Page 67 of Into the Lion's Den (Secrets of the Northland Shifters)

“Think on the offer,” I said. “I’ll need all of your answers by the end of the weekend.”

My siblings glanced around the table at each other. Six days to decide between two impossible choices: stay and gamble on our success, or grab the financial windfall and abandon our father’s legacy. Whichever way we turned, our losses could be great.

26

REESE

The night before the Maddox party arrived, I went to bed mentally exhausted and expecting nothing but pure unconsciousness. Instead, I found myself back in the dream that had plagued me for weeks, met once more by the most tantalizing of pleasures.

As I lay sprawled and naked on my back, a female hand pressed warmth into the center of my chest. Her fingers tickled and teased as they ran down my front, torturing me with the most exquisite sensualness.

It went on and on until she finally bent over my body, and her silky hair brushed across my chest.

I reached up, tangling my fingers in her tresses as her head descended and her lips met mine with a warm, wet kiss. She nipped my bottom lip, and this time I didn’t wake up.

In my dream, I opened my eyes. Of course it was Sarah.

The lion in me had found her enticing from the moment of her arrival, and because I couldn’t fully indulge my feline curiosity in my waking moments, I was happy to do it here.

She moved lower down my body, her nipples brushing against my sensitive skin.

“Where do you think you’re going, kitten?”

She paused and looked up, meeting my eyes. “I want to taste you.”

I chuckled. The alpha in me wanted to take control, but something told me I wouldn’t regret letting her have her way.

I laced my hands behind my head. “Have at it. I’m at your mercy.”

She bit down on her lower lip as if uncertain, drawing out the deep rumble of my purr.

I wanted to bite those sexy lips myself, but had to be satisfied with running a hand up her arm.

She shivered and resumed her journey down the length of my body.

I spread my legs, and she knelt between them.

My hands stroked the curve of her shoulders, and I felt the wet heat of her mouth move over my cock.

I growled softly in the back of my throat, afraid the sound might wake me and make her disappear. I watched her move, taking in the erotic vision of her lush female body and vowing to mark her the first moment I took her for real.

Just a small little bite. A playful nip here and there.

She stopped and looked up at me with those wide gray eyes. “Do you like what I’m doing to you?”

“You know I do, kitten.”

“You won’t let them get me?” she asked, her tone plaintive.

“Who,kitten? Don’t letwhoget you?”

Terror filled her eyes, and she vanished like smoke.

I woke up to damp sheets.

It seemed, no matter what I did, these dreams showed no signs of stopping. At first, I’d thought staying away from Sarah would have been all it would take.

Then I thought kissing her might prove she was nothing special.

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