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  His hands worked her jeans down over her thighs and he left her body for one second when he stripped her lower half naked, easing back between her thighs and covering her sex with his own body as he returned his hand to her folds.

  With his mouth back at her breast he pressed a finger into the entrance to her core and groaned against just how hot and wet she was for him, her inner muscles tightened as she search for more. His thumb worked over the sensitive nub and she writhed beneath him on the blanket, her hips pushed up and she took his finger into her, clenching hard around it.

  He heard her moan his name and moved down her body, pushing her legs wide open so he could nestle between her thighs, he breathed in her scent and then nuzzled into her sex, his tongue eagerly tasting her juices as he ran a long slow stroke against her. She squirmed beneath him and he threw a gentle arm over her hips to hold her in place, his tongue going to work, teasing over the nub as he slipped two fingers inside her core, easing slowly inside her and spreading his fingers to open her channel for his girth.

  She was tight, made tighter by her inner muscles closing around him and he added a third finger, slowly stretching her wider as his fingers played over the satin walls, searching for the spot that would make her breath catch within her.

  Dex knew the moment he found it, her body jerked, her breath caught and she squeezed her muscles around him. He rubbed his fingers back and forth inside her channel, unwilling to lose that spot, as he suckled her nub hard and fast, his tongue working against the tip until she became frantic beneath him.

  The sound that came from her lips when she climaxed was like a drug to his mind. He suckled her hard in a rhythm that matched her heartbeat, knowing that the pulses of sensation would be throbbing through every nerve with the same beat.

  “Stop…”She gasped the word between raged breaths and he pulled away from her, leaving her empty for the feel of him.

  “Easy Kate, I have you.” He whispered against her ear, sheltering her nakedness with his body.

  Kate felt the heat of his skin enveloping her as she came back down to earth. Her body practically thumped to the rhythm of her heart, and even though her body still throbbed with the aftermath of the orgasm he’d given her, she still ached for the fulfilment of taking him inside her.

  “Don’t stop.” Her hips searched for his, reaching up from the blanket.

  “You said stop sweetheart.” He nuzzled into her neck and ran his tongue over the salted skin, down onto her shoulder and then back up to just below her ear.

  “No, Stop. Not stop-stop.” She breathed as she reached between them and wrapped her fingers around his shaft, leading him down to her core as her hips came up to meet him.

  “Here, now? Are you…?” He growled out his question, but when she rubbed the tip of him against her wet heated folds, he lost all thought other than to be inside her. She released him when he slipped just the tip of his arousal into her. The satin walls stretching to welcome him onwards and he didn’t hesitate a moment longer, with one slow slide that eased through her still pulsing muscles, he took her almost to the hilt.

  Kate tensed around him. He was stretching her to the point where she didn’t know if she could take anymore. She felt so full of him, “Relax for me, Kate. I’m not going to hurt you love.” She felt the slow draw back of his shaft inside her as his breath caressed her ear causing a shiver to run through her, her inner muscles tightened around him, reluctant to let him go.

  When his lips closed over the pulse in her neck and he sucked against her skin, his tongue doing devilish things that had her mind and body centred on that spot, he eased back into her, taking her deeper as her hips reached for his, and he buried himself to the hilt.

  “So tight, so damn tight, love.” The gentle, sexy tone of his voice against her ear sounded like a velvet caress to her senses and lulled her in even more. Everything about this man felt so right to her now. The way her body accepted his as he started to build a rhythm, stretching her core around him, sending jolts of pure pleasure through her sex, as her muscles flexed around him.

  The rumble of a soft growl against her ear, her neck, or her lips as he delved deep and she caressed him inside. The hardness of his muscles under her fingers as she sought to map out his body by just touch alone and consign it to memory, and the press and rub of his chest against her taunt nipples. There wasn’t even a fleeting question of if this could be wrong.

  Dex buried himself to the hilt and revelled in the feel of her body woven around his. The softness of her curves under his body and against his hands made it hard to keep his self control. He wanted to plough into her wet warmth and claim every inch of her as his. His wolf was becoming more demanding with every stroke inside her body, and he wanted to lose himself within his animal instincts to claim his mate, but knew in his heart that he couldn’t.

  The press of her nails into the bared flesh of his backside as he increased the speed and the force of each stroke within her, called to his wolf on a level that she didn’t even realise was there. Dex reached for her arms and traced them down until he had her wrists. Pushing her hands down either side of her head, he laced his fingers with hers and kept the wolf from the door by trapping her beneath his body.

  The force of his thrusts within her, combined with the way his shaft rubbed back and forth over the sensitive nub, heightened her pleasure, and when he captured her hands and claimed her mouth with so much passion that she forgot to even need to breathe, her body climbed towards another release.

  Kate didn’t try to hold back, her body searched for that last little push to take her over the edge. She wrenched her mouth from his and gasped his name, desperate to find her release and when he took her faster she found it. Her whole body tensed for one long moment of suspended animation where everything hung on just the knowledge that she was there, waiting. Her muscles tightened, her breath caught and then the floodgates opened and she cried out with the force of the pulses that shot through her.

