I barely registered the lift ride, and then we were slamming into our chambers, but he didn’t stop there, he took me straight into the bathroom and set me down.
“Grayson?”
He wouldn’t look at me. Instead, he turned on the shower.
“Grayson, look at me.”
“Take off your clothes and wash him off you,” he growled through clenched teeth. “Do it now, please, Fee, before I lose my shit and tear his head off.”
I wanted to explain that he had the wrong end of the stick. That Uri and I had only slept together, not slept together. But he was on a knife’s edge, the beast warring for control, and I needed to remove the trigger.
I stripped quickly and got under the spray of water. His shower gel was at hand, so I lathered up and began to wash, heart thundering in my chest like an epic storm.
So far, I’d seen many sides of Grayson, but this…This was new. It was frightening and exhilarating, and I was so totally fucked up. I caught movement through the frosted glass of the cubicle, and then Grayson slid back the door and stepped in with me. He pushed me up against the wall and pressed the length of his powerful body to mine.
“You fucked him?”
“No. I didn’t.”
“He reeks of you. He said he slept with you.”
“He did sleep with me. Sleep, Grayson, not fuck. I sleepwalked off the pinnacle, and he saved me. He was making sure I didn’t do it again.” I kept my gaze locked with his. “We kissed. That’s all. Nothing else happened. I wouldn’t take that kind of step without speaking to you first.”
He gripped my jaw and forced me to look up at him. “But you want him. Your heart wants him.”
“I care about him…More than a friend.”
His chest rumbled. “And if I say no. What if I say you can’t have him?”
I swallowed the lump in my throat and blinked back hot tears. “Then I’ll understand, and I’ll let him go.”
His harsh, punishing expression softened. “Dammit, Fee.” And then he kissed me.
I was expecting a punishing kiss, bruising even, but it was soft and pleading and filled with longing.
I wound my arms around his neck and pushed up on tiptoe to kiss him back properly. He tasted of bacon and coffee and something sweet I couldn’t put my finger on. I devoured his mouth with teeth and tongue, raking my fingers through his wet hair and pulling him closer. The water battered against our skin, blocking the world out as he hoisted me up, wrapped my legs around his waist, and entered me. A gasp tore from my throat as he filled me, and he pulled back to lock gazes with me. His hand went to my nape, gripping firmly.
“Mine,” he growled. “Say it.”
“Yours.” My voice trembled with need as he flexed inside me. “Grayson, please.”
“Please, what?”
“Fuck me, dammit.”
His gaze dropped to my lips, and he rolled his hips against mine.
My moan barely kissed air before he captured my mouth in a bruising kiss. And then he began to thrust, hard and fast, pressing me up against the tile, trapping me there and branding me with the heat of his arousal. This was a claiming our Loup understood, and my body spiraled fast, eager, and ready for release.
“Mine,” he growled in my ear as he came. “Mine.”
“I wanted to hurt him,” Grayson said. “I would have torn him to shreds and I don’t think he would have fought back.” He shook his head.
“He’s a good guy.”
“I know that, but the beast doesn’t care about how good a guy is if he’s carrying its mate’s scent.”
“I’m sorry I put you in that position.” Guilt was a boulder on my chest bringing tears to my eyes. “I feel awful.”
He gathered me to him and kissed the top of my head. “Don’t. This thing we have, it’s new to us all. We’re all adjusting and learning, but the premise hasn’t changed. We all love you, and we want to make you happy.”
I pulled back. “But I made you unhappy. That isn’t fair.”
“I wasn’t unhappy. I acted on instinct. Loup don’t like to share.”
“But you do it for me.” I stared at him in wonder. “You all give yourselves to me fully, and it’s time I do the same. No more. Our family is complete, and my heart belongs to you guys. There will be no one else.”
He sighed. “Fee, that isn’t how it works. You can’t shut