Page 1 of Wild Wolf
Prologue
Eastern Tennessee,2011
Makinglove with Nolan Mitchell was everything she’d ever dreamed it would be – and she was a bigdreamer.
Snuggling against him, Jordan Baxter gave a happy sigh. She stroked his damp chest hairs, listening to the fast beat of his heart even out to a steadyrhythm.
Nolan kissed the top of her head. “You okay,pixie?”
Jordan wriggled. “I amnow.”
She felt him smile as he rubbed his face against her neck. “Me too. But this wasn’t my firsttime.”
With a playful growl, she twisted his chest hairs, making him yelp. “Won’t be your last either, except if it’s with any other girl butme.”
“Nope. You’re my heart.” He sat up, regarded her solemnly. “I feel bad, Jordan. I shouldn’t have done that. Darn near lost mymind.”
Now was not the time to give him the talk she’d rehearsed. But he had to erase any guilt over the sweetness of consummating their feelings. Hay tickled her nose as she rolled over, sat up and took his strong, handsome face between herhands.
“Listen here, Mitchell. It takes two to have sex. You didn’t force me and I’m anadult…”
“You’re seventeen,” he corrected. “You’re not an adult for another three years, according to our traditional packlaws.”
Ignoring that rule, heck, she’d broken other traditions, she pressed on. “You’re the only male for me. I wanted this. I wanted you. Noregrets.”
Then, because she had felt a little uncertain beneath her confident bluster, she added, “Do you have anyregrets?”
Nolan shook his head, making the hank of damp, ash-brown hair hanging over his brow shake. “None. I love you, Jordan. You’re the only one forme.”
His mouth met hers with fierce urgency. As they kissed, an annoying buzz sounded on the ground. Nolan broke the kiss, sighed. He flipped open the phone. “Yes,dad?”
Hooking her arms around her knees, she watched him in admiration, shivering as his deep voice resonated in the still night air. Nolan Mitchell was the only Lupine for her. Yeah, he was twenty-two, and the alpha’s heir, but ever since she’d landed in the Mitchell pack in Tennessee as a five-year-old orphan wolf, they’d been almost inseparable. Nolan had wiped away her childish tears when she’d fallen, he’d joined her in exploring the hills and valleys and plucking sweet grapes off thevine.
He’d taught her everything about the pack’s wine-making business, praising her natural ability to scent when the grapes neededharvesting.
And now he was her lover.Hers.
Mine, all mine. Wait until I tell Shirl andErica.
Her best friends had kept asking when she and Nolan would take their relationship to the next level. Well, this certainly sealed thedeal.
She started to hum a happy tune, realized he was still on the phone, a frown denting his forehead. Jordan playfully touched his leg, rubbing it, working up to his half-erectpenis.
He drew away. “All right dad. Rightaway.”
He snapped the phone shut. “Orders directly from the alpha. Have to polish the tack for tomorrow’s visitors. They booked a sunriseride.”
Heaviness settled on her. Nolan might be her lover, but he was also the alpha’s son, and in this pack, the heir was the alpha’s beta wolf. Duty came first. Though the alpha had been fair and kind to her, would he approve of their relationship? She wanted no one else, but family and pack came first for Nolan’s father, Craig. She was still the outsider, the lone Lupine adopted by the pack, who wasn’t meek and mild and obedient as otherfemales.
“I’d better git.” Jordan reached for her clothing. “Knowing your daddy, he’ll be down here to supervise and seeing you buck naked will make him wonder what in tarnation you really arepolishing.”
“I know what I’d likeyouto polish,” he toldher.
Laughing, he pulled her into his arms for another long kiss. When they broke apart, her breathing was ragged and desire rose all overagain.
But Jordan knew they didn’t have time for more love play. Work came first with Craig, and he’d been riding his elder son hard these summermonths.
As they dressed, she grumbled. “Why can’t he let Bryce do it? That laze gets away witheverything.”
