Page 3 of Snowbound with the Alpha Wolf
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Florida,presentday
Life never tookher where she expected. Certainly she never expected to be here, trapped by an alpha wolf. Forced to do whatever he pleased for the next twoweeks.
All because she’d sneaked a pretty bauble from his estate and had gottencaught.Hey, I would have returnedit.
Darcy Chambers folded her arms across her chest and refused to lower her gaze before the alpha. With his ink-jet hair, caramel eyes and chiseled features, Adrian Williams was a striking man who looked more suited for the cover ofGQmagazine.
Except Adrian wasn’t aman.
He was a purebred alphawolf.
Cool and collected, Adrian leanedback in his leather chair. Dressed in faded jeans and a white-and-blue-striped shirt, he wore expensive hiking boots. Another thing she didn’tunderstand.
Hiking boots where she’d found him in Colorado?Yes.
Here in Florida, where the weather was suited for sandals? Made nosense.
The alpha’s office was larger than her last home. Elegant mahogany furniture decorated the second-floorroom, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the thick forestbeyond.
Though it was early November and warm temperatures still lingered in south Florida, she was cold.Frozen.
Perhaps it was the deep, penetrating gaze regarding her. Eyes that missed nothing. Barely a few minutes after she’d knocked on the door of his magnificent Florida mansion, two burly Lupines had escortedher up the stairs to thisoffice.
Show of power. And why not? She’d expected nothing less of Adrian. He only needed to snap his fingers and give an order, and his pack leapt to obey. They would tear her from limb to limb if hedesired.
Or bind her to his bed, to let the alpha deliver a different kind ofpunishment…
“Naughty Darcy,” he said softly, leaning his chin on one hand.“What am I to do with you? You stole my priceless magick rubycrystal.”
“Borrowed,” she corrected. “I only borrowed it to see into the future, help Kieran and Ella find the crystal ofCalmach.”
“Semantics.” His smile dropped. “Had you asked, I might have used it to help you. But you stole it instead. The magick is gone from it, the crystal useless from yourtouch.”
Givinga little shrug, she refused to let him intimate her. “It probably wouldn’t have worked anyway. You did get it from a troll antiquities dealer. You know they aren’ttrustworthy.”
“It matters now. You took what is mine. I never allow anyone to possess what is mine.” That slow, ruthless smile again, hinting he would claim her aswell.
Fat chance. I’ll never beyours.
Darcy shruggedagain. “It’s over. Done. I’m here. Now what? Need me to wash dishes? Clean the floors? Yard work?” Unblinking, she scowled at him. “I’m real good at delivering packages aswell.”
“Of course,” he murmured. “You canfly.”
“And there’s the difference between us. I can shift into any animal form, and you can’t. You’re grounded. So what do you want from me, you furry, four-leggeddoggie?”
Before she could utter another syllable or consider the foolishness of taunting him, something she did when she was scared, he bolted out of his chair. With a lethal quickness she’d seldom witnessed in males, Adrian was at her side. He fisted a hand in her long, dark hair, forcing her head back to meet his brutalgaze.
“I,” he ground out, his gaze fierce and proud, “Am. Not. A.Dog.”
Adrian released her hair, but his other hand wrapped around her throat, his thumb slowly stroking a sensual line across her skin. The ice left Darcy’s veins, replaced by fire licking between herlegs.
Damn, she was toast. He could turn her on with a mere touch. It was the main reason she’d escaped him last time he’d had her at hismercy.
“Yes, you can fly and shift intoother life forms. It would make bedtime quite…interesting,” hemurmured.
Darcy could not resist him. He was pure orgasm on a stick. And though he’d never done anything other than kiss her, she’d known ten years ago after rescuing him in the snowstorm that she could never stay withhim.
