Page 43 of Blood of Vengeance

“That’s what I thought,” he said, cocky enough to make me want to punch him. “Now get your ass inside. I need to clean up and get back out on the road.”

A sad, horrible, miserable thought. “Fine. But someday…”

I headed for the door, leaving the threat hanging. Smiling as Flinch laughed behind me.

“Someday, I’m going to fuck the sass right out of you, Locklyn.”

And I couldn’t wait for that.

Fourteen

Flinch

I washed off in the outdoor shower while Locklyn ran inside to take command of the bathroom. I needed the cool water to calm me the fuck down after that escapade in the pool. My girl had been so beautiful—so sexy and giving as she’d come on my fingers. I’d wanted to pin her down and fuck her right there on the concrete, but I couldn’t. She deserved better than for me to behave like an animal for her first time with me.

But after that? After I gave her a full night of my mouth, my fingers, and my dick? After I made sure I knew every single sound of pleasure I could wring from her and exactly how to make her come? All bets were off. I’d be fucking her wherever and whenever she let me as hard and wild as she could take.

Thinking about fucking her on the hood of my truck at that spot we had watched the sunset wasn’t helping my situation any, so I adjusted myself over my clean, dry jeans and refocused on my phone. The brothers were hunting hard and needed my help. I needed to be out there with them so we could find Chiggy’s truck, but I had to deal with Locklyn first. She was my priority.

“Hey.”

I smiled on instinct at the sound of her voice, finishing my text to the brothers before looking up. The sight of her stole my breath. Locklyn stood in the kitchen entry wearing what looked like the softest, shortest pajamas I had ever seen. The girl showed so much skin, and yet the pastel color and fuzzy fabric made her seem extra innocent. A vixen and a virgin, all wrapped up in one hot-as-fuck package. And all mine.

“You look…” I shook my head, a low rumble coming from my chest as my wolf made his interest known. As I lost a little control over him. Her lips slid up into a slow, almost taunting smile, and she crossed one ankle over the other as she leaned against the wall.

“I look…?”

Fuck her and that teasing tone. I snarled full out and leaped toward her, catching her in my arms and picking her up. Those legs wrapped around my waist as my lips caught hers in a ferocious kiss. Lost. The smell, taste, and feel of Locklyn had me lost in my own house. The place I had lived for years. The building where I had slept but that had never been my home. Not until I had looked up and seen her standing right there in the middle of it. Fuck, I was lost to her. I would do anything for her. Apparently that including dry humping her against the wall like the damned animal I was.

“Sorry,” I said on a gasp as I wrenched my mouth away from hers. My dick…well, he wasn’t leaving the warmth of being shoved up against her sweet pussy. Not yet, so I kept her pinned to the wall as I fought to control myself. “Just give me a minute.”

Locklyn chuckled softly, running her fingers up my neck and through my hair like the goddamned tease she was. “I’ll give you ten if you keep kissing me like that.”

“Another day. I have to hunt with the brothers tonight.” I dropped one more kiss on those plump lips then pulled away, hanging on to her hand to keep my wolf happy. To keep us connected. “You’ll have a different man on the door.”

“No more creepy prospect?”

That caught my attention. “Has he been bothering you?”

She lifted a single shoulder in a weak sort of shrug and—key to what was really going on—looked away. “No. Not really.”

Fuck that. I leaned in closer, getting in her face. Refusing to let up until those green eyes locked on mine once more. “No, or not really?”

She didn’t answer, just stood and stared at me. Back straight, eyes hard. Brave. She wasn’t going to tell me how much the prospect I’d forced on her had bothered her, but he had. And that was my fault and my problem.

“Thought so,” I finally said. I rose to my full height and pulled my wallet from my pocket, grabbing all the bills. “This is in case you need anything.”

Locklyn looked at the cash then at me, her eyes wide. “No, no. That’s too much. I still have?—”

A knock at the door interrupted her, the sound of engines growing louder in the background telling me all I needed to know. The brothers had arrived.

“Take it,” I said, pushing the cash into her hand. “I won’t be able to focus if I think you need something and can’t get it.”

She glared at me, obviously unhappy. Still not gripping the money but instead holding it out as if to give it back. Challenging me. I stood and stared right back, refusing to take it. Needing her to accept my care so my wolf didn’t try to eat his way out of our shared body. But my mate was stubborn.

Too stubborn.

Finally, I sighed and grabbed her shoulders. Massaging her. Trying to get her to release a little of the tension she seemed to be carrying right along with the cash. And then I said the only thing I could think of. The only word that might allow her to relax a little.

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