Naked

Aira’s POV

My skin burned under Knox’s gaze as I undressed. It was the boldest thing I’d ever done, but I thought it surely must have been all right because Knox was my mate.

Still, when I got down to my panties, I ducked behind a tree to take them off, then shifted.

Knox smirked at my modesty and stripped in front of me, not ducking behind anything to take off his own underwear. I swore I felt myself salivating and had to force myself to look away.

When I looked back there was a big brown wolf grinning at me.

‘Like what you saw?’ he asked over the mind-link.

I was glad I was in wolf form so he couldn’t see me turn beet-red. ‘Yes,’ I admitted.

‘Good. Me, too.’ Knox padded over and nuzzled me.

I felt all soft and squishy inside. ‘Come on, let’s go for a run,’ I said, taking off through the tree……