“Sharkey, Edward Sharkey.” He licked a trail up the side of my neck.

  “Hmm, Theodore Sharkey… I like it. I think you need to make it official. Make me yours Edward Sharkey.” He growled and pushed me back onto the sofa, landing on top of me.

  Chapter Nineteen

  Mako

  I traced my tongue into the divot between Theo’s neck and shoulder and felt him shake. “Right here, baby, this is where you’ll wear my mark. You sure about this?”

  He moaned and wiggled his clothed cock against mine, causing the hairs on the back of my neck to stand on end. “Do I need to bite first to prove it, big guy?” He licked over the same spot on my neck.

  “You said you liked to read romance novels. Tell me, baby. What’s your favorite scene? I want to do it with you. I want to do it all with you.” He pushed his hips into me when I pressed my hard cock against him.

  “The wall Eddie, against the wall. So hot.” His moans were reaching a fever pitch, and I could smell his slick in the air. It was driving me crazy. I pulled back and ripped his shirt over his head and yanked his shorts off, tossing them across the room. My gloriously naked mate lay on the sofa before me. His cock weeping against his stomach.

  I leaned over and licked the pool of moisture off his abdomen, and he shouted my name. For the first time today, I silently vowed there would be many more. I stood and reached over my shoulder, pulling my shirt off with one hand while the other popped the button on my jeans. Sliding them over my hips, I let them drop to my ankles and stepped out of them. I pulled him up by the waist and held him in the air while I attached my lips back to his neck. He wrapped his arms around my neck and his legs around my waist with a strength that shocked me. I had my own little spider monkey, not that I would ever complain about it.

  I walked us over to the nearest wall. Thank the goddess I knew where all the furniture was because I had no use of my eyes at all with my face buried in his neck, nipping and biting. I pushed him into the wall and pressed my body against his with a bit of force. I held him up with my torso while I let my hands roam over his lower back and ass. When my fingers delve into the cleft of his cheeks seeking his hole, he moaned and pressed his ass back into my hands. My fingers found his hole, and I pressed the first digit in, making him whine. “Oh, so wet baby, is this for me?” I moved my finger in and out slowly while he bucked his hips, seeking friction on his cock with my abs and trying to force my finger deeper into his hole.

  “You, you, only you.” was all he could say as I added a second finger and pushed deeper, seeking his spongy bundle. When I brushed over it, he bucked harder into my hand. I scissored my fingers back and forth while glancing over his prostate.

  “No cumming until I’m inside you Theo, I wanna see you come untouched on my cock, baby.” He just nodded his head. “When my knot fills you, I’m gonna claim you, make you mine.”

  “P-Please Eddie, need you alpha. Need you inside me.” His breath was hitched, and he was having a difficult time controlling the movement of his hips. I wrapped one arm around his waist, holding him still while I removed my fingers, gathering some of his slick. I reached down and lubed up my cock with it and held it in place while I lowered him, so the rim of his hole rested on my head.

  I didn’t ask again if he was ready because as the head of my cock stretched his rim; he bucked again and tried to force himself all the way onto my length. “Careful baby” I moaned. Goddess, how did he feel so damn good? He bucked again as an answer. “Theo, I can’t be gentle. Need you.”

  I lowered him until he was halfway down my shaft and stopped. With a shudder and deep moan, my little omega gripped my face and growled at me, “FUCK ME EDDIE! I need you NOW!” He twisted his torso and my grip slipped against the sweat breaking out on his body, dropping him fully onto my length. He howled with pleasure and kissed me hard and deep. Digging his fingers into my shoulders, he pulled away. “Move dammit, I said FUCK ME! Hard.”

  “As you wish.” I gripped his waist and raised and lowered him at a rapid pace, pushing up each time I brought him down. I looked between us and saw his cock bouncing up and down. Damned if that wasn’t the hottest site I’d seen in my life. It came a close second to my favorite site in the world. Watching my cock slide in and out of his wet hole from behind.

