Page 25 of Bearly Taken

“I had to weasel my way back into your bed somehow.”

He shut the door behind himself, and crossed the room in a few large steps. Those gorgeous eyes burned into me as he ripped the blankets off my legs, his face twisting in a snarl when he found my hand in my panties.

“You know better than to touch yourself when I’m here,” he growled, kneeling between my thighs and hooking his finger in the crotch of my panties.

My lower body clenched as he ripped them down my legs.

That had always been our rule, before he bit me—neither of us were allowed to touch ourselves while he was in town. We got off together, or not at all.

“I’m sure you’ve been jerking off,” I breathed.

“No, I haven’t.” He bent my knees so he could tug the panties off my ankles, then lifted them to his nose. With a savage groan, he dragged his tongue over the damp front of them. “Can’t prevent the wet dreams, though.”

“You’ve been dreaming about me?”

“Ever since I walked away.” He pushed my legs open wide, exposing my hot, swollen core as he lowered himself to his abdomen on the bed. “I’m going to lose it while I eat you out, Beautiful,” he said, before dragging his tongue over my clit.

I gasped out a curse, my hips arching as the releasefinallytore through me.

He didn’t back off as I came, devouring me just as fiercely as he always had before.

My body was his instrument.

He played me like a damn fiddle.

And I loved every minute of it.

Reed’s fingers filled me as he worked me with his tongue until I lost it again, and again after that. When I finally pulled on his hair, he knew what I wanted.

What I needed.

Our chests met before his mouth captured mine, and he kissed me just as brutally as he’d licked me. The taste of my pleasure was on his tongue, but I didn’t care.

I started reaching for his shorts, but he slowed the kiss before ending it entirely. His forehead rested against mine, and I breathed deeply, my breath slowing as I recovered from the pleasure.

His lips brushed my ear as he murmured, “I’ll leave the vibrator in your dresser, but if I hear you using it without me, I’ll come in here and take over again. I’m the only one who gets to give you pleasure.”

He kissed my neck, sucked lightly, then slipped out of my bed. After a stop at my dresser, he strode out of the room without looking back.

Suddenly, my bed felt very cold.

And very empty.

But fixing that would require asking him to come back. If I did that, it would change the dynamics between us.

Permanently.

And I wasn’t sure I was ready for that.

So, I just curled up with a pillow while my heartbeat finally slowed and my body relaxed, until sleep claimed me.

six

REED

The morningafter Wren finally let me taste her, the three of us drove down to the clan’s land to fill out the breeding paperwork. They usually would’ve required a DNA test before a payout, but when they saw Parker’s golden eyes no one needed more proof. Wren talked him into shifting just so they covered their bases, and they signed the paper to let her know the money would be deposited over the next handful of days without batting an eye.

It wasn’t like the clan needed the money. They’d invested for so long, there was more than us or our descendants would ever need.

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