Grayslake: More than Mated: Lyin' Heart (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Erika Masten

Author:Erika Masten [Masten, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Ellie Lowe might have been a latent shifter, raised around both manifested weres and others like herself, but she clearly had no idea what kind of animal she was playing with right then.

Putting aside the fact that the werecat ran every bit as hot and cold as a true feline and was the very epitome of mixed messages, what the hell did she think it was going to do to Aubrey watching her get in that fountain and wet herself down like that? Giggling coyly and flirting with those big, gorgeous eyes? Making her T-shirt and already snug cropped jeans cling like a second skin to every luscious curve on her body?

Aubrey tried to indulge the woman’s newfound playfulness from a distance, to just tilt his head and smile politely. There wasn’t anything genuine about the smile he forced over his clenched teeth. He was hungry, and her behavior wasn’t helping him control that.

“You’re going to make an even bigger mess, you know,” he quipped, unable to bring himself to dampen her mood even if it was worsening his.

Ellie had no way of knowing how restless the werelion inside him was or all the reasons why it was so. After years as an Agency hunter constantly stalking rogue shifters and the dangerous supernaturals preying on the fringes of humanity. Always on the move. Life as an agent—or more bluntly a spy—for the Panthera was just the same. Chasing and taking down prey was Aubrey’s profession, his talent, his passion. It was his nature. But Ellie Lowe didn’t know that, because Ellie didn’t know anything about Aubrey, at least nothing true.

“You’re no fun,” she told him. Tonight, she did have that right. “Working all day out in the woods, you really going to say you’re not all hot and sweaty and dirty? Admit it; you want to get in here, too.”

The werelion snarled under his breath. He definitely wanted to get up in there, and he didn’t mean just the fountain.

“Ellie,” he said, shaking his head no, cautioning the woman but obviously not impressing upon her that he was serious. “It’s been a long day.”

A lot of wasted hours looking for signs of who’d been following him near the reservoir and finding nothing, suspecting that even if he found the trail it would lead to the one place Aubrey could not go—somewhere on the werebear compound across the lake from Aubrey’s patrol area. And the only thing worse to a werelion than not hunting at all was hunting and not catching his prey.

“I’m in no mood—,” he started to say.

“No mood? Really?” she interrupted.

Taunting him with her own natural seductiveness, the woman ran her hands up along her apple cheeks and then smoothed back her wet bangs and her ponytail. She dragged the band in her hair down as she did and freed the long spill of dark gold curls. All while batting those long lashes and biting playfully on her plush bottom lip with her teeth. That little wildcat knew what she was doing to Aubrey… and he’d had just about enough of resisting.

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