Lindsey’s Wolves(73)

He tossed a second cloth to Ryan and pondered briefly how it was that the sight of another man tending to his own cock wasn’t a bone chilling experience. Whatever the case, it was nothing but sexy.

Discarding the cloth on the side table, Alex lay down alongside the love of his life, wrapped his arm around her middle, and let his mind relax for what he hoped would be a short nap before they woke needing to repeat the experience with unbridled passion.





Chapter 15





Lindsey awoke gasping. She bolted upright, looked around the room, and remembered where she was. The sun was just peeking over the horizon outside, but she was alone. What woke her?

An uneasy sensation gave her a chill. She’d been dreaming. What about?

Lying back down, she pulled the covers over her still-naked body and closed her eyes. Sometimes she’d had weird dreams about the worship services and the parishioners of His Mighty Sword, but not usually two nights in a row. They must have really gotten to her.

Something niggled in the back of her mind. What? Flashes of her days of attending the cult-like chapel swam around in her head.

Where were the guys?

“Lin? You up? We’re at the barn. Thought we’d be back before you awoke.” Ryan’s words made her shiver anew. How was she ever going to get used to this telepathy thing?

“Hey, babe. Go back to sleep. It’s early still. We felt we should help out around here. We’ve both been slacking for a few days,” Alex soothed. Even in her mind his Latin accent reverberated.

“I’m fine, boys. Do what you need. I’ll just go hunt down some coffee. If you left me any clothes around here…” She glanced around the room with a smile and spotted her bag on a chair.

“Clothes? Shit, Alex, I knew we forgot something. Why didn’t we think to leave her nothing to wear?”

“Ha, ha. Get back to work so you have more time for my insatiable needs later.”

“Don’t tease, cariña. You’ll wreck our concentration.”

She wasn’t teasing. Jeez, when would this ridiculous need to have sex every hour of the day subside? Climbing from the bed, she nearly stumbled when two men moaned into her mind.

“It’ll take some time, but, hon … please try to block some of those thoughts from us. We’ll never get a damn thing done if you torture us with your voracious libido all day. Alex is blushing. I think he’s—”

She didn’t even want to know how a thought could get cut off. Alex probably tackled him to the ground, knowing them.

As soon as she pulled on shorts and a T-shirt, Lindsey headed for the kitchen where she found both Nancy Masters and Tessa already at the table.

Nancy stood and pulled out a chair. “Morning, Lindsey. I hope you slept well?”

Tessa sucked in a breath, jumped up and squealed like a kid at Christmas. She knocked her chair over backward in her mad dash to tug Lindsey into a huge hug.

What the hell? It was one thing for these people to be up so early, another for them to be so chipper about it, but on an entirely different plane for them to be downright excited just because Lindsey came into the room.

“Um, morning?” She peered around Tessa and raised her eyebrows at Nancy.

“Tessa, hon. Give her some space. She has no idea what you are excited about. You’re going to embarrass her.”

“Tell my sister to bug off. Is she pestering you? Your thoughts are all jumbled, but I can tell you’re with her.”

Okay, now this was just too weird. Nancy took Lindsey by the arm and led her to a chair. “Sit. Coffee?”

“Please.”

“Tell my brother to stay out of your head for a while. It’s too confusing the first morning after you’re claimed. I nearly tripped and fell with Aaron constantly nagging me only hours after we mated.” Tessa took the chair beside Lindsey and a giant light bulb went off.

“Good grief, does everyone know? Couldn’t you keep this to yourselves for one freaking minute?” She hoped she was shouting at Alex and Ryan and that they both heard her loud and clear.

“Babe, we didn’t tell anyone anything. We should have warned you about this. They can, for lack of a better explanation, smell it on you.” Alex’s “explanation” did nothing to soothe her.

“What?”

“Your pheromones change when you’re claimed. Wolves, we know a lot about each other just by walking into a room. We can even tell when a woman is ovulating or pregnant. Your scent is distinct at those times.” Ryan’s addition was worse than Alex’s.

“A little warning would have been nice.” She shuddered. Pregnant? Ovulating? She wasn’t ready for those kinds of thoughts.