Page 31 of Wolf Tamer

I rear back and punch her in the arm hard enough to send her stumbling back. Her brows draw down in a frown, and I instantly regret it.

“I’m sorry!”

“No, no, don’t be sorry. The pain is… numbed. I can still feel it, but it’s like I’m wearing several thick layers of protective padding. Do you understand?” She shakes her head, wiggling her eyebrows. “It’s going to be fine.”

“If you can still feel it, then we’ve failed. It’s not fine,” I insist. I’m not willing to hurt her further.

“It’s okay and I can handle it.” She’s clearly playing it off.

“Tasha, maybe we can—”

“Reid!”

I’m not sure how she can instill a world’s worth of frustration and impatience with just my name, but she sure can.

“It’s all we have now. There aren’t any other options. We’ll have to work with it,” she goes on and I know she’s right.

“All right, well, if you’re sure you can handle it…” I purposely trail off, walking in a half circle around her and then swatting her ass. Hard. “Can you feel that?”

“No, I can’t,” she says, stiffening.

Unable to control myself, I circle around to the other cheek and bend her over, surprised when she lets me. “How about this one?”

I spank her again, loving the way she slightly arches her back at the contact, looking over her shoulder at me with those drowsy, half-closed, sexy eyes. The others are waiting, the spell is fading, and the only thing I want is to have my hands on her. To feel the way she warms and comes to life. To listen to the little moans and mewling sounds she makes in the back of her throat when I’m thrusting inside her.

Damn, we don’t have time for this.

I’m making time.

“Maybe you want to try it again.” Now she’s urging me. “You know. For the sake of this experiment.”

Keeping my hand on her hip to keep her steady, I spank her repeatedly, watching the way her mouth rounds in an “Oh” every time I make contact.

She likes it.

Fuck, if my sudden hard-on is any indication, I like it too. More than a little. She’s got the juiciest peach of an ass, and I want to bite it. Every slap of my hand against her has heat building in my blood.

Soon, I’ve lost myself completely and, even knowing the others are waiting downstairs, I tug her pants down to her knees to feel her skin.

She says my name again. This time, it’s less of a retort and more urgent. She wants me to continue.

I’m only too happy to oblige.

Seeing her naked, flesh bared for me, has my cock straining against my pants, aching in an attempt to hurry and bury so deep inside her pussy that I’m not sure where she leaves off and I begin. I remember how it feels to ride her. But we never got around to doing it from behind. In my head, I can picture it, her bent over the bed screaming my name while I pound that ass into submission.

“Reid—”

Tasha whirls around unexpectedly, and shock rocks me to my core when she presses her lips to mine. Her tongue demands entry almost immediately. I cage her in my arms with a growl.

Instead of her ass, now her breasts are pressed to my chest, so close I could reach down and bitethose.

The woman loves giving me mixed signals. Half the time she’s staring at me like her eyes alone will cut me to shreds, and the other half she’s calling to me, pulling me closer to her like the sway of the fullest moon. My wolf wants her.Iwant her.

I grab her by the ass and lift her up so that she has no choice but to lock her legs around my hips. Already, my erection is so fucking hard I can barely stand it, grinding against her.

I back us toward the bed, and we go down with her on top of me once again, my need desperately urging me to claim her.

We have no time.

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