Chapter 6

Chapter

Six

DEBBIE

S tanding with her cousins, well away from the gate where the cowboys and bull shifters were exiting, Debbie looked dubiously at the throngs of women in front of her. Her honey badger grumbled, but that was no big surprise, even if it hadn’t had an interest in Thor.

“Want us to chase them off?” Colie asked slyly from beside her. The rest of her cousins chuckled.

Debbie shook her head, then thought twice. “Not yet. ”

She wouldn’t turn down the offer if it became necessary. She had no doubt her cousins could clear out all these other women—both human and shifters—even though they were outnumbered three to one. The odds didn’t matter.

Honey badger don’t give a fuck!

That was the rallying cry for their cete, and it was completely true. Debbie would take on the whole pack of females in front of her if she felt compelled. The question was—did she? Did she really feel like competing with that many women for a guy’s attention?

It ended up being a moot point.

Cheers went up, and Debbie could see cowboy hats multiply over the heads of the ladies. It wasn’t just Thor. He was walking with three of the men she’d seen him with while he’d been waiting for his ride. All had also competed, but none had scored as high as Thor had, even though two of them had stayed on for the full eight seconds.

Thor was the acknowledged champion of today’s rodeo, proven by the number of women who swarmed him, compared to the smaller crowds who went for his friends. He grinned, tipped his hat—and pushed right past all of them, coming straight for Debbie.

Yeah, that made her heart go pitter-patter in a way she hadn’t experienced before. Made other parts of her body react as well. Seriously, was there anything hotter than a guy who only wanted the attention of his lady? Going by the sighs from her cousins and even the women he’d just walked past as he came to a halt in front of her—no, no, there was not.

Good stag, her honey badger chimed in.

So, Debbie did what any woman in her position would do when he flashed a cocky grin at her. She jumped up and wrapped her arms and legs around him, pressing her lips to his in a sizzling hot kiss.

A sizzling hot kiss that turned incendiary the moment her lips actually touched his. She gasped, opening her mouth, and his tongue slid right in, his hands cupping her ass to hold her in place. He was tall, hot, and hard against her body, easily bearing her weight, and taking control.

Thor kissed like he was staking a claim, and Debbie was inclined to let him.

Thor

Damn, he liked a woman who knew what she wanted and wasn’t shy about getting it.

Some people might think that was an oxymoron since he also tended to be a control freak—including in the bedroom—but it flat out turned him on. Especially if such a woman let him take control, the way Debbie did when he took over the hot little kiss she’d laid on him. She gave as good as she got, but she followed his lead…

Right up until someone cleared their throat and laid a hand on his shoulder. His buck trumpeted a challenge, and Thor lifted his head, practically snarling. Debbie did snarl, glaring over his shoulder, her dark eyes a little glassy, her lips swollen from his kiss, but that didn’t stop her from looking so ferocious, Kade actually took a step back.

If Thor’s dick wasn’t screaming with the need to be inside of her, he might have found the way his Omega stumbled back to be pretty funny.

Kade put his hands up in front of him in a placating gesture. “If you don’t want to go to the party, that’s fine by me.”

Clearing his throat, Thor let Debbie slide down his front, trying to ignore the way her body rubbed against his erection as she did so. Thankfully, he’d already taken his cup off, or he’d be even more uncomfortable right now. He kept his arm around her, unwilling to let her get further away from him than he had to.

Keep close, his buck agreed. Stake claim.

“It’s tradition for everyone who competed to at least swing by the after-party,” Thor said apologetically, looking down at Debbie. Granted, exceptions could be made, but it wouldn’t be in good taste for him not to go, as both an alpha and the winner of the bull riding. The rest of his herd would be there, wanting to congratulate him, as would all the members who had competed, and they deserved his congratulations or encouragement. “Do you mind?”

“Party time!” One of her cousins whooped before Debbie could answer.

“Excellent!”

Debbie threw back her head and laughed as her cousins started dancing around and celebrating.

Debbie

As clam-jamming—the lady version of being cock-blocked—parties went, this one was pretty good. Thor hadn’t moved from her side the whole night, his arm securely wrapped around her when they were standing, and when he finally sat down on a couch, he dragged her onto his lap. Giggling, Debbie managed to keep her drink upright as she tipped onto his hard thighs.

Everyone was in a good mood, even those who had hadn’t placed in their competitions. There were plenty of spectators who were happy to console them, even if the largest crowds were around the various champions of each event. Thor was the only one who didn’t have a bunch of women following him around—although he probably would have if he hadn’t been draped all over Debbie, seemingly blind to anyone else.

While he’d been polite to the few women brazen enough to try to approach him, he’d been so clearly uninterested, they’d given up immediately. All of them had been human—the shifters had quickly realized Debbie was a honey badger, and none of them wanted to mess with that.

Grrr. Her honey badger bristled aggressively. It was ready to get out of the party and be alone with Thor, and truthfully, so was Debbie, but the human side of her recognized why he needed to be at the party. Especially after his big win. His herd wanted to celebrate him, and they had prior claim to his time.

Since she was included in the celebration, she didn’t mind one bit.

His hand caressed her middle, making her skin tingle.

Okay, maybe she minded a little. The urge to drag him out of here and get down and dirty was definitely growing every time he touched her like that. Debbie shifted around in his lap, smirking when she felt something jerk and harden underneath her.

Payback was fair play.

Thanks to her shifter hearing, she could hear Thor’s low groan as she wriggled on top of him again. Grinning, she took a swig of her drink—and nearly spit it back out when his hand slipped underneath the edge of her shirt, and his fingers touched the bare skin of her stomach. It was like an electric shock, taking her breath away.

The cock under her ass turned into a bar of steel, and Debbie snickered. Yeah, that had backfired on him. She wiggled again, deliberately grinding against the thick bulge.

“Naughty girl…” The deep rumble of Thor’s murmur in her ear was almost orgasmic all on its own and Debbie pressed her thighs together as her pussy began to ache. She was so freaking turned on and they hadn’t even done anything yet. Leaning back against his chest, she turned her head and nipped the stubbled underside of his jaw.

“Damn right. I hope that doesn’t ruin your fantasy.”

“Definitely not. You ready to get out of here?”

Yes! Her honey badger ran around in excited circles in the back of her head. Take stag. Bite. Fuck. Claim.

Well, maybe not that last one, they’d just met today after all, but otherwise, her animal had the right idea. Debbie sighed with relief, nodding her head.

“Hell yeah.”