Once Scorched Always Safe

Confessions of Love, A Mate Returned

Rayne

Warning Mature Scene

Parker had gone into his room as soon as they all reached the house. She hadn’t talked to him at the bar before the battle broke out. She was on

on her

way up to his office when the wards went off signally that someone was attacking the front of the bar. Now was her chance to speak to him alone since her father decided he wanted to make space in the room above the garage. Rayne figured he was just trying to give the two of them space for the night.

Grabbing a bottle of red wine from the wine rack and two glasses, she made her way down the hall to her room. A change of clothing was in order. Sitting the glasses and bottle on the dresser, she walked to her closet to change, decided against anything complex. She slid her pants to the floor, reached under her shirt to undo her bea, then in just her Mickey Mouse t–shirt and black panties, she grabbed the bottle of wine and glassed to go to Parker’s room. The connecting door to his room from the bathroom was closed, so she knocked twice before opening it. The room was dark, but she could see him lying on the bed. His feet planted on the floor as his knees were bent like he had sat down, then just leaned backward.

“Parker?”

Rayne was met with silence as he just lay there looking at the ceiling. She could tell by his heartbeat he wasn’t asleep, it was beating calmly which surprised her. She walked into the room, her bare feet making no sound on the carpeted floor. She leaned down, sitting the glasses and bottle on the floor, then stood in front of him at the end of the bed, her eyes looking over his bare torso,

She took a step closer to stand in the gap between his knees. He flicked his eyes down at her as she did, his nostrils flaring out as her arousal hit the air. He lifted his arms above his head to stretch, never taking his eyes off her as she stood between his legs. She reached up to let her hair loose to flow down to the middle of her back, waves of black curls cascading down. As she did this her t–shirt hitched up to her hips, revealing her black panties to his eyes, which cause a growl to come from his throat as he quickly sat up reaching for her.

A squeak left her mouth as he quickly flipped her over, tossed her on the bed, then followed her down to cover her body with his. Parker fused his mouth to hers, skimmed his hands up her shirt to the heated flesh beneath, she shivered with the need for him. Her shirt was soon discarded, thrown somewhere in the room, his jeans following soon after.

The room filled with their soft sighs as they caressed each other, moans as they took each other to a higher level of pleasure. Each showing the other with touches, kisses, and a fierce passion, how they felt. She wanted to say the words, but each time he would take her breath away with how he worshipped her body, almost bringing tears to her eyes.

Later, as they lay in each other’s arms, legs tangled in the blankets, their breathing slowly returning to normal, Rayne reached both hands up to cup his cheeks, turning his head so she could look in his eyes. She gently kissed his lips.

“I love you,” he whispered as she pulled back from the kiss.

“I love you too, Parker”

They

y fell asleep with their hearts beating as one, her head

d on his chest a

over his heart, their hands held tight with fingers interlaced.

Sebastion

The next morning, they were making good time as everyone packed up to hit the road. Sebastion was tired but wanted to make Bodega Bay by nightfall. As long as there were no unforeseen complications today, they would make the campgrounds by sunset. They were all itching to be in the woods to let their wolves free for a few hours, Sebastion was happy to be getting closer to a much needed day of downtime.

Last night he hadn’t slept very well, he kept having waves of anxiety, anger, and most of all fear. He had nightmares of failing at what he was trying to become. Fear at letting all those people who relied on him down yet again. What excited him when he woke was that he could feel, for the first time in a long while, a flicker from the mate bond he shared with Rayne. They never completed the bond, mating fully in every way, so the bond would always remain weak until they did,

The mate bond flickering to life meant that she was somewhere close. He would get his caravan to the campground, then he would go searching for her. His mate being near was sending Aries mad with excitement, once in he was in control, they could find her better. He hoped that by the end of the night he would have his mate back.

We had to have had her in the first place, to have her back, for. Aries growled in his mind.

Shut up, I know now that I was wrong. Leave it alone, man.

Once on the road, Arianna chatted away with what she had come up with overnight for a few of their companies. Two of the new pack members were

Confessions of Love, A Mate Relumed

very talented artists, 36 she wanted to showcase some of their art at the gallery they owned in Portland. She showed him some of their art form pictured on her phone. He agreed that they were both very talented. They came up with a plan to hold a gala after a month of them being in the pack, to showcase their art and their other artist from the pack.

Arianna also found another doctor that wanted to move to a fresh pack. He was from France, his mate had passed during childbirth a few years ago. He wanted a change of scenery to help him move on with his life since he had survived his soulmate’s death. She emailed Sebastion the file on the doctor. then they spent a few more minutes going over other business from their companies. Things with their work were going well, which would leave him plenty of time to get the changes made around the pack and work on his self–improvements.

They stopped for lunch at a large rest stop, Justin took one minivan to a pizza place a few miles back. When he returned, the kids dubbed him Pizza King as he unloaded ten large pizza, breadsticks, and various drinks onto the picnic tables. Arianna wandered off a few feet away to make a call to Calista, she was missing her more and more the longer they were away from home, Sebastion decided that was a great idea, so he called Flant to talk to lace.

“Hey little buddy, how has your day been going so far?”

“I beat Callie at checkers, but then she beat me in our race to the treehouse Flint is building us.” His little voice was racing with excitement as he rushed to tell his father about his day. It made Sebastion grin from ear to car.

“How are you liking the treehouse? How do you want to decorate it when I get back?”

we have a tire swing and a rope ladder?”

“Yes, on the swing, not on the rope ladder right now.”

“But why?” His voice whined.

“Maybe in a few more years when you are stronger, I would hate for you to fall while climbing”

“But Daddy, I am strong now!!” la

“Let’s see h

Jace practically yelled into the phone.

how well you climb the regular ladder when I get home, then we will talk about the rope ladder.”

“Can we have a slide too?”

They went back and forth with Jace’s ideas, demands, and his plans for how he wanted the result of the treehouse to look for about thirty minutes. By the time he hung up the phone, he noticed that everyone had packed up and loaded back into the minivans. Arianna held out a plate of pizza and a bottle of water for him as she stood next to the minivan they rode in. She just smiled at him as he shrugged his shoulders sheepishly for holding them

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