I swear I can hear the smirk in the sound.
“Tomorrow?”
Caine’s eyes linger on my face as his lips curve up. Just a little. Just enough for my breath to stutter and warmth to wiggle its way down
etween my thighs.
Caine’s eyes curve over the edge of my fingers, and something soft, warm, and wet flicks against my palm. I shiver and jerk my hand back, cursing myself for my gutter brain and being incapable of life–ing properly around this man.
“If you aren’t concerned about your health, I can always stop,” the sanctimonious bastard says like he’s actually inspecting me for lumps and bumps.
I yelp.
His hand slides over to the gear shift doohickey on the side of the steering wheel and my pulse goes ballistic.
Who’s insisting? Who’s insisting?! I didn’t climb into his lap–he put me here!
my bones. He chuckles again, the sound vibrating through his chest and straight into Then he leans over, his chest pressing against my body, his scent wrapping around me, and one of his hands… disappears. Somewhere. Doing something, but not me.
I blink.
I did. I did mean to say it. My entire body’s humming with denial and refusing to accept ownership of the words currently coming out of my mouth.
“Mate?” he offers, his chest all rumbly and the thing down below getting… mm, yep. Harder.
His mouth opens and he says calmly, picking right up where he left off, “Fuck?”
“No, I didn’t mean–um, that wasn’t supposed to come out. I meant, how was your day?”
Yes, please, but also wait, no, not yet.
But what comes out of my mouth instead is a little squeak, because something is hard and growing under my thighs.
“Don’t worry. I’m not doing anything to you,” he says, like his hands haven’t already swooped under my shirt and finagled their way under my bra strap, only inches away from my now–aching nipples.
My eyes close without my permission as I suck in a deep, grounding, responsible and so not in the gutter breath. “It was an accident. The kids are awake and Randy’s still inside. I definitely didn’t mean to say that.”
My dazed stare finally lifts as I replay his words in my head. Then I jerk upright a little.
“That wasn’t what I called you in for, but if you insist-”
His fingers are long and lean, with well–defined knuckles, and I never understood the idea of hands being sexy until now, with my eyeballs glued to them and various not–safe–for–work memories dancing around in the memory core of my brain.
No, you’re not. You’re not doing anything. Your hands are just sitting there and not playing at all and this is so not fair.
If the pack had a tabloid, we’d be front page, headline news.
Oh. Right. That’s what I wanted. Because… of curious eyes.
“Since you insist on sitting here, I needed to make space,” Caine says calmly.
“Ah,” he drawls, and something hot and electrifying lands on my hip. Then my other hip.
But no one else can watch. Only me.
Why does he smell so good? There’s got to be some sort of science to mateship.
Then I’m unceremoniously yanked into his lap, and my ass hits his steering wheel with a startling honk.
“I’m not opposed,” he says, officially opening the flood gates even as I try to tell myself him being okay with calling me a sex toy is totally not a turn–on.
Nope. Still firmly in oh my God we’re doing it again territory and my brain has migrated down south for this event.
“Sex toy?” I rebut, trying and failing to have the courage to meet his eyes.
Does he mean we aren’t going to do anything-?
“That’s not what I meant!”
Now that he’s obediently quiet, I pull my hand away, giving him a stern, don’t you bring this conversation into the gutter look.

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The readers' comments on the novel: Grace of a Wolf (by Lenaleia)
I really like the story and the characters of this book. I hope it's completed or will be soon, not dragging over and over....
What kind of trouble? What was the trigger for Brax's anger?...
Caine is her mate and he adores her, she shouldn't fear him like that and above all shouldn't show the kids that she's afraid 😮💨...
Not convinced this lie is a good idea. Too many variables that could make the plan go wrong: Andrew's loyalty? He knows Grace and Caine are mate. The kids? You're teaching the kids to hide or lie on something......
It's so funny how quickly Caine adopted the kids 😊...
The big Lycan king with a baby in his arms....Jack-Eye will so much laugh at the sight 🤣🤭...
Because me being always the rational person I am, who overthink everything always wonder: do you have that many clothes to afford ripping them off each time? Making them dirty with fluids? Certainly you won't go around like that!?...
She's slowly managing to control the energy flow 🥳 but how slowing it has a worse effect on him?...
On the other end, he should tell Grace why he is preventing the kids, especially Bun, to have contacts with her....
Cain's suddenly so funny I his daddy mood. He definitely must not leave again and stay with "the family" to keep his mood stable! 😊...