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"It’s forever," heshe’d agree, afraid she would not

She licked his lips with the tip of her tongue, teasing them As soon as he opened his ainst his hard jaw, not taking his bait She ran her hands over his back and pressed her belly against his raging erection "Mating? Or soed with lust

Her tone was sexy, heated,his temperature rise even more

"When I saw you at the airport," he rasped out, "hell, saw you wearing all that silver, I wanted to grasp the chain at your waist and drag you to ave a low, throaty chuckle "I thought you looked like a daht"

"If another man had approached you, human or wolf, and even if you’d planned a rendezvous with hihed "Wouldn’t he have been surprised if a man he didn’t know had approached and told him to butt out when he and I already had a date?"

"But you wouldn’t have been surprised" He traced her jawline with a tender touch that seeruffness in his voice

"No, I would have expected as hed "I don’t know enough about you--nor do you know enough aboutpermanent"

"I know that if I don’t return to Scotland with you, I will forever regret the decision Tell ainst his, her body soft and yielding, not stiff and pulling away He knew she wanted this as er around his chest hair, staring at it, not lifting her gaze to meet his, unable to deny what he knew they both felt "Myed breath "They’ll want hland chief who threw us off the land"

"I’m not him"

"No, but your family did the same to your own people"

He ran his hands down her arhtly, showing her he didn’t intend to let her go "Eons ago Think of this asamends"

"You don’t have to do this for et down on bended knee?" He was serious, but he wasn’t sure she was taking hi ed, unable toupward soh too hard and spoil the moment"

He caressed her soft cheek and tipped her chin up with his fingers so he could drown in her green gaze "So you’ll say yes?"

"If I don’t, you won’t give up trying, will you?"

"Hell, no" With that, he took her response as a yes, swept her up in his ar "What do we really have in coether"

She chuckled at that "You ood mermaid wrapped around leahed "There has to bewith you in the woods and intend to take you running in the Caledonian Forest anyti with you in the water and tackling you in wolf play in the house"

"You’re afraid to tackle me," she said, as he put her down on the bed

"I’ with my brothers and male cousins I’d never wrestled with a she-wolf before, and I was afraid I rabbed hold of his shirt "You’re going to have to wrestle with et a little physical It’s all part of a wolf shoho’s boss When I win too easily, it’s not as etting a lot more physical with you, lass Believe me"

"We’ve already wrestled some I stood on your chest in triumph when you broke into the house without invitation, but I would have liked to have worked harder at it"

He slid his hands under her shirt and fondled her breasts, covered in a silky bra, h diahed "You? Cowed?"

"Only with you And only as aher lace-covered breasts, and then reached behind her to unfasten her bra "You love to watchshe loved about hih common areas of interest that she would capitulate "You love "

"H her hands up his shirt and running her fingers and pal her touch his skin ratchetted his heartbeat up several notches

"You like that I’m a movie star," he said, barely able to repress a set the girl"