Alpha Lion: BBW Lion Shifter Paranormal Romance by Zoe Chant Read Free Book Online

them getting very close, but he wasn’t going to be so irresponsible as to neglect Sam’s self-defense readiness just because he was turned on.
    But having her spread out beneath him, pinning her shoulders, feeling her chest heave instead of just looking at it—
    “Okay,” he said, and he knew his voice was coming out more like a growl, but he couldn’t help it. “Fight me off.”
    Sam started to squirm and twist her arms, and he was about to remind her that tugging at his grip like that wasn’t going to do anything—when he felt her knee right between his legs.
    “I’m going to assume that if I followed through, I’d be successfully fighting you off,” she said, with a smile curving her lips.
    She was teasing him. She was normally so quietly serious, with most of her humor being wry or self-deprecating. Seeing that sparkle in her eye as she pressed her leg right up against his hardening cock—it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
    He bent down and kissed that teasing smile, and the moment he tasted her, he knew there was no going back.
    Sam kissed him back immediately, her mouth opening under his. She deftly twisted a hand free and wrapped her arm around his shoulders, pulling his body down to hers.
    He could feel her breasts, her hips, her thigh still pressing against his erection…he growled into her mouth and kissed her harder.
    She moaned underneath him and reached up to tug his hair elastic away, sliding her hand into his hair and cupping his head as they kissed. He pulled back just enough to breathe, “You like my mane?”
    “I love it.” She leaned up for another kiss. “Men with long hair are a—” one more kiss, “—a weakness.”
    “Well, brave,” kiss, “beautiful,” kiss, “smart,” kiss, kiss, kiss, why did she taste so good ? “honest women are a weakness of mine.”
    “Oh,” she said, but he stopped any objections with his mouth, and she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him back.
    Eventually, though, he had to either come up for air or start taking her clothes off. “Hey,” he said softly into her mouth.
    “Hmm?” she responded, lifting her chin to ghost little kisses over his lips.
    “We can’t do anything in the classroom,” he said, and then heard what had come out of his mouth and backpedaled. “Not that you have to—or that I’m implying we’re going to—we can do whatever you’re comfortable with.”
    Now it was his turn to blush, which he hardly ever did. Sam seemed to bring it out in him, though.
    And she was laughing at him. He pushed himself up a little more so he could see it better. “It’s okay,” she said. “I want to keep going. But Lynn probably wouldn’t like it if we did it in here.”
    That was a bucket of cold water. “No,” he said. “No, she would not. In fact,” he scrambled up off of her, “sometimes she comes in to clear up the mats before she goes home.”
    “Oh, boy,” and now Sam was laughing harder, with an edge of embarrassment. “I can’t even imagine—if she came in—”
    “We would both definitely get a lecture about respecting the practice space,” Dale agreed. He held out a hand and pulled Sam to her feet. “Let’s see, there’s—” He stopped.
    He’d been about to say that there were a few things he needed to take care of before leaving the studio, but he was struck by the idiocy of the statement. There were a few things he would have done if he didn’t have a gorgeous woman waiting for him to finish up and leave.
    But none of them were so urgent they couldn’t wait until tomorrow. And it would be incredibly rude, not to mention stupid , to keep Sam waiting so he could finish up paperwork.
    “There’s nothing keeping me here any longer,” he said instead. “Your place or mine?”
    “Whichever’s closest,” she said. “Do you live nearby?”
    “Right nearby,” he confirmed. “Get your coat and we can go. Oh, wait,” he said as she turned to go.
    “What?” she asked, turning