Claiming His Fire by Ellis Leigh

Author:Ellis Leigh [Leigh, Ellis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kinship Press
Published: 2015-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Shadow

“Shit.”

My legs locked, feet planted to the floor as I growled, fighting back my inner tiger who was trying his damnedest to take control. He wanted to shift, to chase Scarlett, to hunt her down and claim her whether she liked it or not. He was the side of me that had to be contained. The one that could do some serious damage if he got out. The one I fought against the hardest.

My wolf remained quiet, barely a presence in my mind. Hiding. Our mate had refused us…again.

I ran my fingers through my hair, pulling and fisting the long strands as my heart crumbled in my chest. What had I said this time? What had I done? We’d finally been alone together, made physical contact, had a conversation. She’d let me in. But without warning, she’d built those walls back up faster than I could stop her, higher and more guarded than before. She’d completely locked me out. Why was that girl always hiding from me?

The answers didn’t magically appear, which meant I only had one option. I’d have to ask her. I chuffed a sad laugh and shook my head at that idea. Right, because she was always so willing to talk to me. The woman had the whole unattainable and uninterested thing down to a science, one my brain simply couldn’t wrap around. She’d gone from soft and snuggling to hard and indifferent before my very eyes. And I had no clue why.

Fuck me, I needed to clear my head.

I crept into my bedroom, holding my breath, almost afraid of what her scent would do to me. My mate had spent the night in my bed, in my shirt, and my room was going to be filled with her enticing smell. It was going to hurt to breathe. Hurt deep and hard. I needed to just man up and take it in. Suffer through it. Rip it off like a Band-Aid.

So I did.

The snarl that left my lips as the cool fire scent of her swept into my lungs was louder and stronger than my wolf ones. More roar than growl. Oh, our little firecracker had truly enticed the beast. The one who didn’t mate for life, who wasn’t tied to her by fate.

“Easy, kitty,” I whispered into the empty room, hard and aching from nothing more than Scarlett’s smell, the pain in my chest overriding the need in my groin. But she’d been pressed up against me all night, been soft and sweet and there. And goddamn, she’d been so warm.

But she’d left me in the cold, alone, and unsure of what to do next.

Before I could clear my mind enough to think things through, my phone pealed and jittered across the nightstand. I dropped my head and sighed, honestly almost grateful for the distraction, knowing there was no way it was the person I most wanted to talk to.

“Yeah?” I said as soon as I swiped to accept the call.

“We need to meet up.” Jameson’s growl came through the line, the sounds of the denhouse in the background.

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