Bound to Her
his chin. Setting a hand on his hips, he took a step back and examined her. Her scent had changed from when he’d first met her. Now it smelled of roses and honey and sex, a pungent yet intoxicating aroma that caused his nostrils to flare. “I didn’t bind you.”
    She lifted a hand behind her head. “You had to have. I feel…different.”
    Tiffany pulled out a broom and begun sweeping up the broken glass on the kitchen floor. She was managing to clear up much of the mess and restore some cleanliness to the kitchen. She looked up with a wry grin on her face and annoyance in her eyes that seeped out into the air in the scent of bitter peppers. “You two have issues to work out. I need to get busy. Get out of my kitchen.”
    Luka scowled but offered Michele his hand. “Still think she’s being forced into this?”
    Michele reached for his grasp and laughed, a light sound. “No, I suppose not. Where are we going?”
    “My office. It’s the one place she won’t go without knocking if the door is shut, unlike other sexy women.” He gave her a macho smile.
    She swatted his shoulder. “Beast.”
    The two walked into the office. The door shut behind Luka with a soft click. He turned to face Michele.
    She leaned back in the large leather chair behind his desk and closed her eyes. “What are we going to do?”
    He shrugged. “Well, the necklace puts us together, obviously.”
    She spoke dryly. “Obviously.”
    He set a hand on his hip. “But you don’t want this.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Four
     
     
     
    Michele shook her head. “Not interested in wolf politics. Nor is saving the world my thing, either.”
    Lifting his foot onto the footrest, Luka leaned forward and set his chin in his hand. He continued swirling bourbon around in the glass.
    “You drink a lot, huh?”
    He nodded, eyes closed. “Helps me think to actually have something in my hand. I’m a little neurotic that way.” Opening his eyes, he saw the faintest smile on her pretty mouth. He wanted to kiss her again. Needed to.
    But fucking her wouldn’t solve any problems other than the one in his pants.
    “That’s the second time in a week I’ve been challenged. The rogues don’t want an open fight where they’ll have to play fair or lose. They know I can beat my brother, always have been able to.”
    She leaned forward, tilting the chair with a creak. “I thought you said you were raised by humans.”
    “I was. But he wasn’t. He found me by accident in a bar one night, and we started talking. It became clear our goals were different.”
    She nodded, keeping her focus on him.
    He swore she licked her lips.
    Hell, her taste was still on his tongue. “The matter at hand became the standard ‘good versus evil and wolves are superior’ discussion. We fought, he lost. Swore vengeance, yadda yadda .”
    She grinned. “Sounds like a wonderful brother. He and I dated briefly, but then as he rose through the ranks in pack politics, he wanted me to bend to his stupid will. I couldn’t do it for much more than a few months.”
    He waved a hand dismissively. “Bet you liked that.”
    She dropped her chin and glared straight at him. “Oh, yes, I loved it. Not!”
    He chuckled low and throaty. “You know, if the rogues get control of the packs up here, they’ll instigate a policy of hunting humans.”
    Michele blinked and slumped back in the chair. “I know. That means—”
    “People like your sister will be used for food and enslaved if the rogues get their way. An entire war will break out, and it’ll be wolf against wolf. Do you want that?”
    Michele rested her head against the back of the chair and stiffened. “No. No, I don’t. I really just want this entire thing to go away!”
    Pulling over his chair, Luka sat beside Michele at his desk. He thought if they were on the same side of the table, he could convince her to see his solution of binding her to him and

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