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  This time around Ethan’s hands went into Niki’s curls, twisting and gripping hard. Niki moaned into Ethan’s mouth causing the kiss to get even more heated. Everything around them fell away. Niki couldn’t even feel the rock beneath him. It was all narrowed down to the places they touched, the way Ethan gave himself over to the kiss and the way Ethan felt in his arms. Niki’s heart was racing, he’d wanted this for so long. He poured all of that longing and love he felt into the kiss until both he and Ethan were breathless and had to pull back just to catch their breath.

  They sat looking at each other with stupid grins on their faces until Niki had to say something or his heart was going to burst. “I’m in love with you.” He couldn’t help it, he wanted Ethan to know. “I have been for a long time.”

  Ethan’s smile grew fond. “I’m in love with you too, and I have been for a long time.”

  Niki made a strangled noise of frustration. “Then what took us so long? We could have been doing this forever!”

  Ethan laughed and it was such a perfect sound that Niki wanted immediately to hear it again. “Maybe, maybe, or maybe this happened at exactly the right time when we were both ready.” He pointed out.

  “Maybe so. Still, I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot of kisses. I think you’re going to have to do a lot of making up for the time we lost when we were being dumb.”

  “I suppose I can handle that,” Ethan said grinning at him. “Come home with me?”

  “What? You don’t like making out in the woods like this? Seems like it would be right up your wolfy alley.” Niki let go of Ethan’s jacket to gesture grandly at the scenery around them.

  Ethan stood and grabbed Niki by the arms hauling him up. “I’d much rather have you in my bed again.” He said, his voice low and rumbly in a way that made Niki’s knees feel weak.

  “Yes. That. Let’s do that.”

  Ethan laughed again and pulled Niki along back down the path to where he was parked.

  “I’m over there.” Niki pointed to where he had his dad’s truck half-concealed behind some trees.

  “Ah, so that’s why I didn’t see it,” Ethan said, shaking his head. “Meet me there?” He asked.

  “Meet you there.” Niki agreed.

  Niki was reluctant to let go of Ethan but he managed it somehow and then hurried to the truck so he could follow Ethan back out of the forest. He was so excited and happy he couldn’t hardly believe it. In his heart he knew he had already forgiven Michael because the outcome of his scheming was that Niki and Ethan were together for real this time. He turned the music up and sang along to Green Day as he followed along behind Ethan winding back out of the forest until they were on real pavement again, heading for Ethan’s house.

  At the Birns's house, Niki parked and hopped out quickly to meet up with Ethan as he climbed out of his sister’s Jeep. He slid his hand into Ethan’s without a thought and together they walked into the house. Cara was in the living room reading but she only glanced up long enough to flash them a satisfied grin as they headed up the stairs. Ethan grunted in her general direction, but Niki knew he was happy they’d been tricked.

  Once they were in Ethan’s room, the door closed and locked behind them, Ethan pressed Niki to the door with an almost feral grin. It made Niki’s heart race even faster than it already was. It was a mixture of something primal that told him he was the prey here and something deep in his gut that just wanted more. He was Ethan’s, but Ethan was his too.

  “You smell so good right now,” Ethan told him as he dragged his nose under the edge of Niki’s jaw.

  “Oh yeah?” Niki hadn’t meant for his voice to come out so high and breathy, but it had.

  Ethan chuckled and then bit into the side of Niki’s neck, effectively holding him in place for a moment before he pulled back to look Niki in the eye. “You want to know one of the things I love most about you?”

  Niki nodded, dumbstruck.

  “When we first met you were terrified of me. Everyone always is. But it didn’t take you long at all to get past that. You haven’t been afraid around me in ages, even when I’m in my wolf’s form. Even with my teeth on your neck, you just pump out the signals for more and yes and I think you would let me eat you up if I wanted to. You trust me like no one else ever has.”

  Niki stood there a moment, just looking back at the open and honest expression on Ethan’s face and it hurt him a little to think that no one had ever given him a chance to earn their trust, but at the same time he was happy because he got to be the one in Ethan’s arms.

