Page 354 of Love Bites

EPILOGUE

COCO

One month. That was how long it took me to let Magnus move in to my house. Not that we’d really spent much time apart since he’d claimed me as his—we simply made it official at the one-month mark. More so than just him having most of his books, his work computer, his toothbrush, and his almost obscenely large concert T-shirt collection at my place. Those shirts were awesome and so comfy, by the way. I had a bit of an obsession with wearing them—and nothing else. Due to my obsession, Magnus had developed his own obsession with taking them off me slowly. No ripping of the shirts. My yoga pants…well, I wished Amazon had a Subscribe&Save option for those. Magnus always replaced what he destroyed, but still—it added up.

If I didn’t like what he did to me afterward, I’d probably be pissed about the pants. But alas…multiple orgasms had a way of erasing any sort of bad mood. So I continued to wear them, and he continued to rip them off me. Good times.

A scratch at the back door pulled me from my job of unpacking some of the kitchen accoutrements his movers had sent along from his former home out east. Two houses coming together meant having to make decisions about what stayed and what didn’t. We definitely didn’t need doubles of everything, so I’d been tasked with picking what we were keeping and what we were getting rid of. Most of his stuff was going simply because the kitchen was my realm, though he had a way nicer coffee press than mine. We’d be keeping that one.

Another scratch. Shoot. “I’m coming.”

It had to be Magnus coming back from his run. His wolf had settled into Kinship Cove nicely, the surrounding forests and mountains giving him places to take off and let his instincts rule. The best part was that he tended to come home from those runs all wired and crazy. Needing me. Wanting to tackle me into bed and spend a few hours making me scream.

I didn’t mind that one bit.

I opened the back door and grinned as a large, gray wolf padded inside. A mud-covered one.

“You’re dirty, mate. Do I need to wash the wolf or the man?”

Magnus shifted to his human self, standing before me with mud covering most of his skin. So much skin. Naked Magnus was a sight to behold. Still. I might never get over seeing him in all his unclothed glory. Or, at least, I hoped I never would.

“If you’re promising me time in the bath with you, then the man is in.”

“And if I’m not?”

He growled and grabbed me, rushing across the room until he had my back to the wall. The ridge of his erection rubbed me in all the right places. “You don’t want to be naked with me, beautiful?”

“I do, but not in the tub.” Water and sex didn’t work…not for me at least. Shower sex, yes. Bathtub, not so much.

“You just want me to fuck you against the shower wall.”

Guilty. “Any wall will do, really.”

His grin had my stomach clenching with want. “Like the one I’ve got you up against right now?”

“Yes.” I leaned in for a kiss, groaning when he licked into my mouth. The man certainly knew how to kiss. Who was I kidding? The man knew how to do everything, including give me multiple orgasms against a wall. And on the floor. And in the shower. And in the bed. The couch. The porch. The car… I was a lucky, lucky human.

“I want you in a bed,” he said before kissing his way down my neck. “I want to lay you down and lap that sweet pussy until you scream.”

How was I supposed to say no to that? “Okay.”

He chuckled, adjusting his hold on me while turning and heading for the stairs. But not before he grabbed my ass cheeks.

And ripped through my yoga pants with his claws.

“Oops,” he said, looking completely unrepentant.

“You did that on purpose.”

“Of course I did. Those pants make me want to get you naked.”

“So give me a chance to take them off.”

As he hit the stairs, I wrapped my legs around his hips and rode him as hard as I could. I was a rocking and writhing madwoman chasing my first peak before he even made it to the second floor.

“Patience, my mate,” he said with a moan as we reached the top landing.

“You waited so long to find me. Don’t make me do the same.”

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