Page 30 of Planet Wolf

There was no way Jadon could make that promise. He ignored my question and instead walked over to my side. “You were understandably waylaid here, but how about you go get set up in your quarters? Then you can see your mom when we get there. After that, we’ll feed you on the way home. It’ll be a little while until we get there, several days. I’d make it go faster, but ultimately, we can’t alter how long it takes to move through space, not really. All we’ll do is tax the engines.”

Alfie laughed. “In his other life, he’s an engineer. He is always concerned with the engines.”

“That is why our ships fly so well.” He extended his hand. “Come. I’ll show you your room.”

The place wasn’t that big. I could probably find it if he pointed, but I wanted to hold Jadon’s hand and was happy to have him take me. “It’s here.”

He walked toward a door, and it opened automatically for him with a whoosh. I followed him. It was a clean space with all the basics but no decoration. Attached were two more doors, one was probably leading to a bathroom and the other likely a closet. I’d have to investigate to make sure.

Jadon ran a hand through his hair. “They can’t keep their hands off you, and I can’t blame them, but I’m not going to jump you until you’ve eaten and rested. Okay? It’s not lack of interest, it’s me doing what I do.”

The Alpha took care of everyone. I hadn’t understood that before, but it was absolutely correct. He’d held me when I had the nightmares. He made sure the others slept and ate. He’d been watching the whole time and he still was. Jadon always had his gaze on us, whether we knew it or not. The other two just accepted it. His Alpha-ness was probably part of their culture, but I wasn’t going to forget it.

I hadn’t showered since I’d been with Carl and now with Alfie’s lovemaking inside of me, too, I was a bit of a mess. It was hot to think about it, but I needed to bathe.

“Is the shower big enough for both of us?”

He blinked. “It is, but… I’ve told you. Food. Rest.”

I held up two fingers. “The shower sort of counts as rest and you can feed me right after.” I’d get myself clean and ease my need for Jadon, which only seemed to have grown in the minutes since I’d been with Alfie. My mating wasn’t complete. He had to be feeling it, too. I wasn’t a Wolf, so it was probably worse on him.

He walked toward me. “Are you sure? I’m trying to be a gentleman like your human men. I don’t want you hurt by too much attention.”

“I don’t think that’s possible.” I walked toward the bathroom, but unfortunately it turned out to be the closet. That was, of course, how it happened, because that was my luck. Sauntering toward the bathroom and it was, of course, the fucking closet.

I opened the other door to the bathroom, and looked over my shoulder at him. “Up to you.”

At first, I didn’t think he was going to come. I dropped my clothes and put on the hot water with no company. Okay, he was serious. No sex until I was fed and rested. I’d just have to wait. I stepped under the spray. It was very warm, and I closed my eyes. There was shampoo and conditioner in the corner. Someone had set up this room very well. I would bet it was Jadon himself. He would’ve thought about it.

The door opened, and in seconds, Jadon joined me under the spray, totally naked.He did that fast.I might never get used to how quickly they could move.

“I tried to resist, but how does one turn down an offer like that from one’s mate? Particularly when she isn’t wearing my mark yet?” He kissed me all over my face. “I’ve been hard for you since the moment we first scented you in the woods. Hard as I’ve ever been in my life. Endlessly. Aching. Needing you.” His words were their own seduction. “I almost lost you to that explosion, and then again over and over. Then you were gone.” He tugged me to him, our naked, wet bodies touching. I looked up at him, admiring the way his body was shaped. “I don’t lose what’s mine. I take and keep it.”

I wrapped my arms around his neck. “You came, and it looks like you’ve taken me.”

“Only because I’m so fucking lucky.” He shook his head. “Any number of things that went another way and we’re not here right now, so I asked myself, what the fuck was I doing trying to behave like a human man? You never wanted them, or you would’ve had one and never showed up on my planet for me to find you.” He sniffed at my hair. “I’m a Wolf. We take what we want, and we don’t say sorry for it.”

He grabbed a bottle of soap and rubbed it over my body, taking his time as if he already knew all the places where I needed an extra rub. I closed my eyes. “You always take care of everyone, Jadon. Does anyone take care of you?”

With a stroke down my stomach, he pressed his soap filled hand against my pussy. I gasped. This was the best way that I’d ever gotten clean in my life. He moved behind me to hold me like that while he stroked me, letting the water finish where his hand had started. I moaned.

“You take care of me. By existing.” He kissed my neck. It was a free spot. Was he going to bite me there? Was this his spot?

I shook my head. “I can do better than that, Jadon. I can… When…” I lost my train of thought and he laughed gently in my ear.

He took the shampoo and scrubbed my hair. “Normally, I would be completely overwhelmed by the scents in here. I have to be very particularly careful with what scents I bring into my life, but I don’t mind these. Even then, I can hardly notice them at all because there is you. There is only you.”

I wanted to climb up his body. We were both wet, and it could be risky, but I’d bet my life he wouldn’t let me fall. Giving into instincts, I did just what I wanted. Flipping around, I launched myself up his body. He dropped his hands to hold me beneath my ass and I wrapped my legs around him. “Take me right here.”

“I had plans for foreplay.” He lifted an eyebrow. “You keep screwing up my planning, Esther.”

I loved the way he said my name. It sounded like a prayer on his lips. I wished he could say it again and again, but even in my state I knew that would be weird. No, what I wanted was to be mated to him. Right then.

“Maybe that’s my job in life, Jadon. My one purpose.” I deliberately said his name, just in case he liked it the way I liked it when he said mine. “To mess with your plans.”

He kissed me, hard.A claiming. Ownership. His. Mate. I understood him like I had in the woods—completely—even though we didn’t speak a word. He pushed inside of me and I used my own strength to move on top of him and back out. I rode him while he held me up, his back to the wall. He must not like that. Instead, he flipped me around so my back was where his had been. Then he took over the riding, and I hung on as he pressed in and out of me.

We both cried out. Yes, it was much better when Jadon was in charge. I preferred it. I needed it as much as anything. As much as air. The water pounded down on us like our own personal warm rainstorm. I kissed him everywhere I could reach, squeezed his nipples, dug my fingers into his back. I wanted to mark him. I couldn’t with my teeth, but I would with every other part of my body that I could possibly manage.

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