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before.”
    “So it’s just sexual?”
    “No! Dammit!” He growled and turned to pace from right to left, not coming near her. “I know it’s more than that. I can feel it. You’re smart. I’ve been working with you for almost two weeks now. All your ideas have been spot on. Perfect for the work we’re doing and you’re professional. Even when I tried to get personal in conversations with you, you’d pull back and keep it about general things. Today was the first day you answered my questions, showing me the true you.”
    She shrugged. “I thought you were really bored and needed some cheering up.”
    “See. You’re a good person. You tried to get me to feel connected to someone the entire time I was in Japan and after I was back. Even before that day, you’d been nice in your messages to me. The more we chatted, the more I knew my instinct was right when it came to you.”
    She gripped the car door with enough strength to hear the metal groan. “I—”
    “I will do anything in my power— anything I have to —to make you happy. I will move heaven and earth and kill anyone who gets in the way, but I have to have you. If you don’t feel you want to try, I’ll understand.”
    She raised her brows. “You’d let me go?”
    “Hell no!” He roared. “I said I’d understand, that doesn’t mean I’d stop. I won’t. Ever. I’ll handcuff you to my bed and make you come for days until you agree to be mine. You are it for me. I don’t care how long I have to wait for you to see I’m serious about us. I’ll wait. My wolf and I will wait an eternity for you.”
    The tigress pushed at the skin, loving his words. She was so easy. She had to be honest with herself. She’d fallen in lust with Brett the night he’d tamed her heat. She’d been thinking about him ever since. Not just in a sexual mode, but with the flowers, the pizza and the fact he’d wanted more with her. She’d allowed some feelings to develop. The question was: did she want to give a relationship with him a shot?
    She had to think. Taking some steps to her left, she moved away from the car and put more distance between them. The woods were quiet, tempting. She gazed at the forest calling out to her. Her tigress pressed, showing her need to go in them. To think and let nature make the decision for her.
    Mating was for life. She’d known he was hers from the first whiff of his animal. But she was also human, and that was a lot more complicated. Mating for sex’s sake didn’t create the relationship she wanted. However, so far Brett had shown her that she was the woman he wanted for more than a one-night stand.
    He took a step toward her. The wind shifted and he inhaled deep. Oh, shit.
    He narrowed his eyes, his lips flattening into a line. “Anything you want to tell me?”
    “Yes.”
    He raised his brows. “Go ahead.”
    “I have to think about your proposal,” she said, dashing into the woods, running from him. She shouldn’t have gone so far from her car.
    “You want to play?” He howled at her back. “Your sweet ass is mine, the minute I catch you, little cat.”
    Jerk. He dared call her little. He knew there was nothing little about her. She tried to stifle a laugh, but failed miserably. “Full of yourself much, dog?”
    He growled, the sound way too close for comfort. She ran in her trainers, quickly going past bushes and trees. She would have shifted if she weren’t pregnant, but she wouldn’t put her child at risk.
    “Confident, little cat. Confident. I’ll have you writhing under me in less than a minute. When I do, all bets are off.”
    She reached a pond and dove in, not thinking. The cold water hit her hard. She dove under and tried to swim away, but he’d jumped in with a lot more speed, landing next to her and grabbing her by the waist before shooting up to get air.
    They broke the surface of the water together. She had her arms around his neck. She hadn’t even noticed putting them there. The scent of his