Steele (Justice Series #1)

“I think that if my girl is anything like her mother, she’s going to be a stubborn little thing. And if she’s like me, she won’t come easy to this anyway. Either way, I think it’s going to be a hard one to do.” Grandda stood up and smiled. “If you don’t mind none, I’m going to go and have a visit with her. I know it’s her, and I just can’t stand to be away from her this much.”


After Grandda left, Donny and Carlton said that they were going to watch some television. He had to smile at how they’d gotten that to work for them. They’d been whispering in Izzy’s ear when they wanted a movie put in whenever they had the woman alone. It might take them a couple of hours, but they’d get to see it eventually. But Izzy was onto them now, and ignored them just for spite. Instead of taking a few hours, it might be days before they got a movie they wanted. If they got what they wanted at all. Just last night he’d walked in on a musical, and they were sitting there watching it as if they’d been assigned it for homework. That’s how he’d figured out what Izzy was doing.

“Those boys don’t need to be filling their heads with stupid stuff. Why they want to watch some show about a man blowing snot on another one is beyond me. And what they hear from them commercials too.” She looked at him and grinned. “I’ll do what they want sometimes, but for the most part, I’m going to impart some educational things on them when I can.”

“You do know that if they were both still living, they’d be decades older than you are.” She nodded and told him that didn’t make them any smarter than her. “I suppose not. But once in a while, could you give them something fun to watch? I don’t want them moping around here all the time.” She told him she’d think about it. He knew it was the best he was going to get.

Steele found Kari on the phone. He sat down across from her to watch her. Christ, she was beautiful. When she finally hung up, she smiled at him.

“He said he’d go and see her as soon as he could file a flight plan. I told him you’d hurry that up. He agreed with me on the letter, it can be tossed away. A person at the door not so much.” She stretched out and he could see the curve of her breast. His cock thickened to the point of near pain. Adjusting himself, he watched her run her hands down over her full breasts to her hips as she smiled at him.

“Come here.” She shook her head. “Then I’ll come to you. But I want you to know that I’m going to lay you out on my desk and feast on you.”

“I’d very much like that. I’ve been thinking of you doing the same thing since I walked in here.” She stood up and moved around to his side of the desk. “But there’s something I want to tell you first. It’s very…I want you very much.”

Steele watched her as she pulled her sweater off and noticed that her skin looked soft and warm. It wasn’t the first time he noticed it, but it was the first time he wanted to taste the little sweat that was there. Then when she began to unbutton her blouse, he felt his mouth water. He loved her breasts, and her nipples too. Actually, there was nothing about her he didn’t love and want to eat. He watched her until she had it opened but not off.

“What do you think about children?” He looked up at her, his mind still focusing on her body. When she repeated her question, he leaned back in his chair and stroked his cock.

“I want as many with you as I can get. Are you pregnant now, baby?” She shook her head and pulled the blouse off, then her bra. “Would you like to be? Because right now I feel like I could take you several times and never stop. I’d love nothing more than to fill you with our child.”

“Yes, I’d like that too.” He stood up and started for her, only to stop when she put out her hand. “I’m in heat. Do you remember what that means?”

“You’re fertile.” She smiled at him. “See, I paid attention.” Steele put his hands down the back of her pants and cupped her bare bottom, pulling her up against his hard cock. He rocked into her heat several times until he thought he’d come just like they were. He tried to think of anything else to slow his mind and body down, and his mind latched onto Carole, the other panther they’d met.

They had found a leap of panthers and had been talking to the leader. She had been so nice to them that Steele had had the woman and her family over for dinner several times. And with her help, Kari had a great deal more control over her cat, as well as a great many other things she’d not known that she was capable of. She could shift with control and use her body, like her hands, in ways that simply scared him a little.

“She said it would happen three times a year, if you remember, but not to really expect too much if it didn’t happen the first time we were in heat. We could wait if you want.” He nibbled at her jaw and moved to her throat, biting the warm flesh as he went. “I can’t think when you’re doing that.”

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