Page 130 of Irresistibly Wicked

Zander scoffed. “Don’t spread that rumor. You’ll ruin my reputation.”

“I didn’t think I’d live long enough to see Zander domesticated,” Aria said sweetly. “I’ve got to admit, it suits you.”

“Domesticated?” Zander scoffed. “You make me sound like a house cat.”

“Well, you are kind of a pussy,” Gunner said with a snicker, and bumped fists with Tobias.

Aria’s cheeks pinked up, a smile tugging at her lips. “I meant a lion or a tiger.”

Shauna laughed. “Lion, tiger, beast. It doesn’t matter what you call him, he’ll always be the king of my jungle.”

“My girl likes my claws,” Zander said with a proud smirk.

“And you like mine.” Shauna glanced at Aria and said, “I know how to make him purr.”

The guys hooted and laughed, and Zander pulled her into a scorching kiss.

“A’right, you two. Save it for the bedroom,” Sid said.

“Now that you’ve been caged and I don’t have to watch your back, what will I do with all my free time?” Zeke said with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

“Take up knitting,” Brian suggested, earning chuckles.

“You’ve already got that grumpy-old-man vibe going on,” Gunner added.

“Don’t go counting your chickens just yet, Zeke,” Zander said, flashing a sexy smirk.

Zeke held his hands up. “Not my circus anymore. Now it’s your wife’s job to keep you in line.”

“I’ll gladly take on that job for my hunka hunka burnin’ love, but I happen to like his circus,” Shauna said, sliding her arm around Zander’s waist.

“You tell ’em, darlin’,” Zander said.

“Well, you are her husband,” Madigan said.

“Some might say, her property,” Chloe added.

Zander glanced at Shauna with a silent, knowing taunt and said, “Have you been bragging about your man, Angel?”

She grinned. “I might have told them what you did yesterday.”

“Jesus, Zan. What the hell did you do now?” Zeke asked.

Zander flashed the wicked grin that sent heat curling low in Shauna’s stomach and said, “Just got some new ink.” He unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it open with both hands, revealing Property of Shauna Wicked in fresh, bold script across his chest.

Everyone roared with laughter. Aria shrank back from the noise, tucking herself against Zeke’s side, but she was laughing, too, as jokes rang out, and Zander ate it up. When he’d come home yesterday and had shown Shauna the tattoo, she hadn’t known whether to laugh or cry. She’d ended up doing both. He was wildly impulsive, but his love knew no boundaries, and she was the luckiest woman in the world to be claimed so fiercely by him.

“Did you tattoo that on him?” Zeke asked Aria.

Aria shrugged, an unstoppable smile egging him on as she turned and walked away, which made everyone laugh harder.

Much later in the evening, as couples mingled and babies slept, Zander led Shauna onto the dance floor and drew her into his arms, his hot, possessive hands holding her close. He brushed his scruff along her cheek, rasping into her ear. “I cannot wait to see that dress on our floor.”

Lust coiled low in her belly. She’d never tire of his naughty side. “Funny, I was thinking the same thing about your clothes.” Her pulse skipped at the heat in his eyes, and she lowered her voice. “I have a confession to make.”

“If it’s that you’ve been thinking about dragging me into the office so I could bend you over the desk, I’m in.”

Yes, please.