Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 59422 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 297(@200wpm)___ 238(@250wpm)___ 198(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 59422 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 297(@200wpm)___ 238(@250wpm)___ 198(@300wpm)
I frowned at the stupidity of the question. Although if all she saw about kidnapping was on TV shows, then maybe she would draw that conclusion. She wasn’t afraid of me though. I’d just eaten her out, for fuck’s sake.
“Of course not. I just brought you here to…” I trailed off. My reasoning wasn’t all that clear. My wolf instinct drove me to bring her somewhere secluded. Somewhere I could have my way with her. Mark her. But she wasn’t ready for that, and I’d been kidding myself that she was. I wouldn’t take her until she understood completely. Until she wanted me as much as I wanted her… and not just sexually.
She was my mate. I knew she was the one for me. I just needed to get her to see it, too.
“To tie me up and make me come?”
My lips twitched. “Well, yes, that.”
She frowned. “But you aren’t having sex with me. I’m a sure thing, Cody.” She waved her arm around. “No strings attached.” She had the audacity to eye the rope still attached to the headboard. “Or not any longer.”
“You want to… what? Fuck and then I take you home? Is that what you think this is about?”
“Yes. We fuck, and you take me home.”
Holy hell, I messed this up.
“I forget you drugged me and planned to mind wipe me because I saw Tyler turn into a wolf,” she added. “I’ve promised not to tell.”
“This a new bargain, sugar?”
She might be able to bargain with me, especially when I gave her orgasms from the arrangement, but there was no compromise with Rob Wolf. She either got claimed by me, or she got her mind wiped. Period.
She shrugged.
If we had sex, based on her response, she’d be done with me. Not happening. She wanted sex. Wanted my dick, not me.
There was no bargain here. I had to concede everything. Except sex. She wasn’t getting it now, not until she knew everything and wanted to be mine. Begged for me to claim her.
I wouldn’t deny her pleasure–fuck, watching her come was one of the most erotic things ever–but she wouldn’t get my dick. I had to get her to see her life now was with me, but taking her to the cabin wasn’t the way I should’ve done it. I needed to be patient, which sucked. I thought I was a patient man, but Riley made me practically rabid.
“If you don’t take me home, my dad will find out.” That was a threat I hadn’t considered. It was also a good one.
“Shit.”
She was an adult, but she was still Kyle Abbott’s little girl and wouldn’t want me sniffing around her, let alone eat her out. I was too old for dealing with that kind of challenge.
I sighed. “With what I–eventually–plan to do with you, your dad will definitely shoot me.”
“Well, good thing for you, he’s in Bozeman testifying in a trial for the next few days.”
Thank fuck. I had a reprieve from being shot–and healing from a bullet wound. I needed time to court Riley. Woo her. Give her enough orgasms to understand she was my fated mate, to understand that she was my forever.
I was risking a lot. I sure as hell couldn’t let someone mind wipe her. I would have to hide the fact that I didn’t do it from Rob until I could mark her. I would have to teach her about shifters, giving her the knowledge that she could use to destroy the entire pack. I would have to satisfy her sexual needs without compromising, no matter how much I suffered from blue balls. I had to get her to be mine before her father came home. Before Rob found out.
“Fine. I’ll take you home.” I shifted off the bed, reached down and grabbed her leggings.
She looked at me, skeptical, as she took them. As if I hadn’t drugged her, kidnapped her, and tied her to the bed only to let her go. “No mind wiping?”
“No mind wiping. No telling anyone,” I warned.
With a shake of her head, she said, “I won’t.” Sadly, she started to put her leggings back on.
“No fucking other guys just to ditch your virginity.”
“You won’t take it,” she replied mulishly.
“I’ll take it, but we’ll have fun first.”
Her eyes lit with interest. “Really?”
“That’s a promise, sugar.” I circled my finger in the air. “‘Til then, this is all a secret.”
She considered it. “Yeah, you’re probably right. We’re a secret.”
I leaned in to kiss her, loving that she let me. I took her hand and led her out of the bedroom and to my Jeep.
The nearly full moon rose in the sky like my benevolent goddess. The deity who just granted me a wish I hadn’t even dared to make.
I opened the door for her, helped her in. When I went around and climbed in the driver seat, she peered at me. “Who else is a wolf?” Before I could answer, she gasped. “Wolf Ranch! Oh my God! Is everyone at Wolf Ranch a shifter, too?”