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“Not right now. Can we put a pin in it for later?” Parker’s slow-to-boil smile kept her focused on him, and she couldn’t think straight until it was a full-blown teasing grin.
“Yes!” She gave a slow nod. “You know what I need?”
“Is that a trick question?” Parker replied, still smiling, but he gave a suggestive wiggle of his eyebrows, and she snorted a chuckle.
“Stop it.”
“My hands are here,” he said, holding them up in mock surrender.
“I feel like there is this expectation.”
“Not from me.” He even took a step back. He meant what he’d said; he would wait for her, but maybe not forever. At some point, he would wolf out and go rogue without his mate, but he would dig his heels in with the beast within and wait as long as he could.
“Amy, Dani, even Jennifer.” She shrugged. “It’s – weird.”
“But, kind of the nature of the beast.” He scowled. “So to speak. Mates are mates, and there is no getting around that.”
“There are ways!”
“But, hopefully, none you’d be extreme enough to take,” Parker said with a teasing grin. “Should I watch my back on the edge of a high cliff?”
Evie chuckled. “No.”
“Sharp implements, a fast-moving steamroller?”
“Ooo, maybe a steamroller; I’ve never driven one of those but have always had a strange urge to try,” Evie replied.
Parker raised his eyebrows and chuckled. “Over people or just in general?”
“In general, and maybe a row of cars in traffic,” Evie replied. Then she realised how nuts she sounded and chuckled to herself.
“That would take demolition derby to a whole new level.”
Evie got a faraway look in her eyes. “Or maybe just a tank.”
“I’m sensing a theme.”
When she snapped her gaze back to him, she shook her head, smiled, and laughed it off. “But not people.”
“Except for those on your hit list?”
“That goes without saying, der,” Evie grinned, and the sparkle in her eyes drew him in.
“So, that expectation…?”
“To mate, do the deed, get it over with…”
“That’s romantic.”
“You want romance? Find another woman,” Evie said, then she stopped, considered the conversation and slapped herself upside the head. “This feels surreal.”
“This is as real as it gets,” Parker said. “Popcorn and a movie?”
“Huh?” Evie drew her head back and eyed him with curiosity. That was a shift change she hadn’t seen coming. Her body was wired for other things, and she doubted she could sit through the credits, let alone a whole movie.
“Just trying to relieve the tension.”
“There’s tension?” Evie asked, eyeing him for a moment. He cocked an eyebrow back at her, and she straightened a little. She knew the kind of tension she was feeling, and it wouldn’t get any better with popcorn and a movie, but watching him sit through a two-hour chick-flick might have been fun in a tortuous way.
