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  “Fuck!” Rob growled as he watched Casey take off into the woods.

  “You’d better catch him,” Harvey said as he stepped back to allow Rob out of the truck.

  Rob was out of the truck and racing around the front of it in the next moment. He could hear Garret yelling out his name as he ran into the forest. He didn’t have time to stop and explain the situation to the man. Hopefully, Harvey would and Rob could find Casey and get back before trouble started.

  Casey wasn’t too hard to find. Rob heard his sobs before he spotted him curled up beside a fallen tree. Rob raced over and dropped to his knees next to his mate. Without hesitation, he scooped Casey up in his arms as he turned and plopped down on his butt, settling Casey on his lap.

  “Oh, cub.” Casey’s sobs tore at his soul. His sweet little mate should know nothing but happiness and joy. His life before now hadn’t been stellar, but at least he’d had a home. Now he had nothing, and Rob didn’t know when that was going to get better.

  Rob buried his face in Casey’s honey-blond hair when his own tears welled up in his eyes. “Do you want me to let you go, cub?” It would destroy him, but he would do whatever Casey needed.

  “What?”

  That one word was spoken with such shock that Rob hurried to explain his reasoning, even if he wasn’t real sure what it was.

  “Maybe if we weren’t mates anymore, your scent would go back to normal and you could return to the clan and live your life.” Those words sank in his stomach like a lead weight, but Rob would do whatever it took to put a smile back on Casey’s face, even give him up.

  “You’re leaving me?”

  Rob tried to hold onto Casey when the man struggled to get away from him. He was actually kind of surprised at how hard it was to subdue one skinny little human. He ended up pressing Casey down into the dirt, using the weight of his body to hold Casey in place. Casey was crying and whimpering, yanking at the hands Rob had grasped around his wrists.

  Rob did the only thing he could think of. He fisted his hand in Casey’s hair to hold him still and then covered the man’s mouth with his own, claiming him in a way that left no doubt that he was demanding Casey’s submission.

  The kiss was hard and demanding. There was an urgency to it that made Rob growl against Casey’s lips as fire heated his blood and thickened his cock until it ached. His body sang with delight when Casey lifted into the kiss, his lips opening and allowing Rob in.

  Rob moved his mouth over Casey’s, devouring its sweet softness. He delved inside, exploring with his tongue, conquering. As much as he wanted Casey to be happy—even if it wasn’t with him—his bear knew exactly what it wanted, and it wanted Casey.

  As Rob lifted his head and stared down into Casey dazed caramel colored eyes, he knew he couldn’t give the man up, not even if it was for Casey’s own good. “I’ll do anything you want, Casey, go anywhere you want, but I can’t give you up.” Tears of failure filled his eyes. “I’m sorry. I just can’t.”

  Casey reached up and smoothed a hand over Rob’s cheek. The mere touch of his hand sent a warming shiver through Rob, making him wonder if it would always be like this. Would he always crave this slim man’s touch?

  “I love you, Rob.”

  Elation thundered through Rob like a summer storm, followed quickly by a need to reassert his claim on his mate that he couldn’t deny. Rob tightened his hand in Casey’s hair, pulling until the man was forced to tilt his head back, baring his neck.

  Rob leaned down and licked a path over the rapidly beating pulse at the base of Casey’s throat. He gently mouthed the soft swanlike curve of Casey’s throat, lavishing the skin with his tongue. The heady moan that filled the air wrapped around Rob like a lover’s caress.

  Casey’s body squirmed beneath him as if he was trying to get closer, to climb under Rob’s skin. His hands grasped at Rob’s shoulders. His legs bent and parted, allowing Rob to settle between them. Even through the thickness of their jeans, Rob could feel Casey’s hard cock pressing against his.

  When Casey’s fingers dug into his skin, the last thread of Rob’s control snapped. His claws extended as he grabbed the edges of Casey’s shirt and ripped until the thin material tore. Casey’s jeans were next. In a matter of moments, Rob had Casey naked and pinned beneath him once more.

