Fox Dish (Madison Wolves #6) Read Online Free Page B

picked me up, throwing me over her shoulder.
    I suppressed my usual squeals at her behavior, not wanting to disturb our babies. Lara carried me into the bedroom, closed the door gently with a foot, then lowered me equally gently to the bed. I tried to scramble away from her, but she grabbed an ankle and pulled me back to her.
    "Oh no you don't," she said. She growled playfully. "Mine."
    I pulled away from her, but she tugged me to her again, then held onto me as she climbed onto the bed, crawling her way up my body and pinning me to the bed. She leaned over me, staring into my eyes.
    "Say 'yes', Little Fox," she ordered.
    I studied Lara's face, the face of the woman I loved so much. I glanced past her to the door.
    "They're safe, Michaela," she said. "You know they're safe. Now look into my eyes and tell me 'yes'."
    I looked back into her face. "I love you so much, Lara. I'm sorry I'm such a pain in the ass."
    "You're not a pain in the ass, Michaela," she said. "I know we haven't done this lately, but I don't want our marriage to end just because we're now parents. You are mine. Tell me 'yes'."
    She let me reach up and caress her face.
    "I love you so much, Lara," I told her again. Then I looked away.
    "Hey," she said. "What's wrong?" She shifted her weight, pressing more firmly against me, which let her use one of her hands to turn my face back to look at her. "What's wrong, honey?"
    "I miss you so much," I told her. I felt a tear slide down my cheek. "I want you to make me scream your name, but we'll wake the babies."
    She brushed my lips with hers, then each of my eyes. "You'll just have to whisper instead," she said. "Now tell me 'yes'. Tell me I may do what I want to do to you."
    "Oh Lara," I said, wrapping my arms around her neck. "Yes, always yes."
    Eventually, I woke the babies, but it was okay.
    * * * *
    I had developed a habit of keeping store gift cards in supply. I used them for minor prizes for some of the pack events or as gifts for people I didn't know well. I preferred giving more specific gifts, but with the amount of gifts I gave out to the pack as the alpha, it would have been a full time job for multiple people to obtain appropriate gifts for everyone.
    The gift cards made great prizes for the fishing contest.
    But I'd made up the idea for booby prizes on the spot, and I didn't want to give gift cards for that. And I wanted something more substantial for the overall winners. I called Hadley Smith and asked her to bail me out. She sent Ava shopping for me for the items I had selected. Donald Lassiter hadn't drive n up with the rest of us but would drive on up Christmas Eve. He brought the prizes, well concealed, for me.
    But I didn't have any booby prizes, so in the morning I told Lara, "I need to go shopping in Bayfield, and I don't want a lot of people along with me."
    "You will take a proper security detail," she said immediately. "And be back before lunch."
    "Yes, Alpha," I told her with a grin. I melted into her arms. "Thank you."
    "For letting you go shopping?" she asked, wrapping her arms around me.
    "No. For all of this. And for last night. I love you so much."
    She kissed me, kissed me deeply, and I knew I was loved. I clutched at her, and when the kiss broke, I laid my head against her shoulder, continuing to hang onto her.
    "I'm not a good alpha," I told her.
    "Nonsense," she said.
    "Not like you," I said. "I couldn't do what you do for the pack."
    "I've had a very long time to learn," she said. "And a very long time to think about how I want the pack to be. But you make the pack a better place. And you make me a better person."
    "The pack wouldn't survive without you," I told her.
    "Of course it would," she said.
    "But it would be fine without me."
    She pushed me away and looked into my eyes. "Are you sick?"
    "What?" I asked. "No. Perfectly healthy."
    She studied me, then pulled me back to her. "Then the pack won't be going without either one of us, will it?"
    "No, Lara," I said. "It