Only hours before she’d been above him.Her pussy enveloping his cock, her hips rolling in an endless rhythm that had sucked him in and hypnotized him.The sway of her tits, the way she’d flung her hair back so it cascaded down her spine…
He’d been mesmerized by her.
Not just her beauty, but her strength.Her power.
She wasn’t weak, and his Lion loved that.It was why the beast let her tease him.They were a match for one another, and the creature loved that.
What the Lion didn’t love was seeing her walk away.
It took everything he had not to get up and stride off after her.That woman was his world.
His universe was now packaged in a five-four, one-sixty frame, with curves that didn’t quit and an attitude that was just enough sassy and shy to make his cock hard.
It was time his mother realized that.
His brothers had gone after her, leaving only Trip and himself at the table with the rest of Ryan’s family.
As the door closed behind El, it was swiftly opened by Shawn who followed Marc outside.
He wasn’t scared El would try to run off.She needed distance, air to breathe, and he’d give her that.
Whatever had happened at this table begged for exploration, investigation, but now was not the time.
“What was that?”
His words dropped like shards of ice onto the table, and he noticed his whole family jerked in response—everyone save Trip.
He was used to this tone.
Hell, they’d been together so long he was used to seeing all the sides of Ryan’s nature.In both this form and his Lion’s, too.
Leilani narrowed her eyes at Ryan.Inwardly, he always called her mom, but thought of her by her given name.
Bizarre, he knew, but sometimes she was more Lioness than parent.
He knew she wanted the best for him, but that wasn’t necessarily for his benefit.
Only circumstance and tradition had stopped her from being a leader herself, and Ryan knew she slammed all of that lost ambition onto him.
But he didn’t want it.Didn’t need it.
He’d never been ambitious, had never needed the same crap as his family did.
Her circumstances had made it so that she couldn’t be leader, his circumstances had made it the opposite.The result?Neither of them were where they wanted to be.
Sometimes, life was shit.
Leilani seemed to have forgotten that however.
She pursed her lips.“Your mate needs to learn better control.”
Adam snorted at that, Ryan’s brother showing his disrespect in the least offensive of ways.He didn’t look at his brother, but he held up a hand to stay his words.
“I think you’ll find her control is immense.If I’m not wrong, she almost challenged you.”
Leilani firmed her jaw and lifted her chin in outrage.“Disgraceful.How dare the girl think she could beat me?”
Ryan thought El would do more than dare if she had full control of herself.
