Lurena
We finally drive out into town and Teresa was in a better mood since her break down. I am so happy that we had that chance to talk. Having her talk and letting me know how she was feeling was a good sign, that it was going to work. And this would not be for nothing. I just wish Juan could have been here with us for this. It was both of our dream to move somewhere new and to live peacefully, to live partially off the land and make our home self-efficient. We did not want to work for someone else and feel like we have not done something to better ourselves. We wanted to feel that we taught our children the right way of living… Now, I had to do it all by myself, and God only knew how scared I was, what if I mess up somehow and they get hurt or worse. 'Juan, if your listening? Please, watch over us; help me if you can, please mi amor?' I silently prayed to my late husband. "Look guys were here." I drive passed a small sign welcoming us into town. There were a lot of mom and pop stores, I could see the tourist really liked buying from them. I opened one up myself and sold the things I grew or made at home. It was working out well, I had opened the store a week later after I had my wakeup call. I had kicked everything into high gear, and everyone has really taken a liking to me and my store after I stopped moping around in my house.
The moment I passed the sign and onto the main road, a strange feeling came over me, it was like and electric shock to my soul. I swerved unnerved by the feeling. It was like something in me had awoken from a longtime sleep. It was very disorienting, and I felt a little lightheaded, then heat rose up from deep within me. I could feel it, lurking in there deep in my mind. Unsure what to make of it. Her… Whoa! it is… it is a female? Yes, she is a female, I can feel it. I know it like I know myself. I feel connected to her somehow, a long-lost friend I once knew but somehow forgotten. I was on new territory here I have never before felt something like this… It scared me. She growled at the same time and it made me jump. "Ma, you ok there?" Teresa asked looking strangely at me.
I cleared my throat, quickly changing the subject. "Yes baby, I'm fine. Oh look, I found a spot." The feeling started to change into something different now, heat was still there but this heat was at my core, it made my click throb and the other female lurking inside me moaned and growled. It was a possessive creature, sexually wanting, needing something just out of her reach. I could feel myself getting aroused by something my body could sense, but I did not know what it was. The worst part was, I am sitting in a car full of kids. I parked the car and then I got the feeling of being watched. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up straight. Whatever was making me feel this way was close, awfully close. My belly was burning with a need, a bad one. I was starting to get a little annoyed and I shut off the car. "Ok guys let's go check things out, then we can get something to eat, sound good?" I got out of the car and helped Suzana, I started walking her over to the sidewalk.
Teresa was getting the boys out the car. "Mama, mama! Down please… I want to walk, I'm a big girl now you know." She huffs out her disapproval about me helping her to the sidewalk. Ever since she turned six years old, she felt that she should be able to do the things the other kids did, like walk on her own. What was it with kids and wanting to grow up so fast? I am trying to prepare my children for the future that awaits them, but a parent can only do so much. Once they are adults, it is up to them to care for themselves.
"Ok baby, but…" I still felt like someone was watching me, I just could not see to whom the eyes belong to. Then I felt a hand land hard square on my ass and in that second of him touching me I realized he was not going to move it. Without thinking I reached over and grab his hand with such force I never knew I had. Anger had hit me like a ton of bricks and the other female I felt inside me roared her disapproval as well. How dare this man violate me in such a way? And in front of my children no less, THAT FUCKING BASTARD! The fact alone caused my anger to spike up three times over. Before I knew it, I had the jackass kissing the dirty ass sidewalk with his hand twisted in a bone breaking way. He cried out his pain then cursed me to hell and back. I twisted his arm a little harder, he cried again. "Watch it...!" I growled through my teeth, jaw shaking with such rage. "Who in the hell do you think you are? Are you high or something? What gave you the bright idea that it was ok for you to grab me like that? HUH?!" I bent his hand a little more and he squealed like a girl. "And in front of my kids no less, you inconsiderate piece of shit." My skin was on fire and I did not even recognize my voice, it took on a more powerful, confident, and stronger sound. No one could ever stop her from doing what she needed to do when it came down to it. Not even this no-good excuse of a man. But something was wrong, this was not me at all, I can hold my own in a fight if I had too. But this, this was something different I could barely control my temper. My skin started to itch all over like it was stretching passed its capacity, wanting to rip itself apart. I wanted him to try something just so I could hurt him for being such a dick. It felt like my muscles were tearing at the seam's, my bones wanting to snap at the amount of tension in my body. My mouth watered with saliva as if ready to rip off a piece of him. Shock hit me hard at how I could think these things to hurt a total stranger even if he was rude and a creep, I have never thought to harm someone so I always looked for the peaceful way out. Yet with this man here and everything that has happened I was ready to fight whoever wanted to try me. I had my teeth bared to him in a threatening way, this was not me what the hell is going on with me.
