Andrew: Lanning’s Leap: Erotica Shapeshifter Romance (Lanning's Leap Book 5) (5 page)

“Why not?” Even as the words left her mouth, she felt her temper rise. “I don’t...please put me back. And step away. I don’t know what sort of drugs they gave me, but I don’t talk like that. And I certainly don’t beg men to take me. Please, put me down.”

He only held her, and before she could try and be sterner with him, if she even thought she could, he kissed her again. This time she had no doubt that he needed her when he laid over her after laying her back on the bed. His hands too, were making short work of her gown.

His cock was hard, hitting her between her legs in the perfect place to make her wet and warm. When he rocked down, his entire body pressing into hers, Laci grabbed his shoulders again. This time she wasn’t just hanging on, but she felt that if she didn’t touch him now, she was going to die. Naked flesh filled her hands. His muscles seemed to ripple along her skin as he continued to torment her body. And when he suckled her breast into his mouth, tugging hard on her nipple, Laci cried out. Christ, she could come like this.

“I want to taste you.” She wanted to point out that he had been until he stopped, but he grinned at her and she wanted to whimper again. “I want to eat you, Laci. Will you come for me while I do? Let me taste your creaminess as it fills me?”

“Please? I don’t know why, but I need to come. Hurry.” He moved down her body, stripping off what was left of her gown. When he was at her navel, his mouth sucked the small indentation and she held him there with her fingers curled into his soft hair. If he ate her pussy like he was her belly, she was going to come hard enough to blow the top off her head and the building she was in.

When he stood up, she watched him as he unbuttoned his shirt and tossed it on the chair behind him. She wondered if he could feel her need as she was his. Could he smell her like she thought for sure she was him? His musky odor, his body heat. It was all she could do not to beg him to let her have a bite of him. Then he pulled his belt off and dropped it on the floor.

“Are you going to have sex with me?” Her voice was hardly recognizable to her own ears. He nodded and she felt her pussy heat, her nipples tighten even more. When his nostrils flared, his head lifting to smell deeper, she spread her legs for him, the need to have him know that she wanted him as badly making her reckless. “I need you. I have no idea why...this is insane, but I can’t stop myself from wanting to feel your mouth on me. Your cock deep inside of me.”

“You’re mine.” It sounded perfect to her, to be owned by a man, this man. And when he opened his fly, she could see the tip of his cock, the dark crown there, and licked her lips. “I’m going to eat you until you scream. Then I’m going to pull you off that bed and fuck you hard enough that you know how much I need you.”

“Yes. Please. I need you.” He pulled her legs to the side of the bed. She felt strange, her legs wide, her body spread before him, but when he pulled the chair to the bed, the one he’d been sitting in, she watched as he sat down in it and rolled it to her. Laci felt her pussy soak again and nearly closed her legs, she was so embarrassed at what he could see now.

“Open them for me, Laci. I want to watch you come. I want to see your cream flow from you while you do it.” She watched him lower his head, his mouth poised to take her when he spread her nether lips open. The coolness after being so hot and wet made her moan. “Come for me. While I watch, come.”

He only touched her. His finger or thumb just brushed over her clit and his hot breath sent her over the edge. Laci came hard, her body seemingly on the brink of it since she’d woken up. And when he sucked her clit into his mouth and nipped at her, Laci came a second time, bringing her body up off the bed when she did.

He ate her. Devoured her to the point where she wasn’t sure she could take much more. Every time she came, and there were just too many times to count, she felt as if it wasn’t enough and too much at the same time. And that, while satisfying, she knew there was more to come. Something powerful and mind blowing. When he stood up, his cock thick and bare to her, she wanted to take him into her mouth and drink him down, have the cream at his tip slide down her throat like he had her.

“I can’t wait.” She nodded, reaching for him even as he rubbed his crown over her clit until she came twice more. “Christ, I need you.”

He slammed into her. There wasn’t any kind of sliding gently into her pussy. He powered into her. His body became as much a part of her as her hand or arm. She came around him, feeling as if he’d woken something in her that only he could have done. She held him to her, screaming out her release even as a second one took her under. And when he lifted her legs up to get deeper, closer to her, Laci wrapped her legs around him and reached for him. As soon as his mouth covered her breast again, she dug her nails into his back. Need was spiraling out of control, but she was almost afraid to let go, to let the release that was just there, on the edge, come over her.

