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  Giving a hard shove to his back, Daxis went tumbling right off the dock and into the water. He came up with a gasp, looked around, and his eyes fixed on her.

  “What the hell was that for?” he asked.

  Lyssa put her hands on her hips, glared back down at him. “You looked like you needed to cool off some.”

  “For what?”

  “Oh, let me, please.” Fox smiled with his hand up in the air, waving. “I’m going to take a guess here and say you were staring at Jewels.”

  “What?” Daxis’s voice went on high note then.

  “Want me to repeat it?” Fox asked.

  “No.” He glared at Fox, then back at Lyssa. “I wasn’t looking at her.”

  “Bullshit! I saw you.”

  “You know what? I’m not the only one that needs a cooling off I think.” Daxis swam back to the side of the dock and climbed onto the dock. “First you,” he turned and gave Fox a hard shove, which had him falling into the water. “Now your turn,” he said to Lyssa.

  “Not on your life,” Lyssa said.

  “That was so not funny man!” Fox cried out once he came back up.

  “Shouldn’t have opened your big mouth,” Daxis said to him.

  “Then you shouldn’t have been staring.”

  Daxis wasn’t paying any attention to Lyssa, and she took advantage of it. She gave him another hard shove and once more, he went falling into the water, right next to Fox. When he came back up, he gave her one hell of a dirty look.

  “You are so going to get it now,” Daxis said to her.

  “Oh, this is going to be good,” Fox said and smiled at her, still in the water.

  Lyssa turned and took off running while Daxis once more pushed out of the water. She didn’t have to look back to know that Daxis was chasing after her. She didn’t get too far either before he caught her. One arm snaked around her waist, and her feet left the ground.

  Lyssa screamed, kicked her feet and even tried to twist out of the hold, but he was too strong. Holding her tight, Daxis walked back toward the dock where Fox was getting out of the water. He took one look at her and Daxis and started laughing.

  “What you laughing about?” Daxis asked right before shoving Fox right back into the water.

  “Daxis, don’t,” Lyssa begged. “Please.”

  “Bit late to be saying please.” Daxis went right to the edge of the dock and Fox’s head came back up from the water.

  “I’m going to kill you now,” Fox said with a big smile on his face.

  Still holding onto her waist, Daxis jumped into the water right next to Fox. Lyssa screamed all the way into the water. When she came back up, she instantly started splashing Daxis. He splashed back and so did Fox.

  “Hey!” Darian yelled at them all from the dock. They all stopped and looked up at her. “I thought we were going skiing?”

  The three of them got out of the water, and Lyssa gave Daxis a small dirty look as she headed to the house to change out of her wet clothes and put on her bathing suit. When she came back, Darian and Dominic were in the boat, as well as Daxis, waiting for her.

  They spent the day on the water, until the sun started going down, mostly showing Daxis and Dominic how to ski. For the most part, the guys did okay. Lyssa got a good laugh out of watching them both fall into the water many times.

  Adrian put on a lot of food for everyone, and this time Fox and Lindsey were there to join them, as well as Alex and surprisingly enough, Jewels. They had chicken, burgers, a bunch of different side dishes and two different kinds of cookies as well as cakes for everyone.

  “I can see why you all love this place so much,” Daxis said with a smile on his face. “It’s gorgeous here.”

  “Thank you,” Skyler said with a smile back at him.

  “Nice place to relax as well,” Darian stated, looking at Dominic. “If some do that sort of thing.”

  Jewels laughed. “Come on girl, give the guy a break. He gives you everything you want. How the hell do you think he pays for it?”

  “Thank you,” Dominic said with a nod. Darian snorted.

  “So what do you do?” Daxis asked Dominic.

  Darian rolled her eyes. “Oh here we go.”

  “Later,” Dominic said. He stood up, stretched and held his hand out to Darian. “Come on, woman. Let’s go for a walk. I swear each time we come to your parents I end up gaining ten pounds.”

