“Kaeli?”
“I’ll be right back.”
He grabbed his jeans off the floor and felt the shredded seams.His shift had come on him so fast that he’d ripped through his clothes, which had never happened to him before.He grabbed his things and dumped them in the kitchen trash, then went to the bedroom and got dressed.While he waited for her to finish in the bathroom, he texted the security office to alert them that he and Kaeli would be taking a walk in the woods behind his house.
She joined him in the living room a few minutes later.
“Are you okay?”he asked.
“I’d just like to stretch my legs and get some fresh air, if that’s okay.”
“Yeah, of course.We can walk through the woods.Do you want to borrow a coat?”
“Ah, no, actually, I’m feeling kind of warm.”
The way she said warm made him think she didn’t quite mean it, but she was walking out the front door before he could ask her what was really going on.Her whole demeanor had changed, and he wondered if it was because he’d bitten her wrist.
He hurried to catch up to her as she walked around the corner of the house and headed toward the woods.They crossed into the woods together, and he grabbed her hand.
She stopped and faced him, and that was when he saw her eyes were amber, practically glowing in the moonlight that filtered through the trees.
“What’s going on,Nightling?”
He cupped her face, and she shivered, then grasped his wrists.“I don’t know.”
The trees rustled as a light breeze moved, and that’s when he picked up the subtle scent of her arousal, the sage and honey sweetness of her warmth like sunshine.
“I’m trying to stop myself,” she whispered, her voice raw.“I can’t.”
His first thought was to ask herwhatshe wanted to stop, but he knew without asking for clarification that she was having some kind of hyper arousal and was fighting it.His fingers pressed her skin gently, and he leaned in.
He pressed his lips to her forehead, breathing in the sage and honey that he found wholly enticing, and then both cheeks, and then her lips.She opened her mouth on a sigh, her nails digging into his wrists as their bodies slowly pressed together.
“I can’t resist you,” she whispered between kisses.“I don’t want to.”
“You don’t have to resist anything, Kaeli.I’m yours.”
“I know you are,” she said.She moved backward as they kissed, and he followed until she stopped with a gasp as her back pressed against a large tree.“I don’t want to think right now, I just want you.”
“You’ve got me,” he said.His wolf howled in his head as his own arousal rose inside him like a tidal wave.
She tilted her head back to rest against the tree.He dropped his hands to her shoulders and down her arms.He pressed them gently against the tree and followed his instincts.He slipped his fingers up under her top, touching the soft skin of her belly as he ran them along the waistband of her jeans.
“Tell me what you need,Nightling.”
He kissed her, and as their tongues touched and danced together, he could feel her magic rising, but it wasn’t the frenzied rush that had forced his shift out in protection; it was slow and deliberate.
And filled with need.
“I just need you,” she said, her voice hitching.
He could feel the pulse of her desire like an echo in his heart.He was going to suggest they head back into the house for privacy, but she moaned softly, her hips tilting toward him, and every thought he had in his head disappeared except for one:take care of Kaeli.
He twisted his fingers against the button of her jeans and undid them, then slid the zipper down.He leaned in to kiss her as he eased her jeans and panties down her hips.Slipping his hand between her thighs, he found her folds soaked with arousal.
He kissed her jaw and made his way to her neck, sucking on her skin lightly as he teased her folds with the tip of his finger.She curled her hands into his hair and pressed her head against his shoulder, groaning his name.
The sound went straight to his cock.
