Better Mate Than Never (New Adult Werewolf Romance) by Adriana Hunter

 
     
    Chapter One
     
     
    The wind was
biting cold, but Caleb hardly noticed it against his blistering hot skin.
Dressed only in a black t-shirt and faded blue jeans, he crouched on the red
tiled rooftop of the house, his golden eyes trained avariciously on the beautiful,
curvy woman who was busy touching herself in the bedroom of the house next
door.
    Sometimes he couldn’t
help but wonder if Paige knew that he watched her—after all, she made no
attempt to draw the curtains down or to shield herself from his hungry gaze. But
from the way she pleasured herself with such complete and utterly abandon, he seriously
doubted it.
    Her curly red
locks were spread across the pillow like an inviting inferno as she kneaded her
large breasts with both hands. Long, manicured fingers pinched rose-colored
nipples, and he fought back a snarl. Didn’t she realize that anybody could be
watching her? He didn’t like the idea of another man’s eyes taking in her ample
charms.
    But then, he
couldn’t really complain, could he? She wasn’t his to possess, to protect, to
pleasure, much as he wished it were otherwise. This was as much of her as he
was ever going to get… a pretty sad state of affairs considering he was one of
the most eligible bachelors of his shifter clan. His peers always looked up to
him with a certain amount of envy, thinking that he could have any woman in the
clan he wanted. It would be so much easier if only he wanted any of them… but whenever
he took one to his bed, visions of a redheaded siren with killer curves and a
wicked smile filled his head, dominating his thoughts and breaking the
connection with the wanton in his bed.
    Besides, he’d
learned from experience that a woman could nearly always tell when you were
thinking about another in your bed. As a result, he hardly ever bothered to
invite anyone into his bed, which was really playing havoc with his hormones.
Wolf shifters needed regular sex as an outlet; a shifter who was stark raving
mad with lust was not in full control, and he had no intention of letting anything
or anyone cost him his place in the clan. He was destined to be made alpha male
in only a short time if only he could get this red-headed beauty out of his
head.
    A whimper
escaped his gritted teeth as he watched Paige reach for the hot pink vibrator
she always kept by her bedside. He popped the top button on his jeans as she
slid a hand between her legs, coating her fingers in her own sweet wetness.
Because her window was open just a crack, he could hear her moans as she slid
the vibrator over her pink, glistening folds. Panting, he wrapped a fist around
his cock as he watched her body tremble, her tongue darting out to lick her
parted lips. Her creamy thighs were spread wide, and his desire to be the one
between them instead of that sex toy was so great he might have been able to
teleport himself there if he tried hard enough.
    Not that
teleportation was a shifter ability. But he could dream, couldn’t he?
    He knew she
was about to come when her eyes fluttered closed, when her hips arched high and
the hand between her legs began to rub faster and more insistently. She
screamed his name, the way she always did, and his hot seed jetted out, coating
his fingers with the sticky moisture. A snarl erupted from between his lips
before he could stop himself, and Paige’s brilliant green eyes popped open in
shock, her head whipping around towards the window.
    Fuck.
    Caleb dropped
from the rooftop, landing on the ground easily. Heart pounding, he wondered how
the hell Paige could have heard him. After having known her for years, he was
pretty damn sure she was just a human. Then again, even humans had varying
degrees of a sixth sense. Or maybe it was just bad timing.
    Besides, her
eyesight wasn’t nearly good enough to have spotted him without actually going
up to the window. He was safe. She couldn’t have known he was there. There was
just no way.
    Even so, he
let out a regretful sigh as he