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What the hell—? He pulled back so he could see her face. “Are you saying you Saw something? Something about the two of us?”

“Not a vision, no.”

“Then what?”

She expelled a breath. “Look, I wanted you and you wanted me. Isn’t that enough?”

She was evading a straight answer, but he let it slide. “If your brother finds out, he’ll skin me alive.”

Once, that would’ve made this little getaway all the more fun, but not these days. Maybe at the beginning he’d gone after Rosana partly to tweak the other alpha, but he’d long since admitted to himself that he’d want her no matter who she was.

“Don’t worry. No one knows I’m here.”

He played with the pretty silver charm on her wrist. “What if he asks you straight out?”

She moved a shoulder. “I love Dion. He pretty much raised me and Tiago after my mom and dad disappeared.”

Adric nodded. There wasn’t much he didn’t know about the do Rio family, including that Rosana’s parents had been captured by King Sindre when she was just six, leaving Dion to raise both her and Tiago. There were two middle brothers, but they’d left Rock Run rather than challenge their oldest brother for alpha.

“And he’s my alpha,” she continued, “but that makes him my boss, not my master. If he asks straight out, I won’t lie, but otherwise, this is between you and me. It’s none of his business.”

“We’re rival alphas, love. What I do will always be his business, and vice versa.”

“So this is it?” She pulled away and sat up. “One night and nothing else?”

He stared up at her. “That was the agreement.”

But fuck, he wished it were different.

Hurt flickered across her face.

“Hey.” He touched her hand. “You know it can’t be more than that.”

Rosana’s mouth twisted.

He swallowed against the desire to apologize, to somehow take the words back. He owed her honesty, at least.

“Right.” She averted her face. “I understand.”

“Rosana…”

She cut him off with a sharp shake of her head, then rose up on her knees.

His hand fisted. She was going to ask him to take her home, and he’d have to be a fucking gentleman about it. But instead, she straddled him, brought his hands to her high, full breasts. She looked down at him, cobalt eyes unreadable.

He held his breath, but he couldn’t stop his thumbs from caressing her pretty nipples. They beaded under his touch, and his dick twitched in response.

The corner of her mouth edged up. She traced two fingers down his forearm, and every nerve in his body felt the shock wave.

“Then we’d better not waste any time.”

Chapter 6

Outside, the sun was setting. A hazy winter light slanted through the blinds, gilding Adric’s skin a warm gold.

Rosana ran her hands down his rock-hard torso. Learning the shape of his muscles, absorbing the heat of his skin.

She hadn’t lied to him. It wasn’t worth it—it would make her sick, and besides, he’d scent the lie.

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