"Let me go, you stupid…" He did not get to finish what he was saying. I was too shocked to care, in one minute I was about to tear the idiot a new one and in the next the asshole was out of my hands and hanging three feet in the air. I was face to face in a manner of speaking with a man as big as a mountain, I only coming up to his chest and stomach area. So, I had to look up, way up to see who had interrupted me from kicking this guy's ass. When I looked into the giant's eyes, they were the clearest of blues I had ever seen. They pierced through to your soul seeing all of your dark secrets and desires. Once I saw him, I knew I had found out to whom those eyes I felt earlier belong to and my insides melted. A growl vibrated deep within his muscular chest and I gasped my shock.
"Oh!" Was all I was able to say I was just to stunned to speak. My mind going blank to the fact that I was standing in front of the most-sexiest man alive. He had shoulder length hair, as black as a raven's feathers. I had the urge to run my fingers through it and tug, to hold on tight as I ride him like a cowgirl riding on a wild bull. I did not look into his eyes, those eyes that made me feel things from yards away. I knew I would be lost to them, he had wide shoulders with muscular arms and a chest to match. I could see his muscles itched to break free from the material that was trying to contain them. He had smooth coppery skin and it knew the sun as an old friend. Not like how most people do at the beach or a tanning salon. No, this was a working man's body, with a hardworking man's tan. His arms were strong, extraordinarily strong by the way he was holding the sniveling little man in the air. He worked those arms well, his hands were steady, never shaking, never showing fatigue. His knuckles were white with the rage I felt floating my way, it turned me on so much I wanted to reach out and touch them, to feel the strength he wielded in those tanned arms. "I …" I tried to speak, but the words had escaped me. I took a breath and tried to shake away the little twelve-year-old girl feeling I felt I was being right now.
With a mind of their own, my eyes travelled down the six foot two well defined man. His legs were the size of tree trunks and I could see his manhood, he was not lacking at all. A flash of heat hit me at my core again, this time with the longing to feel him inside of me. Oh god, my body tingled at the thought, to feel him, touch him, kiss every single part of his body. To suck out his essence from his big thick hard dick deep into my throat, not wasting a drop. To do so would be shameful. Fuck… I am so wet right now; I felt my face heat up from sheer embarrassment. If this gorgeous creature knew what I was thinking at this moment, hands down today would be the day that I would literally faint and die. I bit down on my lip hard trying everything I could to hold myself back from jumping into his arms and making him mine. Swallowing my lust, I chanced a look and I wished I had not, sure enough, there was a big fat smirk on his lips. He knew, oh god he knew what I was thinking. But how? Am I really that obvious? His eyes, the ones I felt a while back had burrowed themselves deep into my soul. It was like as if we had connected somehow, bonded. Bonded? Really Lurena, like what the hell is wrong with you? How can I be having these feelings for a man I never set eyes on till right now? He scares me out of my thoughts. "What gives you the right to touch her?" He growls out to Mr. Grabby Hands, but all he could do was yelp like a pup and pee himself. Just like a dog would do when scared, How funny.
That is when I heard the little girl speak, I knew her, that's White Feather's granddaughter… So then who was he? "Daddy, the bad man peed himself." Oh… That is Lilly's father, I looked to her and smiled, she stated the obvious and she shook her head in disgust. The fact that a grown man wets himself out of fear, did not bold well with the girl... And with a father like hers' I could not expect anything less from her. But there was something else because when she looked at her father, she looked worried. Whether if it were for her father, which would be ridiculous to even think it. Or it was that she feared what her father might do to the man, if you could even call him that. And by the look on her father's face, if looks could kill he would be dead, and it would have been very painful. The crazy thing is that knowing this turned me on even more.
I looked to Lilly again and then at the massive man, he did not look like the fatherly type. He was way too hot to want to settle down, instead of sowing his wild oats with every other female out there. My motherly instincts kicked into high gear seeing as his were not there. She was scared, I looked at my kids and so were they. That just did it for me, a calmness came over me and I placed my hand on his chest over his heart. I felt a connection between us, it was intense in a way that it took my breath. But then it changed, and I could feel his anger melt away. I shook my head just slightly. He turned to look at his daughter and it broke the haze of anger. "Apologize to the woman and her children for being a pig… NOW!" His voice was harsh, it lashed out and cut into you. Echoing with power causing my body to react, it wanted to obey, needed to obey his command. But it was not directed at me, it was for touchy feely guy.
