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He wasn’t wrong. I did want it. I wantedhim. Badly. I wanted him to rip the clothes from my body and push me down right there, my ass in the air, my face on the floor, his hands on my hips pulling me back against him until he howled with his own pleasure.
Howled.
A cold wave of air brought me back to reality. I wanted him, yes.
Except as I was discovering, I barely knew him.
“Wait,” I said suddenly, grabbing his hand before it could remove my shirt and holding it still.
“What is it?” Lincoln immediately pulled back, though he didn’t withdraw.
“I-I’m not saying I don’t want more,” I told him, turning to face him, to look him in the eyes. “I think we both know I can’t say that. Not after …”
“But …”
“But,” I echoed, nodding. “But I don’t want it rightnow, Linc. Too much has happened. I just discovered you’re not even really human. I’m sorry for leaving you like, you know, but I can’t go further. Not yet. I need to know you first. Therealyou.”
“I’m the same person I was before. This hasn’t been an act,” he said, but his hands fell to his sides, and his voice was no longer laced with the heat of a thousand pleasurable promises.
“I need toknowthat,” I told him.
Lincoln looked at me warily, rightly suspicious that I had something specific in mind.
“What do you want?” he asked. “If I can, I’ll give it to you. I’ll make it happen.”
I licked my lips, not entirely sure this was my smartest idea ever, but at the same time knowing full well it’s what I needed. “I want you to show me who you really are, Lincoln. I want you to take me to your home.”
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Sylvie
“My home.” He ran his hand through his hair, pulling it back from his face and behind his shoulders. “You want me to take you to—”
“To meet your pack, yes.” I nodded. “That’s what you called them. Didn’t you?”
“I sure did,” he ground out. “I sure did.”
“Is this a problem?”
He laughed. “Bringing a human to the den we work ultra-hard to keep secret from your kind? A problem? No, no, this is more like a nuclear bomb.”
“Oh.”
“But …” He frowned. “I find myself agreeing.”
“You do?”
“Yes. Whateverthisis between us, Sylvie, it’s not going away. In fact, it’s getting stronger by the day. Every time I see you, I need to be around you more after. It … it hurts to leave you. They need to see that. To understand.”
There was a meaning there I didn’t pick up, which seemed ironic, but his life had to be a complicated one. More so than I could ever imagine, likely, since I was human and not one of his people.
“Okay.”
“Go shower and get ready. I’ll let this burn down and then hose it so it’s out. Then we can leave.”
I blinked in surprise, having been prepared for far more resistance.
“Well, go on then!” Linc urged with a smile, shooing me back into the house.
