Wild: Devils Point Wolves #1 (Mating Season Collection) Read Free Page B

growing headache outweighed her desire to send Mr. bossy pants away.
    When she handed the glass back to him he refilled it and disappeared through the door. She started to stand. It should be her helping her sister not some stranger. Yet the spots now wavering through her vision and the burning at her wrist had her rethinking her decision to move.  
    "The bite burns doesn't it?"
    She jerked at the sound of his voice, surprised he'd crept up on her. "A little," she lied. It actually hurt quite a bit more than a little.
    "It's going to get worse before it gets better."
    "And you know this because you have experience with a wolf bite?" She didn't care that her skepticism showed. She was in a rinky dink hotel with a too hot to handle mysterious man who made her squirm and her drunk sister after having been attacked by a wolf in the middle of a foggy, deserted road on creep island.  
    No, that didn't sound crazy at all.
    "You'd be surprised to know what all I have experience with, little one."
    She could just imagine. The man ran a strip club for cripes sake.  
    "I would imagine that in your line of your work there isn't much you haven't seen. But I don’t see you getting a lot of wolves wandering through your doors looking for a cheap thrill."
    His right brow lifted and the threat of a real smile lifted the edges of his mouth again. "You'd be surprised what will walk through my doors."
    She rolled her eyes. Why did every word out of his mouth have to make him sound like sex on a stick? And why was she still so obsessed with sex around him?
    Remembering something he said she almost missed she looked up at him and asked, "Who is we?"
    "What?"
    "You said we'll take care of Rebel. Who is we?"
    "My brother Dante is walking over. He's bringing food and coffee too."
    "He didn't have to–"
    Damien lifted his hand and brushed the hair that had fallen onto her forehead. "Yeah, he does. You and I can't stay here and someone needs to keep an eye on your sister. So he’s been designated."
    She jumped from her perch on the edge of the tub and swayed forward. "I can take care of everything. We don't need babysitters."
    Damien hauled her against him until she was steady on her feet. "I'm certain under normal circumstances you could do just about anything you set your mind to. You’ve definitely got a mind of your own. Unfortunately, there is nothing normal about that wolf bite and you and your sister will have to face a new reality after tonight."
    His ominous warning raised the hair at the back of her neck and sent a shiver racing along her arms. This was beginning to feel a little stalkerish. "You know I get that you're Rebel's boss and all that, but you're not making any sense. What's the big frigging deal? My sister drank a little–well a lot–more tequila than she should and I'm going to need a series of rabies shots in the morning. Tomorrow's going to suck, but we'll both live."
    "You talk too much."
    "I do no–" One minute she was delivering him a piece of her mind and the next his lips were covering hers and his warm tongue licking at the edges of her mouth. So many sensations exploded in her head she didn't know what to catalog first. Maybe it was the pillow soft touch of his lips against her own? Or maybe the scent of the outdoors mixed with his cologne. No, it was definitely the scratch of his neatly trimmed facial hair abrading her skin that consumed her. In fact, the sexy rub made her everything well south of her neck tingle.
    She was still wrapping her brain around the new sensations when Damien drew back, abandoning the best kiss of her life.
    "That's much better."
    "Why did you do that?" she asked.
    "Because I've been thinking about it for too long. And," he smiled, "It seemed like a good way to get you to shut up and listen."
    She sighed. As much as her brain told her to argue and push him away, her body wouldn't allow it. "Fine. I'm listening."
    "Not in here. Let’s get you and Rebel settled and then I can