His cock jumped against her core, wanting inside her. Now. He settled his stance to keep them balanced. “You’re not going anywhere for the next week or so, when we head to Seven headquarters.” The team would need to meet and decide on a plan of action, depending on the decisions made by the Realm nation. But they had this week to heal and rest, and they needed it. Why was Grace talking about Colorado?

“Sure I am.” She caressed his arms, pinched his wrists, and rubbed her palms back up. “I promised Bobbi I’d be there for Rose’s baptism, and they’re gonna need help. Brian is having surgery.” She pressed both thumbs against his collar bone. “Why are we talking about other people while naked in the shower? Let’s concentrate on us.” The last was a purr.

He’d love to concentrate on them. Every nerve in his body, every predator’s instinct, demanded he take what she was so generously offering.

They could talk later.

Yet he had to be straight with her. “No.”

She stopped her exploration, and her gaze snapped up. “No? You don’t want to concentrate on us?” She wiggled her butt, stroking her wet heat across the tip of his dick.

His control started to shred faster than a log in a woodchipper. “Oh, I want this,” he rumbled honestly. “But I also want you to understand what I’m trying very hard to say.” The words were difficult to form when all he had to do was shove forward, and he’d be surrounded by her.

She sighed, need in the sound. “How about we talk after? This is going to end up with us fighting, and I’d rather do that, you know, later.”

So would he, but that wasn’t how he worked. “I feel like I have your attention now.”

“You feel?” she snapped. “Well, that’s a new one.”

Apparently the fight would begin at once. Steam rose around them, cocooning them, even as tension began to permeate the fog. “I’ve never hidden who I am, nor have I ever given you an idea that you’d come and go freely while there’s danger out there.”

“I’ve come and gone fine the last five years,” she said, her clit pulsing against the head of his cock.

“That was before you all but announced where you were to the Kurjans,” he retorted. “It was also before you willingly committed to being my mate. Welcome to matehood.”

Chapter 34

Chapter 34