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“Emphasis onlittle,” I mumble only half hoping he hears me. After that scene outside the bar, his body pressed against mine, he knows I know he’s anything but little.
Chuckling, Kane throws a leg over me. Between that and his brawny arms curled around my shoulders, I’m trapped.
My brain tells me to fight him off again, but the more warmth he shares with me, the more my body relaxes. The more I remember how safe I always felt with Kane before he left. The more I let myself believe I’m safe with him now.
As my mind drifts between wake and sleep, and the quiet worms its way between us, all the years he hasn’t been here to keep me safe flood back in and I want to fight again.
I’m not stupid enough to give up his heat, but I finally find my courage and confront him. “You left me.”
He doesn’t react.
I push harder. “I hate you for leaving me.”
Still, nothing.
“You’re an asshole, Kane Murphy,” I say, more forcefully. “You were all I had and you left me alone. I had no one. No friends. No mother. My dad… I don’t know where the hell he goes all the time, I just know he’d rather be anywhere else than be with me. And that when he left, you were there and then… You weren’t.”
His arms tighten around me and his heart beats rapidly against my cheek.
All that warm, masculine scent floods my lungs and coats my skin, drawing me further in, begging me to forget my anger. “Why did you leave me, Kane?” I ask, turning my head until my nose and lips brush against his chest. I make the excuse in my mind that it’s to warm them but really, I just want to be as close to him as humanly possible. Breathe him in. Because even though I’m still angry at him for leaving me confused and scared, thinking I did something wrong and was being punished for some unknown reason, it’s finally hitting me that he’s back. He’s here now, holding me so close that I can feel his heartbeat and I don’t want to hate him anymore.
“I got into some trouble,” he says, at last.
“What kind of trouble?” I ask.
“The kind that required me to leave.”
“That’s not an answer.” My stomach tightens, wanting to yell at him again. Wanting to get a proper answer out of him.
“It’s the only one you need.”
“Damn it, Kane. Tell me. Please.” I need to know that he had a good reason for abandoning me so I can stop hating him. Stop fighting the pull on my heart and the pulse between my legswhen his hardened shaft bumps my thigh. I want to let him want me, but first he has to tell me the truth. Let me forgive him.
“I’m a bad man, princess. I’ve done bad things. Awful, brutal things. They caught up to me and no matter how much I’d have rather stayed, I had to leave. I never would have left you if I didn’t have to.”
It’s an answer that only raises more questions, but before I can ask them he says, with a command in his voice I can’t ignore, “Now. It’s late. Sleep. Please, princess. Sleep.”
At least, now, I know he didn’t leave for no reason. Even if he won’t tell me specifically what that reason was.
Accepting I won’t get any more out of him tonight, I nestle into our full-body hug until there’s no space left between us and I get the full impression of his cock, harder than ever, on my thigh.
Kane stills as my chest, pressed up against him, shudders when I struggle to take a breath.
“It’s been a while since I’ve held a woman this close.” Kane’s voice rumbles in his chest, sending a shock wave down my spine to settle in my core.
“You can hold me closer, if you want to.”
Chapter five
Kane
I’m supposed to protecther. It’s what her father, my best friend… My boss hired me—brought me out of hiding to do.
I’ve already said and done too much tonight. This has to stop. No matter what my wolf says, Alice is off limits. Not even fate can change that.
“Please, Princess. Just go to sleep,” I beg, trying to arch away from her soft, little body pressed fully against mine.
She’s so close, the only barrier between us is the thin fabric of my T-shirt she’s wearing. From which the hard points of her nipples try to break through.