His mouth was everywhere. Every time he touched her at her breast or neck, she wanted to give him more. His hands followed his mouth, squeezing and cupping parts of her that until this very moment she’d never thought of as sensual. And when his mouth was at her throat, right over her pounding pulse, she felt her body tense. Whatever he was going to do to her now, it was going to take her away.

“Come for me.”

She felt it come over her. Not like a gentle rain, but a finger in a socket kind of feeling. And when he bit her, tearing at her throat, she felt her entire being stop. Her heartbeat stopped pumping blood to her body, her mind froze like she’d been eating ice cream too fast. Even her skin seemed to know that something was coming. In that moment Laci had a clarity about this that she knew was epic. Laci fell in love with the man fucking her. And then she not only fell over the edge of a very high cliff, but went over it willingly as she came again and again.

He brought her twice more. Each time she felt as if she were giving him more of her, her heart, her body and everything that made her who she was. And when he came too, every part of her body felt it. He branded her, marked her in a way that made her realize that she’d never be the same again.

“Come,” he commanded of her again. As his body filled hers with his cum, she screamed. The energy of her release needed to be expelled and the scream was just the beginning of it. Laci needed more, needed it all, and when he held her to his throat, she bit down on his throat hard enough to taste blood.

As it filled her mouth, then slid down the back of her throat, she cried out again as she drank greedily from the wound she’d created. Laci felt herself falling down a long tunnel, darkening as she went until there was simply nothing.

Chapter 4

Andrew dressed but kept an eye on Laci. He’d covered her with the sheet that had ended up on the floor, but he felt like she was still exposed to everyone. The nurse that had come in to take her blood pressure had only looked at the room, then at him, before going out and returning with a clean gown as well as two blankets. While she did her job, Andrew tried to think what he needed to do now.

He’d mated. And every time he thought of that, the sappy feeling would settle over him and he’d have to drag his thoughts back to what he had to do now. And he was pretty sure there was plenty. Like where the hell were they going to live? He had a place to stay but nothing in it. Not even a couch or a decent bed. Andrew looked at Max when he suddenly appeared in the room with him and Kendra standing just to his right.

“We wanted to see how you’re doing.” He nodded but said nothing. Kendra moved to the bed while Max, Murph’s son, stood near him and continued. “She’ll work for me. In my business, all right?”

“She has a job.” He shook his head at him. “She works for the cable company. The one I just bought.”

“It’s no longer safe for her there. Blair Warren will make it more difficult for her than he had before. And someone is coming for her.” Andrew glanced at Kendra and then back at Max. “Thomas is correct. It is Sonya’s men. They don’t care that their master is dead. They have a job to do and nothing will keep them from it. I know that there is something for them if they succeed, but I don’t have any idea what it might be right now.”

“Why? Is it because of her idea that we weren’t to have mates?” Max said that was it, but Andrew had a feeling it was more than that. “I can’t keep her safe if she’s not where I can see her all the time.”

“If they kill her, her death, if they find her there, will be the end of you and you know it.” Kendra sat down on a nice chair that hadn’t been there before as she spoke to him. “In the building where she’d be working for Max, it will be safer for her. There are elements that she can use there that will make it so no one can enter if they have ill will in their heart. Much like you have at the homes where you live. While she is only a human, Max and I have put magic in place that will keep her as safe as if you’re with her.”

“Why?” Kendra asked him what he meant. “Why are you doing this for her? I mean, like you said, she’s my mate, and since I’m sure you know that I’ve claimed her, she’s the same as I am. Immortal, and can heal a great deal faster than a normal human can. Why are you taking precautions to keep her safer? Or is she not really a human but something else that has been hidden away until now?”

“No, she’s only a human. Or was until you bonded with her. And yes, she’s like you now, an immortal. But as for keeping her safe.... What if I told you that I know she holds the key? And that I don’t know what the key unlocks or what is inside of whatever it is she’s to open?” He told her he didn’t believe her. “Be that as it may, it’s the truth. I know that she has the key. I haven’t any idea if it’s metaphysical or just key. But she has it. She’s also the glue that holds the rest of you together when things go badly.”

“What’s going to happen?” Again, she told him she didn’t know. “I thought you were all knowing and all powerful. How can things slip by you without you knowing about it?”

