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Nothing elseher as she loved him back Spirited and tenacious, she was his match, his mate, and he cherished her

He kissed her soft, pliable lips as she arched against hiue stroked hers as her hands swept up his back in a tantalizing caress "Shelley," heher tense as she clenched her love

He pulled halfway out, wanting to prolong the heightened sensations, and then plunged in again, barely able to ernails down his buttocks like a sexy cat resting on her back, purring and lightly scratching in rapture, inciting hirohen she didn’t get her way, and loyal and protective like a lupus garou She was all his

He felt the tuo He filled her with his hot seed, bathed her deep inside, and kissed her again, saying sweet nothings to her in Gaelic thatasleep in Duncan’s ared outside was al up in his arht She would have felt guilty for sleeping so long, if she had been sleeping so long Their repeated bouts of love in bed

His hand was caressing Shelley’s breast, hison the front door nearly gave her a heart attack

"Sal," Duncan growled, guessing it was the bastard "Maybe so--and he wants to offer ree to do it, Duncan" Shelley began to pull the cover aside

Duncan shook his head as he slipped his Berht where you are We’ll finish e had begun after I get rid of hi only his shorts, he shut the bedroo started all over again For an instant, Shelley thought it couldn’t be Sal Wouldn’t he just have called? Also, she didn’t see hih, violent type

Except that he had killed the other , she was torn Get dressed andon? Give Duncan aid if he needed it?

Or stay where she was and wait for Duncan to return to bed? She didn’t trust the situation What if Carlotta had sent s out if she had any other option She yanked the covers aside

A fa voice at the front door made the hair on her skin stand at attention "Where the hell is my niece, Shelley?"

Uncle Ethan

Chapter 18

Duncan stared at the big, scowling Scot, as standing like a riled-up grizzly in the villa’s doorway The ue, although living in America had taken away some of it This had to be Shelley’s Uncle Ethan, his hair as auburn as hers and eyes just as green, only s buff-toned cowboy boots, a black Stetson, blue jeans, and a blue-checked Western shirt, like he was getting ready for the rodeo or to rope soed bull, come to think of it, and somebody needed to rein him in That’s when Duncan reraved silver tips on the toes of Cas He thought of Shelley and the silver belt and sandals she’d worn at the airport

"Where is she?" Ethan Campbell bit out

Duncandown but not wanting to be antagonistic, either The man was Shelley’s uncle, after all Duncan didn’t want to create ill ith her close family

"I’ll tell her you’re here If you’d like to take a seat in the living rooht back," Duncan said with conviction

"No, I’ll get her"

Duncan knew that wasn’t the best idea Campbell would smell his and Shelley’s sex fests in the bedroom Before he could explain that he and Shelley were mated, he was sure her uncle would attempt to kill him

"We’re mated," he quickly said before Campbell could storm farther down the hall than the several steps he’d alreadyaround "It will be the shortestin wolf history" He stalked back toward Duncan He knew this was going to be bad, no matter how it ended

He didn’t want to strike the olderwith one large-fisted hand, and Duncan blocked the blow by throwing his ar the man’s arm aside His quick action didn’t deter her uncle He rapidly swung his fist for another killer blow

"Uncle!" Shelley screa her, but her hair was as tousled as if they’d ht--which they had--and her feet were bare "He’s ive you"

She really didn’t believe her uncle could get the upper hand with Duncan, did she?

Her uncle glowered at her "What have you done? Disgraced our name after all that went on in the old country? Aye, ’tis a shameful day when one of their kind takes one of ours like the users they’ve always been"