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For a couple of seconds … seconds that felt like years … she gaped at him, nude and downright beautiful.
“Holyfuck,” he groaned, unable to keep the desire out of his tone.
He knew he should look away or, at the very least, close his eyes.
Nero, however, was just as paralyzed as Valentine.
All he could do was stare.
Stare and greedily commit every curve and dimple and beauty mark to memory. There were things a man could never forget, and the sight of his naked mate would be such a sight.
She was delectable.
Valentine screamed and tried to cover up her nakedness. She eyed the towel on the floor like it had betrayed her.
Her only way out was to turn … giving him a full view of her lush ass … as she closed the bathroom door with a loud grunt of frustration.
Hey, lady, I get it. I’m frustrated, too.
Once again, there was a fucking door between them. He was starting to understand the big, bad wolf’s frustrations with doors. He was about a second away from huffing and puffing the fucking thing down.
“What the fuck, Nero!” she shouted through the door. “What are you doing here?”
“Umm, this is my room too?” he answered, not sure why he sounded unsure. It had to be the lust coursing through his veins. Ithadto be why he couldn’t be cool and collected.
“But… but…” A sputtering Valentine opened the door, dressed in a nightshirt that was so baggy, it hung deliciously off one shoulder.
It was almost just as sexy. Almost.
Valentine jabbed a finger in his chest. “You should have knocked. Or warned me you were back. Something.”
“I’m sorry.” He wasn’t. “I didn’t see anything.” He’d seen it all.
The erection tenting his running shorts was proof enough.
Too bad for him, Valentine had noticed his engorged limb. Her eyes went wide at the sight of it. Her cheeks and the creamy skin of her neck turned nearly the same shade as her hair. “Yeah? You usually get a hard-on when you run?”
“Well, no. But my house doesn’t usually have a naked woman in it.”
She narrowed her eyes at him. “You said you didn’t see anything.” She pointed to his dick. “So that was a lie.”
“I don’t know what you want me to say, hon. I see you naked for a second, and I’ve got a hard-on that is just refusing to die. It’s …”
“Do. Not.” She growled. It was adorable. It was sexy as hell. “Do notdaresay it’s a compliment.”
He threw his hands up. “I wasn’t going to say that.” He was, though. Because itwasa compliment. It was also entirely because she was his mate, and he was born to be hers. He couldn’t help it, but he also couldn’t come right out and say it. He had a feeling she wouldn’t take it too well just then. She was too busy being embarrassed for reasons he couldn’t understand.
She was a beautiful woman. The kind of woman he fantasized about. She should’ve flaunted what she had. Not hidden it.
Valentine covered her face with her hands and groaned. “This is a disaster.”
“Hey,” he cooed. “Come on.” He hugged her, careful to angle his cock away from her. He wanted to weep from the sheer force of will it took not to rub up against her, but he was no perv. Just a wolfreallyinto his mate. “It’s not that big of a deal.”
“Not a big deal?” she said in his chest. “Of course it is! No one has ever seen me naked.”
This gave him pause.
His heart was in his throat, thundering away. He pulled away … only just a tiny bit … to look down at her still-covered face.
