Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 22846 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 91(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22846 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 91(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
I want at least ten. I don’t tell him that because it would be like twisting the knife that’s lodged in his mateless heart right now. But I want to breed the fuck out of this girl. I want to pump her full of babies until her exhausted womb is waving the white flag. Even after that, I might slip another one in.
“Not sure,” I say instead. “We’ll see.”
And Blake will see too one day. He’ll understand when he finally finds her that even he won’t want to stop at ten kids. The need to breed is strong in us bear shifters once we’ve found our mates.
We head back over to the group and I look up at the new roof. We went with steel this time. We thought that steel would be much smarter than glass, especially since there’s still a red dragon out there who wants us all dead.
The red dragon—the last and biggest of the Kirk brothers—was the one who crashed through the old glass ceiling when he attacked. We didn’t want to make it so easy for him this time to get the jump on us.
“Any news on the lizard?” I ask in a low voice.
Blake knows exactly who I’m talking about. He shakes his head. “No. I got Austin the Sheriff and his deputy Damon with their eyes out, but nothing.”
“Good,” I say with a nod. “We probably scared him off for good. He’s not going to come back.”
I can tell by the way Blake clenches his jaw that he doesn’t agree.
“Blake, we killed both of his brothers.”
His hazel eyes hold mine. “Exactly.”
“Rylan!” Kimberly shouts as she runs over. She’s a little tipsy, which makes me smile. Blake was nice enough to host a little party at the fire station so everyone can get to know Mila. “I love her!”
“Too bad, she’s mine.”
She laughs and spills her drink. “Oops.” She wipes it with her shoe, which doesn’t absorb it so much as just spread it around. “You better put a ring on that or I will. A hot doctor? Damn. Look at you go!”
I grin as I put my arm around her shoulders and pull her back to the group. Everyone is focused on Mila, asking her questions and being amazed by her smart witty answers.
I am the luckiest man in the world. I still can’t believe she’s mine.
When the need to have her all to myself takes over, I pull her from the group. “Excuse us,” I say as they all complain. “I need my mate for a second.”
Ethan chuckles. “We saw the last of those two for the night. Fucking newlymates.”
“What is it?” Mila asks as I pull her into a quiet corner. “Was I doing okay? Do you think they like me?”
“They love you,” I say as I wrap my arms around her thick beautiful body. “And so do I.”
Her sexy green eyes soften as she looks up at me. “You do?”
“I love you so much,” I say, feeling it well up inside me to the point it feels like it’s going to explode.
She rests her cheek against my chest and lets out a little purring sound that gets me every time. “I love you too,” she whispers.
We both look at the engagement ring on her finger and smile. I bought it for her yesterday.
I had planned to give it to her over a fancy dinner, but I was so excited I gave it to her as soon as I got home. She was doing the dishes. I couldn’t stop myself from dropping to my knee in front of her curvy body and begging her to be my wife. It ended up being pretty romantic after all and we still had the fancy dinner, so it worked out pretty well.
“I think I’m going to like it here,” she says as she steps on her toes and kisses the tip of my chin. Mila moved into my house last week. We still haven’t unpacked her boxes. They’re strewn all over the house. Every time we try to get started, we end up having sex on them instead until we’re too exhausted to do anything else but sleep. Her curvy ass just looks so damn good in sweatpants. I can’t help myself.
“Good,” I say as my possessive hands tighten around her. “Because you’re not allowed to leave. Ever.”
She smiles and we kiss until a drunken Kimberly interrupts us. She grabs Mila’s arm and pulls her away.
“Save it for the honeymoon,” she says with a laugh. “This is our time to meet Mila. Don’t be such a hog.”
My heart clenches up, but I let her go. I just shake my head and watch with a grin as the two giggling girls head back to the group.
I’ll be there in a second.
As soon as this raging hard-on goes down.