Page 69 of Fighting Furry

Okay, well, when he put it that way…“But they weren't innocent humans. They were vampires who are ten times more dangerous to humans. We probably saved some human lives by ridding the world of them.” I really had no idea if any of that was true, but I was going with it. “Quit talking like you've already given up and fight. Fight because you want to get back to your pack and make sure they keep their territory and don't get overrun with vamps. You know Darius is going to give your pack to the vamps if you aren't there to defend it.” Something lit in his eyes, a spark of indignation, a bit of panic. “And fight for me. You can't fuck me if you're dead and—”

He pressed his lips to mine and pulled me tight against him. Suddenly, I was ravenous for him and I wrapped my legs around his waist and pressed myself tight against him, my bare hands running over his shoulders and into his thick hair. The door creaked open and then immediately slammed shut. Clarissa was giving us some time and I was going to take it. I was going to take every moment I could get.

Axel pulled away from me, he ran his thumbs over my cheeks and studied my face. “I need you to know, Julie, that this is more to me than sex. I'm crazy about you. No matter what I'm doing or where I am, you are my first thought. You've overtaken my mind and my life. I can't get your scent off my clothes or out of my sheets. I will never regret you coming into my life. I l—”

I gripped his face and slammed my lips against his. That sounded way too much like goodbye and I wasn't going to let him say goodbye. I broke the kiss to reach between us and unbutton his pants. “Nobody wants to hear your pretty words,” I said. “I just want you to shut up and fuck me.”

He grinned and lifted up to slide the pants out of the way. “Tell me how much you hate me.”

“With the fire of a thousand burning hells,” I said, rising and sliding back down onto him. I gasped as he filled me. He felt so fucking good, every fucking time.

He groaned and grabbed my face. “Look me in the eyes and tell me how much you hate me.”

I looked into his eyes, his gorgeous eyes. The eyes that made it hard to breathe and made me want to get naked simultaneously. “I hate you with every fiber of my being,” I said, but the words came out breathy and the very last thing I felt for the man beneath me was hate.

He smiled like I'd told him I loved him. He pulled me to him and kissed me like it was the most important thing he'd ever do. He thrust up and I was lost to sensation, the press of his lips against mine, him moving inside me. This. This was worth fighting for.

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“You can come back inside,” Axel hollered. I was still in his arms, but we were both decent. The cabin smelled like sex, but it's not like Clarissa didn't know what we'd been doing in there.

She opened the door and peeked in like she wasn't convinced it was safe. When she saw me on Axel's lap, both of us dressed, she walked all the way inside. “I've really got to stop walking in on you two getting it on.”

“We'd appreciate that, too.”

Clarissa handed me Axel's phone and I handed it to him. “Call Darius and let me talk to him.”

He shook his head. “That's a terrible plan. You really think he's going to tell you anything?”

He had a point. I slumped against him. “You're just going to give up? You're going to let Darius kill you?”

Axel grinned. “I have a better idea.”

He tapped away at his phone and put it up to his ear. “Alpha,” he said.

He listened for a long while. I could hear Alpha chattering away about something, but I couldn't make out the words.

“Yeah,” Axel said. “I'm real sorry about the mess and…Yeah, about killing Neela. I know you two had a sweet set-up.”

There was more chattering and something crashed.

Axel grinned. “You really think I had no idea exactly what was going on, man? I'm not a complete idiot.”

Alpha said something about the council and Axel winced.

“I did take the council's side, but that was in the past. I've been on to Darius for a while now and I'm telling you, man, he's going to find some way to pin this mess on you, too. With you out of the picture, he'll have direct access…”

Alpha was yelling at this point, and I could hear every word. “I've been out of the picture for a while now, asshole. Darius's been dealing directly with the vamps, giving them wolves who are causing him trouble, but lately…He's been handing over prime wolves, man, wolves who haven't done a damn thing to be enslaved by vamps.”

“Didn't seem like you had a problem with vamps,” Axel said. “They sure were crawling all over your pack house.”

“Dude,” Alpha screeched. “I do what I have to do. Trust me, you do not want to get on the bad side of the vamps, because that gets you on the bad side of the council.”

Axel snorted. “I call bullshit. The vamps might have something Darius wants, but he'd never side with them that far.”

Alpha laughed. “Man, you had me going there for a minute. You have no fucking clue what's really going on, do you? If you did, you'd know Darius and Neela were so far up each other's asses, that Neela knew as soon as Darius did that Julie Jacobs had been changed. Neela wanted her, but Darius was worried about the paps on her tail and her fame. It's better to take wolves no one's going to miss when they disappear.”

“But the vamps are just feeding on the wolves, right?” Axel asked. “It's not like they're killing them.”

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