Chapter 98

Sarah POV

Jane Dayviellers: Hooray! Charges dismissed with prejudice! I hope they’re all at home hugging each other.

12ChineseCups: I hope they finally hook up. The sexual tension is crazy! UST to the max!

MartyChavers4: Cho an alpha????? WTF!!!!!

Rosemary&Sage: They can’t. He’s the pack alpha.

Bopbop84: I’d tap that.

FenchurchLives: Who’s the judge? Someone send them some flowers!

Elloise14: I’m still worried about the girls. The Family Justice people had some good points in there

12ChineseCups: Don’t let Alpha Zane hear you say that!

Pessimistx5: Youd tap anything.

IndustryStandard: I wish they had cameras in the courtroom. I would pay to of seen Cho’s face.

SpellingNazi: HAVE

The girls greeted us with tears when we got home, looking unbearably relieved.

“You should have told us you were so worried!” I couldn’t help telling them when we were on our second rounds of hugs. “We would have been able to tell you we were taking care of it.”

“You had enough to worry about on your own,” Chloe said, sounding about thirty years old. I knew it was the alpha in her, and my heart ached.

We let them stay up later than usual, drinking herbal tea and eating their current favorite of BLT tea sandwiches. We talked about how proud we were about their PPE scores, described the moment when all was revealed to the judge and Cho’s reaction, and pretty much anything else they wanted to talk about.

Zane and I made sure not to look too long at each other. The girls seemed to notice something was off, but they were too busy clinging to us to mention it.

That night, Zane and I cuddled a child apiece as I read. Despite, my recent purchases, they wanted the familiarity of their favorite, even though it was a sad moment in the story.

“But one evening, when the artificial bird was singing its best, and when the Emperor lay in bed listening to it, something inside the bird said “Whiz!” Something cracked. “Whirr!” All the wheels ran around, and then the music stopped. The Emperor immediately sprang out of bed, and caused his Body Physician to be called; but what could he do?

“Then they sent for a Watchmaker, and after a good deal of talking and investigation, the bird was put into something like order; but the Watchmaker said that the bird must be carefully treated, for the barrels were worn, and it would be impossible to put new ones in, in such a manner that the music would go.

“There was a great lamentation; only once in a year was it permitted to let the bird sing, and that was almost too much. But then the Playmaster made a little speech, full of heavy words, and said this was just as good as before, and so of course it was as good as before.”

The girls were soundly asleep when I dared to stop.

Zane took the book from my hands and laid it on the nightstand. Then we walked quietly out of the room together and then down the hall to his room. I had not been there before, so I looked around at the heavy oak furniture, the cozy reading nook he’d made in a corner, and the massive oak bed, on which lay a file.

I looked at him and then back at the file. When I opened it, I was surprised to see the NDA I had signed months ago.

He took the papers from the file and tore them in half.

I felt a little dizzy and greatly uncertain. It had taken so long for us to get here. I wasn’t sure what to say or where to put my hands. I reminded myself that first times are always awkward, and neither of us had made love to someone from another species before.

“I won’t break,” I told him and was surprised to see some relief in his eyes.

“Just say, please, instantly, if we’re doing something you don’t like.”

“I will.” I smiled. “I liked kissing you. I liked it a lot.”

“Let’s start there,” he said, and put practice to his words.

Oh, but it was so lovely, kissing him. I felt warmed from my toes up, and as he pressed us together I felt powerful and determined.

My hands went to the buttons of his shirt. He’d taken off his tie when we got home, so soon I was touching his bare chest, which was perfectly soft with downy hair. I flicked my thumbs over his nipples, and his breath hitched.

My blouse went next, and then he kissed me deeply, and when I came back to myself a bit I was down to my panties and shoes. His warm hands covered my breasts as though they were precious, and his thumbs worked my nipples. I felt myself getting wet, and impulsively bit at his lower lip.

“Goddess, Sarah,” he whispered. “I’ve imagined this so often I don’t know what I want to do first.”

“Just pick one for now, and we’ll do all the rest later,” I said.

We got his trousers off, and then we separated to get the rest of our clothes off as quickly as possible. Naked, I pressed myself to the strong, long length of him, and we were kissing as he hoisted me up, walked to the bed, and gently laid me down.

I immediately spread my legs to accommodate his body resting atop mine, and he settled in with a moan of pleasure. He kissed my lips, down my neck, and then down my body. Realizing his intentions, I groaned his name and raised my hips, wanting him to take whatever he wanted.

I had no idea my lower belly was so sensitive, but he knew at my first gasp, kissing and lightly biting at the swell of my flesh until I was ready to beg him to go further.

And then he was there at my core and zeroed in on my clit, just as his fingers had once done. His tongue curled around me, and I felt my body undulate on the bed as he dragged that softly rough surface back and forth, back and forth, just as I needed. When I came, my heels dug into the mattress, and I screamed into my hand. No need to wake the household.

When I came back to myself again, I looked down at his smug face. No, that wouldn’t do.

“Get inside me already,” I ordered.

“You’re on birth—”

“Yes, yes. Of course I am. I’d tell you if I weren’t. And you’ve been tested?”

“Of course.” He surged up my body to kiss my lips, and I tasted myself. “I’d tell you if I hadn’t.”

Oh, kissing him now was somehow even better than before, and my hands helped him line up so he could sink inside me in one long, prolonged stroke.

I closed my eyes and felt complete as I cradled him inside my body. Oddly, I felt everything in my body relax, as though I had achieved some goal, which I supposed I had. When I opened my eyes, however, he was staring down almost in concern, then he reached down and bit me on my lower neck, hard and deep.

Boldly, I grabbed his buttocks and pulled. He immediately got with the program and began long, slow, delicious thrusts into my body that had me gasping and moaning his name. Seriously, it was perfect.

I felt the heat building up in behind my knees, which I had no idea was normal or not and seriously did not care at the time. When I came, I clenched down around him, and when he closed his eyes and spent himself while whispering my name over and over, I was more content than I had ever been before, like nothing bad could ever happen to me again.