Page 31 of Their UnBearable Destiny

“What did she say?” she wondered aloud. “Natale’s assistant.”

He smiled through the pain and concentrated on the point of his story. “She let Salvatore in on the secret language of women.”

“Wait!” The hand that Emiliana had on his shoulder turned into a loose-fingered fist and she clipped him on the shoulder. “There is no secret language.”

He gave her a look that spoke loudly on its own, telling her he knew better. At least in this case.

“Salvatore saved it on his phone. Apparently, it was on a meme. When Natale had told him ‘Never mind, forget it.’ He’d left it alone.”

He watched the realization dawn on Emiliana’s face. “Okay,” she laughingly agreed, “I see your point. So, after he learned this, you and your brothers have been nature’s gift to women?”

Even if it hadn’t been his instinctual reaction, Uberto knew how to answer that question… with truth.

“No, I was just the lonely brother, but you’d think Val had learned the lesson.”

Emiliana was suddenly perched on his thigh, leaning her shoulder against his chest. “No?”

He shared a smile with her. “No. My slightly older brother got into some trouble when Allegra had been mated to him for a little over a month.

“He had been protective of her from the beginning, but it seemed like the more that he knew she could do for herself, he wanted to do more for her.”

“Sounds like Allegra is really independent.”

He lifted a hand to take hold of an errant curl and drape it forward over her shoulder. “She is, and Natale too. Still, there’s nothing wrong with helping as long as she didn’t mind-“

“But I’m guessing Valerio didn’t see the line and crossed it?”

He smiled and nodded. “He told her his plans for something, I can’t even remember what it was exactly, but she had finally reached her limit with my sweet brother and told him ‘Fine! Go ahead if that’s what you want!”

Emiliana’s horrified gasp made him smile.

“Oh no!”

“By the time we came home and found them, Allegra had made him a bed on the couch.”

“So, when I said ‘never mind’ you knew-”

“I knew enough to make an honest apology.”

As he watched, he felt like she was thinking over his words. She sighed. “So, while I know we have to go soon,” she shifted on his thigh and her leg was pressed against the thick ridge of his erection, “we don’t have to get up right now, do we?”

He raised his hand and peeled her fingers gently away from the sheets in her hand. Freed from her hand, the heavy cotton pulled out of her grasp and pooled on the bed and on the floor at her feet.

Uberto turned his hand and trailed his fingertips along the side of her breast until his palm brushed over her nipple. It pebbles under his touch. “We can stay here for a few minutes,” he agreed with her. “What did you have in mi-”

She used her hand and held his jaw, lifting his chin so she could fasten her mouth hungrily on his neck. Kiss after kiss marked the length of his throat and when she reached the bottom, she dipped her tongue into the subtle depression at the base of his throat.

* * *

He tastedlike salt and the heat of his against her tongue sent delicious shivers all through her body.

Her hands roamed over his chest as her bear pushed up just beneath the surface of her skin. She was hungry. They were hungry.

And it didn’t even matter if it was her human side that was in control or her bear. They both wanted the same thing, him.

The points of her fangs brushed along his skin, trailing little beads of blood in their wake.

She heard him hiss and swear under his breath a moment before she felt his hand in her hair. He tangled the lengths through his fingers and tugged. Her lips parted, and a throaty gasp burst from her mouth. “Yes.”

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