“I am all powerful but not all-knowing.” Kendra looked at Laci, then back at him as she continued. “Laci is mentioned in the notes from Sonya that we’ve found. Most of it just talks about how she’s a human, pretty easily disposed of. But over the years, not only did Sonya seem to have trouble getting her to die, she also seemed to get madder and madder with each thing that didn’t work. And from the notes, Sonya tried everything.”

“Her parents.” Kendra nodded but said nothing more. “I had someone investigate her. I found that her parents were in a horrific accident about four years ago, and both of them were killed instantly. You’re saying that Sonya was responsible for their deaths?”

“Yes. And many more that Laci had contact with. Her great aunt, her grandfather’s sister, is the only one that has never had any harm come to her. I’ve been looking into that as well.” Andrew knew about the aunt and what she had been doing to Laci since she’d resumed care for her after her father’s death. “I’ve taken some liberties as well. With your home.”

“Home? I don’t have a home. And what sort of liberties have you taken in a home that I don’t have? And why?” Kendra said nothing but stood up and faced the bed. Andrew did as well. “Kendra, are you talking about my apartment? If so, then you should know that I’m planning to find us a house.”

“You have a home now. The apartment that you were living in won’t be as safe. Hush now, she’s waking up.” Kendra turned to him. “We must go. Max and I are having tubes of meat on a stick over an open fire tonight. I know that they’re hot dogs, but I so love the look on people’s faces when I say that.”

Then she was gone. He looked over at Max and wondered not for the first time just how powerful the boy was. It was scary what he could do. When he got up and touched his finger to Laci’s bare arm, he disappeared too. Andrew decided that he simply wasn’t going to ask.

He could tell Laci was embarrassed the moment she looked up at him, or tried not to look at him. Andrew was okay with that for now. What they had done had been amazing, wonderful, and consuming for him as well. When she pulled her hand from his when he took it in his, he took it back and kissed the back of it.

“Are you mad at me or just afraid?” Her flare of temper nearly made him laugh, but he wisely caught himself. While she didn’t yell or scream at him, he could see that she did want to hit him. “I have never in my life enjoyed sex that much. I mean, I feel like you blew my head off and put it back on several times.”

“I did no such thing. You know it was simply sex. I mean, it was fucking fantastic sex, but that’s all it was.” He sat down on the edge of the bed and continued to hold her hand. “We shouldn’t have done that. You must know that as well. We’re strangers. I mean, you know nothing at all about me and I don’t you either.”

“True. Very true. But that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t like to strip you down and have my way with every inch of you again and again.” Her face reddened and he smiled at her. “I actually know a great deal about you. I mean, I had you investigated. Before we made love.”

“You did not.” He nodded at her and watched her face. Her anger was there, as well as a deep seeded need to run. Andrew wanted to reassure her, tell her he was going to keep her safe, but he needed her to trust him. Now more than ever. “There are people after me. I don’t suppose in your investigation you figured out what they want, did you? And don’t think I’m okay with you having me looked into either. You had no right.”

“You worked for me. And while I was trying to figure out what to do with my company, I saw your name. At least the name you were going by there. But I’ll get to that in a moment.” She still wasn’t looking at him, and he reached down and lifted her chin up so that she was. “Are you upset with what we did? I mean, mad at me over it?”

“It wasn’t as if I just laid there and let you do those things to me. I rather enjoyed it myself. But it was wrong. On so many levels.” He didn’t bother telling her that to him it wasn’t, because he didn’t think she’d appreciate that much honesty right now. “Why did my name stick out to you? I mean, there are over a hundred people working there. What made me so special?”

“Besides just being you? Your sales reports.” Her body stiffened, and he felt her try and pull from his hand again. “Don’t leave me. I need to talk to you about things. Not just on a personal level, but about work too. I need you to tell me why Warren hit you.”

“He’s a prick.” He laughed and told her he agreed. “He was angry that I’d been training Phillip. He said he was your brother. Phillip I mean, he told me you were his brother. And that...and that you were....” She looked at his arm, then back at his face. “Blair has it in his head that he owns me and that cable company. He rules with an iron hand. And him hitting me was just the end of a long line of shit he’s done to me. Mainly my commissions.”

“Phillip told you that we’re cats. And yes, Warren does think he owns the company, but I assure you that he’s going to be gone soon. But to my brothers. Phillip is my younger brother. I have four more at home, all older than Phillip and I.” Andrew turned his hand over so that his was on top. He let just a little of his cat go and she did jerk from him then. But before he could pull his cat back, she put her shaking hand over his furred one. “He wants to mark you as I have done. Not with sex, but with his tongue and bite.”

