Epilogue

Jax

Five years later

It never ceased to amaze me how it felt every time I slid inside her. Absolute perfection as her silky heat wrapped around me and squeezed. Tonight, her moans were quiet. Our bedroom door never stayed locked or closed for long, but tonight, hiding in the office of the bar hours after it had closed, we were doing our best to enjoy the rare alone time.

"Fuck, yes," she grunted, bent over the desk as I slammed into her from behind. I snuck one hand around to her mouth to muffle her moans and used the other to sneak under her shirt and pinch her nipple. She squealed in response and contracted around me until I was clamping my mouth shut to keep from moaning.

The computer rocked dangerously on the desk, and if it fell, it would be the second one that year that I would have to replace. Hauling her up against me, I gripped the edge of the desk and pushed until it and the computer were up against the wall. At the sudden position change, I pushed into her even deeper, and we both grunted.

"I don't even care," she panted and reached down between her legs. Spreading her fingers, she squeezed my thrusting cock and then rubbed it against herself until she came. My roars of pleasure joined hers until we both collapsed against the desk.

"There is no way they didn't hear that," I muttered.

"They're out running tonight."

I pulled out of her, flipped her around, and sat her bare ass up on the desk. "What?"

Anna smiled mischievously. "Jenson offered to take them on a hunt tonight, so it's empty upstairs. I didn't tell you because I think it's hot when you think you have to be quiet."

"Hot, huh?" Bending her backward, I lazily flicked my tongue over her nipple. For the past three years, we'd opened the apartment upstairs to orphaned rogue teenagers who wanted to be a part of a pack. It started a few years ago when Anna saw someone she recognized on one of her trips to visit Finn and learned that her parents had died a month before. She was fifteen years old, and it was amazing that she was still alive.

After that, word spread, and all the packs started to open themselves up to taking more rogues in. The boundaries between packs were finally becoming a place of freedom and peace rather than a vicious world. Those who wanted the safety of a pack could now find it with more ease.

Unfortunately, it meant that the office was not the perfect place for a quick fuck.

Her hands wound down my arms, and she smiled in amusement when the black ink swirling up my arm disappeared. "Dash is playing with you again?"

"One of these days, he's going to hex me," I grunted. "I swear Irene is getting revenge against me for cutting down that clearing behind her cottage."

"She likes her trees."

"It was a forest fire! I was trying to save her cottage!" I glanced down at my skin. "What did it do?"

"I think it temporarily dyed your wolf's hair blue."

Sighing, I pressed my forehead against hers. "He's a menace."

"He's four."

"At no age should he be dyeing his father's wolf's hair."

"I'm pretty sure I heard Simone telling him to dye it pink before she dashed away."

Kissing her neck, I leaned her back down flat on the desk and trailed kisses down to her belly. "We made the most perfect babies," I sighed. "We should make another."

"No. We should not," she laughed. After Simone, she went back on birth control. Our son had such control over his wolf and magic that he was wild the moment he could shift, which was at the insane age of two. Simone was just now finding her wolf, but she also could shift in the blink of an eye. Her null abilities canceled out her brother's and brought a little more peace into the house, but she was old enough now for them to gang up, and Simone did whatever her brother told her to do. She adored him.

And he adored her.

Life was chaos, but I would not have it any other way.

Anna's hips shifted just a little, and her eyes darkened. Without hesitation, I slid back inside her. "You shouldn't be allowed to get so fucking hard so soon," she whispered as she wrapped her legs around me.

"I'm not here to waste any opportunity to be with you."

"You're supposed to be helping me with inventory."

"I am. I'm counting how many orgasms I can give you while Saul is watching our little monsters, and this time, I know I'm allowed to make you scream."

By the time it was over, we were both on the floor, hot and sweaty, and she was limp on top of me. "You're going to have to help me clean before we leave, or the morning manager will definitely know that we had sex in here."

"Good." I nipped at her shoulder. "I want everyone to know."

Smiling happily, she pushed herself up and stared down at me. "Sometimes I wonder how we got so lucky to be here. Two beautiful children. A wonderful and thriving pack."

"It's you," I told her. "It's always been you, Anna."

She made me a better alpha, made me a better wolf, and our love balanced me in ways that I couldn't imagine.

Her nightmares still appeared, but they were fewer. She had a hard time letting the children go for long, and I knew that was her fear that her nightmare would become theirs, but the mountain was at peace. The packs were allied. Our violent world was balancing out, and whatever tomorrow brought, we would face it as we've faced everything. Together.

"I love you," she sighed.

"And I love you. More than the first time I said it and less than I'll love you a year from now."

Two bonds glowed brighter inside of me, pushing with glee, and we both shot to our feet and scrambled for our clothes. The moment of peace was gone, and in a few seconds, two tornadoes would leap back into our arms and howl with happiness.

And I would not have it any other way.

THE END