next night and the next. He hadn’t planned on coming tonight. It was foolish of him to visit the dog. What if Lena caught him? But he was drawn to Otis and took as much comfort as he gave. But now that Lena was taking him home, he wouldn’t be able to spend nights with his little buddy.
He wondered if she’d take Otis to work or leave him at home. If it was the latter, hopefully her home security system would be just as poor as her office security.
He turned to walk back to his truck. She’d looked good. She’d looked good when he’d used the security cameras to watch her at Lupo’s. Okay, he admitted to himself. He’d been spying on her. He’d been back in Harmony a week and had done everything to find out how she was and what she was doing except actually see her in person or talk to her. He’d been stalking her online for a very long time, even going to far as to create a fake Facebook identity and friend her and the clinic a few years ago so he could see her photos and see what she’d been up to. It was sad, almost pathetic really, but he’d been unable to stop. He needed to know if she was involved with anyone.
She had plenty of photos of her with her best friends Penelope and Ginger, but none with any men except the occasional one with his brothers. Since he got back, he knew that she still slept with them periodically, but they’d told him how she was keeping them at an emotional distance and wouldn’t come near them on full moon nights, not that anything permanent could be established at that time without his participation. However if Joe or Will bit her on a full moon night, then she would be caught up in an uncontrollable arousal that would last until the sun came up. It would be the same if he bit her, but his brothers did not like what happened the night before he left. But from what they’d told her, it seemed that Lena had decided never to lose control like that again.
He wondered if there had been many other men in her life during the years she’d lived away from Harmony. He knew about her broken engagement to a doctor, a human he presumed.
Lena was of wolf-shifter blood. The women of the bloodline didn’t shift themselves, but they were drawn to men who did, and generally had relationships with all the men in a family. He and his brothers had grown up knowing that, one day, she would be theirs. He’d taken that commitment for granted and expected her to just blindly submit to his will and wait for him. He’d made his decisions without any consideration for what she wanted or even what his brothers wanted. What kind of crappy Alpha was he? He was supposed to care for his brothers and his mate. Instead he’d fucked up all of their lives.
She looked good on the security monitors. She looked even better in person. The ten years looked good on her. She was most definitely a woman now. She was still fit, but her breasts looked bigger and her ass lusher, or maybe that was just his faulty memory. She wore her hair shorter, probably because it was practical for work, but the pixie cut looked good on her. It still amazed him that she worked with all sorts and sizes of animals, considering her slight five foot one, but she was of wolf-shifter blood, so she was definitely stronger than the average woman her size.
He felt his dick stir at the memory of what it was like to hold this taut little body under him and pound into her as she came apart in his arms. He remembered the last time they’d all been together, the night before he’d left. It had been the first night of the full moon, and she’d, hell, his brothers, too, they’d all wanted to do the mating ritual. He’d convinced the three of them that the third night of the full moon was the most powerful, so that night, only he had given her a mating bite. That had caused her to become almost overwhelmed with arousal, but would wear off when the sun rose.
It was the most sexually satisfying two nights of his life. She’d been insatiable,