30. Tavas
TAVAS
Ihad to hand it to Koit, the man had more depth to him than we ever gave him credit for.
He’d handled the situation with Viv perfectly, giving her time to express how she felt and acknowledging it before he pulled her out of the despair and fear before it got too much.
Now seeing his eyes flash with hunger for our mate as he nipped down her stomach to her hip, then hovered over the skin just above her clit smirking up at her.
She moaned and shifted trying to get him to where she wanted his mouth the most. I felt it was my duty to help distract her by latching onto one of her breasts, toying with her nipple.
She moaned louder and threaded her fingers into my long hair, gripping it tightly.
The sting only made this more real and made my wolf purr under her handling of us.
The vibrations added to the attention I was paying her pert bud.
When I’d abused that one long enough, I moved to the other and caught sight of her head cradled in Orion’s lap, her hand pumping his dick as he looked down at her with adoration.
I couldn’t blame him, this mate of ours has been through hell and back, but somehow came out the other side stronger.
Granted, we had a long way to go before this was over, but I had all the faith in the world we would get through this.
I could feel her body shifting as Koit moved her up higher on his lap, so I pulled back freeing her to a more comfortable position.
She reached out to Koit, and he pulled her so she was sitting up in his lap wrapping her arms around his neck.
Peering over her shoulder she looked at me with a devious glint in her eyes.
“I want you too,” She whispered, beckoning me over with the crook of a finger.
“Love we haven’t prepared you for that,” I countered, not because I didn’t want this, but the last thing I could imagine doing was hurting her in any way.
Grabbing me around the back of my neck she pulled me to her lips. “Trust me, I’ll adjust.”
I groaned, unable to fight her when we did shit like this. Orion tapped me on the shoulder and from some unknown location managed to produce lube. I raised a brow at him, but he just shrugged. “It was in the nightstand, guess we’re not the only horny bastards around here.”
Chuckling, I lubed up my cock before I stroked a finger between her perfectly shaped ass cheeks. Gently I pressed my finger against her, doing everything I could to make this painless. She let out a breathy moan as my finger slipped in and I worked it back and forth a few times.
“Enough with the teasing, I’m going to lose it if you don’t stick your cock in me,” Viv growled, making Koit snicker until he got the brunt of her nails digging into his skin as I pushed my way in.
Once I had worked in and out of her ass a few times I gave a nod to Koit and we started to move in tandem.
Viv arched back into me causing me to sink into her deeper, feeling her move against me was a whole new level of heaven I’d never even dreamed about.
The added friction and fullness of having Koit in her too, was epic.
Orion, tired of being on the side lines, came over to the side and stole her lips and the cries that were coming out of her.
The intensity of the whole situation told me that I was going to have an early end to this and there was nothing I could do about it but hold on.
Thrusting into her, I bit down on her shoulder where my mate mark was, the urge to prove who she belonged to riding me and my wolf.
She was mine… and everyone needed to see it, because death would come to those who didn’t respect our claim.
When my orgasm slammed into me it was all I could do not to lose myself to my wolf as we howled our pleasure of once again being bonded to our mate.
The sense of belonging and wholeness was something I didn’t know I’d been missing since she’d left.
Koit joined me in my call as Viv’s energy flooded the room, slamming into the other’s whose mate bond hadn’t been restored.
We all hummed with the power that was flowing through our mate back out to us then back into her like a self powered circuit.
The added strength, power, and abilities I’d had from taking her blood came rushing back, turning me completely into the soldier I needed to be for her.
Growling I pulled out of her, pleasure shooting through my overly sensitive dick.
Unable to hold myself up I fell back onto the mattress and looked up at the wooden slat ceiling trying to come back down from the rush I’d been hit with.
The bedroom door slammed open and a man I didn’t know was standing in our room.
Faster than I had time to think I was off the bed and slamming the man against the wall by his throat, teeth bared.
I could feel my hands starting to shift into claws now that my abilities to half-shift had been restored.
“Who the fuck are you and what the hell do you think you’re doing in our room?” I roared into the man’s face.
“Get your hands off my mate before I strike you down where you stand,” a woman’s voice snarled from behind me.
I quickly glanced to see a woman who slightly resembled Maria if she were a few hundred years younger.
Her face was filled with a fury I knew well having seen it on Viv’s face before. “You think I’m bluffing, try me alpha.”
Viv scrambled off the bed and stood between me and the woman, only she was defending me from said woman.
“Neveah wait, this is one of my mates, he was just protecting me since he burst into the room.” Turning to look at me over her shoulder she gave me a pleading look.
“Tav please let him go, he is part of the Crimson Feather pack, he doesn’t mean us any harm. ”
Giving the man a once over I let him go and stepped back grabbing Viv around the waist and pulling her to my chest. “Keep your eyes up high beta.”
“Not a problem, but it’s more so because my own mate would happily pluck out my eyes for letting them wander where they shouldn’t,” he answered with a shrug.