  Dex felt her muscles spasm around his shaft and growled with the intensity of the massage of her body around his. He felt the stirring of his own release at the base of his spine and couldn’t hold back any longer, he was so close, too close to be able to stop himself. His hips pounded against hers as he took what he needed to find his own pleasure.

  With his head nestled into the curve of her shoulder he was too far gone in his pleasure to even realise that his fangs had elongated and his tongue was preparing his mate for his mark. His wolf would take claim to her and the gentle press of his fangs into the soft flesh caused her to moan beneath him as he reached that moment before climax.

  Dex tossed his head back and growled long and hard as the sensation tore through his body, his muscles trembled as he buried deep within her, nudged her womb and exploded his seed within, over and over until he had nothing left to give.

  Weaker than he had ever felt in his life before, he held up on his elbows, keeping his full weight from her body as he fought to recover his senses. The taste of her blood on his tongue snapped his mind back from the ecstasy of knowing his mates body, and his eyes searched for his mark in her skin, knowing what he had done. What his wolf had done.

  The four small pin pricks of blood called to him like a beacon and he nuzzled into her warm flesh and scented her essence, before he tenderly cleaned and sealed the puncture wounds.

  Kate stirred back to reality beneath him. The heat of their bodies mixed with the slight chill of the air, and the feel of his tongue against her damp flesh all combined to roll a shiver through her body.

  More than aware of where she was, almost naked on a blanket in the middle of nowhere, with the man who she worked for still buried within her body, she closed her eyes and waited for the cold light of guilt and shame to wash through her. But it never came.

  Dex released one of her hands and reached over to brush the remains of the picnic aside. Snagging the edge of the blanket around her to cover her body as he rolled with her onto his side to give his
quivering muscles a rest and time to recover, he kept her pressed to him, their legs still tangled together as he slipped his arm beneath her head to give her a pillow of sorts against the earth.

  “Tell me you don’t hate me for taking you here, like this.” Dex’s voice was deep and husky, still filled with passion, and it affected her all over again. He dipped his chin down to look at her as she raised her eyes to his.

  “Why would I hate you? You warned me, remember? I was the one who didn’t want to stop.” She reminded him, a spark of mischief in her eyes as a smile touched her lips.

  Dex reached up to brush her hair from her cheek as it clung to her damp skin, a smile embedded on his lips that he didn’t think could possibly fade.

  “I remember. Those claws of yours will get you in trouble with me, be careful how you use them.” There was amusement in his voice, but he did still seem to be issuing her with a real warning, and she felt wicked and wanton as she traced just one fingernail down his chest and he growled softly as he snagged her wrist and propped himself up on his elbow above her.

  “I meant what I said sweetheart, I could take you all over again…”

  “So what’s stopping you?” Kate’s words sent a fresh wave of desire through him, but he held onto that need.

  “The lack of a bed.” He played his hand up her spine, causing her to press herself against him.

  “Beds are overrated. Don’t you think?” She looked like a wood nymph, a light of mischievousness flickered in the depths of her eyes, and he wrapped his arm around her and rolled onto his back, taking her with him as she straddled his body.

  “So you’re more than happy to make love as nature intended?” He cupped her cheeks and brought her mouth to his, tasting her lips and teasing them open with his tongue.

  Kate didn’t answer him with words. Instead she moved her hips and took him to the hilt inside her, deeper than he had been before. Undulating in slow tantalising circles, as if she were keeping a hula hoop perfectly in synch around her waist as his hands found her hips and he ground up against her womb.

  When she started to move up and down on his shaft, he palmed the plump cheeks of her backside and massaged her flesh in circles, making sure to spread her wide as she ground down on him, letting her take him in as deeply as she could get him.

  When her movements became erratic as she searched for release, he took control, thrusting his hips up as he controlled her up and down movements with his hands on her backside, taking her hard and fast until she arched her back, threw her head back and cried out as the orgasm tore through her.

  It took only two more thrusts for Dex to join her, grinding deep within her against her womb as he spent his seed. Kate collapsed onto his chest, as her inner muscles massaged the last of his seed from his body and he wrapped his arms around her as he fought to recover.

  “How the hell can I work for him now?” Kate hissed into the phone and got a teasing chuckle in reply.

  “In some companies it’s considered a bonus.” Val quipped and Kate knew her friend couldn’t see her, but she rolled her eyes anyway. If she had been standing in front of her she would have followed it up with a frosty glare, but that wasn’t to be.

  “That’s not funny…”

  “A hot boss, some hot sex, it was hot sex right?”

  “That’s so not the point…” Kate shot back and Val’s gentle chuckle made her prickle inside and out.

  “Ok, so that’s an affirmation that it was hot sex…”

  “Val!” Kate hissed down the line. Shoving her hand into the back pocket of her jeans and pacing back and forth across the sumptuous rug beneath her feet.

  “Because, if it wasn’t hot sex then I could understand why you might want to get the hell out of there, but as it was hot sex…” Val was rambling and Kate felt it on her very last nerve.

  “Yes, it was hot sex!” She blurted out and then stopped in mid pace and listened intently for any sound that someone might be close and listening to her.

