Page 26 of Mates for the Rejected Wolf

There is really something powerful about her optimism. I don’t know how it took me so long to notice her. How much time have I wasted just fooling around when I could have tried to be with Fern?

I hold her closer to me, needing her warmth because I’m icy cold inside. I feel lost and unable to do a damn thing about it. She is the only person keeping me upright and okay. I’m going to stick by her no matter what.

* * *

Slane and Roddrurare fast asleep in my bedroom, snoring loudly, while Fern and I cuddle up on my porch underneath the stars, waiting for Griffin to return from his search. As soon as he heard about the stash house, he volunteered to take a look around. I didn’t even need to ask him, which was kind of awesome. We’re all coming to have our own understanding of one another very quickly. Although that does leave me even more confused since I like everyone and we have all fallen hard for Fern.

So hard it doesn’t quite feel real. But my heart wants her.

“What’s going to happen?” I ask Fern quietly. “After all of this. You know, with us?”

She looks up at me, so I turn to meet her gaze. God, she’s so stunning I can hardly breathe around her. Whether we are with all the other guys or it’s just us, it doesn’t matter. The chemistry is still incredibly powerful.

Fern can feel it too, I just know it. She leans up and grazes her lips ever so gently against mine. I know I’ve kissed her before, but out here under the stars makes it feel even more intense.

The kiss deepens, and before I know it, Fern has twisted herself around so that she’s straddling me. I run my hands all over her body, silently admiring that tight-fitting dress as I continue to taste her tongue. Her nipples poke through the thin material, and I don’t know if that’s because of the cold night or because she is so turned on, but either way I like it.

She kisses her way down my body, moving down to where her fingers are eagerly tugging at my zipper. My cock is straining like crazy and I’m shuddering at the thought of her lips on me.

“Oh, Fern,” I rasp as she finally takes me in hand. “What are you doing to me? How are you turning this horrible day in to a wonderful one?”

She’s the fucking sunshine, and I can’t get enough of her. She’s the only thing I want in my life. I want to tell her that. I want to tell her how much she has changed my life. I want her to know she’s everything to me, that my whole world revolves around her now and nothing else matters.

But I don’t get any of those words out because now I can feel her hot breath along my cock. Fuck, she’s bringing those beautiful lips of hers close to me. I might fall right here and now.

She kisses my tip first, my most sensitive part, and I damn near scream. This already feels so good it hurts. Every part of my body is throbbing for Fern. She parts her lips wider and slides me down to the back of her throat. She takes so much of me that I’m sure she can hardly breathe, but that doesn’t seem to bother Fern. She moans with pleasure, vibrating along my erection, almost causing me to lose my mind. I knot my fingers in her hair and guide her head as she bobs up and down, devouring me. She swirls her tongue around me, tasting every damn inch of me, and the sensation is utterly delicious.

I look up and see what I think might be Griffin soaring in the air. I don’t know if he’s watching us, but I get the sense he is, which only makes this ten times hotter. I never want this to end. I can feel in Fern’s actions that she wants us to be forever as well. I just know it.

Everything inside me tenses as she drives me closer to the edge. I hold Fern’s cheeks and get her to look up at me so I can stare in to those beautiful eyes of hers as I shoot my seed down her throat.

She moans in pleasure as she tastes me. The way her eyes shine makes me want to hold on to her forever. “Oh, Jace.”

I drag her back up to me and kiss her again. I can taste myself on her lips, and it’s way sexier than I thought it would be. Everything is electrifying with Fern. Everything feels amazing. She is the key to my happiness for the rest of my life. Now all I need to do is finally find the words to make that clear.

But for now, all I can do is kiss her and hold her underneath the stars. Embrace this beautiful moment for everything that it is. Just in case everything shifts tomorrow and I lose her.

Not that I’m going to let that happen.

16

FERN

“Don’t do anything rash,” Roddrur begs me, holding my hands tightly, almost as if he’s afraid to let me go. “Don’t do anything that will get you in trouble.”

I lean up and kiss him. “We have to stop Harley and his little cronies before they ruin the whole town or expose your location,” I remind him as I gently run my fingers down his cheek, drowning in his eyes for a little while longer just to remind myself exactly what I’m fighting for. Weirdly, after what my father did in the town meeting, I feel like I have his blessing. Not that I need it or anything, I don’t think, but it seems like he’s back on my side somewhat. He seems surprisingly okay with the dragons as well. I need to talk to him at some point once all of this is over.

Roddrur grabs me once more and kisses me hard and fast. The taste of his lips is so electrifying that I almost just want to collapse into bed with him and deal with the rest of the world later. If he wasn’t the one in danger, I might just do that.

But he is, and I have to go, so I pull back from him and rub my thumb along his bottom lip. By the time Griffin grabs me and spins me around to face him so I can give him some loving too, determination surges through me.

“I’m going to kick some ass today. You just wait and see,” I tell Griffin with a little laugh as I lean in to kiss him. This is real happiness. I was only ever expecting to find that loving feeling with one man. Now I’ve found it with four. It’s pretty crazy in the best way possible.

“Are you coming, Fern?” Jace calls out, waiting for me to finally say my goodbyes to the dragons. I suppose I am acting a bit like this is the last time we will ever see one another. “We need to get going.”

“On my way,” I reply as I wave goodbye one last time to the dragons, knowing that all of this is so much worse for them.

The sight of Jace and Slane waiting for me by the door makes my heart skip a beat. Funny how we have all been a part of the same wolf pack for years, but haven’t really noticed one another. Now we can’t stand to be away from each other.

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