Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 178

I always set my alarm early when I need to be up for a certain time, as I am terrible at actually getting up. I need four or five alarms before actually getting up. So being woken up by Asher tossing me forward at the sound of my alarm had been a bit of a shock. Even more a shock was him suddenly deciding to join me in the shower… but now that his arms were around my waist and his naked body was pressed up against mine, I was not going to complain. I know it is maybe wrong… but fuck… it feels good… and it feels kind of right. It makes me curious how everything else could feel with him.

His kisses make me feel like my whole body is a tingling mess or that it is on fire, so I have been curious about what else his touch could do… but we have always been a little tentative. I am anxious. He would not be my first boyfriend, but he would be my first time… I knew after Miles there would be no fated mate that I would be expected to wait for, but the times I came close to doing things, something stopped me… it just never felt right… but there was something with Asher that did feel right. A connection I can’t explain…

I have wanted him like nobody else. And that feeling had only got stronger. Did it scare me? Hell, yeah, but at the same time, he and I did not have fated mates now. We were single. No complications. We liked one another… And his touch felt good. So fucking good…

I felt his lips slide along my neck in soft and teasing kisses as he pushed his hips a little harder into me. I could already feel the effect our touch was having upon him, as he pressed against me… and the very thought of it turned me on… knowing it was me having that effect on him… he wanted me… and there was no denying now that I wanted him. Yes, I think we may have both tried to resist that attraction in the beginning, but now? Now, I was not fighting it. Now, I just want him… not to mention I was intrigued at this other side of him…

I allowed my head to fall back a little against his chest to allow him better access as his tongue and his lips glided along my damp skin, taking time to tease along the area where my neck meets my collarbone… an intimate area for a werewolf… the place a mate mark would sit… so him teasing there with his kisses took me a little by surprise, but more so the effect it had on me took me by surprise as I was unable to hold back the moan from my lips. It felt good… too good having him touch me there… tease me there…