Her Shifter Bodyguard (Shifter World Novella - Book One) (SERIES OF 13 SHORT STORIES)
Chapter Four: Unwanted Visitors

“Goddesses, I want you again,” Dustin said as he laid Shar on the bed.

“Yes,” she moaned.

He kissed down her throat and over her clothes-clad breasts. He’ll be able to see her this time.

“Dustin,” she mumbled.

She helped him strip her of her clothes, and he leaned back to admire her body. She moved her arms to cover herself, and he stopped her.

“Never cover yourself from me, Mafilia.”

She smiled up at him as she moved her arms to her sides.

Dustin moved off the bed, and her eyes followed him. When he started undressing, she licked her lips.

He grinned at her. “You like watching?”

She nodded, and he chuckled.

Once he was naked, he stood beside the bed and let her eyes take him in. Her eyes lingered on his massive cock, and it jumped. She licked her lips again, and pre-cum appeared at the tip.

“Can I touch it?” she asked, her arm rising from the bed.

Dustin grinned, “you can touch all you want, Mafilia. Everything you see before you is yours, and only yours.”

Sharissa grinned as she sat up on the bed. She moved to the floor and knelt before her mate. He grunted when her fingers wrapped around the base of his shaft, then squeezed.

“Ah, fuck,” Dustin groaned, his body jerking to her touch.

Shar let go. “Did I hurt you?” she asked, worried.

He chuckled, “no, it felt good.”

Shar smiled and wrapped her fingers around him again.

“I want to taste you,” she said, licking the pre-cum from the tip of his cock.

“Holy fucking hell, Shar,” Dustin said with a low growl.

His cougar was going nuts, like an enormous cat in a small cage.

Shar wrapped her mouth around the tip, and he just about spilled his seed down her throat. He took a deep breath and steadied his heart as her mouth slid up and down his shaft while her hand pumped the base. When her other hand cupped his balls, he growled and pulled her to her feet.

Shar smirked as she looked into Dustin’s lust-filled eyes. “Was that good?” she asked.

He grumbled as he kissed her.

Her body relaxed against his. He backed her to the bed and pulled back from the kiss to give her a light push.

Shar chuckled as she fell backward onto the bed. She looked up at Dustin from her position on the bed and smiled.

With a smile, Dustin went to his knees. He took hold of her knees and pulled her to the edge of the bed. She sucked in a breath when his face went between her legs. When his lips touched her outer lips, her hips came up off the bed. He took hold of her hips and pulled her closer to his mouth. His tongue slipped between her outer lips and slid up over her labia.

Shar moaned and sucked in a breath when his tongue touched her clit. He removed his hands from her hips and opened her to his eager mouth. When his lips attached to her clit, she cried out with pleasure.

He worked her clit with his lips, tongue, and teeth—until she came all over him. He lapped at her juices, then lifted his head and smiled.

“You taste like peaches down here, too.”

She felt herself giggle; then, it was cut off when he yanked her to his hard cock and entered her so swiftly her eyes rolled to the back of her head.

“Oh my God,” she moaned.

Dustin grunted in agreement as he slammed into her harder and faster. He held onto her hips and ass, keeping her from falling off the bed.

“Dustin!” she cried out as another orgasm had her body convulsing.

“Fuck, yes,” Dustin groaned when her pussy tightened around his cock.

“Cum in me!” she cried out.

Dustin grunted as he continued to move in and out of Sharissa. He has felt nothing like this before. She was all his, and she felt incredible. Having a mate is magical, and he could feel their strength growing. He took hold of her hands, pushed her further onto the bed, and followed her, his cock deep inside her hot, wet pussy.

“Again?” she asked when his fingers slipped between hers.

“It won’t hurt this time,” he promised.

She nodded, and he crossed their hands above her head, his wrists against hers. He pushed deeper and deeper inside her and watched as her eyes rolled to the back of her head.

“Sharissa,” he said, watching her.

“Hmm?”

“Look at me.”

She looked at him, and his cock jumped inside her. How has he lived so long without this woman? They moved together as if they had been doing it for years rather than hours.

When he came, she cried out with her own orgasm. When he knotted, he grunted and held himself against her. Their joined arms tingled but didn’t hurt. He could feel the power flowing between them.

“Wow,” she whispered, looking up at their joined hands.

He grinned down at her, “yeah.”

She looked at him. “Is that how you’ll get stronger?”

He shrugged and replied, “part of it, but mostly it will be from us bonding. Getting to know and love each other.”

She sighed. “What if we don’t love each other?”

He studied her face. He saw the pain in her eyes and leaned his forehead against hers.

“Our bond is powerful, Sharissa. That is why we felt it so fast and furious. Why my cougar wanted out of his cage. He knew who you were the moment we smelled you. And when your eyes locked with mine, we were lost. There is no way we are not falling in love.”