  Lyssa watched the two go off with a small grin on her face. She was staring at them so she didn’t see Daxis slip closer to her, not until she felt his hot breath next to her ear, which had her jumping.

  “You okay?” he asked.

  “Yeah,” she said quickly, giving him a quick smile. “It’s strange how those two get along now. Not too long ago she was fighting him all the way on everything.”

  “Sort of like you?”

  “So who was the date?” Alex said out of the blue to Jewels.

  “And it’s time for us to go,” Lyssa stated, standing up quickly and taking Daxis by the hand, pulling him up as well.

  “What’s going on?” Daxis asked, stumbling as she pulled on his arm.

  “I’m not going to stay around and watch those to go at it again. I swear they fight more than anyone I know. Even more than what we did.”

  “And we can’t watch it?”

  “No!”

  They didn’t get too far before voices started to rise. Lyssa took Daxis to a part of the beach that was very private—to a cove, one that she came to many times to think and to swim alone.

  “Wow,” Daxis said, staring at the water. “What a view.”

  “I used to come here often to be alone.” He looked over his shoulder at her and she shrugged. “Needed to think, you know, about how I was going to be able to handle the claim and all.”

  “Is that it?”

  “Yes and no.” One eyebrow went up and she rolled her eyes at him. “You really don’t want to know everything. Trust me.” He turned back to the water, and she used his distraction to her advantage.

  While Daxis wasn’t looking, she undressed quickly. It was dark, so no one would be able to see clearly and not too many knew about this place. It was well-hidden with rocks and when the tide was up it flooded.

  “How about a swim?” she asked as she jogged past him, making sure to go slow enough that he saw she was naked.

  Splashing into the water to her knees, then diving in, Lyssa swam underwater a ways before coming up with a smile on her face. She saw Daxis, standing in the same spot but this time working fast at undressing. She giggled when he fell sideways, struggling with one of his shoes, then for a bit of meanness she waved at him.

  When he had everything off and was back up on his feet, Daxis took off running toward the water. He splashed in then dove under. Lyssa laughed as she waited for him to come up next to her, but he didn’t. Instead, he grabbed her legs and pulled her under. Under the water, he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. Lyssa responded by kissing him back as well as wrapping her legs and arms around his body.

  Daxis was the one to push them both back up, but they didn’t stop kissing. She could feel him get hard against her and on purpose, she rubbed her body as much as she could against his own. He moaned into the kiss, pulled away and started to swim backwards toward shore.

  Instead of going back onto the beach, Daxis had them still in the water, only in the very shallow part with her on top. He kissed her deep, one hand on her ass, the other at the back of her head holding her in place as he kissed her. Lyssa in turn reached down between them, took hold of his erection and posed it at her entrance. Slowly, not breaking the kiss, she lowered herself down, taking every hard, thick inch of him into her body.

  Daxis broke the kiss with a hiss. Both hands went to her hips and Lyssa began to move. She stared down at him, kept eye contract as long as she could before the pleasure started to build.

  Mouth open in bliss, she rode him fast and hard, working to hold off the quickly approaching c
limax. Daxis didn’t help when he started to buck under her. In fact, each hard buck only heightened the pleasure and had every damn nerve ending in her body screaming for release.

  “Not yet,” she panted.

  Daxis sat up, one arm quickly going around her waist, the other he dug into the sand. She opened her eyes and cried out as he took over in that position. He bucked hard under her, sharpening the intense pleasure until she couldn’t hold it back any more.

  Daxis made damn sure she couldn’t hold back the climax, so she screamed with it, but didn’t scream for long. Quickly he kissed her, silencing the sound.

  Still kissing her, they rolled over and he took her hard and fast. Bodies slapped against bodies just as the water beat against their legs. Hell, she hadn’t come down yet from the first wave of pleasure and here another quickly started to build right back up.

