"What did you mean about expanding your territory?" She was holding up a blue bikini and trying to decide whether it should go or stay, while purposefully not looking at him. "Just that. My territory has gotten bigger over the years." Dani dropped the bikini into the suitcase and turned to look at him. "How?" She asked seriously. "What do you mean how?" His lips curved upwards in a half smile. "Exactly that. How did your territory 'get bigger?'" She said the last two words in a mocking tone, making it clear that she wanted him to lay the explanation out in simple terms. "Well, when I see something that I want, I take it." He pushed her back against the bed as he said the words, leaning over her slowly and breathing in the clean, delicious scent of her skin. His body ached for her, and his wolf paced inside of him, begging to take her, but he refused, instead only reaching out and tracing her cheek lightly with his finger tip. "I've wanted a great many packs that I have come acro
She saw Luca's shoulders tense. He turned, his eyes entirely black. "I told you to wait with Lars." He growled the words. "And you should know that I don't do what I'm told. Even by you Alpha." "Oh she's perfect for you, Luca." An absolutely gorgeous blonde, in a tiny blue satin teddy appeared in the doorway next to Luca. She ran her hand across his chest and he flinched away, a growl escaping his lips."Enough Lyra." "You must be the famous Dani. I am Lyra Harding of the Bear Moon Pack." She smiled sweetly, looking at Dani with enormous blue eyes through her long dark lashes. "Lyra." Dani said her name in the exact tone that she usually reserved for Luca's title and Luca laughed, meeting his little mates eyes. "Now that you're here Dani," he said, holding out his hand to indicate that she should come to him, let me show you our quarters for the flight, if we want privacy. I'm going to have to get one of the flight attendants to change the sheets," he frowned at Lyra and turn
"Don't call me that." Dani snapped, keeping her voice low and pushing her hands further down into the soft lining of her jacket."What, Kitten? You don't like that name that now?" He reached up and touched a strand of hair that had fallen free when she was struggling in the arms of his third in command and he didn't miss the small, involuntary movement when she winced away from his touch. "No. I don't. I think Lyra does though." Luca's eyebrows jumped up a fraction. "She used it when she was mocking me earlier. I don't need a second hand pet name." "Don't let Lyra play mind games with you, Baby." He drew in a deep breath and frowned. "Are you hurt? Did Teo do something to you?" Dani turned away, looking out the window as Luca's eyes turned black.She shook her head. "No. He just kept me from going out after you." "I can smell blood. Please, Dani, let me help. Show me what happened." Slowly she pulled her hands from the smooth lining of her jacket, exposing the cuts were her
Dani woke up to find Luca's arm wrapped tightly around her waist, clasping her against his chest as he snored lightly near her ear. He was snuggled up to her back and as she squirmed trying to move away from him he didn't loosen his grip. Instead he pulled her closer and she felt the bulge in his boxers growing hard against her ass with every tiny movement that she made. "Luca," she whispered, not wanting anyone in the front of the jet to hear her. "Luca, wake up." He took a deep breath, pressing against her again, harder, his hands running up under her shirt, leaving a trail of sparks in their wake as they found their way to her breasts. "You aren't wearing a bra?" He murmured sleepily, his lips brushing lightly against her ear. "I'm surprised you didn't notice earlier." She replied as he tweaked her nipples lightly before running his hands back down over her smooth, hard stomach, enjoying the feeling of her tiny waist. "I guess I'm just a gentleman." He bit her earlobe gently as
"Someone did that to you?" He settled next to her, pulling her close and nuzzling his face against the back of her neck. He felt her nod slightly. "I'm sorry. And I'm sorry I had to pull away. I was close to shifting." "I know." She whispered the words. "I probably shouldn't have mentioned it while we were on an airplane. It's probably not the best time to get into it." She untangled herself from his arms so that she could turn, looking up at him through her long dark lashes. Luca saw fear, real fear, reflected in her eyes for the first time. "You know Dani, there's nothing that you can tell me that's going to make me stop loving you. I'm not going to reject you. You are mine. And I am the luckiest man, and the luckiest wolf, on the planet." She smiled weakly, but the smile didn't reach all the way to her eyes. "You wanted to know why I don't heal like a normal wolf?" She asked abruptly, her brow creasing, her eyes dropping to stare at her hands, which she brought up between them
"We're home." He nuzzled her ear and she stretched, blinking as she stared out the window in surprise. She couldn't believe she had slept through the jet landing."What time is it?" Dani rolled onto her back, wiggling her toes and staring up at the ceiling before turning to look at him. She really had no idea how long she had been asleep."It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon. But only because we gained an hour by moving over a timezone. You slept through lunch." Her stomach growled loudly as if in agreement with what he had just said. "But I thought I should let you sleep. You've been through a lot." She narrowed her eyes at him and he shrugged. "In the last twenty four hours I mean. Actually it's been less than that. Isn't it strange to think that twenty four hours ago my plane had just touched down yet on your old pack's land? And we hadn't even met."Bending he brought his lips down against hers lightly, so that sparks flooded her body as his mouth brushed by, knowing how it would l
"You can tell her it's a G-class." His mouth was on her neck, his canines grazing the spot he longed to mark, then and there on the airstrip.Luca felt her body arch towards him with desire, her head tilting away, the moment he came near it. Her legs were around him, pulling him towards her core, and he ground against her, through more layers than he would have preferred, his wolf urging him to sink his teeth into the spot and claim his mate once and for all. It would make it much harder for their Luna to run.But that wasn't how he wanted this to go.With a small sigh he took a step back, pulling away from her, as he tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear. "You have no idea how much I want to take you right now, to take you right here on the hood of this car.." She bit her lower lip when he said the words, turning to gaze forward as he slammed the door shut."Oh, I think I have some idea, Alpha." She whispered, running her hands impatiently up and down the leather of the sea
Dani stood before him, wearing nothing at all, and Luca found that he was breathless, his heart pounding in his chest as he stared at her waiting on the edge of the lake, her long dark hair flowing down around her shoulders. He'd promised himself that he wasn't going to have sex with her until things were at least a little bit less complicated, which meant at a bare minumum one of two things needed to happen.The first requirement that needed to be met, was that she had stopped talking about running away and that she had agreed to stay and be his Luna. He knew that the heartache of her rejection would be a dozen times worse if she did it after he had mated and marked her and so he had to try his absolute best not to give in to the hormones and natural mate pull that was telling every cell in his body to take her in his arms and have his way with her.The second requirement was that she needed to feel safe.The longer Luca spent with Dani the more he began to realize that if he coul