  Just a few more pumps and I felt the telltale tingle in my spine of my knot expanding. It became harder and harder to move him up and down as my knot caught his rim. Our grunts and moans were a language all our own, and I was reveling in it. I forced him down one last time while I slammed up. My knot fully expanded. We were tied together. Time to tie us together forever.

  Theo must have understood the intention because he leaned his head to the side, exposing this neck to me. I licked over the spot one last time and bit down. I felt his skin give way to my teeth, and he screamed my name again as his cock erupted against my stomach and chest. It felt my chest double as it swelled with pride. Yep, untouched, as planned.

  I released his neck and leaned my head to the side, waiting. With no hesitation, my little omega leaned in and licked the same place I’d done on him. He took a deep breath… first I felt a gentle scrape, then a bit of pressure. When he finally broke the skin, I screamed his name and my cock erupted again, over and over. I’d never cum so hard in my life. My knees became weak, and I leaned us further into the wall for balance. “Baby, we gotta move. I don’t wanna drop you.”

  In a sleepy voice, he said, “You never will.” As he lay his head on my shoulder. Placing my hands under his ass to hold him up on my knot, I walked us over to the sofa and sat us down. Me against the back and him curled in my lap. That’s where we drifted off to sleep, exhausted.

  Chapter Twenty

  Theo

  Warm breath brushing the side of my neck was the first thing I felt. The pressure of a heavy arm wrapped around my torso was next. ‘Safe, secure, peace, love’ was all my mind kept repeating. I slowly looked up and came face to face with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen set over the most beautiful smile on earth. I reached up and ran my fingers along his jaw, barely a touch. “You’re mine.” I whispered.

  “And you’re mine. Forever.” His whisper came in answer. Then he kissed me again. His lips brushed mine with the promise of love, devotion, protection and so many other words my frazzled brain couldn’t comprehend. A flicker of worry crossed his face, and his smile fell.

  “What is it alpha?” Owen was right, the mate bond was real. I could feel his worry and fear deep in my soul.

  “I’ll never lie to you, Theo, I’m afraid.” He closed his eyes and my breath hitched.

  “Tell me Mako. Is it me? Do you regret your claim?” his worry became my panic, and I tried to unfold myself from his arms.

  He opened his eyes, and his face became blank. A leader’s face if I’d ever seen one. “Never baby, never that. I fear what you can do to me, to the club. You hold the power to destroy me and everything I hold dear.” He shook his head like he was trying to clear the cobwebs from within.

  “Eddie?” I took his hand and placed it over my heart. “Feel this?” He nodded his head. “Do you think I ever would? Reach deep within yourself and tell me if you actually feel that I would do that to you, to us.” I didn’t hold the tears back.

  He looked into my eyes. It felt as if he was touching my soul and his fingers tightened on my chest for a moment. “No, I don’t. I only feel love, loyalty and… hope. That’s the strongest emotion, hope.” His eyes were hooded with lust. “I want you again. I can feel it growing between us, your warmth. It’s like a blanket on my soul.” He leaned forward, licking over the scar I’d yet to see. His claim mark.

  Pulling back as I shook in his arms, “If we start again, we’ll never leave our rooms.”

  I giggled. When had I giggled so much? Joy. That was the feeling, joy. “I don’t like it, but I have to agree. We need a shower and coffee. I still have had none today.” I tried again to pull away, and he pulled me tighter to his body.

  “Yes, shower. One, not two. You, wet, naked, soaped up… now.” He lifted us off the sofa and headed to the bathroom. We stayed in the shower until his knot went down and the water ran cold.

  Standing in the kitchen, him in his leather vest, he said it was a cut, and jeans and me in one of his RNMC t-shirts and my shorts, Mako poured us both coffees. After I took my first few sips and felt the caffeine invigorate my brain, I was ready for the rest of the conversation. “Mako?” He hummed his answer. “What happens now? Grey is expecting to find my body in the next day or so. What happens when he doesn’t? I mean, I can contact the lawyer and sign over the money Poppy left me, but I don’t think he’ll be happy about that. Neither will Gavin nor his mother.”

