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“I don’t have to win her,” I said. “I just won’t let her leave.”
Karissa gave me a look. “You are such an idiot,” she said, and then patted my arm.
I left Karissa behind, fantasizing about how I’d love to punish Amelia, but even those fantasies were all about her pleasure.
CHAPTER41
Cole
I waswith Amelia the next day when she saw Joshua. She looked uncomfortable, tucking her hair behind her ears. “I don’t understand why Stone has let him stay here.”
“Stone always has a plan,” I said.
She scoffed, and I said, “Don’t underestimate him.”
“Is that a warning?”
“No. Stone is complicated, and that’s just a fact.”
She and I went on sparring. It was just the two of us, because no one else had arrived yet. I swept her leg, then caught her. I gripped her arms, preventing her from falling to the ground. She looked up at me, her lips parting, her eyes luminous.
No matter what I’d try to teach her about going hard until someone yielded, never stopping until you had defeated your opponent, I couldn’t move. The two of us shared a long intense look, and then my lips met hers.
Her lips were soft and welcoming. I released her arm, and she slid it around my neck, deepening the kiss.
Then she swept my leg. I let her, grinning as I felt her calf hook mine, and the two of us tumbled to the ground. I kissed her again, her mischief barely breaking the tempo.
As we lay in the grass, Amelia and I lost ourselves in each other. Our hands intertwined as we traded wild kisses. The autumn breeze was cool and fragrant, but our bodies against each other generated so much heat.
As the kiss deepened, we rolled over each other, never breaking the kiss. In an echo of how we had fought, now we were playfully fighting to be the one on top, but we couldn't. stop kissing each other as we played. My hands traced the curves of her body. She moaned softly into my mouth as I teased between her legs, her hips rising to my touch even through her shorts.
We were lost in the moment, oblivious to the world around us. This was all that mattered. The passion, the desire, the need. It was like nothing else existed.
It wasn’t until someone coughed that I realized we had company. The other shifters had arrived for the morning’s training session.
I scrambled up away from her, and Amelia looked up at me with hurt written across her face. I dusted my hands off on my shorts, knowing I had to let it look as if I was betraying Stone.
I wondered if Stone felt I was betraying him.
Sometimes I thought I would, if I had to choose between Amelia and Stone.
After our training, I said goodbye to Amelia. She murmured a quick goodbye, and I wasn’t sure how to read her.
She had left before Stone walked into the training yard, looking furious as he strode toward me.
“I guess I wasn’t sufficiently clear the other day,” he said.
Stone punched me across the jaw.
It wasn’t sparring. It was a full out punch, and I went down onto the ground like a bag of bricks. I scrambled up, raising my fists, ready to fight him.
“Think carefully about what you’re going to do next,” Stone told me calmly. “If this is a fight you’re ready to start.”
Slowly, I let my fist fall.
“Good call,” Stone said. He turned and walked away.
We still had too much of an audience. Some of the other shifters rushed over to check on me, though they waited until Stone had gone.
