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  He nodded. “Excellent. We’re very sexual.”

  Mika smiled at him and rolled onto her back, stretching out. “Lucky me. Want to play nice and slow now?”

  The towel dropped to the carpet as Grady got on the bed and caged her under his body with his arms and knees, but they weren’t touching. Mika moved first, reaching up to place her hands on his chest. He had hot skin. He was hard bodied but his skin was soft and she ran her hands over his nipples, loving the feel of him. The cool drops of water made her lift her head to lick at some between his nipples.

  “Babe,” Grady softly sighed. “You’re playing with fire.”

  “So burn me up.” Her hands slid to his shoulders and she tugged.

  Grady lowered his bigger body until he was totally on top of her. He braced enough of his weight to not totally crush her under his large frame. Mika spread her thighs wider to give him room for his hips to snuggle against her body, wrapping her legs around his firm ass. Grady moved his hips and she felt his arousal pushing against her still wet and welcoming pussy. She wiggled her hips, feeling the hard press of his cock right there, and wanted him to enter her.

  “Condom,” he said softly.

  Mika bit her lip. “I’m on the Pill, and I’m clean. Are you disease free?”

  She saw something wild flare in his eyes. He shook his head. “Damn,” he rasped. “No, I don’t have any diseases. We don’t catch them. Our physiology is different enough from yours that most diseases can’t be passed on to us. I can’t come inside you. It’s too dangerous right now with mating heat. You’ll scent stronger of me…and it’s the kind of scent that could get us in deep shit.”

  “Deep shit sounds bad.” She smiled at him. “Of course, I like trouble.”

  He suddenly laughed and his eye color lightened again. It amazed Mika how the man’s eyes could change color so quickly. She was learning quickly what emotions lightened and darkened them. Smiling back at her, Grady caressed her cheek.

  “I wouldn’t trust myself not to bite you while I was fucking you. My control isn’t the greatest when I’m in heat. Without a condom, it would feel too damn good. We’d be stuck with each other forever. During sex, all kinds of hormones and chemical changes are happening in my body that weren’t present when I marked you. If I lost control and bit you during sex, all those would be introduced into your bloodstream. It would bind us together and make you my permanent mate.”

  “Ah. That kind of deep shit.”

  He nodded. “I wish I could risk it. I hate condoms, and I want to feel you so damn bad I hurt. I just can’t risk making you my mate.”

  Pain hit her at his words. She’d heard him tell her uncle he wanted a werewolf woman as a mate. It shouldn’t be any skin off my nose, she reminded herself, if he doesn’t want me on a long-term basis.

  The problem was, she was strongly attracted to him, and the idea of him settling down to have babies with some literal bitch made jealousy rear its ugly head inside her.

  Grady was a great guy and he was fantastic in bed. Mika rolled her hips again, wiggling until she felt the head of his cock pressed right where she wanted him. “Pull out and put on a condom in a few minutes…but right now I want to feel just you. It always feels different.”

  “You don’t have to tell me the difference between a condom and skin, babe.”

  “Just let me feel you.”

  “It’s a bad idea.”

  “Just a few minutes and then put on the condom.” She paused. “They irritate me and make me a little sore. I’m usually in long-term relationships with men I have sex with, so I’m not used to using them since I’m on the Pill.”

  He sighed. “I’m dying to know how it would feel with nothing between us.”

  He pushed into her and Mika knew heaven as his cock slid home.

  Her lips parted to release a moan of sheer rapture. Her nails raked his shoulders and she tightened her legs around his hips so her heels dug into his ass. The feel of Grady’s cock, with nothing between them, was the most wonderful thing she had ever experienced. He was fuller, the sensation was different without latex, and as her vaginal walls gripped him, Grady groaned softly. She met his intense gaze. He looked hungry and wild, if eyes really were the windows into someone’s soul.

  “We’re fucked,” he rasped.

  She squeezed her muscles around his cock again. Grady’s eyes widened and then he pulled back. She thought he was leaving her body, withdrawing from her totally, and she had to halt the urge to cling to him to keep him there, but she released her death grip around his hips with her legs so he could move away from her.

  Grady almost withdrew completely but then he drove his hips into hers, plunging his cock into her deep and hard, pushing her body into the bed.

  Mika cried out in pleasure and her legs wrapped tightly around him again. Their gazes remained locked, Grady keeping eye contact with her as he drove in and out of her again and again. Mika couldn’t look away from the pleasure that was easy to read on his handsome features. She bucked her hips and she met him with upward thrusts.

  Skin to skin felt unbearably good, too good, and her body tensed, muscles tightening as a climax built inside her.

  Her nails bit into his shoulders. Grady’s eyes narrowed, their shape changing just a little, and when his lips parted, sharp, extended teeth were revealed.

  She screamed out Grady’s name as she came hard, ecstasy tearing through her entire body, and watched as his eyes closed when his own release hit him.

  His mouth opened wider, his teeth grew longer, and she threw her hand over his mouth right as he lowered his face into her neck.

  “No,” she moaned, still riding her pleasure.

  She could feel the sharp points of his teeth against her palm but then his lips closed over them. His face was buried in the crook of her neck, her hand trapped as he panted.

  She shivered in the aftermath. The sex had been amazing. The only downside was that she’d seen him lose control, and if she hadn’t been watching him, he would have bitten her.

  He turned his face away from her neck and hand. She wrapped her arms tighter around him, holding him, and loved the way his heavy body pinned hers to the bed.

  “Sorry,” he whispered. He lifted his head and stared down at her, their noses nearly touching.

  “Never apologize for making me come that hard. That was mind-blowing. You’re amazing.”

  He tensed on her and then relaxed. “If you hadn’t gripped my mouth I would have bitten you. You feel too damn good and make me lose my head.”

  She chuckled. “We’ll have to buy you a muzzle, honey.”

  She saw amusement spark his dark eyes. “I think they make them. I know this sex shop that carries all kinds of kinky shit.”

  “Really?” She laughed. “I think tomorrow we should go there to buy one, because I don’t want to use condoms with you.”

  His smile died. “You’re serious?”

  She nodded. “Do you really want to use them when we don’t have to? Tell me that wasn’t damn good, that you don’t want to do it again, and I’ll call you a liar.”

  The amusement left him. “It was too damn good. I could get addicted to you.”

  She ran her tongue over her lips. “You don’t want me for a mate, remember? You want a wolf.”

  “Your life isn’t here anyway. Where do you live?”

  “I have an apartment in Orange County, California.”

  “What do you do for a living?”

  “I work for the phone company as an information operator.”

  “Whose house is this? I didn’t know Omar owned it.”

  “He doesn’t. It was my parents’ house when they still lived here. When I was two, we moved to Southern California, but we’d always come here for a few weeks here and there so they kept it. When they died, it was left to me. My mom was a wolf and my father was human but they were mated. They were childhood sweethearts.”

  “It’s rare that a were-woman mates with a human guy. Mo