Page 24 of The Bunny Blues

“If you get my stuff, I’ll leave now,” I whispered, hating the hitch in my voice.

“Absolutely not.” Coda caught my jaw in his palm and tilted my chin up to meet his eyes. “You aren’t leaving us… me.”

It was the first time he’d touched my human skin, and my pulse quickened.

That was the horrifying moment I remembered I was in my human form… which meant I was completely naked… and I wasn’t the only one.

I was in a sitting position facing Coda, with my legs together and my knees pulled up a bit toward my chest. Coda crouched over me just as he had in his wolf form. He straddled my legs and was leaning over me slightly. His left palm was flat against the floor near my right hip, while his right hand still cupped my cheek.

“It… It isn’t fair for Macarius to be forced to share his house with a stranger he didn’t invite.” My words came out as little more than a breathy whisper, thanks to the intimacy of our current position.

Coda’s eyes dropped to my mouth, and the rough pad of his thumb brushed my bottom lip. “I’m desperate to kiss you.”

I knew their wolves were fighting over whose room I was going to sleep in when they first brought me home, but just a few minutes before, they’d seemed to be fighting over who got to eat me.

Having Coda the man admit he wanted me was a completely different thing. It was more intoxicating than the finest liquor.

“Then kiss me.” The pounding in my ears grew impossibly loud as I held my breath and waited to see what he would do.

A faint glow lit his eyes, letting me know his wolf was near the surface. I’d thought he might crush his lips to mine and take what he wanted from my mouth. But he didn’t.

Coda took his time, closing the gap between us as though we had all the time in the world. The first touch of his lips against mine was as soft as the brush of butterfly wings. How could something so simple be the most wildly erotic thing a lover had done for me?

Coda caught my bottom lip between both of his, gently sucking and tasting my mouth. My arms slid around his neck, and he responded by sliding his right hand into my tangled mane of hair. He gently lowered me until my bare back pressed against the cold floor.

Bracing himself on his elbows, he kept his body from touching mine. His attempt at being respectful was sweet, but my flushed skin ached with the need to be touched by him. Tightening my arms around him, I pulled him closer while at the same time arching my back so that our skin pressed together.

The skin-to-skin contact was even more incredible than I’d imagined, and I whimpered into his mouth.

Coda broke the kiss. “Am I hurting you? We can stop.”

Instead of responding, I pressed my lips to his.

With my matched, their kisses tended to turn rough rather quickly. The kisses never lasted long before they were thrusting themselves inside me.

During my heat, that had been fine, since I’d only cared about easing the pain. But once my heat had ended, I’d longed for intimacy and foreplay.

In contrast, Coda’s kiss remained gentle and unhurried, as though he wanted to spend the rest of the day worshipping my mouth.

I have no idea how far things would have gone if it hadn’t been for the bedroom door being shoved open.

“I’ve said it before, no pets in the house!” Macarius snarled as he stepped into the room with Quin hot on his heels.

Taking in the scene in front of them, both men paused, their mouths agape. Coda twisted his body around, his muscles quivering as he prepared to defend me against attack.

“You brought a rabbit shifter into the house?” Macarius growled.

He may have sounded disgusted, but as his eyes trailed along my exposed skin, they glowed with interest. My cheeks burned, and I couldn’t decide if I wanted to cover myself or expose more of myself to his hungry gaze.

What was wrong with me? Not even five minutes before, two wolves had been fighting over me, and I’d been trying to keep from being squished. Then the infamous Macarius had shown up, and he clearly wasn’t happy with my presence.

Yet rather than fleeing from this house of unstable predators, I was more turned on than I’d ever been in my life. It seemed so wrong to admit that I wanted these men, who were practically strangers, more than I’d ever craved my matched.

Maybe the separation was affecting me more than I realized, and I was beginning to lose my mind?

Quin shoved past Macarius. Ripping a blanket from the foot of the bed, he bent and tucked it around my body.

Tears sprung to my eyes at his thoughtfulness. “Thank you, Quin.”

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