Free Shifter's Revenge (Alpha Lineage) by Stacy Kinlee Page A

she continued.
    The feel of his skin without the power somehow made it all that more intimate. She felt like she was touching him for the first time even though she never had such an opportunity with his body. Her heart raced as she ran her fingers over his knee and onto his strong thigh.
    She watched only her fingers and the skin they touched. She didn’t dare look at his face and see hate or pain or condemnation. Her hand began to tremble as she moved further across his leg and closer to his hip. Her eyes darted to his lap and her cheeks flushed when she saw his thick erection.
    “Kera,” h is whispered groan caused her eyes to dart to his face. The heated look he gave her caused a race of excitement to wash over her.
    “I missed you, ” She whispered quickly. “Every moment I was gone I thought about you and how I had pushed you away. I long for your touch Maddox. I need you.”
    He reached out and grabbed her hand and pulled i t from his hip. “You left me,” he growled at her.
    His anger was a palpable thing. She breathed it in and accepted it. With her free hand she gripped his corded neck and used it as an anchor. Her lips crashed against his. His hand that held hers tightened almost painfully. The other threaded through her hair like shackles that would never let her go. She moaned into his mouth and the next moment his tongue darted in and tasted her. He covered her lips with his and pulled her across his lap.
    His thick erection pressed into the seam of her jeans. She sucked in a breath from his mouth and felt her eyes shift beneath her lids. In the next moment she knew exactly what was wrong with Maddox. His wolf was absent. Fang whimpered at the loss and receded into her mind.
    Kera bit back a sob but wasn’t able to squelch the tears that escaped from the corners of her eyes. She realized in that next moment that she was selfish. Even though she caused him pain, she wasn’t going to stop herself from being with Maddox in this moment. The compulsion was too strong. Either it was because they were mated or because she needed him that much.
    Just as she decided to move forward Maddox brought everything to a screeching stop. He pulled on her hair roughly and broke their kiss. His mouth went to her neck and kissed her throat gently before he took a deep breath inhaling her scent. “After everything you just told me,” he murmured against the tender column of her throat, “what do you expect me to do with you? Our mating wasn’t complete so I have no bond to you yet. You made your case to push me away but gave me nothing positive other than your need to fuck me again.”
    Her blood turned to ice at his crude words. Her breath rushed in and out of her mouth harshly as she fought to bring her adrenaline into control. Her first reaction would be to tell him how much she loved him but she thought better of it. Why would he care about her love when so many other things fought against them? The truth about her bonding tore her soul to shreds. The one thing she relied on to keep him by her side slipped through her fingers.
    “There’s nothing I can give you,” she whispered painfully, “except myself.”
    His breath pushed against her neck. “That’s the whole point Kera.” His hand tightened in her hair before he spoke again. “You’re all I have and you took that away from me.”
     
    He was never going to let her go. Maddox felt the smooth strands of her hair between his fingers as he tried to ignore the heat of her body straddling his hips. His cock pressed against the seam of her jeans searching for her entrance. He barely restrained himself. Taking her wasn’t the point of this rest stop though he couldn’t think of a better way to spend the night than inside her. The alternative was turning into one painful blow after another. Every word out of her mouth told him that she wasn’t ready for the type of commitment that he wanted from her. She wasn’t able to look past the surface to the truth