Free Davies, Corinne - Wrapped in Fur [3xtasy Lake 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Corinne Davies

You haven’t moved for a couple minutes, so I figured it was safe. Are you grumpy with everyone not related to you, or am I just lucky ?”
    “I’m not grumpy.” Brand imbedded the axe in the cutting block with a flick of his wrist. He was about to explode from the sexual tension building in him. She might have distracted him, but his brain continued with the image of her between him and Colwyn.
    Why is she here? “I would rather not lose any body parts.” He grabbed a couple of pieces of wood and started stacking them. She helped tidy up the split logs, and he did his best to avoid her by watching which logs she reached for.
    She snorted. “Coward.”
    “What did you say?”
    “You heard me. Typical of men in your time. I’ve been watching TV. You talk tough but then back off when it comes time to do something about it. Or, you do it with the woman’s sister. Thankfully, I don’t have one here.”
    Brand gaped at her for a moment, trying to keep up. “What do you mean men of my time? What have you been watching?”
    “ The Loved .” She shot him a snotty grin and scooped up the last piece of wood, tossing it on the massive stack that lined the back of the house. “Aniela says it’s the best thing out there.”
    “ Right . A soap opera she has watched since I was a kid. My Auntie’s taste in TV is the same as yours in clothes.”
    Holly gasped, narrowed her eyes at him and slapped her hands onto her hips. She looked so damn cute all pissed off.
    “I’ll have you know I copied these exactly from what Tatiana wears on The Loved . Anyone named after the Fey Queen can’t be all bad.”
    “I rest my case.” He snorted. “She might be a queen, but it has nothing to do with any faeries.”
    “You take that back!”
    “Make me!”
    Holly clenched her hands, and he could almost see her trying to come up with the right come back but failing.
    “Go back to Colwyn, Holly.” He turned and walked away from her, determined to stop this before it went too far.
    Seeing the two of them together, he had felt like the outsider. Which is what Colwyn would have felt like a decade ago. He knew that Brittany hadn’t shared the same attraction with Colwyn, but Brand had forced the issue and ended up hurting everyone in the process. He couldn’t stomach the idea of being the cause of more pain in anyone’s life.
    “Make me!” She threw his words back at him, and then stuck her tongue out at him.
    Brand turned and walked away from her. Holly was too much of a temptation. If he didn’t leave now, he would show her exactly what she could do with that tongue.
    Something smacked him in the neck, forcing snow down the back of his shirt. He could feel an icy trickle run down his spine as he turned. She crowed loudly when a second one impacted against his chest. Her victory dance was short lived, though, when his snowball smacked her in the head.
    A full-scale war erupted with half-formed snowballs flying back and forth. Neither of them really paid attention to where they were aiming, just tried to beat the other. At one point, Brand was certain that one had broken above her shoulder, seemingly in thin air. He started aiming for that area out of curiosity and sure enough it happened again, only this time, when the ball broke, it hovered like a lump in thin air, and then looked like it was shaken off.
    What the hell? His distraction cost him when a soft lump landed against his cheek, followed by her hoot of laughter. His blood pumping and curiosity at its zenith, he suddenly lunged forward. Catching Holly around the waist, he took her to the ground, pinning her beneath him.
    Panting, he grinned down at the woman beneath him. Awareness of her warm body shot through his veins, blocking any thought of the cold snow they were laying in. “I win.”
    “Okay.” Holly lifted up and pressed her lips against his. She smelled like a crisp winter morning and warm cinnamon buns. Need slammed into him, and his good intentions melted