She put her finger on his lips. “But you need a strong mate, don't you? And I never realised just how strong I was until I met you.” She bent and kissed him, her silky hair falling across his chest and shoulders and he grabbed handfuls of it. “One thing I'll never do is pussy whip you. Besides, you're an alpha male. You wouldn't let me dominate you like that.” She kissed his nose and his eyes and moved on him slowly... squeezing him tightly as she slid up and down his aching cock. Her hand slid around, caressing his tight balls softly as she rose and fell.
“Ahhh baby, this is the kind of pussy whipping I like...”
“Me too... Want some more...?”
“Yeah, and keep it real slow like that... make it last a long old while,” he growled in her ear, releasing her hair and groaning with pleasure at the sight above him and the growing sensations he was feeling as he slipped deep inside her velvet softness.
The pack gathered in the reception area and sat around them as Aden and Maddy explained what had gone down the night before. They asked lots of questions and she tried to answer them as best she could.
After a while, she suddenly remembered the words Verity had spoken to her, which she'd written down the night before.
“Just a moment,” she said, and left the room to collect them, returning a few seconds later.
“One of you spoke to me at some stage. It was a weird thing... This is what was said. She repeated the rhyme out loud.
“Cross of fire, water and earth, a holy union will end the moon's curse.”
“Our curse can be lifted?” Sammy asked open mouthed.
“I don't think it means the werewolf curse, just the full moon curse,” Aden added with a note of caution. “That's the initial impression I get, but then again, I could be wrong.”
“What does it mean? Anyone got any ideas?” Maddy asked, looking around at the members of the pack, who were pondering what she had just said.
“Well a holy union is a marriage, a wedding, a coming together in the eyes of God, and the other things are elements. Fire, water, earth... A flaming cross would be the fire element I suppose, but how this is combined with water and earth, I don't know,” Aden rambled, thinking aloud.
“It's a ceremony. We flame a cross, douse it with holy water and then bury it in the hallowed ground of the church...” Charlene ventured.
“It could be... Yes, it could be!” Aden replied, his eyes lighting up with a broad smile.
“It doesn't sound all that holy to me... flaming crosses in the churchyard sounds just a touch satanic in my opinion," Maddy objected.
“That's exactly the point. We are driving the bad side of ourselves away. Not welcoming it. Don't you see?” Aden said thoughtfully.
“Perhaps. I'm not sure anyone else outside our pack will see it like that, but I'm willing to take a chance,” she pointed out. “So when do we do this?”
“I'd say on the eve of a full moon. Tonight's the night. Who's up for a date in the churchyard at dusk?” Lucas asked with a touch of humor.
“We're all going,” Aden replied, with a note of authority. “Apart from you Cal. It's your call man, I can't make you go.”
“Jeez, are you fucking kiddin'? I wouldn't miss this for the world. Gettin' rid of any part of my curse is a big 10-4 in my mind. Although I would miss my wolf, I gotta say. He's a beast I've grown kinda fond of.”
“Yeah,” Aden agreed. “But the full moon wolf, he's not something I'd miss for a minute.” They all laughed at this very obvious statement of fact.
They discussed their intentions between them and came up with a plan. Thirteen small crosses were to be made from straw, dry tinder that would flame quickly. Verity and Jamie set about collecting the straw from the stable and making those. The holy water was a problem. How to get enough of it.
“We should ask Reverend Porter to bless some bottles from the store,” Shane suggested.
“Would he do that for us, being as we've never set a single foot in the door of his church for over five years?” Sammy rightfully pointed out.
“Why not? Repentant sinners are always welcome,” Shane said encouragingly.
“He might be just a little suspicious when we repent and hand him thirteen bottles of water though,” Maddy added.
“Suspicious of what? We'll say it's for a holy pool or something, to bless the house and horses...” Shane continued.
“We have to try, somehow. It's the only part we need any help with,” Aden concluded.
Maddy spent the rest of the day making her dreaded phone calls and bursting into floods of tears each and every time. She spoke to her sister and her aunt, explaining what she'd done, and then cried again with the both of them as well. She'd finally had enough of crying by three in the afternoon. Her cheeks and eyes had been permanently wet for hours, and her chest shuddered with her overspent emotions.