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He snapped his fingers. “I knew I’d forgotten something. I thought it was better if we talked before I handed that over, considering thecircumstances.”
“Is that what you want to do now?” Nate asked. “To talk more with us? There is a lot more we can tellyou.”
A pressure was starting to build at the back of my skull. I rubbed my neck. “Actually, I think I’d like a little time to myself, if that’s okay. To process everything I’ve already heard. And maybe to take a nap. Having your world tipped over is kind ofexhausting.”
“That room upstairs is yours for as long as you want it,” Marco said. “I’ll get Leonard to grab your phone foryou.”
As he ducked inside, Kylie enveloped me in a hug. “Promise me you’re okay with this,” she murmured by myear.
I smiled tightly. I wasn’t exactlyokay, but that wasn’t the fault of anyone here. “I just found out I have super powers,” I said. “What’s not tolike?”
She laughed and gave me one last squeeze. “I’ll check in with you soon, whether I’ve got news ornot.”
She slipped past the trees around the side of the house. The guys followed me back inside. West drew Aaron aside, muttering something to him I assumed was some new complaint about me. Nate came with me up the staircase. I skimmed my hand over the polished wood of the curving banister. Apparently being a shifter also meant being rich, at least for some people. Or maybe that came with being the “alpha.”
“Do you have a place like this?” I asked the bearshifter.
Nate grinned. “Marco and I have pretty different senses of style. And our homes belong more to our position as alpha than tous. But I do have a few nice properties I’ll be looking forward to showingyou.”
Upstairs, it took me a few tries before I found the bedroom I’d started this adventure in. I paused by the doorway, my awareness of Nate seeping into my skin. The memory rose up of just how much of himself he’d already shown me, and the warmth turned intoheat.
Nate reached out and brushed a stray lock of hair back from my cheek. My heart thumped at his touch. “You’ll be all right on your own?” hesaid.
What exactly was he going to propose if I said no? And did I want him to propose it? For a second, my body blared its answer: absolutelyyes.
But I was more than just a body, and my mind was too full to be making any clear decisions rightnow.
“I will,” I said. “Thankyou.”
He teased his fingers deeper into my hair and tipped my head toward him as he bowed his own. His lips grazed my forehead, and my breath caught. He stepped back, leaving me more flushed than I’d ever been before. I swallowedhard.
“Take whatever time you need,” Nate said. He dipped his head. Marco came up from behind him, holding myphone.
“As promised,” Marco said. He handed it to me as Nate ambled to the staircase. “Is there any other way your situation here islacking?”
“I don’t think so,” I said. I walked into the room to give it a once-over, and Marco followed me. Well, why shouldn’t he? It was his house, and he thought I might have something else to ask for. But his closeness beside me made my breath stutter all over again. Heat licked through myveins.
Dear lord, how could I be this horny—and for four guys all at once? Did shifters always provoke that response in other people? Kylie hadn’t seemed anywhere near as affected. Maybe it was just betweenshifters.
If I was going to just accept that I definitely wasone.
“No complaints?” Marcosaid.
“No,” I said honestly. “This is the most gorgeous house I’ve everseen.”
I turned toward him at the same time, which maybe was a mistake. He smiled his slightly wicked smile, gazing back at me with the hunger I’d noticed earlier. An answering desire unfurled in my gut and tingled lower in mybelly.
He raised his hand and traced his lithe fingers along the line of my jaw, tipping my face toward his. His languid voice dropped to a murmur. “And you have the most gorgeous eyes I’ve ever seen. So brilliant they’re more amber than brown. Like fire. A person could fall right intothem.”
“Falling into fire?” I joked in a half-hearted attempt to diffuse the electricity between us. “That sounds pretty dangerous. You’d want to climb back outfast.”
“Maybe not,” Marco said. “I suspect it would be a very pleasantburning.”
As if drawn up by his words, a rush of heat seared through me. Marco leaned his head a little closer. Before I caught control of myself, I’d pressed my lips tohis.
He kissed me back with an encouraging growl. His mouth slid against mine, hot and teasing, coaxing my lips apart. His hand slipped back to tangle in the hair at the base of my neck. Everywhere he touched me, I felt as if Ihadcaught onfire.
I gripped his shoulders as if I could pull our mouths even closer together. His tongue caressed mine, and I groaned into him. My hips arched toward his. His other hand trailed down my side, drawing a path of flames through myclothes.
