STORY EXCERPT

“It was a close call, but you got him here in time,” Faye told the men from Highland Rescue. “He is hypothermic, and swallowed a decent amount of water, but I’d say his life jacket saved him from drowning.”

Faye’s nose told her that three of the men were wolf shifters. She already knew the other one. Her mate’s sweet smell hit her senses and made her body tingle in places she didn’t have time to pay attention to. Ramsey stood at the back of the group wearing his arrogant and annoying smile.

“Any sign of what caused the accident?”

Faye looked over at the tall, redheaded wolf. He was stunningly good looking with his big hazel eyes and reddish beard. He was tall and lean, and his smile did things to her insides. Faye found him very confusing. The sickly-sweet smell from her mate was baffling her senses. She knew he was a wolf, but couldn’t understand why she was so drawn to him. Especially with her mate standing a few feet behind him.

“He has no other visible signs of trauma,” she replied. “The answer will have to wait until he wakes.”

It was taking all of Faye’s energy to mask her scent and keep the other shifters from discovering what she was. She was dead tired after pulling a double and staying on after her night shift had finished, but at least her boss was gone. It was draining and even harder when her owl was flapping and screaming for her to claim her mate.

Faye didn’t want a mate. She wanted a career, and that didn’t include bowing to the whims of a leopard shifter and his need to procreate. As long as he didn’t know who and what she was, everything would be fine.

“Do you want to grab a cup of coffee with us?” the redheaded shifter asked.

“Archie,” Ramsey said. “The doc has better things to do.”

Faye did have things to do, like work, but Ramsey got on her nerves and she wouldn’t let him dictate who she drank coffee with or when.

“I’d love to,” she said, smiling at Archie. “Let’s go to the doctor’s lounge. The coffee is better there. Follow me.”

Faye spun on her heal and walked off, expecting Archie to follow. She was surprised to see Ramsey on her heels too. Logan and Pherson must have decided they had something better to do.

She climbed the stairs to the third floor and walked quickly down the maze of corridors until she came to the doctor’s lounge. She pushed through the doors and went straight over to the coffee pot. Luckily, the room was empty and they had the space to themselves.

“There is milk in the fridge and sugar on the bench,” she told them, handing them each a cup of black coffee. She took hers black and strong, the caffeine helping her get through long shifts in the A&E.

“We both take black,” Ramsey replied, taking the coffee from her.

“Have you known each other long?” Faye asked, trying to make conversation and fill the quiet.

“Yes,” Ramsey replied, but didn’t elaborate.

She walked to the lounges and took a seat, placing her cup on the table in front of her. She waited for the men to sit down. They settled in front of her, and she stared back at them in awkward silence.

Faye was starting to feel a little intimidated with all the masculine shifter energy in the air. Ramsey was a good-looking bloke. It was a shame that she couldn’t be in the room with the guy without snapping at him. The man got on her nerves. She couldn’t picture a happy mating with the man. She would spend her life arguing with him.

She remembered that last time they had bumped into each other. She was in the cafeteria ordering her lunch when he had entered with Logan. Joining her at the table without invitation, he had spent the next half an hour and the remainder of break arguing with her about the vegetable soup she had chosen. According to him, she should have been eating meat. It was a ridiculous thing to fight about, but the more he went on, the more she wanted to defend her choice.

Then there was Archie, who she couldn’t deny an attraction to. She still hadn’t been able to get a good read on his scent, always being masked by Ramsey’s mating aroma. He was very pleasing to the eye though, and she didn’t mind if he wanted to sit here and let her look at him for the rest of her shift.

“So, Archie,” she said. “You wanted to have coffee. What did you want to talk about?”

“Do you like being a doctor?” Archie asked, before taking a sip of his coffee.

“Yes,” she replied. “I always wanted to heal people. My mother was a doctor, so I guess it’s in the blood.”

Her mother had been a wonderful doctor and a great influence on her life. She missed her terribly, but didn’t want to dwell on that now.

Her parents had left Australia when she was a baby and came to Scotland to get away from the man that had ruled the parliament her family lived in. Her mother had told her that they had married without his approval and he had threatened to tear them apart. They were never to return to their homeland. Faye didn’t mind that she couldn’t go there. She wasn’t into traveling, too focused on her career. Scotland was the only home she knew and she loved it here.

“What did your father do?” Archie asked.

“I can’t place your scent,” Ramsey said, cutting in before she could answer Archie’s question. “I know you are a shifter, but I can’t figure out what kind.”

“That is none of your business,” she replied. “Some things are private.”