  “Well good for him, and you. So what’s the problem?” Val demanded and Kate rolled her eyes again, squishing her bare toes into the deep pile of the rug and making little toe fists. That was supposed to relieve tension wasn’t it? Caressing something with your toes, her mind automatically had an image of Dex’s naked body and she was doing sinful things to it with her toes. She groaned out loud.

  “What if he wants to do it again?”

  “What if he doesn’t?” Val gasped in mock horror and Kate stood frozen to the spot. Her heart had hit her ribcage and she found the thought more than disturbing.

  “Oh my god, what if he doesn’t?” Kate gasped and for a long moment Val was unusually quiet on the line, and then she gave one of her knowing hums, the one that informed Kate that she had her number.

  “Wow. You’ve got it bad…” Those words nearly knocked Kate off of her feet.

  “No, no, and bloody well no.” Kate hotly denied it.

  “Oh yes, yes you do.” Val was adamant and Kate was less than impressed with what her friend was insinuating.

  “No, no I don’t.”

  “Yes, you do.”

  “Stop saying that!” Kate hissed down the line.

  “Stop denying it then.” Val hissed back.

  Kate lifted her hand to the back of her neck and rubbed at the skin as she thought it through.

  “I should leave…” Kate threw it out there, not to Val, but just to see how that thought made her feel.

  “You should stay.”

  “No, I should definitely leave…” Kate snorted, but there was an emptiness that seemed to open up inside her when she made that decision.

  “If you leave, you’ll never know.” Val rationalised and Kate stopped rubbing her neck and frowned.

  “Know what?” She demanded, starting to rub her skin even harder in anticipation of even worse news from Val.

  “If he’s the one.” And there it was. The thunderbolt of doom. The cold bucket of water over her body that shocked and ignited her senses all at once. God, it felt as if she were on a rollercoaster ride that she couldn’t escape from. Kate walked over to the bed and lowered herself down to the mattress, but she missed and the world rushed by as she hit the floor with her backside on a loud thud and rolled onto her back, legs in the air, before she righted herself at brake neck speed.

  “What was that?” Val hissed and Kate moaned as the pain washed through her.

  “My arse…” She started to explain when the door flew open and Dex rushed in, a look of concern on his face as his eyes took her in, kneeling on the floor and with the mobile pressed to her ear, looking both shocked and sheepish at the same time.

  “Are you alright?” He demanded and she felt her embarrassment well up inside her. Damn.

  “Who’s that? Is that him?” Val demanded in a low hiss and Kate didn’t move.

  “Gotta go.” She heard a little squeak from Val a minute before she cut her off and Dex eyed her suspiciously. “I was trying to sit and missed the bed.” She admitted and much to her annoyance his face beamed with a grin and a small chuckle greeted her ears.

  “You are an accident just looking for a home.” He declared and she couldn’t help but grit her teeth and sigh.

  “And you are just annoyingly smug.” She muttered, pulling herself up from the floor and eyeing the bed nervously. If she sat he might take that as an invite, or she could just miss the damn mattress again and give him a good laugh and her backside another thump.

  Dex tipped his head to the side and just regarded her for a long moment, a moment that had Kate squirming in her boots, if she were wearing any. How could this man make her feel naked under that dark stare of his?

  “So anyhow, that phone call was an emergency. I need to get back to…”He raised two dark brows at her in amusement and stopped her in her tracks. He could sense her deceit even from where he stood by the bedroom door, the fact he had been eavesdropping outside also helped.

  “The hell it was…” He called he
r on it and she blushed a deep crimson as she tossed the mobile on the bed and moved her hands to her shapely hips. If this was a face off, she was more than ready for him.

  “Are you calling me a liar?” She dared him to speak what they both already knew to be the truth.

  “Yes.” He answered simply, throwing the ball back in her court. She was a little flabbergasted that he’d actually done it.

  Damn! Now what? How the hell am I supposed to play this now? The uncouth little toad could have given me that much!

  “Well, I’m sorry you think that. But the fact remains I need to leave…” She hadn’t denied lying, she reasoned, so therefore she was off the hook, sort of…

  She watched that smile of his turn predatory. The edges of his mouth turned up into a devilish smirk and he stared long and hard with eyes that made her shiver.

  “No Kate. You’re not going anywhere.” The way he said it sent goose bumps over her entire body. It was a fact, because he had spoken…

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  “What are you going to do, lock me in the cellar?” Kate snorted back and he took a step towards her. Tall and menacingly wide as he seemed to stalk towards her, slow steps that had her swallowing the sudden urge to drink an entire reservoir of water, or even a small fish tank.

  “I don’t have a cellar.” His answer didn’t comfort her, it made her more nervous and she swallowed again. It was a strange sensation that welled within her body, excitement verses –get the hell out of there.

  “So where do you bury the bodies?” Kate shot back, getting the distinct urge to walk backwards as he came towards her. Shame her feet were rooted to the spot and her eyes were locked onto his, that was until he smiled, showing those perfect white teeth, and the thought of a predator shot into her mind again.

  “Perhaps I just eat my victims.”That should have scared her, but it didn’t.

  “Like a big bad wolf…?”