  “Hmm. Gates looked up some stuff I wanted to send to my email. I think you need to read it before church. I think it may answer all your questions.” He pulled out his phone and opened his email. He tapped something and a huge grin spread across his face. “Perfect.”

  I smirked. “What’s perfect? You got naked omega pictures on there?” I giggled again. Oh goddess, I felt like a teen in high school. Then my face fell. I only knew what teens in high school felt like from books and shows I’d watched.

  “What were you thinking, baby? I’d never have naked omegas on my phone. Not even you, cuz I’d have to kill any bastard that saw you naked. That’s mine… only mine.” Yup, I was a goner. I loved it when my alpha got possessive and growled.

  I shook my head again, and this time, I schooled my face. “I was just thinking that you make me feel like a high schooler in love for the first time. Giddy with possibilities. Then I remembered I didn’t know what that really felt like. I’ve never been to high school.” I sighed.

  “Well, I can tell you that whatever you think high school should be, it isn’t. Bear can tell you all about our high school experience. It. Was. Not. Great.” He lay his phone on the table face up and slid it across to me. “Read what Gates sent us.” Reaching for my cup, he paused. “Refill?” I nodded my head and picked up the phone and read.

  After reading the documents and email from Gates more than a few times, I was still confused. “Mako? What does all this exactly mean?” I handed him back his phone.

  “Well, if Gates is right and I’ve never known him to be wrong about anything, once we confirm our fated mate claim with the blood test, there’s nothing your family can do. They can’t touch me, or you and they’ll have ZERO claim on anything your Poppy left to you. They can’t stop anything. If they try, the federal government steps in and they all get to spend time in a federal prison.” He leaned back in his chair, a smug look of satisfaction on his face.

  “But… that says if you claim I’m you fated and they challenge it and the blood test says we’re not, you die.” Fear rolled through my body, and I started shaking.

  I was lifted out of the chair and deposited in Mako’s lap before I could take more than a couple of breaths. “Do you think it’s wrong? That we’re not fated mates?” He smoothed his hand over my hair.

  “Well, of course. I KNOW we’re fated. I feel it in my bones, but it’s such a risk. What if Grey finds out and pays off a doctor or something? I can’t lose you, Mako!” I winced at the whine my voice had taken on.

  Handing his phone back to me “Look at the email Gates sent me after that.” I read the mail and smiled. “See, Doc has privileges at the hospital and the lab. He can do the test this morning and we’ll have the papers by tomorrow afternoon. Long before Hogg comes looking for you.” His grin grew wider. “I ain’t letting you go, baby, ever.”

  I hugged his neck tightly and whispered in his ear, “You better never.” He laughed… hard.

  “Wanna go see if Owen is out and about? I know Bear and Teach wanna see you too. You can meet the rest of the guys before church.” I climbed off his lap and grabbed his hand, dragging him towards the front door. Yes, I wanted to show his friends that he was a mated man now.

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Theo

  Before the door was completely closed, Mako had his arms around my waist from behind, pulling me into his chest. “You OK baby?” his words were barely above a whisper against my neck.

  I lay my head back against his chest and closed my eyes, simply absorbing his heat. “Yeah, I’m gonna be alright. It’s just a lot, ya know?”

  “Yeah, I know, but it’s gonna be over soon.” His grip tightened into a hug. I just nodded my head and squeezed my eyes tighter to stay off the tears welling in my eyes. I stayed quiet because my voice would have given away the fragile state I was in. “Baby, you remember I can feel your emotions, right?” I guess I forgot, because that’s when the sobs started. I turned my body and pressed my face into his chest and let his t-shirt absorb my tears. Mako just wrapped his arms around me tightly and let me cry while he stroked his hand over my hair.

  Once my emotions settled, he sat in his chair behind the desk and pulled me into his lap. “I can pull up a chair next to you and we can read through this stuff.” I tried to get up, and he held tight.

  “Nope. I’m gonna need you right here. I have a feeling that we’re gonna need to lean on one another for this. You for support and me to control my anger. Without you to ground me, I’m liable to get on my bike and bust heads. Neither of us needs that right now.” I had to agree, so I stayed where I was.