The man yelped out a pitiful cry. "I…I'm so sorry for being a pig… Ma'am." My savior shook him like a rag doll, then jerked his head at the kids. "Oh… I'm Sorry kids for upsetting you."
I heard a low growl emanating from the tall dark and deliriously hot man. "Don't ever bother them again... You get me?" The dumbass shook his head like a bobble head, feet were running before they even touched the ground. It would have been almost comical if it were not for the fact that I was just assaulted right in front of my kids. I wanted to beat the son of a bitch senseless for what he did, but in the end, he just looked too pitiful to look at… I turned my attention back to the man who took it upon himself to step in on my behalf. The gentle giant never let his eyes off me, it felt like he was checking me out. As if not wanting to lose his chance to memorize every part of me from my lips to the slopes of my breasts and the curves of my hips and ass. I would love to try and climb that mountain of a man. Every part of him screamed strength and power, protection for the innocents and a masterful lover. He was a leader of some kind no doubt, he could be Chief of his tribe even… I smiled at him. "Thank you for not hurting him in front of the children." I realized a little too late that my hand was still pressed hard against his mouth-watering chest. A warmth had flowed through me, now that I was not on the defense mode anymore. I was able to relax, and I was able to feel him in a more… deeper level. Everything inside me said, this is good, he is good stay with him. I closed my eyes and allowed to feel him completely, I inhaled his sent of earth and sun and the sweet and saltiness of his sweat permeating through his clothes. I am not sure if it was me or him, but my needs were wailing at me in deafening tones. Still I think I could feel his need for me too and I felt safe with him, he felt like… Home. Which is freaking crazy, how is it that I could feel this way for him? I have never met him before in my life, but this shit was out of my control.
What in the love of… this shit cannot be happening to me, not now? I just lost Juan only a year ago, and here I am falling all over myself for this man, a man whose name I do not even know, well not formally. But still how I must look to the people here, me recently widowed, yet she is drooling all over our Chief. Oh GOD, kill me now please? They must think me a whore, oh how embarrassing. 'Hey, um god? If you could just open up a hole? That be great, thanks.' I thought sarcastically, but hopeful. I needed to get some space from him to think about what these feelings are and why I am having them with a total stranger. But even thinking about letting him go hurt, it really did. I already felt the absence of his warmth and a sadness fell over me, which scared me but in-turn that fear snapped me out of the haze. I took a step back, in doing so my hand fell out of reach and down to my side. I looked down, I could still feel his warmth on my hand, it twitched with the need to touch him again. I balled my hand into a fist, I looked to him and I could see the same pain and longing in his eyes. I saw it was hard for him too, to keep from reaching out to me. His hand moved but then stopped. At the same time his jaw twitched from clenching his teeth together. He was trying to hold himself back, but from what? I have to be seeing things, how can I see in him what I am feeling inside? It is like we have connected on a deeper level. Is it possible that he was feeling my feelings too? But why and how was beyond me. Does he know me somehow? Have we met before?
I do not see how though; I am not the one to ever forget a face and certainly not a face like his. All of these questions kept running in circles around my head making me dizzy, I took a deep breath needing the fresh air to clear my head. Slowly releasing it in an attempt to get some self-control, I cleared my throat. "Um… Thank you for that, you really shouldn't have though." I smiled my appreciation for his help. But he did not seem pleased, and more than a little confused about what I am not sure. I tried again. "Cause of your daughter." I jerk my chin to where Lilly his daughter was holding on to his leg. She peeked out her head and smiled at me.
"Why is your husband not here with you?" Hurt filled me when he asked about Juan, how did he know I had a husband anyways? His voice was still harsh from before which threw me. What is his problem, were we not just feeling a connection somehow. So why was he acting like he was mad at me now? It is not my fault that there are creeps in the world. "He should be here with you, so things like this don't happen. What kind of a man leaves…?" I interrupted him there.
"A dead one." My anger spiked and I walked off… The nerve!
***
Maikoh
Without thinking, my legs were moving on their own, toward the asshole who had the balls to violate a woman out with her family. He had no respect and needed to be taught a hard lesson in manners, and I will be the one to teach him. Before I knew it, I had the piece of shit in a death grip lifting him up and leaving the pig hanging three feet in the air. I had to stop the foul word he was about to utter. Shock and fear colored his face, his sweat was dripping in it. As a shifter, your senses are heightened to the point of madness sometimes, if you do not know how to get a handle on it. Good, I wanted him to feel the fear he made her, and her children feel. I smelt it in the air, it oozed out of him like a whore wearing too much cheap perfume. I let out a deep growl and it shook me; I was never one to lose my cool so easily before. But he crossed the line, no it is not that, not all of it. It was her the woman standing in front me with the body of a goddess; she was doing something to me. In the end I made the pup pee himself and apologize to the woman and her kids before letting him go. He got off lucky, if it were not for her stopping me from tearing him apart in front of everyone in town and my daughter I would have. I owed her for that, but when she thanks me for helping her, I got mad all over again I should not have to protect her. I glanced at her, but she was not scared, it was more of a surprise.
