The next week flew by for most everyone at the Oxbow Lake Pack except the men held in the cells awaiting trial.
Sawyer and his team had completed their interviews and were putting together their case. He was working long hours, then coming back to Ashley and spending all night loving her. By Saturday night, she put her foot down. "You can't keep this up, and you have to be ready for trial on Monday," she told him as they cuddled in bed. "Tomorrow is a rest day. If you're not done preparing yet, you won't be."
"But my team, they..."
"They will rest as well," she told him in a voice that let him know how serious she was about it. "They have been working just as hard as you have." Her hand snaked down under the sheets, finding him she started running her fingers softly along his well-used length. "And you have been working hard." Her fingers encircled him as he started to stiffen under her touch.
"I think you are right," he said as he pulled her on top of him. "I've been," he kissed her, "working," he ran his lips down her neck as she moaned, "and I'm very hard." He moved her hips and she slid down his length. She started to ride him slowly as he moved his hands up to cup her breasts. "You're amazing," he said as the sensations of their lovemaking started to overwhelm his rational thought.
She kept up the slow pace as she leaned forward, her boobs swinging in front of his face. Taking the hint, he took a nipple in his mouth, sucking and nipping it before switching to the other. She arched her back at the feeling which sent tingles straight to her core. As they built towards their peak, she sat up and started slamming down his long cock until the smack of their flesh together filled the guest room. "Sawyer, I'm... I'm..."
"Cum for me NOW," he said as he grabbed her hips and pulled her tight. She screamed and came around him as he shot another load into her. They couldn't talk for a while after it was done, she just laid on his chest and caught her breath. Finally, she looked up at him as his flaccid cock fell out, their juices flowing onto his legs and the sheets. "How long until you can be hard again," she asked with an impish grin.
"My Luna, woman, I think you've worn me out!"
Ashley laughed and kissed him. "It's your own fault, an old man like you seducing an innocent young virgin like me," she said as she batted her eyes.
He growled and smacked her ass. "Old man? I'll show you," he said. He spun her to the side, going to his hands and knees over her as his wolf pushed forward. He moved down her body, taking a deep smell from her core and lapping at her swollen lips. "We can sleep in since I'm not working." He shifted his tongue, so he could reach farther into her depths. He'd show her the advantages of a mature wolf.
He woke before her, looking over at the clock he could see it was just before noon. He tried to get up, but their limbs were tangled in the sheets and she woke as he tried to extricate himself. "May as well get up if you want lunch," he said as he sat up and stretched.
Ashley looked over at her mate's back, covered with the healing scratches and bites from their activities last night. Her wolf was thrilled to have him as a mate, and her human side was falling hard for the caring and strong man he was. While he was working, she was spending time with Margaret learning about the duties she would have as a Pack Luna. With all the people around, Margaret needed all the help she could get. "What do you want to do today," she asked him as he walked to the bathroom.
"My wolf needs a run," he said. "And he'd like to get you alone and take advantage of you."
Her wolf loved the idea. "That would be fun," she said. "Rori is taking her architect and the general contractor she's hired out to the building site today to go over the Pack House plans and a few of the houses. Maybe we can tag along, then go for a run while they are busy."
He sent a request to Chase over his family bond with him, and they finalized the plans over lunch. Rori was bringing Parker Thompson, who had designed the Banff Pack House, out to the site. They had been talking over Skype for a week, going over ideas and looking at existing designs. Eight of the Omegas were coming along too. None had seen their new Pack lands yet and were excited to walk around the site. Chase was staying behind, working with the Council on the trial preparation, and Coral and Kevin were up in Grand Marais packing up his apartment.
There was only one General Contractor in the area who could handle such a project, and he was meeting them at the access road at two. This was going to be a large project; the main facility and the first ten houses were working to an initial estimate of five million dollars, including the new road and extending utilities. Rori and Chase had worked with their lawyer, Ralph Emerson, to set up a corporation called Arrowhead Vacation LLC using the money from her inheritance. The corporation was set up to ensure the continuation of the Pack if something happened to the Alphas, and it provided a public front for the development work. After all, you couldn't just tell people a werewolf Pack was moving into their neighborhood.
Rori walked out with her group as three large passenger vans were brought around. She looked down the porch and saw Colletta sitting there, wrapped in a blanket and staring out at the woods. She told everyone to wait and walked down to see her. "Mom?" Colletta looked up at her, she had been crying and her eyes were full of pain. "Mom, come with us. We're going to look at the place we're going to build our houses, we can show you where Chase and I are going to live. Please, I need you." She knew the appeal to her as a mother and grandmother would do the trick; Colletta stood up and folded up the blanket, bringing it with her.
Sawyer and Ashley were taking his SUV, as they would be returning separately, probably after dark. They all loaded in, and twenty minutes later, they were parked at the lot near the ruins of the old Pack compound. "Wow," Sawyer said as he stepped out of his car along with everyone else. "You'd never know it was here."
The group exited the cars and walked to the gate that surrounded the clearing. It had taken three days to fill the foundations with rock and gravel, then bring in black dirt and level the ground. The weather had held long enough to get the nursery plantings in and install a deer-proof fence. In the spring, the native wildflowers and grasses would come in, along with the flowering crabapple and fruit trees. "It's going to be beautiful when it grows in," Ashley said.
"I hope so," Rori said. "I plan to commission a memorial next year, and this area will be a park where our children can play, and we can pick fresh fruit and watch our pups chase butterflies and hummingbirds. Something good out of all the bad." She looked at the girls and waved them down towards the water. "Come on people, Parker and I will show you the areas we've staked out for the buildings."
Sawyer smiled as his mother, sister-in-law and her Pack mates ran down the hill, and he gave his beautiful mate a grin as they moved away. "Let's get nekkid," he told her.
"Naked?"
"Nope, Nekkid is naked with naughty plans, and I have plans for you my love. I'll even give your wolf a head start." He took her hand and a waterproof bag, and they walked around the memorial and over the hill to a place hidden from the lake and the parking area. They stripped and placed their clothes in the bag, then he zipped it up. "You ready," he asked her as she bounced in excitement.
"You certainly are," she said as she looked down at him already hard. "You have to catch me first." She shifted into her wolf, a beautiful grey coat with black socks and stomach, and took off through the trees. There was a lot of land to play in, and she ran parallel to the lake so she wouldn't get trapped against the shore. She felt free, and her happiness mixed with her lust went over the bond to her mate.
Sawyer shifted into his big wolf, pacing back and forth as he counted to a hundred. His wolf was raring to go chase her down and take her hard and fast. Wolves loved the chase. They had been very active sexually, like all new mates, and he prayed they were one of the lucky couples who got pregnant quickly. His mind knew it might take decades, though.
As soon as the count was complete, he was off like a shot. His mate would give him a good chase, but he was an Alpha Male. He would catch her, dominate her, knot her and pup her.
