Page 84 of Bonded

“That’s different. That’s not me going with a hooker. That’s not me going with a stranger. I mean, how would you feel?” She takes a breath and steps away from him and glares. “No… No, I won’t let you. I don’t care about Rhys… or Michael. I don’t want you being with anyone else. Do you understand me?”

“Kat…” he laughs. “Are you serious?”

“You wanna be with me then you won’t be with anyone else. Darius, it’s that or nothing. Take it or leave it. I won’t share you.”

“Right, well…. I guess I’ll have to leave it then.”

“You mean that? You won’t have sex with anyone else at the club?”

“Come here… Kat, I said come here. Now!” he demands. She holds back and he beckons her, then stroking her cheek, kisses her. “You’re all that I want and… if that’s what you want? Then okay, but… you’re gonna cost me a lot of money, you know that?”

“I am? Why?”

“Cos, I’m gonna have to go there an’ play poker now and I’m shit at poker.” he laughs.

“Really? Wow… something you’re not good at? Well, I learned something new today but I don’t believe you.” She smiles and on tiptoe reaches up and kisses him. “I can’t believe there’s anything you’re not good at.”

He smiles staring into her deep green eyes; his phone beeps again and he checks it. “I really gotta go. We’ll finish this up when we get back. Now get dressed.” He playfully slaps her bare ass.

“Is that an order?” She grins. Dropping the towel, she massages her breasts. “I thought I might finish what you started.”

“Oh fuck… Kat, seriously… don’t do this to me.”

“Why you do it to me… all the time. Trust me, Master Chief, it’s more pleasurable this way. Hey…. I’ll send you a picture,” she teases.

“You know if you do that, I must punish you. Playing with yourself when I’m not there… You know the rules.”

“I know.” She smiles, watching as he heads to the door. “Darius, you know… you drive me crazy. I don’t know what it is you do to me. But every time I tell myself I won’t do this again… I can’t help it. You’re like a drug habit I can’t stop. What is it about you? What do you do to me? I thought being bonded to Digby would stop me from feeling this way, but it doesn’t. Sure Luna hates you but me… I can’t stop wanting you.”

“I need to go. I’ll see you on the tarmac in a couple of hours, Lieutenant.” He smiles and with his hand on the door, he turns back. “Hey… don’t forget that picture.”

Watching him close the door, she sighs loudly and leans back against the glass door of the shower. “Oh Kat… what the fuck is wrong with you?” She berates herself for what she’s done; for putting herself in this position with him. Like a smitten schoolgirl, she can’t stop. No matter how hard she tries, he hypnotizes her.

“Oh my God…” she groans at the intense feelings that flood her senses, and the chill of the room prickles her skin.

Luna’s furious at her for letting him do this. The wolf thought being bonded to her fated would stop Kat’s obsession, but once again Kat’s allowed him to control her. The wolf howls in her head, a loud reminder of just how weak and pathetic her womanly body is.

Chapter 24

“Oh, man, do I hate this fuckin’ place,” Zak groans as he picks up the pace and trudges forward. He brings up the rear of the team’s formation—Kat in front of him, then QT, Bud behind OZ as they all follow Digby and Darius who’s further upfront.

There’s an incessant whoosh and it’s the sound of the heavy rain. The continual drumming on the canopy of trees above drowns out even the chirping squawks of the jungle—silencing the birds and zillion clicking insects they’ve listened to until the storm rolled in.

The ground’s alive, a crawling mass of critters which crunch under their feet as they continue the slow energy-sapping trek, pushing through the dense thickets of foliage that hinder their path. The surrounding trees feel like they’re alive, the tall wooden pillars crawling with all kinds of bugs that bite and sting any exposed area of flesh.

“Fuck!” Zak slaps again as another annoyingthingwith too many legs settles on the back of his neck.

“You okay?” Kat asks as she turns, watching him continually swat and slap his neck and face.

“No! These damn fuckin’ critters keep fuckin’ bitin’ me. I thought they didn’t like wolf blood?” He sneers as he brushes a large ‘thing’ with big sticky-out eyes from his arm. “Oh man, I fuckin’ hate bugs! Alvarez, you better be fuckin’ listenin’ cos just so you know, I’m gonna fuckin’ kill you for makin’ me come here.”

Kat chuckles; Zak makes her laugh so much.

With her place on the team secured, the relationship between the pair has certainly improved. What she doesn’t know is if it’s her or her bond with Digby that’s affected his sudden need to protect. Zak’s so fiercely loyal to Digby; she knows he’d lay down his life to protect him, and now she feels he’d do exactly the same for her.

“Zak, you put repellent on before we left, right?”

“No.” He cocks an eyebrow, knowing he forgot and that now she’ll give him one of her disapproving looks. “Kat, don’t look at me like that? How the hell was I supposed to know they’d liked wolf meat so much. Maybe I’m just good wolf meat, right?”

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