I let out a gasp, surprised.Eager.
His hands migrate to my hips, then under the hem of my shirt, rough palms skimming over bare skin.
I lean back into him, eyes fluttering shut, lips parting.
I want this.
I want him.
The hardness of his arousal presses against me, undeniable, desperate.My fingers curl around the doorknob, trying to ground myself as heat blooms low in my belly.
His hands roam higher, over my ribs, my sides, his mouth trailing fire up to the shell of my ear.
“Let me in,” he murmurs.
He means more than the room, and I want that.God, I want him.I want and want and will take anything this beautiful man will give me.But—
Jag.
The tattoo.The manipulation.The seduction.
The way Wolf said,He already tried.
“Wolf.”My body goes stiff in his arms.
He doesn’t stop kissing me.Doesn’t sense the change yet.
“Wolf,” I repeat, firmer this time.
His lips pause against my jaw.
I draw in a breath I don’t want to take.“When Jag tried to seduce you, did you feel anything?”
He doesn’t move.
“Did you get hard for him the way you are for me right now?”
The silence is too loud.His body, so eager a second ago, is frozen behind me.
“Don’t lie to me.”I turn slowly, stepping out of his grasp until we’re face to face, inches apart.“Don’t insult me like that.”
“I won’t.”He swallows hard, jaw ticking, eyes flicking away, then back to me.Torn.“I didn’t want… He got in my head.Knew exactly how to… Push.What to say.What to do.I didn’t mean to react.It was instinct.Confusion.Not desire.I don’t want him.”
I stare at him, heart aching.Not because I didn’t expect it.
But because I did.
Because Jag always finds the cracks.
And because Wolf is Wolf.Sexually inexperienced.Possibly raped by a psychopath.He thinks he’s straight, but if he hasn’t unpacked his trauma, how does he know for sure?
Maybe I’m wrong.After Gavin, I can’t trust my gaydar.But Wolf’s sexuality feels deeper, wider, more vivid and complicated than boring old straight.
Where does that leave him and me and Jag?
Jag has single-handedly manipulated and stolen every man who’s shown interest in me.One by one, he slides in and fucks them.Sometimes, he ends them.
Now there’s Wolf.A man I like.One I like far too much.
