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But a jackass was exactly what he was.
“I just want to make sure we all know where we stand.”
“We know where we stand,” I said. “I’m not here to step on any toes.”
Or sit on any cocks, if I could help myself with him.
Bishop took a step closer. I automatically took a step back, but he kept coming for me until my back hit a tree.
“You’re stepping onmytoes,” Bishop said in a low voice, his eyes boring into mine.
His body was inches from mine so that I could feel the intense heat radiating from him, and his lips were perfect. What would it be like to kiss him?
As if he’d read my mind, his eyes slid to my lips.
For a moment, we were caught in a spell, and I was sure he was going to kiss me. My skin tingled, the heat that brushed up against my skin transformed into raw, unadulterated lust, and my breath caught in my throat.
Bishop stepped back.
“Go back to where you came from, and stay out of business that doesn’t concern you,” he said and shifted into his wolf form.
In a flash, he was gone. I sagged against the tree, trying to catch my breath. If I hadn’t been overrun by emotions, I would have said that it had looked like Bishop had wanted to kiss me, and then he’d run from that kiss.
I pressed my hand against my forehead. What did I know?
I just knew that his magic was hypnotizing. His body, his eyes, had drawn me in, and now that he was gone, I shivered, feeling his absence in the cold.
I shifted into my wolf form and headed back upriver in the direction from which I’d come.
Go back to where you came from.
Yeah, that wasn’t going to happen. Not until I knew what I needed to know. Why was he so nonchalant about Turk’s disappearance? It was the second time he acted like I was out of line for wanting to look for him, which made me think he knew something I didn’t.
That was enough reason for me to stay.
Besides, I liked seeing him worked up, and if I didn’t do what he wanted, it pissed him off. He was so hot when he was pissed off.
All the more reason to stay. I wasn’t usually the type to look for shit, but…
I was going to look for shit.
5
RORY
Icouldn’t shake the power that had come with Bishop when he’d followed me and pinned me down. It clung to my fur as I ran back to where I’d stashed my things. When I shifted back to human form and found my clothes under the shrub where I’d left them, the magic shifted with me and clung to my clothes instead.
I drove home, shivers running up and down my spine all the way back.
I’d left lights on for myself, and I let out a breath when I got home. I felt like I’d been holding my breath all the way from my encounter with Bishop.
I put on a kettle for tea and waited for it to whistle. I would have preferred coffee—Ilovedcoffee—but I needed to calm my nerves, and caffeine would just work me up more.
Decaf was for the weak.
I stared into the blue flame on the gas plate underneath the kettle. When my phone rang, I jumped.
“Colter,” I said when I answered, his name flashing on the screen.
