winked at me though” Jared
said, still unsure.
Elena shrugged, “It was probably
a guy thing. He’s most likely going to use this time to have car sex with Mama.
They’re quite fond of that I think; I told you about what happened on New
Year’s Eve last year.”
Jared shuttered at the reminder,
grabbing Elena’s hand and smiling as her nose wrinkled when she realized it was
slightly damp. Jared shrugged, just a little happy that his wife was sharing
his misery in a very minor way.
“Still” he said, “I’ll just have
to be careful, and definitely avoid dogs at all costs.”
“We should probably be safe and
have you avoid cats too, just in case.”
Jared nodded, “Yeah, good idea.
I’ll just avoid all the pets in Italy.” He groaned, eliciting a smile from his
wife. Their long week had just gotten so much longer.
-x-x-x-
Elena sat on the edge of the
bed, waiting for Jared to get out of the shower. After he had stripped, they
had made the determination that his clothes were likely ruined beyond repair
and had decided to dispose of them in the trash outside. Jared’s damp phone was
drying in a bowl of rice, his keys had been cleaned and sprayed liberally with
deodorizer and his money, wallet and cards were all drying on a towel
downstairs.
Elena took the time alone to
think. Although she had brushed off Jared’s concerns about his changing the
night before, she was a bit worried. She wasn’t quite sure where they could go
for the full moon. Every other time of month Jared could chose when he changed
and for how long. But on the night of the full moon he had no control
whatsoever and had to stay in his wolf form for the entire night.
The days leading up to the full
moon made Jared’s usually perfect control of himself slip a little, but she
found it very appealing. During these times Jared got a lot more hands on, and
an increase in libido was also one of the perks of the pull of the full moon.
Something Elena was definitely not complaining about.
Elena had asked in town about
abandoned or very sparsely populated or traveled woods. Her Italian was rusty
though, and from some of the looks and responses from the locals, she was sure
that they had thought she was looking for a suitable place to bury a body.
Her parents’ backyard was off
limits, and from Elena’s first experience with Jared’s full moon
transformation, she knew staying indoors was certainly not an option. They’d
have to get creative.
Her thoughts were interrupted
when she heard the shower turn off, and after a few seconds Jared walked out of
the bathroom, a small towel wrapped loosely around his waist. His hair was wet
and disheveled from roughly running a towel through it and beads of water
dripped down and carved a steady path along his muscular torso.
Elena let herself get distracted
with tracing one of the drop’s path with her eyes and was only broken from her
slight daze by a small cough from Jared. She looked up, her eyes locking with
his subtly-glowing yellow eyes. He smirked, the almost feral expression on his
face sending shivers down her back.
She stood and walked over to
him, hips swinging slightly to distract him before she came to a stop mere inches
away. She was going to open her mouth to say something witty when Jared grabbed
her by the waist, thrusting their bodies together as he took her lips in a
heated kiss.
She groaned into his mouth,
hands coming up to grip his shoulders as his grip tightened around her waist.
The next thing Elena comprehended was herself being lifted off the ground, and
she briefly registered the movement causing Jared’s towel to fall before she
was thrown on the bed. Elena took a moment to drink in the view as Jared panted
above her before he began a slow, sensual crawl up the bed.
“The full moon’s making me a bit
jittery” Jared said between trailing kisses up her inner thigh from her ankle.
“Do you mind helping me release a bit of the energy?”
Elena gasped as Jared