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to put you down. I’ll run, Grady. I will run so far and fast, do whatever it takes to get

away from you, and I’ll stay away from you. Are we clear?”

“Perfectly.”

She stopped in front of him and held out her hand to him. He reached for her hand

and stood up. She led him to her bedroom and released his hand. She licked her lips

and looked up at him as she kicked off her shoes.

“We have a week left. Let’s make the most of it. Just don’t ever try that shit again,

all right? I’m not some bitch you can pass off to one of your friends.”

“It wasn’t like that.” He looked furious. “I am afraid I’ll hurt you, damn it.”

“So fucking another guy is going to keep me safe?”

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“Yes,” he growled. “It will remind me that you’re not mine to keep so I don’t mate

you. The urge is so strong that you’re in danger and Eric could protect you, so yeah, I’d

let him fuck you if it meant you were safe from me. I’d do anything to keep you safe.”

That shocked her. She wanted to ask him if the idea of mating her was really all that

bad for him, but she held her tongue. She knew he had emotional scars from being

punished for being half human by his father’s wife Eve. She realized, from what had

happened to her own parents, that a human and werewolf mating wasn’t easy on any

couple in a pack. She knew that Grady wanted and needed to be accepted by them.

Grady stared down at her. “I want you to want me without fighting me on it. I need

you to really want me, babe.”

She stripped out of her clothes. “Wanting you isn’t the problem. Needing you is.”

He cocked his head. “Why? I need you.”

“You need me until next week. Then you won’t need me anymore. I’m afraid I’m

still going to need you, damn it. I’m…” she sighed. “I’m getting attached, Grady.”

An emotion flickered over his face but then it was gone. “I can’t ever mate you,

babe.”

“So you’ve told me.”

He stripped naked. Mika was always affected by his muscular, sexy body. He was

perfect, he was Grady, and she loved him even though she hated doing it. She couldn’t

stop caring for him even if he’d never feel the same way about her. She moved

backward and then climbed on the bed. She stretched out naked on her back and held

her arms out to him.

“Take me.”

Grady growled at her, his eyes going black, as he climbed on the bed. Mika spread

her thighs wide open for him. She wanted him to touch her. She wanted his hands and

mouth on every part of her. She wanted to touch him and she did as he climbed over

her. Her hands brushed his chest and she ran her palms run up to his shoulders. Their

eyes locked and she lifted her head.

“Kiss me. Make me forget everything but you and me, right now.”

Grady lowered his mouth and took possession of hers. She loved the way he kissed

her. No one ever kissed her the way he did as he fully possessed and dominated her

mouth. His tongue moved against hers the same way he moved inside her when he was

buried deep in her sex. She moaned and clawed at him. She knew he was holding back.

She could feel it. She broke the kiss.

“Give me what you have, Grady. You aren’t going to break me. I promise.”

He snarled a curse and then rolled them so she was sprawled on top of him. She sat

up, straddling him, and lowered her head. She went for one of his nipples with her

mouth. He groaned as she sucked on him and used her teeth to nip his pebbled nipple

between her teeth. He jerked under her.

“Don’t,” he warned. “I’m holding onto my control by a thread. No biting.”

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She kept hold of his nipple and raised her eyes to meet his black ones. She nipped

him a little harder. He snarled, showing sharp teeth, and then rolled them again. In a

heartbeat, she found herself pinned as Grady entered her hard and fast.

She cried out in pleasure as he buried himself deep in one sure drive of his cock.

She had released his nipple when she cried out. Their gazes locked.

“I’m going to fuck you, babe. Hard. I’ve missed you so damn much. I’ve wanted

you to look at me like that again so damn bad, you have no idea what it does to me.”

“Please.”

That was all it took. Grady’s cock plowed in and out of her, powered by his

frantically driven hips. Mika threw her head back and moaned loudly. She wrapped her

legs high around his waist to give him plenty of room for easier access. Her fingernails

dug into his muscular arms while she clawed at him.

