34. Just A Little
THIRTY-FOUR
JUST A LITTLE
Jack
I saw the moment her eyes went wary. I turned the taps on, and her expression went from glazed post-orgasmic glow to overthinking.
I tried not to take it personally. I told myself she was weird about baths, that she’d been forced to hold her breath until drowning, all for Baxter’s ‘experiments.’.
That’s all it is , I decided, flicking the taps off and stepping into the water. It’s not that she’s regretting it … again … the same way she seemed to this morning.
She definitely wanted more … the smell of her arousal by the time she finished giving me the greatest blowjob of all fucking time had been so strong I could taste it on my tongue. Fresh, floral, mingling with the tang of her orgasm.
And fuck, it tasted incredible.
I needed more of that. I needed more of her orgasm face, the way her mouth fell open, the sound of my name in that throaty cry.
But what if … what if her body wants things that her brain doesn’t? I thought, even as I flicked my head, beckoning her to join me in the bath.
Join me.
Fuck.
This was dangerous territory we were in. Even though eating her and coming right down the back of her throat had taken the desperate edge off things, I still wanted more. I needed my fingers inside her.
Shit. I needed my cock inside her.
Do it, the monster whispered.
She’s a rape victim! I roared inside our mind. Don’t be a fucking asshole!
She wants it. He seemed so certain.
Oh, you’ve been chatting with her again without my knowledge?
You know what you need to do to rectify that scenario, he said smugly. But no, I haven’t. I just know that she would be as desperate as we are for this.
I am not desperate for it, I muttered mutinously. But then thought fled my mind when she stepped into the bath, her scent blossoming around me.
She turned so her fucking delicious, toned ass was right in my face. I could have gripped her, held her still, and bitten that gorgeous thing, but instead, I gripped the sides of the bath so tightly my knuckles creaked and waited for her to sit.
She settled herself against my chest, her ass crack hugging my cock. My once again ragingly hard cock. I had never been this fucking horny in my life, and fuck, I could blow another load just from her wriggling around a bit against me.
For fuck’s sake. Why had I thought this would be a good idea?
The monster chortled heartily.
But then there was a moment when the tension that I’d seen in her body as I filled the bath just melted out of her. And something in my chest thrummed.
I let go of the sides of the bath and wrapped her in my arms, holding her against me. For a moment, not thinking about how close my dick was to that hot little pussy of hers. Or about how fucked up her life had been. Or about all the fucked-up shit we needed to do to get closure. To get revenge.
To right Baxter’s fucked-up wrongs.
I just held her, my nose nuzzled against the crown of her head. Breathing her in.
“This is nice,” she murmured, turning her head so her cheek rested against my shoulder. That jolt in the vicinity of my heart again.
I couldn’t think about that feeling too much. I didn’t want to feel that feeling. That fucking feeling was going to make this NOT Joining with her stuff so much fucking harder.
She rolled her shoulders, which pressed her tits against my arms. Exactly what I needed. Let the dick think for a bit, not this aching hole in my chest that wanted me to fill it with her.
“You have the most perfect tits, Blossom,” I murmured into her ear, unwrapping my arms from around her and cupping them. I took her nipples between my thumb and finger and rolled them. “And I think you like them getting attention, don’t you?”
“Mmhmm,” she mumbled, her tongue darting out to lick a drop of water from my bicep. My cock jolted against her backside. We both stilled.
“No … sex. No biting,” she reminded me in a low, raspy voice.
“Touching, though?” I grated. Fuck, I sounded like I was begging.
I probably was.
“Touching, yes,” she purred, arching her back so her tits pressed into my palms. “Don’t stop touching.”
She had no idea how literally I could have taken that. To never let my hands leave her body for a second for the rest of eternity.
No. No thinking of eternity , I told myself sternly, kneading her giving flesh, flicking at those tight little nipples. Just enjoy now.
Now will never be enough for us, the monster muttered with certainty.
“I never knew this would be so …” she murmured, her head lolling back against my shoulder, her knees falling as wide as they could against the sides of the bath.
“What didn’t you know?” I asked quietly, staring down at the long column of her neck, exposed to me.
Fuck. My teeth filled my mouth.
This was getting too close for comfort. And yet I was harder than I’d ever been, despite having just come.
Our body craves the Join, and you’re letting it think it’s getting what it wants , the monster grouched.
My mouth descended toward her bare skin. To the pulse point under her ear. To where I knew, instinctively, that if I pierced her there, blood would flow so readily onto my desperate, greedy tongue.
With a groan, I licked her neck. Giving in as much as I could let myself to the urge.
“Oh!” she cried, her nipples peaking further under my fingers. And fuck, was she about to …? I blinked, and yes, her hand was sliding up her inner thigh, dipping under the water and …
“Are you touching yourself, Blossom?” I rumbled against the shell of her ear. I pinched her nipples just enough to have her gasping in almost-pain.
“I … I need release, Jack!” she moaned, and her fingers moved under the water.
Thank fuck for my monster vision because the ripples of the water hid nothing from me. Her fingers were fast on her clit, circling with desperation as I watched hungrily, as I rolled and pinched and flicked at her nipples. And when she dipped two fingers inside herself …
I growled, my cock jerking against her backside, and I started rocking against her, stroking myself with her gorgeous ass cheeks.
“This is so filthy … so hot,” I mumbled against her cheek, releasing one breast and sliding my fingers down her body, pressing my palm flat against her lower belly. I groaned, thrusting harder against her backside as her muscles pulsed under my hand.
