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Sassy Ever After: Sassy Ink 3: The Hunter's Curse (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Christina Benjamin (5)

Chapter 6

Etti

“They kept me alive as an incubator, Grey. How am I supposed to react?” Etti roared as they sped toward home.

“Your reaction is justified, Etti, but it’s not doing you or Izzi any good. I can hear your hearts pounding from here. Please try to calm down for me.”

Etti blew out a frustrated breath, knowing Grey was right. She tried to take a few steadying breaths to calm her nerves, but her father’s words were echoing through her mind like some sort of horror movie.

Her long-lost aunt was a voodoo queen, her baby was being hunted by rouge shifters, and the only person who knew a way to possibly stop all of this insanity was the one person who refused to help Etti—her mother.

“What the hell are we going to do?” Etti asked.

“The only thing we can do,” Grey replied. “Keep going until we get the answer we’re looking for. We have Esme’s real name now. We’re one step closer.”

“Yeah, but you heard my father. He doesn’t know how to contact Esme, only my mother does and she won’t help us.” Etti shook her head begrudgingly, fighting to keep her anger at bay. “I’m sorry, Grey,” she choked out.

“Sorry about what, babe?”

“That you got stuck with me as your mate. My whole family is insane. And I’m even more terrified to be a mother than ever.”

“Etti . . .” Grey murmured.

“No! Did you not just hear the absurdity my father was spewing? All the women in my family are crazy. My aunt is a voodoo queen! My mother is a shifter who hates her kind so much she tried to kill her own daughter, and I’m just a moody incubator housing a supposed curse breaker!”

Etti dissolved into a sobbing mess, sucking in ragged breaths. She didn’t need to look in the mirror to know she’d erupted into a full blown ugly cry. This was precisely why Etti tried to avoid crying at all costs.

Greyson

Grey had seen about all he could take of his mate’s distress. He pulled the car off the road and parked. He turned it off and pulled Etti to him. She tried to rein in her tears but Grey knew she’d been holding them back for entirely too long where her family was concerned.

“Let it out, babe,” he instructed, rubbing circles on her back.

He held her like that until her choking sobs and full body shakes finally subsided. But he still didn’t let go. He selfishly loved feeling so close to Etti. He missed their intimacy. Pregnancy and stress of the hunt had kept Grey and Etti from indulging their physical connection for too long.

Grey felt the calming effect he had on Etti as he held her in his arms. He decided right then and there he wasn’t going to let her push him away anymore. She needed him as much as he needed her. But first, he wanted her to let go of all the fear she was still holding on to. He could scent it lingering even though she was all cried out.

“Listen to me, Etti. I know you’re afraid, so why don’t you just get it out. Say what’s scaring you so I can help you deal with it. Because I’ll tell you right now, there isn’t anything we can’t conquer together.”

She looked up at him, her dark eyes shining. “What if I turn out like all the other women in my family?” she whispered. “What if I’m a terrible mother?”

“You could never be a terrible mother,” Grey replied.

“I don’t want to be, but maybe I won’t have a choice. Maybe my DNA is cursed or missing the maternal gene.”

“Etti, you’re nothing like your mother and you’re barely related to Esme Laveau. You get to decide who you are and what kind of mother you’re going to be.”

“I’m sure that’s what they thought too. But there are things we don’t have control over and I think a damned destiny might be one of them.”

“Etti, since when have you ever believed in that kind of shit?”

“Since I met you.”

Grey’s brow furrowed. “Me? I don’t believe in magic or destiny, or any of that other nonsense.”

“I know you do,” Etti replied. “You believe in our mating bond. I see it in your eyes. I feel it every time we make love.”

“Yes, I believe that the shifter mating bond allows us to connect on a deeper lever than humans can ever fathom. But what we have . . . it’s still a choice, Etti. We decided to choose each other.”

“What do you mean?”

“Not every mating bond is perfect. The universe does its best to bring the right people together, but we always have a choice. Even as shifters. You can reject your mate if you don’t feel it’s a good fit.”

Etti stared at him, looking like she wanted to believe. He took her hand. “Babe, we make our own way in this life. And you are the strongest, most selfless woman I’ve ever met. I have no doubt that you will be any kind of mother you choose.” He wiped away her tears. “I’m always going to support you, Etti. We will decide how to raise our child, not some curse or legend or any other threat the world throws at us. You will always have a choice, and so will she. Do you hear me?”

Etti’s throat bobbed but she nodded her head.

Grey took her hand. “Good. Because I’ve had enough of all this supernatural bullshit stressing out my girl. Now I’m taking you home, giving you a bath and making love to you until you pass out. Got it?”

Etti

Etti had never experienced this domineering side of Grey before. She had no doubt of his strength or ability to get things done—she’d seen him in action fighting against the hunt to protect her. But seeing it and experiencing it first hand were two different things.

Once he’d gotten her home he made good on his promise, painstakingly bathing her aching body in their large tub. The feel of his hands sliding slowly over every curve and valley of her body ignited a want in her like nothing she ever felt before.

She was practically panting by the time he’d dried her and set her on their bed, spreading her bare before him. Her mouth went dry when he dropped his towel and his glorious length sprang to attention. Suddenly she wanted to run her hands along it, wringing pleasure from him until he moaned for her. But as she lifted herself up on her elbows to move toward him, he pounced pushing her flat on her back.

“No,” he growled. “This is about you,” he whispered in her ear. “And you are going to do exactly what I say.”

Etti couldn’t even respond if she wanted to. Her words vanished as he wrapped a swath of silk cloth around her head, blindfolding her.

“I want you to stop thinking and start feeling how perfect we are together.”

“I know we’re perfect together.”

“You think you know,” he responded. “But when I’m done with you, you won’t have a doubt in your mind that you are mine. And Etti, I take care of what’s mine.”

Grey kissed her deep and hard and Etti’s blood responded, singing with pleasure as her tongue chased his with equal desire. He caressed her tender breasts, working her into a quivering mess with nothing but his tongue. When he pinched her nipples, pleasure unfurled deep inside of her and she could scent her mate’s satisfaction.

He moved lower, kissing and sucking his way down her body, teasing until every sensitive cell in her body stood at attention ready to respond to her mate. By the time he reached her hips she was so slick with want for him she couldn’t stay still. Grey pushed his mouth between her thighs and spread her wide. She almost begged as his tongue stroked her toward release. When his fingers traveled lower to join his teasing tongue she couldn’t hold on any longer. She fisted the sheets, barely clinging to consciousness as her body shook from the force of her release.

But Grey didn’t even give her time to catch her breath before he rolled her onto her side, cradling her from behind, his chest and throbbing length pressed hard into her back. She gasped as he eased into her slick channel. She clenched around him, still coming down from her release. He growled in satisfaction and sheathed himself deeper and deeper, until Etti could only moan into the pillow as every excruciatingly blissful inch of her mate filled her.

Grey moved slowly, gently building the ache in her all over again. He slipped his hand between her slick thighs and caressed her, igniting her passion all over again. Grey always knew how to touch Etti and she panted his name, pushing back hard against him. He growled his approval and quickened his pace until Etti could hold on no longer. She threw her head back in ecstasy, crying out Grey’s name as he finally unleashed himself entirely, filling Etti with his release.

And as he’d promised, Etti felt her body and mind give itself entirely over to her mate’s love and protection as she slipped under the dark, quiet veil of sleep.

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