Holy motherfucking shit in a sandwich.
My wolf was going fucking nuts.
When Cara ducked down, hands on her knees, then started drawing her ass back up my legs, rippling like some kind of goddamn water goddess, a strangled groan broke in my throat.
My mouth was open, my breath panting as she slid back up until her hips were in my hands and I couldn’t resist. I couldn’t. I gripped her, grinding against her, my lips in her hair.
“Fuck, Cara…”
She leaned her head back, eyes closed and lifted her hands up to lace her fingers behind my neck and then she rolled her hips again and my wolf ignited, snarling, snapping,
~ RIG ~The minute the taxi stopped in the driveway, Natalie leaned over Cara, throwing the door open and urging her out. She stumbled getting herself out and I rushed, throwing myself out of my door and around the car, but Natalie shot me a look and pushed Cara up the walk ahead of me, glaring at me over her shoulder.What the fuck was her problem? I shot after her, but an iron-grip landed on my wrist and yanked me back.“Just breathe, Rig.”“What the—” I jerked back around to find Mack, looking at me, his face dead serious, as the taxi-driver shook his head and muttered something about drunk kids as he put away his little machine for using credit cards to pay. Mack raised his eyebrows. “My girlfriend is drunk,” he said pointedly
~ CARA ~Rig stood just a couple paces back, gaping at me. But I could feel him pulling away from me from the inside and it was terrifying me.I hadn't been drinking!Had I?I shoved the thought away and reached up behind my neck to grab the little closures at the back of the collar, unclipping them as I literally begged him to believe me.“I want to do this, Rig. I swear. I want you. Please.”I dropped the top and Rig's eyes dropped with it. The flames that had already been burning in his gaze roared to a bonfire. Then the world went mad.Silent, black lightning crackled through the room and hi
~ RIG ~Risky, risky, risky.The word echoed in my head with every step as I darted through the neighborhood, slinking behind bushes and fences, hiding in the shadows, racing to cross streets only when I was certain there were no human eyes to catch sight of me.Risky.We never left the packhouse in our wolf forms. It was a rule I’d established from day one. This home would never be associated with big dogs, howling, or… any other strange occurrences. Yet, here I was, breaking my own instruction—and bringing my brother with me.Mack had taken one look at me barreling through the house in my wolf, stripped down, and fol
~ RIG ~“It’s between Natalie and me,” Mack muttered, picking up a little twig from the dirt and snapping the end of it off, over and over again, his jaw tight and eyes narrowed. “But just, take my word for it… I get it. That drive. That burn in your guts. I get it. And trust me, it’s not a fun war to fight. So if you need backup, just let me know.”It was humbling to hear him offer himself that way, especially after—“So, you did this alone. None of us knew—”“I think Charlie suspected a long time ago, but I dodged it when he talked around it, and he never asked me outright. Plus, you know what he’s like.”I nodded. Charlie wouldn’t
~ CARA ~I woke up the next morning from a night of frantic dreams of losing Rig in a dozen different ways and the first thing I was aware of was anxiety twisting and fizzing in my chest.For a moment I was disoriented, uncertain what was dream and what was reality. But the second I opened my eyes and saw the light filtering through the windows in Rig’s room, I sucked in a breath.Quick as a flash I rolled over, reaching out… but the other side of the bed was empty and cold. And the blankets had never been pulled back.The view of the flat quilt and lack of Rig-shaped-hollow made my chest tighten and go hollow in the same moment.Purrkins, who’d been disturbed by my sudden movement,
~ CARA ~I stood there in Rig’s shower, water rushing over me, surrounded in steam that smelled like him, and shivered. Not from cold, but from fear.If I was in love with Rig Landon, why didn’t I trust him? No one had ever made me feel safe the way he did—whether he was himself or in Ralf’s body, it didn’t matter. When he was close, I felt like there was a shield between me and the world. Even last night when he’d been so tense and aggressive, I’d never felt afraid of him.I’d feared being apart from him. It had been so hard in the car with Natalie between us. I’d just wanted to be in his arms.Those weeks after I saw him kiss her,
~ CARA ~My heart beat so fast I was afraid he’d feel it. He kissed me like I was water in the desert and I clung to him like I was hanging off a cliff… which I kind of was.My head spun, buzzing, thrumming with my pulse that pounded until I couldn’t hear anything but that.But there was something in my chest, crawling up my throat, urgent and desperate.Then Rig stroked his fingers through my hair and the tingle that started in my scalp made my breath shudder, and I knew if I didn’t get the words out now, they were going to get drowned in desire, and I couldn’t let that happen.I yanked back, out of the kiss.Rig’s face dropped. He was
~ RIG ~My pulse thumped in my ears as Cara’s eyes flew wide and her mouth dropped open. She froze and suddenly every fear, every last nerve, screamed at me.Was she going to say no?“What? Rig… how? Your dad… the pack—”I gripped her, pleading with her to see that I was telling her the truth. “I don’t ever want you to question if I’m really here, Cara. Not once. I see it in you every day—I smell it on you. You’re afraid. Afraid I’m leaving or that I have eyes for anyone else. You’re afraid that I’m… I don’t know… still a man-whore? That kills me. You’re everything to me now. I swear it. I want to bite something every time you doubt me because I’m over her