Hunted by the Alpha novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: Storm Night Again

"He's a friend," I told Hettie, and my voice nearly broke on the word.

I tucked her back into the pine bed with the fox under her chin.

Down the hall, Corwin stood in the dark with his back against the wall.

"A friend who looks like my drawing," Hettie said sleepily.

"A friend who's going to help us for a while."

"Is he nice?"

"He's trying."

She yawned.

"Okay. I like his eyes."

She was asleep before I closed the door.

Joss lay snoring in the next room, one arm flung over his face.

I stood in the hall and looked at the man I had kissed in the kitchen.

He had not moved.

"Is she asleep?" he said.

"Yes."

"I should go sleep in the barn."

"You should," I said. "But you're not going to."

His chest rose and fell once.

"Marin."

"I'm twenty-five, not nineteen, and I'm not scared of a storm."

I took a step toward him.

"I'm angry, and I want you, and I would like to do something about it."

He stared at me for a long second.

Then he took my hand and led me down the hall to his room.

It was a big corner room, with a bed made of pine logs and a window full of black trees.

He shut the door and locked it, and turned, and I was already pulling my scrub top over my head.

"Slowly," he said.

"No."

His laugh was almost a groan.

I crossed the floor, pushed him against the door and kissed him.

He kissed me back.

His hands found my waist and spun me.

The next thing I knew my back hit the door.

His mouth was on my throat.

My legs were wrapped around his hips.

"I've wanted you under me for six years," he muttered into my skin.

"Fuck you. Take me to bed."

He grinned against my collarbone, and bit it.

I gasped and arched, and he carried me to the bed and dropped me on it.

For a moment he just stood there, looking.

Moonlight lay across my bare stomach, and my bra, and the cut on my forearm that I'd bandaged badly.

"You're beautiful," he said, as if it hurt.

"Take your shirt off."

He pulled it over his head in one move.

He was thirty-two now, and bigger than the twenty-six-year-old I remembered.

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