Chapter 11
Chapter Eleven
Amber nodded over and over as they stood in the clearing in front of their house.
“Yes, Daddy. I’ve got it. I won’t take a single step away from you.
I’ll make a nipping noise if I need you to slow down.
I’ll be angelic when we get there. Everyone will think you have the sweetest, most obedient mate on the entire mountain. ”
Amber doubted she sounded sincere. For some reason, this was the new her. She couldn’t even recognize herself. Who was this woman who spent her days plotting how to get into trouble so she could get her bottom spanked so she could have as many amazing orgasms as possible?
It wouldn’t be like this if Isaac didn’t indulge her. But he did. He liked this side of her. It was obvious she amused him. And that fueled her to pile on more and more antics every day.
Daddy gripped her chin and tipped her head back.
He reached under her braid to hold her steady.
The man had perfected this new hairstyle—one loose braid that hung down her back.
It allowed him to easily slide his fingers up under it so he could give her hair a quick yank, forcing her to… basically heel.
The sting she got in her scalp when he did it made her horny every single time.
Which he knew because she had no way of hiding anything from this man.
She would gladly lower to her knees in front of him when he did this.
The power he exuded with his huge hand threaded up in her hair was tremendous.
The feel of his palm at the back of her neck and on her scalp…
And then his lips came to her neck. This act made her knees weak. He licked her there right before he grazed his teeth, sinking them into her tender skin just enough to bruise and tame her.
Moving his lips to her ear, he whispered, “Are you going to take that sassy Amber with us or leave her at home?”
“Leave her at home, Sir.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, Sir.” She had no experience with this plan.
She’d never tested it. The only time she’d seen another soul since she’d arrived was Rylee a week ago.
Hayes, too, but she hadn’t spent a great deal of time in front of him, so she couldn’t know for sure if she could be the dutiful mate she insisted she was capable of.
Today they would see a lot of shifters, bears and wolves. She would witness the dynamic other mates had with their Alphas. Was hers really that different? She wasn’t sure she would even know. Maybe all of them put on a front when they left the house.
That seemed unlikely though. For one thing—as she was regularly reminded—there were no secrets among the Alpha Protectors and their mates. It wasn’t possible now that Molly could hear everything in every home.
Amber winced inside as she reminded herself that Molly knew everything. She hoped she would get the opportunity to talk to the woman with this special audial-enhanced power.
With his hand still buried in her loose braid, Daddy slid his other down her front and under her skirt. He caused her to rise up onto her tiptoes when he cupped her pussy over her panties.
Suddenly he growled before releasing her with both hands so he could lift her around the waist and press her against him. His lips were on hers before she could inhale.
He kissed her like he hadn’t seen her in months and just now reunited with her. He even turned, carried her toward the house, and flattened her back to the wall. One knee came up between her legs to hold her in place while he cupped her face and deepened the kiss further.
Amber wasn’t sure how much time went by before he released her lips. She was panting and dazed, blinking as she looked around, trying to remember where they were.
Daddy set his forehead against hers. “Newly mated couples should not attend meetings. It’s unheard of. I want to take you back inside, strip you out of those soaked panties, and fuck you until you scream my name. How am I supposed to focus with your cream leaking out of you like that?”
She slid her hands up his back. She loved that he was so affected by her. It made her heart soar. “I love you, Daddy.”
He growled before kissing her again. Quick and hard. “I love you, Baby girl. We should stay home.”
She shook her head. “We can’t. We need to go to the meeting.
” How was she the voice of reason here? It wasn’t as though she disagreed with him.
She’d love nothing more than for him to strip her naked and fuck her.
She didn’t even care if they did it here in the yard.
She didn’t care if everyone on the mountain heard them, smelled them, visualized them, or whatever other superpowers were coming to light.
She reached up to his face. “I promise to be just the right amount of good.”
He smirked. “What does that mean, naughty girl?”
“It means when we get home, you’ll be able to paddle my bottom before you thrust into me from behind.
It means I will undoubtedly drive you to the edge of sanity with my scent, but I won’t make you need to punish me by doing anything unsafe.
