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  “I don’t want you. I don’t want your pack,” she lied.

  He leaned forward until his lips were less than an inch away from hers. “Tell the truth.”

  She glared up at him for several moments, drinking in the sight of his handsome, hard face. Almond eyes dark as night. A small, almost delicate nose. High, sharp cheekbones. Full, pink lips. “Make me.”

  Karisma didn’t get a moment to second guess her words. Jae moved in a blinding flash, ripping the towel from her still wet body, and throwing it to the floor.

  She gasped as the very air around her seemed to hum with the power of his quick actions. Horrified, she stared down at the towel for a moment before reaching for the covering.

  “Oh, no, you don’t! You asked for it, and now I’m going to give it to you.”

  Karisma’s scream tore through the air when Jae slung one arm beneath her thighs and threw her onto his shoulder. He marched his way across her suite and found his way to her bedroom. She bounced when he threw her onto the bed.

  “You bast --” The end of her tirade was cut off when he placed his soft, full lips to hers and kissed her deeply. Heat flushed her body. Lava filled her veins. Every inch of her was focused on the feel of his lush mouth against hers, moving with hard determination as it worked its way back and forth across her own lips.

  Jae was a man on a mission and she was a woman helpless to do anything but be conquered.

  Her mouth softened beneath his and she slowly parted her lips. His warm, agile tongue darted into the wet cavern of her mouth. Sweet heat moved through her as his tongue flickered over hers, touching, tasting, and tangling.

  Jae’s hand moved down her torso. Large, long fingers cupped her breast and held the aching orb tenderly. Karisma lifted her body, trying desperately to get closer to the satisfaction his deeper touch promised. There was a fire burning in her veins and Jae was the only man who could put it out.

  But she wasn’t about to admit that. Instead Karisma pushed at his shoulders. Jae responded immediately. He threw one thickly corded thigh over her and straddled her torso. “You better behave,” he whispered darkly against her mouth.

  She smiled against his lips. Behaving was the last thing she wanted to do. Naughty Karisma was in full control at the moment. Kitty wanted to get downright dirty.

  Karisma had been ignoring her own desires for too long. She needed carnal satisfaction. She lifted her hips, brushing her mound against the growing bulge between Jae’s thighs and once again pushed at his shoulders.

  “You want it rough, don’t you?” he growled.

  Yes, she screamed mentally. Her lips, however, sang a different tune. “I don’t want it at all.”

  He lifted his head and caught her gaze. Butterflies took flight in her belly. Staring into his eyes, she knew he was very aware of what she was doing, and why. “Remember, love, you’re the one who asked me to make you like it.” His mouth brushed against her lips and one hand slid between their bodies. Fingers danced along the sensitive flesh covering her belly until they reached her sheath.

  “Yes. Oh my gods, yes!”

  His fingers parted the moist, fleshy lips of her cunt to stroke her deeply. He caressed the flesh surrounding her clitoris and the entrance to her sex, teasing her with every tempting stroke. But it wasn’t nearly enough to appease the burning hunger that filled her veins.

  She started to fight him, silently begging Jae for a darker touch when he thrust a single finger deep inside her. She keened his name as her body tightened around the lone digit. Karisma was so close to coming. So close to feeling that blissful emotion of utter physical fulfillment she couldn’t help but rock her hips against Jae’s hand as he pushed her closer and closer to satisfaction.

  “Fuck, you’re so wet… and hot.” He breathed the words against her neck as he pumped his finger in and out of her cunt.

  Fuck me. Fuck me. Fuck me. The litany pounded in Karisma’s mind as the pleasure thickened inside of her. She was almost there. She was almost there. Great gods above, she was almost there.

  Karisma’s eyes popped open and breath rushed into her starved lungs. For a moment she was too stunned to comprehend what had truly happened. She leaned up on her elbows and glared down at Jae. “You bastard,” she growled as she threw her leg over his head and scooted across the bed.

  The asshole had stopped finger fucking her just as her orgasm was about to break. Karisma had been so close and it took her a moment to realize she had been played.

