Tempting the Enemy by Dee Tenorio

Author:Dee Tenorio [Tenorio, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-03-07T23:42:36.436000+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Even with the hot water pelting the back of his down-turned head, Pale heard Jade’s first padded step into the bathroom. “You don’t want to be here,” he said, refusing to turn his head and look at her.

Not that he didn’t want her. Dear God, he wanted her. If he hadn’t been running on virtually no sleep the past four days, he wouldn’t have been able to sleep with her lush body pressed against every inch he had to offer her. Some inches decidedly more interested than they were allowed to be. It had taken a while, but he’d eventually drifted off, satisfying himself with the fact that she’d trusted him enough to lie in his arms. The first night of many, he decided as soon as her breaths became even and deep.

The bonding was happening, whether they permitted it or not. He knew Jade could feel it, even if she didn’t yet realize what was changing between them.

Eileen, his foster mother, used to go on and on about what it would be like when it happened to them. Souls becoming one, she’d said, a dreamy look in her eye while she sewed a loose button or fixed someone’s bedraggled doll. He’d always thought her soulmate fantasy was just that, a fantasy for a lonely woman who wanted to believe that she’d know the right person for her when he walked by. That the right man wouldn’t be able to walk past.

Bonding was part of the same magic that made them shifters, and it was a gift that each of them would find, 156

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she’d always say. A gift they should look forward to.

She’d never once considered that her girls wouldn’t be safe enough to choose for themselves, or that her boys wouldn’t find a female they were willing to share their lives with.

And that was exactly what mating meant to Wolves.

A lifetime commitment, something humans couldn’t begin to replicate with their mere vows. If it were done right, the way it used to be, the imprinting would go both ways, stamping them both so that the male would be as changed as the female—infertile and impotent without her. Useless in too many ways to count. True mates lived and died together. For each other.

He couldn’t say that about himself and Jade. Not yet.

They both had other allegiances. Other responsibilities to people they couldn’t ignore. The bonding wouldn’t be complete until they gave themselves to one another, wholeheartedly, but the connection was there. Growing. They needed each other, physically, emotionally. Rejection on any level was already painful.

Soon they’d be past the point of no return. Sooner if she succeeded in opening that glass shower door.

He turned his head to growl at her.

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