Free Down & Dirty (Bundle) by Moira Rogers

feet and crossing the distance
between them before he realized he’d moved. He stopped just short
of wrapping his arms around her, telling himself it wouldn’t be
fair. Not to either of them. “You deserved the truth, so I gave it
to you. What you do with it is your call, Ginny. Just… don’t cry.
Jesus, please don’t cry.”
    “ I’m not,” she insisted
through her tears, still shaking. “I -- Christ, Jack. I don’t
deserve it. I’m bitter and I don’t deserve it, and I love you,
too.”
    She threw her arms around his neck, and he
buried his face in her hair and tried not to clutch at her too
tightly. “If you don’t want to do the alpha shit, you don’t have
to. Even if you just talked to me sometimes about it, it’d be more
than I have now.”
    “ I’d do it,” she whispered
in his ear. “For the pack.”
    “ And you’d be amazing.” He
pulled back and threaded his fingers through her hair. “You would
make my life so much easier. But I could probably take life being
hard if it meant I had you.”
    Ginny sniffled and laughed even as she
kissed him. “I’m going to make it hard enough, so I’d better help
you with everything else.”
    Honor demanded he tell her she didn’t have
to decide that night. That he give her time to think. The wolf
demanded he accept what she was offering. Now.
    In the end, he settled for a compromise. He
nipped her lower lip. “Be my mate for now. We’ll worry about the
rest later.”
    “ Yes.” She laid her hand on
his cheek and kissed him again, slowly, her tongue sneaking out to
touch his. He groaned and pulled her closer, and the kiss was just
getting interesting when his stomach let out an angry
grumble.
    He pulled back and kissed her forehead. “I
suppose I should eat before I let you distract me.”
    Ginny laughed and bit her lip. “I should go
away, then. I’ll be upstairs… in the bedroom.” She brushed one last
kiss over his cheek and walked out.
    Jack polished off the food she’d put on the
table and a second serving from the pot before the edge of his
hunger had eased. In any other circumstance he would have collapsed
again into much needed sleep, but the thought of Ginny waiting for
him in bed made sleep the least appealing prospect ever.
    After a brief stop in the bathroom to clean
up, Jack climbed the stairs and stopped in the doorway. Ginny sat
on the bed, propped against a pile of pillows, reading the same
book she’d had downstairs. Now, though, her red hair tumbled in a
wild cloud around her mostly bare shoulders, and she wore a thin
gown of green, lace-edged silk.
    “ Wow.” He leaned against
the doorjamb and smiled. “This is a sight I could get used
to.”
    “ Not in the least.” She
tossed the book on the floor and rolled to her knees, her
expression playful. A slit in the gown bared her leg to the top of
her thigh. “I mostly sleep naked.”
    The things he could do to her… His cock
hardened as he stepped over the threshold and let a slow, wicked
smile curl his lips. “Well, where’s the fun in that?”
    “ You seemed to like it well
enough last night.”
    “ That?” He was glad he
hadn’t bothered with a shirt. The borrowed pants hit the floor and
he stepped out of them before curling his fingers around his cock.
“Oh, honey, that was just getting to know you.”
    Ginny’s gaze dropped to his hand, and she
whimpered and fidgeted on the bed. “You already knew me.”
    “ Not as well as I wanted
to.” He fixed his gaze on hers again. “Turn around and brace your
hands against the headboard.”
    She didn’t move at first, just twirled a
lock of hair around one finger and licked her lips. Finally, she
turned away and crawled up the bed until she reached the iron
headboard. Her hands curled around it slowly, and she glanced back
at him over her shoulder. “Like this?”
    He stepped forward and ran his hand down her
back and over the green silk, rubbing it against her skin. “Just
like that.”
    Her back arched, and she