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Paige watched with amusement as he wolfed down six slices of
pizza in as many minutes. “You always did eat like a wild beast,” she teased.
    She didn’t
know the half of it. Shifters burned an insane amount of calories even when
they weren’t active simply because they had such dense muscle mass.
    “Gotta keep
up my strength. We’ve still got the rest of the night to go.” He replied, his
impossibly blue eyes lit up like that of a mischievous boy.
    Paige arched
a brow. “I don’t remember inviting you to stay.”
    Caleb reached
under the table, his fingertips slowly etching up the inside of her leg before
gripping her skin tightly. Instantly, her pupils dilated and her breathing
picked up. “I’m sure I can get an invitation out of you.”
    “How do you do that?” She captured his hand in hers and propped it up on her knee before
he could go any further.
    Caleb chuckled.
“Chemistry.” He stood up, stopping behind her chair so he could settle his
hands on her shoulders. “And you have the same effect on me,” he murmured in
her ear as he kneaded her shoulders with his strong, masculine hands.
    “Don’t you
know what you do to me, with those sexy green eyes of yours and that luscious,
curvy body? I’m going to spend all night wringing every single drop of pleasure
I can from you. You’ll say my name so many times you’ll forget your own.”
    “You’re a
cocky bastard,” she said breathlessly, tilting her head back for a kiss as his
hand trailed downward. “Are you so certain I’m going to give you what you
want?”
    “Yes,” he replied
without hesitation, his voice a deep growl, “and you’re going to love it.”

 
     
    Chapter Three
     
     “I’ve
found his weakness,” the man murmured into the phone as he watched the shifter
and his woman from the rooftop. “A human woman.”
    “Really?” His
master laughed. “What a complete and utter fool. He should know better than
that.”
    “Do you want
me move forward?”
    “No, not just
yet. He’s too strong. Wait until the woman is alone, or at the very least away
from him.”
    The man
swallowed back a retort—he’d taken on shifters before, and won. But he
was a soldier at heart, and he followed orders. “Yes sir. I’ll keep watch.”
    “Take the
night off,” his master suggested. “Just be back by seven a.m. sharp.”
    “Are you
sure?”
    His master
chuckled. “Yes. Caleb will not be leaving that woman’s house tonight.” His
voice darkened. “But if you don’t have that woman delivered to me, alive, by
nightfall tomorrow, I will personally make sure that you are punished.”
    There was a
click, followed by a dial tone, and the man stared at his phone for a moment
before flipping it closed and shoving it into his pocket. He would do the job.
After all, it was what he did best.
     
    *
     
    When Paige
woke at 6 am sharp, Caleb was already gone. She tried her best to swallow back
her disappointment as she struggled out of bed and into the shower. After all,
it wasn’t as if they were a couple. They’d simply had a wonderful, long,
uninterrupted night of mind-blowing sex. No big deal. Right?
    Please,
girl. You know you were having happily ever after visions in your head when it
finally hit the pillow last night.
    Sighing, Paige
leaned her head against the wet tile of the shower and closed her eyes. It was
true. And maybe she was getting ahead of herself by allowing her imagination to
run wild like that. But really, was it too much to ask for a little more
courtesy? He could have left a note, at least. What kind of guy leaves in the
middle of the night like that, unless he’s sending a message that he’s done
with her?
    Maybe he
is. Maybe to him, this was just a one-time deal.
    She certainly
wouldn’t put it past him. After all, he’d made a career out of keeping the
distance between them since their freshman year in high school. The first time
she’d seen him standing in front of his locker and struggling with