days, it’s best to be alone than in a relationship like that.”
He turned to face her. “Maybe. But what do you do when you find the person you know is right for you?”
She frowned. “I don’t know. I guess it depends on the situation.”
He lifted a hand to her face, rubbing his thumb over her rounded chin, and sighed. “You’re mine.”
She pulled back, a deep frown covering her brows. “I’m what?”
“Mine.”
She laughed. “Does that work with most women?” She shook her head. “Never mind. Look, you’re hot as fuck. You really are, but you can’t just tell me I’m yours and expect me to be at your beck and call. Life doesn’t work like that.”
He raised his other hand to her breast and watched her suck in a harsh breath. “Your body disagrees.”
“I don’t care what my body says,” she replied stubbornly. “I’m not a commodity. You can’t just say I’m yours and that’s gonna be it. Lust is all fine and good for great sex, but I won’t go into a relationship with a guy just because we’re good in bed.”
“We’re more than just good in bed,” he leaned forward and brushed his lips over hers. “We are fucking fantastic.”
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She licked her lips, loving the taste of him on her mouth. Okay, so yes, they were fantastic in bed. “That’s still not enough. I don’t know how shifters do things, but saying I’m yours because we had sex is not really a way to get me to agree.”
He frowned. “You’d deny this, us, because we just met?”
She thought about it. Her parents had chemistry at some point or her mom wouldn’t have ended up pregnant. But going from having chemistry to a horrible marriage proved to Kira, she needed more than good sex in a relationship. And that meant they had to get to know each other. “It’s not about having just met. Or maybe it is. Either way, I won’t make any decision having known you a handful of hours. I know next to nothing about you. Tell me who you are, what makes you tick. Give me something more than we are compatible in bed.”
His cell phone rang and he stood to grab it from the table.
She took a deep breath and wondered why his whole ‘mine’ thing had made her so excited. She wasn’t the kind of woman who approved of the Neanderthal method. She didn’t belong to anyone. She made her own decisions. Her heart said “yes please”, but her mind screamed “you don’t know him.” So why did her pussy throb when he looked deep into her eyes and said the word? Why did her body buzz with a new growth of desire the more he repeated it?
She knew the answer. She was fucking crazy. His bite had done something to her and now she was into the whole animal sex and claiming thing he was talking about.
He returned to the living room a moment later. “Are you up to going back out in the morning?”
She nodded. They’d been out a few hours and now she wanted to take a hot bath and eat. Her stomach chose that moment to grumble. “Is there something I can eat? I’m starving.”
He helped her stand, his hands lingered on her body, seared her to the bone, made her nipples ache.
“It will take a few minutes to make a late lunch,” he said, his low rumbly voice warming her to the core.
“I’m just going to take a hot shower really quick and then we can eat,” she said.
Once showered, she glanced at the clothes on the bed. He’d come into the room again, taken her dirty clothes and placed a pair of sweat pants and a T-shirt on the bed.
He was so thoughtful. And possessive. She’d seen him glancing at her like she was his. Normally that pissed her off. A woman wasn’t anyone’s property, but when Luke looked at her like that. It made her feel desired and all kinds of turned on. It made her feel like her curves turned him on and he wanted to keep her just as she was.
Having been big all her life, men didn’t usually give her the “I want to fuck you all night long” look. They usually gave her the
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