Page 37 of Moody as a Minotaur

I would give him anything. All of me, if he wanted.

It’d been so long since I’d kissed someone. I almost couldn’t remember what it was like, but I knew that wouldn’t matter. Kissing Parker would be different anyway, completely unlike anything I’d ever experienced before, if only because I’d been fantasizing about it for so long.

I swore my whole body was alive with lust.

My cock strained against the confines of my clothes,and I bet I’d feel his erection, too, if our hips were pressed together. And then what? There were too many things on my desk to lay him out there. I’d need a flat space. To strip him. To worship him. For as many times as I’d dreamed of this, I’d never imagined it happening in my office.

In my fantasy, the kiss took on a delicious rhythm of surging forward and retreating. The sound of our panting breaths merged with the pounding of my heart. Our moans mingled. His hand slid off my hips to my lower back, where he pulled me even closer. I wrapped my fingers into the fabric of his shirt, needing to grab on to something before I completely lost it.

Oh. Fuck it. Who was I kidding? I wanted to rip the shirt off Parker’s body. I wanted to see if his chest was covered in soft ginger-colored hair like I’d always imagined. I wanted to follow it down and down and…

He’d arch into me. My imagination was so vivid I could almost feel his length slide against me. We had way too many clothes on…

I couldn’t believe how worked up I was getting over an imaginary kiss. Kisses were usually little more than a pit stop along the way to sex, but I knew it wouldn’t be that way, not with Parker. He might only be a human, but I just knew he’d have the most magical mouth.

Something banged. Was that my heart against my ribs?

Another louder bang?—

No! The hunters were here!

I tore my gaze away from Parker’s. Fuck. How long had we been standing here staring into each other’s eyes, while I imagined all the wicked things I could do to him?Obviously long enough to have missed the hunters coming to break into my office.

Was Jasmine okay? If they’d hurt her…

The door splintered around the lock.

They couldn’t have Parker! As long as I was alive, I would protect him with my life.

He was mine.

12

DISCOVERING THE MINOTAUR

PARKER

One minute I was staring into Levi’s eyes, convinced this wasfinallythe moment we’d kiss for the first time. And the next, his face had turned murderous.

“Huh?”

Levi let out an angry bellow as he pushed me behind his body, shielding me from whatever was going on. Was that the sound of glass breaking? Wood splintering? A door slamming into the wall? I blinked, still dazed from standing so close to Levi, taut with the anticipation of finally having his mouth on mine.

The air around Levi shimmered, and everything about him transformed. His white dress shirt somehow disappeared beneath my fingers, and I was touching warm, bare skin. And his whole body had grown into a more muscular, beefier version.

Beefier. Ha! What a word. Because Levi was definitely beefier in more than one sense of the word.

His head had transformed into something resembling a black bull, including two deadly looking horns that were so massive they gouged holes into the ceiling. Little bits of plaster rained down on us. I glanced down to shield my eyes, only to find his pants were gone now too. They’d been replaced with a little leather loin cloth. And his feet were hooves. Honest to God. Hooves.

“You’re amazing,” I whispered.

But back to that loin cloth… Because fuck. It was so skimpy. It barely covered his shapely ass. My fingers twitched. Was it wrong to want to touch?

“Levi? Parker?” Van sounded cautious. Hearing his voice reminded me we weren’t alone. Damn it. Touching Levi’s butt would have to wait. “Is everything okay in here?”

Levi grunted. “Van? What are you doing here? Are the hunters attacking? We need to get Parker to safety.”

I peeked around Levi’s shoulder to look at Van, our chief of police. Huh. Nana was right, sort of. Our top copwashiding something, but I didn’t think even Nana could have guessed it was something supernatural.