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I turned to face him. “It’s just more of not knowing where to go, of not having a plan, of being totally and completely stuck. You know, same old, same old.”
He pressed his lips together, as if he knew there was more I wouldn’t say, but he shook his head. “Why don’t I drive you home?”
“What, no handcuffs?”
That glow in his eyes started, the one that said he really wanted to do just that.
Not that I’d gone without…
In the six weeks since we’d returned from hell, I’d ended up in bed with Troy countless times. Always at his place, and usually because I went there, because I craved his scent, his taste, the feeling of his strong hands on me.
It made me wonder if there wasn’t something to this whole mate thing, some bond that drew me to him, that made me need him like I hadn’t before.
Or maybe I was just addicted to his stupid knot.
That wasverypossible.
He inhaled, slowly, the glow of his eyes brightening.Right.He could smell me, always knew when I was thinking such things.There weren’t a lot of secrets in a relationship with a werewolf.
He leaned forward, as if drawn by the smell of my desire, driven by the need to satisfy me.
I put my hand up and over his face, stopping him before he could kiss me. “No time.”
His groan was muffled by my palm. “I can be quick.”
“No, you can’t.”
Normally, that would have been a wonderful compliment, because the reality was that I never left Troy’s bed unsatisfied. In fact, I usually fell asleep there because I couldn’t stay awake another moment, not after he’d had his way with me, some wild part of his wolf needing to turn me boneless, as if laying a claim.
He nipped my palm before sitting back. “Will you at least promise to stop harassing strangers? I don’t want to get called out on you again.”
“I wasn’t harassing anyone.” At his lifted eyebrow, I blew out a long breath. “Okay, so I may have threatened to rip his soul out of his body.”
Disapproval flooded his expression.
Which I guess was fair.
Maybe that wasn’t the smartest thing I’d done recently. Or maybe it was. It hadn’t been a very good six weeks.
“I know you’re frustrated, Ava. I know you want to find Lilith, that you want to handle this, but going off the rails isn’t going to make it happen any faster. If you end up in jail or rushing into trouble, it isn’t going to help. You need to relax.”
“How am I supposed to do that? Yoga? Meditation?Tea?”
“I have tomorrow night off. What if we go out?”
I paused at the offer, which had taken me off track. “Like…a date?”
He nodded. “We’re involved, aren’t we? Let me take my mate out, have dinner, act like any normal couple.”
“I don’t think you get to use the word ‘normal’, not when we went to hell, had a threesome with a vampire and your penis gets stuck inside me when we have sex.”
He let out a rough laugh. “You’re impossible, you know that?”
“I’ve heard that before, yeah. So, you’re not going to arrest me?”
“Not today.” He caught my arm as if calling me on how I hadn’t actually agreed to the date. “Dinner tomorrow?”
Maybe trying to date like some happy couple wasn’t the best idea in the middle of everything else, or maybe that was exactly why I needed it right then.
“Okay,” I said, inexplicably nervous. Then again, when was the last time I’d had arealdate planned?
Maybe never? Certainly never with someone I actually loved.
I went to get out of the car, but he didn’t let me go. Troy shifted his hand to the front of my shirt, then tugged me in until he could take my lips in a possessive kiss, one that screamedminein a way that melted me.
Whether it was him or his wolf leaving a mark on me, I didn’t know, and honestly, I didn’t really care.
Being claimed by both of them was fine by me, and one of the few things going exactly right in my life.
