Gray Back Ghost Bear(32)

With a sigh, she pushed up on her tiptoes and kissed his throat, right where his pulse was tripping. “You will make a good daddy someday.”

Creed whistled the ten minute warning behind them as he pulled down the tailgate of his jacked-up truck and began to unload spare lumber.

Jason grabbed her hand and pulled her up the porch stairs of the screened-in porch and into his trailer. Inside, he kicked the door closed behind them.

“What are you doing?” she asked through a giggle as he unzipped her jacket.

“All that talk about making a baby made me want to practice with you, Ranger. Shimmy on out of those pants, quick now. We only have ten minutes.”

“Challenge accepted,” she murmured as she stripped down.

Jason was faster and was clad in nothing but a smile in no time. He picked her up and fell onto the bed with her, then threw the thick comforter over their heads.

“I like this,” she whispered, holding down the corners of the covers. “It’s like our own little world in here.”

Jason stared at her with such adoration, her heart thumped erratically in her chest. She’d never imagined in her lifetime that a man would look at her the way Jason did, and somehow, after all her travels, she’d found him.

“Can I ask you something?”

Georgia nodded. “Anything.”

“You can say no.”

“Jason, ask me.”

“I know you love ten-ten, but…I want you to move into my trailer. With me.”

Georgia pulled his palm to her mouth and left a lingering kiss there, stalling so her words wouldn’t come out all breathy and excited. “What if you get tired of me?”

“I won’t. I want you in my bed. I hate having to say goodnight to you at your doorstep, and I stay up half the night staring at the ceiling thinking about you. Wishing I could hold you and talk to you when I want. I want to wake up next to you.”

She kissed his palm again, enjoying how nervous he seemed. As if she was going to say no. Two weeks ago, she’d been living in a cold ranger tower thinking about him all day and all night, and now he wanted her with him always. She must’ve fallen into a field of four leaf clovers she didn’t know about.

She pressed her hand against his chest to feel if his heart was beating as fast as hers. It was. Right here, with his question hanging in the air between them, in the warmth of his home and bed, she could see her future stretch on and on. She’d always flown by the seat of her pants. She’d had to with this job, but Jason offered her stability. He offered her a happy life.

She hated sleeping so close, yet so far away from him, too.

Slowly, she leaned up and sipped his lips. When she eased back, Georgia nodded her head and left the answer in her tear-rimmed eyes.

Jason smiled and shook his head as if she’d bewildered him, eyes dipping to her lips before he kissed her.

He slid into her slowly, his powerful body curving over hers. The muscles in his back tensed and flexed under her palms as he filled her, then pulled out slowly. His tongue brushed hers as he pushed into her harder.

A soft moan sighed past her lips as she reveled in how gentle such a powerful man could be. He liked it hard, and from behind best. She’d learned that over the last couple of weeks, but he rarely gave into the instinct to flip her over, and he always made sure she came first before he took her from behind. But most of the time, he was soft, drawing her orgasms out with sweet touches.

Jason gritted his teeth as he thrust into her again, his eyes blazing that light silver that she’d grown to cherish. The animal inside of him wasn’t what had broken him. The animal Tessa had given him had enabled him to weather things that would’ve brought weaker men to their knees. His bear had made him strong enough to wait for Georgia to stumble into his life.

She gasped as he gripped her wrists and held them over her head against the mattress. The soft snarl that rattled his throat as he bucked into her faster sent delicious shivers up her spine. She cried out his name as release exploded through her middle. Fists clenched, nails dug into her palms. Jason slammed into her again and froze, every muscle in his body rigid against her as his dick throbbed inside, warming her from the middle out with his release.

Georgia’s chest heaved as Jason’s kisses trailed to her jawline, then to her ear. She reveled in his warmth. Outside, the day was cold and gray, but in here, everything seemed brighter. Troubles didn’t exist under this blanket fort he’d made. She wished she could linger in this moment for hours, connected to her mate and sated from his careful attention.

Outside, Creed trilled a whistle that made Jason hunch into himself. Georgia rushed to cover his ears, but he bit the inside of her arm playfully and pulled out of her.