I started to argue, but she laid a finger against my lips.
“You’re not talking me out of this, Remy. I love you for wanting to protect me from anything that might cause me harm, but I need this. I need to see Linden and Long Mesa shut down for good.” Her tongue flicked out to wet her bottom lip nervously.
With a sigh, I grabbed the backs of her thighs and pulled her forward until she had no choice but to straddle me. Her arms looped around my neck instantly, those tits I loved to worship brushing against my chest as she breathed.
“Okay,” I relented. “You come, too.”
“And my mom,” she added.
My eyes narrowed. “Baby, this isn’t a field trip. We can’t bring everyone.”
“My mom knows that land better than anyone else,” she replied. “She knows Long Mesa and the people in it. You need her help.”
“That means your dad is coming, too,” I told her. “No way he’s letting both of you go without being there for you.”
She puffed out her cheeks. “I guess. I’m still annoyed he didn’t tell me about that bonding wave.”
“He made a mistake, Skye. And it’s not like he was intentionally keeping shit from you,” I pointed out, not sure why I felt the need to smooth things over between my girl and her dad.
Maybe because I saw the way she looked at him and the attachment she had already formed. Plus, I had seen the way he watched her when she wasn’t looking, with pride and love and worry for her.
My dad and I had definitely gone a few rounds over the years, but it didn’t mean he ever loved me any less. Parents weren’t perfect in anything but the way they could love their kids.
And I really believed Nikolai loved Skye.
Her breathing hitched as she swallowed a sob. “For a minute, it felt like he was just using me. The way Elias had.”
That damn near broke my heart.
I wrapped my arms around her, cuddling her close to my chest as the first tremor shivered down her body.
“When do we leave?” she whispered against my neck after several quiet minutes of me stroking my hands down her back.
“Tomorrow morning,” I replied.
She pulled back, her brows knitting together with concern. “That’s so soon.”
“I can’t let what Long Mesa did stand,” I told her, smoothing her hair from her face. “We need to show them that we’ll deal with threats against us quickly. I don’t want Damien thinking he has any more power than he does.”
“You think Damien’s behind this?”
“Absolutely. Linden’s here, in a cage. Damien is using someone in Long Mesa to do his dirty work.”
“Probably Allan,” she said, her nose wrinkling in disgust.
I shoved down the instant reaction to his name, remembering the way Skye had described him molesting her as a child when we were at the Summit and the ways he had hurt Addie.
That man was going to die a slow, painful death, if I had any say in it.
“What time are we going to leave?” she asked softly.
I glanced at the clock on my bedside table. “I told Dante and Rhodes to meet me downstairs so we can go over everything in an hour.”
She opened her mouth, but I silenced her with a hard kiss.
“Yes, you’re coming, too,” I told her firmly when I released her lips.
Her green eyes glittered happily.
“We need to figure out who we’re taking,” I added, already starting to compile a mental list. “And how to get down there.”
“Flying is fastest,” she pointed out.
I nodded, agreeing. “Yeah, but we can’t use our planes. We’ll have to fly commercial and land in Albuquerque to stay under the radar. They would be watching for planes to take off from our airstrip. That means we can’t bring a lot of people.”
She frowned back at me. “But you wanted to take Linden. I don’t see a regular airline being okay with us dragging him gagged and bound onto a plane.”
I snorted back. “You’re right.”
“We’ll meet with the others and make a plan,” she replied with a shrug. “We’ll figure it out.”
“Yeah. We will,” I said, kissing her again. I loved the way she tasted. It was downright addictive.
She rolled her hips against me with a groan. “You said we have an hour, right?”
I smirked, loving where her mind was going. Especially when she ground her hot center against my hardening cock. The thin material of her leggings was already damp.
My wolf stretched languidly and rumbled appreciatively, loving that our mate was so easily turned on. She reacted beautifully.
I palmed one breast over the lacy of her top, dragging my knuckles lightly over her nipple. I grinned as it pebbled and her eyes went hazy with desire.
“I think what I want to do to you will take more than an hour,” I admitted, lifting my hand to her collar and pulling it and her bra down to free the breast I’d been tormenting.
“So, you think we should st—” Her sentence was cut off by a throaty moan I felt in my dick as I sucked her nipple into my mouth.
She whimpered, her nails scratching my scalp before her small hands fisted in my hair to hold me close.
“I think I said something about fucking you with these heels on,” I murmured, licking a path up to delicate bones beneath her throat.
“Great plan,” she panted, rolling her hips again.
My dick jumped, throbbing behind the confines of my zipper, and my hips thrust upwards against her shallowly.
My hands dipped under her shirt, sliding up the supple skin of her ribs and lifting her shirt as I went. It took seconds to pull it off and unhook the clasp of her bra. Both items fell to the floor with a soft rustle that was drowned out by the throaty moan Skye released.
I stood up, still holding her before turning and dropping her back onto the bed. I hooked my hands inside her leggings and underwear and stripped them down her body, taking the extra seconds to stretch and ease them over those heels I wanted digging into my back.
“You’re seriously overdressed,” she grumbled playfully.
I undressed faster than I ever had, kicking off my boots and jeans and practically tearing my shirt off when getting it over my head.
Skye giggled as the material ripped. The sound of her laughter lit up my chest like a Christmas tree.
My hands went to her hips, gently caressing her skin as I resisted the urge to cover her body and slam into her welcoming heat.
I looked at her eyes, making sure they were filled with need and desire and zero traces of fear.
She smiled softly up at me, totally unaware that she looked like a fucking goddess with her dark hair haloed around her head and her green eyes calling to me like a siren’s song.
“I’m fine, Remy,” she whispered.
I tightened my grip on her hips to the point of bruising as I lifted her, angling her so all I needed to do was pressed her thighs open a bit and then I was sliding home, her tight body clenching around my dick, practically strangling it.
Fuck.
I panted, letting us both catch our breath as I did my best not to come inside her immediately. I grit my teeth as her muscles fluttered around me, her slick heat encouraging me to thrust.
I dragged out, enjoying the way her body naturally clenched around me, trying to keep me in place before slamming back into her.