One True Mate 5: Shifter's Rogue by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew [Ladew, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2017-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

This was more like it. Mac leaned in close, as his mate’s scent flared in the open air, that tang turning sweet as Minneola tangerines, picked fresh from the tree. His mouth watered and he leaned in. She wasn’t running, wasn’t fighting, she wanted him as much as he wanted her, it was in the lines of her body, the way she trembled as he got closer. He’d seen her glance to her left, known she’d thought about bailing, but she’d decided against it. Decided to stay with him.

She was beautiful, more beautiful than he’d ever dared hope, her eyes a warm hazel, her cheekbones high and her skin smooth, her hair so soft even the slightest breeze could pick it up and blow it against his face.

Her scent flickered suddenly, going harsh, then smoothing out. “You’re him,” she said flatly, her voice changed somehow.

“I’m anyone you want me to be, baby,” he said, leaning in to her neck, about to graze her flesh with his lips.

A sharp point at his abs stopped him. What the fuck? He looked down, and, sure enough, she had a knife teasing his gut, not bearing down enough to cut through cloth or skin, but the threat was obvious. “Seriously?” he growled. “We doing this again? You didn’t slice me up enough yesterday?”

Her eyes found his neck and he knew she was seeing unbroken skin there. Oops. First sign you are dealing with something you don’t quite understand, sweetheart?

“Don’t call me baby,” she growled right back at him.

“Got it. No baby. Now put the knife away.”

“Not if you paid me,” she spit out.

Mac raised his eyebrows, but didn’t respond. Instead, he leaned into her knife, just enough that he felt his skin pucker, then pop, then warmth spread as a bit of his blood flowed where it shouldn’t be. He caught her eyes and held them, but she was good. She didn’t let any emotion out of her cold stare.

Neither of them spoke, until he couldn’t stand it anymore. “I could take that knife from you in a half a second.”

She almost smiled. “I know you think you could, but you’re wrong.”

Something in her stare, her posture, and the way her eyes didn’t quite look at him, but instead stayed loose, taking in his body even as they maintained eye contact, told him she might be good enough to counter any move he could throw at her. He licked his lips, and, Rhen help him, he popped a motherfucking boner at the thought. He would almost be willing to let her slice him up a little bit to see what she could do.

He smiled in gracious defeat and took a step back, but when she felt him going, she sliced out wide with her wrist, but just barely forward, just enough that his shirt split open in a gaping mouth. His skin didn’t even well any blood, except in the spot where he’d pressed up against her blade. The slice had been nothing more than a warning that she really was that good.

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