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“I tried tokillyou,” is her reply but it’s not the one I need.

“That doesn’t matter.”

“It doesn’t?”

She glances away, not wanting to look at me anymore, but I squeeze her arms to claim her attention again. I can’t be the only one feeling this. “Tell me, Tash.”

Her walls are crumbling and her lower lip trembles, but it’s still too hard to tell if she wants to kiss me or dig me a grave.

She says nothing, only stares at me, lips parted and chest heaving. Finally, after a long moment, she sighs, “I…can’t tell you that because…because it’s not true.”

Hope flares to life inside me, and just then, she pushes up to her tip toes and entraps me in another kiss. This one is all her and her need to prove that her heart’s fighting the same war as mine.

Our tongues wrestle, the kiss deepening, and when my hands glide down her arms to her waist, the intensity of the moment carries me away. The animalistic need to have her underneath me, calling my name as I claim her over and over rears up, but before I can take this kiss a step forward, Tasha breaks it.

“Back to the house,” she says in a hurried whisper. “To your room. Before my common sense returns and I change my mind.”

ChapterSeventeen

Tasha

Ihave to be the world’s biggest fucking idiot.

Because I’ve just agreed, out loud, to sleep with the person I’ve sworn to murder.

Isn’t life a bitch? And it has a fucked-up sense of humor because as much as I try to deny it, fight it, I can’t. I want Reid. I want him more than I want to draw air into my lungs.

I have it bad.

Real bad.

No matter what kind of good thing I try to do, I always end up digging a bigger hole for myself. I’m no closer to finding Carmen. No closer to finding out who it is in this pack deceiving Reid and terrorizing the locals.

But by god, I just told Reid I’d join him in his bed tonight, and we both know what that means.

Say goodbye to your dry spell, Tash.

Nothing like a good old-fashioned pep talk to get you in the mood.

Nerves war with anticipation as we make our way back around the mountain toward the mansion. It’s freezing out. I can’t feel my legs, and although my toes are still warm inside my boots, they’re about the only thing.

Besides the obvious.

Reid is much faster than me, and by the time we reach the edges of the walkway, he’s fed up with my slow progress. With a growl, he hauls me into his arms fireman style, crossing the deck and stomping the snow off him.

My teeth chatter.

And worse?

No one gives a shit when he walks us both inside. The rest of the pack seem to be busy with other things, because I catch sight of only one omega before she bolts away.

I sure hope his walls are soundproof, like the ones in my room. Otherwise, they’re going to hear everything I’m going to do to him—

And whatever he’s going to do to me.

He kicks open the door to his room with a second growl, and by the time it closes behind him, his lips are on mine again. Neither of us moves for the longest time, with his fingers tightening on my arm and the heat of that single kiss setting me on fire.

This man is… intoxicating. I’ve never wanted anyone the way I want him.

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