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Jake e flames shoot up toward the chimney as he heated cups of hot chocolate She could envision a winter-filled landscape out the big picture hen the first snowfall began and how beautiful the woods would be Just like her favorite poe"

"A penny for your thoughts," Jake said, stalking back into the living roo hot chocolate for them to drink

"Did I tell you how much I love you? You’ve rescued ht,so many husbands when your kind never divorce" She took a deep breath, then sipped her hot chocolate, the rich velvety flavor tantalizing her tongue and the aro her take another deep breath of it

"That’s because our aniht mate the first ti the way she curled her tongue around a dollop of whipped crea of his drink "We don’t go through a phase where we feel we’reout if we don’t ditch the old way of life and try out someone new"

She took another wondrous sip of the chocolate and whipped creaaze switched to her mouth

"We renew our love for each other in special ways to spark the old flahout our lives Although if we lose a mate, we’re free to find a new one Some do Some don’t Besides, Alicia, the men you ended up ere real jerks I already told you so," Jake said, adamant about it

But then he sleam in his eye "I can’t believe anyone would prefer to watch ice hockey to watching you dance on ice like you do" He shook his head and took another sip of his hot chocolate

She studied the chocolate and a speck of whipped cream on his lips, tilted her chin up and licked both off his lips

He set his half-finished cocoa down on the coffee table and took her free hand in his She hastily finished her cocoa, not wanting to give up a drop, and set herhe had other business in mind, and she was all for it

His hands coainst the couch with his body and kissed her hungrily But then he took a deep breath, rose froh thethe house to protect you, I don’t want to distract them from their business No drapes on the s," he added

"I noticed"

"Tom and I took the old ones down They orn and badly needed to be replaced I actually had it inalone or with Tom, it wouldn’t have mattered But with you, that’s another story"

"H his shirt as he strode down the hall to the only furnished bedroohtly in his arms "I didn’t think any of your pack members would look"

He chuckled "They’re only human, Alicia And a lot wolf"

He carried her into the bedroo ht of hoonderful it would be to ain to Jake in her bed Not in so would do, but still, she felt a certain possessiveness in knowing they weren’t in a strange bed, but hers And he was hers In her bed And not just for a one-night stand

The concept that anyone ht and for as long as they would have each other, she knew her dream had come true The home was quiet, too, unlike the noisy apart, it would have been worse But here…

She sighed as Jake sat her on the bed

Here it was quiet and peaceful, the only sounds the faint rustle of tree branches fluttering in the breeze, the trickle of running water in a strea up several notches Co his shirt, watching her expression "What are you thinking, Alicia? You have kind of a lost look on your face Like you’re aher blouse, "hoould have you in ain, and hoonderful that notion is"

He s her words "Were you now?" He tugged off his shirt and tossed it on a chair Then like a wolf on the prowl, he put his hands on the bed on either side of her hips, caging her in as his ht hers, ainst her knees, forcing her to part her legs for hiht off her, all except his hs caressed his as he leaned between them

All at once she didn’t feel as in control or that she had him in her bed, but that he claimed her and her bed for his own The notion both excited and thrilled her