Rose, Charlotte - Bayou Rescue [The Shifters of Alligator Bend 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (11 page)

“Of course, baby. You can ride me anytime you want.”

Oscar gave her a long kiss, squeezing her hips, savoring her curves. When at last he could no longer wait to feel himself inside of her, he lay down. Adele straddled him and slid down on his cock. She grabbed his wrists and pinned his arms over her head, going at him with such a fury that his head began to spin. Oscar let her take control, let himself give in to the body he had been craving all day.

As soon as Xavier caught his breath, he sat back up, and came up behind Adele. Reaching around, he took one soft, heavy breast in each hand, and immediately began teasing her nipples again. Oscar felt her pussy clench even tighter around his cock at the additional stimulation. But when the extra play paid off and the orgasm raced through her body, her cunt drew tighter around him than he ever could have imagined. She was so tight that his orgasm began an instant after hers did, the cum shooting from his cock and electricity overwhelming every nerve.

Adele slowly slid herself off of his cock and collapsed in the center of the bed.

“That was amazing,” she gasped.

Oscar curled himself around her, and Xavier followed suit, stroking her hip.

“You’re beautiful,” Oscar whispered, feeling a little dizzy from the intense pleasure.

“You’re staying the night, right?” Adele asked, her voice tinted with the soft beginnings of sleep.

“I don’t know,” Xavier said. “We’re supposed to be at the hotel tonight. What if someone from the congregation needs us?”

Oscar wasn’t about to leave. He couldn’t imagine getting up and abandoning her to sleep on her own, not after that amazing experience. “We got our phones,” he said. “They need us and we ain’t in our rooms, they can call. ’Sides, we don’t need to meet up until three tomorrow afternoon.”

“Then yeah, we’re stayin’,” Xavier said.

“Good,” Adele said, snuggling deeper between them. Oscar reached over and shut off the light, and it wasn’t long before he drifted off into a deep sleep.

Oscar was confused when he woke up the next morning. He didn’t know what room he was in or why he wasn’t on his boat. The fact that he didn’t have the motions of the river rocking him awake was the most disconcerting thing of all. Then, however, he rolled over to find Adele curled up next to him, and Xavier sleeping beside her. He felt his heart begin to open in a way it had never done before. Feeling his pulse begin to race, he quickly shoved the thoughts away. The word
love
raced across his mind, but he shook his head to clear it away. He wasn’t ready yet. Even though he’d felt a powerful surge of emotion the first time he’d laid eyes on Adele, even though he felt a powerful need to stay with her forever, even though his heart was hinting that this was right, part of him just wasn’t prepared for the feelings that were playing out inside of him.

* * * *

“Are we sure that we all know the plan?” Oscar asked. “We only have one shot to get this right. If we can’t pull it off, we’re in big trouble.”

“We’ve got it,” Xavier said. “We’ve gone over everything dozens of times. An hour into the party, Georgina is gonna shift into her gator form and—”

“I still say that’s too risky,” Adele interrupted.

“We need a distraction somehow, and we don’t want nobody getting arrested. A loose gator is gonna look a hell of a lot less suspicious than a person actin’ up. As long as she can shift back into human form before they catch her, she’ll be fine.”

“And if she doesn’t shift back in time?”

“You don’t have to talk about me like I’m not here, you know,” Georgina said. “This is what I have to do for my congregation. I don’t care how risky it is. I’ll shift, security will all come running, and Xavier and Oscar will go rescue the gators.”

“What about the security cameras?” Adele asked. “Even though Georgina got you a key, you’ll still be noticed.”

“No need to worry about that,” Serafine said. She pulled two charms out from her robes. “These have been consecrated, and they’ll render ’em invisible to all cameras. They can’t even be photographed.”

Adele opened her mouth to scoff. She wanted to protest that voodoo magic wasn’t real, that there was no way some enchanted charms would protect Xavier and Oscar from showing up on camera. But then she snapped it shut, remembering the way that Serafine’s incantation had turned Xavier and Oscar human when they couldn’t control their shift.
If shape-shifting alligators are real, I suppose I might as well believe in voodoo, too
. She closed her mouth and turned her attention back to the discussion at hand.

“Once Oscar and I have Rosaline and Armand, we get out. Keep the distraction going until we’re out of the building, and then the rest of you get out as quickly as you can without arousing suspicion.”

Xavier checked his watch. “Now or never. It’s time to go.”

Adele, Andre, and Manuel left the hotel, going early to set everything up. It was their job to pose as the party hosts, and make sure everything was set up accordingly.

Adele busied herself setting out appetizers that, if all went according to plan, would not get eaten. She was about halfway done arranging the trays when Manuel rushed in.

“We have a problem,” he said through clenched teeth.

Adele almost dropped the food she had been holding. “What’s wrong? Are Rosaline and Armand hurt? Have they been moved?”

“Just come with me.” Manuel grabbed her arm and hurried her out of the room. He led her up to the shark area, where Aquarium attendants were setting up a bar.

“Shit. There’s another event here tonight,” Adele said. “There wasn’t anything else going on when I called to schedule, I’m sure of it. It must have been a last-minute addition.”

“How’s this gonna affect us?” Manuel asked.

Adele could hear the worry in his voice, and did her best to reassure him. “Well, hopefully, if we can keep everything contained to our party room, we shouldn’t interfere too much, right?”

“That’s not the real issue,” Manuel whispered. “Look over there.”