And I won’t sass you in front of the other Alphas. I promise.”
She hoped she could keep that promise. She was going to have to put on quite the act to fulfill it. They’d settled into a dynamic at home that did not include her behaving. She was going to have to dig deep to find a way to control her sassy side for the next few hours.
Daddy eased his knee out from between her legs and lowered her to her feet. He threaded his fingers in the back of her hair again, tugged, and smiled. “I only do that because I enjoy the hitch in your breath and the rush of wetness to your panties.”
“Maybe don’t do it in front of other people,” she suggested.
“We’ll see.” He gave her one more quick peck. “Behave, naughty girl.”
“Yes, Sir.”
He took a step back and nodded toward the clearing. “Shift. Stay on my flank.”
She took a deep breath and let it out slowly as the shimmer of her wolf made its way to the surface, leaving her standing on all four paws seconds later.
She watched as her Daddy shifted next to her, his impressive size making her want to lower her snout to the ground in front of him as a show of submission.
She didn’t have a chance to do that, however, because he nodded in the direction they were headed and took off at a gallop.
Amber easily kept up, enjoying the freedom of running shifted through the mountains for the first time. The brisk air as it rushed past her. The freedom. The comfort of running harder than she’d ever run in her second skin. The sights and sounds and smells as she raced alongside her mate.
She’d known approximately how far they were going, and she could easily see the large clearing filled with wolves—some shifted and some in their human form—growing closer the entire time.
When they emerged in the clearing in front of the home she knew belonged to Brock and Suzette, she was almost disappointed that their run was over. She was invigorated and could have kept going for miles.
Isaac shifted and reached out a hand, waiting for her to shift also. And just that fast, she was standing in front of him, her back flattened to his front, his hand down between her breasts.
A hush fell over the gathered crowd.
Daddy kissed the top of her head. “This is Amber,” he announced.
“She has the gift of extraordinary vision. She’s still learning to understand distances and decipher what she’s seeing, but I can tell you if you drop a crumb on the floor in your home, she can see it from our house,” he joked, though he was not wrong.
Everyone chuckled. They also paired up and gathered in a circle.
All the Alphas stood behind their mates, everyone shifting into human form.
They went around the circle, each Alpha introducing himself and his mate.
She already knew Rylee and Hayes, of course.
She’d also met Molly and Gavin, plus Khloe and Felix the first day when she’d arrived.
The truth was she could identify everyone already because she’d seen them all in their homes and Isaac had helped her put names with faces.
Leah and Elias. She was the one who had started having dreams.
Olivia and Damon. She was the blind mate who could speak to bears telepathically.
Suzette and Brock. This was their home, and Suzette was the one who had been kidnapped by one of the bears on the day of her ceremony.
Jezebel and Arion. They were the first in recent history to have mated.
And finally Jayce. He would be the last to mate in three weeks. There were other marked girls and Alpha Protectors waiting for them to come of age, but it would be a few years before the next woman reached twenty.
Luckily Amber didn’t need to stand there straining to remember them all. She’d done that over the past week. But it was nice to meet everyone in person.
Rylee tipped her head back, closed her eyes, and inhaled. “Thorn and Surge are on their way.”
Molly leaned to the side, listening. “They’ll be here in ten minutes.”
Amber was fascinated by this group effort and all these shocking abilities. She faced the direction Molly and Rylee had focused and looked off into the distance. When she turned back to her new extended family, she shrugged. “Does anyone care what they’re wearing?”
Everyone chuckled.
Arion spoke. “No, but we would certainly care if you ever saw someone coming with a weapon in hand or a fierce expression.”
Rylee responded. “Forget the fierce expression. I can scent that sort of thing.”
So bizarre.
Amber continued to focus on Thorn and Surge. She knew which one each of them was. She was surprised they were approaching in human form, but after a minute, they leapt into the air and shifted. They landed a second later on four paws, their size taking her breath away.
Minutes later, they bounded into the clearing. No one flinched except Amber. They knew not to be afraid. It was her first time up close and personal with a giant bear, though, and shifter or otherwise, they were formidable.