The Heat

LORELAI

We were safe.

For now.

The vampires had circled back, or at least that’s what my magic told me. They had lost our scent, just like Kai had said they would.

As soon as I put the border on the cave entrance, they started scattering through the trees, looking for us in all directions. It was a while later when they finally gave up. I felt them leave and finally took a deep enough breath.

Kai had reset my shoulder, popping it back into place with a sickening crunch. Now it just ached, but I could handle that. Everything ached, and had for days, so I was used to it.

I sat against the cave wall in the dark, rubbing the burns on my wrists from the handcuffs. They were fading before my eyes.

“You’re healing?” Kai checked.

I nodded, using my wolf eyes to see him. I showed him my wrists as he sat down next to me.

He grabbed them and rubbed over the newly smooth skin. Then he kissed it. I sighed and leaned my head against the cave wall. His touch reached inside me so far that I couldn’t breathe. The heat flared inside me, and I leaned into his touch.

My power was hot and humming in my blood from taking out the vamps; my shadows were sated with being free, and the heat was an inconsolable mess inside me.

The pack was feral in the link, with Brax and Derik straining in our mating link, and there wasn’t much time before we would have to get back to them.

But for now, we needed our moment. We needed to process what we had been through, but without words.

So I reached for him in the dark, and he was there, ready to pull me into him. His mouth crashed down on mine, and despite having so many other worries and things to think about, my mind made room for the one constant: my lust for my alphas.

It was as strong as ever, and I reveled in it.

We had been through so much, and my world had changed so much in a short amount of time; it was enough to make my head spin. But the way the alphas felt in my arms made it all seem okay.

Like everything else was just noise that I could silence whenever I had their touch. They were all it took.

I kissed Kai back, letting out the stress of being with the vampires and the amount of pain I had survived. I replaced all the bad feelings with good, using Kai’s mouth against mine as a reminder of what I had.

His mouth moved slow over mine, but it was demanding. His hands gripped my hips as he hauled me onto his lap. I ran my hands through his hair and tugged on the rough strands, kissing him harder.

My knees brushed against the packed dirt and stone of the cave; my feet scuffed as I moved on his waist, and the sound of our mouths meeting, our breaths mingling, was the only thing filling the echoing cave. But it was a perfect harmony.

One I wanted to hear all the time.

I kissed him harder, my tongue running along his as heat burst in my core. It was feral and burning, the pulses in my ear from the rushing in my heart making every breath I took feel like I was going to choke on it.

His hands moved down my body and to my underwear. We didn’t have much separating us; the vampires had kept us almost naked so they could have easier access to our skin. I had hated that fact for days. Now, I was glad for it.

So was Kai.

He peeled my undergarments off me, rolling me onto the dirt of the cave, pinning me with his huge body. His eyes were wide and filled with lust as he looked down at me.

“So strong. So perfect. Mate,” he breathed before bending to kiss down my neck. His lips on my skin were a stroke to the already burning flames inside me, and I sucked in a breath. My back arched into him, and I wrapped my legs around him.

I rocked against him as he groaned, the vibrations on my skin making me clench.

I wanted to move slow to appreciate the time we had been given with each other, but the heat wasn’t going to let me do that. I needed to claim him.

I rolled us over so he was beneath me. He smirked up at me as I straddled his waist.

“So, this is how D likes it, hmm?” Kai said, his side smile making my stomach flip. I nodded.

“You’ll see why in a second,” D said in the link. I grinned and kissed Kai. He lifted my hips, pushing himself against my already dripping pussy.

I sank onto him.

His chest rumbled before he let out a growl. The sound stroked my heat, and I dripped more for him. Then something changed inside me. The heat grew insurmountable, and the urge to orgasm became a need so fierce, I couldn’t do anything but move.

My nails dug into his chest as I moved my hips and legs, moving up and down on Kai at a pace I could never have imagined being able to keep up. But I did.

My thighs didn’t even burn. My core did, though, and I needed more.

I fucked him rough and fast, demanding everything he had. I set the pace so I could move as fast as I wanted, his thick cock feeding the heat as I moved on it.

He was so big, my pussy stretched to its limit as I claimed him. It burned, but it was so fucking good.

“Fucking hell,” Kai groaned as he met every thrust, his neck flushed, his face damp. I knew I had that same look, but I couldn’t stop.

My body was in control, needing more, needing everything. It needed my mates. Not just Kai.

“Keep going,” I bit out as I rode him.

“Like I have a choice, Little Luna. The heat has us both in its clutches.”

I didn’t respond. He was right.

The pleasure rolling through me in constant waves was enough to have the craving for release growing and growing. It was as if, at the same time I was feeding it, it was demanding more. It was a cycle, one I felt to the very depths of my soul.

