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not to sound as out of breath as she felt.
     
    “What?”
     
    “I don’t feel out of control anymore. How long will that last?” Her head wanted him to say the fire that had almost burned her to a crisp from the inside out was gone for good. But her body hadn’t come down off its orgasmic high yet, and a small part of her wanted more. Okay, maybe it wasn’t a small part of her.
     
    “I don’t know. This is the first time I’ve actually helped a human through a changing heat.” His breath was as strangled as hers. “Maybe fifteen minutes. Or up to thirty.”
     
    “Thirty would be nice. I want to lie down.” She tried to get off him.
     
    “No. If you stand up, my cum will leak out, and the heat will return. Takes a few minutes for your body to absorb it all.”
     
    “I don’t want to get pregnant.” She was going to say it had nothing to do with him, but that wasn’t true. He was a werewolf, or something close to it. Her life was hanging by a thread.

Chapter Four
     
     
     
    “Only mated pairs can conceive.” He didn’t look up at her. Seeing the disgust on her face at the thought of having his child just might break him.
     
    “It’s not you. I just don’t know what’s going to happen to me. It would be unfair to add an innocent to the mix.”
     
    It made sense, but he didn’t know if he believed it. None of the many women of his pack would want to have kids with a father who was stuck in a chair for the rest of his life. He couldn’t teach them to hunt or run. As a wolf, he was useless.
     
    “Can I move now? My legs are cramping.”
     
    “Give me a sec.” He pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind as he grasped the wheels and rolled them out of the kitchen, down the hallway, and to his bedroom. The only difference between her and the women of his pack was that she needed him and didn’t know he wasn’t the best choice. For her, he was the only choice. And seeing as how she was most likely his last chance, he had no intentions of letting her go. He had less than a week to get her to start falling for him. And damn it, for the first time in his life, he was going to be selfish and tie her to him as best he could.
     
    “Go through that door, and you can take a quick shower. There isn’t enough time to soak in the tub. After the first time, the wolf won’t wait long for more. She’s going to get ugly,” Jason told her. Which wasn’t exactly true. She probably had twenty-five to thirty minutes, then it would slowly begin to build again. So she had almost an hour or more before it got bad.
     
    He helped her stand and smiled as her legs shook slightly. It was good to know he hadn’t lost his touch during his sexual hiatus. When she closed the door, he hurried out of the room and into the guest bathroom. The blood was pounding through his head as the cool water of the shower hit his hot skin. His wolf didn’t want to leave her. The wolf wanted to devour her. And if he were truthful, he’d admit the man did too.
     
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    Gio turned the lock and slumped on the hard wood of the floor. Why did the most intense sexual experience of her life have to be with a stranger? She should run. She should get the hell out of here as soon as possible, no matter what the consequences were. She should walk back out there and beg for more.
     
    No! Where the hell did that come from ? True, he was a sexual god, but sex wasn’t everything. He was a freaking werewolf. He’d threatened to kill her. Images of him slapping her ass assaulted her mind as memories tingled down her skin. She swore she could feel the heat of his hands on her. Don’t forget he wanted to kill you.
     
    To be fair, that wasn’t exactly true. He’d said if he didn’t bite her and she didn’t turn, then he’d have to kill her. The way he’d said it was like he didn’t have an option. That was crazy. There was always an option. Wasn’t there?
     
    Desire pooled in her stomach. She pushed herself up. She had