Chapter 6 #2
“How did your brothers deal with it? What about the ones that are mated?”
I sighed. “They had to go low contact. I know I will have to as well, but I was still holding out hope that she would finally come around and not be so obsessive.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but she needs an intervention.”
I snorted. “There is no wrong way. They’ve done one.
She absolutely did not listen. It didn’t work; she didn’t care.
Charles and Caleb are both no contact. Completely zero with our parents.
Carson is very low, but I think he’s headed toward zero as well.
She was told that they were taking their mate’s wishes into consideration as well, and that wasn’t acceptable for her.
” I shook my head. “I was actually kind of happy that I was on Treasure Ridge because she couldn’t just show up at my house all of a sudden.
She doesn’t have clearance to be on the mountain.
” I looked around the house. “Umm, we’re still on Treasure Ridge, right? ”
Maxwell chuckled. “Yes, we are. I chose to live a bit further away though, and this place is about a twenty-minute walk to the council building. It wasn’t an issue for me, but we can live in your place if you’d like.”
I shook my head and looked around. “No. I like the idea of living farther away. My little fox loves to run in the snow and through the trees. That was something I noticed at my house near the council building though. There were only a few trees. I understand that some had to be removed to accommodate all of the houses, but there is only a thin strip of them behind my house.”
Maxwell’s smile grew. “There are plenty of trees for you to run in just out there. Would you like to go and see?”
I glanced toward the back of the house and shook my head. “Not right now. I mean, there’s time for that later, right?” Maxwell nodded. “Is there anything else you want to know about me?”
“Favorite food.”
“Anything. I love grapes though. Especially with vanilla yogurt.”
“Grapes and yogurt. Got it.” Maxwell smiled. “Tea or coffee?”
“Both. I prefer tea in the afternoons, coffee in the mornings. I’m not always the most chipper first thing in the mornings, and I need a cup of coffee to wake me up.”
“Noted.”
“How about you?”
“Tea, usually. I’ll drink coffee, but I prefer tea. I like most foods, but there are some that never really grew on me.”
“I haven’t had the experiences you have,” I told him.
“I’m not talking about the age difference either.
I mean, it’s obviously easier for you to go to all of these places and experience what they have to offer.
I’ve traveled to Canada and around the country a bit, but that’s the extent of my experience.
So even international foods, they probably weren’t actually authentic. ”
“We’ll work on that. Where would you like to go first?”
I spoke without thinking. “Your bedroom.” I covered my mouth with my hand.
Maxwell laughed. “That can be arranged. Or perhaps we could start things out here and see where they go?”
I let my hand fall. “Are you telling me you have some dream of claiming your One on your sofa?”
“No. But it is comfortable. I’m certainly not against having fun on it with you. I simply thought that we could start here and work our way to somewhere else. But if you’d prefer to have a tour of the house that ends in the bedroom, I’m all for that as well.”
I leaned my head against the back of the couch again. “I’m not sure. I mean, I really don’t know how I envisioned my claiming going. I’m not complaining, but I just never thought I’d blurt out that I’d like to travel to your bedroom.”
Maxwell chuckled before nodding. “All right. How about this. I’ll take us someplace romantic. We’ll have a nice meal, maybe go for a walk on the beach somewhere, and then see how things go. I’m all for romancing you, and you certainly deserve it.”
I bit my lower lip. That sounded amazing, but I didn’t know if I’d be able to handle all of that. I was already getting a bit uncomfortable again now that we were talking about something other than family. “I need to think about my parents or something. That will calm me down again.”
Maxwell shook his head and then simply reached toward me and with ease pulled me onto his lap.
“You can think about your parents if you wish. And I don’t want to overstep, but I feel the need to either visit them and talk to them myself or inform the council that your mother needs to be talked to about her obsession with her children being right across the street. ”
I sighed again. “I know. I don’t mind if you say something.
Or if you let the council know. I already mentioned it briefly to Alpha Osmund that Ma hadn’t taken my moving here too well.
I honestly don’t think she would just show up though.
Dad has stopped her from dropping in on my brothers, so hopefully, it would be the same for me. ”
“We’ll address parents later,” Maxwell said as he cupped the side of my face again.
I nodded as his hand slid from my cheek to the back of my head, and he leaned toward me.
I went willingly, because in all honesty, the only place I really wanted to be at the moment was under my mate.
Preferably naked. He was tall and slender, but I could tell even through the button-down shirt that his body was fit and hard.
In more than one place, it seemed. I rolled my hips forward, pressing my equally stiff cock against his.
“If you’re saying what I hope you are, I’m down for that,” Maxwell whispered against my lips before his pressed into mine again.
I moaned in response and pressed my tongue against his when it pushed into my mouth.
His hands slid down my back and to my ass, where they grabbed and pulled.
I moaned again at the feeling of all of the deliciousness of Maxwell’s body pressed tightly to mine.
The only way it would be better was if our clothing weren’t in the way.
Maxwell’s hands left my ass and tugged on my shirt. It pulled from my slacks easily enough, and I wiggled as his warm and soft hands caressed over my bare back.
I turned my head, gasping for breath and needing a moment to get my body under control.
I could feel it reacting to being with Maxwell, and I felt as if I were ready to combust already.
“Maxwell, I need a moment,” I managed to get out when those incredible lips found my neck and he simply moved from my mouth to what was a major erogenous zone for me.
Maxwell’s lips were replaced with his forehead as he rested his head in the crook of my neck. “I apologize. I don’t mean to push.” I could hear Maxwell breathing heavily, and his hands were stiff on my sides.
I moved enough that he pulled his head away and looked at me. “You’re not pushing. Trust me. But I’m about to come in my pants, and I really don’t want that.” I bit my lower lip. “I’m a fox shifter, Maxwell. You’re a doctor. I’m sure you know about fox omegas.”
Maxwell’s breathing became even more labored. “I didn’t want to assume,” he whispered. “I’m trying to be a gentleman, and I got carried away.”
I let go of his shoulders and started undoing the buttons on my shirt.
“How about you leave the gentleman at the clinic, and here at home, you’re you, and you give in and fuck me?
Make love to me, and then claim me? Whatever you want to call it.
But it really needs to involve this amazing-feeling dick in my ass.
Which, by the way, has now ruined these slacks, I’m certain.
” I managed to get the last button undone and pulled my shirt the rest of the way out of my slacks before I tugged it off my shoulders.
It didn’t take long for Maxwell to act, and he grabbed and jerked it the rest of the way from my body.
His arms wrapped around me once more, and then seconds later, I found myself exactly where I wanted to be—under my mate.