Page 27 of Knot Dead Yet

Like fuck it didn’t. “What’s going on?”

Kienna whipped her head back round and fire danced in her eyes. “It doesn’t matter because I don’t matter. If I mattered, we would be in Ireland having the time of our lives and not here in the middle of fucking nowhere with Dad reliving his hockey dreams and forgetting he has a daughter.”

The pain was clear in her harsh words and building tears. I gathered her to me and held her so tight as I tried to drain the hurt from her. I knew it wasn’t possible. I wasn’t her father, but maybe if she saw she wasn’t alone, it might help.

There was one other issue. “And what about Casimir? What did he do?”

Kienna choked back a sobbing laugh. “Nothing.”

“He clearly did something,” I growled. Whatever had went on between the two of them was adding to her distress. I wasn’t going to let it go.

“He didn’t. It was me. I did something stupid.” She pressed her face against my chest, her confession slightly muffled. “He was a gentleman and I broke the rules. Then he keeps wanting to be a fucking gentleman by talking to my dad about us being compatible and being all proper. But I can’t. He’s on my dad’s team.” She tipped her head back and stared up atme with watery eyes. “You’reon my dad’s team. If he saw us right now, he’d flip. I’d be locked away and your career would end.”

Hell. That only brought up more questions about her and Casimir, but the latter part of what she said, she was right. Yet at this moment, all I wanted was her. I would risk everything if…

“Don’t even think about it.” She poked me in the chest. I bared my teeth. I couldn’t let her go. “I won’t let you risk your career. You’re really good, and the team needs you. Kane Shaw, the hot center and captain of the Manitoba Rampage and leader of his pack. Hockey is your life, and I’m the bomb that could end it all.”

She read me true. I couldn’t argue against any of it. But there was suddenly this roaring Alpha inside of me with the command of drawing her in. “So you think I’m hot?”

Kienna’s brows rose with an unsaid ‘seriously?’

A car drove by with its headlights flickering over us, snapping the tension of the moment.

She pushed away from me. “I need to g—”

No.

Urgency rocked me. I needed to claim her, bite her.

I wrapped my arms around her and mashed my mouth to hers. The kiss was fervent, demanding she submit. She wasmine.

Whatever mistake she made with Casimir, I’d make her forget. The lack of attention she felt from her father, I would give her every second of every day. I would make her my world, but she had to let me in.

CHAPTER TWELVE – Kienna

The kiss branded my very soul. There was no other way to explain it.

With Casimir, it had been spicy sin. And Maddox had selfless hardcore carnality. But Kane’s kiss felt like he was claiming me without the bite. It was all-encompassing. I was breathing his breath, our hearts beat in rhythm, and I wanted him to order me to bend over so he would fill me with his cock.

Oh, fuck yes. I melted against him, mewling into our fierce kisses.

He would make everything wonderful. My life would be sublime.

Every inch of me screamed for him to take me.Knot me.

Slick soaked my panties and the pang of need from my heat pulsed through me. Kane kneaded my ass as I practically climbed him. I was ready to let him fuck me up against the side of the restaurant. Let the world hear I was Kane Shaw’s Omega.

Kane Shaw of the Manitoba Rampage. The middle of nowhere.

On my father’s team.

I shoved against Kane’s chest and broke away with an agonized gasp. “I can’t.”

“Kienna.” Fuck, his voice was like hot chocolate warming me from the inside-out.

“This,” I pointed back and forth between the two of us. Tears streamed down my cheeks. “This cannot happen.”

It didn’t matter that I felt like I was already claimed by him, by the whole pack. And yes, I included Casimir in it even though they were all acting like bitchy schoolgirls in their exclusion of him. Yet I didn’t know if Casimir wanted to be part of the pack. I didn’t really know anything about any of them.

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