He stood, bringing her up with him.Without another word, heled her through the manor. At the top of the stairs, Graysonstopped to kiss her again, his embrace even more urgent than beforeas he tugged at her clothes.
The seam of her blouse ripped as his warmhand shot under the fabric, up her spine andunclipped herbra.
She giggled, fiddling with his beltbuckle.
In a swift move that took her breath away,Grayson picked her up like she weighed less than a bag of sugar andcarried her into his bedroom, then kicked the door shut.
He put her down by the bed andpulled her blouse overher head. Her undone bra slipped down her arms. Grayson tugged hisT-shirt over his head and threw it to the floor.
His appreciative gaze zeroed in on her nakedbreasts. “God, you’re beautiful.”
She admired him too—his huge biceps,muscled pecs, leadingdownwards towards a well-defined six-pack. Dark hairs gatheredbelow his belly button in a vertical line that disappearedenticingly into his jeans. “You’re not so bad yourself,” she toldhim, her voice a sexy rasp. Understatement. The guy was all bulgingmuscle and testosterone, and all hers.
Grayson crushed her to him again, his tannedskin hot, her peaked nipples brushing his chest. He undid her jeansand yanked them down her thighs, her dampened knickers too.
He wriggled out of his jeans and flicked them from his ankles,his erection bobbing.
Less frantic now, he lowered her onto his bedand lay beside her, his weight dipping the bed so she rolled closerto him, his manhood nudging her thigh.
He smoothed her hair away from herface and kissed hertenderly. First on her mouth, then her neck, before trailing hiskisses between the valley of her breasts towards her stomach, theheat of his breath warming her skin.
She arched her back, screwed the sheets inher fist.
His long hair tickled her as the silky waves brushed across herskin, igniting erotic signals straight to her core. She whimperedwith pleasure.
“You like that?” he murmured.
“Hell yes! I love your long hair. Don’t evercut it.”
“I kind of don’t have a choice. It’s awolf thing; even if Icut it, it grows back fast.” He did the thing with his hair again,on purpose this time, moving his head so the tresses brushedagainst her breasts, her aching nipples.
“Have you any idea how much that’s turningme on?” she rasped. “I could let you do that all night.”
Grayson glanced up, a gleam of wickedness inhis eyes. “I intend to do more than that tonight, my love.” Heinched his hand downwards, circling her pubic hair with hisfingertips before stroking between her slick folds.
She jerked and opened her legs for him, gyrating her hips towardshim as he slipped first one then two fingers inside her.
She floated on an ocean of pleasure, lostherself in ecstasy, in what Grayson was doing to her body, her mindand her soul, and she wanted the same for him.
Tracing her fingertips over the soft hairbelow his belly button, she then reached downwards and curled herfingers around his rock-hard shaft, so damn hot it took her breathaway. She moved her hand up and down in unison with hisfingers.
A guttural groan escaped his lips. “You’regood. So good.”
His enjoyment encouraged her to take thelead. “I can do better than that.” She grinned mischievously. Shelet go of him and grabbed his hand so he stopped what he was doing.Her actions rough andwanton, she shoved his massive chest and pinned him to the bed asshe climbed on top of him and hovered above him.
She clawed his chest, empowered and arousedto have a hot werewolf between her thighs.
Bear-like hands grabbed her backside andsqueezed, urging herdownwards to take his length inside her.
Grayson made an odd noise deep inside hischest. Not a human sound, more a wolf-like snarl.
Her inner walls clenched around him. Her wolfman was rocketing her arousal to epic proportions.
Jamie met his gaze, but not the one she knew. His eyes werethat of his wolf—intense, possessive and predatory.
Grayson’s whole body stiffened. The veins inhis neck and temples protruded and pulsed, his skin reddened andthen he convulsed violently beneath her.
She gasped.
In an inhumanly swift move, he lifted herand plonked her on the bed beside him with suchforce the air whooshedfrom her lungs.
His breathing laboured, he turned away.
“Grayson…?”
He didn’t answer, but he stopped convulsingand his skin tone returned to normal.
Tentatively, she touched his arm. “Are youokay?”
“I’m so sorry. Please forgive me,I never meant…” He shook hishead, his long hair brushing his broad shoulders. “I thought if Iwaited before we made love, I would be able to control the beastwithin. I’m a monster.”
She shifted to face him, forced him tolook at her. His striking wolf eyes stared back, so full of regret and shame.Self-hatred, too. Her heart went out to him. She wanted nothingmore than to ease his concerns.
Jamie cupped his face with both hands.“You listen to me, Grayson. You are not a monster; that’s not whatI see. I see themagnificent man I fell in love with.”
“But I could have hurt you. I’d never forgivemyself if—”
She silenced his protest with a kiss. “Youwould never hurt me. I trust you with my life and my heart.”
His eyes turned back to normal once more.“How did I get so luckyto find you, Jamie?” he uttered, his voice thick withemotion.
“Ditto.” She grinned. “Now get here, myhandsome wolf man, and finish what we started.”
She pulled him on top of her this time,his size dwarfing hers, his power a hundred times greater than hers, but she felt nofear, just protected and safe, and insanely smitten by a reluctantalpha werewolf with a beautiful soul and a heart of puregold.
Chapter Eleven
Grayson opened his eyes.Jamie.
She lay naked and asleep besidehim, her gentle breathspuffing on his skin. The early morning sun shone through thewindow, catching the highlights in her tousled hair. Dark eyelashesfanned her porcelain cheeks and her soft lips twitched.
He forgot to breathe. Last night hadn’tbeen a dream; she wasstill here, in his bed. She’d rocked his world last night, butshe’d done something else too. She’d put her trust in him, evenwhen he’d almost shifted.
There could have been a hurricane blowingoutside and it still would have been the