ADULT EXCERPT

“My turn,” Archie said, interrupting Ramsey’s intimate moment with their mate.

Ramsey lifted his head and smiled down at Faye. Her lips were swollen and she had a dazed look on her face.

“Impatient wolf,” Ramsey told her.

“Of course, I’m impatient,” Archie replied. “Our mate is hot.”

He stepped back, and Archie pushed in front of him, grabbing their mate into his arms. Ramsey sat on the bed and watched as Archie slammed his lips down on Faye’s. Archie kissed her with a passion that Ramsey found arousing. He wondered if he looked like that when he kissed Faye. Archie put his whole body into the kiss, making love to her mouth while sensually grinding his body against hers.

When Archie finally lifted his head, they were both breathless and panting.

“Come over here,” Ramsey said, snagging Faye’s hand and pulling her to stand in between his legs. “Archie, lock the door.”

Ramsey shifted Faye until her legs straddled his and then pulled her down onto his lap. He took her mouth in another tongue-twirling kiss, before lifting her top over her head and throwing it over his shoulder.

Her large breasts were covered with a practical white bra, but that only made her even sexier in Ramsey’s opinion. He reached back and flicked the clasp open and pulled the bra from her body. It went over his shoulder the same as her top.

Ramsey cupped her breasts in his palm and lifted them to his lips. Her nipples were pink and erect. He sucked one into his mouth and pinched the other between his fingers, drawing a moan from Faye.

“You have deceptively large breasts,” Ramsey said before swapping to her other nipple and sucking the bud into his mouth.

“I wear a minimizer bra at work,” she replied. “They get in the way otherwise.”

“Good,” Archie said, coming up behind Faye and putting his hands on her shoulders. “I don’t want other shifters to ogle your assets, or anyone for that matter.”

“No one is ogling my assets,” she replied.

“I’m ogling your assets,” Ramsey said, lifting his head from her delectable tits. “Now I want to ogle something else.”

Ramsey lifted Faye with his hands under her butt, shifted around on the small cot, and laid her on her back. Moving back, he unbuttoned her pants and slowly lowered the zipper.

“Wait,” she said. “Someone might come in.”

“I locked the door,” Archie told her. “No one can get in.”

“But they will know what we are doing when they find the door locked,” she said.

“They won’t care, baby,” Ramsey replied. “All shifters have a high sex drive, and the mated ones are always pleasuring their mates around here in one room or another.”

Ramsey understood her reluctance. She wasn’t an extroverted female and liked to keep herself private. He was surprised that she was even letting them make love to her at all. She had been so against mating and tried so long to keep it hidden.

“We can stop if you want,” Ramsey told her. “I would never do something against your will.”

“Or we can be really, really, quiet,” Archie said, with a look of desperation on his face.

Ramsey was feeling his desperation too. His cock was so hard he could pound nails, and his leopard paced with the need to be inside their mate.

“No,” she replied. “I want this. I do. I need you too.”

Ramsey didn’t wait for her doubts to creep back in. He pulled her pants down her legs while Archie slipped off her shoes. When she was only left in her simple white panties, he leant forward and buried his nose in between her thighs.

Ramsey took a long deep sniff, and his whole body shivered with desire. Her arousal called to him, and he felt liquid seep from the slit in his cock.

“Fuck, baby,” he said, “you smell incredible. I have to taste you.”

He pulled the panties from her body by grabbing the sides and ripping them away. She let out a little yelp. He looked up to see if he had caused her pain, but she looked more shocked than hurt.

“Sorry,” he said, “I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

“You didn’t,” she replied.

Ramsey spread her thighs wide and took his first look at her little pink pussy. Her folds were wet with arousal and her clit was nestled behind its hood. She had a small blonde strip of hair on her mons, but was otherwise shaven. Ramsey’s mouth watered, and he wanted to know if she tasted as sweet and as sensual as she looked.

He lowered his mouth and took one long swipe with his tongue from the bottom all the way to where her clit was hiding. He swirled his tongue over it, before lowering down to find her hot, wet channel. He paid equal attention to each as he pleasured her with his long tongue. She tasted musky and slightly tangy, and Ramsey was addicted to her flavor.

Faye moaned and jostled on the bed when he slipped one long finger inside her warm tight heat. She would be so tight on his dick, and he couldn’t wait to feel her wetness wrapped around his cock.

He wanted to give her her first orgasm first and added another finger, stretching her and sucking her clit into his mouth. Ramsey didn’t care if the whole world was suddenly on fire. He was so determined to bring his mate pleasure that nothing else in this moment mattered more.