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could get it from anyone. And Pamela had told
    her that Gabe thought she was getting under his skin. What worried her right now was
    that Stone would be stubborn enough to deny that he had feelings for her.
     
    Stone looked at her and tingles rushed over her flesh. His expression was hard but
    she didn’t miss that possessive look. He’d liked how she’d chased them away. She
    knew he had.
     
    “You going to chase away any bitch who might be by my side?”
     
    “Damn straight I am,” Ali spoke before she could think about it.
     
    She fisted her hands, turning toward him. Stone glanced over at her, suddenly
    looking amused. Ali realized at that moment that they weren’t heading toward her den.
    Instead, Stone turned up the mountain. Her heart skipped a beat. He wasn’t taking her
    to her den, but to Gabe and Pamela’s den.
     
    “And what are you going to do when I leave?” he asked.
     
    Ali’s heart sunk to her gut. “When you leave? When are you leaving?”
     

 
    “Don’t know.” It was hard to tell but she thought she smelled amusement.
     
    Stone pulled the truck in front of the small cabin and parked. When he opened the
    truck door, he didn’t grab her and pull her out on his side. Ali scooted toward him
    anyway, wondering if he might be in more pain than he let on.
     
    “Then why did you ask?” She climbed out, standing right next to him.
     
    Stone looked down at her and then ran his hand through her hair, tangling his
    fingers and then pulling so her head fell back.
     
    “Because, little bitch, you are digging your claws in deep.” He didn’t sound overly
    disappointed about that.
     
    “You knew I was lying when I denied being a virgin,” she began and he tugged
    harder on her hair. “I could have fucked at least a handful of werewolves before I meant
    you. None of them were worth my time.”
     
    “Don’t be so sure that I’m worth your time.” His grip pinched her hair at her scalp.
     
    The slight pain he inflicted made her muscles ache to grow, to take him on for
    implying he wasn’t worth the fight.
     
    “Don’t tell me a big bad wolf like you gets nervous about the thought of taking a
    mate.”
     
    His expression hardened and a muscle twitched next to his mouth. He pushed into
    her until she was pressed against the side of the truck.
     
    “What makes you think I’m looking for a mate?”
     
    She reached up, brushing his hair from the side of his face. Her fingers lingered
    over the strong pulse in his temple. Never had she seen a sexier, and more dangerous-
    looking, werewolf.
     
    “Usually when you aren’t looking is when you find just what you need,” she
    whispered.
     
    Stone leaned into her, pressing his weight against her so that the cold metal of the
    truck soaked through her clothes.
     

 
    “You think I need you?” He nipped at her neck and then ran his tongue down to
    her collarbone.
     
    “God. Stone.” She couldn’t pull her head forward.
     
    He still had his hand clamped against the side of her head.
     
    “There’s a lot about me that you don’t know,” he breathed into her neck, sending
    chills rushing through her.
     
    “I’ll learn,” she told him, her entire body turning into a pulsing nerve ending.
     
    “Then what will you do when I strip you down and give you to Gabe?”
     
    Her heart exploded in her chest, and then quickly rose to her throat.
     

 
    Chapter Eight
     
     
     
    Gravel popped behind Stone and he pushed away from Ali, deciding a moment for
    her to digest his direct question might do her some good.
     
    Dreams had plagued him ever since he’d met this feisty little bitch. Sharing her
    with Gabe, watching her take both of them, turned him on more than it had with any
    other bitch. And in truth, other than with Pamela, it had only happened twice before.
    Each of them had found a bitch in their past, thought she might be the one, and then for
    whatever reasons, it hadn’t worked out.
     
    Damn if he knew why he

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