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“Shit.”I swore, scrambling off Ford and practically falling out of the car. He caught me, setting me steadily on my feet.
“What?” he stepped in front of me, his gaze scanning space.
“Your family saw us,” I hissed.
He relaxed. “They don’t care. They’ll probably congratulate me; everyone’s always worried a guy’s mate will decide she just wants to be friends with him.”
I scoffed. “Bullshit.”
He chuckled. “I’m serious. Everyone knows and accepts that it’s a possibility, but we all dread meeting the one woman we can be with only to have her not interested in us as anything more than a friend. So imagine my excitement on the first day I met you, when you not only found me attractive, but literally climbed up my body and—”
I slapped a hand over his mouth, my eyes jerking back to the window, which was now empty. He was grinning into my palm as I glared at him. “If you’d like your balls to remain attached to your body, don’t finish that sentence.”
Assuming he was suitably afraid (despite his lingering grin), I removed my hand from his mouth and wiped it on my jeans.
His hand wrapped around my waist, and he tugged me closer as he leaned his head down to my ear, and murmured, “Used me for her pleasure.”
My body flushed instantly. “I didn’t use you.”
“You did.” He licked my neck, then caught my earlobe between his teeth, making me shudder against him. His voice was barely a whisper as he said, “And it was fucking sexy. You can use me any damn time you want, Ebb. We’re taking things slow for your sake, not mine. If it were up to me, you’d be naked on my kitchen table while I devoured you right now.”
Holy hell…
I swallowed roughly as he straightened, his fingers sliding between mine. “Ready?”
How he managed to look unfazed by what he’d just said to me when I was shocked and horny as hell, I didn’t know.
But I didn’t ask, either… just let him lead me up to the door like he hadn’t just told me there was nothing he wanted more than to go down on me on his damn kitchen table while I used him for whatever the hell I wanted.
Ford didn’t knock on this door either, just twisted the handle and waltzed on in with his hand on mine. There was music playing in the kitchen, and I could hear people talking in the other room.
I glanced over at Ford, frowning. “I thought it was just going to be your parents here.”
He shrugged. “They might’ve invited my brothers.”
Brothers?
I had not been warned about brothers.
I wanted to stop and turn around, but it was too late. If I left after already walking into the house, I’d look like a big ole’ chicken.
So I tightened my grip on Ford’s hand and kept walking.
We found his parents in the living room, sitting cuddled up on a loveseat together. Across from them, on a larger couch, a guy who looked a hell of a lot like Ford sat with a pale, dark-haired girl with almond-shaped eyes on his lap. Another guy who looked like Ford sat on the other side of the couch, alone.
All five of them grinned at us, and Ford’s mom waved us over. “Come on in! Ford, introduce us to your beautiful mate.”
My face heated.
Maybe meeting his parents wasn’t so bad after all.
“This is Ebony,” he said, lifting our connected hands. “Ebony, these are my parents, my bastardly older brothers, and my sister-in-law.”
The mated brother grinned, and the girl on his lap swatted him on the arm before springing to her feet and coming over to offer me a hand. “Hi,” she said, her smile soft. “I’m Elizabeth. The Welsh brothers can be pains in all of our asses, but they’re some of the good ones.”
“Hi,” I smiled back, feeling pretty damn awkward. I was pretty sure she was the one who’d seen us making out in the car.