Adele glanced in the direction he was pointing and saw a tall, blond, tanned man wearing an expensive-looking suit. He looked rich enough to afford a decent toupee, but instead wore a bad comb-over in an attempt to conceal his bald spot.

“Who’s that?” she asked.

“Ferdinand Villemont.”

Adele’s stomach seized up.

“Are you sure?”

Manuel nodded. “I’ve done my research. Someone wants to buy my mate and my son, you can bet I’m gonna find out everything about him.”

“Oh, my God, Manuel, this is bad. I can’t believe there’s another event happening tonight.”

“What do we do?” Manuel asked, with pain in his voice. “I been waiting way too long for my wife and son. I can’t believe he’s here tonight. I just don’t know what to do.”

“We go with the plan,” Adele whispered, refusing to back down in the face of a bad situation.

“What’s going on?” Andre asked, coming up behind them. He took one look in Villemont’s direction and cursed.

“Adele thinks we should stick with the plan,” Manuel said. “I’m not entirely comfortable with that plan, but I also don’t want my wife and son staying here one more night. I say we go through with it.”

“It’s the only chance we got,” Andre said. “Still, it don’t sit right with me that you didn’t think ’bout this beforehand.”

“Nobody else had an event going on when I booked this,” Adele whispered to Andre. “I swear, it was scheduled afterwards.” “

“We’ll work all that out later,” Andre said, with an unmistakable edge of anger in his voice. “Right now, we gotta keep cool, finish setting up, and make sure that everything is perfect.”

“We’ll do just what we planned on, and everything will be fine,” Adele said. “If we move fast, and if we’re efficient, everything will work out. Now, let’s go finish getting ready. Everyone else will be arriving soon.”

Adele’s hands were shaking as she finished setting up and checked in with building coordinator.

“I hope we don’t interfere with the other party too much,” Adele told the coordinator as they laid out place cards. “If I had known—”

“Don’t worry about it,” the coordinator said. “You have your private room, and the noise shouldn’t mix too much. We host double events all the time and rarely have any problems. Do let us know if you have any difficulties, though.”

“Thanks, I will,” Adele said, not feeling comforted. But she didn’t have time to dwell on it. The rest of the congregation arrived, pretending to be awed by the setup, acting as though this was a time for celebration rather than fear.

As the guests began to mingle, Adele checked her watch and filled in Oscar and Xavier on the hitch in their plans. Both of them blanched briefly, but quickly maintained their composure, refusing to allow anyone else to see their fear.

“Tell Serafine, but don’t let anyone else in on it,” Oscar said. “We don’t want them panicking and making mistakes because they’re even more nervous than they were before.”

Adele tried to mingle and put on the façade of enjoying a party, but she was so nervous that she was convinced she was giving a terrible performance. Finally, though, it was time. Oscar and Xavier positioned themselves near the door, prepared to slip out when the screaming broke loose. Adele gave a quick look outside to ensure the coast was clear, and then took her place next to Georgina.

As the clock hit seven thirty, Georgina began her transformation, shrinking to the floor. She scurried out of her clothes, and Adele swept them up into her bag to give to Georgina at the rendezvous point later. On cue, a number of people in the room started screaming and rushing for the door. Adele rushed out with them to keep an eye on the situation.

Her stomach sank even further as she realized that some of Villemont’s guests were walking down the hallway toward a nearby display. But when they saw members of the congregation spilling outside the room and screaming, they began to panic as well.

“Shit,” Adele snapped to nobody in particular.

“What is going on here?” the event coordinator asked, running up.

“There—there seems to be a loose gator,” Adele said, hoping she sounded sufficiently panicked.

The coordinator paled and picked up her walkie-talkie. “I need security backup right now.” She turned to Adele. “I need you to help me round everyone up and get me to a secure location, right now.” Her voice left no room for argument.

Adele watched Oscar and Xavier hurry off toward the alligator display and relaxed. She knew they had it under control. She focused her attention back on the coordinator. “Tell me what to do.”

Adele threw herself into the fake roundup, but it wasn’t long before she heard Oscar’s irate voice coming from down the hall.

“What’s the deal, man? We were just looking at the display.”

Adele poked her head down the hall to see both men being prodded down the hall by two gruff-looking security officers.

“The whole area is cordoned off, sir. There is, in fact, a gator on the loose. If one managed to get out, we can’t have you near the rest. We need you to join the rest of your party outside. We are not taking no for an answer.”

Adele tried to keep her expression stoic as she watched her two men get shoved along. Her heart sank as she realized the team had failed again. Neither Oscar nor Xavier met her gaze, either to reassure her or to share in her sadness. They merely stared ahead, completely stoic.

The grip of a hand on her shoulder shook Adele from her thoughts. She spun around to see Andre standing in front of her.

“We have an even bigger problem,” he whispered, his face suddenly ashen. He gestured behind him.

Adele looked up to see Ferdinand Villemont attempt to grab Georgina, struggling to stay upright. Another man rushed up to assist him, they began to make a hurried, if awkward, escape from the building.

“You join the others,” Adele said. “Let me handle this.”

Taking comfort in the fact that they probably wouldn’t get very far with such a heavy load, she rushed to find another security guard. The two that had brought Oscar and Xavier outside came back through the doors, and she ran up to them.

“The gator, the one that got loose—I saw the man in the business suit running off with it.”

Both of the guards raised their eyebrows.

“Ma’am, we’re going to need you to join the rest of your party outside,” one of them said. “It looks like most of your group has cleared out, and we need to ensure that you’re safe.”