Down-Will-Come-Tiger by KatSimons

Author:KatSimons [KatSimons]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Two hours passed in silence, but Paige couldn’t sleep. After a while, she did close her

eyes, the better to savor the peace and security she felt having Joseph watching over her.

She knew she should consider all the things he’d said tonight—and the things he hadn’t

said. Especially when it came to his reaction to her and Bradley’s ability to sense him. There was

more to that, something she knew instinctively was vitally important to her future.

But instead of focusing on that, or questioning him further, she found her thoughts turning

instead to that dark night in the woods when he’d shown her his shift. More specifically, she

found herself remembering how beautiful he’d been naked, how every sculpted ridge and hollow

of his body had flamed something hot and edgy in her. Having him in her room, so close to her

bed, when it was dark and safe and private…

Need settled deep in her core. She pressed her thighs together to contain the desire, to try

and ease the tension. It didn’t work. Her imagination flowed with more images of Joseph naked,

this time reaching for her, pulling her into his arms. She imagined the feel of his chest hair

rubbing against her naked breasts and had to bite her cheek to keep from groaning aloud. Her

breathing deepened and sped as the fantasies built, as she imagined his hands on her skin,

moving across her stomach, up her back, cupping her breasts, smoothing over her hips, settling

between her legs, fingering her heat.

Her skin tingled and the urge to rub herself to orgasm had her clenching the duvet. She

might have been more embarrassed by that reaction if it wasn’t dark, if the day hadn’t been so

emotionally draining. But feeling something as pure and good as sexual desire was so much

easier and more welcome than anything else she’d experienced that day, she didn’t think to stop

the fantasies.

Until she heard a very slight noise from across the room.

Her eyes flew open. Joseph was still in the chair, watching her, his expression neutral, his

eyes shadowed and impossible to read. He didn’t look like he’d moved at all, but she was sure

she’d heard something.

Then she remembered. “Joseph? How good is your sense of smell, really?”

“Very good.”

His voice sounded harsher and more gravelly than usual. Rather than kill her lust, it only

made her desire spike hotter.

“You were able to trace the path I took from the house to the gate.”

He nodded.

“You…can smell things like fear or…” Or lust? she thought.

“Yes.”

She swallowed. She didn’t have to ask to know he’d picked up on her desire. She could

practically smell the musky odor of it herself, and she didn’t have a tiger’s nose. The darkness

would hide the color in her cheeks, she knew, but for some reason her embarrassment was milder

than she would have expected. Not because it was dark and not because he didn’t really know

what she’d been thinking.

Because it was Joseph.

She wanted him to know. Frightening and impossible as it was, she wanted him to know

all this lust and need was for him. He did this to her.

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