“Okay,” he said slowly. “This is something new to me, but I had planned to tell Kareena first, anyway.”
“Good. I’ll let you go now. I can’t wait to meet your mate.”
After saying good-bye, Miles ended the call and put his cell back in his pocket.
Drawn to Kareena, he returned to the bedroom. She was still fast asleep. He stepped closer to the bed and stared down at her. He traced her features with his gaze, memorizing each one. She really was pretty, not supermodel pretty as the females of his kind were, but she was no less gorgeous to him.
Figuring it would be a long night, Miles brought one of the armchairs from the sitting area of the bedroom closer to the bed at the side Kareena slept on. He wanted nothing more than to get under the covers next to her and hold her close as she slept, but that would only push his luck. Now that his mating urge had kicked into high gear, he was guaranteed to have erotic dreams of Kareena and would continue to have them every night until he’d claimed her as his own. Still in a semi-aroused state—something else he’d have to suffer through until he’d made Kareena his—he was already walking too close to the line. It was better to be uncomfortable on the chair than closer to temptation.
Miles settled onto the chair’s thick cushion and slouched into a somewhat more comfortable position. He continued to watch over Kareena for a few hours before he attempted to fall asleep. At least with her here in his bed, she’d be the last thing he saw when he went to sleep and the first thing he’d see come morning.
Something had caused Kareena to slowly rise out of the deep slumber she’d been in.
Hovering in between sleep and wakefulness, she rolled over to her side and tried to sink further into sleep’s warm embrace. She didn’t want to get up yet. She wanted to stay where she was.
Again something brought her back to wakefulness. This time she cracked open her eyes then immediately regretted it as she closed them once more. There was only dim light inside the room, but it was enough to make the headache she had throb more painfully in her temples. It felt as if someone had taken a jackhammer to her head. She rolled onto her back and swallowed. Her mouth tasted as if something had crawled inside it and died. It was also dry.
She then remembered her time out with her friends. She’d had way too much to drink, especially after working long night shifts. Kareena usually knew better and stopped before she got drunk. Now she paid the price for the overindulgence.
A noise that sounded unmistakably like a male moan—not of pain but of pleasure—
had Kareena cracking open her eyelids once again. The first thing that hit her was that she didn’t recognize the room. She turned her head, and her gaze landed on the large man sitting in an armchair fast asleep. The position he was in was bound to give him a sore neck. She also remembered him from the night before at the restaurant. His name was Miles.
Even though the sudden movement made her head feel as if it were about to fall off, Kareena bolted upright. She looked down at herself and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw she still wore the clothes from last night. The last thing she remembered was Miles putting her in his car so he could drive her home. She then cringed when the memory of her telling him he could spend the night with her at her place surfaced. All that alcohol had made her bold. She’d basically propositioned Miles. Thank goodness he was gentleman enough not to take advantage of a shitfaced drunk woman who threw herself at him.
Miles moaned again, and the sound seemed to go straight to Kareena’s pussy, making it clench to be filled. The masculine noise was definitely of pleasure. He still slept, so he must be having one hell of an erotic dream. Even though she told herself not to look, she did. He had a hard-on that caused a large bulge in the front of his jeans. She knew men had five erections, on average, at night while they slept. This obviously was one of them for Miles.
She licked her lips as she tried to guess how big he was by the size of the bulge. Yup, he appeared to be just as large there as the rest of him. An ache deep inside her pussy throbbed as wetness pooled. God, the idea of jumping onto Miles’s lap and taking what she wanted was one sexual daydream she wished she could act on. Just the sight of him sleeping in the chair turned her on.
He groaned, and his nostrils flared slightly as he drew in a deep breath. Kareena bit back a gasp as Miles’s eyes snapped open, and for a split second, they appeared to almost mutedly glow. It happened so fast she wasn’t sure she saw what she’d seen. She soon didn’t have time to think about that any further as Miles sat up straighter and leaned closer in her direction. He drew in another big breath as if he smelled her.
“Ah, hi,” she said. Figuring her breath had to smell as bad as her mouth tasted, she tried not to say too much.
“Hi,” Miles said with a drop-dead gorgeous smile. “Did you sleep well?”
She nodded. “Yeah. This your place?”
“Yes. You kind of fell asleep on me in the car before I could ask you where you lived. I had no choice but to bring you here. Don’t worry, nothing happened. You just slept.”
“Thanks,” she said sheepishly. “I don’t normally drink like that. The late night shifts at work did me in so I was just a disaster waiting to happen.”
“What do you do?”
“I’m an ER nurse at San Francisco General Hospital.”
“That must be a rewarding job.”
“It can be.” Right at that moment, Kareena needed to empty her bladder before it burst. “I need to use the … ah … bathroom.”
“The en suite is just through that door.” Miles pointed to the open doorway across from the bed. “And there will be some spare toothbrushes in the medicine cabinet.”
Kareena nodded as she slipped off the bed and headed for the en suite. She really had to have some killer bad breath if Miles told her where to find a toothbrush. Feeling her face heat with embarrassment, she closed the door behind her. She used the toilet then washed her hands. A look in the medicine cabinet showed a couple of brand-new toothbrushes still in packaging and a tube of toothpaste. She grabbed one of the brushes and the paste and the bottle of ibuprofen she saw in there as well.
She downed one of the pills before she brushed her teeth. While she was at it, Kareena splashed some water on her face. She dried it with one of the hand towels and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She didn’t look too bad for being hung over. It was too bad she didn’t have any makeup with her. Kareena never wore the stuff, but with hot Miles out in the other room and her not at her best, she would have liked to get rid of those dark circles under her eyes. Not much she could do about them, though.
Dismissing how rough she looked, she stepped out into the main room. Miles still sat in the armchair close to the bed. The sight of him almost took her breath away, especially when he ran his gaze over her body as if he wanted to eat her up. She had a wicked thought of his light blond head between her legs, making her come with his mouth.
Kareena yanked her mind out of the gutter and crossed over to Miles. He stood, coming to stand almost toe-to-toe with her. Her gaze zeroed in on his lips. She wanted them on hers. As if he’d read her mind, Miles bent his head until his mouth hovered above hers. She sucked in a breath, taking his exhale into her lungs. With a groan, Miles claimed her lips.
She reached up and put her arms around his neck as his came around her waist and tugged her so she was flush against his body. His tongue swept the seam of her lips before she opened for him. Kareena was more than glad she’d brushed her teeth when Miles thoroughly explored the inside of her mouth, their tongues dueling.