by Alisa Woods
“There’s nothing for you to do about any of this tonight,” he said softly, close at her back. “You need to knock off and go home. Some food wouldn’t hurt you, either.”
She turned to face him, and he didn’t like the worry etched on her face. Then it twisted into a smirk. “Getting tired of babysitting me? Why, you got a hot date tonight?”
He dipped his chin to look her more steadily in the eyes. “No, ma’am.” A sweet ache started up in the pit of his belly. The only hot date he wanted was standing in front of him.
He could see her react—lips part, eyes going a little more wide—then she broke the hot staring contest they were having and seemed to find something interesting to look at about mid-level in his chest. Or she was just avoiding looking in his eyes—he couldn’t quite tell.
In almost a whisper, she said, “Brad wants me to be his mate.”
“I’d already figured that much out for myself.” He waited for more. If she wanted to open up to him, he would take all of that she wanted to give. It surprised him how much he craved it, too—almost as much as he wanted her lips on him again.
She finally brought her eyes up to meet his. “He just wants me for the business,” she said, with more than a little bitterness. “Wylderide is worth a lot of money, but it’s more than that—he wants to be alpha. He wants to lead the pack.”
Owen eased a little closer to her. “So he’s not just an asshole, he’s a money hungry asshole.”
She huffed a laugh but looked away. “He’s not an asshole. I just don’t want to be forced into picking him for a mate.”
“That’s easy enough—you tell him no.” It seemed clear as day to him.
She turned those wide, dark eyes back to him. “It’s not that easy. Wylderide’s employees are almost all pack members—we have a few humans, awesome programmers who just want to hang in their cubicle coding all day and who don’t mind being left out of pack affairs. But most of the company is my father’s pack, and now they don’t have an alpha. And they need one. Brad wants to be that alpha, and I can’t lead the pack without a mate.”
In one breath, she’d spilled more than she’d said to him in all the time he’d known her.
He leaned in even closer, pressing a hand against the cool glass of the window behind her head. “But you don’t want a mate,” he said softly.
Her breathing picked up as he got closer, and he could feel his heart banging around in his chest.
“I don’t want a mate that’s just after my father’s money.” She kept glancing at his lips and letting her gaze flick down to his chest and back up again. She wanted him to kiss her, probably almost as much as he wanted to do the kissing.
He licked his lips. “I don’t want a mate, either. Can’t have one, anyway. But I haven’t been with a woman since I deployed last, and that was over two years ago. And here you are, prancing around in that tight tank top and loose combat pants, and can tell you this, darlin’—I definitely don’t want you for your daddy’s money.”
Breath escaped her just as he leaned in for the kiss.
He started it, but she was a wildcat on him as soon as he did. Her hands shoved his jacket clear of his shoulders even as he was fighting to put his hands just about everywhere on her at once. She was small, and she tucked right into his chest as he devoured her lips, but the best part was how she moved against him, all hot and bothered and squirmy with his touch. He skimmed her hips and that little waist and round to her back to pull her close. When his fingers found the hem of her shirt and slipped inside, he couldn’t help the moan. Her skin was hot and burning into his palm. Her whimper when he reached her breast about drove him insane.
She pulled away from his mouth enough to gasp, “Someone will hear us.”
“Ain’t no one here to listen,” he panted against her neck. “You can go ahead and cry out all you like, baby girl.”
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Table of Contents
Jared (River Pack Wolves 3) Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
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