Grady shifted his position and drove in at an angle that had her feeling a new level

of pleasure. The faster he moved the better it felt. When Grady arched his back and

lowered his head to capture one of her breasts, she lost it as he sucked hard on her

nipple. She came, screaming his name.

Grady’s release exploded inside her. She felt hot heat shooting deep inside her as

Grady snarled. With every spurt of his release he sucked hard on her nipple, causing

her own climax to drag out. With one last spasm, when she felt pain from how hard he

sucked on her nipple, she went limp under him. Grady released her breast and

collapsed on top of her. He adjusted his arms to brace his upper weight so she could

breathe. It was the only movement she had with his bigger body pinning her under

him.

The sweat tickled between their bodies and they were both breathing hard. Mika

couldn’t help but smile. She rubbed his back and paused at the hair she felt there. “You

okay?”

Grady’s entire body turned rigid. The afterglow of great sex was suddenly

destroyed as Grady growled and started to viciously curse.

“Fuck. Damn it. Goddamn it. Fuck!”

He rolled away from her in the same instant that he jerked his still-hard cock from

her body. He was off the bed in a shot and he went crazy as Mika watched. She lifted

her head, stunned and horrified as Grady actually attacked one of her walls. He

punched and kicked the wall so hard that plaster cracked and broke. She saw the

insides of her walls as he continued to go crazy.

She sat up, staring at the man who’d obviously lost his mind. “Grady?”

He turned, pure rage burning in his black eyes. She drew back in real terror. His

face was partially changed. The teeth she saw were sharp and dangerous looking.

Grady threw back his head and literally roared out in rage.

Mika fled. Terrified, she leapt from her bed and ran from her room to the

guestroom. She slammed and locked the bedroom door. She didn’t know what was

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wrong with Grady but he was scaring the shit out of her. The look in his eyes when he’d

roared at her had been ice cold and filled with fury.

It sounded as though he were tearing her bedroom apart. She heard wood snap and

things being thrown. She hugged herself hard, shaking, and wondered what the hell

had happened.

Something wet tickled her arm under her breast. She looked down and saw red on

her arm and on her breast. She stared in shock as she realized what she was seeing.

There were sharp teeth marks and three puncture wounds on her breast. She gripped

her breast. It hurt. She examined the underside of her nipple where she found more

bloody punctures.

Her knees collapsed under her. She sat there, stunned. She yanked her hand away

from her breast as if she were on fire. She heard something smash in her bedroom as

wood splintered. She closed her eyes.

It all made sense now. “Oh God,” she whispered.

Grady had bitten her breast, drawn blood, and she knew what it meant when a

werewolf bit a woman during sex. She’d been told enough times. He hadn’t used a

condom either. He’d lost control just the way he’d feared he would. She’d felt hair on

his back and he’d had sharp teeth so he’d been partially changed during sex. He was

freaking out and in a rage in her bedroom because he’d done the one thing he swore

he’d never do.

He’d mated himself to a human. He’d bitten and mated himself to Mika. Her breast

was still bleeding. She felt a drop of blood splatter on her. She stared at her naked thigh

and another drop marred her white skin. She heard Grady roar in rage down the hall

and glass broke.

Mika pushed to her feet and ran for the bedroom door. Grady was still down the

hall in her room. She wasn’t sure if there was anything left to break in there but it

sounded as though he were still trying from the loud noises she still heard.

She ran into the hall bathroom and stared at the bite marks on her breast. She

turned on the water as she kicked the bathroom door shut. Grady was going to hate her.

He was going to resent her and every day he was going to look at her the way he’d

looked at her when he’d leapt from the bed.

She squeezed her breast and pushed out more blood, forcing the wounds to bleed.

She washed her breast, splashing water. Maybe he hadn’t bitten her hard enough.

Maybe the blood had pushed out whatever saliva had gotten in. She scrubbed the

wounds with soap, ignoring the pain. Maybe the mating hadn’t taken.

