And I can take care of myself, I wanted to say, but with the look on Brock’s face I didn’t.
Reaching out, he pulled me closer to him, pressing my pelvis against him. Leaning in, he rubbed his scruff along my neck, making my legs go weak.
“Let’s have sex in his car,” Brock whispered.
I busted out laughing, pulling back to find Brock grinning.
“You can’t be serious.”
He just winked.
“Oh my God.” Alphas and their need to mark their territory. “Just pee on the seat and get it over with.”
He looked like he was actually considering it and I smacked his chest lightly. “I’m joking, obviously.”
“Text me every hour while you’re gone. If he comes on to you, I have every right to beat him within an inch of his life.”
He was right. The alpha’s girlfriend, mate, fiancée, or wife was not to be touched—in any pack, byanywolf. It was sacred law. The fact that I was pregnant with his child made it even more serious. If Jack tried to kiss me against my will, Brock could kill him and the council would approve.
I gulped. “It‘ll be fine.” I sure as fuck hoped. “We’re going to catch this psycho siren and put that to rest so I can focus on this gate and these Akuma demon overlords that want to take over Earth.”
He stared into my eyes; he wasn’t finished with the intensity yet. “I’ll wrap things up here as fast as I can so I can help you take her down if you need me to.”
Brock and I hunting and working together? Who would be in charge? Sounded messy.
“I’ll be okay,” I said.
Without warning, he wrapped his arms around me and pressed the entirety of my body flush against his. When he brought his lips to mine, my face was already tilted upward, waiting for him.
He kissed me like we were alone and without a large audience, all of whom were undoubtedly watching us through the big window. His hands moved across my back as his tongue merged with mine. I tangled my fingers in his hair and he pulled me even closer, making it plain as day that, if it were up to him, we’d be taking this inside, straight to his bed.
His lips stole the breath from me … until his hands stilled against my waist, and he scattered light kisses across my jaw and the side of my neck.
When the kisses stopped and he rested his chin against my head, I forced myself to get the words out that were so difficult for me to say. Regret was even scarier than the L word. With how our lives had been lately, I wouldn’t risk not telling him what I was now certain I felt.
What I could no longer deny.
Breathless, I pulled back until I met his fiery stare, the one that promised that this kiss was only an appetizer. “I love you too,” I blurted out, my heart pounding.
A slow grin that was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen crept across his face. The dark stubble on his jaw made his amber eyes nearly glow. His lips, cherry red after our kiss, continued to spread until the look was almost predatory. And I was on the menu.
Man, was I a goner. Brock had lured me in, hook, line, and sinker.
11Motley Crew
Jack crossedhis arms over his muscular chest and scowled at me from the passenger seat of my Jeep. With dirty blond hair perpetually in need of a cut, and piercing green eyes, which brought back memories of us between the sheets that I couldreallydo without right now, he stared at me in that way of his that made women yearn to do his bidding.
“Don’t give me that look,” I said. “You could’ve taken your own car.”
“Not if I wanted the chance to get up to date on this case before charging in there balls out and guns blazing.”
Jack always did have a way with words. But despite his colorful language, what he really meant was that he wanted the chance to grill me, and I refused to ride in the back seat of his car, second to Kenzie, his hunting partner andotherex-girlfriend.
The grumbling purr of Tianna’s ‘67 Fastback Mustang signaled that she and Cass, with Molly in the back seat, were ready to head out of here. I turned the engine of the Jeep. “Buckle up,” I said to Jack, because I couldn’t help myself. I knew exactly how he’d react.
His eyes narrowed at me as he yanked the seatbelt down across his body like it was a foe he was forcing to submit to his will.
Kenzie chuckled from the back seat, where she sat next to Haru and Reo. “Show that seatbelt who’s boss, Jacky.”
