Page 14 of My Mate

She spun around in the water. “What would you like to call it?”

“I’d like to call it keeping an eye on you.”

Casey laughed. “Why?”

“Lucinda came to see me.”

She rolled her eyes. “Can no one do anything inside this pack without someone tattling?”

“Did you go see her?” he asked.

“No, I didn’t.”

“Are you lying?”

She scoffed. “No, I don’t lie.”

He took a step closer toward the edge of the lake, and when he got level with her clothes, he began to remove his own.

“What happened?” he asked.

Dex saw her gaze at him, and he slowed, tensing his body, so she got the full appreciative view of him.

“I was walking and thinking and I got distracted. Before I even realized where I was going, I was at Lucinda’s. That is all.”

He stripped down to just his boxer briefs, and he looked at Casey. He was not going to keep playing coy or constantly dance around her to get what he wanted. Pushing his boxer briefs down his hips, they landed on the floor, and he heard her gasp. Her gaze was on his dick, and he was already hard. He stepped into the pool.

“You’re naked.”

“That is what happens when you go skinny-dipping.”

“But I am skinny-dipping and I still have my underwear on.”

He tutted. “Maybe you should take them off.”

“I … no, I don’t think I should.” She nibbled her bottom lip.

“Why not?”

“Because you don’t know who could … you know, bewatching.”

“Casey, you’re the only person I know that comes to the forest as much as you do. There is no one else. Just you and me. Besides, once they saw I was here, they wouldn’t dare try to take me on,” he said.

“You’re that big and powerful wolf that no one wants to mess with.”

She moved back and he advanced into the pool, getting closer to her.

“I’m glad you see that. Maybe you should take some notes.”

He loved her laugh.

“Wow, you are so full of yourself.”

“Come here,” he said.

“Is that a command?”

“Yeah, it is, or do I have to come and get you?”

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