“That bastard hit you?”
“Your eyes are starting to grow a little wild. It was barely a tap, and he did it because Rafe told him to.”
“What?”
She swore. “Damn. Look, they were trying to keep me safe in Cougar Falls, away from my uncle. But I wanted to rescue you. Can’t you understand the reasoning behind it?”
“Well, yeah. I guess.” He rubbed her back and held her tight. “But I’m still going to punch Axel for it. When he least suspects it.” Man, he couldn’t wait to feed that snow-white wolf his fist.
“Okay then.”
“Yeah.”
“Right.”
“So…” He started to stir against her again. Two long months without his mate had been difficult to handle. Sexually, he’d been beyond miserable.
“I guess we have to get back to the pride, then.”
“We do.” He swallowed hard when her hand curled around his cock.
She smiled and eased her legs down. Then she slowly knelt before him and cupped his balls. “Volume Four, hmm?”
“Oh yeah.” He sucked in a breath and closed his eyes when her mouth moved over him. “Have I told you lately how much I love you?”
She left him long enough to answer, “Yes. And we’re running together right after I demonstrate Volume Four.”
“I love your wolf, so beautiful and wild.” He paused, enrapt in her clever hands and tongue and hoping she wouldn’t freak out about this. “You know, we still haven’t mated as wolves.” He sensed her wolf’s ears perk.
She stopped sucking again. Unfortunately. “As wolves?”
He gently nudged her aside and shifted, then waited for her to do the same. Her gray eyes blinked at him and she cocked her head. “As wolves.”
He wagged his tail. “Hell, yeah. Baby, just you wait.”
She didn’t have long. And she didn’t have long again before they reached his truck. Monty was her wolf, her mate. And he intended to love her as much as he inhumanly, and humanly, could.
He hugged her after they’d changed back to their human forms and dressed. In the truck, he smiled at her and flipped on the heater. They turned toward town, toward home. “You know, Soph. When the right wolf comes calling, the smart wolf says yes.”
She grabbed his hand and held it to her heart.
“And you, my love, are nothing less than brilliant.”