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  “I don’t fuck other men,” he growled behind her.

  She turned her head to glare at him. “Neither do I.”

  She staggered into the bathroom and tried to slam the door. That’s when she realized it was broken. The lock and handle were dangling and the doorframe was busted. She saw a crack in the door next to the handle. Grady obviously had kicked in the door.

  She stripped and turned on the water. It helped sober her up but not by much. She really didn’t drink often. She took her time, almost afraid Grady would follow her into the bathroom, but he didn’t. She hadn’t brought clean clothes so she wrapped a towel around her body and walked into her room.

  Grady sat on her bed, watching her silently. His eye color had gone totally black. She saw the look on his face as he slowly took in every inch of her, from toes to head.

  Mika knew he wanted her. She hesitated and then walked to her nightstand drawer. She opened it and threw a condom at him. She shot him a glare and dropped her towel.

  “Go ahead and fuck me, Grady. It’s all you want from me.” She walked over to her chair in the corner and bent over, gripping the arms to support her balance. She looked over her shoulder at him. “Put the condom on, lube up, and use me. Don’t sugarcoat it anymore. Do it this way so I know exactly where I stand. Or should I say bend.”

  Grady snarled. He put on the condom and grabbed the lotion. He dumped it in his hand and coated his hard covered cock. He stood up and moved toward her.

  Mika turned her head away from him and squeezed her eyes closed. She tensed and then forced herself to relax as she took deep breaths. She hoped he wouldn’t hurt her, knowing he could if he wanted to, by taking her too roughly. She could sense him standing inches from her.

  “Babe,” he growled.

  “Just do it and get it over with.”

  “I’m not taking you like this. You don’t want me and you aren’t ready.”

  Mika swallowed hard and fought tears, refusing to look at him. “Do it, Grady. You need to fuck me, so get on with it. You don’t have a clue what I want, obviously. I’m here, I’m bent over, and I’m telling you to take me. Just do it so I can get away from you again for a few hours.”

  Grady snarled and his hands gripped her hips roughly. Mika tensed but Grady didn’t enter her the way she thought he would. Instead, he yanked her away from the chair and she screamed as he threw her. She hit the bed but it didn’t hurt. She stared at Grady in shock as he got on the bed with her.

  “Spread your thighs,” he snarled.

  She saw his intent. He wanted to go down on her, to get her turned on. She rolled away from him and lifted to her hands and knees. “I don’t want your face between my thighs again. Just fuck me, Grady. I’ve totally learned my place in your life. You made certain of that.”

  “What in the hell are you talking about?”

  She turned her head and glared at him. “If you aren’t going to fuck me then get out of my room.”

  Grady snarled and moved to his knees behind her. One hand squeezed his cock and his other hand gripped her hip. “Do you really want me like this, babe? No foreplay?”

  She turned her head away and shut her eyes. No. She didn’t. She wanted him to love her. She wanted him to care enough about her that the idea of someone else touching her made him furious. She wanted him to never—

  He entered her slowly. All thought left her head.

  Mika bit her lip hard. She should hate the feeling as Grady pushed into her from behind, but she didn’t. She fought the urge to moan. He was working his cock into her slowly and he buried himself balls-deep, where he held still. One hand wrapped around her waist and the other slid between her legs to her clit. It was the hand he’d slathered with lotion.

  He stayed still inside her while he rubbed her clit. “I can make you want me,” he growled.

  “I hate you,” she whispered.

  His hand stilled then his fingers moved faster and firmer until Mika couldn’t fight the sensations anymore. She moaned and wiggled on his hand. Grady groaned and started to slowly thrust in and out of her. With the sensation of him inside her and his fingers rubbing her clit, she only lasted a few minutes before she came hard.

  She cried out but she refused to say his name.

  Grady released her clit and gripped her hips. He pounded into her from behind, hard and deep, as her muscles inside still clenched and fluttered from her climax. He didn’t last long, either. He shook and groaned loudly as he emptied his seed into the condom.

  Mika tried to crawl away from him but Grady refused to let her go. “I’m sorry I upset you.”

