Once Bitten by Heather McCorkle

Author:Heather McCorkle [McCorkle, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Select Otherworld; werewolves; werewolf; paranormal romance; romance; pnr; shifter; shifters; Heather McCorkle; teacher; student; teacher/student; forbidden love; norse; viking
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Select Otherworld)
Published: 2017-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

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That calm, happy place of meditation would not come to me today. Well, at least the calm part would not. The happy part, that was another problem altogether. Watching the sunlight play across the silky black strands of hair blowing across Sonya’s closed eyes made parts of me all too happy.

Something new and wild was awakening inside her and the more it awakened, the more my wolf side was drawn to her. Much more than my wolf was drawn to her. Had it been only the wolf, I could have fought it easier. But fight it I would. I had to. Her brow furrowed after a while, and I had to resist the urge to kiss the wrinkles away.

“You are scowling,” I said in my non-meditation-inducing tone.

Those gorgeous eyes of hers slowly blinked in the bright sun. “Scowling?” she asked in a lazy tone.

“Um-hum. Meditation is supposed to be relaxing,” I chided.

A bead of sweat rolled down the side of her forehead along her hairline. Gods, how I wanted to lick it from her skin. Thor give me strength, or else I did not know how much longer I would be able to resist. I knew how wrong it was, and on how many levels. But why did it feel so right? Every part of me ached to kiss her.

“Well, my mind has too much to think about to relax. Besides, it’s hot, makes it hard to.”

Head cocking to the side, I looked up at the sun. “It cannot be much above seventy. What you are feeling is the alteration of your body temperature.”

She fanned herself. “What do you mean?”

“We varúlfur run hotter than normal people.”

One eyebrow rose into her dark hair as her gaze skittered across my bare chest. The attention threatened to give my lower abdominal muscles a workout. “Hotter?” Her breathy voice guaranteed it.

I took a moment to gather myself so I did not pant like an animal. “Much like canines run hotter than humans, so do we. But it is more than that, it has to do with the atoms in our body moving and rearranging themselves.”

After a long drink from the water bottle sitting in the grass beside her, she nodded. “That actually makes sense.”

I offered my hands to her and she grasped them both. Her small, soft hands gripped mine with a strength that thrilled me. Together, we rose as one, each helping to pull the other up. With a thrust of my head, I indicated the direction of the lake. “Shall we go for a swim?”

She groaned, a reluctant and completely sexy sound that made my blood pump south. “I don’t have a swimsuit.”

Head dropping, I gazed at her from beneath my brows—well, as much as a six-foot-five man can at a five-six woman. “No need, it is a private lake. No one will be there but us.” I told myself it was only to help her get used to life as a varúlfur. The problem was, I was a terrible liar, even to myself.

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