Page 376 of Claimed By the Rival Alpha
She pushed the flower behind my ear. When she had it sitting just right, she sat back to admire her work. I raised a brow, and she made a sound that wasn’t quite a giggle or a snicker.
“Shouldn’t I be the one putting pretty flowers behind your ears?” I asked. “That’s what the men do in your novels, right?”
“Maybe, but who cares?” She scooted closer to me. “I just want to thank you for the view tonight.”
I scanned the area. Around us were the chorus of crickets and the twinkling neon lights of the fireflies. It was just as romantic as rose petals and candles, if not more so.
“I agree,” I said. “It’s best to come out at night to see the forest at its most beautiful.”
“I wasn’t talking about nature.”
Her seductive tone immediately caught my attention. She scooted even closer and slid her hands slowly up my arms to hold my shoulders.
“You see, I’ve got this man here with me. So hot, he’s steaming.”
I wanted to scoff at her silly joke, but her hands caressed down my chest and stomach, and my brain couldn’t form words.
“I brought this man out here because I had something I wanted to tell him, but he’ssucha distraction. He’s all broad shoulders,big muscle, and hard…well”—she stopped just short of my cock—“hard everything, I think.”
Instead of telling her how turned on I was, I let my hands show her. I took her arm and pulled her against me. She hummed as my hands inched slowly over her smooth body. I groped every curve and dipped into every valley. Her legs were spread just enough that I could get my knee between them, propping her up so I could reach her breasts.
Because of the water, her nipples were hot on my tongue. She buried her fingers in my hair as I tugged gently on her nipples with my teeth.
“Night,” she moaned. “My love, my mate…”
And she was mine. I brought her back down for another deep kiss. Her legs started to wrap around my waist, but when we heard giggling, we stopped to see who was coming. We spotted a woman and a man sprinting behind the trees. They had no idea we were there until they emerged stark naked from the tree line. Frankie and Jasper.
Bryn’s surprised gasp gave us away.
“A-Alpha!” Jasper stuttered. He and Frankie immediately turned bright red. “We didn’t expect you and Bryn to be here.”
“We could say the same about you,” I replied flatly.
Frankie turned from us, hiding her face with her hair.
“Don’t worry,” Bryn said as she got out of the pool. “You two can have the spot to yourselves. Night, let’s go inside.”
I sent a quick glare to each of them but didn’t argue with Bryn’s decision. Whether we were out here or inside, I was happy as long as I got to have her.
She giggled as we walked away.
“What are you so happy about?” I asked sulkily. “They interrupted us.”
“I know, but isn’t the whole situation so funny and sweet?” she asked. “Not only has Jasper gotten over me completely, he’s withFrankie. She’s such a catch.”
“I guess it’s a little surprising.” I sighed. “I wouldn’t have thought they would get together. She’s two, maybe three years older than him? Either way, I’m annoyed.”
“Oh, I know,” she agreed. “I always figured Lance would be more her type. But it makes me so giddy, thinking that she had a soft spot for sensitive guys.”
Even my annoyance couldn’t endure her bubbly laughter. She was just too cute. Bryn didn’t stop grinning even after we were in our cabin and closing our bedroom door behind us. She went to the nightstand and grabbed a candle and a match to light it.
That annoyance turned into a different kind of frustration now that we were in the dark. It was just the two of us in our bedroom on this chilly night, and the hot spring water still glistened on her skin. Once she lit the candle, I got a better view of the droplets plunging between her breasts and over her stomach until it was lost between the inner curves of her thighs. She moved her hair over her shoulder as she turned to put the candle on the nightstand, giving me a full view of another drop tracking down her spine.
I moved behind her so quickly, I heard her breath catch. I caught the drop with my lips, then drew my tongue up to collect the droplets that glistened along her spine.
“Oh.” She shivered. “Night.”
My hands slipped over her hips as I covered the back of her neck with hungry kisses. The water was made even sweeter because it was warmed by her skin. She moaned and turned in my arms. Her hard nipples brushed across my chest as she stood on the tips of her toes and wrapped her arms around my neck. She pressed her soft lips to mine and hopped up, wrapping her legs around my waist. I gripped her thighs and pressed her back to the wall, eager to continue where we’d left off. Our tongues explored each other’s mouths, not warring for dominance but just to taste each other as deeply as possible.
