Chapter Sixteen-Tricky Wolf

Sitting in the driveway, I shivered inside my soaking clothes as Logan’s foot shook the whole car from side to side with every bounce.

He clutched my hand against his leg as his mind searched for a way out. He never turned off the ignition. Just rocked along with the bouncing of his foot as he whispered to himself.

It must have finally clicked in his head that there was no happy ending for us. That the best he could ever hope for is that we could all learn to live with each other. He blew out hard through his mouth, and it spread across the windshield as he finally took the key out. “Let’s get this shit over with.”

Like a whirlwind had swept me up, I followed behind him, but I didn’t want this. In that meadow, I realized one thing for sure. I needed no one else but Logan.

My stomach turned with his hands as it opened the door to the sight of Jacob sitting at the kitchen island. His nostrils flared as he sniffed the air that came in with us, and when he smelled Logan on me, his eyes met the stain on my chest.

Then something happened I didn’t expect when I saw the look of devastation on his face as I cowered behind the man I came with, and he walked away from the both of us. I felt guilty and dirty for what I was about to do. I felt shame for the first time in my life.

My hand came to his lips, and Logan kept it there for just a minute. I could feel the smirk spread across my skin, and I realized I was just a pawn in his mission to keep his brother in his place—a manipulation by a smart man that I severely underestimated. “Go get a shower. I’ll talk to Jacob.”

When the hot water poured over me, I scrubbed away every atom of the tricky wolf from my body, I cursed myself for being so easily controlled, and a plan took shape.

As I dabbed at my hair with a towel when I walked out of the bathroom, Teddy was waiting for me on the bed. “What are you doing, Tessa?”

I closed my bag, and my eyes rolled to him. “I’m handling it.”

“You’re handling it?” He pointed to the wall behind him. “They’re about to rip each other’s throats out.”

I shook out my hair and shrugged my shoulders. “After I leave tomorrow, everything will be fine. Don’t worry yourself about this.” I grabbed his chin in my hand as I repeated the words my mother said to my super-vain father when his mind was troubled. “You’ll get wrinkles.”

He shoved my hand away and rose to face me. “You can’t fix it by just walking away. When you leave tomorrow, those two are left behind a fucking mess.”

“Who cares?” I tossed my towel on the bed and crossed my arms as I dropped my ass cheek to the dresser. “I’m just a game to them, anyway. Just a way to hurt each other.”

His hands balled into fists as his face pulled together, and he leaned down to me. “This isn’t a fucking game. These are your mates. Commit to one goddamn thing in your life. Stop running away from the hard stuff and just deal with this.”

“Hey, asshole, in case you forgot.” I grabbed my bag and poked my finger in his chest. “You all tricked me into this. You all can fucking deal with it yourselves.”

The soft carpet squished between my toes as I made my way to Jacob, and I rolled the tips of my fingers across his door until I heard him. “Come in.”

I left my bag at the door when I shut it and dropped my towel as I crossed the room. He was sitting at the end of his bed in his sweatpants and blue t-shirt. He closed his eyes and turned away when I straddled his lap. “Don’t mess with me, Tessa. If you don’t want me, don’t…”

I captured every word of warning in my mouth when I claimed his lips. I lost my power over these two when I let the Alpha sway me with his promises and tears, but I would reclaim it in this bed.

I wondered what it would be like to be with Jacob, if he could satisfy me the way Logan did. When he unleashed himself from his pants as I backed away up the bed, I saw the crooked penis rise up to me and summoned him with my finger.

He definitely didn’t have an Alpha dick, but it was hardly what you’d call average. What it lacked in size, Jacob made up for in the way he worshipped me. “Let’s get it on.”

His massive muscles bent and twisted under his skin as he crawled to me, and his tongue grazed every inch of my body until it met my lips.

The thunder rolled outside, but even it couldn’t mask the sound of my groaning when he shoved himself inside me. Like it was built especially for me, the way it bent rubbed my g-spot constantly as it slid back and forth, and it was almost too much. “Damn”

He could have been the most unskilled lover on the planet, and I would have screamed out his name to piss off the man I knew was listening. Luckily, he was far from a novice.

He didn’t want to own me as Logan did. He meant to please me. His hips rolled against mine at an agonizingly slow pace.

Arms wrapped around my legs, and he pushed both of them up to my chin as he went deeper. Just an hour before, I swore to the tortured soul listening in the living room that I’d only ever want him. Still, I could barely even remember his name now as I cried out into the air of Jacob’s bedroom.

My body trembled under him, and I opened my eyes to see his blue ones smiling back at me. My words were shakey gasps as I begged him for more. “Oh, Jacob, please. Harder. Faster.”

His lips moved back and forth across mine as he shook his head. “Shh! That’s not how this is going to work. Not with you and me.”

He released my knees, and he brought my hands over my head. His fingers interlaced with mine as his elbows dug into the bed beside me.

A stream of tears fell down my face as his hips kept up their graceful rolls into me. For the first time I could remember, someone made love to me, and I was shattered. Naked. Raw. There was no pretending. He earned every whimper that escaped my mouth and the orgasm that seemed to never end.

He could do little to outdo his mighty twin. He had no say in how his life unfolded or how our relationship would work. He was at Logan’s mercy. But in our bed, he was in control. The only place he could ever defeat his romantic competition. He left my body and straddled my belly as I stroked him, and he rubbed circles on me. We came together, and his hot seed soaked my breasts.

For the first time in his life, he’d gotten what he wanted.