  Rob unbuttoned his jeans and pushed them down his thighs. He grabbed his cock and brushed it against Casey’s tight hole, only remembering at the last second that he had no lube. Rob racked his brain for an alternative. All the lube he had was either in the glove box of his truck or back at home in his nightstand.

  Casey whimpered and flexed his hips, driving Rob’s lust to sweltering heights. But it also gave him an idea. Rob spread his hands wide enough to hold Casey’s hips and part of his ass cheeks before lifting his bottom into the air.

  Using his thumbs to separate the luscious butt cheeks, Rob stroked his tongue up between them and over Casey’s ass. Casey’s cry was so loud, Rob was pretty sure people back in King City heard the man.

  He didn’t care.

  Casey could shout his pleasure to the world.

  Using his tongue to press his advantage, Rob circled around Casey’s puckered hole, giving a prolonged lick. He probed his tongue inside again, in several firm thrusts, adding a finger, leaving Casey shaking.

  Rob tongue-fucked Casey over and over, then alternated with a finger and finally two, and then three, until the man seemed to be barely hanging on the edge. He pulled all the way back out and pushed back in, fucking Casey with his fingers for a few strokes.

  Once he was assured that he wouldn’t hurt his mate, Rob lowered Casey’s body until he could fit the head of his cock to the man’s stretched hole. Rob’s clawed hands dug into Casey’s hips as he slammed forward, burying himself balls-deep in his mate’s sweet ass.

  Rob felt Casey’s body welcome him with searing heat and slick tightness. His body began to vibrate with liquid fire. Casey’s body held him snug, the man’s ass massaging his cock like the tight grip of a lover’s hand. He shuddered with increasing arousal when Casey cried aloud.

  He eased Casey up to sit on his widespread thighs. Keeping one hand curved around Casey, Rob brushed the other one over his cheek and then back to grab a handful of Casey’s hair. He locked eyes with Casey. His heart jolted at the love he could see shinning in their caramel depths.

  His pulse quickened as he moved, driving his cock deep into Casey’s sweet grip at an ever increasing pace. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he was obsessed with Casey or what a simple look from the man did to him.

  Casey was his world.

  Pleasure pooled at the base of Rob’s spine and tingled along his nerves. He could feel his cock beginning to thicken at the base and knew he was mere moments away from coming. He wanted Casey to come with him.

  He rammed his cock harder and harder into Casey, rocking the man with the force of his thrusts. He was overwhelmed by the heated tightness surrounding his hard shaft and the look of pure ecstasy on Casey’s face.

  Rob moved his left hand down between their bodies, tracing his fingers over Casey’s hard shaft before wrapping his fingers around him. Pumping with his hand, Rob used every trick up his sleeve to build his mate’s pleasure.

  He felt Casey’s tight channel contract around his cock with almost brutal intensity. Casey’s shattered wail of completion echoed through the trees as he sprayed white ropes of cum that spattered Rob’s fist.

  Rob grabbed Casey’s hips and started to piston back and forth, his cock completely buried in Casey’s ass by now. He swelled inside Casey, stuffing his ass full, his rhythm faltering as he neared orgasm. Rob leaned forward and sank his teeth into the soft curve of Casey’s throat. Sweet ambrosia flooded his mouth, the taste of apples and cinnamon almost overwhelming in its intensity.

  With a flurry of hard and fast thrusts, Rob froze, his cock buried as deep as he could be in Casey’s ass, his fangs buried in the man’s throat. He roared his completion as his seed erup
ted into Casey’s still-spasming channel. Rob gripped Casey’s hips, shuddering as the man’s ass clenched around his cock and milked him in the most provocative manner.

  Rob carefully extracted his teeth and licked the bite wound closed. He winced when he saw the red abused flesh. He might have bitten Casey just a little harder than he should have. The poor man looked like…well, he looked like he had been mauled by a bear.

  Go figure.

  Guilt ridden, Rob raised his eyes to Casey’s, opening his mouth to apologize. The serene smile he found made his snap his mouth closed. Had he ever seen someone look so peaceful before?

  “Are you okay, cub?”

  “Yeah.” Casey’s eyelashes flickered as he raised them. “I’m perfect.”

