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Story: What’s Rogue Got To Do With It (Fur-Ever Mountain Pack #1)
LARKIN
It wasn’t unusual that a shifter’s beast discovered a pregnancy before the omega. Humans needed a test to convince them and a voice in my head, not my wolf’s, wanted one, too. I needed the two pink lines or blue or whatever color they were.
But we couldn’t go to the store because Auden had told us to stay here and a pregnancy test wasn’t something he would have lying around. If he did, it’d be years out of date.
"Are you sure?" I asked for the third time.
“There’s no doubt.” He grabbed both my hands and we danced around the room. He hadn’t been so bubbly and excited since… since… had he been like this since I met him? Nah, I didn’t think so. When he scented me, he didn’t just gain a fated mate but also a whole heap of trouble.
We stared at each other across the small space. A baby. Ours. Getting pregnant should have been impossible for one outcast and a rogue. We had no pack, land or future. What could we offer a baby?
Love ? My wolf piped up.
Yes .
My mate pulled me into his arms. “We’re going to be a Daddy and a Papa. And I have dibs on Papa.”
I grinned because him saying dibs… those were fighting words.
This child was proof that love could exist outside pack boundaries and mates could create life even when the world said they shouldn't.
But thinking about the implications of my pregnancy would come later. Now, I needed to be close to Creven.
My mouth was at the base of his throat and I breathed in his scent. My emotions were making my head spin and if he didn’t hold me, I might collapse into a heap. But his scent in my nostrils calmed me.
"I love you so much."
"I love you too." His hands framed my face. “I can't believe this is real."
For the first time since we’d run—no before that, since I’d been on my own, and for my mate since he’d been rogue—we both had a bright future and something to cherish and look forward to.
If Auden couldn’t reach an agreement with whoever he was talking to, we’d fight with everything we had because we had a child who needed us.
"We're going to be great parents.” My mate nuzzled my head and when he pulled away, he placed his lips on mine. I lost myself in the kiss, wanting to savor this moment and bookmark it so I could return to it whenever I wanted. We’d experienced so little happiness during our time together, except for those brief weeks in the cabin, and I was scared that if I didn’t hang on to this moment, it might slip through my fingers.
The kiss started soft, but the mate bond hummed within me and pricked my skin.
It was that delicious emotion of pain and pleasure, amplified by what we’d created.
I took deep breaths expecting it to overwhelm me as had it had been doing, but if I was interpreting it correctly, it was urgent rather than desperate.
"I need you.” My hands tugged at his shirt. Having him inside would make this real. It would have sounded silly if I said the words in my head but my hole and cock were doing the thinking.
Creven responded with a growl as his hands roamed over me as if he was memorizing my curves. He pressed kisses over my jaw and down my throat, whispering how much he loved me. I shivered as his words resonated on my skin. He’d marked me already but I imagined his whisperings strengthened our bond.
He dragged me to the bed as each of us fumbled with our pants and we were naked from the waist down when we toppled onto the mattress.
"Mine," Creven whispered as his mouth, tongue and teeth licked, flicked and grazed my skin.
I tangled my fingers in his hair. “Yours.”
His growl vibrated against my throat and sent shivers down my spine as he tugged off my shirt and his own before running his hands over the dips and curves of my body. His lips followed the path his fingers had traced leaving a trail of heat on my skin.
“I love you.” He breathed against my skin and rolled us over so I was pinned beneath him.
Lowering his head to my nipple, he grazed his teeth over the point.
I yelped and bucked my hips as waves of pleasure washed over me.
My hand roamed over his back, noting the toned muscles I’d memorized since our first time.
His hand slid over my hip and his fingers slid between my legs. “You’re so ready for me.” He fingered my hole, slippery with slick.
“Stop talking. I need you inside me.”
He guided himself to my entrance and the head of his cock pressed against my hole. A knot of anticipation formed in my tummy as I waited for him to fill me. I wanted his length wedged in my channel so tight that maybe he’d stay there and never leave, providing me with endless pleasure.
I lifted my knees so they pressed on my chest, knowing he was eying my hole. Reaching down and using two fingers, I spread it wide and shoved a finger in.
Creven’s eyes narrowed. “That should be me in there.” He yanked my finger out and rammed one of his in. I gasped because he was inside me but also longed for his dick.
“You like this or my cock?”
He was teasing me, damn it. But he didn’t wait for my answer, instead he thrust in, sheathing himself deep in my channel. Gods whenever we had sex, he seemed bigger and thicker than the last time.
