She met his eyes over her shoulder. “You don’t.”
“Good. I couldn’t bear it.” He pulled out of her, then helped her up, brushing her hair from her neck and rubbing a thumb over the spot where he’d bitten her. “Did I hurt you?”
She shook her head. “No, it just surprised me.”
“Me too,” he admitted. “I’ve never done that before.” Noticing how cold it had become, he quickly gathered their clothes and led her up to his room. Without a word, they both crawled under the covers, her heat finding his. With her tucked into the curl of his body, his mind blanked under the gentle caress of her fingers on his chest. “Laina, I want you to stay with me tonight. All night. In here.”
She sighed. “Good, because I want to stay.”
He pressed a kiss to the top of her head. With her positioned in the nook of his shoulder, he listened as her breath evened out, and then he fell with her into a fast, deep sleep.
ChapterNineteen
When Laina woke, she was being bopped in the nose by a wet snout that protruded from beneath a set of giant brown eyes. Milo blinked at her unapologetically. She must’ve forgotten to lock his crate last night. He stomped and wagged his tail before licking her face.
“Milo…” She wiped the kiss away.
“You can hardly blame him. You are positively delectable.” Kyle rolled her beneath him, propping himself on his elbows and settling between her thighs. He kissed her gently. Damn, feeling him like this, hard, warm, distinctively male, she felt her desire rise again. But in the light of morning, there were things she had to know. She had questions. The way he’d bitten her last night, it was almost as if he were marking her. He wasn’t a shifter, but she wondered if she’d awakened some dormant instinct in the man.
She ran her nose along the side of his, inhaling his scent. “Kyle…”
“Morning.”
“I need to ask you something.”
He pulled back and looked at her. “Ask.”
“Did you mean what you said last night?”
He gave her a wry grin. “Remind me what I said.”
“You said I was yours and you couldn’t bear for me to be with anyone else,” she whispered. “Was that just talk in the moment, or did you mean it?”
He snorted, his eyes growing hooded. “Oh yes, I meant every word.” Any hint of humor left his features, and he held her eye contact as if he were searching her soul. “How about you? Any hesitation to agreeing to those terms?”
She closed her eyes and smiled. “None at all.”
“Good.” He slid his arm under the arch of her back, and he shifted between her thighs until his cock nudged her entrance.
“What about Milo?”
“Milo can wait.” Kyle entered her in one quick thrust, and she arched into him as pleasure gripped her. Her body was already humming. She bucked against him, urging him faster, harder, deeper.
She fisted his shoulders, flipping him over and rising above him so that she was in control. His hands found her hips, guiding as she ground against him, frantic with need. He sat up and captured one of her nipples in his mouth, fluttering his tongue across the sensitive tip. It sent her over the edge.
Her orgasm plowed into her and took him with her, both of them clinging to each other as they rode out the aftershocks.
In the aftermath, Milo whimpered softly. “He really does need to go out,” she said. “I can take him.”
“No. Get dressed. I’ll come with you. There’s something I want to show you.”
The world’s fastest shower later, Laina met Kyle in the backyard, where he was already waiting with Milo. “So, what did you want to show me?”
“It’s back there, in the woods, behind the fence.” He pointed to a gate on the other side of the expansive yard.
“Let’s run. Milo needs the exercise.”
“What? Why?”
