Page 66 of Primal Mirror

Chapter 27

Jem57: Which changeling species do you think produces the most patient lovers? I’m partial to a nice gentle nonpredatory myself.

H2Imhot: I keep telling y’all you’re missing out by discounting the snake option. Smooth, slow, have alllllll the time in the world.

WildestW: I’m starting to worry about your snake fetish, H2Imhot. But since you’re here…how about the cold blood? I mean, what’s that actually like?

4cubs: I’m biased toward tigers (obvs), but I feel like I can categorically say that felines have all the moves. That prowliness translates into slow and lazy intimate skin privileges that last hours.

—Wild Woman Forum

“WE’LL START EASY,” he said, the purr back—and louder, until it vibrated through her bones. “You have any oil, even moisturizer I can use?”

“Yes. In the bathroom.” Dr. Verhoeven had given it to her to help prevent stretch marks, and she’d followed the regime mostly because she enjoyed having the chance to stroke her baby. That the oil had worked as advertised was a bonus.

Remi’s weight vanished from the bed, only to return moments later. “Got it. I’m going to push up your sweatshirt so I can touch skin, all right?”

Auden somehow managed a jerky nod.

His fingertips on her lower back creating the gentlest pressure.

The shock of contact was so intense that it took her at least a minute to think through the roar of sensation. “Harder,” she whispered at last. “That’s too gentle.”

“That’s it,” he praised again. “Tell me exactly what you need.” He dug his fingers in, and the pressure was so intense and so painfully pleasurable that she cried out.

He halted.

“It’s good,” she gasped. “Please.”

A chuckle, before he began working the muscles of her back. Then he began that purring sound in his chest again, and it did vibrate right through his hands and into her back and oh, oh. Every part of her resonated on the same wavelength, her entire body relaxing muscle by muscle as his purr entered her very bones to melt her from the inside out.

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REMI’S cock was rigid, but he didn’t do anything other than keep up the massage. Seeing Auden’s tension melt away, hearing the little sounds she was making without realizing it, it was the best aphrodisiac on the planet. As was the fact that she’d sneakily scooted close to him.

He rumbled in his chest, his leopard very close to his human skin right now, felt her shiver…and the excited beat of a second heartbeat from inside Auden.

He smiled. Yes, the cub knew him, too.

“How does she know you?” Auden whispered just then, the curve of her butt pushing into his knee because she kept on backing up to him.

“All cubs know their alpha’s voice.”

A sucked in breath, a pause, before Auden said, “Remi, I need to ask you something.”

His fingers stilled. “What, little cat?”

Shifting, she tried to sit up. He helped her until she was leaning against the headboard. And even though he’d just spent pleasurable minutes kneading the tension from her, she was stiff, lines of strain around her eyes and mouth.

When she spoke, her words had his claws slicing out. “I’m going to ask you the biggest favor of my life.” Those haunted moonstone eyes held his, potent in their pain. “Do you think RainFire can give my baby sanctuary?”

“Yes,” Remi said without hesitation.

“It’ll be dangerous for your pack,” she said. “But I have money. My father left me an enormous trust fund, and no one in the Scott family seems to know about it. It can buy you help, protection.”

Remi sliced out a hand. “You don’t have to worry, Auden. One of my best friends is an Arrow. No one will touch your baby or my pack.”

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