  She’d reached the edge of the bed when warm hands captured her waist. Jae forcefully pulled her back to the middle of the bed and spread her legs. She glared at his handsome smiling face, feeling her anger surge out of control at the sight.

  “I take it you want it, now?”

  Karisma tried to knee him and ended up with her legs spread even wider. Strong fingers dug into her flesh. The feel of his hands on her intimate skin made almost lethargic warmth spread through her body. “It’s okay, my mate,” Jae whispered as he lowered his head. “I just had to make sure you wanted me to… taste… you. To make… you… come.”

  Fuck! Lights exploded behind her closed eyelids at the first caress of his wet, agile tongue stroking down the parted, puffy lips of her sheath. He licked her slowly, taking his time to run the slick length of his tongue down her folds all the way to her perineum. His tongue flicked against the sensitive flesh once, twice, thrice, causing her to jerk with pleasure with every flutter, before he returned north to explore her pussy.

  “Hmmm. Right there,” Karisma moaned when she felt the moist velvet touch of his tongue against the inner flesh of her cunt. She was hot and filled with aching need. There was a fever that burned inside of her. She smiled to herself when Jae’s tongue started to beat a heady staccato rhythm against the engorged head of her clitoris.

  It was becoming quite obvious that Jae was a man more than capable of handling her heat.

  “Eat me,” Karisma groaned darkly as she pressed her heels into the mattress and lifted her hips, intent on getting as close to the devastating man pleasuring her as possible.

  Jae growled deep into her sex as his mouth feasted on her aching flesh. The indecipherable words vibrated along every inch of her body, starting from the area between her folds. Karisma clutched the sheets and froze, air stilling in her lungs as everything in her focused on the area Jae was tasting. Her eyes slammed shut and pleasure seared her soul. She screamed, bucked, and cried as her body instinctively tried to get closer to the man who was forcing the most intense orgasm Karisma had ever experienced upon her.

  For several moments, the only noise in the room was the harsh sound of Karisma struggling to take air into her painfully starved lungs. She was sprawled across the bed, limp and exhausted from Jae’s oral lovemaking.

  She blinked up at the hotel’s etched ceiling, trying to figure out what had happened and how she could get a second helping. She leaned up and reached for Jae. He rolled to his feet, evading her hands easily.

  Karisma glared at him in anger, even as she felt her cheeks heat up with embarrassment. She’d just propositioned the man and he was not taking what she was so freely offering.

  What the hell?

  She searched his face. It was harshly chiseled by desire. His dark eyes were diamond hard spheres of glittering passion. And they were fastened to her pussy.

  Karisma’s automatic instinct was to close her legs. Being the focus of such stark attention was disconcerting.

  And exhilarating.

  She spread her legs wider and placed one hand against her sheath. Very slowly, she parted her lips to reveal her wet center.

  “Jae,” Karisma purred softly in a silky smooth voice that sounded utterly decadent to her own ears. He jerked as though he had been hit. Her own breathing deepened when she witnessed the slow glide of his wet, pink tongue across his fuller bottom lip. His gaze lifted to her face. Such rough pleasure shone in his dark gaze, she knew he was tasting her on his tongue.

  She ached
inside. “Are you hungry, Kitty?” She darted a quick glance at the thick bulge between his thighs. His jeans were straining against the swollen length of his cock. And judging by the sight, Jae had enough to feed her all day and night. “Oh yes,” she whispered as she reached for him.

  Chapter Three

  Remember the Time

  For the hundredth time that afternoon Karisma considered the repercussions of killing a man with her cutlery. She was absolutely, positively livid and still could not believe that when she had admitted she wanted him, Jae had taken a step back and told her to get dressed. Apparently he had made reservations for lunch.

  Lunch… or sex? Of course she’d stumbled across the one man who would choose food over pussy. She jabbed her salad, spearing a cherry tomato, and imagined it was one of Jae’s beautiful eyes.

  “Are you sure you only want a salad?”

  She glared at him and shoved the vegetable in her mouth. The day had been bad enough. The last thing she wanted to do was ruin her latest attempt to get healthy on top of it.

