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It was such a claiming, it lit anew long-buried instincts and she pushed onto her toes, shoving one hand into the dark, wavy hair at his nape. Fisting her fingers in the curls, she slid her own tongue along his in a teasing caress before delving into his mouth.
He groaned, his free hand going to her hip and pulling her in tight against him.
The heavy thrust of his cock against her belly was enough to make her want to forget everything, anything...
Somebody cleared his throat.
Zee tore herself away, backing up until several feet separated her from Niko. With a shaking hand, she pushed her hair back and smoothed it down until it no longer felt as if a big, hungry Prime had recently twined the locks around a demanding fist as he savaged her mouth.
Niko gazed at her as if he wanted to go back to doing just that—savaging her mouth. And other parts.
But after several seconds, he dragged in a slow breath. His eyes, glowing gold, slowly began to take on a more human aspect. Lowering his lashes over them, he took another breath, then shifted his attention to Shale. “Watch over her.”
“With my life, Prime.” The words held a formal tone, one of deep respect.
Zee tugged her gaze from them and wrapped her arms around her midsection, staring outside. There was nothing out there that made her feel any better, though. Not at all.
“I'll see you outside, Zee,” Niko said softly.
She didn't look in his direction until she heard his footfalls. Only then did she let herself shift her gaze toward him. And what she saw hurt.
His shoulders were rigid, his posture stiff, as though something had enraged him.
“He's not angry with you.”
Turning her gaze to meet that of the big man standing several feet away from her, she cocked a brow.
He gave her a smile—that could be termed a lethal weapon. Even she, still twisted up inside over Niko and the kiss he'd laid on her, found her heart skipping a few beats at how impossibly beautiful this man was.
Shale's smile was brilliantly white against skin a touchable shade of gold, while his eyes...oh, those eyes... they were the rich green of a verdant forest, ringed with a thin rim of the same shade, but so much paler, like the first leaves of spring. Hypnotically beautiful.
If he was purely Therian or human, she'd imagine eyes of such a shade, with his genetics, would be highly unlikely.
But there was something other about him. She'd felt it in the air, felt it whisper along as her skin as their gazes held.
His otherness was almost as overwhelming as his beauty, a beauty he did nothing with, and still she felt almost entranced.
He'd just... smiled. There was no flirtation in his eyes, no seduction in that smile.
It was just him.
“Really, even if he is an arse about it, he can't help being possessive. It's in our genes, in our bones. It's who we are, being Therian. Primes are even worse. And Niko...” Shale lifted a heavily-muscled shoulder in an easy shrug. “Well, he can be an arse even on the best of days.”
Delivered in a lyrically accented voice, the casual comment was so unexpected from a lieutenant about his Prime that Zee found herself bursting into laughter and the spell he'd wrought with that smile broke.
Amused, he grinned at her. “Surely that doesn't come as a surprise.”
“No.” Dragging herself under control, she pressed a hand to her belly. “No, it doesn't. But normally, he doesn't have people so willing to admit the fact.”
“Among his lieutenants, he does.” Shale shrugged yet again, smiling again and this time, it didn't have quite the same punch. “We're useless if we can be no more than adoring sycophants. And although he won't admit it, while Niko demands order from his pack, blind adulation annoys the bloody fuck out of him.”
He pronounced it “bluudy fuuk”, with heavier emphasis on the u's and she found herself charmed by the accent.
“Are you Irish?”
“I'm a bit of everything.” He winked at her. “And for tonight, I'm your willing servant ... and your shadow. So if you need a servant to do your fetching and carrying, we'll enlist somebody else to help.”
“Ah... I'm not expecting to need anybody to fetch and carry anything for me, but thanks.”