  He pulled away from the kiss and his lips went to her shoulder. He bit down. She cried out and he came at the same time, still pumping into her. Lyssa wrapped herself around him, holding tight as her body contracted under him. His hold on her shoulder only intensified everything she felt, which had her opening her mouth to beg him to stop. He must’ve known, because he stilled inside her, released her shoulder and gave it a small lick followed by a kiss.

  They lay like that for a bit before he finally withdrew from her. When he did, she groaned at the sensitive to her clit. Daxis rolled to his side and she stayed put, her body spread out with a grin on her face.

  Daxis chuckled and she turned her head in his direction. “What?”

  “You look like a mate that has been well satisfied.”

  “I am. Wanna do it again?”

  He laughed this time, sat up and pulled her over to his lap where he settled her between his legs, facing the water. “I never thought I’d feel this relaxed ever in my life.”

  “There’s something about this place. Darian says it’s the only time Nick really does relax.”

  “He looked like he was working a bit ago behind her back.”

  She shook her head, “That wasn’t work. I heard him and my father talk about some other Cabinet and that Nick’s grandfather is involved.”

  “Yeah, I’ve heard the rumors also about it.”

  “What it is?”

  “Old families trying to bring back the old ways.”

  “But the old ways were brutal on us females.”

  “They were. At the Gathering, if you are mated, the male has the right to bed you in front of all.” Lyssa gasped and turned to look at him. He nodded. “You didn’t really listen to my father when he talked about it, did you?”

  Her cheeks heated up. “Guess not.”

  “It used to be very brutal. But hey, let’s not talk about it. I want to just sit here and enjoy this. It’s taken a lot for us to be in the place we’re at now.”

  “You mean on the beach?”

  “I mean you in my arms,” he said and sighed, his chin resting on top of her head. “You don’t know how many nights I just lay in my bed, thinking about holding you. The way you acted I never thought it would ever have happen.”

  “Well now that you have me in your arms, what will you do with me?”

  He chuckled again, chin leaving her head and face going to the side right over her marked shoulder. “Oh, I’m sure I can think of a few things.”

  Lyssa watched his hand go from just draped over her leg to the inside and up toward her sex. She couldn’t control her breathing and spread her legs wider for him. Not taking her eyes off that hand until she couldn’t see it anymore, until he touched her pussy lightly, then found her clit. She gasped.

  “I can make you come just with my hand,” he said low in her ear, kissing at her mark. “Have you throbbing right here for attention.” He stated to rub slowly and lightly against the clit. “Maybe even have you begging for me to sink right here.” With his other hand, and no hint that his other hand was between her legs, either, Daxis shoved two fingers deep inside her. This time Lyssa moaned.

  She reached up, fisted both hands into his hair and arched her body. She even widened her legs as far apart as she could. “Yes,” she breathed out.

  “You like this?” He pressed down on her clit with more pressure and moved the fingers slowly in and out of her. “Would you like the fingers to move faster or this finger on your clit to press harder?”

  “Both.”

  “You only get one.”

  “That’s not fair!”

  “I know. But you only get to pick one. Do you want the clit to have the attention, or this sweet, very hot and nice tight pussy of yours to have it? Pick.”

  “I—I don’t want to pick. I want them both.”

  “Hmm,” he moaned, licking her mark. “Not sure if I want to give you both. What you give me if I do both now?”

  Strangely enough, she was so turned on that she knew come morning she’d be so embarrassed, but for now, she didn’t give a shit. Pushing his hands away and almost whimpering at the loss of the ones inside her, she turned on his lap and pushed him back down to the ground.

  Crawling up his body, stopping when she was straddling his shoulders, she looked down at him and shivered when he licked his lips. She knew what he really wanted then. However, she also wanted something more from him. Glancing over her shoulder and looking down his body, Daxis was once more hard and that was all she needed to know.

  Turning her body around, still on top of him, she lowered her upper body down, grabbed hold of his cock and sucked it into her mouth. He hissed behind her, hands grabbed the inside of her legs and a hot, wet tongue touched the slit, moving to her clit.

