Seducing Beauty by Skhye Moncrief

Author:Skhye Moncrief [Moncrief, Skhye]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2001-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

"Whoa, sweetheart." He took one step back. "It's alright. I'm alone."

Didn't he hear me? "I can see that. It is anything but alright. Go away. Or I'll shoot your mangy tail."

Those glowing amber eyes watched me.

Studied me like he tried to grasp at something. Anything to get the chance to disarm me. Not a chance. I sucked down a deep breath and waited for his next move.

He dropped his arms to his side. "I don't know what happened. But I've come to protect you."

"Then leave. You're about as safe to have around as nitroglycerin. So haul your volatile carcass out of my cave and ruin somebody else's day."

"Willow," he said softly, "I don't understand. Did I do something to turn you away? Did I hurt you?"

Admit that? Why give him satisfaction in knowing? "I never wanted you. Just go away."

Three heartbeats passed before he shifted his black combat boot sideways on the cave's dusty floor, spreading his legs farther apart. "You came to me, Willow. I gave you a gift. You gave me your body. Are you saying you set me up for this?"

What is he rambling about? "You're not the one being played." And the more he talked, the more my finger twitched against the stiff trigger.

His head wagged just enough to move his glowing eyes side-to-side. "Why would I play you, Willow?"

"To hurt my sire. Clan loyalties. I wasn't born yesterday. My Gods. Look where I am now because of you." Because of the asshole I'd grown to love.

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Boa wondered at the insanity pouring from his mate's lips. She'd lost her mind deep inside the cave's foul belly, he thought. "Willow, kitten, I spent ten years waiting just to tell you how much I love you. How much I thought of nothing but making excuses to go hunting just so I could catch a glimpse of you. Just so I could sit and talk to you. To listen to your voice. Look into those eyes that haunted me every moment I wasn't with you. Hurting your sire would only hurt you. I'd never hurt you."

Her body's red heat signature didn't change, but her heartbeat shifted from thrashing to a steady zip.

Maybe she listened. Even understood.

Her body's heat signature faded from pissed red to a cooler orange too.

But that trigger finger isn't budging. I need to get her talking. To convince her to return to Death Summit with me. "Why did you leave the necklace?"

The question set off her wild heartbeat again.

Hopefully, that trigger finger wouldn't twitch and plug me with lead.

She blinked. "It was obvious you didn't want me. That you were playing me to get to Croc."

So she thought I used her for vengeance. "What passed between us is love. Nothing more. Why did you think I didn't want you?"

"Even fully-suited in your Wolfskin, you couldn't bite me. What kind of Shifter can control his true feelings when mating in his Wolfskin?"

Nice valid point. All wrong though. "We all aren't as volatile as your sire's pack. When I left in my Wolfskin, I did so to protect you from being irreversibly marked with my scent.

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