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  She leaned into his chest and sent out a little prayer as his arms tightened around her. Let it never come to that. Please, let it never come to that.

  They stood caught up in each other’s arms as the hot shower steamed into a fog. She felt Ty’s tension ebb with the steady rub of her chin over his chest. She kept her eyes shut and let her mate fill her senses. The dry, honest scent was something he carried with him, no matter how far he ventured from the desert. The taste of clear forest water played over his lips as she kissed him softly, then harder. Heat pooled in her body as her nipples peaked and her hips snuggled ever closer to his. She let out a sigh. This was good. Sinfully good. Just her and her mate in a cloud of steam that veiled them from the outside world.

  Ty’s hands went from being determined clamps to pliant sponges, tracing her curves, chasing the water along her body. They slid down her rear then scooped her closer so she could feel the hard length of his cock against her stomach.

  “Ty,” she murmured without knowing what she wanted to say. Something about love and faith and forever, but it was all muddled in her head. His responding growl churned her emotions into an even more potent cocktail until all she could do was whimper with the growing ache to join with her mate.

  Ty lifted her so effortlessly she didn’t realize her legs had left the floor until they were wrapped around his waist. The shower wall was cool at her back and his body hot in front. A combination that made the ache in her throb harder. The growl went deeper, and Ty lifted her higher, then looked into her eyes as he lowered her onto his cock. A flash of heat shook her when he slid in, and the hand she threw out to brace herself left a wide smudge on the steamed-over glass stall.

  She moaned his name, clutched her legs tighter, and begged for more. Her mate was not only the biggest, baddest wolf in town but also the most tender and sincere. What had she done to deserve this moment and so many others like it, when passion flowed free as a river over both of them?

  She shook her head. Destiny had smiled on her and delivered her mate. She’d never deny him anything. She’d never doubt, never stray.

  So what are you waiting for? her wolf piped up.

  Nothing, she decided. Not anymore. At that moment, everything seemed clear. She was ready for the next chapter in an already amazing life.

  “Enjoy this, alpha, while you can,” she said, her voice rising as he caressed her breast.

  He lifted his head from her shoulder, breaking off a sucking kiss, eyes showing confusion. “What do you mean, while I can?”

  “Last sex,” she grunted, working herself against him until his cock was seated even deeper inside. So deep, she lost track of her thought.

  “Last sex?” he grunted, punctuating his displeasure with a forceful thrust that sent a tidal wave through her core.

  She gasped, and then hurried to correct herself. “Last regular sex, I mean.”

  He ground his hips against hers, working himself in to the hilt. “Define regular.”

  It took her a second to get her bearings back. What had she been trying to say? Right, the long-delayed subject of cubs.

  “I’m thinking it’s time we got to work on something bigger.”

  He stopped, absolutely still, and for a moment, the only movement was the flare of his nostrils, the stream of water over their bodies.

  “Work?” he asked, so low and lusty it registered in her bones.

  Lana almost repeated herself in hopes that he’d do it again. “The best kind of work. I’m thinking it’s time I go off the pill. You wanted three cubs, right?”

  His teeth nipped her lower lip and held on. “Right.”

  The lusty Rrrrr echoed through her body. Oh, he could utter that sound into her mouth anytime. All the time.

  “So let’s get started,” she said, ending on a whimper at his next thrust. Her fingers threaded through his hair as he started rocking against her. The motion grew hotter, harder until he’d worked her so close to the wall, the full force of his thrusts rocketed through her body. The pleasure-pain swelled within her, taking her higher and higher.

  “God, I hope this is as good for you as it is for me,” she mumbled between gasping breaths.

  “Good doesn’t describe what this is for me. What you are for me.”

  For a man who wasn’t good with words, the man was a born poet. Like the desert, his words created beauty in their simplicity, their openness.

  What you are to me, she echoed. She timed her next breath to coincide with his thrust and clenched down around his length.

  Ty thumped his forehead on the wall next to hers with a deep, lusty groan. When he exhaled into her neck, the heat of his breath went right to her core.

  “Do that again.”

  “You do it again.” She puffed in his ear.

  And he did, and she did, over and over until the glass stall was covered with a dozen smudged handprints that documented their desire. The feeling bubbled and took over until the two of them were clinging to each other, panting to keep up as the pace sped out of control. She was lost in the grip of it, lost in pleasure, her body shaking and her voice scratching at the air as she cried out. Ty grunted as the hot wave of his release filled her, his body going hard as steel.

  Lana shuddered with her climax, clutching him through every wave until she went limp and boneless in his arms.

  “Mate. My mate,” she sighed.

  Love, my love, Ty replied. He held her against his body for a long time, as if she were the most precious thing in his world.

  When he lowered her, the motion was slow and reluctant. Her senses dawdled before pulling their focus back into the space around them. She blinked away the water, willing her runaway heartbeat to calm down. The shower—that’s where she was. She and her mate were making love in the shower in a cozy cabin in the Berkshires. She traced Ty’s chin in long, languid strokes.

  “So what do you think of the Berkshires now?”

  Ty quirked his lips. God, the man was hot when he wore a smile—and nothing else. Wet was a good look on him too. They’d have to install a bigger shower back home.

  “Not bad.” He shrugged then leaned in closer. “But home is better.”

  Lana closed her eyes and imagined the landscape outside. The wooded hills, the hidden hollows, the babbling streams that joined and grew into rumbling rivers. It was beautiful and familiar, yet her inner compass was pointing to a different place, thousands of miles away. A new home had taken root within her, so deep that it was permanently lodged in her heart.

  The desert. Ty. Those two elements defined home for her now.

  “You’re right.” She nodded against his neck. “It’ll be good to get home.”

  He sighed. “Yeah, and back to work.”

  She puffed on his ear and ran a hand down his hip. “There’s work, and there’s…work,” she finished, squeezing her hips close to his.

  The chuckle that rose out of his chest was a rumble from this close.

  “So, what do you think?” she continued. “Two cubs? Or three?”

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  Thank you so much for reading Desert Wolf! You’ll see more of Lana and Ty in the next books of this series—including (shhh!) a hot shaving scene in Desert Blood: Book 2 in the Wolves of Twin Moon Ranch series.

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  Other books in the Twin Moon Ranch series:

  Desert Moon (Book 1)
r />   Desert Wolf (a short story)

  Desert Blood (Book 2)

  Desert Fate (Book 3)

  Desert Heart (Book 4)

  Desert Hunt (a Prequel)

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  More from Anna Lowe

  Desert Moon

  Book 1

  Desert Wolf

  a short story

  Desert Blood

  Book 2 in the series

  coming April 2015

  Desert Fate

  Book 3 in the series

  coming May 2015

  Desert Hunt

  The Prequel

  Coming June 2015

  In the “Masters of the Hunt” Boxed Set

  Desert Heart

  Book 4

  coming Summer 2015