She chuckled, “I felt it too—when you looked at me.”

He smiled. “See?”

“But I’ve been burned before….”

He kissed her. “I am here to protect you, not hurt you.”

“My bodyguard, I know.”

He wiggled his hips, and the feel of his knot moving inside her made them both grunt.

“I am more than your bodyguard.”

She smiled at him. “My shifter bodyguard.”

He chuckled, “your Fated mate, bodyguard.”

She smiled. “How long until we can lie properly in the bed?”

“Last time, it took about thirty minutes.”

She grunted and stated, “what a waste of time. In that amount of time, we could cuddle and maybe prepare to screw again.”

He chuckled, “sorry, Mafilia. It’s not something I have control over.”

“Have you knotted before?” she asked as she settled under him more comfortably.

He moved, so his weight wasn’t entirely on her.

“No, Shar, I haven’t. I already told you, shifters only knot with their true mate.”

“Not even the mates they settle for?”

He shook his head, “not even the mates they settle for. Knotting is something that automatically happens with Fated mates. It is one way to be sure you have found your Fated mate.”

“What about the markings?”

He nodded and said, “that’s the other way. It is also what keeps us connected.”

She nodded.

He watched her eyelids droop and kissed them. “Try to rest while we wait.”

She nodded again, “okay. Goodnight, Mafilio.”

He sucked in a breath. So that was what his brother had been up to. He grinned as he kissed her.

“Good night, Mafilia.”

With a sigh, she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Dustin smiled when she fell asleep. Her soft snoring made his cougar purr.

“Well, we found her,” he whispered as he watched Sharissa sleep.

He continued to watch his mate sleep as his knot softened. When he popped out of her pussy, he slid her up the bed. When her head was on a pillow, he laid down beside her.

“I swear, I will keep you safe,” he whispered into the night as he pulled her close.

He closed his eyes and was soon asleep.

~🐱~

A loud bang on the door had Dustin instantly awake. His first instinct was to protect his mate.

“Sharissa, wake up,” he said, shaking her.

Shar moaned as she turned over.

“Come on, Mafilia, time to get up.”

“Is it morning?” her sleepy voice asked.

“No. Someone is trying to break into your apartment.”

She was instantly awake. “Johnny,” she whispered.

“Get dressed—I’ll go see who it is.” He kissed her forehead and rolled out of bed.

“Be careful,” she whispered.

He turned to her and winked. “I always am.”

Dustin leaped into the hall and made his way to the living room. He could hear hooves outside the door. Who was out there? He sniffed the air and smelled a shifter.

“Who is it?”

Dustin turned to his mate and shook his head as he placed his finger to his lips to keep her quiet.

Shar nodded and looked at the door when the pounding started again.

“It’s a shifter,” he whispered.

She looked at him. “Why would a shifter be here?”

He shrugged, “maybe Vega hired him like he hired us.”

Shar whimpered. Dustin moved over to her and kissed her forehead.

“I’ve got you, Mafilia. You don’t need to be scared anymore.”

Shar nodded. She believed him.

“Sharissa Flemmings, we know you’re in there. We can smell you!” someone hollered from the other side of the door.

“Oh, God,” she whimpered.

“We can also smell your friend. Experimenting with shifters now, are you?”

Dustin growled, and Shar swallowed. What are they going to do? There’s more than one out there.

“Go to the bedroom.” He pushed her toward the hall. “Hide.”

She shook her head.

“Shar, please, go.”

She looked into his silver eyes. Something in them made her nod and head to her bedroom. Once in her room, she closed the door and looked for a place to hide. The only areas to hide were under her bed or in the closet. She chose the closet and pulled the door closed behind her.

~🐱~

Dustin shook his body and smiled. “Let’s do this.”

His cougar was happy to be out. And with the extra strength of his mate, he was sure he could beat whoever was on the other side of the door. It smelled like a boar.

Just as he finished shifting, the front door burst open. Two boars and a man stepped into the apartment.

“A cougar,” the man said with a grin. “I haven’t caught me one of those yet. Get him, boys.”

Dustin growled when the two boars jumped him. He flung one off and sank his teeth into the other. The boar he bit hollered in pain, and Dustin tossed it across the living room into the wall. The plaster gave out to the weight of the shifter.

His claws struck the other boar across the chest, and the boar made a horrible squealing noise. He needed to get rid of these pests so he could get his mate out of here.

~🐱~

Shar held her breath when she heard footsteps in her room. She knew it wasn’t Dustin—she would feel him.

“I know you’re in here, Sharissa,” a man said as he stopped at the end of the bed.