Neveah growled at him. “Don’t even try to act like I’m the bitch for doing it, Nick. They’d grow back in a day or two.”
“As interesting as this all is, would you care to share why it is that Nickie here decided to barge in?” Orion asked standing next to me tense and ready for action.
“I felt her call and I thought it was because she was in danger,” Nick explained. “We just returned to the house and didn’t know that she’d returned to her human state.”
“The sound of amazing sex didn’t give you a clue?” Koit asked from where he still lounged on the bed.
“Um...,” Nick started before he gave a worried look to his mate.
She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “What he means to say is that it’s not unusual for my grandmother to find someone to play with while we are in town. As disgusting as it is, she tends to be very vocal about her ‘play time’” Neveah answered, adding finger quotes.
I wasn’t sure what to do with this information, and to be honest I didn’t really want to think about it.
Viv started shaking in my arms, snapping my attention to her only to see that she had covered her mouth with a hand trying to keep from laughing.
Her gaze met Neveah’s, and that’s when she really lost it, dropping her hand she let her head fall back against my chest and laughed so hard she started to tear up.
“Oh my god I can’t, the mental image of that is just too hilarious. That woman is too much,” Viv managed to say between giggles.
“Yeah, laugh it up queenie, you don’t have to be related to her,” Neveah snarked, but I could tell she didn’t hold any hard feelings with the smirk on her face. “Clean yourself and put some clothes on, we brought breakfast back with us.”
Viv turned her gaze up to me and for the first time I saw that the shadows weren’t taking her over. “I am actually kind of hungry.”
That was all the others needed to hear before Orion took her hand, pulling her away from me to the en suite bathroom. I stayed right where I was, since Neveah and Nick hadn’t left the room and my wolf wouldn’t allow them to be in our space without keeping an eye on them.
“Was there something more?” I questioned a warning rumble in my voice.
Nick shook his head, but his eyes flicked back to the bathroom door Orion and Viv disappeared through.
“I...I just can’t believe that she really is who Maria said she was.
That power filled the house almost to the point of bursting and that wasn’t even all of it.
Yet when you look at her, she’s just a normal woman... ”
Before I could even comment on that last part, Neveah whacked her mate upside the head. “What the hell Nick? You can’t say shit like that it’s rude, not to mention the most sexist thing I’ve ever heard out of your mouth.”
“Oh come on, are you telling me that you weren’t thinking the same thing? I just figured she would be scarier is all,” Nick grumbled, rubbing the back of his head.
Koit chuckled as he got up from the bed. “You ain’t seen nothing yet. That mate of ours can be scary as fuck when she’s mad or you try to hurt one of us. I’ve seen her torture someone with my own eyes and trust me when I tell you I was scared of her, and I love that woman more than life itself.”
“Now that is a woman I could see being friends with,” Neveah smiled a shit eating grin.
“That might not be a bad idea,” I mused. “The only friend she had, Vadik killed in front of her after he killed her mother. You also strike me as someone who can deal with all the shit that seems to rain down around us.”
Koit hummed his agreement looking at Neveah with a critical eye. “How much of the Maria crazy did you inherit though?”
“A lot,” Her mate said under the guise of coughing.
Neveah full on punched him in the kidney, causing her mate to grunt with the pain and need to put a hand out to steady himself against the wall.
“Fuck woman, you’re proving my point, tone it down would you?
Moments like this are when I miss Nathan the most. He could always reason with you and you hit me less. ”
With that simple statement Neveah completely shuts down, her emotions whipped from her face, before she turned on her heel and left the room.
“Fuck.” Nick swore punching the wall. “Why do I always gotta open my big fat mouth and say shit like that?”
“Hazard of being male I’m afraid,” Koit commented.
Nick looked at us and the pain in his eyes matched what we’ve seen in Viv’s. “You lost someone important.”
“My twin brother and Neveah’s other mate,” Nick sighed leaning his back against the wall, rubbing his face with his hands.
“A few weeks ago, there was an ambush on our camp as we were getting ready to hit one of Jason’s compounds.
We all knew the risks, but you just don’t grasp the full impact until it happens to you,” Nick looked up at us, his expression filled with sadness and understanding.
“You guys have a long road ahead of you with your mate. Just be patient with her. Emotions will be running high and can change at the drop of a hat for reasons you might not understand. Something as simple as a scent can trigger memories and then they have to live through the pain all over again.”
Thankful as I was to have his advice, it broke my heart, which led me to anger at the fact that none of us were there for her.
“Thanks man,” Koit offered, reaching a hand out to him when I just stood there hands curled into fists.
Nick shook Koit’s hand then left, closing the door behind him.
“How do we even begin to help her?” I whispered more to myself than anything.
Koit placed a hand on my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. “We get our daughter back for starters, then we kill the sons of bitches who took her.”
I let out a bark of laughter. “Yeah, I guess that’s as good a place to start as any.”