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“I’m your mate?” I asked.
Jack nodded. His nostrils flared. There was something so sexy about having his wolf senses on display. I’d bet he could smell my arousal. It was cranking up with each passing moment.
I wanted him. Badly. I’d had him in many different ways, but I really wanted him to take me to bed right fucking now.
I pushed off from where I was sitting in the grass, and went to his side. He leaned back to allow me to settle nearly on his lap.
“So, mate. Now that I’m yours, what are you going to do with me?”
He groaned. “Everything. I hope. I want you so bad, Connor. Watching you take charge of that situation and assure those kids we’d help them was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen.”
“So take me, then! Damn, Jack. Do I have to sky-write it? I like you. I’m half in love with you already. Fuck me, please.” At this point I was starting to wonder if the full moon was getting to me. I’d never put on such a wanton display.
I let out a strangled laugh. Something about this man had me putting all my vulnerabilities on display. Thankfully he was always there to catch me.
“It’s not that simple.”
“Why the hell not?” I asked.
“Sweetheart, I can’t think with you on my lap. I’m pretty sure you can’t think with you in my lap, cause I’m concerned that you didn’t fully understand what I said the first time.”
I cupped his face in my hands and pressed my lips softly to his. “Maybe I don’t want you to think right now.”
He grabbed my hands and gently pushed me off him, much to my chagrin.
“You and I both need to be thinking for this conversation.”
I groaned. He sounded so serious.
I got off his lap. We were back to sitting side by side on the deck steps.
“I feel like you may have missed a crucial part of what I was telling you about being an alpha.”
“Okay, what did I miss?”
“Well, when an alpha shifts for the first time, they usually find their mate soon after, or even before. If they do not claim that mate, then they become stuck in their wolf form after the transformation is complete.” He kept his gaze trained on the ground, like looking at me would be too much of a distraction. Which I understood, because that was incredibly important information that I had glossed over the first time he said it.
“And when is the transformation complete for you?” I asked.
“Tomorrow.”
“Like, this tomorrow? The one happening tomorrow?”
“Yes, that one.”
“Oh shit. And I’m your mate?” Fuck. Maybe he was right and I wasn’t thinking when I was sitting on his lap. Noted.
“Yes.”
“And you need to claim me?”
“Yes.”
“Okay.
“Okay?” This time he did look at me.
I nodded when his eyes met mine. “Yeah. Okay. Let’s do it.”
