” While he shakes her hand, it takes all my control not to rip my friend’s arm off for daring to touch my woman.
Since Max is a bear shifter, he realizes my wolf isn’t going to tolerate another male touching my mate, so he backs away after releasing Isla’s hand. Then, he turns to me and smiles smugly. “Wanted to let you know the bridge is all fixed. Thought I’d come in person since you aren’t answering your phone.”
“Since you came all the way here, would you like something to drink?” Isla offers, and I glare at Max, daring him to accept.
“Sure. I’d love whatever you have.” The dead bastard smiles.
After Isla walks into the kitchen,
I advance on him with my claws and canines out, and he laughs and races for the door, calling over his shoulder, “You are a real asshole. Tell Isla I had an emergency and had to leave.” I shake my head and slam the door after him.
I walk into the kitchen and let Isla know, “Max got a call and had to run.” She turns with a glass in her hand, and I can tell by her narrowed eyes that she isn’t buying my story before she even asks, “Did you have anything to do with his sudden call?”
While trying to look as innocent as possible, I point at my chest and mouth, “Who? Me?” But Isla shakes her head and puts the glass away. When she turns back to me with a serious expression on her face, I brace myself for her question. “Is there any reason for me to stay now?”
The pissed-off growl slips out before I can contain it, and she jumps as I snap, “Yeah, there’s one big fucking reason. I love you and want you here. I thought I’d made that clear to you.”
“I love you, too, but this is moving so fast. Have I suddenly moved in here?”
As she nervously bites her lip, I walk over and wrap my arms around her. “I’d love to keep you with me forever, but I’m willing to move at your pace.” As the wolf is fighting me, I try to control him while I assure her, “The moment I saw you, I knew you were it for me. If you need a little more time, I’ll give you that time. Just don’t threaten to leave me again.”
Isla wraps her tiny arms around me and snuggles in. Her luscious fragrance wraps around me, and I command the wolf to calm his ass down. I’ve got this situation under control.
She sniffles before whispering, “I don’t really need more time. You’re it for me, too. I just feel like things are a little crazy, and I get scared. Have patience with me.”
After sighing in relief, I kiss the tip of her nose and try come up with an excuse to go run off some of my emotions. “Let me go out and check that everything made it through the storms. Why don’t you check out what we have for dinner? If you prefer to go out, I’ll take you on our first date when I get back in.”
I hurry out the door to give the wolf an outlet for his aggression. When I return a while later, Isla’s smell has faded significantly. As I race through the house calling her name, my heart almost beats out of my chest in fear. The wolf growls and tears at my skin, causing me to suffer while I search the entire cabin. Finally, I notice my keys aren’t hanging by the back door, so I run and look into the garage to find my SUV is missing.
Just as panic is setting in, I get a call from Max. Before I even say hello, his resigned voice comes through the line. “You fucked up big time…”
6
Isla
My heart is broken. I miss Aaron so much. I even miss Kitty and Mouse. Just as I’d thought everything was working out, my world was blown apart. We talked, and I’d been convinced we could fall so quickly and have a normal relationship, and then boom, normal flies out the window. I keep trying to forget the image of Aaron’s body stretching and distorting as it turned into a wolf, but my mind insists on playing it over and over again. Because I’ve been falling in love with him, I’ve ignored all the signs that something is different about Aaron. Now, my heart is shattered, and my life is destroyed. Although my job at Traditional Ted’s was a shitty job, it was better than no job at all. Telling my boss his son is a low-life scumbag felt great at the time, but now, I have no job and no boyfriend. I have no boyfriend because I watched him turn into a werewolf. He ran away after he turned into a werewolf right in front of my eyes. The vicious circle keeps playing over and over in my mind, and I can’t turn it off.
After watching him shift and take off through the woods, I panicked and grabbed his SUV keys. I feel terrible for leaving him stranded out in the middle of nowhere without transportation, but all I could think about was escaping. Later, I dropped his vehicle off at the all-night grocery store with a note on the front seat that explained everything. Since I never thought to get Aaron’s number, I called Max at the Ranger’s station and asked him to let Aaron know where to find his SUV. Max begged me to let him come get me, but I refused and hung up.
Now, I’m hiding out in my apartment, not sure what I’m going to do with my crazy life. As I keep waiting to wake up and realize this was all a dream, part of me would hate to miss the last few days with Aaron. No matter how it ended, it was the best days of my life. Here come the tears again. Urgh.
