Chapter 60
They’d done it. Captured Cortez. Taken down his rogue pack and stopped his plans to oust the Snow Walkers from their lands. The rebel leader was in cuffs, sitting on the ground along with his captured comrades, with the 448 support team standing guard over them.
The mission was over but Hazard was still full of adrenaline. He restlessly fidgeted while they waited for ex-fil. His heart pumped hard, sending blood rushing through his veins. Hazard cracked his neck, fingers flexing with the urge to do something. Run some laps, swim a fucking river, climb one of the trees behind them. He didn’t care what he did, he just had to move .
Hazard glanced over at Ice, who was leaning against a tree at the edge of the clearing. The alpha was redressed in his uniform and gear, wolf mask back in place. Unlike Hazard, Ice was motionless and appeared calm. But even at rest he had a quietly lethal aura. The power in his big, strong body was only temporarily leashed, ready to break free and take down their enemies at a moment’s notice.
A shiver went through Hazard as he let his gaze slip from the wolf mask all the way down to the captain’s boots. Every part of Ice’s body was trained to bring pain to anyone who crossed him. But it brought Hazard nothing but pleasure.
When Hazard looked back up he made eye contact with his mate. Ice was staring at him with fire lighting up his dark eyes. In an instant, Hazard’s urge to move morphed into lust. He knew what he needed. He needed to be fucked by his mate to burn off the leftover adrenaline.
Ice suddenly pushed himself off the tree. “Let’s go,” he said to Hazard before he turned around and strolled into the forest.
Hazard was in motion before it had even registered that he was following the order, feet swiftly crossing the grass to catch up to the captain’s long-legged strides.
“Ex-fil is in twenty,” Ortiz called out the reminder.
“Roger that,” Ice called back.
They went deep into the forest, their boots crunching over undergrowth. Once they were out of hearing and scent range of their team, Ice stopped. He grabbed Hazard and pushed him up against a thick tree trunk, stepping in close until their tactical vests brushed together.
“Figured I’d better get you out of there before they all smelled your arousal,” Ice said in a husky whisper. “That’s for me only.”
“It’s your fault I got turned on.” Hazard paused to slowly run his tongue over his bottom lip. “I was thinking about running laps until I looked at you.”
Ice tilted his head to the side in question. “What’d I do to get you going?”
“Nothing,” Hazard said with a shake of his head. “Looking at you, powerful and victorious after taking down our enemy, got me hot.”
“Is that right?”
“Yeah.”
“You like being fucked by the winner?”
Hazard shook his head once more. “No. I like being fucked by you .”
Ice closed his eyes and drew in a deep breath. “Fuck, you smell good.” He opened his eyes. “I need you.”
“I’m right here.”
Ice pulled off his gloves and tucked them into one of his pockets. Then, with quick, methodical movements, he worked the necessary straps, buckles, buttons, and zippers to open Hazard’s pants. Pulling back the waistband of his briefs, he shoved his bare hand in to grasp Hazards’ cock.
“Ah!” Hazard cried out and dropped his head back, helmet knocking against the tree behind him. He let his eyes drift shut, focusing on the feel of the big hand pumping his cock. At first the strokes were dry and rough, but within seconds the pre-cum leaking from the crown made the glide of Ice’s hand easy and wet. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to enjoy the good feeling for long. Ice released him and gave him an order.
“Turn around.”
Hazard turned to face the tree. Ice tugged his pants and briefs down just enough to bare his ass to the chill forest air. A second later there was the metallic rasp of a zipper being lowered and the rustle of clothes. Writhing with the urge to be fucked, Hazard pushed his ass out, waiting.
“I’m ready for you.”
Ice rubbed the hot, wet head of his cock on Hazard’s ass, then slipped it between his cheeks to press against his entrance, where he was already slick with arousal.
“You sure?”
“Yes.” He needed his lover inside him as fast as possible. He could handle the stretch from not being prepared first. Besides, they needed to be quick and get back to ex-fil in time or they’d piss off the pilot. “I want you now,” he said with a whine of impatience.
