hot and sweaty mess.”
She leaned into him, licking at his neck. “You smell incredible.”
“The others are right behind me,” he offered with a groan as she nipped at his ear.
“No quickie in the kitchen then?”
He leaned back and stared down at her for mere seconds before turning her and bending her over the table. He had her jeans and panties down around her knees and cock in hand before she had time to appreciate his eagerness. Then he was inside, one palm riding low on her belly so he could finger her clit. The other was pressed between her shoulder blades, keeping her in place. As if she’d go anywhere with the pleasure he was giving her. She braced one palm on the table and reached back to wrap her other hand around his thigh.
“God, yes,” she moaned as he pounded into her.
“Fuck. The things you do to me,” he growled at her ear.
“I think you’re the one doing things to me,” she countered, giving a growl of her own.
He chuckled then moaned as she clenched around his pistoning shaft. He pinched at her clit, milking it between his fingers, and she came with a loud cry. He followed moments later.
She was still breathing heavily when he tugged free and quickly straightened their clothes. He’d managed to pull her from her bent position and had his arm around her waist when Finn knocked on the door. Not that they wouldn’t be able to smell what she and Daniel had done, but thankfully, they weren’t caught in the act.
“Are we interrupting?” Finn asked with a grin while he helped his very pregnant mate inside.
“Stop hovering,” Laura demanded as she moved past him. Kenzie and Gabriel were right behind them.
“Something smells incredible,” Kenzie said, giving a wide grin as heat filled Ariel’s face. Gabriel growled while Daniel cleared his throat roughly. Finn laughed. “The food. You guys need to get your minds out of the gutter.”
As she moved closer to Ariel, the other woman’s scent registered.
“You’re pregnant?” Ariel asked.
Kenzie’s grin went wider. “I am. Laramie is trying to take credit for it.”
“The hell you say,” Gabriel snapped, looking ready to beat someone to a pulp.
“Not like that.” Kenzie smacked him in the stomach. “You know what I mean. Because I was hanging around with all the pregnant mates when we were with the Holloways. Ergo, we have him to thank.”
Daniel threw back his head and laughed. “I can hear him saying that, the cocky bastard.”
Finn laughed, too. “Sounds like him.”
“By the way.” Gabriel leaned back against the kitchen counter. “Quinn’s going to need another dose of lion’s blood. Abby said to ask you to stop by tomorrow.”
Ariel and Daniel had already discussed him giving Quinn some of his blood to help her and the baby she carried. Ariel had told them what she’d overheard Talbot say. Thankfully, it seemed Tah’s alpha blood and Daniel’s primal blood were helping Quinn, though she did need transfusions more often than any of the human mates had. Ariel figured it had more to do with the blood not being from the father than anything else, but she wasn’t a scientist, so it was all supposition on her part.
Daniel nodded. “She doing any better?”
Finn and Laura shared a look. Laura had taken the other woman under her wing, immediately. She’d said it was a pregnant woman thing, but Ariel thought it had more to do with Laura wanting to make Quinn feel accepted. She’d still not said much about her mate other than to say the baby’s father was dead. She’d not even spoken to her father about what she’d been through. The only person she seemed to speak to was one of Tony’s men who’d brought her back to Riverton. He rarely left her side, overseeing everything when it came to her care.
Dr. Talbot wasn’t talking either. They had him kept under lock and key on Tony’s property. Talbot had said nothing more than cryptic statements. No information on the shifter he had caged or where he’d stashed the female bears. No word on where Marcus Blain had skulked off to once he’d been chased away from Illinois. And anytime they tried to ask him about Quinn and her baby, he’d just laugh and say she was one of his most viable experiments.
“Abby thinks Quinn will open up soon. Once she feels safe.” Laura sighed. “She breaks my heart. There’s so much pain in her gaze. I want to help her, but she won’t let me