Warriors of Poseidon 02.5 - Shifter's Lady

pulled him even closer, making a quiet humming sound of contentment as the kiss deepened.
     
    The tiny sound seemed to unleash something in Ethan, because he burst into fervent motion, clasping her waist with his hands and lifting her back onto the edge of the kitchen table. He thrust one muscled thigh forward to part her legs, then moved so that he was wedged between them, all the while still kissing her. One of his big hands shifted down to her bottom and pulled her still closer so that her dress rolled up and he pressed firmly against the heat at the juncture of her thighs, nothing but his trousers and the silk of her underclothes between them.
     
    She put her arms around his neck and murmured some sound that meant, Yes, definitely yes, oh please yes, and he wrapped his other hand around the nape of her neck and deepened the kiss.
     
    When they finally broke free to catch their breath, Ethan wore the same shocked expression he‟d had before when they kissed, and she hiccupped a little as her laughter fought its way out past her gasping breaths. “You look like I feel, shape-shifter. Did the world tilt on its axis a little for you, too? Or does my penchant for drama, as my brothers call it, overtake me?”
     
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    His sensual lips curved into a smile, and she tried to stop thinking about how she‟d like to feel those lips all over her body. She had to focus. They were in crisis from all sides, and thinking about how good all that lean muscle would look—totally nude—was not helping.
     
    Heat rushed through her at the thought, and her body convulsively jerked against him.
    He literally growled, like the panther that he was. “You need to stop doing that, or I‟m going to take you right here on this table, ocean girl. And drama, hell. The world didn‟t just tilt, it bounced clear off the damn axis.”
     
    She flashed a seductive smile at him, filling it with the promise of everything she wanted to do to him. She knew the timing was bad. She knew the adrenaline response might be responsible for his reaction to her.
     
    She wanted him anyway.
     
    “If circumstances were different, as you say, I might take you right here on the table,”
    she whispered.
     
    His eyes gleamed, then narrowed, and his hands tightened on her. “Just what am I?
    Some kind of vacation fling?”
     
    She blinked, dumbfounded, then began laughing helplessly. “Vacation fling? What does that even mean? This is the first occasion on which I have ever left Atlantis in the more than four centuries of my existence, so that would not say much for my powers of attraction, would it?”
     
    His jaw dropped open. “Four centuries? You‟re more than four hundred years old?”
     
    Her laughter died in the face of his obvious disbelief. “I have four hundred and seven years. Are you disgusted with the idea of kissing one so much older than yourself?”
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    “I suddenly find the idea of doing it with an older chick quite appealing,” he said, an evil grin lightening the planes and angles of his face.
     
    “An older chick? That cannot be an appropriate term, young man. Perhaps you should learn to respect your elders.” She tried for a stern voice, but the fact that she couldn‟t seem to stop running her fingers through his hair may have ruined the effect.
     
    He put his hands on the bottoms of her thighs and lifted her up off the table, still grinning. “Can I respect you while you‟re naked?”
     
    She heard the wildness in her laughter and realized she walked the edge of hysteria.
    “Ethan, please. We need to figure out what to do.”
     
    He gently let her down, still holding her so close that she had to slide down the length of his body. Both of them were breathing hard by the time her feet touched the floor. But he stepped back from her, evidently agreeing with her assessment. “You‟re right. We need to figure out our plans. The first thing we need to do is get you out of here.”
     
    They both turned toward the kitchen doorway at the sound of pounding feet approaching. Ethan pushed Marie behind him and pulled a very lethal-looking dagger from a sheath at his side.
     
    William burst into the room. “I‟m sorry to disturb you, Ethan, but we‟ve got trouble.
    Travis called for reinforcements. He sent a message that the representatives of all the prides in the western region are on hand to make sure