tonight. Her sweet, hot flesh wrapped
around my cock. Her—”
It was Gavin’s turn to grunt as Wyatt smacked him back. “I am not going
to be jealous. Or envious. Or anything, because Bailey means nothing to me.”
Adamant words he spoke, and yet, Wyatt recognized them as false. “Let me off
here.”
“Here” was a deserted spot that marked the outer edge of the park, a
few miles from town. Slowing down, Gavin, put the SUV in park and gave him a
hard look.
“I know you’re in denial, but do me a favor and think long and hard
about Bailey. About becoming her mate. If I have to share her with anyone, I’d
really prefer it to be you.”
“Assuming she’ll even have me. You seem to forget, she knows nothing of
our ways. And with Nathan’s new rules, it’s her choice despite what you did
back at her place. Even if I did want to, I doubt she’ll overcome her human
upbringing enough to ever agree to it.”
“So we show her why two men is better than one.”
A rusty chuckle escaped him. “Damn, like those girls we tag-teamed in
college? Fuck. I’d almost forgotten about that.” Again a lie. No man could ever
forget the incredible eroticness of sharing a woman’s body with another.
“Think about it while you’re taking your run in the woods. And while I’d
really prefer no interruptions tonight for our first time together, you are
more than welcome anytime after that.”
Wyatt didn’t trust himself to reply, not with his mind suddenly full of
images that made his cock stiffen. He swung out of the truck and stripped
quickly in the shadows before he handed his clothes to his friend. Shifting first
into his beast, a bone-melting and crunching transformation that, while painful,
no longer made him scream, he tore off into the woods. He needed to run to
clear his mind before he dealt with the female who roused a myriad of feelings
in him that he didn’t know how to deal with, that made him want things he’d
never imagined.
Lust he could understand. She possessed a fine figure made for
accepting a man’s body and seed.
Protectiveness he could fathom as well, because of her ordeal and her
fragile nature. What male wouldn’t want to step up and take over the role of
hero? However, thoughts of forever, and mating . . . what the fuck was that all
about?
Wyatt understood the whole mating process. A male met a nice-smelling
she-wolf, he bit her, and they settled down to have cubs, sometimes with
another male, or more, joining the group. Or, a male met a human female, he
fucked her, and kept her to himself, living out his days working for the pack while
watching others raise their cubs.
Then there was his situation. A human girl who wasn’t, who’d attracted
the attention, it seemed, of four males, and not just any males, two who could
have been pack alphas. It made no sense. In the history passed down by their
elders, he’d never heard of such a thing. And it drove him nuts that it had happened
to him.
I have no need or interest in
mating, an easy thing to pronounce to himself and Gavin, but much harder
face-to-face with her, a dilemma made more difficult by the needs of his wolf.
Even now, his inner beast paced inside, agitated that he hadn’t marked the
female and that they were dawdling in the woods instead of making their way
instantly to her side to protect her.
Being forced wasn’t something that sat well with Wyatt, especially not
for something that would affect the rest of his life. It’s not as if I don’t like her, and if I had to share with anyone,
this group of men would be my first choice. Well, maybe not the annoying
Jaxon, but still, he could handle the pup. So what exactly bothered him the
most about the concept of mating with Bailey?
Until he found out, he’d fight the urge tooth and nail and take cold
showers. Lots and lots of them , he
amended, because as soon as he reached the outskirts of the campground where
Parker and Jaxon had already set up the tents, his wolf took over.
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