  “Let me go, Grady. Get out of my room and don’t come back in here until you need me again.”

  “You like sleeping with me.” He withdrew from her body and released her hips.

  Mika crawled to the edge of the bed and stumbled to the bathroom. “That was before I knew how you really felt about me. I’m going to go wash again. I feel dirty.”

  She’d barely turned on the water when she heard a howl of rage come from her bedroom. Something heavy smashed into something else. She felt a little fear as she inched toward the bathroom door and eased it open.

  Her nightstand was across the room in pieces and the wall it had hit was damaged. Grady wasn’t in her bedroom.

  She turned, easing the broken door closed again, and moved to the shower as hot tears fell down her face. She didn’t even bother to wipe them away. She doubted her words hurt him as much as his had hurt her.

  Chapter Eleven

  “We need to talk.”

  Mika ignored Grady. She glanced at her watch instead. “We had sex an hour ago. We have nothing to talk about for at least another hour.” She moved around his large body and walked into the kitchen.

  For two days she’d refused to talk to him except for unavoidable, clipped exchanges. She’d stopped trying to keep things cold in the bedroom. Grady was stronger and bigger. He’d easily pinned her down and done things to her to turn her on. He loved to bury his face between her thighs. She just wouldn’t talk to him, and right after sex, she’d shower his scent away and refuse to stay in a room with him.

  “Damn it, Mika. We can’t go on like this.”

  She shrugged and opened the fridge. “I’ve already told you I don’t want to talk to you.”

  “You’re being childish.”

  She clenched her teeth and then removed a premade chicken Caesar salad from the fridge. She ignored his insulting remark, not wanting to fight with him. She walked to the table and sat down with her lunch. Sighing, she got up, went back to the fridge and grabbed a soda and then a fork before sitting down and starting to eat.

  “Mika, damn it, we can’t live this way.”

  She swallowed her bite. “Is mating season over?”

  “Not yet.”

  “Then this is how it is. It’s been clearly explained to me that we’re stuck together.”

  He sat across the table from her and glared. “Are you ever going to forgive me for suggesting Eric be with us in the bedroom?”

  She sipped her soda. “You said a threesome. There’s a world of difference between a threesome and voyeurism. You were going to let that prick fuck me. No, I’m not going to forgive you.”

  “I never pegged you for a prude.”

  She looked up at him then. “I never pegged you for a complete asshole with the intelligence of a turnip, since you’re too dense to get why I’m so damn upset and angry with you.”

  “Then explain it to me slowly since I’m so damn stupid,” he growled.

  “I thought I already had.”

  “I don’t get it.”

  “Is there a woman in your life, any woman at all that you feel protective of? Maybe a sister or a mother figure?”

  He blinked. “Yes. One of the families that raised me had four daughters. They’re like sisters to me.”

  She nodded. “Good. Now imagine one of them ending up with a creep who wanted his pal to fuck her too. Think long and hard
about it. Is that a happy thought for you? Is that what you want for your sister?”

  She saw his eyes darken. “That’s totally different.”

  “Really? How?”

  “I’d kill any asshole who touched one of them if he wasn’t mated to her. No mate would ever let another male touch his woman.” He frowned. “But we’re not mated.”

  She sighed. “You’re never going to get it. I’m done trying to explain it to you.”

  She continued eating, sensing he was watching her but she didn’t look up. When she finished lunch, she threw away her trash and turned to leave the kitchen.

  “I miss seeing you smile and hearing you laugh,” he said softly. “I miss how it was.”

  So did she. She paused in the archway to the living room. Grady knew how to get to her. She took a deep breath and turned to meet his gaze. “What do you want me to say? You hurt me, Grady. Am I supposed to forget that? Am I supposed to just get over it?”

  “I wish to hell you would. I want to sleep in your bed again, and I don’t want to have to feel as though I’m forcing you to want me every damn time I touch you.”

  “How long is mating season still in effect?”

  “About a week more, but it’s hard to tell since it’s not an exact science. It’s more to do with it being summer and…hell, I can’t explain it. We have about a week left.”

