because of it, but he’s the only customer we’ve had issue with recently. Everyone else has had a great time with the reindeer visits.”
“What’s his business?”
“He’s in charge of a security systems company.”
Brooke frowned. “So he could have the know-how for tampering with your surveillance video equipment.”
“Right. But he’s more of a businessman. He was having a big Christmas party for his staff, Santa and the like. It doesn’t sound like he would stoop that low.”
Brooke scoffed. “You had a perfectly great suspect with the capability to do it and the motive—revenge—and you picked on me?”
Josh smiled and kissed her forehead. “Maybe I just wanted to see more of you.”
Chapter 15
Brooke couldn’t believe she’d climbed onto the guest bed to be with Josh and now she had asked him to join her in her own bed. Yet this seemed so right. Better than right. Amazing. She felt secure and happier than she’d ever thought she would. His body was snuggled against hers, his thigh between her legs, pinning her against the mattress—so different from when they’d snuggled before. It had been sweet then and sexy, sure, but this was…hotter, more intense, with a deeper purpose. His hand caressed her face, his gaze focused on hers.
She couldn’t help but question her sanity. Was she ready for even this much of a commitment to the wolf she’d only just met? Would she feel any differently about him if he hadn’t been there to protect her?
Her heart said that the way he had been there for her—from questioning her innocence to charming the pants off her—had endeared him to her.
“I never thought I’d be in bed with a tantalizing tiger.” Josh’s rough voice broke into her thoughts. He ran his hands over her tiger pajama top, the soft, stretchy fabric rubbing against her nipples, making them erect and sensitive and needy. His chocolate-brown eyes darkened, his expression hungry, almost predatory.
“I never thought I’d be wearing my tiger pajamas in bed with a male wolf.” But not just any male wolf. One who had fascinated her from the beginning and made her feel hot and eager to have his hands running all over her.
His darkly captivating expression turned her on, and she wanted more of his touching her, just as much as she wanted to run her hands over every muscular part of him. She pressed her breasts against his large capable hands, loving the feel of his stroking her. His thumbs caressed her taut nipples, and then he turned them so his thumbnails gently scraped over her shirt-covered nipples, and she moaned.
Her scent was aroused and titillated every bit as much as his was. She ran her hands over his face, hard angles and stubbornness personified when he wanted things his way, hot and pliable when he was giving in to her caressing touch and she was having her way.
She could become addicted to this. To him.
He slid his hands up her top and cupped her naked breasts, and then massaged them again, only this time with the palms of his hands, the friction heating her skin. Relishing the feel, she ran the planes of her hands over his nipples, soliciting a deep moan. She loved sliding her hands over the back of his boxer briefs too. It wasn’t enough to feel his toned buttocks beneath the fabric though. She wanted…needed more—the skin-to-skin contact between them. Slipping her hands inside his boxer briefs, she squeezed his firm ass.
He groaned and captured the bottom of her top, his fingers making her skin sizzle on contact. He slid the top up her body, exposing her breasts, the cool air making her skin tingle with sweet awareness. His warm, slightly fuzzy face nuzzled each of her breasts, tickling her before he pulled her top off over her head. Then he began kissing her mouth, her neck, her breasts. Every kiss made the area between her legs just a little wetter. She was so ready to have him claim her, as she would claim the wolf for her own. Though she knew they couldn’t go that far, not just yet.
Then she seized the waistband of his boxer briefs and slid them down his hips. He pulled them off the rest of the way and tossed them aside. His arousal freed, his erection poked her belly. If they’d been ready for a mating, she would have welcomed his cock thrusting deep inside her. She loved how she could make him hard with wanting.
He rocked his steel-hard erection against