  She gasped as she sucked him hard, pulling on the flesh and massaging the heavy sac between his legs. Her reward, two fingers went back inside her as his tongue flicked hard against her clit.

  She climaxed right on the spot, moaned against his cock. But just as fast as it all started, it ended for her to a point. He picked her up and moved her on to her hands and knees. Not even able to catch a breath or look back at him, Daxis gave one mighty thrust into her.

  Lyssa cried out, but this time didn’t come. Daxis fucked her hard, fast, almost brutal, as if he was in heat. And she loved it. She knew by the way he gripped her hips she’d have bruises in the morning and she didn’t care.

  The hard, fast plunge into her body had the pleasure building quickly—almost too quickly for her liking. She wanted it to last longer, but knew by the way he was grunting behind her that it wasn’t going to happen.

  “You—are—mine!” he stated with each thrust he gave her. “Say—it!”

  “You’re,” she panted. “I’m—yours.”

  A loud groan, one final hard thrust, and Daxis arched back and howled. She felt him swell inside her, felt the spirt of his release and it triggered her own. She cried out, hung her head down and tried to hold on, as so many emotions bombarded her, giving her so much pleasure.

  Together they dropped back to the ground, still linked, his arm tightly around her holding her close to his chest. She could feel it pounding against her back and smiled as well as yawned.

  “When do you think we should go back?” he asked after some time and when she shivered from cold.

  “Part of me doesn’t want to,” she said, turning so that they were facing each other. “Sort of feel like if we leave then this peace we have stays here.”

  “The peace comes with us.” He reached out, brushing some hair from face. “Everything is as it should be with us. I’m not going to hurt you, ever. Swear upon my life. You are more precious to me than anything I’ve ever had.” His eyes teared up and his voice lowered. “God, I love you.”

  Lyssa smiled, took him by the back of his head and brought him down where she could kiss him lightly. “I love you. More than I ever thought I could love another that wasn’t my family. You’re my heart, my soul, my everything. I’m never going to leave again. You’re stuck with me forever.”

  Daxis smiled. “I love the sound of that.”
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  “Good. Then you won’t mind giving into all of my demands, will you?”

  “Depends on the demands.”

  Lyssa quickly crawled back up on top of him. “How about another round, before we go back to the house.”

  “Woman, you never have to ask. I’m yours for the taking.”

  She glanced down, watched the swell of his flesh and smiled. “Maybe we won’t make it back to the house before dawn.”

  “Sounds like a great plan to me.” Daxis took hold of her face, kissed her deep, then rolled her under him.

  Epilogue

  “I swear I don’t know what I’m going to do with you.”

  Stray sat on a table, his body so heavy he had a hell of a time keeping it up. He focused all of his energy he had left at just staying up right. “I don’t hear shit from you for what, over two years, and now you call for help.”

  He turned his head, blinked a few times and got the eyes to focus on his cousin, Mika. It had been years since they’d last seen each other. When Stray left home with Logan, it was planned to be a trip that lasted only a few months. He didn’t plan on getting taken and used as a male whore for so long. Once free, he called his family but only Mika was left. His whole family had been killed, and the pain he felt from that information burned right into his soul. He wanted to die right then. Refused to go home. Refused to see anyone. He pretty much shut down. When he left Logan he thought he had a home to go to, but didn’t.

  The years or more like the loss of their family changed Mika. He looked older, even though they were the same age. Mika’s family had been killed a year before Stray was taken. One of the many raids happened and only luck on Mika’s side saved his life. He had snuck out to meet up with a female.

  Mika’s hair was a bit longer and darker. His body also filled out. A mass of muscle spread out on his chest, shoulders, arms, making the dark black T-shirt he wore look like it might be painted on his body. Even his legs were thicker. It all meant that Mika was now a male to be reckoned with. No longer a boy, but a shifter male who has experienced the need of his heat a few times, and each time he went through it alone it only made the male harder inside.