Bear Lake- Book Four (3 page)

One
moment she was fine and the next she had let go of the bag and was crying like
a baby. Jackson panicked.

“D-don’t
cry… here- take the bag.” Jackson trust it back into her hands and she gripped
it tightly. It wasn’t even that heavy. Alex wasn’t prone to tears and he wasn’t
sure what to do about it.

“Thank
you. That’s all I wanted…” Alex sniffled, swiped at the tears on her cheeks
with the back of her hand, and nodded for no reason at all.

“It’s
ok, baby…” Jackson growled some more; this time gently and to sooth her. She
nodded again.

“I
know…” She nodded faster.

“You
wanna take the bag to the cabin…?”

Jackson
wanted to scoop her into his arms and protect her from her tears, but the last
time he’d done that she’d kneed him in the balls for no reason whatsoever. He
liked his balls and he didn’t want to go there again.

“Yep…”
She started to turn on her heels and Jackson ducked down and snatched the first
thing he could find out of the top of the bag to make it lighter. “Jackson…”
She wailed again.

“Sorry,
baby…” He thrust a pack of tea bags back at her. She shook her head. “I wanna
hug you, sweetheart, but…”

“He
fears for his life.” Suzanna chuckled as she stood by and watched the scene
play out.

“I’m a
fat, horrible shrew.” Alex’s bottom lip quivered and Jackson panicked. His eyes
darted towards Suzanna and she lifted her hand and shooed him towards her.
Jackson took his life in his hands and reached out to fold her inside of his
arms, shopping bag and all.

“You’re
beautiful, and I love your curves. You could never be a horrible shrew…”

“That’s
not a curve it’s a bowling ball, and my ass is getting fat…” Alex had gone from
whining to pure annoyance in a heartbeat and back to whining again, and Shane
winced at the sound as he strolled towards his truck. Her eyes flicked towards
him and he stopped dead in his tracks, he was kind of hoping he could slip by
unnoticed.

“Hey,
Alex.” He looked like his bear had just strolled into a pack of hunters. He
swallowed down hard. “You look good today.” He beamed her a smile and her
bottom lip quivered again. She snorted her contempt for him.

“I look
like a beached whale.” She blubbered and Jackson tightened his hold around her.

“Isn’t
that look in this season?” Shane offered with a grin and felt his mate’s elbow
hit him in the rib. He groaned and stared down at Lucy. Her eyes flared with
annoyance.

“Don’t
be insensitive. We’ve talked about this…” She scowled and Shane shrugged his
shoulders.

“I’m
male, it’s what we do.” He rushed out.

The
sound of Marcus’s truck pulling onto the long drive down from the main road
took everyone’s attention.

“Looks
like someone had a good night…” Shane chuckled and his mate elbowed him again.

“Meaning
you didn’t?” Lucy demanded an answer to that one and from the death glare that
she was giving him it had better be good.

“Of
course I did, Baby. It’s just that Marcus never stays out all night.” Shane
informed her.

Everyone
was staring at the big man when he unfolded himself from inside of his pickup truck,
and he felt kind of self-conscious. He frowned at the sight of them.

“Something
happen?” Marcus growled. His bear was already on edge and he didn’t like a
gathering like this. Alex was crying, and that was never a good sign.

“No.”
Jackson assured him.

“Yes.
Jackson’s being mean. Shane’s being insensitive, and my ass is huge.” Alex
sniffed back some more tears. Marcus felt the rush of relief that it wasn’t the
end of the world, just the end of Alex’s for the moment.

“Alex,
you’ve got a fine ass…” He grinned at her even thought his alpha was growling
at him. Alex sniffed again, but her eyes lit up.

“I do,
Marcus?” He’d know. The amount of women that the big bear went through in a
month, she reasoned.

“Mighty
fine and getting better every day.” Marcus used his killer smile on her. The
one that had women begging for his attention. Jackson growled some more.

‘
Don’t
overstep, Marcus.’
Jackson warned him using the mental link that the clan
had between them.

‘
Just
getting your mate to smile, alpha. Don’t go ripping my head off, man. I like it
where it is.’

‘Tell
that to my bear, he kind of wants to kick your ass about now.’

“Ahh,
thanks, Marcus, you’re so sweet.” Alex brightened instantly. She used the cuff
of her sweater to wipe away the tears on her cheeks and then turned on her
heels and strolled back towards the cabin that she shared with Jackson.

“Crisis
averted, again.” Marcus stuck out his broad chest and beamed a grin at Jackson.

“You
just have that way with women.” Suzanna chuckled.

“Not
all woman…” Marcus muttered as his mind turned to thoughts of Janice. He shook
it off. She really wasn’t his type.

“But
the one’s that count.” Lucy offered with a small smile.

She’d
only been with the clan for a few weeks, but she liked Marcus. She felt safe in
his presence, which was more than she could say for Chance. That man worried
her.

“And
where were you last night?” Shane wanted details. Marcus was a love them and
leave them kind of guy. If he’d stayed out with a lady then something was
different.

“What
are you my mother?” Marcus growled at him. He didn’t want to talk about it. He
never spoke in detail of his conquests, and he certainly wasn’t going to share
a lack of one. “All up in my face about my business.” He growled as he started
for his cabin.

He
still had time enough to shake one off and relieve some of his pent up
frustration from last night. Lying in bed with his arms around Janice had
certainly given him enough of that. Every muscle in his body felt tight.

“You
want a hand, Jackson?” Suzanna asked as the alpha did the man thing of trying
to get every last shopping bag in one go onto his arms and in his hands.

“I got
it, thanks. You could close the boot for me though.” He frowned at the thought
of his mate. He hoped that Marcus had cured her insecurities for the day.