  “I trust you with my life and I believe you trust me with yours. We’ve come a long way from when we first met.” Niki reached up to cup Ethan’s jaw with his palm. Ethan’s beard was so soft, his skin so warm, and if it weren’t for the fact that Niki could feel every point of contact between them, he might not believe this was real.

  To Niki, it felt like a million lifetimes had passed since they’d first met. Ethan had seemed too rough and wild, too unpredictable. He was powerful and knew how to use that power to get what he wanted. He could lift someone up with just one hand and he tore apart a tree once to reach a ghoul that was hiding from them. He was terrifying, but oh so gorgeous. He’d had long hair back then and the first time he wore it in a bun Niki had laughed outright. It was then that Niki felt he wasn’t seeing the whole picture. Deep down somewhere hidden, Ethan had a sensitive side. So Niki stopped being afraid and Ethan saved his and Michael’s lives over and over again. Niki trusted Ethan almost more than anyone else in the world. Well he was definitely top three next to his dad and Michael.

  “We have come a long way.” Ethan agreed, his eyes wide and clear.

  Ethan had made the remark about eating Niki up, but Niki felt like he was the one that could eat Ethan up just then. “Take me to bed?” Niki asked as he leaned his head back against the door to expose his neck once more to Ethan.

  He got a growl from Ethan in response and then he was tugged away from the door and deposited on the bed which bounced beneath him. Niki laughed and Ethan grinned as he climbed over Niki. Then they were kissing. Ethan’s body covered his, straddling Niki’s hips as he leaned over him. He kissed Niki with such abandon that Niki was helpless to respond. He opened up under Ethan, their tongues sliding together, panting into each other’s mouths.

  Ethan took Niki’s hands and spread them up and over his head, pinning them there as he rocked his body into Niki’s showing him how turned on he was. Niki gasped at the feeling. He was already hard in his pants and needed that friction so badly. He threw his head back as his toes dug into the mattress for traction so he could lift his hips up against Ethan’s. Now it was Ethan’s turn to gasp and he made a strained sound in the back of his throat. Niki decided it was his mission in life to hear that sound again.

  “Too many clothes,” Niki complained. He writhed under Ethan, but it wasn’t enough, he needed skin to skin contact. Now.

  “You’re bossy.” Ethan said against his lips.

  “You like it.”

  “You know I do.”

  Niki laughed as Ethan shook his head, but Ethan did reach down and pull off his shorts in one fluid motion leaving his tight abs and sculpted chest on display for Niki. Oh how Niki wanted to touch. He struggled briefly against Ethan’s hands, but gave up when Ethan tutted at him and held him tighter. So it was going to be like that, huh? Two could play at that game.

  “Please, Ethan. I just want to touch you.” Niki licked his lips and gave Ethan the sweetest look he could come up with.

  “You really are going to be the death of me.” Ethan said, but he let Niki go all the same and worked on getting Niki’s shirt off of him too.

  Ethan’s chest was firm and warm under Niki’s touch, he only pulled back long enough to let Ethan strip his shirt over his head and then he was skimming his hands over Ethan once more. Down his chest, over his abs, back up to his shoulders and arms where Niki could feel the strength lying just below the surface of his skin. Niki traced patte
rns of freckles from Ethan’s neck to his waistband and then began slowly undoing his fly. Ethan watched all of this as if he were in awe. As if he was as surprised he had Niki in bed as Niki was. It was humbling and Niki had to pull him down into another heated kiss.

  Slowly they stripped each other, moving around on the bed and sitting up to pull off shoes and jeans and underwear. Finally, they were skin to skin just as Niki wanted and it was glorious. Ethan’s pale freckled skin shone in the moonlight streaming in through his window, the darkness making his auburn hair appear black. They rolled and kissed and Niki touched everywhere he could reach trying to memorize the feeling of Ethan until they were both breathless and hard and aching.

  “I want to taste you this time.” Niki whispered against Ethan’s lips.

  Ethan shuddered as though those words affected him deeply so Niki kissed him, holding on to his shoulders until Ethan pulled back and looked him in the eye.

  “Where do you want me?” He asked, licking at his lips unconsciously.