The whine was still on his lips when Ice pushed inside him in one long stroke. Hazard gasped at the instant shock of pleasure that sparked through him. When his thick length was so deep Hazard swore he could feel him behind his navel, Ice spoke into his ear, rough and low.
“I’m right here,” he said, giving his earlier words back to him.
Hazard shivered in response. That almost sounded like a threat. But he knew his mate was going to give him what he needed. What they both needed. He wiggled his hips, letting his lover know he was okay and it was fine for him to move.
Ice got the hint and pulled back slowly, his cock dragging over Hazard’s sensitive inner walls. Once only the fat head of his cock was left inside, stretching his hole open wide, he slammed all the way back in. The force of his thrust sent Hazard rocking forward.
With no time to waste, Ice immediately set a furious pace, pounding into Hazard so hard and fast that he had to hold on to the tree to keep from being shoved into it face first. Hazard loved it. Spreading his legs wide, he pushed his ass out, silently demanding more of the rough thrusts.
Ice tightened his grip on Hazard’s hips to hold him steady as he fucked him even faster. Each time their bodies crashed together it made the meat of his ass jiggle. His cock, stiff and untouched, swayed, dripping pre-cum onto the ground.
Hazard let out a husky moan. “ Fuck . Give it to me.”
With a throaty growl, Ice yanked Hazard’s hips back and up until only the toes of his boots touched the ground. He gave Hazard his cock again and again, the rhythmic smack of skin on skin loud in the quiet forest.
“This what you wanted?” Ice demanded to know, the growl still in his voice.
“ Yes. ”
A low, sexy chuckle rumbled in Ice’s chest. “My wild, needy omega. Gonna fuck all that energy out of you.”
His vocabulary reduced to one word, Hazard chanted it like a prayer. “Yes. Yes. Yes.” The sex was so good that his gut was already hot and coiled tight with his impending release. Hazard squeezed his eyes shut. It was gonna happen. He was gonna come. The pleasure within him rose and rose, ready to crest. Hazard dug his fingers into the tree bark, breathlessly anticipating his climax. It was close. He just needed a little bit more...
Ice abruptly stopped and pulled out.
Hazard’s eyes flashed open when the source of his coming orgasm was cut off. Pissed that he’d been denied his release, he slammed a fist against the tree trunk. “Keep going!” he shouted. Hazard was so worked up, so close to his peak, that his body refused to stop moving. His hips pushed back into nothing, seeking more of his lover’s cock.
Ice didn’t verbally respond to his demand. Without speaking, he spun Hazard around so that they faced each other again. Then he lifted him up.
Hazard gasped in shock at the move. He was no light weight and he was encumbered by forty pounds of armor and weapons. Still, Ice held him with ease. He braced Hazard’s back against the tree trunk, gripped his thighs, and pushed his knees high until they were tucked against his chest. Hazard was balled up tight, ass exposed and tilted toward his lover.
“You’d better hold on,” Ice warned.
That was all the notice he got before Ice thrust up inside him with a sharp snap of his hips. He kept fucking up into him, his powerful movements jostling Hazard up and down in his precarious position against the tree.
Hazard scrabbled for something to hold on to. He ended up gripping the shoulder straps of Ice’s tac vest to keep himself steady. Pinned in place between the tree and the muscled wall of his alpha’s body, Hazard could do nothing but take every inch of the hard as steel cock sliding into him, pushing him back to the edge of climax. It was an uncomfortable position, his thigh muscles quivered and the tree bark abraded his shoulders through his uniform shirt, but he was being fucked too damn good to care about the discomfort.
The forest was cold, but the air around them was heated, thick with the scents of sex, sweat, and gunpowder. Lost in the sultry haze of their co-mingled pheromones, Hazard stared into the dark eyes watching him with heated intensity. He dared to release one hand hold to reach up and touch the wolf mask covering his lover’s face.
Misunderstanding his intention, Ice started to push it off.
“No!” Hazard protested sharply. “Leave it on. Want this side of you right now.”
Ice dropped his hand and growled deep in his chest.
Hazard didn’t know how it was possible but he began fucking him even harder. He would feel the ache from this for days .
