NocC 023 - The Ancients 05 - Bonnie Vanak - Incubus Wolf - Harlequin 2012-09 by Nocturne Read Free Book Online Page B

they fell onto
the bed together.
    Alex panted, feeling her lungs bellow, her heart race. So this
was what it should be like. What it felt like to have sex in blazing light,
instead of insisting on the cover of darkness.
    Wrapping herself around his muscled body, she felt the sweat on
their bodies begin to cool. Beneath her ear, his heart beat steady and strong.
As if this hadn’t exerted him, hadn’t left him wrung out and spent…
    She expected him to look smug with masculine satisfaction, but
his gaze was thoughtful. Alex traced the line of his firm jaw with a finger.
Tousled and silky, his black hair looked tempting to touch. She hooked her
fingers through it, loving the silk sliding across her skin.
    Dominic looked at her solemnly, as if expecting her to speak.
Alex twirled the little hairs on his chest and tugged. He was masculine beauty,
from the thick muscles in his shoulders to the rounded firmness of his ass, to
the flawless perfection of his skin….
    Sitting up, she patted her cheeks. Flawless, as she was not. It
was all a ruse that would fade, she realized in dismay.
    The cold, hard shell descended on her once more. Alex cleared
her throat. “Deal is a deal, wolf. We’ve made love, and now you leave with
me.”
    “Sex, Alexandra. That was not making love.”
    “There’s a difference with you?”
    “I could feel it,” he whispered, and for a moment, his gaze
looked haunted.
    Hurt spiraled through her. She couldn’t make love. Not ever
again. Because it meant giving her heart and that precious organ must be guarded
at all costs.
    The pink silk camisole lay crumbled at the bed’s edge. Alex
picked it up, rubbing it between her fingers. So pretty and delicate and lacy.
Feminine.
    Not like her. At all.
    She had a job to do. And the sooner she did it, the faster she
could get on with her life.
    She was running out of time.
     

Chapter 7
    For the next two days, Alex managed to avoid Dominic as
she carefully planned his capture. He’d given her free rein of the lodge. So she
inventoried all the knives, tucking one into a homemade sheath strapped to her
arm inside her long-sleeved shirt.
    It was already the fourth day and she was no closer to bringing
him in than before.
    He’d promised to return with her after they had sex, and broke
that promise. Like he’d broken his promise to return for her. He’d always break
promises.
    She couldn’t trust him.
    It was nearly dinner. She had to act now, before the pack came
in from tending to the livestock and the garden.
    Alex went into the kitchen, rubbing her cheeks. A chill ran
through her at the coldness of what she planned.
    Alive… or dead.
    Bringing him in alive to the wizard proved impossible. He was
too clever and powerful.
    She could not kill him either. But if she disabled him, enough
to drag him out of here…
    In the kitchen, she bit into an apple, relishing the hard
crunch, the juice on her tongue. She moaned loudly in sheer enjoyment.
    Knowing he listened.
    A hand removed the apple from her grasp and set it down.
Dressed in a tight black shirt that molded to his muscular chest and jeans that
hugged his taut ass and cupped his sex, Dominic looked sexy enough to eat.
    Alex’s heart skipped a beat at his smoldering look.
    “Tempting me with an apple, my lovely Alexandra?”
    Licking her lips, she watched his eyes widen as he tracked each
movement of her tongue. “I was hungry… perhaps you have something else in
mind?”
    Alex unfastened the two top buttons of her shirt, feeling the
heat flare between them.
    Dominic unbuttoned the plain navy flannel shirt and slowly drew
it off her. His eyes widened.
    Beneath the shirt she wore the pink silk camisole.
    “Sweet. I do adore the color pink,” he murmured.
    He moved closer, his gaze intent on her mouth. Alex shivered.
Now. She could not allow this wolf to seduce her. He’d gain all the power and
she’d be left… crippled. Emotionally and physically.
    The thought gave her strength as he lowered his