She couldn’t do any more. She knew that. She shut off the water. Down the hall, her

bedroom door was shut and the house was ominously silent. She wrapped a towel

tightly around her and ran for the kitchen. She yanked a bottle of vodka off the top of

the fridge and uncapped it as she went to the sink. She opened the towel and poured

the clear booze over her injured breast. It was the strongest alcohol proof she had in the

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house. She shut her eyes and hissed through gritted teeth as the alcohol burned her

injured skin.

She reached for the phone next and dialed Minnie’s cell number. She moved so she

could see down the hallway. Her bedroom door was still shut, the house was silent.

Had Grady left? Was he still in her room? She was too afraid to risk walking to her

room and opening that door to find out.

“Hey,” Minnie chuckled. “How is life?”

“Listen to me,” Mika said softly. “Do not freak out and if Uncle Omar is there get

the hell away from him now. I’m in trouble.”

Silence greeted those words. “Hang on, Mel. Let me go outside so we can have

some privacy. Omar is having a few of the pack over.”

Mel was Minnie’s brother. Heart pounding, her eyes locked on her closed bedroom

door, she waited for Minnie to get out of the house so she couldn’t be overheard by

Omar. Mika tried to calm her pounding heart.

“What happened? Are you all right? You sound like you want to cry.”

“Don’t freak out. Promise?”

“Fuck. How bad is this?”

“Grady accidentally bit me during sex. What do I do? I cleaned it. I scrubbed the

puncture wounds with soap and poured alcohol over them. They bled well so that will

help push out the saliva, right?”

Silence. She heard something on the other end of the phone thump and then she

heard Minnie softly curse. “Sorry. I dropped the phone. Shit. Oh, shit. Shit!”

“I know. Grady is…upset.”

“Upset,” Minnie hissed. “He’s upset? How the hell did he
accidentally
sink his damn

teeth into you while he fucked you?”

“I…damn. He bit my breast when he came.”

“What the hell was a part of you doing in his mouth when he came?” Minnie was

hissing and growling softly. “He’s old enough to know better. He’s not some damn pup

who’s new to sex and— Shit! Are you sure it was accidental?”

“It was an accident. Trust me.”

Minnie took deep breaths. “It’s going to be fine. It wasn’t a deep bite, right? More

like a scratch? The condom didn’t break, right? You’re good if it was just a scratch and

the condom held. Matings don’t take without sperm and saliva together.”

Mika eyed her breast. It was still bleeding. She used the towel to pinch the areas

that bled. “Uh…it’s more than scratches. He punctured the top and bottom of my breast

around my nipple. We weren’t using a condom and he partially shifted.”

Silence. The sound Minnie made after long seconds of silence almost made Mika

drop the phone as she had to jerk it away from her ear. Minnie howled loudly in rage.

She heard glass shatter next. Minnie panted into the phone.

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“Minnie? Calm down. What just broke?”

“I threw a chair through the damn sliding glass door,” Minnie said softly. “Shit. I

lost my temper. Here comes Omar and Elroy and some of the guys to see if I’m all

right.”

“Don’t you dare tell them,” Mika pleaded. “Please?”

“I have to go. I’ll be there soon. I won’t tell, but Omar’s going to find out the second

he gets a whiff of you in a few hours and realized you’ve been mated.” Minnie hung up

on her.

Mika hung up the phone. She closed her eyes and let her head hang. Minnie’s

words rang in her head.
You’ve been mated
. She was so fucked.

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Chapter Twelve

Half an hour later Mika finally worked up the nerve to walk to her room. The

silence was eerie. She’d seen that Grady’s Jeep was still in her driveway so he was still

in her room. She started to fear that he’d hurt himself when he’d torn up her bedroom.

As afraid as she was to face him, her worry for his well-being finally got her to move

down the hallway.

She opened her door slowly to stare in horrified shock at the devastation he’d