Page 147 of As The Shifter World Turns

“Yeah, I can.” Were there a thousand reasons not to? Absolutely. Could I think of a single one? Not at all.

I pumped some of the body wash in my hand, not the loofah, and wrapped my fingers around his already hard length. I had a matching stiff cock, but this wasn’t about me. It was about Ivor and his wants and needs.

Jerking him slowly, he leaned back against the shower wall. “It has… thank you.” As if I needed to be thanked for taking care of my omega.

I continued to pump his cock, adding my second hand to play with his balls. I wanted to reach behind them and finger his hole, but that felt like a step too far. This was what he asked for and I was going to give it to him.

“I loved the way your cock responds to my hand,” I praised. “I can’t wait to see you explode all over me.”

“So close,” he panted and sure enough he was, coming onto my hand and thighs as he cried out in pleasure.

This was either the best idea ever or the worst.

Time would tell.

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Ivor

I turned over, stuffing the pillow under my head. I loved Ryder’s bed though I didn’t mention that to him because he was stuck sleeping on the sofa. But as I wriggled my ass trying to get comfortable and put a hand on my belly, my knee nudged a warm body.

Thinking I was dreaming of the night I first slept with Ryder when he mumbled Kellan’s name, my eyes shot open, wanting to be out of the nightmare.

Ryder!It was real. I blinked, trying to focus on how we got here. Oh, right the shower, getting naked, and my cock. My emotions were so tangled it would take forever to unravel them. But it was early and the alarm wouldn’t ring for another hour.

Much as I didn’t want to, I had to deal with the asswipe first. I’d given him too much power. Every phone call, message and knock at the door, my mind went to him. And sure Ryder had to take responsibility for his actions of being there for Kellan and giving in to Kellan’s demands, but the guy had loomed larger in my imagination than he was in reality.

Kellan was gone, and I needed to banish him from my thoughts and my life.

While it wasn’t as easy as ticking Kellan off my list, it was a start.

Now for Ryder. I loved him. That was a given and my wolf longed for us to mate. But I wasn’t giving in to my beast’s whims. I had to be certain. Breaking up with Ryder had been right. I needed the space because all I could hear were Kellan’s lies. No matter what Ryder said, it made no difference.

Getting pregnant wasn’t part of my life’s plan,but it had brought Ryder and I together and shown me why I’d fallen for him. Living in the same apartment had us doing things that couples do, without the sex, and while watching movies, making dinner and cleaning the apartment, I’d fallen in love with him again. But that wasn’t true. I’d never fallen out of love. Not really.

And then there was the kiss, and days later we were in the shower, naked, and with his hand on my dick, I’d come.

My tummy was all jumbly and I probably needed to eat but as I lay on my back and rubbed my belly, I froze. What was that? Could it be?—?

Baby. My wolf knew.

“Ryder!” I yelled and he shot up, eyes blurred with sleep and hair sticking up.

“What? Are you hungry? I can go to the store.”

“Give me your hand?”

He closed one eye and rubbed his chest. “You want me to jerk you off again, love?”

I ignored the last word. “No! Just do it, please? The hand, not the jerking off part.”

He did and I placed it on my belly. “You’re hungry.”

“Shush and wait.”

Seconds passed and I wondered if I’d imagined it. But no, there it was. A tiny kick. “Did you feel it?”

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