Page 17 of Warrick (Rocky Mountain Pack #1)

Aisling

Waiting hours for her to stop talking to that mountain lion shifter, I finally am able to wrestle control from her and shift.

With Aspen finally sleeping, she doesn’t know that I sneak out.

We usually know what the other side is doing at any given time unless the one in control chooses for us to not know.

Which is what I’m doing since I know our mate is outside, like he is every single night.

But tonight, I want to know what he is doing.

Nudging the door open, I walk into our backyard to exactly where he sits every single night. The air is smothered in his scent, which means he has already done his rounds where he scent marks the entire outside of the house. How Aspen hasn’t noticed is beyond me.

“Why are you out here?” I ask Wraith.

“I am out here every single night. Unlike my human side, I want to claim my mate and make her ours,” his deep baritone whispers into my mind.

“Good, I want to claim our mate, too.”

“What about the mountain lion shifter that comes around her? I can scent him on her, although it’s fading,” he growls.

“He is nothing but a friend and of no genuine concern. I have a plan, though.”

“We have to get the humans together. They are the ones standing in the way. Although, your human has done his fair share to ensure that this is going to be no simple task,” I say with a glare at him.

“He won’t be standing in the way anymore. I’ve made sure that he keeps himself only focused on her.”

“Good. I want to bring them together, and if I’m right, then we should be able to finally get them to mate with each other,” I say.

He lifts an eyebrow at me. “Okay, what’s your plan?”

“He needs to keep doing what he is already doing, but he needs to do the mating gifts. Has he even thought about those?”

He shakes his head. “Not that I know of. What do you need me to do?”

Huffing, I sit down. I give him all my ideas, and we spend the next hour going over what we will do to encourage the mating. He even throws in some ideas of his own that she can do to help Warrick.

Later, we are nuzzling each other and covering each other in our scents when I pull back from him. “We have to stop.”

He pushes me onto my back as he looms over me. He nuzzles into my neck as I let out a whimper. I can feel his canines run over the fur of my neck. So close to doing what I want him to do, but far enough to only be teasing it.

“You don’t want me to stop. You want me to claim you right now and why shouldn’t I?” He bites down on my neck but not enough to break the skin.

Panting, I say, “We have to get our humans to mate first. Then we can have each other as much as we want.” He applies a little more pressure with his teeth, but I stay firm and tell him, “Wraith, we have to stop.”

Growling, he rips his mouth off of me before stepping back. He walks off towards the shadows of the trees. “We will be seeing each other really soon.”

I watch as he disappears into the trees.