Chapter 4: The Shower

The shower was a stone room at the back of his suite with a window that looked at the pines.

Steam rolled out when he turned the tap, and the morning light came through it in gold bars.

I stood under the water with my hair plastered down and my skin tender everywhere he had held it.

Tavish stepped in behind me.

He was naked, and the sight of him in daylight stopped my breath all over again.

Broad shoulders, a long back, and the pale scar curving over his ribs.

"You're staring," he said.

"I'm looking."

"Same thing."

"Not when it's you."

He laughed, a low sound that I felt in my spine.

He took the soap and started on my shoulders.

His hands were slow, and he washed me.

He worked down my arms and across my collarbone, then over my breasts, and there his thumbs lingered.

I leaned back against his chest.

His cock pressed hard and heavy into the small of my back.

"You're sore," he said, quiet.

"A little."

"Then I'll go easy."

"I don't want easy."

"I know." His mouth was at my ear. "That's why I'm going to do something else."

He turned me around.

The tile was cold against my shoulder blades, and the water ran hot down the front of me.

He looked down at my body, and then he dropped to his knees on the stone.

I stared.

The Alpha of Black Pine could stop a wolf pack with a single command.

He was kneeling in front of me with water running down his beard.

"Hold the rail," he said.

I grabbed the steel bar beside my head.

He lifted my left leg over his shoulder, and my whole body clenched in anticipation.

"Tavish."

"I've wanted to taste you since the stone."

He put his mouth on me.

The first stroke of his tongue went from the bottom to the top, slow and flat and deep, and my knees almost gave.

I cried out and clutched the rail.

"Good," he said against my skin. "Louder."

He licked me in long, patient strokes, and every time he reached my clit he flicked it with the tip.

Then he did something with his lips, a gentle suction, and my head hit the tile.

"Oh, God."

"No," he said. "Say my name."