He
sighed inwardly as he strolled across the frosty ground. He kind of wished that
he could come up with fancy words and sooth her the way that Marcus could. He’d
come on a long way since his one words answers and grunting in reply, but right
now it just didn’t feel good enough.

When he
got inside he found Alex standing in front of the full length mirror inspecting
her ass. He lowered the shopping bags to the floor and shucked them off.
Strolling over to her…

“It is
a little more rounded…” Alex smiled and Jackson felt like the concrete block
had been lifted from his chest. He reached out and palmed her ass in his big
hands. The growl that went through his chest this time was hungry, but not for
food. Her eyes met his in the mirror.

“I love
your ass…” Jackson moved against her back and rubbed the hard length of his cock
against her backside to the sound of dirty giggles from his mate.

“You
do?” Alex’s eyes brightened even more.

“I like
to rub my naked cock between those cheeks…” He growled at the thought. “And
when I’m taking you from behind, baby, I got my hands good and full, something
to hold onto as I’m slipping it in and out of your sweet pussy…”

“You
say the sweetest things…” Alex melted back against him.

She
rubbed her backside against his hard cock and he groaned in need. He’d tried to
ease off having her so much while she was pregnant with his cub. He didn’t want
to hurt her or their offspring. But damn, he wanted her now.

“I
should get ready for work…” Jackson didn’t want to tear himself away from her,
but he needed to work to feed his family.

She
turned in his arms and pressed those swollen breasts against the hard muscles
of his chest. He could feel the hard peeks of her nipples, and she gasped at
the contact.

“Not
yet…” Her eyes were wicked as she gazed up at him.

“Alex…”
Jackson chuckled, but he knew his mate. She wanted him. He could scent her
arousal and it drove him wild with need… “Fuck, woman…”

“Exactly.”
She gave him a dirty chuckle as she licked her lips. That had his cock
twitching in his jeans. “I need a little taste of my bear…” Her hands slide
down to the waistband of his jeans and she had them undone and pushed down his
hips, releasing his hard cock, in no time.

“Alex,
baby, we don’t have time…”

She was
already on her knees in front of him. One hand wrapped around his thick length
as her tongue came out and she licked the crown. Jackson growled in pleasure
and annoyance.

“Get
off your damn knees, woman…” He reached down for her but she was like a dog
with a bone. Her lips were already locked around his cock and her head was
pushing forward… He was lost to that incredible feeling.

She
made a meal of it. Swallowing him down the back of her throat before she pulled
back, gasped in a breath around his length and plunged back down again.

His
hand fisted her hair and he couldn’t stop his hips from rocking forwards. This
wasn’t about him, it was about her needs, her control, her desirability…

“Fuck-
I want to feel your pussy around my cock…” He growled a moment before he
reached down and gently lifted her from the floor. She seemed reluctant to let
his cock go and the sound of a wet pop filled the air between them.

“I was
enjoying that…” Alex frowned.

“You’re
gonna enjoy this more…” He growled as he stalked into the bedroom and laid her
gently on the bed. With her backside on the edge of the mattress; he used his
knees to open her inner thighs. He tossed her skirt back over her body and
ripped her panties clean away.

He
heard her gasp in a breath. Then his finger tested just how wet she was. Damn,
she was dripping for him.

He
fisted his cock and stroked down. Her eyes flared as she watched him. She loved
that part.

“Jackson…”
She bit her lower lip, eager and needy for him inside of her. If he had the
time he’d lick her for a good long while, but work wouldn’t wait forever.

He
pressed the crown of his thick length against her folds and covered his length
with her essence before pushing into her, just enough to get her wetter than
hell. Back and forth, in and out, just the crown against those sensitive nerves
until she mewed.

“Stop
teasing me…”

He
wished he could thrust in so deeply that the jolt would realign his spine. He
wanted to take her good and hard, loose himself inside of her body, but that
couldn’t be. He wouldn’t risk it.

He took
her further down his length, opening her body to his and stretching her inner
walls around his girth.

“More,
Jackson…” She demanded and he sunk his cock to the hilt; growling at the hard
clamp of her inner muscles around him and closing his eyes to the feel of her
sweetness around his length.

She
lifted her feet from the floor and dug her heels into the mattress, taking him
that little bit deeper on a sigh of pleasure. His hips weren’t pounding against
her the way they used to, but he was ok with that, they’d still both get what
they needed.

“Baby,
please…” She mewed again and he took her faster, harder, but not too hard as he
curled his body over hers. He felt her fingernails come up and claw down his
skin. His inner beast awoke from where he’d banished it.

“Damn,
Alex…” He growled and she responded by wrapping her legs around his hips and
pulling him closer, guiding his pace. Harder, faster… he growled at the feel of
her pussy tightening around his length. “Fuck...”

“Yes,
fuck…” She ground out.

If he
was like this now, what was he going to be like at eight months? Her fingers
fisted his hair and she yanked his head up. “Now, or so help me I will throw
you on the floor, hold you down and do it myself…” She even growled at him.

Jackson
didn’t stand a chance from that moment on. His mate demanded that he love her
as only he could, and his bear roared at her need. His cock thrust deep and she
tossed her head back and savoured it.

“More…
more…” She ground out as his hips started to move in earnest, slapping against
her flesh and creating the sound that he loved to hear, skin on skin against
the backdrop of her moans of pleasure.

He
wasn’t going to go wild, but he wasn’t going to let her go unsatisfied either. His
thumb found her clit and he played against the nerves. He felt her body lock up
and took her over the edge.

That
hard clench and release of her inner muscles sucked the seed right from his
balls as he tossed his head back and gave her everything that he had.

He was
more than aware of keeping his weight from her swollen belly, even in the half
mind that he was in. Propped up on his elbows above her as his muscles
protested his weight.