The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 95

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She felt Bar’s entire body tensing under her legs as she spoke.

“Claiming ceremonies?” Wilder’s voice was gruff with the faintest hint of hope.

“Yes. I feel,” she swallowed the nervous lump in her throat, “it

is imperative that we do our ceremonies here, tonight, at the spring. I am learning to trust my intuition. It is telling me it is

time.”

“You are certain?” Bar asked quietly. “What has changed?

Claiming requires sex, Jacqueline. It is part of the ceremony for both fae and bear shifters alike. Earlier today you were

not ready.”

“I am ready.”

“I do not want this out of your pity, Jacqueline.” Bar lifted her chin forcing her to meet his gaze. “This cannot be because you feel sorry for what I have gone through in my past.”

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“There is a thrumming in my blood,” she felt her chest tightening with an uncomfortable feeling she knew was vulnerability. “It is pulling me throughout the room. It is telling me if I touched the twins now, I would feel the bond snapping into place with fervor and as I sit here on your lap, I want to crawl into your skin with a sickening desperation. There is a longing in me, an almost feral need to be yours, to be claimed by the three of you. The connection to nature I felt outside earlier, the connection I feel to you three now, in the intimacy of this conversation, to the unwavering support I feel over my new role in this world,” she continued, “it is

making me long for more, for the truth of my bonds and I cannot do that hiding behind shells of a fear I’m far more powerful than.”

“And you think doing a claiming ceremony will do what, Jacqueline?” Rafferty asked with his knee bouncing under his flattened palm, his energy frenetic despite his attempt to calm himself.

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“My bond will give my mates the mate they deserve, and it will give me the family I have longed for my entire life. I saw my brother tonight with Aspen and River with Wraith. I watched Hugh and Fawn and Winika and Jack. Their bonds are strong, full of love and comfort and even in the face of things which are bound to be difficult in their lives, they are 2/10

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connected on a level I too want. I am not jealous,” she was thinking aloud now, “but rather aware of how much more in experiences I am losing out on by being afraid. I need to fully let go of my fear in order to be the queen I need to be and to be the mate my mates will need as we move forward.”

“Let me be clear,” Wilder rose to his feet and paced a small circle before continuing, “there is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, I want more than for this to happen. I want you claimed in every sense of the word. I want you to be my mate more than I want my next breath. The fear of you choosing to reject us and simply go it on your own claws at my throat like that oversized mitt of the man whose lap you sit astride,” Wilder took a breath, “but I cannot let that fear push me to take advantage of you feeling momentarily adventurous. Please, I need you to understand I am not pressuring you to do this, none of us are. We intended, coming in here tonight to maybe fool around with you a bit, make you feel good before tucking you in for a good sleep. Jacqueline, I need you to understand that if we are wherever this is going to take place and you change your mind, I will respect your choice.”

She smiled at him, “Wilder, I know what I want. I want this. I

want the ceremony to take place now.”

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“Where is this spring?” Rafferty asked his voice shaky.

“Raff, we need to make sure this is what she wants.” Wilder

glared at his brother, “not just because she’s feeling good after spending time in the snow and is suddenly in a rush.”

“Why are you picking fights?” Bar asked of Wilder with a

frown.

“He’s scared.” Rafferty called his brother out. “Everything

he’s ever dreamed about, and more, is knocking on his

door and it’s suddenly feeling overwhelming and scary and he’s worried he’s going to fuck this all up so he’s giving her

an out, so he has more time to mentally prepare for the

most incredible experience of his life.” At Wilder’s dirty look

Rafferty stared him down, “I know you as well as I know my own heart, despite how many years we’ve been at odds.”

“Fine,” Wilder threw his arms up, “I’m scared. I am absolutely

terrified. I’m not stupid. I know I don’t deserve her. Look at

her, Raff. Look at our mate. All we’ve done since we found

her is fuck up and make mistakes and make her angry. Her mother, her real mother, not Winika, is the bloody creator, the Queen Mother! We are so far beneath everything she is that I am constantly in a state of disbelief. Do you know how fucking lucky we are and yet all we do is piss her off?” 4/10

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“Yeah, I do. I know how fucking lucky I am. I also know the

minute the bond snaps into place for her, our lives are

forever changed for the better. I’m not going to pressure her into anything but fuck me if she’s offering I’m ready to throw her over my shoulder and run to the spring in bare feet and

buck naked.”

“No need to do that.” Bar gave a smirk in Rafferty’s direction, “I’ll get us there without breaking a sweat. I can carry all

three of on Orson’s back.”

