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started. Her boxes also needed to be unpacked and the contents put in their proper places. It was already becoming more and more difficult to have enough room to work and sort her things. When the orders she’d just placed started to come in, she was going to be hurting.
    It was nearly one when she started on some of the orders. She was just finishing up the first stack she’d pulled out when the door opened behind her. Opal figured it was one of her sisters and told them to hang on. But when her chair was jerked around, she shifted so quickly that her breath caught between her human and the wolf. The man standing there with his back pressed firmly against the door looked as startled as she was. Sloan should know better than to startle a shifter . She could have killed him.
    “ I’ve been trying to reach you all day.” She growled low at Sloan. “You’ve been blocking me, and I was…Christ, you scared the shit out of me. Is that the way you normally meet someone? Like the mail guy? Do you shift like that when he knocks on the door to give you a letter?”
    What do you want? He nodded and pointed to the chair, and she nodded once. Her wolf was still pissy, and she wanted blood. But he sat down, put his hands on his knees, and stared at her . He was looking like he was as calm as they came, but she could feel his fear and wondered about it. I asked you a question.
    “ So you did. I’m simply waiting on my heart to beat at a normal pace and my entire body to…. Did you not like the building?”
    Opal sat down and tried her best to ignore him. There was something extremely appealing about him right now, and she couldn’t put her finger on it. Watching him carefully, she ignored his question as he had hers. But his laughter startled a low growl from her again, and she glared at him. “I was just thinking about something. And seeing that you didn’t strip down, I had a sudden thought. Are you naked? I mean, when you shift…I see your clothing and I can only assume that you’re naked. I don’t suppose I could persuade you to shift back to a woman and show me. I’d very much like to see you now.”
    His voice was like a purr, a soft stroke across her skin. She yawned hugely and laid down. Of course , he knew that she was naked. Like he said, her clothing was in shreds all over the floor. But when he stood up and began taking off his belt, she stood as well.
    “ I can’t shift. I can do a great many things, but shifting isn’t one of them.” The belt hit the floor, and he opened the fly of his pants, then pulled his shirt over his head and dropped it on the belt. “Are you going to shift back for me, Opal? Are you going to go from that amazing wolf to human and let me lay you over this desk and eat you? I haven’t yet, you know, and the thought of tasting you has me as hard as stone.”
    I want you to leave here. He sat down and pulled his boots off one at a time and stacked them neatly by his clothes. Then he stood again. I’m not in the mood for your crap today, Sloan. I have a ton of orders to do and you’re in my zone.
    “ I’d rather be inside of you. Of course, we could go back to our house. I think taking you on the bed would be fun, but not nearly so much as eating you right here would be.” He stood before her, naked, now having taken off not just his pants but his boxers as well. She felt her body respond to him, and when he fisted his cock and moved slowly up and down it, Opal also knew that he could smell her. And as much as she disliked this man, he did give her incredible orgasms. But her wolf wanted him more than she wanted him the hell out of her life.
    She moved along his legs , and when Sloan moaned, her wolf growled low…not one of warning this time, but of pleasure. When he sat down again, his cock right at her level, she thought about licking him and decided that was just too weird. Instead, she licked his thigh and nearly cried out when he moved her face to his cock.
    “ Just a lick.