Luke stepped in behind me. I was between them. Not quite a sandwich, but almost there, and when Luke started to purr too, I damn near passed out. “Daisy will reschedule them as soon as I give her a call. Not the first time someone has canceled something because of an unexpected heat. Besides, we have artists banging down the doors to do guest residencies. I’m sure we can find someone willing to do one on short notice, and they’ll be fucking thrilled.”

“Where’s your suitcase?” Kade asked. “Grab only the things you need and don’t stress about it. If you forget something, we’ll get it for you.”

“Um, it’s in the closet out there by the landing.”

“I’ll get it.”

Luke’s arms slid in around me, keeping me in place and locked against his purr. He was hard against me, and his lips brushed my neck under my ear, causing every fucking cell in my body to perk up and say hello! My nipples were in the state of hardness that would fuel a million tabloid headlines, and I was wet. We weren’t to slick stage yet, but fuck my body wanted to go there.

I still had some time, but once my heat perfume started? Man, I was in trouble. They already responded to my scent just as strongly as I did to them, and the perfume of heat was at least double in strength.

My body was a puddle under Luke’s attention and the way he was lazily kissing my neck, moving down to where it met my shoulder. “You’re distracting me so I don’t second guess it, aren’t you?”

“Partially,” he admitted.

“What’s the other part?” I gasped as his teeth grazed my skin, and my whole body flushed with want. How many times had I lost myself in an orgasm imagining I was being bitten and claimed? Pinned down and taken by someone who loved me and wasn’t afraid to give me what I needed and take what they wanted.

I knew bonding was off the table during this heat, and that was good. But I wanted it more than I’d ever be able to tell them. Bonding was what I’d always wanted.

“I very much like touching you,” he said quietly. “And tasting your skin might become my new favorite hobby.”

My whine was loud and needy, and everything about Luke became more intense. He held me tighter, his purr stronger, and he kissed a path back to my ear, leaving tingles in his wake.

“And the final part,” he said. “Is that we see you.”

“What does that mean?”

He spun me in his arms so I was still pinned against him, but all of his handsome face was visible to me now. I wanted to run my hands through his sandy brown hair, trace the lines of his nose, and taste him, too.