  “I probably won’t even be able to finish it all,” she murmured softly as she reached for her water.

  “Especially not if you keep pretending it’s a certain dragon’s face.”

  She stilled for a moment, water glass right against her bottom lip. Well, she had to give him something. At least he was smart enough to realize she was pissed.

  He watched her intently, eyes burning with a fire that ignited her libido. Suddenly she wanted him. She wanted Jae deep inside her, thrusting that cock she had yet to glimpse, but knew would satisfy her all night long.

  “Don’t get me wrong, Kitty. I want you.” He ran a hand through his midnight locks. “I want you so badly it hurts. Heck, I don’t think you’ll ever understand how hard this afternoon was for me. You’re smart, beautiful, sexy as hell, and my mate. There is nothing more I’d like to do than spend the rest of my life between your thighs, but I want more than just sex from you.”

  Her fork clattered to the floor. He smiled. “It’s true. Remember how you started to feel about me on our last date?”

  She mentally snorted. Yeah, before I found out about your three all-or-nothing pack mates.

  Needing something, anything to do to break his gaze, and lower the temperature rising within her, Karisma bent down and picked up her fork. When she straightened she was a little more in control of her emotions.

  That little bit of self-control made the difference between her jumping across the table and ravaging Jae and her sitting in her seat pretending she wasn’t a sex fiend.

  The simple act had pushed Naughty Kitty to the side.

  “Kitty?”

  “Could you stop calling me that?” she snapped automatically as she lifted her gaze. She found him watching her with amusement in his heavenly eyes.

  The bastard knew exactly what he was doing to her.

  A little part of her hated him for bringing her to this point of sexual need and hanging her out to dry. A larger part was glad he hadn’t taken her up on her offer. Because goddess knew when she realized what she’d done, she would have been angry as hell at herself come tomorrow morning.

  She sighed. “I’ll admit that I started to feel something… tender for you before I found out about the pack. There!”

  He shook his head from side to side, ebony hair flying around his handsome sculpted face. “Why won’t you admit it, Kitty? You fell in love with me. Just as I fell in love with you.”

  Karisma stared at him in shock and a little bit of horror. He fell in love… with her?

  Okay, she was willing to admit that they had gone on several dates. Okay, so it was more than several and every one had been perfect, but that didn’t mean a damned thing. Neither did the fact that each and every time she got home she regretted that the night had to end.

  She felt the same way about the dates she’d had with Bailey, Malik, and Aleka. And she was most definitely not in love with them.

  No sirree!

  Hmmm mmmm, Naughty Karisma said in neck snapping disbelief as Karisma remembered all the times she had lain awake wishing Jae was beside her, if only just to hold her.

  Okay, so maybe I was a little infatuated with him.

  Even Good Karisma didn’t believe that.

  Bloody fucking hell! “Look, I’m not in love with you. Lust maybe, but not love. And you are not in love with me. You can’t be.”

  He gave her a slow, heart thumping smile. “I think you’re protesting a little too much, sweetie. You want to tell me why, my love?”

  “You don’t know anything about me,” she shot at him.

  “You’re wrong, sweet thing. I know everything there is to know about you including your deepest, darkest, most erotic fantasies, and I’m willing to make them a reality.”

  For one horrifying moment Karisma was afraid her control was going to snap. Then she took a deep breath and glared at him. What the hell was he doing? Emanating dragon pheromones? She kept teetering between the need to kill him and the desire to fuck him silly.

  The waiter arrived then. Karisma decided she’d had enough of his company. She stood, dropped her napkin, and threw a terse, “Goodbye, Jae,” over her shoulder.

  She didn’t take more than two steps before jerking to a stop. Right in front of her stood Aleka Kanakis.

  Chapter Four

  I Want To Be Where You Are

  Aleka knew his mate was upset by the burning fire that raged in her gorgeous, dark gaze. And he was aroused by the sight.

  He was a sick bastard, but it was okay. She was just going to have to be woman enough to handle his “off the rocker” mental state.

