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He felt her fingers press against his skin, her palh his sweater “I want you, and I love you, but I can’t spend my life with someone who lives life on the peripheral…it’s not who I a part of things, and having fun, but I’m not the woman for a lone wolf I’m a woman that needs to be part of a pack”
“You want the Sheenan pack?”
“I want our pack and, dammit, Shane, you are a Sheenan!”
Jet was silent during the drive back to the cabin, trying not to panic, trying not to fue her very volatile eht and Harley’s call had pushed her over the edge
She knew Shane atching her as he drove She could feel hi to read her mood But her mood wasn’t the issue His inability to confront his family was the issue Why wouldn’t he do that?
Why couldn’t he do that?
He parked in front of the cabin and she ju towards the front door He followed close on her heels, and caught her on the porch
“Not so fast,” he said, taking her hand and turning her to face him
She resisted going into his arainst him anyway
He ignored her stiffness, kissing her once, and then again “You said soo to her chin He placed light butterfly kisses along the line of her jaw “I do believe back there at the café you threw the big ‘L’ word around”
She tried to remain stiff and unresponsive but it was next to impossible when his lips trailed fire across her skin “Would that happen to be the like word?” she asked somewhat frostily
“Interesting,” he answered, “but I don’t re word”
Her eyes closed as he found the pulse below her ear His lips were so very talented and she found herself wondering about his discipline in bed “I suppose it depends on how you use it”
His laugh was husky “Is that so?”
She sighed with pleasure as his teeth tugged on her ear lobe “Mmmm If you say, I like ice cream, that’s very different from I like ice cream”
His laugh was deeper, bigger “That is a significant difference Thank you for pointing it out And for the record, I liked hearing you use the big ‘L’ word It felt very, very nice”
She opened her eyes and looked up into his “I meant it, you know”
He kissed her tenderly “I know”
Inside the cabin, Jet settled down at the dining room table to work on her lesson plans for the week Shane disappeared into the bathroom to shower and shave He was in the bathrooed, she looked up to tease hiirl, but the words died on her tongue
He’d cut his hair
He’d cut it all off
The beard was gone, too
Jet just stared at hi to say He noticed, too Shyly he ran a hand over his short hair, the black ends curling up, little wisps at his nape and over his ears where long loose curls had been “Well?”
She couldn’t believe it She i transformation He was just as handsome as before, but handsome in a different way
“You look like Brock,” she whispered
And he did A young, lean Brock Except that he had a pale but discernible scar on his chin
Shane grier there “I feel naked”
“You look good”
“Better now?”
“Not better, just different”
“I’ve been growing it since I was eighteen”
“You’re still gorgeous You’re just a different gorgeous”
His lips curved grio do this”
Her eyebrows lifted “What are we doing?”
“Meeting these brothers of mine”