Remedy walks from the water, and I can’t keep my eyes off her. Watching East fuck her was so beautiful—she closed her eyes and came against his hand and in that moment, all I could think was finally Rem is getting the happily ever after she deserves. Her life has been nothing but heartache, a struggle—but maybe now, she can leave the pain from her past, and begin to heal. Maybe we can be more than her mates—we can be her knights in shining armor.
Corny, maybe, but this woman fucking deserves a man who will go to battle for her—fight for her. Die for her.
And I will.
All of us will.
We are devoted to Remedy.
It’s no coincide that she’s in our care.
I follow her out of the water. She tells me to lie down and I do as my mate asks. My head rests against discarded clothing, and she kneels in front of me, her head dipping to my cock. “I need to taste you, River, I want to swallow your come and feel it in my belly.”
Oh, fucking hell. “You know how hot those words are, woman?”
She shakes her head, licking her lips, her mouth nearing my raging hard-on. “How hot?”
“I’m gonna explode in your mouth.”
“Good,” she says, a sultry smile on her face. “Because that’s exactly what I want.”
She starts sucking me, and as she does, Cal moves toward her, standing on a rock in the water, at the edge of the spring. His cock is at attention, and he guides it toward Rem’s ass. She sucks me off as Cal presses a hand to her ass, and she whimpers as he uses the slickness from her pussy to lubricate her hole. I can tell he is penetrating her softly because she begins to suck me with more devotion. She licks my tip, slowly, with absolute care. Like my fucking cock is the most treasured thing she’s ever tasted. I feel my veiny shaft grow more rigid as she groans against me, Cal behind her, filling her up.
“You like that baby?” I ask. She looks at her, my cock still in her mouth, her eyes dripping with heat.
Taking me from her mouth, she moans, “It’s everything.” Her tits sway as Cal moves harder against her. She takes me back in her mouth, deep throating my cock practically gagging on my length, and I know I’m so close to coming.
“Oh fuck,” I groan, my release in her mouth. She sucks me good, then, to my surprise, she pulls me from her mouth. Ribbons of milky come erupt, coating her tits, dripping against her tight nipples. She licks her lips like she’s parched, and she braces her hands against my chest as Cal pleasures her ass, and when he finishes, she falls into my arms. All of us spent, exhausted and delirious.
We slip back in the water, and she sits in East’s lap. He turns her to face Cal and me and his hands run over her bare breasts.
“You make me feel so beautiful,” she whispers.
“Because you are,” I tell her. I step toward her, needing my mouth against hers again. East lifts her ass, and she sinks against his cock. Cal steps forward, and she takes his cock in her hand, getting him off as I hold her gaze. The moment feels so intimate, so absolutely ours. Sun filters through the trees, the beauty of the moment is lost on no one. This feels like magic.
It feels like love. Looking at one another, it’s as if those words are hanging in the air, but they aren’t spoken. Still, the power of the emotions twists about our hearts—you can see it in our eyes.
After, Rem grabs her tee-shirt and pulls it on, before slipping to the trees to pee. Cal and East close their eyes, relaxing in the bliss the day. It feels euphoric, how happy we all are.
But then the ground begins to rumble, rocks shift and fiery flames begin to rise from the tree line. The trees where Rem just left too.
“Fuck,” I shout, jumping from the water and shifting into wolf form. Cal and East move to action too, and the three of us head to the trees that are ablaze.
At first, I can’t see her amid the smoke and orange tendrils of fire whipping around the still quaking earth. Trees fall and then we hear it, a growl of a bear deep and wild.
We run toward the sound, fearing the worst. That Remedy is getting swallowed whole by the fiery furnace growing.
But then we see her, the grizzly bear standing tall, transfixed by the woman before her. The bear growls again, and as Remedy lifts her hands to the heavens, it runs away—fast. Then, with a surge of strength, Rem pushes the flames away. As if calling from a deep well inside her, a current, strong enough to extinguish the fire, rises. But there is no water here—only Remedy.
She eliminated the flames with her bare hands, with a strength inside her that has me awestruck. Her hands shoot to the earth, and she stretches her fingers and closes her eyes as if summoning a power that I’ve certainly never witnessed before.
But I see it now. The earth that shook beneath our feet is stilled as if under her command.
The fire is gone and there she stands. Red hair wild and whipping in the air, wearing nothing but a tee-shirt, her bare feet pressed against the mossy forest floor. Strangers might think she looks like a girl lost in the woods—but I see a powerhouse when I look at Remedy.
She’s bare and broken in so many ways but there is something great inside her.
Something we all see.
We shift from wolves to men, and step toward our mate. We’re naked and our hearts are on our non-existent sleeves.
Her body begins to shake, depleted after all the power she just emitted. She has exhausted herself entirely.
Her eyes are filled with tears as she looks at us with wonder. Her lips quiver and she suddenly appears so small.
“Remedy,” I ask, stepping toward her. “What are you?”
Chapter 17
Remedy
My bare hands started and stopped a fire. My fingers stretched out and ended an earthquake that I began.
I don’t know what I am but I was terrified when the bear appeared. Anger coursed through me and the elements rose from within me—a forest fire and an earthquake began from my mere emotions. The same way they did the night I killed Ray. Anger came forth and he was flung across the room at my slightest touch.
And when the bear looked down at me, all I could think was please don’t let anything happen to Cal or River or East.
And as I thought it, my body took on a mind of its own.
The disasters ended. The bear ran.
I don’t know why this is happening, now. I could have certainly used a powerful internal force when I was living on the streets trying to make ends meet.
As the men lead me home, they ask if this has happened before.
“Not until I came to Ketchikan.”
“When did you first feel the power?” River asks.
I swallow. I may have felt feelings of love toward them in the hot spring, but if I tell them my strength killed Ray they won’t understand. Hell, I don’t understand.
“The night in the tent when the bear attacked me, I was able to push her away. I shouldn’t have been able to do that. And then, the next day, when she found me in the woods, it happened again.”