Page 21 of The Bear's Forever Mat
She caught Cooper by the ears and tugged, ignoring that they were still intimately connected, and gave it to him with both barrels. “Condoms are only part of safe sex. I’m on birth control so I can have sex when Iwantto have sex. And I want to have sex with you, or I did until a few seconds ago. So, you can get growly, or you can get moving. Your choice, bucko.”
It was like watching a wave roll over a shore and wipe away a mess of footprints. The tightness in his expression faded, his brow smoothed, and instead of anger, amusement rose.
“Feisty human,” he muttered.
“You have no idea.”
He lifted a brow. “I look forward to learning. Now, get ready for me to get moving. I plan for us to enjoy mating fever, and I’ve got energy to burn.”
Cooper tipped them to the mattress, rearing over her.
Amber caught hold of his shoulders and held on for the ride of her life.
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9
It had been a good ten years that Cooper had been taking measures to avoid the fever. There’d been weeks he’d sat in his shifted form, tormented by the fever and clouds of black flies. Or freezing his butt off during snowstorms, absolutely alone except for the little creatures shivering in the woods and watching him with trepidation.
Getting free rein to do everything he wanted with Amber?
Heavenly.
He worked her over for a couple of hours that first run, most of it without a lot of talking.
Oh, there was communication going on. A lot of shouting and screaming and groaning and gasping. He particularly liked the gasping when it involved his name with “oh yes, yes,yeeesssssss” added on.
Amber was not a particularly quiet woman, and Cooper couldn’t be happier.
The vigorous sex wasn’t only the thing he enjoyed, though. The fact she’d come to him—that was important and made him feel special.
“How did you know where I was?” Cooper asked when they were temporarily paused.
“Your calendar is linked to mine,” she reminded him. “It makes it easy to stalk you.”
He nuzzled under her chin, curling his arms around her and pulling her closer. They were still naked, because he hadn’t had nearly enough skin-on-skin time yet. He wasn’t going to for a long time, and definitely not during the next week.
“I had all these plans,” he confessed. “I’m glad you’re here. I’msoglad you’re here because I really wanted you to be. But I didn’t think it was going to work for another few years at the earliest.”
Amber slid his hand from one portion of her anatomy to another instead of trying to remove it completely. “You obviously have a list of, and you need to picture this with capital letters, Things To Deal With Before Hooking Up With Amber. You want to talk about them?”
In spite of the cuteness of her mentioning his capitalization habit, annoyance flashed. “This isn’t a hookup.”
Amber stilled.
Damn.
“This isn’t a hookup,” he repeated, this time without growling. “It’s you and me working toward forever.”
The tension eased out of her. She nodded decisively. “Poor wording on my part. I’m sorry. But I also know there’s no guarantee. Both Lara and Kaylee told me all about their situations with James and Alex, and while I’m—”
She paused. Eyed him.
Damn again. Cooper sighed with exasperation. He lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling as he scolded his inner bear.Do you mind? Growling is not a part of this current conversation. And I thought you were leaving me alone for the week after you cut and run.
No talking about other men.
Good grief. She just said my brothers’ names.
