Southern Shifters: Purred Promises (Kindle Worlds Novella) by R. E. Butler

couch.”
    “Is that because I’m so awesome at pool that you’re afraid you’re going to lose?”
    He snorted. “No, it’s because I know you’re only going to get more daring at cheating.”
    “So it’s win-win.” She dropped the cue to the table and gripped his biceps.
    “It always is with you.”
    Her eyes glistened, and she tilted her face to his. He drew her closer, inhaling her thunderstorm scent as he kissed her. He could count on one hand the good things that had happened in his life, and they all involved Genesis ; f inding her, mating her, loving her. She was his light, his life, his everything, and nothing made him happier than making her happy.
    She bit gently on his lower lip, a purr rumbling in her chest. “Let’s put the couch out on the porch.”
    “I love how you think,” he said, chuckling. “Do we need to finish the game or can we call it a draw?”
    “Take me home, Jair,” she whispered, gazing up at him with such adoration that it made his beasts take pause and just absorb her love. He could feel how much she loved him, like it was a living, breathing creature, and he loved her just as much.
    Genesis had lost everything, and found him. He’d had nothing, but now he had all a male could ever need. He didn’t miss his old life anymore, because Genesis had become the epicenter of his world. They lived in a place where differences were celebrated and accepted, where symbols that had meant exclusion suddenly mea nt inclusion. Being an outcast wasn’t a bad thing when it came with a sexy mate who let him see her naked.
    Bending, he lifted her over his shoulder and headed for the door. She laughed and called, “See you later, Mona!”
    “Have a good night, hon,” Mona said, her voice tinged with humor.
    Genesis gave Jair’s ass a tap and said, “The couch is calling, my mate. Hurry.”
    He set her gently on the seat in his truck and rushed around to the driver’s side. He heard her laughing at his eagerness, but he didn’t care if she saw how much he wanted her. He drove swiftly home, then hurried her inside and moved to the couch.
    “Grab the door, love,” he encouraged as he picked up one end.
    Her eyes widened as she watched him heft the couch in the air, and then she laughed. “ That’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.”
    She opened the door that led onto the back porch and stepped outside, holding it wide as he maneuvered the piece of furniture through the doorway. It wasn’t easy, but he was a determined male. Finally he dropped the couch onto the porch with a triumphant growl.
    “You could start your own one-man moving company,” she teased. She ducked into the house and came back out with the comforter from the bed. She laid it on the cushions and pushed one edge of the couch until it was angled toward the woods.
    She straightened and undid the tie at the side of her shirt and drew it slowly over her head. He didn’t think she was purposely stripping slowly, but it was still sexy as hell. The moonlight highlighted her features, giving her an ethereal glow that brought him to his knees before her. She gasped as he wrapped his arms around her waist and buried his face in her stomach.
    “Mine,” he said, the word soaked in emotion that he couldn’t really convey. “So fucking mine.”
    Burying her fingers in his hair, she curled herself over him and held him as tightly as he was holding her. “I’ll never be anyone else’s. You’re mine and mine alone, and I’m yours.”
    His wolf and tiger rose to the surface, the rough purr that the two of them rumbled in his chest causing her arousal to spike. Her thunderstorm- drenched sweetness filled his senses as he nuzzled her belly and gripped her waistband with both hands. She lifted from him, gazing down with love and adoration, the moonlight overhead casting its pale light over them. It was the perfect night, the perfect place for them to share their love.
    “Couch beckons,” she whispered huskily, tilting to