“Need you … need your touch,” she gasped, gripping my wrist with her free hand and thrusting my fingers between her legs, replacing her touch with mine.
“Fuuuuuuck,” I breathed when she pressed me lower, and my fingers slipped inside her. “So fucking slippery.”
“Fuck me with your fingers, Jack,” she pleaded, moving her hips so my fingers slid deeper. “Show me what it should feel like when someone else’s body is inside mine.”
“Jesus … fuck Seven, you can’t say things like that,” I groaned, even as I let her tight heat grip my fingers. She was so fucking close.
And so was I. My cock swelled even more, and I moved my fingers inside her in time with my thrusts against her backside. I brought my thumb up, finding her clit so swollen.
“Yes, please, don’t stop,” she whimpered, her hips meeting my fingers, grinding her ass against my cock, and fuck, I was about to see stars when she sucked in a sharp breath, her head thrashing against my chest and her pussy squeezing me with her climax.
“So fucking tight,” I hissed through gritted teeth, heat racing down my spine. “I’m so fucking close, Blossom.”
She shifted her hips, her orgasm still pulsing. And suddenly, my cock wasn’t stroking against her ass … it was pressing against my fingers … where they were still inside her tight heat.
We both froze. The ache in my balls was almost unbearable. But this was crossing a line.
“Would it … would we Join if you just … just a little?” Seven asked. The fluttering of her pussy around my fingers was too distracting. What was she saying?
“What … are you suggesting a ‘just the tip’ scenario, Seven?” I asked through gritted teeth. “It’s still sex if any of my dick is in you.”
“But will we Join … if you put it in … all of it?”
DO IT! the monster roared.
My teeth ached. Her warm, soft shoulder was close enough for me to sink them into.
Fuck. Bite. Join.
“Well, I’ve stumbled across some interesting animals trespassing in my cabin over the years, but this, I think, takes the cake.”
“What the fuck!” I shouted, shoving Seven off my lap. I leaped out of the bath, sloshing water everywhere, putting myself between her and the sudden danger.
Water dripped into my eyes, and I frantically blinked it away.
In the doorway was a dude, not much older than us, smirking knowingly. He was fucking stacked too. His biceps bulged in his flannel shirt. He was easily my size, and since I’d started transitioning, I’d gotten fucking huge.
Fuck. What was I going to do against him? I was dripping wet and buck naked, and my only weapon was a raging boner.
The guy clocked my huge erection, and his smirk widened. “If you want, I can give you a moment to … finish off, before you both tell me what the hell you’re doing in my cabin.”
S hifter , the monster confirmed as I hurriedly snatched up my jumpsuit and boots from where I’d stashed them beside the mattress that morning. Despite him suggesting that we ‘finish off’, I’d lost my boner pretty fast once the reality of the situation kicked in. Being walked in on by a random stranger was a total buzzkill. Being walked in on by a Shifter while in the bathtub … well, that was on a whole other level.
“He’s a Shifter,” Seven hissed as she tied the laces on her boot. Her eyes had gone dark, steely, which only made that yellow ring around them stand out even more.
Fuck, she was beautiful.
“Yeah, the monster said so, too,” I told her, struggling with damp skin and my stiff, filthy jumpsuit.
“A Pure Shifter,” she clarified, standing and pacing the room. “The same kind who did those things to you.” She met my gaze and the fury … the bloodlust … in her eyes.
And there was the heart jolt again.
I rubbed at my chest, flashing her a grimace.
“Yeah, I don’t think he’s like that. If he was, he wouldn’t have let us get dressed. He would have just attacked while we were … distracted.”
Seven watched me, her eyes darting between mine. She stepped closer, reaching out to grip my wrist. “So … what’s the plan?” she asked quietly.
I stared down at her hand. Her fingers were warm from our bath … from everything we’d been doing in that bath. And before it, too.
I slid my wrist from her grip, instead tangling my fingers through hers. She sucked in a breath, and I looked up, watching her face as she watched our joined hands.
I tucked the fingers of my free hand under her chin, tilting her face up until I could look into those intense, serious eyes of hers.
“I have zero fucking idea what our plan is. But we need to approach this guy with caution.” I stepped closer, lowering my voice, hoping it would be enough for him to not be able to hear. “I found a village, today, when I was flying. I landed and heard a few of them talking. It’s a Shifter village, Seven. It’s probably where this guy is from. And they know about Taiga.”
Her expression clouded. “Why didn’t you tell me this the second you got back?”
I grinned ruefully. “I had other, more … pressing … thoughts on my mind. And I didn’t see you complaining about them, either.”
Seven’s cheeks turned rosy, but her expression was determined. “So, what do we do about this guy, then?”
“We proceed with caution. We don’t tell him the truth. We let him think we’re just passing through, and hopefully he’ll want to get us out of here as much as we want it.”
“And what if he doesn’t want to move us on? What if he wants to terminate us?”
“Well, we deal with that if it happens. But he’s the only link we have to getting out of here, and if we want to come back with enough power to take Baxter and his entire Operation down, then we need to get out.”
“So … you think we should trust him?” she hissed, her voice skeptical, her lips tight and brow furrowed.
I sighed. “I think we have no choice but to give him the benefit of the doubt.”
She watched me for a very long moment. Then finally, a little of the tension on her face eased.
“Alright. Benefit of the doubt. But he makes one wrong move, and I’m taking him out, Jack.”
I pinched her chin, then let my thumb skate over her cheekbone.
“He makes one wrong move, Blossom, and we take him out together.”