five
ABBY
A wolf tookover my body.
An actual freaking wolf.
I was officially living in a paranormal romance book, and I wasn’t sure I was entirely here for it.
I mean, minus the gorgeous giant with an oversized erection sitting beneath me. Err, beneath the wolf. I was here for that.
He was scratching my wolf’s fur, telling her she was beautiful and strong.
I probably shouldn’t have taken it like he was complimentingme, but I did.
I was the one who’d felt an insane amount of pain to get through the shift, after all.
Cucumber eventually turned the water off and stepped out of the shower. He dried my wolf—much to her excitement—before slinging a towel around his hips and leading her out of the bathroom.
Her jaws parted in a wide yawn as she followed him across the apartment and into the bedroom.
“Your human didn’t sleep last night,” Nico told the wolf. “Even if you don’t want to shift back yet, you should get some rest.”
He pulled the blankets back as he approached the mattress, and she hopped smoothly up onto the bed. When she plopped down where his wolf had slept earlier, she sniffed the blankets and made a sound that could only have been approval.
Hedidsmell kind of nice.
I couldn’t smell him through the wolf that had possessed me, but I’d noticed it when I fell asleep with the furry beast the night before. I’d been pretty sure it was weird to think a wolf smelled good, so I hadn’t acknowledged it, but there was no way around noticing.
Rather than walking away or leaving the apartment, Cucumber remained standing next to my bed.
He almost looked uncertain.
I must’ve been imagining that, because there was no world in which a man that big, muscular, and attractive would’ve been unsure about anything.
The wolf noticed, and gestured with her head.
She wanted him to get under the blankets with her.
“I don’t know if your human will want me in her bed,” Nico explained. “I don’t want to make her any more uncomfortable.”
Well, that was sweet.
Or sweetish, at least.
I kind of did want him in my bed. Purely for physical reasons. Not that I would’ve ever admitted it if I wasn’t covered in fur.
But maybe that was the sleep deprivation speaking too. Or the lingering horniness from sitting naked on his lap in the shower, only inches away from the world’s most perfect erection. I’d been in an extreme amount of pain, but even that hadn’t distracted me from the reality of my position.
I had never expected to end up in a situation like that.
Definitely not with a man who looked like him.
I’d always expected to end up with a cute nerd of some kind. I’d never really cared about muscles. Tall, Dark, and Sexy as Fuck wasn’t even a blip on the radar. I didn’t evenlookat guys like Nico, unless you counted looking at fanart from my favorite fantasy and paranormal romance books.
But after sitting on the nicest lap on the planet, I was rewriting my expectations.
Quickly.
