Total pages in book: 29
Estimated words: 28245 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 141(@200wpm)___ 113(@250wpm)___ 94(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 28245 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 141(@200wpm)___ 113(@250wpm)___ 94(@300wpm)
“Which one?” I’m going to be there every day, eating ice cream and watching out for my girl. Good thing shifters can’t get fat or I’d be huge by the fall.
“Scoopy Loopy’s,” she says with a laugh. “I have to wear this ridiculous hat with big ice cream scoops made from felt. Still think I’m a classy broad?”
I smile as I watch her laugh. “I told you, I’ll always think that.”
“You haven’t seen it yet,” she says with a chuckle.
“And school? What are you studying?”
She tells me all about her classes and I listen intently, trying to memorize every word as we pass the wine bottle back and forth. My girl is a smart one. I could listen to her talk for hours.
“I love philosophy,” she says with a wistful look in her eye, “but how are you supposed to get a job in that unless you’re a professor? I don’t know… There’s still so much to figure out. My grandfather wants me to go to law school, but I really don’t want to. I still haven’t told him…”
“He’ll understand.”
“You think? Grandpa likes to be in control of everything. Even his grandkids’ future.”
“We’re in control of our future now,” I say, wanting to be close to her like we were on the platform. “Come. Let’s go gaze at the stars and start that future now.”
I let her go up the stairs first and then I follow closely behind. She’s swaying her ass with each step and it’s hypnotizing me and my bear.
My bear growls, urging me again to mark her.
Do it, he demands. Mark our mate!
I growl back at him. Fuck off. Let me try to kiss her first before I sink our teeth into her neck. You don’t know anything about women!
He huffs out a breath and slinks back down. He’s still an asshole, but the difference between him now and back at the party is lightyears apart. He’s not trying to claw his way out. He’s not snarling in my ear. There’s no more hate and fury ripping through my body. He’s like a normal freaking bear.
Is this how it is for feral shifters when they meet their mates? They really can change…
That’s going to mean so much for the future of the AFA. How can we continue executing feral shifters when they’re capable of this kind of sudden change?
I can’t even begin to think about this now. I’m with my mate for the first time and all of my focus has to be on her.
I shake all those thoughts out of my mind and fill them with Mindy as we settle back onto the platform, this time passing a half-empty bottle of wine back and forth.
She’s not looking as nervous. Maybe because we’ve been talking for a while, maybe it’s liquid courage, or maybe she’s starting to see that we really are soul mates and she has nothing to be nervous about when it comes to me. I already love her unconditionally.
“What do you think is on this one?” she asks as she zooms in on another distant star.
“Hmmm,” I say as I look at it. “Definitely an alien world where everything is made of candy.”
“Like Candy Land?” she asks with a laugh. “When I was a kid I always wanted to go live in Chocolate Mountain with Gramma Gooey.”
“I think you’d fit in just perfectly,” I say as I step in close. “You’re so sweet.”
She looks up at me under those thick long lashes and my cock aches. She’s got these big Bambi-like hazel eyes that kill me every time.
“I bet your lips taste like sugar,” I whisper as my hands slide back onto her hips. This time she doesn’t squirm away. She moves in closer. Her breasts touch my stomach and I nearly let out a moan.
She licks her lips as she looks up at me all innocent and pure. “Try them and find out.”
A possessive growl rumbles out of my throat as I lean down and kiss her. Fucking hell, she does taste like candy…
I tighten my grip on her hips and hold her against me as I slide my tongue into her mouth, claiming it as my own. She moans as she kisses me back with all the urgency I’m feeling.
Our first kiss is soft and romantic at first, but it quickly dissolves into a wild, passionate, and shamelessly hungry kiss. I can’t get enough of her. I grab her jaw and tilt her head up to kiss her deeper. She grabs my jacket with her fists and pulls me against her.
Fuck, this girl is going to be the end of me…
She’s standing on her toes as we kiss with so much passion and heat that I’m worried we’re going to combust. I sink my hands into her soft hair as she moans into my mouth.