  “Roll over.” Niki pushed at him until he was lying on his back. Niki had been thinking about that first night and how Ethan took him apart with his mouth and he wanted to make it just as good for Ethan.

  He slid down Ethan’s body nuzzling and kissing at Ethan’s skin, at his hips, and the junction of his pelvis, until he’s there, kissing the tip of Ethan’s gorgeous length, sucking it gently into his mouth. Ethan made a pained sound above him and Niki hummed happily. He couldn’t quite take all of Ethan into his mouth, but he sure as hell tried to. Ethan tasted clean, tasted like Ethan, whatever that really meant, and he’s leaking so Niki can taste every time he sucks harder. It feels so good on his tongue that it makes Niki shiver. It makes the hair on his arms stand up. He wants to make Ethan fall apart, to lose his tightly held control, even if just a little. Everything else fades away but the desire to make Ethan come undone.

  Niki got his hand around the base of him and pumped in time with his mouth, sliding down and then pulling almost all the way off. He took a breath and dipped back down as a tear slipped down his cheek from his effort. Then he pulled off sucking so that his cheeks hollowed out, twisting his hand as he went. Ethan’s legs spread further apart on the bed and he clamped one hand down on Niki’s head, fingers gripping into Niki’s curls. He cried out as Niki took him deeper still and the sound caused Niki to twitch hard against the sheets.

  “I’m close, jeez, I’m so close, stop, stop.” Ethan cried.

  Niki thought about paying him back fully for making him come down Ethan’s throat that first time, but since he wanted Ethan to fuck him just now, he decided to save that for another day. He pulled off with a slick pop and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

  “God, you’re indecent,” Ethan told him. “Come up here.”

  After being folded up between Ethan’s knees, Niki felt good stretching as he crawled back up Ethan’s body and he happily let Ethan manhandle him into a straddling position.

  Ethan grabbed the lube and coated his fingers so Niki leaned down over his chest so he could reach around him. He was rewarded by the feeling of Ethan pressing against him, gently, too gently, Niki was already impatient for more.

  “Please.” He murmured.

  Ethan pressed into him with one finger and then with his other hand he stroked down Niki’s back as though gentling him. Niki realized he was shaking, not because he was in pain of any sort but because he wanted Ethan so badly. He needed him. Carefully Ethan pulled out one finger and pressed back in with two. Niki turned his face into Ethan’s chest and moaned softly. God it wasn’t enough though, not by half. He felt an empty ache that could only be satisfied with Ethan inside him.

  “Shh, I’ve got you,” Ethan whispered as he came back with three fingers. Niki must have been saying something out loud but he didn’t even know what it could have been. He could barely think.

  Niki was rocking onto Ethan’s fingers, his body aching for more, to be filled, to be taken apart the way he knew only Ethan could do. He was moaning softly and realized he was chanting the word please over and over again. Only Ethan could give him what he needed, what he craved.

  Finally, Ethan relented his ministrations and pulled his fingers out slowly. Right away Niki cried out for him. He felt empty with a hollow sort of feeling that had taken up residence in the base of his spine. Ethan was moving him around then, gently still, not nearly fast enough, as he likely was slicking himself up and lining up with Niki. Niki got impatient though and sat up, reaching behind him and grasping Ethan in his hand, putting it right where he needed it so he could sink down over it.

  Niki concentrated on sliding down until they were hip to hip once more. He realized his eyes were screwed shut so he opened them and looked down at Ethan who had a look of awe on his face. Ethan reached up and ran his thumb over Niki’s bottom lip, over his cheek and jaw and Niki shivered once more.

  “You’re amazing, you know that?” Ethan whispered, but his voice was tight, his eyes flashing gold as he said it.

  Niki wanted to snark at him, just for the sheer joy of it, but he didn’t, he found himself smiling fondly down at Ethan, “You’re amazing.” Niki told him. Then he moved his hips, just a little, a rocking motion that lit his body up all along his spine so that he had to do it again and again.

  Ethan’s hands went to his hips, helping him as he began to lift up and down, his body tightening around Ethan as he was filled completely. Niki had never felt so full, so satisfied, as he did with Ethan. It was more than the sex though, it was the love between them that made it so good.

