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I shrieked in surprise, spinning on my heels to see Wolf’s dark, wide eyes. They were fixed like weights on the cut that suddenly felt heavy on my shoulders. My hands reached up to fist the material, trying to alleviate some of theweight.

“This is... um…,” I mumbled for the first time inmylife.

Fuck, I wasn’t preparedforthis.

“A property jacket?” Wolf offered, stepping into the room and quietly shutting the door behind him. “With my nameonit?”

“Well, yeah. But this… itdoesn’tmean—”

“I think it does,” Wolf interrupted, catching me before I quickly came up with any excuse to ruin whatever the fuck I was attemptingtodo.

“It doesn’t,” I snapped back onreflex.

Why was it so hard for me to behonest?

Wolf smirked, stepping into my space as his hands reached out to touch the cool leather. His fingers slid under the collar and slowly drifted down the length of the jacket until they reached my waist, where his hands stopped but didn’t let go. “Say it,” Wolf whispered, the rumble of his voice drawing me closer toward him. He leaned his head in towards mine, swallowing me into his bubble. “Say thewords.”

“I...” I took a deep, shuddering breath, my eyes looking up to catch his. It was like they suddenly grew a gravitational pull, dragging me into their depths with such a force that my body screamed to resist. I could feel myself wanting to fight what I knew would change it all, and despite the urge, looking into Wolf’s waiting face, patient and absorbed in me, I couldn’t hold it in. “I love you,” Iblurted.

It wasn’t my most graceful announcement, nor my most confident one, my body bracing for the impact the second the words were out, but I had said it, and when I found the courage to look up, it only took a second for me to know I wasn’twrong.

The smile that Wolf returned had the ice around my heart turning into a puddle of mush. I wasn’t a mushy person, but all of this felt so sweet, so warm and gooey, and if I had to admit it, made me want to throw up in my mouth just a little bit. The words felt almost... changing, as if some part of me was now different from the rest. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit frightened by the change, but there was a different part of me, a bigger part of me, that welcomed it. Thatwantedit.

I shook my head, Wolf’s smile suddenly becomingcontagious.

“What have you done to me?” He chuckled, taking the words right out ofmyhead.

I opened my mouth to answer, but Wolf’s mouth took mine instead. It wasn’t like the hot, rough kisses we’d shared before. This one was soft, slow as he kissed my lips, pulling them into his mouth as if he was tasting them for the first time. When his tongue slipped into my mouth, it was gentle, exploring with a patience that had a slow-burning heat rising from the tips of my toes across mywholebody.

My hands held on to his waist, scared my knees were about to collapseunderneathme.

I was panting hard when his lips pulled away from mine. They weren’t gone long, though. They moved to the edge of my jaw, his short beard and lips tracing the curve of the bone until he met my ear, where he placed a trail of kisses down the length of my neck to my collarbone. My legs quivered and my mind went fuzzy just from Wolf’s soft kisses, his hands holding on to my waist as my own hands weakened on his hips. “W-Wolf,” I breathed. “Wecan’t.”

He ignored me, his lips moving between the valley of my breasts, generously exposed by my little reddress.

“Your party,” I continued my futile excuses, knowing that I would probably kill him if he stopped doing what he was doing for some fuckingparty.

“It’s the president’s party,” Wolf grumbled, the tremor on my skin sensational. “The president can do whatever the fuck hewants.”

“Oh,” I breathed, my fight lost as his finger slid down the cup of her bra, brushing the tip of my nipple. “Thank fuckforthat.”

Apparently, Wolf and I were the only ones whothoughtthat.

“Wolf!” Kay’s voice bellowed from the other side of the door, her fist banging against it. “You better put your dick away and get out here before I come in there and drag you outmyself.”

“Fuck,” Wolf hissed, his head dropping onto my shoulder. “There goes myboner.”

I fought the laughter bubbling out of my chest, not doubting for a second that Kay would come in here and be able to drag him out by force if need be. The woman could move a mountain if shewantedto.

Wolf lifted his head, his eyes twinkling down at me. “We’ll finish thislater.”

“If you last that long,” I purred, offering him a wicked grin that made his eyes turn from lust to confusion and then concern in the blink ofaneye.

He didn’t get time to think too much about it, however, because true to her word, Kay barged in two seconds later and Wolf was draggedoutside.

Time to get the partystarted.

Chapter Seventeen

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