Page 24 of Pack Kasen: Part 2

Hisclothes.

On the floor beside it is my duffel.

“You said you were taking me to my room,” I say.

“And I have.” Eyes fused to mine, he pushes the door closed. “We’re mates, so your room is my room.”

This room is beautiful. Don’t get me wrong. The most beautiful room I’ve seen in my life. But I’m not about to spend a single night sleeping in here.

I cross my arms and lift my chin. “No.”

“Tagge will never believe we’re together if you’re off sleeping in the woods. A mated couple sleeps together. That means we’ll be sharing a bed.” He does nothing to hide his pleasure.

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AREN

Ihad in mind that my mate would be more eager to share my bed, not desperately scan the room like she’s looking for a way out of it.

“It’s a big bed,” I reassure her. “You won’t even know I’m in it.”

Lie.

The second those lights are out, I’m going to be doing everything humanly possible to seduce her into forgetting all about the apology she wants from me.

Mates are bound by fate. We can’t read each other’s minds, but from her narrow-eyed stare, it’s clear she just read mine.

“I don’t believe you.”

“You’re being paranoid.”

Another lie. Probably not gentlemanly of me, but Kat is mine. She’s here in Burning Wood, and I have limited time to convince her to stay.

“I’m not sleeping in that bed,” she says. “So you can forget about it.”

“There’s nothing wrong with it,” I growl.

“You fucked women in it.”

I smirk. “So you’re jealous?”

Jealous is good. Jealous is a sign she wants me as much as I want her.

“I feel the same way you would feel about sleeping in the same bed that I’d fucked my ex-boyfriends,” she says.

A growl emerges from my lips before I can silence it.

The thought of any man touching her, let alone sharing her bed…

I walk her into the nearest wall, press both palms to the wall on either side of her head, and lean in close, inhaling her scent as I cage her in.

Honeysuckle and fresh fall leaves—heady, sweet, and intoxicating.

No woman has ever smelled so good to me. I want to put my mark on her neck, biting her there so everyone will know she’s mine.

And I need to lap between her thighs, know exactly how she tastes.

I want her in every way a man could claim a woman.

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