Chapter 70 AURORA

He kissed his way farther up my thigh.

“I won’t mark you,” he said. “I know things are too complicated right now for that.”

I breathed out a sigh of relief, even though a foolish part of me wanted…

No. Things really were too complicated. We both had responsibilities. Separate interests. Separate places we called home.

Plus, I had to think about the children. If I were to allow him in our lives, and then things between us went sour again…

Dane spread my knees, making room for his broad shoulders and opening me wide.

And then all thought was driven from my mind as he kissed my sex, and his tongue found my clit.

“Ah!” I moaned and grabbed his shoulders, then slid my hands up to tangle my fingers in his hair.

Dane made a satisfied sound and slid his tongue down my slit, tasting all of me before returning to the needy bundle of nerves at the apex of my thighs again.

His touch was like fire, and I was melting ice. I suddenly didn’t care if someone walked in on us. I wanted him to turn me to liquid pleasure on this conference table. Then, with my legs still shaking with pleasure, I wanted him to bend me over the table and drive deep inside over and over and—

Then there was a loud knock, and a voice came through the conference room door. “Alpha?”

“Fuck!” Dane pulled back. From his place on his knees, he looked up at me. His dark eyes were fogged with lust.

“Alpha, I just wanted to let you know the dinner you wanted prepared is ready. We’ll serve it in your room shortly, like you asked.”

For a moment, Dane looked like he was going to ignore the interruption and dive right back in. But then he rose. He licked his lips, then wiped the back of his hand across his mouth.

He offered me his hand. Usually, his appearance was immaculate, but now he looked sexy and rumpled, especially his hair where I’d threaded my fingers through the silken soft strands.

I placed my palm delicately over his. It looked so small in comparison. His long fingers closed over mine, and he tugged me off the table to lean against his chest.

He kissed me, and I could feel how satisfied he was when I tasted myself on him.

“I am going to feed you,” he said, his voice low, “and then I am going to fuck you all night long.”

We ate dinner in the sitting room. It was the outermost room in Dane’s suite of rooms, with two chairs and a small table in front of the fireplace.

It was late summer and too hot for a fire, but I could imagine how cozy a spot like this would be when it got cold. The chairs were broad and comfortable, and I could see us here with the twins in the evenings, reading to them before bed or just being together as a family.

Fear rose up to strangle that thought before I let it get too far.

I was thinking too far forward, too fast, awakening hopes I’d put to sleep years ago. Hopes that were better off staying asleep, hidden deep in the darkest corners of my mind.

Dane and I were business partners. We could possibly be co-parents, if he didn’t turn custody of the children into a battle.

We could never be more.

The dinner Dane had asked for was one of the most delicious I’d ever tasted. I told him so, and he smiled. “A rogue came to me a few years ago—a chef. He was a decent man and proved himself, so I made him part of my pack. Best decision I’ve ever made.”

I nodded and savored the last of my meal. We hadn’t taken our eyes off each other for the entire meal, devouring each other with our eyes as we ate our food.

I couldn’t stop wondering when he was going to rise and stalk over to me with all that dark need in his eyes.

As I watched, he gripped the table with both hands, his knuckles turning white. “Keep looking at me with that much hunger, and I’ll throw this table across the room and have you in that chair.”

My breath caught, because he really sounded like he would.

In all the years I’d dreamed of this, I had never even come close to imagining how good it would feel just to have him want me.

It made it difficult to keep my wits about me. I knew I shouldn’t indulge this but…

Maybe I could put my fear of my own darkness aside and know what it was like to be truly loved by him. Just once.

Just then, the door flew open. My heart leapt into my throat as both the twins darted in. “Mommy, help!”