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She cried out at the sweet invasion as he probed her cunt. Her juices poured from her.

“I want to make love to you slow and easy, Kelsey. I want to look into your eyes and stroke my cock inside you for hours on end. And I will. But not now. I’ve waited too long and I want to fuck you. Hard. Really damn hard. If that’s not what you want, then tell me now.”

She shuddered at the ferocity of his desire, relief washing over her that he wanted her as desperately asshe wanted him. She craned her neck around to meet his hungry gaze and said, “Fuck me, Jason. Takeit, just the way you want it.”

With a low growl, he turned her around, dug his fingers into her hips and drove hard inside her. Shescreamed at the invasion of his thick cock and pushed back to meet his thrusts. Her pussy quivered andsqueezed him as if determined to receive his life force.

Jason leaned over her, licking the middle of her spine and up, inch by inch, not once stopping thepunishing momentum of his cock. She felt the rumbling growls in his chest as he pressed against her back,knowing then that he had changed from a cool, poised senator to an animal driven by primal lust andneed.

She welcomed him this way, overjoyed that he trusted her enough to show her this side of him. And sherevealed herself to him, demanding him to plunge harder, to hurt her. He offered up a deep, husky laughand sank his teeth into her shoulder, his fingers piercing the tender flesh of her hips.

The pain drove her higher. A fierce howl tore from her lips as a blistering orgasm knifed through her. Shecouldn’t move except to shudder and cry out, as Jason had pinned her in place with his teeth, refusing togive her ground. Tears welled and spilled from her eyes as the painful pleasure continued. She’d no morerelaxed from the quaking climax than another came upon her. And still, he drove relentlessly within her,refusing to stop.

Her legs trembled with the effort to remain upright as the second wave arced within her. This time, hereleased her shoulder and howled into the night, pouring his seed deep inside her. His body shook as herode out his orgasm, then collapsed against her. He continued to caress her, running his hands over herthighs and between her legs, tenderly stroking her pussy until desire sparked again.

Jason lifted her into his arms and stepped from the hot tub, carrying her upstairs to his bedroom. Shewas still trying to catch her breath when he yanked the covers back and laid her on the bed, then crawledin beside her and pulled her against him.

Exhaustion claimed her, and for what seemed like only a few minutes, she slumbered. She awoke to thefeel of Jason’s fingers probing between her legs. She thought she had no more to give him, but she waswrong. Her sex dampened with each of his gentle strokes against her clit. He lazily caressed her, leaningon his elbow and watching her as she twisted and turned under his questing fingers.

“Look at me when you come, Kelsey. I want to see your face.”

No, she couldn’t. It was too intimate. And yet his gaze held hers as if by some unknown force and shelet him have what he wanted. Her eyes widened as he slipped his fingers inside her and thrummed her clitwith his thumb. She reached for his hand and drove his fingers deeper as she climaxed, watching the darksmile on his face as she cried out her fulfillment

He continued to gently stroke her, long past the time she had finally relaxed. She looked down at hishard cock, shocked to find her body responding once again.

“I can’t,” she whispered, afraid she was giving up her soul to him.

“You can, and you will. When I ask you for it, you’ll give it to me. Every single time. Not because I demand it, but because you want to. The choice is yours, Kelsey. It’s your will, not mine. You want this. You want me. You’re mine.”

She wanted to object, to scream at him that she belonged to no one but herself. But damn him, he wasright. As Jason brought her to life yet again with his coaxing strokes along her aching slit, she knew thatshe’d fallen hopelessly in love with him.

Although she hardly knew him, no matter what skeletons he hid in his closet, she wanted him. As hetook her again and again throughout the night, she gave herself willingly.

No man would ever elicit the same kind of response from her. Never had before, and never wouldagain. She couldn’t change her mind, couldn’t walk away from him, and she’d never be the same personshe was before she’d walked into his hotel suite that night.

It was already too late for her.

Chapter Six

After spending the weekend with Kelsey, Jason didn’t want to let her go. By the time they’d reached Baltimore, he’d convinced her to spend the night with him at his place, determined not to let her out of hissight until he told her the truth.

She slept peacefully beside him after a wild night of lovemaking. He smiled and stroked her silken hair,amazed that he’d found a woman whose passions matched his own. Now he just had to figure out howto keep her.

He slipped out of bed and moved to the door leading to the porch. Compelled by the full moon, heknew he’d have to leave and meet the pack. They’d expect their leader to hunt with them. Already hisbody felt the impending change, the pull of the moon a force too strong to resist. Slipping on jeans and a T-shirt, he tiptoed out the back door, grateful that the park adjoined his property, one of the mainreasons he’d bought this place.

Privacy assured them safety tonight. No one wandered outside in the middle of the night, especially in adeserted park, unless they were looking for trouble. Those hunting trouble tonight would find it.

Besides, wolfen magic allowed them to meet, make all the ruckus they wanted within the confines of the

area, and no one could wander in after they started.

Exhilaration fired his blood. Not only did he look forward to the change, but he’d also met the womanhe wanted to spend his life with. Their weekend together had been more than he’d hoped for. Kelseywasn’t just beautiful and sexy, she was smart, and not afraid to voice her opinions. He loved hersassiness. Arguing with her had been the second greatest thing about their weekend.

The greatest thing had been that, no matter what they’d been arguing about, as soon as he pulled her intohis arms and fit his mouth over hers, the argument was over. She would crawl into his arms and kiss himback, pouring out the kind of desire that he’d never thought to find with a woman. Their lovemaking waspowerful, intense, both rough and achingly tender. He’d never realized that being with one’s mate couldbe this fulfilling.

