Page 66 of Winter's Thaw

“Laura, you were doing your job.” He kissed her again, unable to help himself. “And I like a strong woman.”

“Really?”

He hated how vulnerable she sounded and knew she’d likely had reason. Men could be such assholes. But lost in her gaze, he didn’t say any of that.

“Really. Let me show you.”

Chapter Twenty-Five

Laura didn’t know what happened, but some stranger was giving her amazing, heartfelt gifts, and Gerald Winter was stripping her clothes off one piece at a time and looking at her like she could do no wrong.

He didn’t mind her being strong? Turning part bear? Protecting him?

It was like she was dreaming—and she didn’t want to wake up.

He had her naked and following him to her bedroom, in her own house. She moved like a marionette, and he was pulling all her strings.

“You’re still dressed,” she said blankly, trying to get a handle on her roaring libido.

Everything inside her wanted to mate with this man, this fox. To take him as hers.

Forever.

He stopped in front of her and smiled, and that expression was so sweet and tender she felt like crying. “I can fix that.”

He never stopped watching her as he removed his clothes, treating her to one fine-ass body full of muscle and strength. His cock was thick and long, and she knew without a doubt they’d fit perfectly. That’s if she could last. She felt itchy, out of her skin with want, and hurried back on the bed as he approached.

Once flat on her back, she blinked up at him. “Are you…stalking me?”

“My humble prey,” he said with a wink. “I don’t know what it is. But you’re making me so… I need to be inside you, Laura.” He paused above her, his smile gone. “I feel you inside me, and it’s burning. I need you.”

She didn’t know what he meant, except she did, because she felt it to. An unanswerable desire to bind herself to Gerald in all ways. “I, um, I don’t have any condoms. But I’m protected from pregnancy.” And Ac-taw couldn’t catch diseases.

“Too bad.” He stopped in shock and just stared at her. “Did I really say that?”

“You did. Let’s discuss it later.” She tugged him down on top of her.

He groaned something into her mouth and didn’t disappoint. Gerald’s lips trailed from her mouth down her neck to her breasts. Any self-consciousness she’d felt about her full figure and soft belly vanished as he caressed her with care, his mouth pulling at her nipples and turning her body into one giant ball of need.

She writhed under him, and then his fingers were there, playing with her, thrusting inside her while he licked and teethed her nipples.

She arched up and nearly came as he flicked his finger over her clit. And then the sly fox moved down her body.

“Gerald.”

“Trust me, sweetheart,” he said as he kissed his way down her belly, his gaze locked with hers.

She saw so much affection there, what almost seemed like love, that she was stunned when his mouth found her slick sex. He sucked and licked, and as he thrust a finger deep inside her once more, she climaxed so hard she couldn’t think.

He continued to lick her until she moaned his name to stop. Then he was on top of her and inside her.

“You feel huge,” she gasped, already reaching for her next orgasm.

“You feel so hot, so wet,” he moaned and thrust in and out, harder and faster, until she was coming again, gripping him as he poured inside her.

The scent of their animals intertwined, and Laura had the vague sensation of joining him in more than the physical, but on another plane entirely.

He sagged onto her moments later, then quickly withdrew and lay next to her, stroking her with firm but gentle hands.

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