Page 52 of Conquered Obstacles

“You’re getting too scared,” he whispered. “I don’t like it.”

Then we were in the water and I was sitting on his thigh. He was hugging me and rubbing my back.

“I’m sorry,” I rasped, realizing tears were running down my cheeks. “I want to. I swear that I want to please you and do all the things lovers do, but I get—”

“You please me in so many ways,” he whispered against my lips. “You have—don’t push yourself. You’ll do damage, and that would break my heart. I love how much you trust me and… You have no idea how much you’re healing me, baby. Others see me as weak. You don’t see me that way. I’m just not scary. That’s so different.”

“You’re not weak,” I agreed. “You’re amazing.”

“So are you, baby,” he rasped. “Please, don’t—I don’t care what you think you should do or what others do. We do what’s right for us. You wanted me. You wanted to touch me. That was everything. You did it. You did it because you wanted to. Hurting yourself by pushing more does nothing but hurt both of us.”

I nodded that I heard him, but I wasn’t sure how that all worked out. I didn’t know how any of this really worked.

My mind didn’t work like a normal person’s—even Jamie’s as a wolf.

I turned my head and kissed him. I fisted his hair and let Jamie feel everything that I was and how much his support and all of it meant to me. “Gobble me up. Show me that I’m your favorite fucking treat.”

“Gladly,” he growled.

He lifted me out of the water, my skin slapping against the tile as he set me on the lip of the hot tub. He kissed my foot and worked up my leg before doing the same to the other one. He licked me intimately until I came with a cry, and then he kissed me before taking his sweet time kissing my arms, shoulders—all of me.

And then Jamie moved on to my breasts. He teased and pleased them while his other hand fingered me through another orgasm. I thought he would keep going for more, but he moved us back into the hot tub.

He simply smirked at me when I pouted at him. “You need to relax a bit before I completely wear you out in bed and you get the sleep you need before the crazy tomorrow.”

And then he did exactly just that.

On the way up to bed, I used my power to dry us off, and after he gobbled me up over and over again, he wrapped himself around me and we fell into a peaceful sleep that way. I was worried that he was left high and dry and wanting, but Jamie seemed happy with what we’d shared.

And that made me ridiculously happy.

I held that feeling close when I woke to the overwhelming crazy. I went to check how many treats I’d made appear from my joy at our fun, and apparently I’d almost filled the huge warehouse.

What the hell was going to happen when we did finally have sex?

“Another problem for another day, you weirdo,” I grumbled before heading back and getting ready for the rest of my crazy. It was early enough that the drive to the bakery was no problem, but I still skipped a few parts and seamlessly made my vehicle appear to jump forward.

Nothing shocked me more than to find out people were camped out to be first in line to get extras. People were a bit too ridiculous about things, and I felt that way as the goddess who made the recipes and put the power in everything so I knew exactly how addictive my desserts could be.

But there were limits. Truly, there should be.

I saw Nan and Carmen were just as unamused as I was when I entered, Irene having coffee and looking like she was waking up. Coffee sounded like the perfect thing to have and even a muffin, so I did and then sighed as I saw more people outside.

“They realize it’s not even four in the fucking morning, right?” I drawled.

“Don’t try and understand crazy, boss, it will just lower your sanity,” Irene grumbled as she stood and adjusted her neck.

“How’s that deal you were working out?” I asked her.

“Good, we like her,” Nan answered, nodding it really was fine.

One of the employees at a different shop in the plaza was a single mom too and needed out of her current living situation. She was open to sharing an apartment with Susie and trading babysitting services since she was on a different schedule than Irene. The only problem was they would inconvenience one roommate or the other with having the kids over.

Nan could sleep through just about anything, so the current plan was for the woman to bring her child over and watch Irene’s child while she was at work, and then Irene would take over until she was done with work at six. That didn’t seem like a lot of sleep for them, but hopefully they could nap when the kids did and it was just for a few years until they were in school.

Or one could hope it would work out that long. Susie got along with the woman as well, so it seemed like a good fit.

The twins showed up and confirmed everything was set up with the female wolves. Patti was actually helping us out and making sure the wolves that worked for us at the factory were at a safe place for letting their wolves out because of course the full moon had to land the day before Easter this year.

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