He loved her. The only thing left to do was to work through the details of telling her what he was, andhope that she was as open minded about his secret as she’d been about every other subject they’ddiscussed this weekend.

She had to accept him, because he couldn’t imagine life without her now.

No way was he going to let her go.

* * * * *

Kelsey woke with a start, turning over to reach for Jason. He wasn’t there, but his pillow was still warm. She slipped out of bed, wondering if he’d wandered into the kitchen for something to eat. As she passedby the sliding glass door, she stopped, blinking to focus her still-sleepy eyes.

Someone was in the backyard. Her heart slammed against her chest as she recognized that sexy walk. Itwas Jason, and he was heading towards the park that backed up to his property.

She glanced at the clock. Two a.m. What the hell was he doing?

He surely couldn’t be restless. She was damned exhausted from their lovemaking, which had been long,passion-filled and eminently satisfying, as always. She’d slept better this weekend than she had in years.

Even if he couldn’t sleep, no one in their right mind would enter the park alone in the middle of the night.

But sure as hell, he disappeared into the trees.

Shit. She knew she shouldn’t follow him, but dammit, this was just too weird. Curiosity won overcaution and she hurriedly threw on her jeans and shirt, sliding her feet into her tennis shoes as shebounded out the door.

The park was a short distance from the back door, but she sprinted anyway, not wanting to lose him inthe winding trails and dense woodland. She sucked in a breath of courage as she plunged headlong intothe darkened woods. Though the full moon offered enough light, once she’d entered the park the talltrees and dense foliage prevented her from seeing much.

She couldn’t hear any sounds to indicate in which direction he might have gone, so she tried to stay onthe trail, hoping she’d run into him or at least figure out what he was up to.

A niggling feeling of foreboding came over her. She shouldn’t be here. Something bad was going to

happen.

Jason, dammit, why are you in here? What could you be doing? Whatever it was, it wasn’t something hewanted anyone to know about. Nobody came to the park in the middle of the night. Nobody.

She should turn around and run back to the house and forget she ever saw him heading to the park. Sheloved him. Shouldn’t she trust the man she loved?

A rustling to her left caught her attention. She froze, unable to move an inch for fear that someone wouldpounce on her. But after a full minute, no one came crashing out of the hedges. Then she heard it again.

Hell. Now what? It wasn’t like she’d been smart and brought some kind of weapon with her. What wasshe going to do if someone jumped her? Kick him in the shin with her Nikes?

Really, Kelsey. You’re going to have to learn to think first, react second.
 
This was stupid.

Then she guessed she’d go on being stupid, because she headed left to follow the sound, her heartpounding against her ribs and sweat pouring from her.

She’d never been more scared, nor more curious, as she tiptoed through the hedges, staying low to theground in case whatever she heard wasn’t someone, or something, she wanted to notice her.

When she got to the other side of the thick bushes, she came upon a clearing. It was as if the treetopsparted in the middle of the park to reveal the full silver moon overhead. A man stood in the center of theclearing with his back to her. She couldn’t tell if it was Jason or not, but the body type was similar.

What was he doing here? He looked as if he was waiting for someone, but who?

Fine. She’d just stay out of sight and wait, too. Damn him, if he’d had something to tell her, he shouldhave done so this past weekend when she’d sworn everything was off the record. Well, they were backin D.C. now, and all bets were off.

Pushing aside the guilt at the thought of writing anything at all about Jason’s private life, she straightenedand looked around, intent on finding a vantage point a little closer.

But when she started to step out of the bushes, a hand clamped over her mouth and she was drawnagainst a hard body behind her. Her scream was muffled as the hand held firm to her.

Just as suddenly, she was whirled around to face her attacker.

“Jason!” she cried, smacking him soundly on the chest. “You scared the shit out of me!” Her heart still

raced and she felt dizzy and nauseous. She blew in and out slowly to calm the rush of adrenaline.

“What are you doing here?” he hissed.

“Following you. What are
you
 
doing here?”

“None of your business. Go back to the house.”

How dare he tell her what to do? “I don’t take orders from you. What are you hiding? Why are youhere, Jason?”

“You don’t want to know.” He jammed his fingers through his hair, frustration evident on his frowning

face. “Well, maybe you do want to know. Christ, Kelsey, I didn’t want you to find out this way!”

“Find out…” She closed her mouth, looked at the man in the clearing, then back at Jason.

No. No way. It couldn’t be true. Not after what she’d experienced with him this weekend. “Oh God.

You’re gay.”

Jason’s eyes widened. “Uh, no.”

“Yes you are. You’re meeting that guy over there for some quickie action or something. You just fucked me for appearances, so that I’d never report the truth about you. I could be your irrefutable evidence.” The thought hurt. Way more than she’d wanted to. He’d used her.

“No, Kelsey. You’re wrong. I’m not gay. For God’s sake, were you there this weekend? You know

what we shared.”

She crossed her arms, fighting back the tears she refused to shed. “You’re a good actor.”

Rolling his eyes, he said, “Nobody’s
 
that
 
good!”

That’s what she’d thought, too. She was wrong. “Then tell me what you’re doing meeting that man overthere. If it’s not for sex, what is it?”

“It’s not just that guy, Kelsey. There are more here.”

She looked around, confused. “More what?”

“More people.”

“I don’t think so.”

“Come with me. I’ll show you.” He held out his hand and she glared at him, refusing to allow him to

touch her again. With a shrug, he walked toward the clearing. Unable to resist, she followed.

The man who’d been waiting for him turned around. She recognized him. It was Brandon King, one of

Jason’s staffers. But he was the only other person in the park. So what did Jason mean by more people?