Twice Tempted: Between Two Alphas (Mia and Cameron) novel Chapter 43

Chapter Forty-Three

JACE

“You won’t make it past the first ward without me, Jace.”

Morgan has her hands on her hips and she’s glaring at me. Or, well, she’s trying to. Ever since she confessed about wanting my protection and me realizing that she could’ve decimated my packmates and chose not to, I’m feeling decidedly affectionate toward this woman.

So even though she’s pissy and trying to be a hardass with me, I’m kind of past seeing her that way. “You’re a marshmallow, Morgan.”

She sucks in a breath like I just called her the most vile insult known to humanity.

I stalk her across my bedroom. I came up here to pack to leave for California and she followed, making twenty different arguments for why she should go and I should stay.

“Did you just call me a marshmallow!?”

I drop my duffel bag and grab her hips. I can feel the bones and I let my hands drop lower to where her thighs fan out. I flex my hands there. “Yeah, that’s what I said. You’re soft,” I squeeze again. “And sweet.”

She sputters.

I drop a quick kiss on her mouth because I'm a sucker for those lips…

“Jace, wait. Seriously. You don’t know what you’re getting into. This is a multibillion dollar corporation and the security is state of the art. That’s before we get into our magic failsafes. I helped lay those foundations. I wove those spells. I’m not being arrogant here. You want to get in and make it out alive…I’m your best shot at making that possible.”

I consider what she’s said.

My brother’s still mixed up with Alpha MacPhearson and there are way too many enemy wolves on site for me to take any sizable contingent of men.

For that matter, pharmaceutical security is going to need skills more in Jacob’s or Mia’s wheelhouse, and much as I’d love to have Mia help, Cam’s not going to let her out of his sight, let alone across the country onto Eric’s range.

“Just admit it,” she says. “You need me.”

I do need her. Just for things beyond reconnaissance or breaking and entering.