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wished he could turn on the light to see every inch of her. His jaguar senses could make her out much better than his human senses could, but she deserved light shining across her milky skin: skin he knew was dotted with freckles, freckles he wanted to taste.
    “No, but I—” She bit her lip again. Seemed to think about what she wanted to say.
    She was so adorable Brennan couldn’t help but brush a finger down her cheek, reveling in its silkiness.
    “Either you had a nightmare or you wanted to come into this room and seduce me.” At her gasp, he added, “So which one was it?”
    Mina gazed up at him, and he drank in her expression: determined, anxious, but also excited. His cock was already iron, and he could smell Mina’s scent—a combination of anticipation, arousal, and a touch of fear—so strongly that he felt almost dizzy.
    “I don’t—no. I just.” Mina took a deep breath. And then she looked up at Brennan with her eyes clear and her expression free of any hesitation or embarrassment. She then said in a voice that surprised him in its frankness, “I want you to make love to me.”
     

Chapter Seven
     
     
    Mina was not impulsive. She thought about each and every one of her decisions, listing pros and cons, and selected the choice that seemed the most logical. Jude made fun of her for this, telling her to live a little when they were younger, but he’d resigned himself to the fact his sister was both stubborn and boring.
    This logical planning went with how Mina dated as well. She’d met Paul online, and he had had all of the qualities she’d been looking for in a man: steady, employed, intelligent, amusing. He could cook, he liked dogs, he paid his taxes. Mina had never thought to look beyond the basics, and she’d been content in the relationship while it’d lasted, never expecting that an accountant like Paul would dump her a day before their wedding without so much as an explanation.
    Mina was tired of being boring, tired of the checklists, tired of never diving into the deep end without dipping her toe in first. And while she lay in bed, with Brennan down the hallway, she couldn’t get the idea of seducing him out of her mind.
    Take advantage of him being in your house! her inner voice yelled at her. You already know that he wants you. So what do you have to lose?
    Her dignity, for one, in case he rejected her because he’d changed his mind about her. The thought of him gently turning her away and telling her to go back to bed kept Mina under the covers, thinking furiously, for longer than she cared to admit. At one moment she was about to stand up and do it, but she chickened out again. She wanted to kick herself, and at one point she convinced herself to go to sleep and leave it alone.
    But that voice was insistent, and it kept saying over and over: Do it do it do it do it do it DO IT!
    So she did it. She’d said the words. She was standing in front of him in this room and had told him to make love to her—she’d at first thought to use something sexier than “make love” but that was what her brain had decided to latch onto at the last moment, and Brennan was currently staring at her. In shock? In horror? Oh God, what if he was finding a way to let her down gently?
    Mina took a step back, reaching for the door handle. “You know what, never mind, this was a bad idea. I’m an idiot, I’ll see you later—”
    Brennan pulled the door shut and pushed her up against it, his body now pressed against her from chest to hip. Mina could feel his erection against her stomach, and her body heated.
    “Is that what you want?” he asked. His voice was little more than a growl, low and deep and seductive.
    At least she knew he wanted her as much as she wanted him.
    She nodded, then forced herself to say the words. “Yes, yes. If you do too, of course.”
    Brennan laughed, and the sound of it echoed through Mina’s body. “Oh Wilhelmina, you have no idea. I’ve been thinking of you all day;