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“And when you leave here?” He stripped his T-shirt off his body, before sitting down in the chair in the corner and unlacing his boots efficiently. “Will you take him to your bed after being with me?”
When she left here. She turned her back on him, straightening the laptop and files she had placed on the small table by the bed, trying not to let herself feel hurt at his easy acceptance that she would leave him. That things wouldn’t last between them.
She finally shrugged and said, “I have no intentions of going to bed with Dane.”
Could she allow any man in her bed now that she had been with Mercury? The thought of it sent a sharp, painful spike of denial racing through her mind.
She straightened and turned back to him, breathing in roughly at the sight of him naked, aroused. Damn, were all Breeds this sexual?
He moved to her, muscles rippling beneath the dark bronze flesh, the light in the room picking up the shimmer of that fine, silken pelt that covered them.
She loved the feel of those tiny hairs against her flesh, stroking over her, caressing her.
“Are you ready for me to leave already?” she whispered, trying to hold back the hurt as she couldn’t hold back the question.
She didn’t want to leave him. She never wanted to be without him.
“Can I kidnap you?” he asked her as his hands stroked over her shoulders, her fingers curling against his chest. “When this is over, I want to tie you to my bed and make certain Dane Vanderale can never bribe you away from my side.”
She stared up at him, feeling her heart melt. His eyes softened, filled with hunger and desire, and truth.
“You don’t want me to leave?”
“I want you in my bed, by my side, for as long as I can keep you, Ria.” His hand cupped her cheek. “But after what you saw tonight, can you stand to be there?”
Her lips parted.
“You were crying for him,” he growled down at her. “Tears were falling from your eyes and you knelt over him, naked, your hair stroking him.”
Jealousy throbbed in his voice. Complete primal male Breed jealousy. They were completely territorial over their women. Ria knew that, had seen it with Leo and Elizabeth several times over the years.
Ria felt herself tremble at the memory.
“I thought he was dead.” A frown snapped between her brows as she moved back from him. “He may not be my lover but he is my friend.”
“A friend that slipped into your bedroom while you lay naked in my arms. A friend that knew I lay there with you,” he pointed out. “The same friend who informed me that when this was over he would be waiting for you when you returned home.”
Surprise had her turning back to him, watching him closely. He was completely comfortable being aroused and nude.
“Dane is as adept at his little games as Jonas is.” She shrugged as she moved to straighten the bed. “But I’ll not defend myself over something that hasn’t happened or whether or not it will happen if you’re no longer a part of my life.”
“I will always be a part of your life.”
The sound of his voice, the large body suddenly behind her, the erection pressing between her thighs, rubbing against the slick, heated cleft there had the breath catching in his throat.
Just as he had over the desk in the office, he bent her over the bed now, his palms flat against the mattress, his larger, harder body holding her in place as her head snapped up in surpr
ise.
“Will you, Mercury?” she asked him, uncertainty filling her voice. “Breeds mate. They mate their other half.”
He tensed against her, a violent tension; it poured out of him and whipped in the air, tightening around her chest with spiked bonds that she thought would break her heart.
“I could not want another woman the way I want you.” He nipped her neck. “Mating heat be damned. There are enough anomalies in it that it can get fucked as far as I’m concerned.”
Tears filled her eyes as he turned her, stretched her out beneath him and held her trapped to the bed despite her struggles.
“Let me go, Mercury.” She shook her head, pressing her hands against his chest as she fought to be free.
