Marked (Primal Obsessions #2) - Cara Wylde Page 0,36

with both arms. Jack’s mere gaze on him was raising goosebumps on my skin. “I think we got everything, no?” I asked Nancy, then without waiting for a reply, added: “I think we should get going. It was nice seeing you again, Jack.”

I was so desperate to get away from my ex-husband that I nearly forgot I had a cart with groceries and a hungry man coming home later that evening. Nancy grabbed my arm and redirected me to the cashiers.

“Who was that? What’s gotten into you?”

“My ex-husband,” I said, and she seemed to understand. I insisted on calling him my ex, although we weren’t divorced. She glanced back at him, and it occurred to me how odd it was that Jack had just let us go like that. He was leaning against the meat refrigerator, watching our small group like a hawk.

Thirteen

Colt

If there was something I was truly good at, it was making friends. Wherever I went, it was easy for me to connect with people. So, when I got into the city, I went straight to the only club I knew was owned by bear shifters. No human was allowed inside, and the big, burly bouncers at the entrance made sure the rule was respected. I wanted to lose myself in the music and the booze, and I was determined to spend every single cent I’d made in the months I’d played the part of the good, decent guy. Before I knew it, I was surrounded by females. I was fresh meat to them. Bear communities tended to be small, so there weren’t many choices if one wanted a one-night stand. I went for the tall, beautiful brunette. She had shoulder-length hair, green eyes, and an angular face. Full lips that I instantly wanted to taste. And she let me. She let me do much more than that. We ended up in a secluded booth, with her onto my lap, my hands squeezing her ass, her tongue down my throat. She knew what she wanted, and I wasn’t going to complain. She bit my lip, rubbed herself against me, but something wasn’t right.

She was so sexy I could die. Yet, I wasn’t hard.

Before she noticed that she wasn’t doing it for me, I pushed her off and looked into her eyes.

“I want to take you home,” I said without thinking.

“What?”

“Yeah. Let’s go right now.”

“Like… home to meet your parents?”

I laughed out loud. “My parents are dead.” Well, the truth was that I didn’t know for sure. They’d abandoned me when I was just a cub. But it was easier to think about them as dead and gone.

“Oh, I… I’m sorry.”

“Nonsense. Let’s go.” I jumped to my feet.

“You don’t even know my name,” she giggled.

I cocked an eyebrow. If that was important… It wasn’t, but whatever. “What’s your name?”

“Fiona.”

“I’m Colt.” I offered her my hand, and after a second of hesitation, she took it.

“I like your dreadlocks,” she said as she followed me out of the club.

I grunted in response. Even as I opened the car door for her and she got in, I couldn’t pay attention to her and what she was saying. She kept babbling about her friends, her job, and how she hadn’t been on a road trip in forever. It was late. Probably so late that it was actually morning. The sun would rise in a few hours, and I knew I would probably reach the trailer park sometime in the afternoon, so I needed to hurry. I jumped behind the wheel and started the car. Beside me, Fiona cheered in excitement.

As I drove, I wondered… why couldn’t I just pull over and fuck Fiona’s brains out? That was what I should’ve done. That was why I’d run away in the first place. What the fuck was wrong with me? I couldn’t get it up. Fiona was pretty enough, and she was eager as hell. She would’ve sucked me off right now if I asked her to. She would’ve shoved her hand down my pants even as I was driving, and she would’ve jerked me off.

I felt nothing. My cock was asleep, completely uninterested in the scantily dressed female next to me. I could smell her arousal, her juices soaking her practically non-existent panties. Her pheromones did nothing to me. My dick didn’t react unless I thought about…

Rosalie.

“Fuck.”

“You okay?”

“Yeah.”

No, I wasn’t okay. The simple thought of the human female, of her tits, her cunt, her mouth made my cock twitch. I was mildly hard now,