  Soon Niki was panting, raising up as best he could on his knees and then dropping down, swiveling his hips just a little, grinding into Ethan. Ethan too was feeling the strain, Niki could see the sweat beading across his forehead. Eventually, it was too much for Niki and he had to drop forward again. Ethan took his ass in both hands and began to move him faster until Niki was vibrating out of his skin. He was calling out, “Ethan, Ethan,” without ever deciding to do so.

  It wasn’t just him, though. He was vaguely aware of Ethan’s hips stuttering below him, of the pinprick of claws just pressing into his skin. Not piercing, but there all the same. Ethan was losing control just as Niki had wanted him to. It made everything that much more intense.

  Then Ethan flipped them. It was a fluid motion that only someone with the strength of a werewolf could pull off. One moment Niki was on top, the next he was pinned beneath Ethan’s body. The world spun for just a minute, but then he acclimated to the new position, wrapping his legs around Ethan for stability. It felt incredible with the new angle. Ethan was driving into his prostate now, hitting it dead on with every thrust and Niki almost couldn’t take it. It was too much, too good, he needed something.

  That was when Ethan reached a hand between them somehow, Niki couldn’t imagine how since they were plastered together, but he began jerking Niki off and it was rough and fast and inelegant. Exactly what Niki needed to push him over the edge. His whole body spasmed and jerked as he began to come between them, the warm slick signaling to Ethan that he could reach his own pleasure as well.

  It was all Niki could do just to lay there and hold on as Ethan drove into him, harder, faster, burying himself in Niki again and again until he threw his head back, eyes glowing in the darkness, and came. Niki could feel the warmth as it filled him and he knew he’d insist on a shower this time around, but it was good. Great even. Ethan fell on top of him, panting, holding tight to Niki as his shudders subsided.

  Eventually, Niki had to shove at Ethan’s shoulder to get him to roll off so Niki could breathe, but as he went he grumbled and complained. “I need a shower. You need a shower.” He said.

  Ethan groaned and tried to pull at him as he sat up. “You’re so clingy.” Niki fussed, but he secretly loved it. Or maybe it wasn’t such a secret since he was grinning down at Ethan who was grinning right back at him.

  “Besides, we can always shower together.” Niki pointed out. He cocke
d an eyebrow at Ethan who finally stopped trying to pull him back down.

  “Fine, but we can’t fool around in there because it’s too close to Cara’s room,” Ethan warned.

  Niki would see about that, he thought. He knew how to be quiet when he needed to be.

  They didn’t really fool around in the shower though because both of them were too exhausted to do more than soap each other up and kiss lazily beneath the warm water. It felt good though, it felt right being with Ethan in such a mundane moment. Niki wanted all the moments now. Not just the sexy ones, but every moment in between too.

  Together they fell asleep wrapped around each other. Niki felt so content, more so than he ever had before. This was something special, he could feel it in his bones, this was the start of something truly amazing and he was so glad he got to be a part of it.

  Chapter Fifteen

  The next weekend the packs were invited to come to Lady Enrieta’s home again, to the club. Ethan was a little hesitant, but only because of what happened the first time around. Niki and Harper talked him into it. So all the couples were going. Niki and Ethan, Harper and Tony, and Michael and Elaine. Jessica was also going but without a date. They R.S.V.P.’d for seven this time and promised to come with honest intentions.

  Niki was excited this time around. He knew what to expect but even better than that was that he and Ethan weren’t pretending to be in a relationship. They’d be going as a couple, on equal footing because there was not actually any rule that said one had to be Dom and sub to enter, that had been a slight deception on Enrieta’s part. She too promised there were no hidden agendas in store for them this time around.

  Everyone met at Ethan’s to drive over together. Niki donned his latex shorts, collar, and boots again, but they decided to leave off the leash. Ethan wore the same leather pants but he topped them with the tightest black t-shirt Niki had ever seen. It left nothing to the imagination and Niki loved it. He went straight to Ethan to run his hands over it until there was coughing from behind him.