The Immortal Hunter(58)

Her eyebrows had risen with surprise. "That many? It's all kind of a blur for me after the fifth time." She shook her head and then finished tugging her T-shirt into place, muttering, "You must have a Viagra pump where your heart should be."

"It's the life mate thing," Decker informed her. "I gather most life mates are insatiable when they find each other."

Dani didn't comment. She was peering down at her shirt and frowning at its new Deckerized shape. It had been stretched out so much, the neckline was pretty much indecent, and it draped her like a blouse rather than the snug fit it had been. Clucking under her tongue, she tugged at the neckline, trying to make it more acceptable, and then pulled it off one shoulder so that at least it didn't reveal the silky cups of her bra anymore. She then tied a knot in the hem at her hip so that it looked like some sort of eighties fashion style. Apparently deciding that was the best she could do, Dani then tried to rush around him and out of the stall, but he caught her arm, forcing her to a halt.

"Decker, let me go," she complained. "I have to go see if the phone is back. "

"You have straw in your hair," he said with exasperation and quickly plucked the bits out and then tried to smooth the wild mass into some sort of order so she wouldn't be completely humiliated if anyone saw her.

Decker then caught her face between his hands and pressed a kiss to her impatient lips before releasing her.

"Thank you," Dani murmured, and ran for the door as if afraid that he might start ravishing her again... and that she might respond despite her worries of the moment. It wasn't that silly a notion. Decker's body was beyond satiated, and yet just the smell of her as he'd neared and the sight of her half naked had been enough to wake little Decker. He'd been hard-pressed to keep the kiss he'd given her to a quick peck and hadn't missed the way desire had flamed in her own eyes before she'd rushed off. They were definitely life mates.

Sighing happily, Decker bent to snatch up his T-shirt and tugged it on as he headed after her.

"Sorry we took so long," Dani gasped, rushing up to the small table in the food court where Sam sat patiently waiting. She dropped the half a dozen bags holding her purchases with relief. "Decker insisted I needed more than just the T-shirt, shorts, and underwear and made me try on oodles of clothes."

"That's all right, I just got here myself," Sam said as Dani finally settled in the seat opposite her. "I only intended to get more sheets since the ones on the beds now are all that are at the house. Then I realized the half a dozen towels I grabbed from my place last night weren't going to last long, and then I thought of linens for the kitchen, and..." She shrugged wryly. "A salesperson had to help me carry it all to the car. I just bought a coffee and sat down not two minutes ago myself."

Dani nodded and asked, "I don't suppose anyone called from the house to say my phone was back?"

"No," Sam said solemnly. "I would have hunted you down and told you."

Dani nodded. After rushing from the barn to the house and learning her phone hadn't yet returned, she'd reluctantly agreed to the shopping trip. It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to come, but she'd feared the phone would arrive the minute she left. However, after Mortimer had promised to call Sam the moment it arrived, Dani had allowed Decker to chivvy her into the shower and then hustle her into Sam's car to come to the mall.

They'd split up on reaching the mall, Sam heading off in search of linens for the house and she and Decker popping in to pick up a couple of spare outfits. At least that had been Dani's plan, until Decker saw the one small bag of items she'd purchased. He'd immediately insisted she'd need more clothes than that. He'd then insisted she try on each item and model it for him before buying it.

The whole business had left her annoyed and flustered until Decker had slid into the dressing room to "help" her get out of the last outfit. The mall's air conditioner was obviously on overdrive because Dani's nipples were still erect from the cool air that had assaulted her as he'd stripped the clothes away.

She shivered and pretended to fuss with one of the bags as she recalled what he'd done to her in that little room. He'd had to cover her mouth with his hand to muffle her excited cries by the time he'd finally pulled her onto his lap on the chair in the corner and thrust himself into her. It had been terribly exciting. As had waking tangled with him on the floor, stirred from unconsciousness by the salesgirl rapping on the door and asking loudly if she was all right, though exciting wasn't perhaps the right word for that part. Panic-inducing probably fit better.

Dani didn't think her heart was going to survive this... whatever this was she was having with Decker. The man was insatiable... and so was she with him. If they continued like this she was likely to have a heart attack.

"Where's Decker?" Sam asked, bringing her from her thoughts.

Dani gestured vaguely toward the restaurants surrounding them, searching, but unable to spot him right away. "He went to grab us a couple of drinks while I brought the bags over and let you know we were here."

Sam nodded and then asked, "How are you doing?"

"Okay," Dani answered quietly. "Concerned about Stephanie, but Decker keeps trying to reassure me they'll get her back, and does his best to distract me." Dani flushed as she said that, feeling guilty because once they'd hit the barn her mind had been somewhat distracted with Decker's revelations and then by the man himself. She'd thought of her sister several times in the barn and since, but all it took was Decker's touching or kissing her to push the worry out of her mind.