Free Cash [Pyrate's Treasure 3] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Cooper McKenzie

enough that his long, thick erection pressed into her belly. The feel of his heat and arousal sent pulses of need straight to her clit and from there to her nipples, which tightened into fleshy beads pressing against the thin silk of her robe.
    “Need you,” he mouthed as he brought his hands up to rest on her shoulders.
    “Oh, yeah,” she breathed in response.
    Reaching between them with one hand, she brushed the tip of her index finger down the length of his nose then over his lips. She continued the line over his chin and down neck to the center of his chest. She sucked a silent breath as Cash’s hands slipped down the front of her body to cup her breasts. Her pussy gushed, and she had to lock her knees to keep from falling to the ground.
    Before they could join Goldie and Caleb in mating, male cries and a wolf howl interrupted them. A moment later applause sounded, along with a few other barking howls. The mating had been completed. The other Alphas were satisfied.
    “Stay here and behave yourself,” Cash said with a disappointed sigh. “And close your eyes until we leave the clearing.”
    “Yes, oh sexy mate of mine,” Zoe snarked. Closing her eyes, she lifted her hands to cover them for added protection like a child playing hide-and-seek.
    After seeing the other Alphas clothed, she had no interest in seeing them naked. Even the thought of seeing King Luka naked did nothing for her libido. None of the men, except her mate, made her think of the big bed back in Cash’s room.
    Knowing a run around the pack-held lands was a traditional ending to the ceremony, Zoe was not sure why she did not want Cash going. He would be out there with other naked wolves, male and female. And she had heard stories about what sometimes happened during pack runs, especially ones like these when the emotions of loss and celebration were fighting for domination in the shifters.
    She felt him brush a kiss over her forehead before he whispered in her ear, “I’ll be back as soon as I can. Then we’re going to spend the rest of the night expanding your education while scratching all those itchy spots we both have.”
    She gasped with surprise that he had read her thoughts so clearly and accurately. “Be careful out there,” she responded.
    “No worries. I am Beta, hear me…” His joke ended on a long, deep-chested howl, letting Zoe know that he had shifted.
    Lifting her hands from her face, she opened her eyes to find him standing before her in full wolf form. He was big and beautiful in his wildness. For the first time since becoming a member of Luka’s household, she wished she could shift and be wild with them.
    The wolf looked her straight in the eyes and made a grumbling sound as he shook his head, as if he could not believe she had peeked. When another wolf, who she thought was Silver, nudged Cash with his head, her mate chuffed at her, which she took to mean, “Stay here and behave yourself.”
    The two wolves then turned and took off with the rest of the three dozen or so wolves that stood in a loose circle where the pack members and high-powered guests had been just moments before. As the wolves left the clearing, she saw Luka’s wolf at the head of the group with the small black wolf from the beach at his side. So, the king had indeed found his mate.
    Looking around, she found the clearing was empty other than a stunned-looking man, who had been introduced before the funeral as Emerald’s mate, Nick, and Goldie’s relaxed and satisfied-looking mate, Caleb.
    “So, do you want to wait here or go back to the house? This run could take all night, or it might be over in five minutes,” she said as she picked up Cash’s gym shorts and folded them.
    “Goldie said for us to go back to the house because she didn’t want us carried off by mosquitoes,” Caleb said after clearing his throat.
    “Emerald didn’t say one way or the other,” Nick said, sounding as if he was in shock by what he had just witnessed.
    “And