Page 70 of The Mating Frenzy
Adrian replaced it and waved the butler away. “My punishment is you must live with me for two weeks after you complete your currentassignment.”
A gleam lit his eyes. “And you must do whatever Iplease.”
Claws emerged from Darcy’s fingertips. “Try to force me and I’ll show you my claws. Orworse.”
“I will not force you. But you know the consequences if you fail to live up to the bargain.” He narrowed his eyes at her. “I will hunt you down, I will find you and I will drag you back here and keep you naked and locked up in my bedroom for the entire twoweeks.”
Judging from the darkening of her eyes, Darcy looked intrigued by the idea. Then she scowled. “Fine. But I have a duty to Ella first. I’ll fulfill your damn rules, after Ella finds the crystal and revives hermother.”
With that, Darcy shifted into a large bird and flew off. Adrian shook his head. “That woman, she slays me. But I will have no oneelse.”
The alpha shifted into a wolf once more and raced off toward thewoods.
Leaving them alone. The scent of musky sex filled the air, along with the howls of mating wolves and the groans of pleasure of Lupines choosing to mate in human form. Ella’s grointightened.
Kieran was naked again. So was she. She had never felt this longingbefore.
At first when she saw Kieran naked, Ella told herself she merely wanted to admire a perfect male body. And then she kept staring at him, the triangle of dark hair stretching from one brown nipple to the other, the ripple of muscles on his flat abdomen, and the line of hair marching down tohis…
Kieran turned her on, as if he’d yanked at the rusty tap of her desire and now it flooded out, wet and gushing, preparing her body forsex.
All she could think about lately wassex.
For all her adult years, she’d tempered her body’s natural drive. Discipline and focus. Nolonger.
Ella had never wanted a man as badly as she wanted Kieran. The space between her legs felt empty and wet. Last night she’d dreamed of Kieran making love to her, his warm mouth covering every inch of her skin with kisses, and then he’d mountedher.
It had not been gentle, norsweet.
It had been everything her sexually suppressed body had wanted all these adult years, since puberty had opened a floodgate of femalehormones.
She did not fearhim.
She feared her own desires. Because sex was one thing. She could have sex with him, but fall in love? With a man who could turn into a jaguar, a man who’d tipped her world upside down since hisarrival?
But she wanted Kieran, and the sharp longing stabbed her with erotic awareness. Especially now, the way he stared at her as if he wanted to take her here and now. Cover her with his strong, muscled body, and thrust deepinside…
Kieran trailed a finger down her cheek and she shivered with arousal. “I was assigned to protect you. I will not deny I want you as awoman.”
“You can do with me what you wish,” she whispered. “I’m not in my fertile time and we don’t needprotection.”
Gaze dark, Kieran studied her. “My kind is aggressive when it comes to sex.” He drew in a deep breath. “I need sex and I’ve deniedmyself.”
She liked his aggression. Ella could envision him in the bedroom, taking charge and fulfilling her wildest sexualfantasies.
“I’m not afraid,” Ella told him. Her wolf had been triggered, turning her on as she scented Kieran’s raging need, his sexualaggression.
“You shouldbe.”
His expression tightened as he looked down, rubbing his thumb along the seam of her lip. The gesture spoke of need, not affection. Couldn’t he hear the rapid pounding of her heart, sense the quickening of her blood? Some inexplicable force had drawn them together, the sexual chemistry scorching the air between them until every cell of her body sang withawareness.
“I will control myself, Ella-mine, because I know you areinnocent.”
Staring at his mouth, she leaned up and parted herlips.
He kissed her, his lips moving gently over hers, and then he increased the pressure. It felt wonderful, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, leaning into his strongbody.
When they broke apart, desire flared in his gaze, turning his eyes even darker. Ella wrapped her arms around herself, suddenly nervous about the wildness swimming within hisgaze.