  She only gave him a quick glimpse of what she was feeling. Almost immediately Karisma wiped all traces of anger from her face and moved forward. Step by step, Kitty’s four-inch heels brought her closer and closer to him. Almost too late, he realized she intended to walk right past him.

  “Nice try, sweetheart,” he murmured as she stepped beside him. Aleka reached out and grabbed her arm, turning her around. She landed against his chest with a soft gasp.

  “Get your hands off of me.”

  He leaned forward and pressed his lips to her ear. Aleka’s smile was full of satisfaction when he felt her shudder against him. “If you think I’m going to let you go, you’re out of your mind, Kitty.”

  He took a step back but refused to let go off her hands. She glared at him before glancing around the room. He could see her beautiful mind working. She was trying to figure out how to cause just enough of a commotion to get away from him. Aleka shook his head. “Don’t even try it.”

  “Or?” she murmured as she tried to jerk her hand away from his grip.

  “You try it and I’ll show everyone here just how wet you get when I’m near you.”

  Her dark eyes widened for a moment, but that was all he needed. He pulled her closer. Her glare hardened. He ignored it and stepped forward, making his way back to the table she had vacated. Fingers intertwined with his, she reluctantly followed behind.

  When they reached the table, Aleka feared she would turn and run out of the dining room. Instead she simply stood beside the table, directly before Jae and looked down at him in anger. “Did you do this on purpose?”

  Aleka took a seat just as Jae stood. He didn’t miss the darted glance Jae threw him. “No, I’m just as surprised as you are to see him here.”

  For the first time in a long time, Aleka began to feel uneasy. He had promised his pack mates they would all get the chance to court Karisma. Yet he had not been able to keep his emotions under control long enough to give Jae the time he deserved.

  “I’m sorry,” he said as he glanced at each of them. “I just couldn’t stay away.”

  A frisson of emotion passed across Jae’s face. “I understand the feeling all too well.”

  Kitty straightened. “Are you trying to tell me you missed me?”

  Aleka smiled at the look on her beautiful face. He couldn’t help wondering why she c
ouldn’t understand just how alluring she was. “Sit down and I’ll tell you that and so much more.”

  “Damned curiosity,” she muttered before pulling out the seat in front of her and plopping into the chair.

  Jae flashed them both a smile before sitting back in his seat. The moment the other man settled in his chair, Aleka snapped to attention as passion surged through him. He turned and caught Jae’s midnight gaze.

  And held it for long moments as desire hummed through him. He could smell Karisma on Jae. He knew her distinctive sweet and musky scent. Kitty and Jae had been together. The beast inside him couldn’t help but scream as the thought of Jae and Karisma seared through him. But it wasn’t rage that the phoenix felt. No, he was crying out because Aleka hadn’t been there to watch. Since meeting his pack mates, Aleka had discovered he liked to watch and be watched.

  Fuck!

  Finally, reluctantly he broke off their heated gaze and looked at Karisma. She was watching them both with glittering eyes. “What’s wrong?”

  He shook his head and pushed the need aside, at least as much as was possible. He tried to focus on the woman before him.

  His mate.

  She was skittish enough. The last thing he needed to do was show her how an Alpha phoenix in heat reacted to the scent of his mate’s desire. With a strength he didn’t know he owned, Aleka pushed his beast deep within himself until the animal was totally under control.

  “No, tell me what’s wrong.”

  “Nothing’s wrong,” Jae said, his voice dark, dangerous, and seductive.

  Aleka didn’t bother to dart a glance at Jae’s handsome face. His voice said it all. And whatever message his voice didn’t tell, his pheromones made loud and clear. The dragon was vividly aware of the passion that swam through Aleka. And he was feeling the effects.

  Her gaze darted from his face to Jae’s and back again. She didn’t believe them. And he didn’t blame her.

  She straightened in her chair and looked down at both of them. “I’m ordering you, as your mate, to tell me what’s going on.”

  His smile was slow in coming, belying the turbulent emotions inside of him. The beast inside of him had stirred the moment the word “mate” passed Karisma’s lush lips.