  “Yes, you are.” Rob doubted they were talking about the same thing but Rob knew what he felt. Casey was perfect in every way. He had truly been blessed by the Earth Mother when she had chosen Casey as his mate. “And you’re mine.”

  Chapter Thirteen

  Casey winced as he stood up and started pulling pine needles out of his hair. As much as he had enjoyed getting fucked by his sexy mate, he wasn’t particularly thrilled to have done it on the ground—again.

  “We really need to try to do that in a bed one of these days.”

  Rob chuckled. “Cub, you’re mated to a bear. The number of times I ride your ass in the great outdoors is more than likely going to equal the amount of times I take you in a real bed…or on the floor…against the wall…in the shower…”

  “I get the idea.” So did his cock as it twitched with interest.

  “My bear likes the great outdoors.”

  “As long as your bear continues to like me, I don’t really care.”

  “Yeah.” Rob flushed, which was just about as adorable a thing as Casey had ever seen. “I don’t think that’s a problem.”

  “It might be, if you considered leaving me.” Casey wished he could ignore what Rob had said, but he couldn’t. Even now, after he had been claimed again, the thought of Rob leaving him made his stomach clench with fear.

  “I didn’t want to leave you, Casey,” Rob said as their eyes met, Rob’s filled with so much pain that Casey’s breath caught. “I want you to be happy, even if that’s not with me. That’s all that matters to me.”

  “Being with you makes me happy.” Happier than he could ever remember being.

  Rob’s brows drew together in a confused frown. “Then why did you run from me?”

  “I panicked.” Casey swallowed hard as fear welled up in his throat. “We’ve known each other like two days and already I’ve done so much to destroy your life. And then I find out I’ve done the same thing to your parents? How can you all not hate me?”

  “Oh, cub, I could never hate you.” When Rob reached for him, Casey eagerly went into his arms. He pressed his face into Rob’s chest, drawing in a deep breath of the man’s scent. “Casey, you didn’t destroy our lives at all.”

  “But—”

  “You have given me so much, Casey. So much.”

  Casey lifted his head so he could look up at Rob. “You’ve lost your home because of me.”

  “I found a home because of you.”

  Casey blinked. “Huh?”

  “Casey, you’re my home, not some wood and brick building somewhere. As long as I have you, I have everything I need.”

  Casey was going to melt right there on the spot. “I love you.”

  Rob’s happy smile was well worth anything Casey had ever endured. “I love you, too, cub. I always will.”

  Casey dropped his head against Rob’s chest when tears sprang to his eyes. He threaded his fingers through the fine hairs on Rob’s chest, twirling them around the tip of his finger. “If that ever changes, you’ll tell me?”

  “It won’t. True mates mate for life.”

  Casey felt Rob’s lips press to the top of his head and wondered at how easily the powerful male showed affection. Rob seemed to have no problem showing Casey how he felt as well as telling him. Casey would always be grateful for that.

  “There will never be another for me, Casey. You’re it, until the day I die.”

  Casey frowned. “Don’t want you to die.”

  He smiled when Rob chuckled.

  “I don’t really have plans to die any time soon, cub. I’m just saying, you are my mate. No one will ever smell as sweet, feel as wonderful, or look as good as you do. Everything about you fascinates me, even this omega thing.”

  Casey didn’t really have a response to that. Rob was handing him his biggest wish ever and asking for so little in return. Even feeling the way he did, Rob had offered to give Casey up if it would make him happy.

  “No one has ever wanted me the way you do.”

  Rob’s grin grew as he winked. “No one is as smart as me.”

  Casey laughed as joy filled him to the point of bursting. He didn’t really care where they went as long as they were together. The rest of the world could go hang itself. Casey had Rob and that was all that mattered to him.

  That, and a shirt.

  “Something seems to have happened to my clothes.” Casey glanced down at his naked body and then grinned up at his mate. The flush that filled Rob’s face was too adorable to let pass. “Since you’re kind of responsible, can I borrow yours?”