  I lay my hand on the folder, pulling it to us. “Myron collected a lot of information. How long was he at this?” The folder was close to an inch and a half thick, with papers sticking out all around. I even noticed the edges of photos scattered throughout.

  Mako opened the folder and started flipping the pages. “Within a couple months of leaving Mossdale’s employ. He wanted to find something useful for when he figured out a way to get you free.” I watched in awe as my mate slipped into his MC leader role. I could see why there were some who feared him, not that I ever would, but he radiated absolute authority.

  For the only time in my life, I was glad that the Mossdales didn’t skimp with my education. To anyone looking on, it would seem that I was having a difficult time reading the material and deciphering the pictures. Mako understood it wasn’t the case. The longer I stayed on a page or stared at a picture, he felt my emotions ebb and swell. I came across a police report regarding a woman who had been beaten and assaulted repeatedly, yet there was no DNA in the database to match an assailant. My breathing patterns changed when I looked at the pictures. There were photos of the same woman getting out of both Grey and Gavin’s vehicles just days before her attack. I recalled seeing her at the gate of the drive more than once from my window. Mako felt my emotions and slipped his hand under my shirt and rubbed tiny circles on my hip, grounding me, letting me know I was safe.

  Spread among the photos and reports, there were financial records and a few pages of correspondence between Grey and a few attorneys. Within those pages, I found the things I knew existed, but had hoped weren’t there. Some dated back to well before Poppy passed. I skimmed over the ‘Per our telephone conversation’ and ‘I have enclosed the information you requested’ headings were titles like ‘Consequences of disillusion of Adoption’, ‘Average turnaround time for a death certificate’ and ‘Issuance of a death certificate in lieu of a body in a missing persons case’. All those were dated after Poppys’ death and reading of the will. Scattered among those were requests for information regarding divorce, child support, inheritance laws and community property division when one party was a woman. I didn’t notice that I put all these letters in a single pile alone on the side of the desk, away from the other papers.

  Mako glanced at my ‘special’ pile. He reached over and began flipping through the pages. “Baby, did you understand what you’ve done here?” he broke out in a smile.

  “Umm, no, not really. This is just all the stuff he asked his lawyer that would show his motives for financial gain. I thought it wouldn’t be too important because I knew about attorney client privilege.” I picked up the pile and began reading again. As I set them down, Mako picked them up and began separating them into piles. When we finished, there were 8 or 9 piles spread across the desk. Mako waved his hand over the piles again and looked at me, waiting.

  “Do you see it Theo?” There was something he saw I didn’t.

  I stared at the piles over and over. The only thing that jumped out at me were the logos at the top of the pages. 9 different law offices. “Why 9 different law offices? That’s a lot of money on lawyers.” I knew Grey to be cheap but hiring that many law offices made little sense to me.

  “No baby, look deeper. There’s more than 9 offices. There’s closer to 40. They’re in 9 different CITIES around Washington. All these letters. What story do they tell?” I could feel his excitement growing through the mate bond, and it was confusing.

  “The story of a money hungry man who will take any route possible to gain control of cash.” It was obvious to me.

  “Yes baby, that and someone willing to do anything to get rid of anyone in their path to said money. Any attorney who got this many inquiries like this from one person would be obligated to report it.” I nodded my head, still confused. “Most estate and divorce lawyers allow a potential client to do a sort of interview. You contact the office and can ask one question, just to see if the attorney is a right fit for your situation. It’s free.” He paused and waited for me.

  “Oh, my goddess!” It hit me all at once. “Tacoma, Seattle, Misty Pines, oh Mako, they’re all over the state and no 2 are the same law office. He was asking questions for free all over the state to avoid any one person putting 2 and 2 together!” By the time I was done, my voice was almost a high-pitched scream.

  “See, I knew I had a smart mate.” He hugged me and gave me a toe-curling kiss that lit a fire low in my belly. I kissed him back, grinding my ass down on his hardening cock. By the time the kiss ended, I was moaning, and we were both panting for breath. He glanced at his watch. “Baby, we only got a few minutes.” Licking his lips between each word.