Page 56 of Whiskey, Thieves, and Bastards
Because Dionysus warned us if you were trying something new, you had to watch her because sometimes, she couldn’t decide if it was too much until it was. She just laughed at me.
“For the longest time, it was just Dionysus and me. We wouldn’t have been mated to each other if we didn’t get each other. We shared a bear shifter before. He rutted both of us. I can handle it.”
“Who was it? I’ll kill him.”
“Excuse me, mister, but we aren’t talking about someone I fucked fifteen hundred years ago when we’re both naked.”
“Good point.”
I slid into her and it was divine. Rutting was guaranteed when your mate was fertile or having her heat if she was a shifter, but it could also happen if a shifter could tell how turned on their mate was. Some shifters used it as an excuse to get rough, but they were dicks. It was intense, but it didn’thaveto be brutal.
All I was focused on right now was pleasing her and filling her up with my cum. Deep down, I knew her birth control spell was active and she wouldn’t carry my cub after this, but my instincts didn’t care.
If I shifted my hips and she cried out like I hit her G spot, I kept doing that. I leaned forward to flick at her clit. The rut was this primal thing, but nature added her own twist for the idiots who tried to abuse this.
If you were stuck in the rut, you couldn’t cum unlessshedid. After everything Dionysus told me, I was pretty sure shifter women self-actualized that and most of us were okay with that because it was the most rewarding part of the rut. The ones that weren’t had to suck it up and learn.
I’d never experienced this with the bond fully in place. It was even better. I’d been worried about taking it too far, but I could feel everything she was feeling again. I could feel her the night we claimed her.
I could feel if she wanted it a little faster, or she needed me to back off a little. I felt little jolts of pleasure in my spine if I did something she really liked and I kept doing it. It was this beautiful, wordless dance and I could feel she was getting close.
I flicked her clit a little harder. Medusa clamped down on my cock and slammed back into me. I would have waited for her even if I wasn’t in the rut and dependent on her pleasure for mine. I wasn’t that kind of lover.
But when it hit me, I nearly blacked out. The rut was always intense, but out in nature with our mate bond complete? I could die happy.
I mean, I wouldn’t because I definitely wanted to do this again.
Iwasn’t lying when I said I’d probably need Cas to carry me back. I was delightfully sore after my night with Pax and Cas haddefinitelytaken care of me. With all the stress in my life and everything I’d been through, that was exactly what I needed.
Cas’s village was amazing. They had literally everything I could want or need and I could freely use magic here. That garden was spectacular. There were stone walls crawling with jasmine and ivy and there were beautiful koi ponds and fountains. I saw plants that I could feel were native to this area and some rare ones that had been imported that could grow here.
And what was more than that, all the houses I passed had beautiful gardens and the businesses had greenery in front of them. It wasperfecthere.
But now we had to get back to the real world. Cas puffed up and looked like he was insanely proud of himself when I asked if he could help me get back home. And honestly, he should be. I had just meant to let me take his arm because my legs were wobbly, but he scooped me up and carried me down the street cradled in his arms.
When we got back to the house, everyone was losing their shit. What in the world had gone on while I was getting my brains thoroughly fucked out?
“Get this!” Dionysus said. “Benji’s mystery woman isn’t just a politician. She’s Pepper Crane! I love her even more.”
Oh, holy shit. I was having a fan girl moment. Pepper Crane was known as America’s Grandma. She ran for Senate in her district in rural Mississippi and took everyone by storm. Because she definitely had some ideas people usually had a problem with, but she had a way of presenting them that people usually went for them.
Bothsides of the political spectrum adored her, and she was a firebrand on the Senate floor. She’d passed a good bit of bills that benefitted everyone and she did it like a total boss. We all knew she was working on some bigger ones and if that woman ever ran for president, it would be no contest.
And I loved that she was secretly following Benji and his crazy social media.
“Is she willing to help us?” I asked.
“Oh, America’s Grannyloathesthe Gold Party. She said she gets along with most of the other politicians, even the ones she doesn’t agree with politically except for the people in the Gold Party. Pepper said every time anyone on either side tries to passa bill to benefit Americans, they try to pitch a bitch fit unless anti supernatural laws get inserted into the bill.
“There’s not enough of them to really prevent any of these laws from getting passed, but she hates that they are one issue about literally everything. Pepper said the Gold Party politicians try to get something passed to round up supernaturals and expand the Coalition into every single bill that gets passed and when it doesn’t, they vote against it, no matter what the bill is and how many people it would help,” Pax said.
“Can I tell you that I’m utterly losing my shit that she was following me? I bought the T-shirt with her response that one time a reporter tried to get nasty with her and she insulted him in the most southern Grandma way possible. I also have a Pepper Crane for President because we all want her to run.”
Fuck me. I had that shirt, too. It had been a fundraiser when a hurricane hit several states. A lot of people happily bought the shirts for a good cause and because wereallywanted Pepper Crane as our president.
“Anyway, Pepper is in. Shewantsthe Coalition outlawed and supernaturals given equal rights, but she’s been doing some investigating. She knows who is Gold Party, but she’s trying to ferret out who isn’t, yet agrees that the Coalition is needed.
“She said there’s also going to be some people who are going to stand on the First Amendment since they used to be associated with the church, but she said she’s already handled that. Pepper said the Coalition keeps nearly everything top secret, even their donors and they can do that because they never registered as a nonprofit and aren’t officially a church,” Pax said.