My chaotic thoughts are interrupted by a knock at my front door. I’m both scared and hopeful that it’s Aaron. When I peek out the keyhole, the hallway is empty, so I open the door and look out. Mouse is sitting on the welcome mat with a sign that reads, “I can’t take the two dogs anymore. Please, take me in,” pinned to his collar.
“You poor thing. Come on in.” I grab the cat close to my chest and shut the door. Holding him close soothes me some. “How did you get all the way here?” I ask, even though I know he isn’t going to answer me.
“I brought him, hoping if you give the cat a chance, you’ll give me a chance to explain.” The sound of Aaron’s voice behind me causes me to throw the poor, cat and he screeches before running for the living room. I turn and find Aaron leaning against the door that I’d just closed.
While holding my racing heart, I exclaim, “Jesus, Aaron. I could have had a heart attack. That’s twice you’ve scared the holy shit out of me.” When he tries to reach for me, I step back. “How do you explain turning into a wolf?”
“Can we sit down and I’ll try?” He looks as sad as I feel, so I turn and walk to the sofa and sit at one end. Mouse is glaring at me from the corner over his rough treatment. Aaron sits and begins his story about Frankie’s college experiment gone horribly wrong. He even explains that Kitty is actually a calico cat, and Mouse is a real house mouse who happened to be in the wrong place when things went bad. When he gets to the end, I’m both appalled that he has gone through something so horrific and surprised that he still turned out to be such a wonderful, loving man.
“Will you hurt me? Or our children?” The question just pops out. After all, he turns into an animal.
He looks shocked for a second before answering me. “Never. When I turn into my wolf, I still have all of my human thoughts and feelings. I still love you as much as I do in this form. I know I will love our children the same in wolf form as I do in human form as well. Just having you ask about our children makes me so happy. There’s nothing I want more in this world than to have babies with you. My wolf loves you just as much as I do. We would both protect you with our lives.”
When he scoots over and runs his nose along my neck, I lose all ability to fight the pull between us and turn my head in search of his lips. When our lips meet, he growls in the back of his throat then grabs me by the back of my hair and starts nipping at my lips. “Fuck, you smell different.” His voice is so scratchy, I can hardly make out the words. “Spicy, sweet, like cinnamon mixed with honey.”
Before I can respond, I’m staring at his tight ass as I hang over his should while he powers down my hallway. I bounce several times after he tosses me on the bed, then I look up into his red glowing eyes and watch as he rips the t-shirt from his body in one forceful tug. “Clothes off now,” he growls while giving his jeans and boots a tiny bit better treatment. “MOVE,” he snaps when I don’t start undressing quick enough for the beast I’ve somehow unleashed inside of Aaron.
Suddenly, there’s a blur of motion, and my legs are spread wide before his tongue is invading my wet center while his fingers dig into my hips, pulling me closer to his plunging tongue. “Taste different, too,” he growls into my core, and the vibrations run all the way up my body. “Can’t get enough of you.”
Aaron wraps his lips around my clit and sucks hard. When he gives a little nip with his teeth, I come hard, making him lose control as my juices run out onto his tongue. As he lays his head on my thigh for a few seconds, I look down at him, and he lifts his eyes to mine and smiles at me. “Your scent and taste are different, and I just figured out why. You’re ripe today.”
My world tilts when Aaron grabs my hips and spins me around before pulling me up to my knees. “I need to bite you. To make you mine forever.” His words penetrate the orgasmic veil around me, and I tense for a second until he continues. “It will only hurt for a second, and then we’ll be linked forever. Don’t be afraid.” After thrusting into my wet center, he powers his hips at an incredible speed until he freezes behind me and roars. While his hot cum fills my pussy, his sharp teeth pierce the tender skin where my neck and shoulder meet. There’s very little pain, and another climax swiftly overtakes my body. As our combined juices run out onto the cool sheets below me, I try to catch my breath before falling forward in a boneless heap. It becomes even harder to breathe when his huge body slumps over and crushes me to the bed. After a few seconds, Aaron realizes he’s lying on me and rolls over to the side, pulling me around to face him.
“I love you, too. So much,” I manage to squeak out as he runs his fingers up and down my back. Aaron looks over at me, and I can see the love in his eyes. When he rubs his nose against mine, my heart skips a beat.