My Feline Protector (Middlemarch Shifters Book 6) (25 page)
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Authors: Shelley Munro
Tags: #paranormal romance, #feline shapeshifter
“Duncan, I want you to make love to me. I…I need sex.” A faint tide of pink rushed through her cheeks and crawled along her neck to color her chest. “I don’t want…just for the weekend,” she ended on a rush.
The jolt of lust that speared him made his chest heave while he attempted to breathe through his arousal, tamp it down to acceptable levels. Didn’t work. Duncan gave up trying to hide his painful erection and shifted.
“You want what?” She had to tell him again before he’d believe. Surely winning Lana couldn’t be this easy?
“I want a lover for the weekend.” She captured the plump cushion of her lower lip between her teeth and worried it while avoiding his gaze.
Consternation, fury, jealousy—the whole gambit screwed with his temper. “Do you do this often?” He moved closer, curling his fingers around her biceps until they bit into her tender flesh.
Her gaze flew up to meet his. “No! Of course not. I haven’t been with anyone since Jamie.”
Duncan relaxed at her impassioned words.
No other man. Good. That was good
. It had been difficult leaving after Jamie’s funeral, knowing Lana needed time and he risked another man capturing her interest. Friends and family had kept him in the loop about Lana, not that he’d been upfront regarding his interest.
A month ago gut instinct had told him it was time to return to New Zealand, so he’d come home. Just in time, so it seemed. He stared at her and detected a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose. He’d never noticed them before. Her jade-green eyes tilted up at the corners giving her an exotic look…and her mouth. He’d had serious hard-ons fantasizing about her sexy lower lip, about biting it and laving the nip better, seeing those lips wrapped around his cock.
“Why?” Why him? He wanted to think it was because of his hard abs and charisma, his sex appeal, except his ego wasn’t that big. Women didn’t normally bowl up to him with a proposition before they’d received the romance, not unless they belonged to the buckle-bunny brigade and wanted to boast of their cowboy conquests.
“Because I don’t want to mislead a man into thinking I want something permanent. All I want is no-strings sex.” Her chin lifted in faint challenge. “Nothing more.”
Duncan frowned, not sure how to react. Part of him simmered with anger at her for going around offering herself. That part wanted to wring her neck. But he also felt flattered and more turned-on than he should be, given the circumstances.
Lana turned away, flashing her rounded arse at him. He caught a hint of feminine pique before she showed him her back. A slow smile curled to life as he stared at the long, slender legs and curvy hips. Yeah, he’d take her up on her offer and play a cat-and-mouse game. Her offer made things easy for him, but if she thought he’d walk away after a weekend, the woman had rocks in her head.
Shelley lives in New Zealand with her husband and a cheeky Jack Russell/mystery breed puppy.
Typical New Zealanders, Shelley and her husband left home for their big OE soon after they married (translation of New Zealand speak – big overseas experience). A twelve month adventure lengthened to six years of roaming the world. Enduring memories include being almost sat on by a mountain gorilla in Rwanda, lazing on white sandy beaches in India, whale watching in Alaska, searching for leprechauns in Ireland, and dealing with ghosts in an English pub.
While travel is still a big attraction, these days Shelley is most likely found in front of her computer following another love – that of writing stories of romance and adventure. Other interests include watching rugby (strictly for research purposes), cycling, baking bread and curling up with a good book.
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Copyright © 2016 Shelley Munro
ISBN: 978-0-473-35748-1
Editor: Mary Moran
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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.
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