Page 155 of Knot What I Expected

I rise onto my toes.

His eyes drop to my mouth.

“One night,” I whisper.

Something flashes across his face.

He doesn't like that. I can tell.

But he nods.

“If that's what you want.”

It should reassure me.

Instead, some ridiculous part of me wants him to argue.

To tell me one night won't be enough.

Because I already know it won't be enough for me.

And that scares the shit out of me.

So I do the only thing I can think of to stop thinking.

I kiss him.

Rowan freezes for maybe half a heartbeat.

Then his arms close around me. And there is nothing careful about the way I kiss him back.

All those weeks of pretending I didn't notice him.

Every night at Dick's when I felt his eyes following me.

Every growl.

Every argument.

Every time he called me Honey Girl and made something low in my belly tighten.

All of it comes rushing out.

His hand slides into my hair, and I clutch his shoulders, dragging him closer. He growls into my mouth.

My hidden nature surges toward him again.

And this time? I don't force her completely down.

Just for tonight.

Just for one night, I let myself want.

Rowan.

Not Havoc. Not the Alpha Wolf.

The man.