How lucky am I ?
With his dick buried to the hilt, he pressed his brow to mine. I squeezed his butt and he yelped. He pulled away and I gazed at his smoldering eyes while desire threaded through my veins, almost undoing me.
I slapped his butt. “Hey, this isn’t a choose your own adventure. I wanted fucking and gods I’m going to get it.”
He studied me, not moving but I knew his game and I gripped the bed sheet because he was going to fuck me hard.
“Oh yeah?”
He pulled out, all the damned way, and I fumed until he rammed his huge cock into my channel again, going so deep, I dug my fingers into his back as tremors wracked my body.
“Is that what you wanted?”
Instead of answering, I wrapped my legs around his hips, locking my ankles at the small of his back. I pulled him closer and muttered, “Move.”
He thrust back in and each powerful plunge hit that spot deep inside me, while I brushed my fingers over his stubble and his lips.
I thought about the whispered promises that had passed through them and blinked away tears of joy.
Creven buried his face in the curve of my throat and nibbled at the delicate skin before lapping at it to ease the sting.
He plowed into me and each powerful spoke created a friction that intensified deliciously with each thrust. Sweat dotted his brow and his hair stuck to his skin as he continued to fuck me with droplets falling onto my chest.
His thrust in deeper and faster and his breathing sped up as did mine. The bed complained while I arched my back and as I lifted my hips, I took his cock in deeper.
“Yes… oh gods, yes.” I choked on the words until they became a whimper as Creven intensified his thrusts.
The bed creaked as skin slapped against skin and our gasps and whimpers mingled.
I clenched around him, knowing ripples of please would be lapping at his body.
He moaned and bit the soft part of my ear.
I couldn’t hold on much longer, a predicament where I longed for release but wanted the fucking to continue.
But my orgasm wasn’t creeping up, it was hurling toward me like a freight train.
My body convulsed and sweat dribbled into my eyes, making it difficult to see.
But that made my climax more intense as I was feeling him, scenting the slick and reacting to his grunts of pleasure.
Tugging at his hair, cum spurted from my cock over both of us and me coming triggered his own release. With a roar and his head thrown back, his cock pulsed deep within me.
Creven collapsed onto me as his knot swelled and filled me. When the tremors subsided, he kissed the mark on my shoulder.
We lay in one another’s arms as the mountain air cooled our skin. My eyes closed and I was drifting off to sleep when my beast surged forward.
We can’t wait. With a baby on the way, you must mark him . In my wolf’s mind, Creven had marked and claimed me twice, one with his bite, and again by getting me pregnant.
I’d fought this urge but I was floating on a cloud of pleasure and my body was like jello. I could have gathered my strength and fought my beast, demanding he pull back and marking Creven would be done when I decided it was right.
But I couldn’t argue with him and his instinct to mate and mark was honed by shifters over centuries. With a baby cradled in my belly, the half-bond wasn't enough.
“It’s time.” Claws erupted from my fingertips and my canines lengthened. "I can't and I won’t…”
My mate didn’t pull away but tilted his head and bared his throat. He trusted me. My heart somersaulted and my wolf howled.
"Do it.”
My teeth sunk into my mate’s flesh. The permanent scar would be a sign to every shifter that we were bonded, though Creven had the sign of a rogue clawed into his shoulder. But our connection was unbreakable and it brought on a sense of calm that was at odds with our precarious situation.
Mine .
"It's done.” I licked the blood from his wound to speed up the healing.
We were still wrapped around each other, when an approaching vehicle made us both freeze. A door slammed and footsteps approached the cabin.
“Hello. I’m back.”
I scrambled for my clothes. Auden would scent sex but shifters weren’t weird or squeamish about people having sex. He would note the fresh mating mark at the base of my mate’s throat, though.
When we opened the door, Auden ran his eyes over me and broke into a grin. “Congratulations and not just for the pregnancy."
Heat flooded my cheeks. Not because he’d caught us in a post-coital glow but he’d sussed out the little one in my belly.
"How did you?—"
“The baby?" Auden's grin widened. "I've been around long enough to scent when an omega is pregnant." His expression grew more serious. "But the completed bond... that changes things."
"What do you mean?" Creven asked, his arm automatically coming around my waist.
"Well,” Auden settled himself on our porch steps. "The good news is I've found a solution to your problem. The bad news is, it's going to require both of you to be brave."