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"Mason!"
"Mo as the pup, who’d spontaneously transformed into his furry broolf shape, ed up in a four-ared Silvia to her side "You did well, sweetheart" She’d used her head, hadn’t lost her courage even when the comm had been answered by an unexpected low to the rich brown of her skin "Sorry for interrupting you and Walker"
"How do you knoas Walker?"
Srin, Silvia tapped her nose "I’ a kiss a while back"
Then the teenager was gone in a shi at the scent of dark water that held a thousand secrets
"I’h she knew their love was steel strong, would never bend or break, her heart ached as she wondered if he would one day tell her those secretsor if part of him would remain forever closed, forever a mystery
Texture of Intimacy Chapter 2
DUCKING INTO HER quarters on their return, Lara glanced at Walker, a lingering trace of anxiety in her gut at the idea of never quite knowing this man who touched her deeper than anyone else ever had, or would again "I could shower here," she said, feeling unsure for the first tio find the children" He closed the distance between theaze direct
"Do you want to?"
"No" It ca to be separated fro her senses each time she became consciously aware of it
A quiet smile that shattered the anxiety, made her stomach clench, her toes curl "I’ve never shared a shower before," he murmured
She wasn’t certain how shefrom hers Because she knew that look in her mate’s eyes It was the same one she’d seen before he decided to "explore the concept of oral sex" Walker’s version of "explore" had left her an incoherent, tre, pleasured pile of Lara-shaped jelly
The ain in the shohen he ran soap-slick hands over her body andsex standing up Not that Larapinned to the wet tile by her s locked around his lean hips and hot water cascading over them both while they "explored" the hell out of the concept
Unsurprisingly, it took her extra tiet dressed after they exited the shower, her body boneless "For so a kiss to the center of his naked back before he pulled on a fresh shirt, "I never expected you to be so physical" So very de in that quiet, determined Walker way that er under her bra strap when she circled around to his front, an easy, affectionate caress "I have a lifeti her closer with a pull on the strap, he ran his hand down her back
"With you"
Oh, man She really stood no chance "Stop that" It ca less than firhtest fraction, as if listening "Yes, I think we’d better go collect theh, and answered the question she’d been about to ask "Neither is in distress, but they need to be back with fareement, and it only took her a couple more minutes to pull on fresh jeans paired with a thin sweater in her favorite shade of green "Let’s go," she said after slipping on her sneakers
Toby, who appeared to have grown an inch since the last tier any question that he’d end up as tall as his uncles -
hugged her with thin but strong ar a ball around outside, his joy in theirunhidden "I’m really happy you’re our family now," he said "Even that first day in the infir, I was never scared of you" Words poignant with entle Like my mom’s"
Tears burned the backs of her eyes
"She loved you very ht for hiift had sucked her under A gift her child had inherited, his eyes the night sky of a cardinal, white stars on velvet black
But Toby would never have to deal with his ability in isolation - physical ornetwork of family, other Psy, wolves, and leopards "I hope you’ll let me love you, too"
Toby’s smile eetwith a fine, fine hint of ht just turn into a hellion juvenile one o f these days "You already do - you love all the pups in the pack I can sense it" He hugged her again, whispering,