He thought back to when he’d first seen this masked man and thought he was dangerous. And it was true. Captain Royce Anderson was dangerous. But Hazard didn’t fear him. Because he knew that his alpha would never cause him harm. Ice was a fierce solider. He fought fiercely and right now, he fucked fiercely. In fact, this was the most fierce, hardest fuck of Hazard’s life. And yet, he was still filled with tenderness as he looked at his mate.
“I love you,” he whispered on punched out breaths.
“I love you, too.”
Heat and tension were swirling low in Hazard’s belly once again. The feelings grew and grew, spreading out from his belly until he was flushed hot all over and his body was as tense as a rubber band stretched to its limit. Shaking with the overwhelming sensations, Hazard cried out his lover’s name. “Ice! Oh, fuck! I’m... I’m so fucking close.”
“That’s it, sweetheart. Let go for me.”
Ice pressed in close against Hazard’s ass, grinding deep with a sinful swirl of his hips to stroke his shaft over that wonderful bundle of nerves inside him. Hazard sucked in a breath just as Ice slipped a hand between them to rub his thumb over the sensitive skin behind Hazard’s balls.
The band snapped.
Hazard came in an explosion of orgasmic bliss, mouth falling open on a long wail as his cock pulsed his release. Ripples of it hummed in his veins. Tingled over his skin. His whole body shuddered, inner muscles clenching down on his mate’s cock, toes curling in his combat boots. Gripping the straps of Ice’s tac vest as if his life depended on it, Hazard closed his eyes and let the orgasm rock through him.
“Yeah, that feels good,” Ice rasped even as he continued fucking him. “Your ass squeezing me so tight. Trying to make me come too?”
Riding the high of his own climax, Hazard answered on shaky, gasping breaths. “Yes. Come for me, alpha. Show me I made you feel good.”
Ice groaned and pressed even closer against him. His hips lost their steady rhythm, thrusts becoming short and frantic. Fingers digging into Hazard’s thighs hard enough to mark them with bruises, Ice shouted a curse.
“Ah, fuck!”
He slammed in deep one last time. The feel of that thick cock throbbing inside him triggered a final mini climax and Hazard moaned as it swept through his body. He was ready to feel the heat of his lover’s release flooding into him. But Ice pulled out at the last second, twisting slightly to the side to come on the forest floor instead of inside him.
Hazard watched as his mate’s stiff cock pulsed out streams of milky white cum. He wished his alpha had stayed inside him to finish, although he appreciated that he wouldn’t be stuck on the plane ride returning to base with cum leaking out of his ass.
Ice turned back to Hazard. He leaned his head down until their helmets knocked together, resting there as they caught their breath.
“Needed that,” Hazard said with a ragged sigh of relief.
“So did I.” Ice kissed the tip of his nose before straightening. “Come on. We have to get back to ex-fil.”
He eased Hazard’s legs down until his boots were on the ground again. Then he used his glove to wipe off the cum that had splashed both of their tac vests. Hazard remained in his spot resting against the tree, lazy and loose, while Ice pulled up and refastened his pants for him. He watched from heavy-lidded eyes as Ice tucked his own cock away, the length still shiny and wet.
“Let’s go.”
Hazard tried to take a step forward, but his thighs trembled in protest. He groaned and slumped back against the tree. “My legs don’t work.”
“Move, corporal. That’s an order,” Ice said with amusement in his gruff voice.
Hazard pouted up at his CO. “What if I can’t?”
“Then I guess I’ll have to throw you over my shoulder and hump you back.”
He moved as if he was going to do just that. Hazard laughed and swatted him away. “I’ve got it,” he said as he forced himself to stand up straight. “Let’s go before Ortiz sends a search party in after us.”
They set off to return to the extraction point. As they walked side by side, their fingers brushed together by accident. Ice took the touch from accident to deliberate, grabbing his hand and holding it in a warm, secure grip.
Hazard’s Instinct glowed with happiness. They hadn’t gone on a single date. He’d only received one courting gift. But as far as he was concerned, walking through the forest hand in hand with his mate after winning a hard-fought battle was a thousand times better than any courtship ritual.