Page 47 of Same Difference
“The third day we were paired. You were really tired from traveling to Coeur d’Alene, and you said it right before you drifted off to sleep.
“Is that…” She couldn’t finish the question because she had no right to ask it.
“Yes,” he answered. “That’s why I wear it.”
He released her chin and backed off her, made his way into the kitchen, and rummaged around in the grocery bags she had yet to unpack. “Go on put on your girl lotions, I’ll keep my back to you.” He turned and gave her a wink. “Probably.”
She liked that the teasing came back into his voice so easily now. “Monster,” she accused.
“You really don’t have any idea.”
As she was slathering cherry merlot scented lotion all over her legs, he passed right by her and knelt by the stove, stoked the embers, and then added a couple more logs.
“I won’t be here for a while today, so I can’t watch it.”
“I’ll be here working. I’ll watch it.”
“You’re getting your smell all over my den.”
“Good.”
“If I bring a potential mate here someday, he will think I am already paired.”
Nathan let off an irritable sigh and turned on her, ignoring his promise not to look at her.
She yelped and reached for the towel, but he was there in a blur and yanked it away, threw it onto the ground. He gripped her shoulders and kissed her stupid. It was another one like last night where she went straight backward with the force of his touch and wrapped her arms around him immediately just to keep her balance. He took her right down to the bed and ground his hips against hers. His hands massaged her everywhere until she was drunk on the tingling sensation he caused. She bit his bottom lip gently, and the devil was back in his smile as he eased back slowly. She released his lip and a soft growl rumbled from her.
“Whaaat the fuck was that?” he asked, his eyes lighting up.
She made a little yelp sound and clapped her hands over her mouth. “I wasn’t growling at you. I don’t think.”
“Feeling spicy this morning?” he asked, tickling her ribs.
A peel of laughter tumbled out of her, and she squirmed under his ticking fingers.
Nathan leaned forward and nipped at her neck and then pushed off her. “My wolf has asked about thirty times for me to Change so he can piss on every corner of your den. I haven’t let him. Credit where it’s due. If this place smells like me, okay. That’s better than it could be, and I swear to God Delta, if you don’t stop teasing me about bringing other men into your life, I’m going to bend you over that sink over there and make you forget anyone exists but me, am I making myself clear? Friend?”
She was still drunk on his kiss. Delta inhaled a shaking breath and sat up in bed. “That doesn’t sound very friendly,friend.”
“I’ll make you come when I bend you over, and that’s pretty fuckin’ friendly if you ask me.”
How. How was this man this hot? How was he this sexy? Standing there in front of the kitchen in the early morning light, hands on his hips. White t-shirt clinging to his muscles, eyes lightening by the second. Dark scruff trimmed perfectly on his chiseled jaw. Dark hair perfectly mussed. Tall as a house, wide as a barn.
“I don’t know if I like this,” she said as primly as she could while she stood clumsily in all of her butt-naked glory.
He was consuming her with his eyes.
“I think you only want what you can’t have. The second you get me, you’ll throw me away.”
He let off a laugh that didn’t sound humorous at all. Shaking his head, he gave her a dark look as he approached her slowly. “You’re fuckin’ with my head.”
“I’m not doing that. You are doing that. I was sleeping. You came here uninvited. I tell you I need space from you, and you give me no space. I say I don’t want you to fix things for me, and you fix everything.”
“You say I’m a stranger and I answer whatever questions you have.”
“You answeredthreequestions.”
“Ask more,” he barked, eyes full of fire. His chest rose with his deep inhalation. “You’re getting in my head, Delta, and I don’t know how to do this.”