I wanted to own Kai; I needed to. I needed to show him I was powerful, and I needed him to show me that he was.

I wanted to be the dominating one while still having him give me what I needed to sate the craving inside. It was an incurable ache inside me, and it made me ride him harder and harder.

“That’s a female’s heat,” Kai bit out as he thrust inside me.

I frowned down at him, my claws extended, digging into his flesh. Blood dripped down his pecs, but the sight had my pussy clenching around him. I leaned down and kissed his mouth, making sure my canines brushed his lip.

He groaned as they pierced his skin. The copper taste of his blood moved between our mouths as I slid my tongue along his. It made the heat in me tingle along my skin.

“How do I stop it?” I breathed out, my pants harsh in the silence. My body had a slick sheen of sweat, burning with pleasure and fire as Kai and I met thrust for thrust. It was intoxicating, and he was.

The mating link was strong, ensuring every part he touched on my body felt like I was going to fall into orgasm. Yet, my core held it back; it ached for more.

“It won’t. Not until you have Derik and Brax too. But I can keep you sane until then,” Kai said, grinning as he rolled us so I was flat on my back beneath him. I smirked up at him, my hackles rising at the challenge in his tone.

I wrapped my leg around his back, arching into his strokes.

“A lot of confidence for a guy who hasn’t even made me come yet.”

Kai didn’t answer me; he just smirked back and then moved.

It hit me right where I needed it.

His head thrust up against my G-spot, and I let go. I had no choice. My orgasm swallowed me whole, taking me over with vicious pleasure that made every bone in me shake.

I cried out, arching and trying to breathe through his harsh pumps into me. He hit the spot over and over again until I couldn’t use my voice to cry out anymore.

He grinned down at me. “Tell me again that my confidence is misplaced.”

I rolled my eyes, breathing heavily, before pulling his mouth down to mine for more.

I wasn’t sure how long we spent giving into the heat, but by the time I collapsed on his chest, I was soaked, my limbs were jelly, but my core was still angry. Kai was fucking good and knew my body so damn well, but he couldn’t be Derik and Brax.

“Nikolai. You’ve officially fucked me to death,” I said as I rolled off him and let the breath expel from my body in a huff. He chuckled breathily before turning his head to me.

“Not possible. But we should go; the peace in the heat won’t last long if I can’t get you to Derik and Brax,” Kai said. I knew that too. My body was sated but not enough; it knew there were parts missing.

The pack was okay now, though, and that was the main thing. So were our bodies. We had healed faster with the mating, giving us the push in our bodies we needed to keep going and satisfy the cravings.

Kai curled me into him, pulling my hair back from my face as I traced the lines of his abs.

“One hour, Little Luna. Then we leave, okay?” he said.

I nodded sleepily, my eyelids drifting closed. I tried to keep them open; I wanted to reach my shadows out to Zale and Enzi, I wanted to feel Derik and Brax, and I was terrified that if I closed them, I would wake up and be back in that damn cell.

“I don’t want to sleep,” I whispered, but I was already drifting. And then I was asleep.

Kai’s rough voice was in my ear, waking me up an hour later. It felt like I hadn’t slept at all, but it would have to do.

The heat was still thrumming in my body, and the urge to take Kai as soon as I woke up was strong, but I wanted to see the others just as badly. So I sat up, rubbing my hands over my face.

“We have to get you back, Little Luna. This heat is strong, and the others are…”

“Desperate?” Brax bit out through the link, his need saturating it. It panged through me, and I sucked in a breath. He was desperate.

“Impatient,” Derik said, and even he sounded and felt more strained than usual. His handle on his emotions wasn’t as clean cut this time, and I knew I had to get to them.

“Zale and Enzi are okay?”

“Unaffected,” Brax said, then moved back from the link.

“They’re keeping us sane, beautiful. But I don’t know how long that will last. With your magic back, the wolves are powerful, and we feel it,” Derik said, his voice half a growl.

I looked over at Kai and nodded toward the cave entrance. “Is it safe?”

“As safe as it’s going to get,” Kai said, standing up. He was only in his underwear too.

“I’m going to shift and run us to the city. We’ll get there faster,” he said.

“You can turn?” I asked. He rolled his shoulders back with a nod.

“Let’s go then.” I headed toward the entrance and pushed my shadows against the magic shield. As soon as I let the barrier drop, my shadows pushed out to check for threats. I kept my magic close.

My shadows sensed something immediately.

I growled under my breath and slammed the stalker against the side of the cave as we climbed out of it.

They were going to regret coming between me and my mates, me and my family. I was one pissed off hybrid with magic and shadows ready to consume.