  She wanted it to be the way it had been between them, too, before he’d brought Eric home with him, but this time she wasn’t going to let herself get hopeful he’d fall for her. She slowly walked toward him.

  “If you ever suggest another man to me, I won’t care if you go crazy and they have to put you down. I’ll run, Grady. I will run so far and fast, do whatever it takes to get away from you, and I’ll stay away from you. Are we clear?”

  “Perfectly.”

  She stopped in front of him and held out her hand. He reached for it and stood up. She led him to her bedroom and released his hand. She licked her lips and looked up at him as she kicked off her shoes.

  “We have a week left. Let’s make the most of it. Just don’t ever try that shit again, all right? I’m not some bitch you can pass off to one of your friends.”

  “It wasn’t like that.” He looked furious. “I’m afraid I’ll hurt you, damn it.”

  “So fucking another guy is going to keep me safe?”

  “Yes,” he growled. “It will remind me that you’re not mine to keep, so I don’t mate you. The urge is so strong that you’re in danger, and Eric could protect you, so yeah, I’d let him fuck you if it meant you were safe from me. I’d do anything to keep you safe.”

  That shocked her. She wanted to ask him if the idea of mating her was really all that awful, but she held her tongue. She knew he had emotional scars from being punished by his father’s wife Eve, for being half human. She realized, from what had happened to her own parents, that a human and werewolf mating wasn’t easy on any couple in a pack. She knew that Grady wanted and needed to be accepted by them.

  Grady stared down at her. “I want you to want me without fighting me on it. I need you to really want me, babe.”

  She stripped out of her clothes. “Wanting you isn’t the problem. Needing you is.”

  He cocked his head. “Why? I need you.”

  “You need me until next week. Then you won’t need me anymore. I’m afraid I’m still going to need you, damn it. I’m…” She sighed. “I’m getting attached, Grady.”

  An emotion flickered over his face but then it was gone. “I can’t ever mate you, babe.”

  “So you’ve told me.”

  He stripped naked. Mika was always affected by his muscular, sexy body. He was perfect, he was Grady, and she loved him even though she hated it. She couldn’t stop caring for him, even if he’d never feel the same way about her.

  She moved backward and then climbed on the bed. She stretched out naked on her back and held her arms out to him.

  “Take me.”

  Grady growled at her, his eyes going black as he climbed on the bed. Mika spread her thighs wide open. She wanted him to touch her. She wanted his hands and mouth on every part of her. She wanted to touch him back, and she did as he climbed over her. Her hands brushed his chest and she ran her palms up to his shoulders. Their eyes locked as she lifted her head.

  “Kiss me. Make me forget everything but you and me right now.”

  Grady lowered his mouth and took possession of hers. She loved the way he kissed her. No one ever kissed her the way he did as he fully possessed and dominated her mouth. His tongue moved against hers the same way he moved inside her when he was buried deep in her sex. She moaned and clawed at him. She knew he was holding back. She could feel it. She broke the kiss.

  “Give me what you have, Grady. You aren’t going to break me. I promise.”

  He snarled a curse and then rolled them so she was sprawled on top of him. She sat up, straddling him, and lowered her head. She went for one of his nipples with her mouth. He groaned as she sucked on him and nipped his pebbled nipple between her teeth. He jerked under her.

  “Don’t,” he warned. “I’m holding on to my control by a thread. No biting.”

  She kept hold of his nipple and raised her eyes to meet his black ones. She nipped him a little harder.

  He snarled, showing sharp teeth, and then rolled them again. In a heartbeat, she found herself pinned as Grady entered her hard and fast. She cried out in pleasure as he buried himself deep in one sure drive of his cock. Their gazes locked.

  “I’m going to fuck you, babe. Hard. I’ve missed you so damn much. I’ve wanted you to look at me like that again so bad…you have no idea what it does to me.”

  “Please.”

