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“But I’m alive now.”

“You are, and when the first full moon comes, you will shift. It will tear your tendons, break your bones, and it will burn, and it will ache, and you’ll hate me,” Kaylee said with a sigh. “But you will be wolf. And I will meet your wolf.”

“I could never hate you, Kaylee. And I want to meet your wolf.”

Riaz cleared his throat as he looked between us. “And on that note, be safe.” Then Riaz let out a sigh. “More Redwoods are on their way here, Kaylee. To check on you, their new Packmate, and to help us with whatever the fuck happened out on that field.”

Memories of Kaylee’s scream haunted my waking dreams, and I swallowed hard, knowing that though at this moment I wanted to be near Kaylee, to finish the mating bond and figure out exactly what was happening between us, this wasn’t the end.

Someone had tried to kill me. Was he killing others?

Someone was twisting the way that we were looking at rogues now and using it for their own gain.

And if we weren’t careful, I wasn’t going to be the last casualty in finding out exactly what the hell was going on.

Chapter 16

Kaylee

I watchedthe door as Riaz walked out, closing it securely behind him. I rolled my shoulders back as my wolf gently pushed to the forefront, wanting control but knowing the human needed the strength here first.

I moved forward, locked the door behind Riaz without even thinking, to keep my mate safe, to keep him locked in. With me.

Then Jason was behind me, his warm breath on the back of my neck, and I pressed my palms to the door, inhaling that deep forest scent that had only increased in its concentration once his wolf had become part of him. I didn’t know how he would change once he was turned fully. After his first shift, that scent could change ever so slightly into something more potent, something mine.

“Is it supposed to be like this?” Jason asked, his guttural voice a deep rumble against my skin. My hands dug into the door, my claws sliding out of my fingertips. They tore through the wood of the door, and I let out a shuddering breath. Riaz would have known what he was leaving as he had exited the room. He would know what was happening here.

And I didn’t care. I didn’t care if the entire Pack stood outside and watched as I claimed my mate as my own.

Was this how it was supposed to be? I wasn’t sure, but I could barely focus, could barely breathe.

“What are you feeling?” I asked, my throat so dry it was a rasp.

I may be wet between my legs, but I could barely moisten my lips for speaking.

“Like I want to mount you. Press you hard against the wall, strip your pants down your legs, then fuck you hard until we’re both screaming each other’s names. I want to mark you. I want to bend you over that table, fuck you hard again. Then lay down as you ride me in all of your glory while I cup your breasts and watch your nipples harden into tight little points. I want them to bounce in my face as I lick them and suck them. I want to spread your ass, lick your hole, then turn you around and fuck your tits, and then come down your throat.”

I froze and turned ever so slightly in Jason’s hold. And blinked. “All of that? Just tonight? Or stretched out over a few nights?”

Jason blinked, looking so adorably uncertain about what he had just said that I nearly told him that I loved him.

I didn’t. I knew I would. Because that’s what mating was for. It showed you the person that you would love one day, and you would be with forever. I knew Jason’s soul. I knew him inside and out, and I could feel every ounce of who we were in the past and who we could be in the future. But I didn’t know him in a way that he could open up to me like that. Not yet. That was the human parts of us, and that would come.

But for now, the fates of mates and the Moon Goddess and whoever else had connected us pulled me to this man. And I knew he was a little embarrassed about what he had just said.

“I didn’t think I was going to say all of those words out loud when you asked that question.” I watched as the long lines of Jason’s throat worked as he swallowed hard. “I mean, I wouldn’t do anything that you wouldn’t want me to do.”

My lips quirked into a smile as I turned fully in his hold and let him pin me to the wall. He caged me with his arms, the thickness of his body. He wasn’t slender. He was wide with muscle, even if he wasn’t as thick as other wolves. But as I had felt him before, I knew he was thick in all the places that counted.

I held back a groan at that thought, wondering when I had gotten so dirty. I had had sex before. I liked sex. I was damn good at it.

But I didn’t like dirty talk.

Except apparently with the cute little geneticist who was about to turn into a wolf, and I wanted him to fuck me hard in the mouth, the pussy, and anywhere else he wanted.

I had become wanton, and I didn’t fucking care right then. I might have been a dominant wolf, far more dominant than Jason was at this moment, but it didn’t matter. Not with my mate. I was letting him cage me, letting him pin me. And he knew it.

And that just turned us both on.

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