the next time she saw him.
“Now there is a woman. Did you know that she’s Webber’s daughter?” Austin sat down hard on the bed again. “Apparently not. I found out from Elise at the grocery. She said that there had been a big fall out when her mother died and he disowned her. Seems to think the girl is back now only because he’s dead.”
Now what? His mate was the daughter of the man who had tried to kill him. Austin looked at his brother.
“Fuck, this is going to make Mom mad. How far into her plans is she anyway?” Austin stood again and began pacing. “I’ll just have to avoid her…CJ, that is. I’m not going to have anything to do with that bigot’s daughter. Hell, for all I know she could have the same nutty genes in her that he had.”
“Thought you’d say that.” Dallas stood then and clapped his brother on his back. “I’m leaving today. I’ve got to be in Columbus, Ohio in the morning if I want to be back by Thanksgiving. Try not to hurt Mom too much with your announcement.”
Austin went into his bath to take a shower after his brother left. With the water running full blast, he looked at himself in the mirror, wondering what had gotten into him to have nearly taken the woman the way he had. Deciding that he’d just ignore her, he figured he would simply deal with her attorney.
He was standing under the spray when he thought about how she had felt against him. Her body had been perfect for his—breast to chest and groin to groin. She wasn’t tall, but Christ, she was beautiful.
Long hair that had been tousled from sleep was the first thing he’d noticed when she opened the door. Dark and curly, he remembered how the silken strands felt as they’d slipped through his fingers. Her skin had been creamy and soft; her neck…damn, her neck had beckoned him to bite. Austin had felt his canines lengthen when he licked her pulse point. He wondered if he would have bitten her and marked her if she hadn’t hit him.
Austin reached down and stroked his cock. He could still taste her, the rich taste of female. His female had been delicious. Up and down he fisted his cock until he felt his balls tighten up. He wanted to take her, to find her now and press her over something and take her hard and fast. She’d scream when she came, scream out his name as he leaned over her and bit her. Austin moaned and his cock spurted as he came. Hot streams of cum splashed against the wall as he imagined fucking her. Even as he leaned against the wall for support, Austin knew he was in trouble.
He found his mom in the solarium, pruning her herbs and tying them together in small bunches. He’d built the addition for her right after they’d built the house five years ago. He knew she found comfort in the flowers and plants she grew there, and had already planned to have one put on the little house he’d wanted to buy for her. He was going to have to figure something else out. She spoke before he could.
“Dallas left. He told me that you are going to avoid the Webber girl. Is that true?”
Well, that explains her being in here , he thought.
“Yes. I don’t need the complication of what she might be as a mate. Plus, I’m not going to be her…how did you figure out what she was to me, anyway?”
She didn’t turn around, but continued to snip plants. “She told me that you licked her neck. I’ve never known you to have a woman be pissed off at you for being…friendly, so I guessed. I’m right then, aren’t I?”
“She’s Webber’s daughter. I can’t be mated to a woman like her. You have to see that, Mom. She is probably just as nutty as he was.”
She put some parsley in her basket and turned to him. “Probably. I’m going into town to get the last few things I need for Thursday. Would you like to come with me? I still have to pick up the turkey from the meat market and get some things at Pansy’s.”
He wanted to tell her to stay away from the Webber girl, but knew that if he did
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