  That was all it took. Grady’s cock plowed in and out of her, powered by his frantically driving hips. Mika threw her head back and moaned loudly. She wrapped her legs high around his waist to give him plenty of room for easier access. Her fingernails dug into his muscular arms while she clawed at him.

  Grady shifted his position and drove in at an angle that had her feeling a new level of pleasure. The faster he moved, the better it felt. When Grady arched his back and lowered his head to capture one of her breasts, she lost it as he sucked hard on her nipple. She came, screaming his name.

  Grady’s release exploded inside her. She felt hot heat shooting deep inside her as he snarled. With every spurt of his release, he sucked hard on her nipple, causing her own climax to drag out. With one last spasm, when she felt pain from how hard he sucked on her nipple, she went limp under him.

  Grady released her breast and collapsed on top of her. He adjusted his arms to brace his upper weight so she could breathe. It was the only movement she could manage with his bigger body pinning her under him.

  The sweat tickled between their bodies and they were both breathing hard. Mika couldn’t help but smile. She rubbed his back and paused at the hair she felt there. “You okay?”

  Grady’s entire body turned rigid. The afterglow of great sex was suddenly destroyed as he growled and started to viciously curse.

  “Fuck. Damn it. Goddamn… Fuck!”

  He rolled away from her, his still-hard cock jerking from her body. He was off the bed in a shot—and then he went crazy as Mika watched.

  She lifted her head, stunned and horrified as Grady actually attacked one of her walls. He punched and kicked the wall so hard that plaster cracked and broke off. She saw the insides of her walls as he continued to destroy them.

  She sat up, staring at the man who’d obviously lost his mind. “Grady?”

  He turned, pure rage burning in his black eyes.

  She drew back in real terror. His face was partially changed. The teeth were sharp and dangerous looking. Grady threw back his head and literally roared out in rage.

  Mika fled. Terrified, she leapt from her bed and ran from her room to the guestroom. She slammed and locked the bedroom door. She didn’t know what was wrong with Grady but he was scaring the shit out of her
. The look in his eyes when he’d roared at her had been ice-cold and filled with fury.

  It sounded as though he were tearing her bedroom apart. She heard wood snapping and things being thrown. She hugged herself hard, shaking, and wondered what the hell had happened.

  Something wet tickled her arm under her breast. She looked down and saw red on her arm and on her breast…

  Mika stared in shock as she realized what she was seeing.

  Sharp teeth marks and three puncture wounds on her breast.

  She cupped her breast, and it hurt. She examined the underside of her nipple, where she found more bloody punctures.

  Her knees collapsed under her. She sat there, stunned. She yanked her hand away from her breast as if she were on fire. She heard something smash in her bedroom as more wood splintered. She closed her eyes.

  It all made sense now. “Oh God,” she whispered.

  Grady had bitten her breast, drawn blood, and she knew what it meant when a werewolf bit a woman during sex. He hadn’t used a condom either.

  He’d lost control, just the way he’d feared.

  She’d felt hair on his back and he’d had sharp teeth, so he’d been partially changed during sex. He was freaking out and in a rage in her bedroom because he’d done the one thing he swore he’d never do.

  He’d mated himself to a human. He’d bitten and mated himself to Mika.

  Her breast was still bleeding. She felt a drop of blood splatter on her. She stared at her naked thigh and another drop marred her white skin. She heard Grady continue to roar his rage down the hall and glass broke.

  Mika pushed to her feet and ran for the bedroom door. Grady was still down the hall in her room. She wasn’t sure if there was anything left to break in there, but it sounded as though he were trying, from the loud noises she heard.

  She ran into the hall bathroom and stared at the bite marks on her breast. She turned on the water as she kicked the bathroom door shut.

  Grady was going to hate her. He was going to resent her, and every day he was going to look at her the same way he’d looked at her when he’d leapt from the bed.

  She squeezed her breast and pushed out more blood, forcing the wounds to bleed. She washed her breast, splashing water. Maybe he hadn’t bitten her hard enough. Maybe the blood had pushed out whatever saliva had gotten in. She scrubbed the wounds with soap, ignoring the pain. Maybe the mating hadn’t taken.