“We can simply teleport,” Jacqueline smiled at them.

“We’ve never been there before,” Rafferty frowned.

“Enhanced gifts. I can go anywhere I want and never need to have been there before. Also, do you know that little spell you taught me to block others out? It won’t work on me. I can go anywhere I want. Cool right?” she looked at Wilder as she slowly climbed off Bar’s lap and moved to Wilder. She put her hand on his chest and took his hand and put it over her heart, “feel my heart, Wilder. Feel it. Know that this is what I want.

I am not rushing. I am not going to get us there and have a change of heart. I’m not doing this out of anything other than I am ready.”

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“You’re sure?” his nose reddened at the tip as if he were

holding back his emotions.

“I have never been surer of anything.”

“We need to find a priestess.”

“There is none higher than the one standing in front of you

now,” she shrugged before grinning, “and before you say anything about a ceremonial blade, I can make my own out

of ice.”

“Jacqueline,” Wilder’s voice was raspy with emotion, “are you

sure?”

“Bar, picture the spring in your head please.” Jacqueline asked her mate and he did as he suggested and without further ado, she had the four of them standing outside,

immediately next to the spring.

“How did you do that?” Rafferty asked in shock. “You didn’t

even touch me or Bar?”

“I’m not sure. I just know I can.” She shrugged as she looked around. “This is pretty.”

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“I was thinking it would be a perfect place to build a new

home for all of us.”

She sniffed the air, “you have a den around here.” She looked at Bar curiously. “Orson has slept out here, in a den here.”

“Yes. We have slept out here while hunting. I found this space several years ago and immediately regretted I didn’t build my cabin here instead of there. It’s further from the town, more secluded and the spring,” he motioned to it, “it’s called to me multiple times. I felt it was magical. I’m guessing it is?”

“It is,” she smiled at him. She moved to kneel in front of the bubbling spring of water surrounded by a thick coating of ice. She touched the spring and it immediately thawed and the space around it dampening and spreading with the water, snow blossoms and vines shimmering as they grew on the ground she cleared.

“This is damn cool,” Bar’s voice was reverent as he watched

her actions.

“My mother is here, not that you can see her or hear her.” Jacqueline said quietly. “She is going to bless our union herself but she’s going to do it through,” she reached into the

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spring and is plucking something from the other side, she

pulled through a tiny sticklike creature.

“What is that?”

“This is a representative from my mother’s garden and one of my best friends,” she lifted it to her lips and kissed the top

of it’s little head. “Hello my friend. I have missed you too.” If happily raced up from her hand to her shoulder and sat expectantly.

“That might be the cutest thing I have ever seen,” Bar commented as he looked at the walking stick.

“Isn’t she?” Jacqueline grinned. “She is going to recite the prayers in my ear needed to complete the claiming ceremony, since I’ve never done one let alone attended one and I need to do three.” She listened attentively to something the stick was whispering in her ear and then she looked at

her mates who were staring in awe.

“What is it?” Wilder asked his fingers wringing together

nervously.

“Wilder and Rafferty you need to each do the lacerations to one another. Bar needs to do the laceration on my wrist.” 8/10

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Jacqueline reached down to the ground and pulled up a

bell–shaped flower. “Our blood will mix in this and then my

little friend here will pour this into our wounds to join us.”

“Them first then?”

The quiet question from Bar made her smile at him with a sweet promise on her lips. “Yes but there is a reason.”

“Which is?” Wilder asked, hanging on her every word.

“Because when your blood and Rafferty’s blood is running through my veins while the bond is solidifying, Bar is going to make his claiming mark in my neck, and he will draw our mixed blood into his mouth binding us all together.”

“So, he will feel us but how will we feel him?”

“Because” she shivered with excitement, “I am going to claim

Bar too.”

“What? How?” Orson’s voice broke through into the

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right moment. It will be how I know it’s time for us to seal our

bond.”

“No way!” Rafferty gave a laugh. “That’s actually really cool.”

“All four of us will be connected through the bond. Bar, you’ll need to mark me right over the bond which comes from the twins. It will create a mark which will change and all four of us will have the same one through the magic of the Queen Mother.” She held her hand up to the stick insect which gave her a high–five. She looked around the group. “What are you waiting for?”

“What?”

“Get naked? We need to do this in there,” she waved to the spring which was now miraculously turning into a pool of frigid water, “and when all is said and done, we’ll seal our bonds physically.” At their wide–eyed gazes, “we’re going to consummate the union here in the snow, the water, and the wilderness. It’s time my mates.”

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