Sharissa could barely see the man through the slits in the closet door. She watched his legs bend as he bent down to look under the bed. She was glad she hadn’t hidden there. But then the man turned, and the closet door flung open.

“There you are.”

Sharissa screamed as the man took hold of her arm and dragged her from the closet.

“Shut up,” he said as he dragged her from the bedroom to the living room.

Shar sucked in a breath when she saw the magnificent cat fighting—pigs?

“Stop!” the man hollered as he pulled a gun from his pocket. “Or I will kill her now and tell Vega we found her dead by your hands.”

The cougar stopped and turned to them with a growl.

Dustin looked from the man to his mate and back again. No one threatens his mate. His cougar agreed and gave a horrendously loud growl that shook the floor and walls.

Shar looked around as everything around them shook, just from her mate’s growl.

“You may not want to anger him,” she whispered.

The man laughed and yanked her in front of him.

“He’s only doing his job. He knows when he’s beat. He doesn’t want Vega to know he’s protecting you.”

Shar shook her head. “You have it all wrong,” she said, watching her cougar’s eyes bore into the man. “I’m not a job,” she whispered.

“What?” he asked, looking down at her. “Didn’t you go to Kraftman Brothers Security to hire a bodyguard?”

“Oh, I did,” she said with a bright smile. “And I got something even better.”

“And what’s that?”

“A mate!” she hollered, then stomped on his foot as hard as she could and ducked.

The man growled, then screamed when the cougar landed on top of him. His screams turned to gurgles as Dustin shredded the man’s throat.

Shar looked around her apartment and sighed. ’Won’t be getting the deposit back on this place,’ she thought with a heavy sigh. ’I guess we’ll move tonight instead of tomorrow.’

She looked at the cougar and took a step back when he turned to her, blood dripping from his mouth. ’Does he know who I am when he’s in this form?’

“Dustin?” she whispered as she held her hand out.

The enormous cat purred as he moved toward her.

She smiled when her hand touched his soft fur. “You’re beautiful,” she whispered.

A noise at the other end of her apartment had Dustin turning, but it was too late. A pig had woken and attacked him.

Shar screamed with anger, then fear, as the other pig came after her. ’No, not pigs, boars. Fucking shit.’

Dustin screamed in pain, and Shar whimpered. Then she remembered what Dustin had told her. She has received his abilities. Senses—already checked out. Now let’s check strength.

Before the boar could attack her, she grabbed his tusks and prayed this worked. Shar lifted—she actually lifted the huge ass boar into the air—then spun and tossed it across the room. It hit the other boar, which was on top of Dustin, and they both tumbled to the floor.

Dustin looked over at his mate. Shit, the old stories were true. His mate is strong. If he could grin, he would be smiling right now. It thrilled his cougar.

“Dustin,” Sharissa said, pointing to the two boars who were fighting with each other to get to their feet. “Finish them.”

Sharissa watched her cougar nod, then turn and attack the two boars. It took less than a minute to rip the throat out of one with his teeth, then turn and slap the other one with his paw, knocking him off his hooves. Shar watched as her mate did quick work of killing the second boar, then turned to her with a spine-tingling growl, letting her know it was over and she was safe.

“Dustin,” she whispered, holding her hand out to him.

The cougar walked over to her, and she didn’t care that his mouth was covered in blood. This man, this shifter, saved her life. He’d kept his promise and kept her safe.

The cougar purred when her hand touched his soft fur.

“We should call your brothers,” she whispered.

The cougar looked around the apartment, then started shifting. One minute the cougar stood before her, and the next, the man. Blood was all over him, even his own blood, which made her take a quick intake of breath.

“You’re hurt,” she said, moving to touch the gash in his side.

“Tusks are sharp,” he growled.

“Should I doctor you first or call your brothers first?” she asked, looking at him.

He smiled. “I’ll get my phone and call Daryl—he will get the rest of them. Then you can patch me up,” he said, kissing her on the lips and heading to the bedroom.

Shar took a deep breath. Okay, so this is new. Not every day does a human meet a shifter. And not every day does she discover that she’s a Fated mate to one, but then she gets attacked by boar shifters and some strange man.

“Yeah, I know, but they attacked us. They had no plans to let us live… alright, just get your ass here,” Dustin snarled, then hung up his phone and looked at her.

“Troubles?” she asked, watching him.

He shrugged and said, “Just my brother being the same pain in the ass as always.”

She chuckled, “I believe he thinks the same thing of you.”

He grinned and pulled her toward him. He bent to kiss her, but she pushed him away.

His eyebrows furrowed, and she made a face.

“Not until you wash off the pig blood.”

He looked down at himself and laughed. “Want to help?” he asked, his eyebrows wagging up and down.

She chuckled and said, “if I join you, we’ll never leave the bathroom.”