But when my thighs bumped the edge of the oversized mattress, she buried her fingers in my hair and yanked me free from her lips. Her puffy, red lips that had been bitten half a dozen times on the walk over here.

“Put me down. You need to let me take care of yourshoulder before anything else,” she demanded. If I weren’t already hard as a rock, her trying to boss me around would have absolutely done it for me. But as it was, I was already a steel rod, so I gripped the back of her neck and used the hand already on her backside to grind her pussy against me through the dress.

“You’re not in charge here, princess. And I’m not putting you down unless it’s downon my cock.”

She shuddered, skin flushing at the mere suggestion of what we were about to do, but there was a stubborn light in her eyes that I knew meant she wasn’t going to let this drop.Time for a distraction.

“This dress is even worse than that hot little black nightie you were tormenting me with when we stayed that night on Pack Effelin’s grounds,” I said, letting my thumb graze her nipples through the thin fabric.

Her eyes went wide, even as she arched her breasts against my chest. To my surprise, she laughed, dropping her head briefly against my shoulder as her body rocked with the force of her laughter. “I can’t believe you remembered that. I was so embarrassed, but Dirge seemed like he needed to pee.”

“Princess, the image of you in that skimpy little scrap of black silk kept me up at night forweeks.”

But when I dove back in to pepper kisses along her neck, Leigh pulled back and snarled, holding my eyes in a clear challenge. “You will put me down so I can take care of your shoulder, or you won’t get within five feet of this pussy tonight. Are we clear?”

I groaned, leaning in and biting her bottom lip again. “It shouldn’t be hot when you talk to me like that,” I muttered, slapping her lightly on the ass before settling her on the edge of the bed. “But the priestesses put a pot of salve in here for the rune. Hold on.”

I crossed to the bedside table, and sure enough, next to theusual clean-up supplies for the bites, there was a tin of greasy salve with the rune stamped on top of the lid. I brought it back to Leigh, who snatched it from my grip.

“Turn so I can get to your shoulder.”

“Yes ma’am,” I murmured, and she laughed.

The salve stung a little, but not enough to distract me from the goal. The second I heard the lid of the tin snick back into place, I grabbed it and tossed it toward the chair in the corner, not caring when it bounced and rolled across the floor.

“This dress should be criminal,” I said, letting my wolf’s rumble out as I leaned over her on the bed, my erection straining against the borrowed slacks.

“So you like it?” she asked with a wicked grin. Damn, she was gorgeous.

“I don’t know how I got so lucky to piss you off enough that you picked me, but I’m going to count my lucky stars every day that I did.”

Leigh rolled her eyes at my sappy words, but they were true. “I was only pissed off because I was attracted to you, and I thought you were an arrogant ass.”

“That so? What do you think now?” I ground my hips against hers, the heat of her pussy making it to me even through the dress.

“Mmm,” she groaned, leaning back on her elbows, leaving her chest on display for me. “Now I think you’re an arrogant ass who I want to spend the rest of my life with.”

I laughed, a full-on belly laugh, head hanging from my shaking shoulders.

Only Leigh.

You know you like it,her voice sounded in my head, and I snapped my gaze back up to meet hers.

“I love it,” I said with a growl. “Now stand up so I can see all this beautiful skin.”

She did as I asked, letting me pull her to her feet and spinning so I could see the back of the dress.

Holy fuck.

She chuckled, the throaty sound driving me wild as she peeked over her shoulder to catch my reaction.

“We’re definitely framing this dress,” I said, swearing as I pushed the straps off her shoulders and it fell to a silken puddle at her feet.

I pressed a kiss to her shoulder first, then worked my way down her spine, kissing every single line and curve of her marks as she clung to me. Then I flipped her to her back, starting at her ankle and pressing kisses up all the way to her inner thigh. She was writhing, trying to scoot herself closer to my mouth, to get me where she wanted me, but I wasn’t giving in so easily.

This was the one night we were guaranteednotto be interrupted, and I was going to take my time enjoying her. I skated past her soaking pussy, ignoring the whine building in her chest as I worked my way up from her navel, kissing, nipping, and sucking until I reached her breasts. I lightly rolled one nipple between my fingers as I traced the underside of the other with my tongue.

She practically levitated when I finally reached down, stroking her folds with the pad of my thumb.