Axel rakes his hand through his hay-colored hair. I like rattling his cage -we all do. But he seems to be mastering the ability to not let us get to him, though I know the only reason he’s holding back from ripping out my entrails is because he’d lose Luna forever if he killed one of us.
“You do seem to take pleasure in fucking with me,” he says, glowering at me. “But it’s still not a good idea to leave pack land. Even if that was a lone wolf and Warrick got rid of it, there are vampires, goblins, all kinds of shit that might hurt her out there.”
“If you were so worried about it, maybe you shouldn’t have invited them onto your territory,” I point out. “By the way, they’re not keeping to the north. I’ve seen at least one near here.”
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” Axel barks. I shrug. “You’re not my Alpha.”
“This is my territory,” he growls, squeezing the back of his neck.
“Axel,” Luna says, laying a hand on his forearm. He drops his gaze to her fingers and swallows.
“No one else stays on pack land all the time. I want to go out with Callan, so I’m going. You can’t protect me every second.”
“Bullshit,” he snarls.
Luna sighs and takes her touch from his arm. “Besides, I have Callan with me. He’ll protect me. If my safety is what you’re really worried about, then you can’t object.”
“The girl’s decided, Dad,” I say sarcastically. “I’ll make sure she’s home by midnight.”
“You better be damn sure she’s safe,” he growls. “Protect her with your fucking life, because I’ll end it if something happens to her.”
I grin and shake my head, laying an arm over Luna’s shoulders and puffing up my chest. “I don’t need you to tell me to keep her safe. Again, you ain’t my Alpha, so you don’t run the show where we’re concerned.”
“Boys, boys,” Luna says, stepping between us. “Don’t fight. Please?”
She looks up at me with her little puppy dog eyes that make my dick hard and my defenses crumble. Then she turns to give Axel the same look. He sighs. It’s the weapon of a submissive wolf-they’re anything but weak. She may be naive, but she’s not dumb. She’s learning fast, and I have no doubt that within a year, she’ll have us all eating out of her hand and doing anything we can to earn one of her smiles or a night between her heavenly thighs.
“Good,” she says, laying a hand on Axel’s chest. “Then it’s settled.
Callan will protect me if anything goes wrong.”
“Fine,” Axel says grudgingly, sending me a fierce scowl. “I’ve got to consult with my wolves about the vampires encroaching. They’re already pissed about having them on half the preserve, and if they’re not respecting our boundaries…”
I can feel his wolf surging, the instinctual urge to fight rising inside him. My own wolf responds even though I’m not under his command and not bonded to the pack, so I can’t read his thoughts. I can still feel a stronger wolf’s agitation. I have to remind my wolf to stand down, that this isn’t our battle, and we don’t care about his pack’s land.
Distracted by his concerns for the pack, Axel leaves Luna to me. Forty- five minutes later, we’re standing in line at the movie theater, waiting to
buy tickets. Luna and I are holding hands like a couple of teenagers. Well, I guess Luna is a teenager, as uncomfortable as that makes me. But it’s too late to back out now. She’s got me-hook, line, and sinker.
“I haven’t been to the movies since I was in high school,” I say, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
“What’s high school?” she says, snuggling into the crook of my arm.
“It’s where you go learn bullshit you’ll never use,” I say with a grin. “I barely went.”
“Why would you want to learn something you don’t need to?” “My thoughts exactly.”
Luna gawks at all the people around us and presses into me, clearly uncomfortable with this crowd. “Were the movies part of it?” she asks. “Because if they’re like TV, I don’t see the use.”
“You could say that,” I admit with a grin. “Getting my cock sucked in the back row was definitely more memorable than most of the shit that happened during those years.”
“You can suck a cock?” Luna asks, all wide-eyed innocence.
“You sure can, pet,” I say. “I’ll let you suck mine as soon as the movie starts.”
“Can we fuck again, too?”
“If you can stay quiet, you might be able to slide that pussy down over my dick,” I say with a wink. “If not, you’ll have to settle for making out.”
“What’s making out?”
“This is making out.” I tip up her chin with my fingertip and lower my lips to hers.
Our lips grind together until the prick behind us says, “Hey, buddy, move.”
“Yeah, fuck you,” I say, not bothering to look at him. Instead, I slide a hand down the back of Luna’s pants, cupping her tight little ass as we take a few steps forward.
“I like making out, too,” she says, her eyes all bright with excitement. “But not as much as fucking.”
“Keep that talk up and we won’t make it through the credits before I’m wrecking your ass.”
“This date is sounding more and more fun,” Luna says.
“I couldn’t agree more,” I murmur against her ear. “I’ve been dreaming of being inside that tight pussy again all week.”
I step up to the ticket booth, hand the cashier a card, and pay for our tickets, keeping my hard-on pushed up tight against Luna’s back.
“What are we going to watch when we’re not fucking?” Luna asks.
I almost bust up laughing when the pimply little pipsqueak behind the register turns ten shades of red. Apparently we forgot to teach Luna about appropriate voice levels when talking about pussy in public.
When we walk away from the ticket counter, I crack up and laugh my ass off. I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun. Maybe never. Sure, I like to come as much as the next guy, but I’m usually on the serious side. Luna brings out something else in me, though, letting me feel carefree and young, pussy-whipped and about head over fucking paws for the rest of her, too.