was just your animal pushing you and your wave riding you.”
“It was,” she admits. “But...I want you too.”
My dick is about ready to punch through my pants.
“What do you need?” I ask.
“What do you mean?”
“Bathroom? Shower? Shiny shit?”
Her mouth curves up, and I’m reminded just how fucking cute she is. Her hair in a tangled mess, my shirt is hanging off her like a dress, and there’s a bit of chocolate in the corner of her mouth. She’s so damn sexy in a natural, adorable way.
“No, I’m good. Except I see you’re wearing my lug nut,” she says, gesturing to the chain around my neck.
I glance down at it and then cock a brow at her. “Your lug nut?”
“Mm-hmm. You’re wearing three again. Which means you took back the one you gave to me in the cafeteria.”
“You dropped it in the gym when you were trying to jump me, and I didn’t give it to you. I just let you hold it.”
Her nose twitches in irritation. So. Fucking. Cute. “You totally gave it to me,” she insists, holding out her hand. “I want it back.”
“Do you now?”
She nods, but she must see the gleam in my eye, because her face flushes. I hear her pulse pick up its pace. I want her. I want her so fucking bad.
A grin creeps over my lips, and all I want to do is grab her face and take her mouth again. “Tell you what, Mousey, if you’re a good girl, I’ll let you borrow the whole damn chain.”
She perks up at the idea of getting all of them, even though she tries to suppress it. “Good girl?” she repeats.
I nod, inching even closer to her. “Tell me the truth. Why did your rat keep coming to my room?”
The color on her cheeks deepen. God, I love how easily she blushes.
“My rat likes you.”
I guessed as much. “And you?”
She swallows hard. “I like you too.”
I’m so fucking relieved to hear that because now I know for certain that she didn’t just send out a mate-call without thought. She and her rat chose me, and that makes me and my animal smug as fuck.
It’s stupid, but I feel a sense of satisfaction because of it. She picked me, right from the start. Hell, she broke out of the damn sanctuary to get to me. That’s some commitment right there.
A shudder comes over her, and I see the change in her body, and her back arches slightly. Her nipples pebble beneath my shirt she’s wearing, and her breath quickens.
“Another wave is coming,” I guess.
She nods, shuddering again, and her hands fist the bottom of the shirt.
I take in a long breath and groan. “Fuck, Mousey. Your scent is mouthwatering.”
Heat sex is the best sex you’ll ever have, and that’s a fact. All those pheromones the female puts off, the scent, the primal need to fuck... It makes everything so much more intense.
“Luca.”
“Yeah?”
“I need you.”
And because I’m a dirty bastard, I want to hear her say it. “You need me to what?” I ask.
She narrows her eyes on me, but she answers. “I need you to fuck me, okay? I need your friggen cock in my pussy, or you’re going to piss me off.”
A smirk comes out at the boldness of her words. “Such big filthy words for such a small mouse.”
She glares at me. “I am not a damn mouse,” she seethes. “I’m a goddamn majestic pack rat!”
Oh God, she is too fucking adorable.
“My mistake.”
Her whole body shudders again, her mate-call erupting out of her, and this time, it’s like her body just sent a surge of pheromones out to drown me—like it’s pissed I still haven’t fucked her, so it’s going to make me mindless with lust.
It works.
I hiss, my animalistic instincts taking over like the flip of a switch. Reese sees the change and launches herself at me.
Unlike when she did it in the gym, this time, I don’t try to keep her away. Instead, I catch her around the waist at the same time that she wraps her legs and arms around me.
With her pressed up on me for the third time, writhing against me and smelling like sin and sex, my rut instincts totally take over.
Drawing my hand up to tangle in her brown hair, I fuse our mouths together. She doesn’t open at first. Instead, she keeps her lips soft and supple, but closed, as if she’s punishing me for taking so damn long to give her what she needs.
I pull