“I bit you.” The shocked look on her face had him thinking all sorts of thoughts, but she continued before he could tell what she was thinking about. “I had to. I mean, not just that it was fun because you bit me, but I really needed to sink my teeth into you and taste your blood. That’s just not normal, you know that, don’t you?”

“You had to because I’m your mate. We’re a couple. And now that we’ve had sex and exchanged blood, we’re inseparable.” He knew she was going to argue with him. Andrew could see it in her eyes. “I promise you, we’ll talk about this later. I really need to talk to you about Warren. He’s pissed off at me, and I need to have a little talk with him.”

“You mean about my commissions.” He said it was more than that, but that was a good start. “I have all my sales reports. Or at least I did. I left them...I guess they’re still at the company. When I got hurt I didn’t get my things.”

“Phillip got them for you. And the things that were on the desk. I had no idea when I took this company that you were going to be there, I wanted you to know that.” She nodded. “When did he start moving your money around? And did you ever talk to him about it?”

“I did.” She told him about the meeting that they’d had and that he’d told her that he had rules she had to follow. “The more I made, the more he’d take. I was making what amounted to a base pay. He’d make sure that I had just enough, or in this case not enough to be able to afford anything, including a place to stay. And he wasn’t going to stop. He came right out and told me if I slowed my sales, he’d go to the police. At this point, I really don’t care. So I applied for another job that would work around my other two jobs and gave my notice. I slipped the letter under your door when I found out that there was a new owner.”

“I never saw it. And I’m pretty sure I know why not now. Warren has been going in and out of my offices since I bought the place. Even before that, he told me. Mostly he just rearranges my stuff to suit his needs. I wasn’t aware of that then. I kept thinking the place was haunted and that the ghost was having fun with me.” When she didn’t find his lame joke funny, he moved on. “Then yesterday morning I called in some help. I had the locks changed and the computer removed and replaced. He’d cloned it.”

“He had one on the computer I was using too. And he’d listen in on my sales pitches. I think that’s the way he gets around certain things. Like when someone is leaving or looking for another position in the company, he spies on them to get them fired. I’m not a model employee, but I do make it so these people in his click are well paid.” Andrew could see that. Keeping her around was better than having no extra cash for him. “He’s going to be pissed off when he figures out what you’ve done to him.”

“He already has found out. He and I had words the day I hurt you. I had just broken his jaw and nose and was pissed off and not paying attention to where I was going.” She laughed and he did as well. Andrew loved the sound, feeling her good humor all the way to his toes. “You do know that what he’s doing to you, it’s not just illegal but it’s also against any kind of company policy ever written. He’s going to serve some major jail time when this comes out.”

“He won’t. It’s been my experience that people like him get away with nearly murder, and no one seems to give a shit so long as it doesn’t involve them.” Andrew told her that he didn’t work that way. “I’d watch my back then. He’s a sneaky bastard and will hurt you any way he can. He thinks he’s some sort of person above the laws others need to follow.”

“I got that too. But as of now, he can not only not get into my office, but the clone of the computers, all of them, are now shut off. John, my computer friend, said that Warren even had his computer rigged up so that he could watch people from his home. He had a camera set up on his so he could actually see you guys when you went in and out of the bathroom. Not inside, but it might as well have been for what you could see when the door opened.”

“I figured as much. Are you going to fire him? Soon?” He told her that he was, but was waiting to find out who else was in on his little scheme. “Everyone, I would imagine. There are few people on the lines that aren’t into him for something. Blackmail, I guess. It’s what he had me for. He knows who I am and that I’m running.”

“I know some about that as well.” Laci nodded and leaned back on the bed. She looked defeated at that moment. “Murph…Phillip said you know her. Can you tell me how?”

“She’s run me out of a couple of buildings since I’ve been here. My aunt won’t let me stay with her, even though I set it up for her to be there. She’s a stingy bitch too, and I don’t know why I ever let her stay with me.” Andrew watched her eyes flutter closed as she spoke. “Murph told me once that she could get me in the shelter downtown, but that I’d have to be investigated first. I guess they’re really picky about the people they let in.”

“They are.” Andrew knew that she was falling asleep and he thought it the sexiest thing he’d ever seen. “I’m going to take you home with me. I need to keep you safe.”