Enticing His Mate: Joshua & Clover (Protected by the Pack Book 3) by Christa Wick & C.M. Wick

Author:Christa Wick & C.M. Wick [Wick, Christa & Wick, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-23T18:30:00+00:00

14

Clover

I left the bathroom with one towel wrapped around my hair and another engaged in a heroic battle to conceal my curves. Joshua was nowhere in sight. Neither were my clothes. Everything else was as I had left it. Phone on the table, shoes on the floor. The bed was made, a second blanket folded in a tidy square at the end. Grabbing a pillow, I tossed it on the couch then snatched up the spare blanket.

Avoiding the bed, I sat on the couch, pulled the blanket up to my chin and leaned against the back cushion. I stared at my phone. It was within arm’s reach, but there was no one I wanted to talk to at that moment. I would receive warnings, platitudes, recriminations. I would get no better than Joshua had offered in the shower, although it was hard to imagine anything worse.

Going into the woods had been stupid. But fleeing Joshua was sane. All he was capable of offering me were games. Cruel games. I had always known that about him, even after I outgrew the instant terror that having a cat around me had produced in those first years after I settled in Night Falls.

Hearing footsteps approaching the bedroom door, I laid flat on my side, burrowed into the cushions and pulled the blanket up to cover my face. Hearing the doorknob turn, I closed my eyes. My nose and ears took over.

Shifter. Cat. Joshua.

“I would appreciate it if you didn’t get my sleeping spot all wet,” he said, his voice returning to its default level of boredom.

I took a deep breath, the infusion of calm shutting down my impulse to unleash my wet hair all over the sofa.

I felt his hand near my foot, then the blanket was snatched away before I could grab hold and fight to retain it. The towel around my body unraveled a second later as he dropped the blanket and gave the terry cloth a sharp tug.

He was shirtless and barefoot, someone else’s jeans wrapped around his lean hips.

With a snarl, I stood up and rounded on Joshua. I didn’t care if I was bare assed. I was not going to let him toy with me without lashing out. As long as I was fighting, I wasn’t surrendering.

“I think I finally figured it out.” I tapped a finger three times against the center of his forehead, my bare breasts bouncing against his hard chest. “Feline spongiform encephalopathy. Mad Cat Disease.”

“You’re right, I must be crazy.” Joshua slid around my naked body to sit on the end of the bed. “I’ll have to remember that when your brother asks how I disciplined you.”

I turned, my thoughts clouding with fury as I jabbed a finger at the bathroom. “That fucking bit of water torture wasn’t it? Having to spend another single second in your presence isn’t enough?”

He rose from the bed, his movements too slow to alarm me. With a quick maneuver, he captured the wrist of my outstretched hand.

“You have many transgressions, catnip,” he said, my brain slow to process the warning in his tone.

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