I shook my head. “No, Doc. I want to spend time with you.” I leaned in, so only she could hear my next words. “With our pants on. Maybe I got a little hasty at the barn, but I won’t apologize. I really want to know you better. Is that so strange?”
She met my gaze and finished off her water. “Um, I guess not.” Her gaze dropped again. “I work early tomorrow for a few scheduled patients, but I’m free after two, unless someone goes into labor.”
I couldn’t stop the giant smile from stretching across my face. Relief was swift, and my wolf practically high fived me. “Great. I’ll see you then. Maybe you should get home and get some rest if you’re working early.”
She peered up at me like she was trying again to decide if I was speaking in code but then slid off the bar stool. I stepped back to give her room. “Yes, I think I’m ready to drive.”
“I’ll follow you home, just to be sure you make it safely.”
Understanding dawned on her face, followed by a little smirk and flick of her brows. She didn’t believe me. Dammit. I wanted to have sex with her. Now. Later. Anytime.Allthe time. But it wasn’t going to happen tonight. It couldn’t.
Trouble was, my dick had already leaped into painful action. No, that wasn’t the real trouble. The real trouble was that I wasn’t going to get him into the action. For once, I was thinking with my big head not my little one. My dick could get hard for Karen—what conscious male’s wouldn’t—but my mind only wanted Audrey, and that was a first.
My dick would stay in my pants, at least until tomorrow.
Tomorrow, once we’d had some time to get to know each other, all bets were off. I’d get to know all kinds of things about her, like if the back of her knees were an erogenous zone. If her nipples were really sensitive. If she liked to be on top or if she liked the nice deep thrust taking it from behind could give her.
I escorted her outside and into her car, then climbed in my truck and followed her home. I wasn’t going to get out of the truck. It was a bad idea. But the gentleman in me couldn’t stand not jumping out to open her door and help her out of the car.
Unfortunately, the moon was waxing, and my wolf made it hard to contain my lust for her. Her sweet scent being kicked up on the evening breeze didn’t help for shit.
“Wow,” she breathed staring up at me. “Your eyes almost glow in the moonlight.”
Fuck.
I blinked rapidly and looked away. “Do they?” I made a sound somewhere between a cough and a laugh. “Weird.”
Tell her,my wolf whispered.
That was a crazy fucking idea because telling her was forbidden. Rob wanted me to stick close to her, so we’d know if she suspected the truth, not to tell it to her outright.
Then again, mating her would be a giveaway, too, and I was already on board with that.
Mark her,my wolf growled.
I took a step back. I couldn’t mark her. Why had I not considered that until this moment? Oh fuck. She wouldn’t survive a mating bite. I could sever an artery, and she could bleed out. Even if I didn’t, it would be painful for her and would leave a terrible scar on her delicate human flesh.
I looked down at her. So small. Fragile. Perfect. She wasn’t a twig like most women who crossed my path. No, she had some meat on her bones. To my wolf, she was healthy to rear pups. To me, she had something to grab onto, to sink into when I fucked her until she screamed my name. She was all female. Her breasts were small beneath her cute top, but real. I wondered if her nipples were tiny or large, pink or coral. Upturned or flat saucers to be licked.
My wolf and I knew her pussy. Her scent, her taste, the hot, wet clench. So fucking tight. Musky.
She was staring up at me with those fathomless blue eyes, such a contrast to her dark hair. The lenses of her glasses only amplified their size, how open and trusting she was. Innocent. Perfect.
Marking her was out of the question. I could never do such a violent thing to her. I scrubbed my hand over my face. No mark, no mate. No mating, and it would just be fucking. Just what she didn’t want. I couldn’t fuck her andnotmate her.
Wait. Something was wrong here. Why would my wolf want to mate a human? Why was he so fucking insistent that she was the one? No other wolf I knew was mated to a human.
It just wasn’t done.
This didn’t make sense.
But Audrey hadn’t noticed any of my mental mind fuck. She stepped into my space. “I know I said I didn’t want a fling, but… God. I owe it to women everywhere. Are you coming in?”
Yes, growled my wolf.
My dick surged against the zipper of my jeans.
But for once in my life, I wasn’t going to screw this up. I moved slowly, so I could keep control. I didn’t want my wolf to take over, and fates knew I felt him scratching right at the surface, ready to show his fangs and embed my scent into her skin forever. I cupped the back of her head and leaned down, brushing my lips across hers lightly.