Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 24983 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 83(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 24983 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 83(@300wpm)
I shut off the alert and listened carefully, studying the small screen, looking for hints of a visitor. The only light was coming from my television and fireplace, and it barely leaked out onto the deck, so it was hard to see anything out back, even with the night vision on the cameras. When I didn’t hear or see anything after a minute, I figured the animal had wandered off into the forest again.
Setting my cell down, I turned the television back on with my other hand, then returned my attention to the game and my work. Still…a gut feeling nagged at me. Something felt off, but I didn’t have a clue what it was, so I ignored my sense of foreboding.
A few minutes later, the alarm sounded again. Sighing, I checked the cameras on my phone as I set my computer aside. There wasn’t much wind, so it had to be an animal triggering the system. There was also the possibility that Jace—one of my childhood friends, who was now as much a wolf as he was a man—was roaming the woods. Though he generally steered clear of my sensors.
I was about to dismiss it once again when I spotted a small figure coming out of the thicket and moving cautiously across the yard.
My temper flared, and I muttered a curse as I started for the back door. People around here knew better than to break my solitude. I tried not to wallow in my misfortune, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t a grouchy son of a bitch when someone invaded my safe space.
I flipped a light on in the kitchen before stomping outside just as the figure reached the deck. I prepared to rip the intruder a new asshole but shut my mouth when the light coming through the glass doors illuminated the stranger—a woman. She froze, staring up at me with big green eyes, and I found myself momentarily stunned.
For the first time in over twenty years, my body sprang to life.
What the fuck?
Desire slammed into me, nearly knocking me off balance, but I managed to remain steady on my feet. I hadn’t experienced attraction like that in…I honestly couldn’t remember ever feeling so drawn to a woman.
She was petite but had a mouthwatering hourglass figure with full tits, a small waist, and curvy hips. Her long, wavy hair was obviously blond, but it was tinted with a pretty shade of lavender. I couldn’t tell for sure, but her eyes looked like a rich shade of whiskey-brown, rimmed with thick lashes. Her lips were rose-colored, puffy, and round—perfect for kissing or wrapping around my cock.
I’d never seen such perfection.
My hands literally crackled with electricity as the desire to feel her skin against mine consumed me. Reels of our naked bodies dripping with sweat as we writhed in passion played like a movie in my mind.
I curled my fingers into tight fists, hoping the sting from my nails digging into my flesh would bring me back to reality. Anguish and rage burned in my gut as I forced myself to face the truth. I would never be able to touch her silky skin. Never feel the soft glide of her fingers over my body.
Random images bombarded me, and I blinked a few times to clear them away. But I still caught glimpses—this gorgeous girl dressed in white, spread out on my bed in nothing at all, walking around with a swollen belly and a toddler at her side. Every thought was followed by even more frustration until I mentally screamed at myself to stop. Picturing things that didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of coming to fruition was nothing but torture.
As the spell wore off, I noticed that she looked terrified, and I immediately wiped my expression. I didn’t want this beautiful creature to ever be afraid of me.
Slowly, I took a deep breath and calmed my racing heart. As my adrenaline receded, so did the electric current traveling over my skin.
“Come here,” I growled in a harsher tone than I’d intended. She was too far away, and I wanted to be able to see her better.
“Um…” She glanced around nervously, then pushed her shoulders back and ascended the five steps to stand on the wood planks of my deck.
I almost smiled at her adorable show of bravado, but when she bit her lip, it sent a shot of desire straight to my aching cock. Fuck. Obviously, I was a glutton for punishment because, instead of telling her to leave, I had asked her to come closer. Why? Because I wanted to see her better. To memorize her features and delicious curves before I sent her back to wherever she’d come from.
Reaching out to my left, I found the switch for the porch lights and flipped it up. The flood of brightness blinded me for a second. When my vision cleared, I spotted the girl shading her eyes as she took a step back. But she’d been standing at the edge of the stairs, so she immediately lost her balance and began to tip backward.