  Five minutes later, Casey found himself being carried through the woods with nothing but a shirt to cover all his naked bits. Good thing he was mated to a bear of a man. Rob’s shirt hung down to the tops of his knees.

  “Any idea where we’re headed?”

  “Not really.” Rob shrugged as if they were discussing the changing weather and not moving somewhere unknown. “I guess we’ll drive until we either find a good place to call home or run out of gas money.”

  “I don’t think gas money will be a real problem.”

  Casey jumped and clung tighter to Rob when he heard Sheriff Garret’s voice. He was sure the man was a very nice guy, but just the sound of his voice sent a shiver of foreboding through Casey.

  “Easy, cub,” Rob whispered.

  Casey turned his head and pressed his face against Rob’s chest. He breathed in deeply, letting Rob’s natural scent calm his fears. He hated being afraid all of the time, but life had taught him that he had a lot to fear. When the people that should have cared for him turned their backs, those that had it out for him stepped forward to cause him pain.

  No one had ever cared enough to make sure he was protected until Rob. Casey tightened his arms around Rob’s neck, thanking the cosmic powers that be that he had been led to his mate. He was never going to let go.

  “What are you talking about, Garret?” Rob asked.

  “Alpha Barker has provided for Casey. It’s not much but it should hold you over for a while.”

  Casey glanced up when Rob started walking again. Harvey opened the door to the truck and Rob set Casey down on the seat before turning to Garret again. Casey had to admit he was intrigued when Garret handed Rob something. He just couldn’t tell what it was.

  “Why would Alpha Barker give Casey a credit card?” Rob asked.

  Okay, so that was what it was. And why would the alpha give him a credit card? He barely knew the man. Casey stared down at the piece of black plastic when Rob handed it to him. Huh. It even had his name on it. How weird was that?

  Garret sighed, which was enough of an oddity in the self-assured man that it caught Casey’s attention. He glanced up, meeting the sheriff’s eyes.

  “Alpha Barker married Raymond’s mother because it brought together two different clans. It was a marriage arranged by his parents. It was not a love match but it did produce Raymond.”

  “And that has to do with me why?” Casey asked. He instantly wished he had kept his mouth shut when Garret’s lips thinned into a straight line.

  “It has to do with you because Alpha Barker is your father.”

  Casey stared for a moment, and then he started laughing because he knew beyond a shadow of a d
oubt, Garret was pulling his leg. When no one else laughed with him, Casey’s amusement slowly died away.

  “You’re not serious?”

  “Alpha Barker met your mother when Raymond was a year old. He knew instantly that they were mates even though your mother was human. Barker and your mother met in private. When you were born, your mother had to go into hiding.”

  Casey swallowed hard. “My mother didn’t die of a drug overdose, did she?”

  “No, not exactly.”

  “Not exactly?” Casey snapped. “What in the hell does that mean?”

  Garret grimaced, almost as if his own words were distasteful. “As long as she retained her position, the alpha mate looked the other way. She didn’t care who her husband was fucking as long as he was discrete. When you were born, it threatened her position and Raymond’s position as the next alpha.”

  “How can that be?” Rob asked. “Raymond is older.”

  “True, but he wasn’t created with the alpha’s true mate. Casey was.”

  “Wait.” Casey’s fingers curled around the credit card in his hand until they hurt. “Are you saying that my mother was murdered?”

  “She was poisoned but we’ve never been able to prove that the alpha mate did it.”

  “What?” Casey’s heart ached for a woman he barely remembered.

  “When your mother died, the alpha mate made it clear that if the alpha acknowledged you, your life would be in danger as well.”

  Casey sucked in a breath. “She blackmailed him.”

  “As long as Raymond was the only acknowledged child of the alpha, she said you would be safe. Alpha Barker had to watch you grow up from afar, never acknowledging that you were his son, born from the only woman he had ever loved.”

  Casey leaned into Rob as he sniffled. “Then why did he send me away?”

  He just didn’t understand it. They could have been a family. Granted, Raymond was a jerk and Casey really wanted nothing to do with the man, but he might have been able to look past that considering Raymond was his brother. Or not, but he still would have liked knowing he had family out there somewhere.