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“Are you asking me to mate you?” Kayla sounded surprised.
He thought Kayla had figured that was why he had brought her out here for a week. “Hell, yeah, and I will do anything to make the transition the easiest for you.”
“You are asking me to mate you?” she asked again as if she couldn’t believe it.
He sighed. “Hell, I’m not good at this. Yeah, Ilove you, Kayla, so much, with all my heart. You are the yin to my yang. I’ve just been waiting to ask you when I thought you would be ready. From the very beginning, I was fascinated with you when I first met you at the lodge. Here you were, so eager to help me with a case of theft at the lodge, and I knew it was because I intrigued you too. I felt a spark of interest in you as soon as I met you. I knew you would change my life forever. I was eager to help you and your family out, sure, but especially because I got to work with you.”
“Yeah, I felt the same way about you. Like we had this magical connection. Believe me, it takes me awhile to really want to meet someone new—especially a bachelor male wolf—but as soon as I saw you, there was just something about you that drew me to you. I was eager to work with you too when normally I would have been a whole lot more reserved about it. And, knowing the way I am with meeting strangers, my brothers and sister were delighted that you and I seemed to hit it off right from the start.”
He smiled. “I’m so glad. I adore you.”
“I love you too. And adore you just as much. You’re so…virile but tender too. I just wish I wasn’t such an introvert.”
“I’mnot an extrovert either.”
She looked surprised he’d say that. “But you get out all the time, and you’re around people and—”
“I’m still not an extrovert. We’re great together. We both need the time to chill after seeing tons of people. But when we’re together, we’re so attuned to each other that I just feel comfortable. I don’t know about you, but I just feel good, better, relaxed, and happy around you. I don’t feel like I have to put on any pretenses with you, and you seem relaxed too whenever we’re together. What we have is something really special. Together we’re—”
She smiled. “Hot.”
He chuckled. “That’s for sure. Do you want to swim some more laps, return to the cabin, and then see just how hot we can be together?”
“I sure do.”
Then he kissed her, and he released her. They swam in the lake some more. The top layers of the water were warmed by the hot sun, but deeper, the water was cool. Still, it felt really nice to cool off, as high as the temperature was. After swimming for about an hour—playing, sitting out, getting in again, clinging to each other, and just floating on the water—they heard people approaching the lake. He wondered if they were wolves or just human hikers who shouldn’t be here. He would be annoyed if they were trespassers when he just wanted to enjoy this time with Kayla.
Chapter 14
Nate caught Kayla’s arm and pulled her close, hugging on her, kissing her wet cheek, adoring her, hating the intrusion of the hikers. “We are probably turning into a couple of prunes. Are you ready to return to the cabin?” He was ready to mate her.
“Are we mating?”
“Yes! Are you ready?”
“I sure am.”
“No problem about the housing situation? If you want, we could use the guest room in your house for the two of us while we build a new home like Blake and Nicole did. Then you won’t have to leave your home until ours is ready for us to move in.”
“We’ll figure it out.” Kayla took his hand and headed in to shore, and they finally saw the hikers—two men and two women—reach the lake. “Wolves or otherwise?”
“Not sure. The way the hot breeze is blowing in the direction of the couples, I can’t tell. If they were local wolves, we’d know them for sure. But not if they’re wolves we haven’t met who are just passing through.”
“Well, if they’re human, then they’re trespassing,” Kayla said.
“Yeah.”
“So before we call Peter on them, we need to check to see if they’re wolves. We don’t want to give the sheriff a false alarm.”
“Agreed. It’s the perfect time to leave the lake, go inside, and shift into our wolves. We’ll go out the front door of the cabin. We can go around and get downwind of them so we can smell them. They won’t even see us.” He grabbed up Kayla’s beach towel on shore and shook it out, then wrapped it around her and kissed her. She kissed him back, but they wanted to learn if the people were wolves or not before they got down to the more pleasurable business at hand. He grabbed up his towel and wrapped himself up in it; then they headed for the cabin and walked inside.
“We could scare them off as wolves—if they’re not wolves. Otherwise, they’ll just wave at us and be friendly. If they run out of the water screaming, we’ll know they’re human, and we can sic Peter on them,” Kayla said.
Nate laughed. He really hadn’t expected Kayla’s wolfishness to come to the forefront like that. He’d never seen that wilder side of her. He loved it.
“Well?”
“Yeah, let’s do it.” He locked the cabin door, and then they tossed their towels on the back of acouple of kitchen chairs and both of them pulled off their bathing suits and shifted.
