“Your eyes. Why are they glowing two colors? They’re beautiful.”
She inched closer, forcing him to bump into a neighboring patron’s table. He threw out a hand to steady it before he answered. “It’s nothing. A shifter thing.”
She reached out to settle her calming touch on his shoulder, letting a calming power pour from her to him but before her powers had a chance to could work, he jerked back.
Ouch. That burned. She lowered her hand to her side and swallowed the hurt.
Fine. Whatever. She didn’t have time to be rejected again anyway. She knew lines when she crossed them, and she had no intentions of crossing any more lines with the alpha.
Sadie went to sidestep the man and leave him to his corner before she embarrassed herself any more, but was brought up short with his hand over hers.
With a sigh, she angled her head to the side and asked, “What can I get you this evening, Mr. Montgomery?” Her eyes trained on the man and forced all emotions from her expression and tone, but she caught the flicker of heat in his eyes at the use of his surname.
“Look at me, Sadie.” He leaned in taking up all the space in front of her. The tip of his nose almost touched hers, demanding her gaze meet his. Her heart tripped along, quickening her breath.
Standing with her phone in one hand, her other in his, she followed his quiet command.
“You need to know I’m sorry about last time.” He ran his free hand through his tousled hair in frustration. “It’s hard to explain, but I want you to know I didn’t mean to hurt you.” His gaze roamed over the half-filled bar before returning to meet hers.
“And Sadie.”
He tightened his strong hand over hers. Not in a way that caused pain. No, Aidan would never hurt her. But she could feel the force of his wolf in his touch. And despite everything between them, she liked how possessive it felt.
His voice pitched low as though he only wanted her to hear what he was about to say and his dual-toned gaze locked on hers, “Unless you want me to forget your laws, never call me Mr. Montgomery again unless you want me to do unspeakable things to you that would leave you blushing come morning.”
Before he released her hand, he traced his fingertips along the tender flesh of her palm.
A rush of sassy comebacks flitted across her mind, but she swallowed them back and settled with the truth. “We tried that, remember? You walked away.”
Still, temptation rode her hard to accept the challenge he’d dangled like bait between them. A craving unlike any she’d felt before consumed her and all she could think about was pressing her lips to his. And that was just for starters.
She inhaled the warm scent of a male who preferred the outdoors to city life. Pine and soap with a hint of aftershave that stroked a woman’s libido to smoldering. Flames blasted her core and rocked her to the verge of blowing her stopper. Whoa. What the heck?
Sadie’s cheeks flushed along with everything else. The potion. It had to be. But she’d only swallowed a drop. Tonight she’d be having a little personal time with her new vibrator and would remember his intoxicating smell and how good it felt to be this close to him again.
She shifted her weight, and he narrowed his eyes at her before he answered, “We both know why I had to walk away. One person spotted you letting a werewolf eat you out on your bar and there’s no telling what your Circle would do to you.”
Despite the small, humorless grin on her lips, her heart sank. He was right.
Shaking off the sweeping sensations that filled her body, Sadie answered in a silky tone, “Yeah, it’s complicated. No worries. Really. I get it.” She paused for all of three full seconds before letting his name roll off her tongue like fine bubbly champagne over chocolate-dipped strawberries. “Mr. Montgomery.”
Oh, look. Challenge accepted after all.
His eyes intensified from the low jewel-tinged glow to full-on, heart-stopping, melt your panties. A low rumble in his chest told her she was skating on a fine line, and it edged her closer still. Her heart thundered in her ears, but she couldn’t help herself.
“Besides,” Sadie settled an open palm on his chest and rose to her tiptoes to whisper in his ear, “I think you’re all talk, wolfie. Scared of a little witch like me?”
“Scared? Fuck no.” He cupped her cheek. “I just don’t want to be the cause of pain for you.”
As he talked, she trailed her lips over the shell of his ear and pushed a tiny bit closer until her candy-hard nipples pressed against all that hard, delicious muscle.
Thick arms wrapped around her, and she melted into his body like she had the last time he held her this close.
Tingles of her magic surged through their connection and knotted in a bundle of nerves between her legs. Oh, goddess, it felt so good that she could come from the simplest of sensations he stirred in her.
In front of the few patrons she had, he fisted a hand in her hair and angled her lips a whisper away from his. His nostrils flared and the muscle in his jaw ticked in time with her heartbeat. Soft twangs of music and the rumble of Sleepy Briar’s citizens faded away until there was only Aidan and her, all remnants of their last encounter dashed away, her mind focused on the now. She licked her lips, and his hungry gaze locked on her mouth.
She wrapped a leg around his waist and fuuuuck! His hard cock pressed against her throbbing pussy and she cursed the clothes between them.