Walker (Bowen Boys, #1)(43)

Lifting her up, he turned her around so her ass was toward him. He knew she was ready; he could smell her. Slamming into her deep, he leaned over her and licked along her spine. She was sweaty and sweet and he wanted more. Reaching around to her *, he slid his finger inside of her and could feel his cock every time. When she started to push back, he pinched her clit hard and sank his teeth deep into her shoulder. His own release made his eyes roll in the back of his head.

Neither of them moved for several minutes. He wasn’t sure if he’d ever be able to, but when she giggled he lifted his head off her and licked the wound closed he’d inflicted on her. She sighed when he kissed her.

“Your brothers know what we’re about?”

He thought they probably did since he’d told them to get the f*ck away from here.

“I’m sure you weren’t very nice when you got rid of them.”

“I wasn’t. When they get their own mates they’ll know what I mean.” He looked around the empty yard for their clothes. “I’m afraid you’ll have to go inside naked. I seem to have lost myself with your smell.”

Caitlynne turned to look at him. The change had made her eyes bluer and her skin was softer. He ran his finger over her throat and watched her face. She smiled at him. “I don’t know how I lived all this time without you.” She nodded at him as he continued. “I never really cared if I found a mate, didn’t really understand how much they could make a change in my life. But I’ve fallen in love with you. I can’t…tonight, you have to be extra careful and come back to me.”

“I will. I swear it.” She kissed his chin, leaned back against the truck, and stared at him. “Walker, there’s something you should know. Something that will be important to you if I don’t make it ou—”

“No. I don’t want to think like that. Please, not right now. I just want to hold you like this until we have to go inside and get ready. Please?” She nodded and then laid her head on his chest. “I love you, Caitlynne.”

“I love you too. I don’t…I don’t want to cause a problem for you and your family, but Khan really hates me.” He nodded. “I have a house closer to DC that I can live in and you can come and visit me sometimes.”

He lifted her head and looked down at her. “Wherever you go, we go. I won’t spend another day without you. If this thing between you two doesn’t work out I can get a job anywhere. I’m a very good doctor. Don’t worry about it now. We’ll get him out and he’ll be so grateful that he’ll drop to his knees and kiss your feet.”

She laughed and he decided that it was the most wondrous sound he’d ever heard. He couldn’t wait to have children with her. Small little girls that looked just like her and acted…well, maybe not acted just like her, but close. He could see them running in the yard and playing. Maybe even a son or two. Before he could voice his needs, her phone rang somewhere behind them.

By the time they found it the person had left a voicemail. The second time it started to ring, she answered. He watched the change on her face and knew it was the people who had Khan. She told them she’d meet them somewhere in two hours. They both ran to the house as she hung up.

“They want me to meet them about four miles or so, I’d guess, from where they called me from the first time. The caller said that they’d have him there for the exchange.” She pulled on panties and a bra.

“You don’t think he’ll be there, I take it.”

She shook her head and pulled on dark pants and a darker shirt.

“Where are you planning to go?”

She grinned. It wasn’t terribly friendly; neither did it reach her eyes. If she turned that on him for whatever reason other than to show him she was pissed at someone else, he knew right then and there that whatever she wanted, it was hers.

“Why, I go where your brother is. You’ll need to tell me how to make that mind thingy work your mom was talking about.”

It took him several seconds to try to work out what she meant and remembered hearing his mom tell her about some of the things she could do as a panther. “You didn’t pledge to him. You have no connection to him, so it won’t work.” She sat down and pulled on her boots. “But it will with us. I can relay whatever you need. He’d probably do the opposite of what you wanted anyway.”

She nodded, but looked concerned. “What makes you think he won’t do that anyway? I mean, if he doesn’t listen to either of us, he will get us both killed. And I don’t know about you, but I’m not in the mood to die at the moment.”

She was joking, he knew that, but the reality of what was going to happen hit him hard, right in his heart. He walked to her, pulled her up, and held her to him. He wasn’t in the mood to let her die either and told her so.

“He’ll be stubborn, Walker. He won’t listen and he’ll try to do things his way. Please make him understand that I know what I’m doing. He has to trust me.”

Walker knew she was right. Right about Khan not listening to them, and also that he had to trust her. But he wouldn’t. And Walker was terrified that Khan would get them both hurt.

“I’ll tell him. I’ll even threaten him. But you have to be ready for that, all right? You have to be ready for him to be the Khan we all know and love.” She laughed and pulled away. “I know, you have to get going. But tell me again that you love me.”