Page 8 of Rogue Wolf

“Kodiak, we need your help. More carpets need to be removed,” Onai called from the back door.

“Fuck! I’m coming.” Kodiak over his shoulder at his packmate and then back at Tamaska.

Her heart jumped at the intensity in his eyes burned deep into her. He might be the alpha, but she’d prove worthy of being his mate. To him and everyone else.

And he’d have to learn to accept her help from time to time.

“Keys.” Tamaska wriggled her fingers.

Kodiak growled under his breath. “No.”

This was clearly a hill he was ready to die on. Men and their cars, she thought. Some things didn’t change no matter whether they were shifter or human. Their cars mattered.

“I mean it,” she said. “And you know making this place as clean as possible makes sense. Cleaner than we can make it as is.”

For a second she thought he would dismiss her but then he sighed.

“You can take Olcan’s car. And I don’t want you going alone.”

She shrugged off his words. “It’s daytime. I’ll be fine.”

“No.” He caught her arm and held her there.

Tamaska blew out a breath. “Everyone’s busy. If someone comes with me, it’ll only hold up the cleaning process, and you’ve already said it needs to be done quickly.”

Kodiak muttered something then pulled her in against him, holding her, biting at her throat and tiny thrills of delight raced through her flesh. “Anyone tell you you’re a stubborn woman?”

“You? And you need that. Because how else am I going to get you to respect me as much as you want to fuck me?”

“Goddamn it, woman.” He smiled against her, she could feel the shift of his lips. “Go, get what you need, and get the fuck back here, or I’ll make you pay for your disobedience.”

“Now that’s tempting.”

He tightened his embrace and she moaned softly, wanting to burrow deep into him and forget everything in the world but him. “You might not like what I have in mind.”

“I’ll find out, then.” She rose on her toes and kissed his lips. “Maybe take my time, earn my punishment.”

“No, you’ll go and come straight back. You will not go anywhere else. Promise me.”

It wasn’t a question.

“I don’t know what I would do if something happened to you,” he added.

Her heart softened. “I’ll come straight back.”

The back door to the club house slammed shut, the noise shattering the moment.

And he sighed, stepping away from her. “What the fuck is it?”

“Kodiak, Moki thinks he should be in charge of the computers and he’s fucking it up,” called Channing.

Other members of the pack had come into the clubhouse and she was still learning who was who outside the core few she’d met when that fateful night threw her and Kodiak together and on this path.

Kodiak growled. “I should rip their throats out.”

He didn’t mean it but she still shuddered because beneath his words lay the hard and dark center of what they were facing. And she’d seen how things could escalate.

“They sound like children,” Tamaska said, trying to lighten the mood.

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