Chapter Eighteen
Jade
Jade had woken when she could feel the chill of the cold spring morning shiver over her naked skin. She blinked her eyes open and realized Noah was sitting up, cross-legged on the bed with a cupcake in his palm, the candle on top, lit.
“What are you doing, you crazy man? It’s four in the morning and it’s freezing.”
Noah smiled and glanced down at the cupcake. “It’s our three-month anniversary today.”
Jade couldn’t help it. She blinked at him, confused.
“Noah, you know I love you, more than anything in the entire world. I’m just wondering why we’re celebrating our three-month anniversary at four in the morning.”
Instead of answering, he shoved the cupcake close to her lips. “Make a wish and blow it out.”
Jade smiled indulgently at her husband and closed her eyes. She wished for an eternity with Noah and his crazy antics and his loving ways. When she opened them, she blew out the candle and glanced at him.
The fire banked in his eyes told her exactly why he woke her up so early. He tossed the used candle over his shoulder and moved to his hands and knees as he stalked closer to her. When he could reach her ankle, he gripped it and pulled her until she was flat on her back, her naked body exposed to his view.
She sucked in a deep breath when Noah turned the cupcake so the frosting was pointing down, and proceeded to smoosh it on her stomach and moved the cake and frosting mix over her breasts, up to her neck, and then scooping a bit onto his finger and displaying it so she could take a bite.
When she sucked his finger into her mouth and swirled her tongue around it, Noah growled, sending vibrations straight to her core.
“And the rest is for me. I’m going to lick and nibble each crumb and smear off you before I sink my cock deep inside you and make you come apart for me.”
Jade arched up, hoping to encourage him to touch her. “Your voice is enough to send me over the edge, but I need you to touch me.”
Noah groaned and buried his face against her neck and licked and nibbled around her sensitive skin. He moved from side to side, making sure not to miss anything, while he drove her completely insane. When he’d licked her neck clean, he moved his tongue and swirled it against her chest, not even near her breasts, and her body throbbed.
“Please, Noah, just take me.”
Instead of answering, he continued with his movements as her hips moved up and down, trying to get some friction to push her over the edge, but there wasn’t anything to rub against.
Over the next hour, he cleaned her breasts, her stomach, her sides, with a focus and intensity, until she was panting as thought she’d run hundreds of miles. Her nails were digging into her palms and his breath against her skin pushed her closer to the edge.
“Jade.”
“Oh, God. What are you doing to me?”
“I want to see if you will come at the sound of my voice and my breath against your skin.”
The bed shifted and she felt Noah line up his body close to hers on the bed, still without touching any part of her. Until he pressed his lips against her ear.
“Jade. My love, my mate. I want you to come.”
And that was all it took. Jade arched and her body pulsated with her orgasm. She felt a rush of wetness against her thigh and shouted his name. Within seconds, he managed to get between her thighs and he pulled her up until her legs draped over his thighs. The moment he had her in the right position, he drove into her, drawing out her orgasm as she clutched his shoulders and moved up to meet his thrusts.
“I love you.”
Noah leaned forward and captured her mouth in a scorching kiss. “I know. I love you, too.” He panted for a bit before he spoke again. “I’m starting to think that forever isn’t long enough.”
“As long as I’m with you, I’ll go anywhere.”
Noah moaned her name, letting her know he was about to come, and it sent her over the edge for a second time. When he dropped her legs and pressed his hips against hers, jerking inside her as he came, she held him tight and breathed him in.
Jade loved when Noah dropped down on her. She wrapped her arms around him and held him close.
It was funny how life worked. She hated the thought of a mate and truly believed that Noah hated her when they’d met, but Noah was everything she could ever want.
“What are you thinking about?”
“How lucky I am to have you. How, despite everything that’s happened to the two of us, I couldn’t imagine my life without you in it.”
Noah kissed her and groaned when the sun peeked underneath the blinds.
“Silas will be here soon.”
Jade nodded and pulled Noah up so they could shower together. They made quick work of it, because after Xander had come home and killed two shifters outside his house, trying to get past Silas’s shields, they all stuck close to home. The danger wasn’t over.
As soon as they dressed for the day, there was a loud voice in their heads.
Noah and Jade. I want to see you.
Silas would turn one in less than a month and while they still didn’t want him to grow up too fast, every day Silas amazed them. Weeks after they had taken out part of the shifter group that had been after them, Silas had learned, by accident, that he was a telekinetic like Ara.
They opened the door and found Silas straining toward Jade, a laughing Xander trying not to drop his son as he squirmed in his arms.
Hey, little man. Don’t I get a hug first?
Noah liked to tease him, but Silas ignored him and sent out waves of happiness as Jade pulled him into her arms and cuddled him against her neck. Noah wrapped an arm around Jade’s shoulder and nuzzled against Silas’s neck, making the little boy laugh.
Any news? she asked Xander.
Xander shook his head. Well, they weren’t going to worry about it and they had their eyes and ears open.
“Let’s go get breakfast. Ara is showing Frost how to cook, so we’ll see.”
Jade punched Xander in the arm while keeping an arm around Silas.
“Yes, I’m starved,” Noah grumbled.
“You’re always hungry.”
Noah wiggled his eyebrows and Jade laughed along with Silas.
And although there was a threat hanging above all of their heads, they were a happy group, a happy family, and that’s all they could ask from life.
The End
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