Understandable, being as that I just showed up out of nowhere, naming myself her savior. But she did not need any saving, I am sure if I had not stepped in, she would have handled him just fine. But something came over me, I could not control the need I had to protect her. She was relieved though, I can tell. A person should be able to walk outside, enjoy the day with their family without being violated by a sicko. If she were mine, she would never have to worry about something like this. It was starting to get a bit difficult to be near her. I could not speak to her, I could not find the words to tell her, what exactly I did not know? Man, what is going on? I have never had these types of feelings before, not even for Sasha Lilly's mother. I kept my eyes on her, wanting to memorize all of her, I was etching every inch of her body into my mind. She was doing the same thing to me; I could feel her eyes roaming my body from top to bottom. Pride filled me knowing how aroused she was, while showing her how I can protect her.
My wolf strutted his stuff in the back of my mind. His stance was cocky, knowing something I did not. He was letting his pheromones seep through and in that moment, I knew it was true and right. My wolf moved closer to the surface, I had to put all my focus on keeping him back or risk a public showing. And there are way too many humans around for that. She was not making it easy on me, I felt her eyes on my cock and it twitched to life begging to be inside of her. To stroke a mind-blowing orgasm out of her and hear her scream my name. I wanted her skin on mine, to feel her softness and smell her sweet sent. I could not stop thinking about all the things I would rather do with her than being here doing this with him. If I could just grab her and take her home with me, I would be the happiest man alive. To make crazy love to her, show her how a woman should be loved… What the...? My anger turns up a notch thinking back on how he got to touch her before I did, he felt her up in his hands long enough to know how her ass felt… I wanted to find the guy and rip his throat out; I shook my head to clear away the anger I felt inside and focused my eyes back on the angel in front of me. My dick instantly turned hard as fuck all over again wanting to be inside of her. But that was ruined the moment I asked about her husband… "Why is your husband not here with you?" She did not seem to understand the question, so I went on to explain. "He should be here with you, so things like this don't happen. What kind of a man leaves…?"
"A dead one…" Was all she said and walked off. FUCK.
"I… Damnit!" I wanted to apologize but she was long gone. It was not like I could not find her, but I was out with Lilly and I had already stuck my foot in it enough for one day. Why now? And why her? I had my plans for my life, and it did not involve another woman. YET… This was all too confusing to say the least, I am going to have to talk to my mother about this. I have had feelings for women, but a woman who was human. Or was she? I inhaled deeply, her sent was all around me from the moment I saw her. But now that I am close to her, there was something in her sent. There was a mix of spice and honey and something else… A hint of musk. It was very faint, but it was there, deep down. This was crazy, the crazier part was that I almost risk showing my wolf to the world. Never have I come so close to losing it like this, not for anyone, not even at war. I should have never stepped in; it was not my place to. I had to remember that I came back home to be with Lilly. When she took a deep breath, her chest rose and fell, bringing her lushes breasts front and center. They were perfectly round mounds, of fleshy creamy coffee color making my mouth water for those mocha colored breasts. Wanting them, needing them in my mouth, to roll her nipples into hard stiff peaks while pinching the other one with my finger and thumb. Giving them a nice hard squeeze to erect a scream of pleasure from her plump juicy lips. I could almost feel them in my mouth, as if they were really there as I lovingly caress them. Feeling the roughness of her nipple as they tightened from the sensation my taste buds on my tongue stimulated. My wolf howled out at the thought of it, he wanted that too, he wanted to mate her, to claim her as his. Shit, this is nuts… Yet I feel it in me too. If that were to happen, I would play a symphony with her body whenever I wanted, and oh I wanted. But unlike the idiot I let live had done, I would never have violated her in such a manner.
"Daddy?" Lilly looked up at me, questioning what I was doing just standing here staring at an empty space.
I clear my throat. "Yes, baby lets go." I took Lilly's hand in mine and I walked in the opposite direction and went home. I could hear Amá working in the kitchen she was cooking another feast for me. She has been doing this ever since I got back from overseas, saying that hospital food was no way for me to get back the strength I had lost. Today smelled of buffalo stew my favorite; I was a lucky man to have a loving caring mother. I opened the door and walked straight to the kitchen. As I knew she would be Amá was standing at the cutting board chopping up the last of the roots and veggies. I inhaled deeply, tasting the flavors of the stew in the air the house wore it as a mouth-watering perfume causing my stomach to growl.
