Enforcer's Heart: (BBW Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance) (Stratton Wolves Book 3) (11 page)

He brushed at his cheeks with the back of his hand and laughed. “I’m never gonna get away from that, am I?”

Lifting a hand with effort, she touched his cheek. “Not a chance. And for the record, think I kind of love you too. Although, if you’ve got some painkillers, I’ll love you even more.”

Riley’s heart swelled, threatening to burst out of his chest with emotion. That she loved him too, after he’d been an asshole, was more than he could’ve hoped for. Even if she didn’t love him, the fact she had survived would have sustained him. Just knowing she was in the world somewhere would have been enough. He would have made it enough.

But… He didn’t need to. She loved him.

And he was the most blessed wolf on earth.

“Painkillers it is.” Bracing her carefully, he rose to his feet with her in his arms. Max brought his truck to the front of the barn and he strode towards it. “Just kind of?”

“Yeah… Kind of.” She smiled, lifting her arms weakly to wrap around his neck. “I might be persuaded by… Oh, I don’t know, your hot body and breakfast in bed. When I don’t feel so shitty, of course.”

“Darlin’, whatever your wish, will be my command.” He stopped by the door, unable to resist the temptation to steal a kiss. It was the softest, sweetest kiss he’d ever had. A promise and a prayer of thanks rolled into one. “You already got the first part of your wish, anyway.”

She blinked, focused on his shoulders. “You’re naked aren’t you?”

“As the day I was born, darlin’.” He grinned and winked at her. Already her color was returning, but that didn’t mean he was going to do anything other than wrap her in cotton wool for the foreseeable future. “Gotta be ready for anything and everything…”

“You’re a pervert, but you’re my pervert.”

He placed her gently in the passenger seat, and pressed another kiss to her lips.

“I am. Yours. For eternity.”

With a sigh of relief, Riley closed the door and strode around to the other side of the truck. He might have been butt-naked, but he didn’t care.

His mate was alive, and despite all the odds, he was taking her home.

He couldn’t ask for more.

Epilogue

She should be dead. Like six feet under, in a box in the ground, dead. Ce rolled onto her back and stretched in contentment. Her wounds were all but healed, barely two days after the incident in the barn. She ran her hand down one side of her ribs, feeling for the puckered skin. Puncture marks, from where Ethan’s claws slid through her skin.

Rosemary, the nurse who acted as the pack’s medic, said she was lucky to be alive. Such damage in a new wolf was usually fatal. Wolf. Just the word, when said in relation to her, made her pause and reach the new presence tucked within her. She’d felt the moment she died. The moment Ethan’s claw punctured her heart, her human heart. It had stilled and fallen silent. But the wildness within wouldn’t let it end like that.

Her wolf roared to life, pouring power through her veins even as Ethan fell, killed by her silver bullet through his brain. Apparently, that was the only way to kill a wolf with a bullet, even a silver one. Something she’d have to pass on to the department.

Her wolf saved her, closing her wounds. Clever critter. It had known she needed not to bleed out, and fixed some of the damage before restarting her heart. She’d heard everything Riley said. His plea to not leave him. His admission that he loved her.

He loved her, and she loved him.

Riley. Warmth filled her at the thought of her soon-to-be mate. He might be big and gruff as pack enforcer, scaring the crap out the rest of them, with her… He was a teddy bear. With awesome abs. And tonight… Finally, they would shift together and run under the full moon.

The door to the bedroom opened, and the man in question entered, carrying a tray and wearing an itty-bitty apron. His smile was pure wickedness.

“Breakfast in bed… Just as promised.”

“Perfect. But I have an appetite for more than food,” she smiled and beckoned him towards the bed.

Their first run was tonight… But they had the whole day ahead of them, and she had a naked man in an apron to keep her busy.

The End

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