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“Shit! I don’t have any protection.” Apparently, he hadn’t come to Bearpaw Ridge expecting to get laid.
She smiled at him and tapped the underside of her upper arm, where her birth control implant formed a small, hard lump under her skin. “Don’t worry. I’ve got it covered.”
Still, he hesitated. “Malia, I—” he began, and she felt a swoop of disappointment.
He’s going to turn me down, after all?
Then his eyes suddenly went completely gold again. “I want you.”
In the next instant, he lifted her and flung her over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry.
She fought a nervous giggle as he bore her inside and kicked the door shut hard enough to shake the building. Relief mingled with anticipation.
His cabin was the single-room economy model with a kitchenette tucked into one corner, a dining table for two, a small sitting area, and a queen-sized bed against the far wall.
Lucas crossed the room with long strides, and flung her down on the mattress. “I want to see you,” he growled. “All of you. Now.”
Her heart began hammering as heat poured through her. She pulled her tank top over her head. Earlier, when changing out of her uniform, she’d debated whether to go bra-less.
His reaction now made her glad she’d gone with the bolder option.
Before unbuttoning her shorts, she leaned forward and tugged his t-shirt out of his jeans, baring his muscled torso. “I want to see you, too.”
His golden gaze never leaving hers, he tossed aside his top, then toed off his shoes and socks.
As a shifter, Malia was used to seeing the men and women of her pack naked both before and after shifting. But this…this was different.
Lucas was lean and tanned, every inch of him corded with lithe muscle that spoke of a life spent outdoors, working hard. His tattoos decorated his arms, shoulders and his pectorals. They were beautiful depictions of the state’s most iconic animals. She spotted bald eagles, wolves, bears, bighorn sheep, a magnificent bull elk, and, of course, a cougar.
Her breath caught with anticipation as his hands unfastened the waist button of his jeans, then moved over the impressive bulge of his erection as he unzipped. Then he hooked his thumbs under the waistband of his briefs and pulled everything down in one smooth motion.
He straightened up. Her mouth went dry at the sight of his freed cock, thick and long and ready for action.
I did that to him, she thought, with mingled pride and nerves.
“Your turn,” he growled, looming over her. Her breath caught in her throat as he reached for her waist. “Off. Now.”
She eagerly raised her hips. He yanked her shorts and panties off, then tossed them on top of the pile of his clothing already on the floor.
“Beautiful,” he said, his voice rough and low as he pushed apart her legs and knelt between them.
He leaned down, caging her with his body, and feasted on her mouth, his lips and tongue plundering her with ruthless skill. Then he kissed his way hungrily down her throat and over her breasts.
He lingered there, closing his teeth around one nipple as his thumb swept over the other, sending a bolt of lightning straight down her spine to her pussy, where it exploded into wet, throbbing need.
Oh my God, she thought, arching helplessly off the bed.I could come just from that.
As he continued working magic with his mouth, she panted and made all kinds of embarrassing noises. He paused to look up at her. A feral grin stretched his mouth.
“Sorry,” she said, suddenly embarrassed.
“Don’t be,” he said, his golden gaze burning into her. “I want to hear you.”
After a few more minutes of reducing her to a bundle of quivering need, he left her breasts and worked his way down her stomach and over her gently-rounded belly.
She eagerly parted her legs for him as he moved lower on the bed, until the long blond strands of his hair tickled the tops of her thighs.
Then he put his face between her legs and licked her, a long, luxurious sweep that caressed her folds.
