As her words hit me, they distract me. She tackles me. Putting her full force into the hit.
We roll, both fighting for the top position.
She’s strong. Stronger than she’s ever been before. But I’m stronger, bigger, faster. And I have years of honing my wolf and alpha strength on her.
I pin her beneath me. She’s going to have to work smarter to beat me. I’m not going to just give her the win. Find a way to get Kael back, to win against me. She can’t use her pure strength.
Suddenly, she shifts. The strong, muscular wolf’s body shifts in an instant to her bare, naked, womanly form.
Fuck.
I try to scramble off her before I crush her. But I can smell her. Touch her. I haven’t been this close to her in too long and I…
I shift without thinking. Wolf to vampire. Because, as much as I miss being just human. I’m not just human.
She pins me to the ground, straddling me at my waist.
I suck in a deep breath.Fuck, I should earn so many awards for not touching her and fucking her senseless right now.
She smiles down at me, her lips curling in a she’s won victory.
I don’t think so.
But then I feel it. The sun’s rays flay my skin in a searing, merciless heat. Combined with her thighs pinning me to the ground, I truly can’t move.
She’s won.
And then, as if it’s not enough, a zap of magic hits me hard in the chest. Reminding me to keep my hands off what’s his.
“Fucking asshole,”I say in Ambrose’s mind.
“Keep your hands off her.”
“You win, love. You win.”
She sucks in a harsh breath. Watching in horror as my skin starts to bubble from the intensity of the sun. If she doesn’t move me soon, I’ll die. A few more seconds, maybe a minute at most. But if this is how I’ll die, I’ll die the happiest man with the most beautiful woman in the world, naked, straddling me.
She realizes what’s about to happen and rolls us out of the sun quickly. Until I’m now that one on top of her, our bodies pressed firmly together. But the sun has made me incredibly weak. I can’t move even if I wanted to.
“You’re going to have to move me off of you, love,” I say.
But before she can move, Ambrose’s magic has me on my back.
I chuckle. He really is the type to get so possessive and jealous.
“You’re free,” I say to Kael. Who instantly shifts and runs over to Lumi’s side.
“You okay?” he hovers over her.
But she waves him off as she stands over me, looking down at me like she’s not sure what to make of me. But I see the heat in her eyes. The look that tells me exactly what she wants to do to me, even still. I see her wandering eye dip at the growing appendage between my legs.
I smirk and then say words that I know will cut her deep enough that she’ll let me go, “You still look at me like that, love, even though you know I’ve been in another woman’s bed.”
And then she slaps me before walking away without another word.
I sigh, closing my eyes, the smile never leaving my face. Lumi’s an alpha. She’s stronger than she’s ever been. Maybe she’s strong enough to survive after all.
Chapter 19