Rafael folded his arms behind his head, watching Jadyn sleep in the morning light. She rolled over onto her stomach, hugging his pillow and burying her face into its downy softness as her maple tresses fanned over it. The sheet was drawn back just below the dimples above her juicy cheeks.
He traced the delicate lines of her rose and heart tattoo on her left hip. She sighed at his touch. Jadyn was small but woman-soft, curves in all the right places and candy to his male mind. Rafael's fingers yearned to caress her, his mouth yearned to taste her. Forbidden flesh was the sweetest of all. She was claimed by Daunte but she was in Rafael's bed; in his apartment.
Rafael sniffed the air. His whole body tensed. There was another animal shifter here but a familiar one. It made his body hair stand on end. Carefully the tiger prowled out of bed so as not to wake his guest. Jadyn mewled softly, stirring a little but she only hugged the pillow tighter. The sight made Rafael ache.
He put on pants and a shirt and prowled towards the door he was able to fix just 2 hours before. He really didn't want to have to fix it again. The smell grew stronger then Rafael smiled when he finally recognized it.
Rafael opened the door to see Felix, his cousin.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Rafael growled low.
"I was about to ask you the same thing."
"I live here."
"I mean what are you doing here... with her," Felix nodded towards Rafael's bedroom. "I can smell a woman with The Heat for 2 blocks."
"Well don't get any ideas," Rafael came out into the hallway and closed the door behind him. "I know you lions like to get territorial and shit but you're not planting your seed in this girl."
Felix made a mocking pout, "Not even a quickie?"
Felix had wheat blond hair and sienna brown eyes. He was a lion shifter on Rafael's mother's side. How shifter genetics worked was a male took after the father while a female took after the mother but there were rare occasions where the female took after the father and the male took after the mother.
"I just stopped by to make sure you didn't get killed by that meat head jaguar," Felix crossed his arms, his eyes looking on his cousin's injuries with disapproval. Felix was a handsome man in his late 30s but his cleft chin had many girls swooning if they didn't already melt from the heat in his bronze eyes.
"I appreciate the concern," Rafael leaned against the wall looking confident. "But actually it was Jadyn who protected me last night." Rafael raked his fingers through his short dark hair. A light went on inside him giving the tiger an unfamiliar warmth thinking about Jadyn verbally pulverizing big bad Daunte LaSalle.
"That little lady?" Felix rubbed his cleft chin on his chiseled jaw in thought. "Well... I've seen her do some damage to a few unlucky bastards at The Scratch. That's why I always tip her heavy."
"You tip her heavy because you like her ass," Rafael frowned feeling a tightness in his chest at the thought of anyone looking at Jadyn in a sexual way.
Felix then frowned. "I still don't like this idea of yours. Daunte will rip you to shreds when he finds out who you really are."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Rafael shrugged nonchalant.
Felix growled. Rafael folded his arms across his chest, his muscles tensing.
"Daunte's family took everything from ours," Rafael seethed, his royal blue eyes turning to a menacing yellow. "Taking his girl seems the perfect revenge."
"Uh-Huh," Felix nodded, his eyes filled with doubt as his lips curved into a rakish grin. "And this has nothing to do with your own history with the girl?"
Rafael flushed to his cousin's amusement.
"Schoolyard crushes are hard to forget," Felix reconciled. "I just hope you don't get torn to pieces and start a war in the process."
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Jadyn rolled over onto her back, feeling the warm rays of the sun on her fair skin. She stretched out, languishing in Rafael's bed. Last night was an orgasmic blur.
The Heat was relentless. Her lustful thoughts made her dizzy and thighs sticky with her arousal. Even after so many orgasms, Jadyn felt unsatisfied. Her body hungered for another. The one who marked her for his own. What was it Daunte had said? She'll be horny for anything that moves? No, she'd be incredibly horny for him and him alone.
Jadyn miffed. She refused to give in. Yet her body still vibrated with need. Her fingers danced over her stomach that fluttered when she raked through her dewy curls. Memories of Rafael's fingers stroking and petting her ignited a fire in her blood. Yet even as Jadyn began to tease her folds, Rafael's face was replaced by another.
Jadyn's fingers gently stroked her moist lips, puffy with her unquenchable desire and pictured a pair of hot, whiskey eyes watching her with lust. She pictured a sinful mouth, sexy lips curving into a wicked grin and a growl rumbling from them.
With a melting sigh she parted her folds and dipped her middle finger into her molten depths. Licking her lips, Jadyn gave the mystery lips and eyes more definable features, imagining broad shoulders and muscles testing the limits of a cotton shirt. Her eyes drifted closed allowing the sensations to take over.
Jadyn teased her slippery nub a bit, tiny shocks of happiness pulsing through her, then dipped her finger right back inside her adding another finger to stretch her further, increasing her pleasure. She groaned at how wet she was, practically oozing once she pictured a growing throbbing bulge that whiskey eyes was sporting in his jeans.
She could taste cloves in her mouth as her passion intensified. The waitress gasped sharply feeling joy sizzle across her skin. Her bottom lip caught between her teeth when she drove her two fingers deeper into her moist heat. She felt the spasm of her muscles tighten as she grew closer to her climax.