"Your back early, is everything ok dear?" She looked up from what she was doing to scrutinize my face. I knew she knew something she always did but she was never one to intrude in someone else's private business unless they asked. That is why she is a council member of our tribe; she is our shaman. Everyone when to her for advice for everything and she never once steered them wrong.
I rubbed the back of my neck, not really wanting to tell her about what happened in town now that I had thought about it. It was crazy for me to even think I could talk to my mother about my sex life. "Daddy made a bad man pee himself mema." I give my daughter the stink eye and she just giggles and runs off. Heat pierced my back; her eyes were like laser beams aimed at my spine. I knew she wanted to know what had happened, I was in for it now. How can a grown man like me at six ft. two and strong enough to crush metal with my bare hands be so scared of a small woman like my mother? I will tell you how, when she is pissed your skin wants to crawl off your body to get away.
I turned to face the death glare I knew was on my mother's face. I raised my hands in surrender. "It's not what you think Amá. I didn't just grab some guy to fight him ok. He assaulted a woman on the street and I only defended her is all." I stared straight into her eyes, so she knew I was not lying to her.
Her death glare was gone, and her body relaxed a bit more. Staring back at me I knew she was reading me right now. It was one of her many talents she had up her sleeves and her lips curved up in a knowing smile. "Oh, I see, well then you were a hero today." She turned to stir the stew and tasted it then added a few more ingredients and put the lid on. "So, who was this damsel in distress? Was she pretty?" She went back to cleaning up the mess she made which was not much.
I cleared my throat, what did it matter if she were pretty or not, I would have never allowed any woman to be treated that way. "That doesn't matter mother, you know me better than that. He violated her in front of her children Amá and in front of the whole town he needed to be taught a lesson. He was out of line by slapping her ass without her allowing him to do so." Anger filled me again, but it was not at my mother. It was at the piece of shit who had the balls to do that.
I could see her shoulders bouncing in silent laughter. "Oh, and how did you know she didn't want him to?" She raised her eyebrows at me, she was teasing me, provoking me.
I rolled my eyes at her. "Nice try mother but she didn't want him to, in fact she almost ripped his hand from his arm. So, I stepped in to teach the creep a lesson." I shrugged my shoulders acting as if not really caring, then I paused, I could not help thinking back to earlier today. I could not stop myself from intervening, I had to help her protect her from anything and anyone who would do her harm. It was so overwhelming my wolf wanted to come out and help me do just that. "No!" I banged my hand on the counter I took a deep breath pissed at myself for raising my voice to my mother, this is not like me at all. "Sorry I didn't mean that Amá, it's just that's not just all." My mind was so 0ut of it I could not even finish what I wanted to say to her in one go. I could not keep my mind straight and that scared the shit out of me. "She's… There's something about her Amá, I just don't know what it is. My wolf can sense it too. He could barely control himself when I was near her, I had to use my Alfa power to hold him back from showing himself to the town." I shook my head in disbelief in how close I came to close exposing myself and my kind to the world, it would have been everyone's worse nightmare come true. People think that they could handle the truth but in reality, humans cannot, it is not in them to. They only can handle so much and anything that is new to them they can't seem to get a grip on the reality that they are not the only spices out there that can think walk and talk like them so they fight against it instead. Rather than get to know what it is in front of them and see that not everything different in this world is bad or evil but what is not like them is not wanted.
Shock filled Amá's face she knew I was not lying this time but what surprised me is that she did not know this part. She always knows everything that has gone down or will go down not in exacted detail but well enough to know the whole story. "Oh, dear this is troubling, I didn't know how bad it was for you my dear. She must be special to you and your wolf, if that is the case than she is your…"
I growled. "Don't" I said a little to shapely, I pinched my eyes shut this was not like me to snap like this to anyone, especially my mother. Father must be raging at me right now. Shit. "Sorry mother, it's just I was scared you was going to say that. I don't want to hear it." Everything was getting away from me. "I know what you're going to say but I don't have time for a mate let alone a fated one. I have to make up for the time I have missed with Lilly, she needs me to be here for her. To be a father to her and if I fall into this thing, I fear that I will never have time for my daughter, and I swore I would never do that again to her." I turned to walk away to get some air.
"Your wrong son." Was the last thing I heard before walking out the door. I chose to ignore what she said and walked to my hideout.