Damien. . . He was the source of the problem, then. “Talk with him,” she urged with all her heart. “Tell him what you’re feeling. Confront him and don’t you dare hold back.”
“He’s my alpha.”
“And you’re his pack. Don’t make my mistakes and blindly follow an alpha because of an oath.”
Frank sucked in air. Had she really just told him to forsake his oath. She bit her lip. “Forget I said that. It was stupid. I want to help, but I don’t know how.”
Frank’s mouth seized hers. Warm and firm, his tongue stroked her lips, seeking entry. There was a desperation there she hadn’t felt from him before. All those years of feeling alone and abandoned by his pack had cost Frank. Right now, he needed her, and she could not deny him.
She opened for him, even as she parted her legs and lifted her hips. Hard plains of muscles pressed against her breasts, as he lowered his body to mold to hers. He kept most of his weight on his arms, careful not to crush her. With a slight nudge, his cock pressed against her core. No condom, but damn, she couldn’t turn him away. Not when he needed her.
Delilah parted her legs as she shifted her hips, adjusting the angle. With one smooth stroke, his cock slid into her. Heaven couldn’t possibly feel as good as having Frank in her, moving with slow, sensual strokes as he covered her with his body. Protected her. Loved her.
Even as his thrusts increased in speed, her shifter held her as if she were the last of her kind, on the verge of extinction. As he broke the kiss and looked down at her, she opened her eyes, unbidden. She wanted to see her shifter, all of him, as he sank into her.
As the cool air of the cave chilled her skin, a delicious heat sparked everywhere his hands, legs, and body touched. His arms snapped taut as he pushed off the ground with his hands for leverage and drove into her harder and faster. His eyes darkened as she raised her legs and took him deeper. His power wound through her, but it was his eyes that held her as he opened himself to her. This is what she wanted from him, to see the shifter inside, the one who hid himself from his pack, even from himself.
Her orgasm took her by surprise, sending a powerful wave through her. Her legs locked as her pussy clamped around his cock and she screamed his name. His body, glistening with sweat, remained above her as a euphoric look spread across Frank’s face. His glorious cock continued pulsing deep within her, spurting the last of his seed as he buried his face in her neck.
“I won’t fail you,” he said, as he began kissing her. He rolled with her protectively in his arms until he was flat on his back.
Delilah pushed off his chest, straddling him. His cock still in her, Frank was already getting hard again. He reached up and caressed her cheek.
“I know,” she said, finally closing her eyes as she pushed her cheek into his hand.
When was the last time she had believed in someone to stand by her, to keep her safe? It had been a long time, a really long time, and it felt good.
I won’t fail you.
She only wished she could say those same four words back to him.
* * *
By the timethey left the cave, night had fallen. They shifted and turned the return trip back into a run, both carrying their clothing in their mouths. Though Frank didn’t bother dressing, Delilah quickly dressed in what remained of her tattered clothes outside the door to the huge house at the other end of the compound from Tess’s house. She had seen the house in passing several times over the past week, noting it was second in size only to Damien’s house, but never realizing it belonged to Frank.
“Wow. This place is huge. You’re abandoning this to live in that small cabin, away from everyone else?
“You should like that idea, given how I’m going to make you scream tonight, over and over.”
“You’re presuming you’re going to fuck me again.”
“Not a presumption. A fact.”
“Ass.”
“There too, if you’d like,” Frank said, grinning.
“Why are you moving out of this house?”
“This is Aloe’s house. I’m only here until my cabin is built, and with all the new shifters arriving every week, our construction crew has been busy building new houses for them. I’ve fallen to the bottom of the list since I have a place to stay. And Aloe doesn’t mind. She’s over in Liam’s pack visiting her sister for a while.” He walked over to the mantel and picked up one of the many frames in the collection on display. “This is Aloe,” he said, holding out a picture of a petite woman with graceful features and long platinum-blonde hair.
“Cute.” A pang of jealousy went through Delilah. This woman had opened her house to Frank. Delilah should be grateful, not jealous, and yet she couldn’t dismiss the idea that another female might have her eye on Frank.HerFrank. “You and she date?”
“No.”
Relief.
“She’s more like a little sister. I’ve known her and her mate Zach since we were kids. Zach is Damien’s brother, or he was, I mean. Got killed by hunters a few years back. At least we think it was hunters. The situation was sketchy.”