dispatcher. Garret scours the forest almost nightly trying to find you.”
“There’s more,” he said, tilting her head this way and that. “I know my alpha well. Has he chosen you?”
Everything came back to her in a rush. The talks of mating, sharing, Garret’s leadership. She remembered when the men told her they’d accept whatever woman Garret chose for them, and that they’d share that one woman. When she’d been alone in the woods with Garret, he’d revealed his excitement to share her with his missing crewman. The idea had been theoretical at the time, but now a flesh-and-blood Matthew stood before her. She was not repulsed by the man, but inexplicably drawn to him. If her four lovers demanded she accept the fifth member of their team, who was she to argue?
“Yes,” she said. Cassidy wasn’t sure of the full significance of being chosen , or even a hundred percent sure she was the one, but she wanted Matthew to want her. The cave suddenly felt as if it closed in around her, leaving just the two of them and her wildly beating heart. She was giddy with excitement, anxious for Garret to reunite with his friend and end this war with the Rockfords. Besides her multitude of questions, she was painfully attracted to the man in front of her.
“Really?” He circled her, lifting her hair, examining her from every angle. “No love bite?”
Again with the love bite. “Is that customary in Climax? Do you all bite your women?”
His brow lowered. Matthew licked his thick lips, staring at her as if she were an enigma. “I’m not disappointed, but I can’t understand what Garret plans for you. He’s left you innocent to our ways.”
“Then teach me,” she said on impulse. As soon as the words left her mouth, her pussy clamped tight, pulsing hard and demanding. She didn’t know Matthew, but felt as if she did by the many personal recounts from Garret. Cassidy knew full well the other men would accept Matthew and offer her to him as they had with each other. But dare she fuck a complete stranger? Her body screamed yes.
“I haven’t been with a woman in a long while.” The rich scent of roasting meat on the fire made her mouth salivate. The Adonis in front of her made her pussy moisten. She was experiencing a sensory overload, and there was only one cure.
“If I can handle your friends, I think I can handle you.”
He tilted his head and shrugged. There was a lighthearted air to him which pulled her in. His simplicity was refreshing. “Is that so?” His gaze roamed over her body, heating her from the inside out. The flames and shadows danced along the toned planes of his chest. He looked hungry, an untamed glint in his eyes. Maybe she wouldn’t be able to handle him.
She nodded.
“I’ve been imprisoned, barely fed, beaten, and drugged.”
“Oh my God.” Cassidy gasped. “That’s horrible.”
Matthew sat down close to where she was now sitting. “Why do you care?” He spoke with honest curiosity in his voice.
“Isn’t it natural to care about another living thing?”
He narrowed his eyes slightly as if trying to unravel the mysteries of her mind. The moment felt intimate, even more so when he adjusted the collar of her shirt which was hanging low on one shoulder. He made no advance, completely in control of his actions.
“Not in my world,” he said.
“Are we not from the same one?”
Matthew lowered down to his side and began to draw rudimentary pictures in the thin layer of dirt and debris on the cave floor. “I haven’t lived an easy life. Until I found Garret, I considered my life a forfeit.”
“That’s an awful thing to say.” Cassidy knew what it was like to struggle through life, to feel the constant ache of loneliness, and to fear the future. Maybe Garret had saved her, too.
“You’re not from around here. Do you even know what it means to go without?”
She frowned, not liking his assumptions. “I’ve been on my own since I was a teenager. I have no parents,
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