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“Finally we’re alone,” he murmured in myear.
A shiver of anticipation ran through me even as I smiled. “And what exactly are you assuming will happen now that weare?”
“I make no assumptions. Only offers. How would you like to spend the rest of our wait in a way we’ll both enjoy verymuch?”
“You think so highly of your abilities,” I teased. Then his hands dipped right under my bra, tracing the sensitive skin just above the tips of my breasts, and my breath caught. My body moved of its own accord. I leaned back against him, tilting my head as he pressed his mouth to the side of myneck.
“For good reason,” Marco said, his breath hot against my skin. It was so hard to resist the passionate need flaring up from my core. And why should I resist it? Like Aaron had said last night, all four of these guys were my mates. I needed to get more comfortable with all of them. To open myself up to theexperience.
I turned in Marco’s embrace and yanked his mouth to mine. He kissed me, a hungry sound reverberating from his chest. His hands slipped up my back under my shirt and nimbly unhooked my bra. As the cups loosened, he reached for my breasts again, swiveling his thumbs around my nipples and then flicking over them until Igasped.
My hips canted toward his. He dropped one hand to grasp my waist and spun us around so he could lean me against the stone wall. His touch teased over my hips and thighs. I kissed him hard, not caring about the rough surface behind me, just wanting to feelmore.
Marco’s lips moved away from mine to nibble a tingling line along my jaw. “Oh, my Princess of Flames,” he said between nips. “You’re amazing. There’s no other word for it. I couldn’t have imagined a bettermate.”
I mumbled something inarticulate and encouraging, lost in the haze of pleasure. My eyelids fluttered. The light in the cave behind Marco seemed to flutter with them—and to solidify into a humanoidform.
We weren’t aloneanymore.
Chapter 4
Ren
Ayelp brokefrom my throat. I jerked away from Marco and the figure beyond him, smacking the back of my head on the wall of the cave. Marco whirled to place himself between me and the figure in one smooth movement. What must have been an instinctive shout of warning burst out of him, but his shoulders came down when he set eyes on the strange woman. He drew himself upstraighter.
“You know, I really thought the fae had better manners,” hesaid.
The fae. Yes, the woman standing at the other side of the passage was as slim and pale as the man I remembered Mom talking to. Her skin, hair, and filmy dress had the same bluish shine, a little dampened here in the dimness of thecave.
I fumbled to fix my bra, my face flushing. This wasn’t exactly how I’d have wanted my first meeting with fae-kind to go down, not when I was supposed to represent the entire shiftercommunity.
The woman didn’t look at all distressed or apologetic about the make-out she’d interrupted. Her expression was blandlyblank.
“I have a matter of some importance to relate to you,” she said in a thin, shimmeringvoice.
Footsteps were thudding over the stone floor on either side of us. Nate appeared first, then Aaron and West, all of them slowing to a halt when they saw our visitor. Marco waved them all over, but I saw his jaw was still set a bit tight. He wasn’t completely at ease, no matter how nonchalant he liked toappear.
How had the fae woman gotten past all of the alphas? Was there some other passage we’d missed—or had it been some kind of magic? It didn’t seem wise to ask the guys right in front of her. I didn’t need her knowing just how ignorant I was about all thingssupernatural.
West’s lips had drawn back over his teeth in a wolfish snarl. His stance was completely tensed. “What are you doing here?” he grittedout.
Nate stepped closer, towering over the slip of a woman. I could tell from his pose that he was braced to shift into his grizzly form the instant he felt he needed to. Aaron set a hand on his arm, but the eagle shifter’s eyes gleamed with a determined light. He might not want to rush into a confrontation, but he was ready forit.
“Apparently she has some important info to pass on,” Marco said, and nodded to the fae woman. “So goon.”
She cocked her head consideringly, taking in my alphas. “I come with the intention to help. There is no need to bedefensive.”
“We’ll judge that for ourselves,” Westsaid.
Aaron stepped forward, making a brisk motion toward the wolf shifter as if asking him to stand down. “We’re listening,” he said, his voice even but not friendly. “What is it you wanted to tellus?”
“We discovered one of your kind sneaking after you in the caves, carrying a weapon,” the fae woman said. “One with no ties to any of your kin-groups. Clearly he had illintentions.”
A rogue. My back stiffened. “Where ishe?”
“You don’t need to worry about him any longer. We disposed of him in an appropriatemanner.”
She moved her hand in an arc through the air and conjured an image like a hazy video recording, floating in mid-air. A weasel scuttled along the wall of the cave. It had a small knife clamped in its jaws. A chill ran down myspine.
