"I, uh, should probably go do my rounds," she turned to him and faltered endearingly as he lifted the edge of his shirt to wipe his brow, revealing a patch of smooth dark skin. She likes my abs. Good to know. He smiled at her as he stored away that piece of information.
"I'll find you before I leave," he promised.
"You will?"
"Sure I will. To give you back your phone," he said with a forced casualness he didn't feel.
The Bear in him was roaring up a storm. Demanding he pick up his mate and love her long and hard till she wouldn't even think of running out on him again. f**k. He turned his back on her, fighting his beast and the raging arousal he felt just by being near her.
She tested his self-control as nothing else ever had. Not even all the fighting he'd done growing up in a Clan
