Too Late, Alpha, I'm Your Pen Pal novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Black Water

Eight days before the Gathering, the lake was cold enough to hurt, and we went into it anyway.

Wolves run hot, he said, and ice would not kill us.

The dock was dark past the sauna, a long pier of gray boards with a ladder at the far end.

There was no moon yet, only stars and the black water below them.

I stood at the edge in my cardigan and nothing else.

Lennart was already naked behind me, with his clothes in a heap on the boards.

"You're stalling," he said.

"I'm looking."

"At what?"

"The lake. It looks like it wants to eat me."

"It will let you off with a warning."

He took my hand, and we jumped.

The cold closed over my head.

I came up gasping, and he came up laughing, with his hair plastered black to his shoulders.

"Fuck," I said.

"Yes. That's the idea."

"My nipples are going to fall off."

"I'll find them."

He hauled me against him in the dark water, and his skin was the only warm thing in the world.

I wrapped my legs round his waist and felt him against me, already hard in spite of the cold.

"You're kidding," I said.

"You're naked and wet and laughing. What did you expect?"

I kissed him, hard, with lake water running into both our mouths.

His hands cupped my ass under the surface and held me up.

My heart pounded so loudly that I thought the fish could hear it.

"Out," he said against my lips. "Before I do this in the water and you drown."

"I'd drown happy."

"I'd miss you."

He swam us to the ladder, and I climbed it with his hands on my hips, steadying me.

His mouth was on the back of my thigh before I reached the top.

I stood dripping on the boards with the night wind on my wet skin.

He came up the ladder behind me, and I turned to look at him.

Water ran down his chest, over the pale scar and the dark trail of hair, to where he stood heavy and ready.

"Look at you," I said.

"I was going to say that."

"I know. Say it."

He took one slow step toward me.

"Your skin is covered in goosebumps. Your lips are blue. Your nipples are tight as pebbles."

"Rude."

"You're the most beautiful thing on this lake, and I'd say so to the fish."

He spread his folded coat on the boards, and I lay down on it.

The wood was cold under the wool, and he was hot above me, and the contrast made me shiver.

"Lie still," he said. "Let me warm you."

He started at my ankles.

He kissed the arch of each foot, the inside of each knee, the cold skin of my thighs, slowly, with his breath steaming.

"Lennart."

"I'm not done."

By the time his mouth reached me I was shaking, and not from the cold.

He licked me once, slowly, and I felt the heat all the way up my spine.

"Oh God."

"That's it. You're so warm here. You're the only warm thing on this dock."

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