Page 105 of Wife Number One

But she was already leaning around us to address the next patient. “Follow the green line to go on through to triage. Next!”

I tried again. “No wait. Excuse me, but you don’t even know him—”

Hawk’s fingers fit around my elbow, and he firmly steered me away from the desk before I could say anything more.

“I ain’t worth getting kicked out over, Little Mouse.” The corner of his mouth lifted. “Cute of you to try to defend me, but you don’t know me either.”

We followed the green line painted on the linoleum, Hayley Jade walking a few steps ahead of us, her feet sticking to the line religiously, like she was walking a tightrope.

“I know you aren’t as awful as you let other people think you are,” I argued when she was out of earshot, though I kept my eye on her determinedly.

He laughed. “Got any proof of that?”

“You let me stay at the club when I had nowhere else to go.”

“That was War’s call.”

I blinked. “Fine. You cleaned out that cabin for me. That was nice.”

He gave me a grin. “You’re right. I am nice.” He put his arm around my neck and drew me in close, so his lips brushed my ear when he spoke. “I remember you thinking I was real fucking nice when I had three fingers buried in your pussy and my tongue on your clit.”

I pushed him away, horrified he would talk like that in a public place. “Stop it!”

Only, my nipples had instantly hardened.

And my clit tingled like it might want a repeat.

His voice sounded thick when he spoke again, like he knew the effect he was having on my body. “You haven’t come to my room to claim that second orgasm I owe you, Little Mouse.”

“And I won’t be,” I promised, side by side again.

“Unacceptable answer,” he quipped back. “When getting my tongue to your pussy again is all I can think about. Not just your clit, this time, Kara. I want to taste you everywhere. And I mean, everywhere. All the places I didn’t put my tongue last time.”

I widened my eyes at him. “What does that even mean? You already…”

I blushed hot pink at the memory of his tongue between my thighs. And the realization that although he had licked me there, he hadn’t once kissed my mouth.

Something silly and girlish lit up inside me at the thought of him kissing me the way Fang or Vaughn or Kian kissed Rebel. It was the same way men kissed women in movies, sweeping them into their arms, and her melting into him while their mouths fused.

I’d never been kissed like that.

All I knew of kisses were ones I’d never wanted.

I could barely imagine what it was like to sink into a man’s embrace, to wrap my fingers around his neck and actually want his mouth on mine.

But with Hawk, I could imagine it.

My breath hitched at the thought of him wanting me like that.

“I already what, Kara?” he murmured, keeping his voice low so the people passing us and Hayley Jade ahead of us couldn’t hear. “I already licked your clit, but you haven’t ridden my tongue. I haven’t thrust it inside you until you screamed. I haven’t slid it down your sweet slit until I got to your ass.”

I stared at him. “My what?”

He chuckled. “He never touched you there either, huh?”

“Of course not. Why would he?”

His look was smug. “Because you have no fucking idea how good it feels.” He winked at me.

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