Marc (Bowen Boys, #4)(32)



“You should just go to bed, Anita. Take a long nap, and when you wake, you’ll feel much differently.” She shook her head. “Please, Anita, I need this girl. She’s going to make me a very wealthy man.”

“I don’t care about you and your damned money. I only agreed to help you so that I could get close to her so I could kill her. And I’m going to kill her too. Dead.” She stood, reached her hand into her pocket, and pulled out a gun, and his entire body went on alert. “With this gun right here. This is the one her cunt of a mom killed my brother with, and then she just stepped over him like he was nothing. Nothing. Oh yeah, she’s dead all right. Dead. Dead. Dead.”

She moved out of the room, still waving her gun. When he heard her go up the stairs, he let out his breath. Christ, she was going to hurt him if he didn’t do something about her soon. And he would have to make it permanent.





Chapter 11


There was something incredibly sexy about waking next to a naked woman. He supposed that he being naked as well helped. Rolling over so that he spooned in behind her, Marc licked along her shoulder. Christ, he could get used to his.

“You’re supposed to sleep late. Isn’t that what you said when we went to bed?” She looked over her shoulder and smiled at him. “It’s not late yet. It’s only five in the morning.”

“You woke me. It’s entirely your fault I’m awake.” He rocked into her ass and heard her moan. “See? That’s why. You’re just way too sexy to let lay there all warm and cozy.”

She rolled to her belly, and he over her. Sitting up and straddling her thighs, he ran his finger up her spine and back down. She responded by moaning his name, and he leaned down and kissed her.

“How about a massage?” She moaned again and he rubbed his hands up her ribs and down her back. “You’re very beautiful even like this.”

Moving up over her ass so he could reach her shoulders, he began digging his fingers into her muscles. She wasn’t tense, but she was firm, her body tone, as well, defined. Bringing her arms down, he rubbed her bicep, digging his fingers deep into the muscle and then down to her forearm and wrist. He took her fingers and rotated them, pushing his thumbs deep and hard. Then he repeated the same process on her other side.

Her back was next. Down her spine and up he worked her scapula, his thumbs digging again until she was putty. Her ribs beckoned him, and he leaned down and nipped at her tender flesh. Moving down to her thighs, he ran his hand over her lovely ass.

His cock ached to be inside of her as he pulled and dug at her muscles. He could smell her arousal so strongly that he could swear he could taste it on his tongue. Moving down her body was becoming a painful experiment, but he was enjoying himself. Each time she moaned, said his name on a soft sigh, he felt his love for her strengthen and grow.

Sliding off her, he lifted her leg. As soon as he did, he nearly fell over her and took her. Her scent was calling to him, and he had to concentrate hard on what he was doing. He thought talking would help.

“I want to run with you again. Last night was too short.” That wasn’t helping. It had been short because he’d lost her twice in the woods. She was good at hiding out.

“You want to run with me now?” He stopped massaging her foot and looked up at her as she stared over her shoulder. “The thought of you taking me, chasing me, has me…please?”

All he could manage was “go.” He sat there for ten seconds after she got up before he could move off the bed to follow her. When he entered the kitchen, the door was open to the outside and he just caught a glimpse of her as her cat darted toward the woods.

He leapt from the deck and shifted at the same time. His body seemed to scream out its joy at being free. His cat snarled and kept running after his mate. Marc smiled, thinking there was not going to be anything short about this run.

He could smell her at every turn. She was moving quickly and leaving him a trail that screamed for him to find her. He spotted her once as she moved between trees, and then again when she jumped at him, knocking him to the ground and rolling him over. She was gone again before he could get up. He didn’t just want her now, he had to have her.

He hunkered down and waited. Her scent was all around him and he knew now that the only way to catch her was to outsmart her. He had a thought that outsmarting her was going to be just as hard, but decided never to tell her that. She might just outsmart him again.

He heard her before he saw her. She was barely making a sound, and he probably wouldn’t have heard her at all if it hadn’t been for him being so close. She moved by him slowly, her paws barely touching the ground. When she moved past him, he nearly forgot what he was doing, he’d been so caught up in her beauty.

When she was only a foot away, he stood and jumped at the same time. He brought her down quickly but had to scramble to hold her. As soon as he was over her, she reared up and snarled. Marc bit her shoulder hard to hold her down. He put his paw on her back and held her there while he positioned himself behind her. She fought harder until he had to bite her harder.

Christ, if I last longer than a second inside of you I’ll be amazed. Moving closer, he pressed her harder into the ground while he mounted her. She was so wet that he slid in and moaned. His cock filled her so tightly that it took him several seconds to realize that she was a virgin like this. And that she was biting his forearm.

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