aroused in her life. Ty had a body made for sex. So thick, so sexy. She closed her eyes and leaned back against the door. Just her luck she’d be in the middle of masturbating and he’d return, or worse yet, he’d be waiting, watching from some unknown place outside.
Women didn’t get super horny. Women didn’t need sex to complete them. She could almost hear her Aunt Lynn lecturing her on the woes of that three letter word: S-E-X. After all, her mother’s monstrous libido had paired her with a man not of the Silver Fox Clan. At least he’d been Ac-taw though.
Meghan had the right of it, in part. Silver foxes were snotty. The clan had a tendency to think in terms of bloodlines and genetic standards rather than love and affection, or so she’d been taught.
Her mother’s secret, disastrous marriage to her father reinforced the point that mating within the clan prevented many an unhappy relationship.
Julia forced herself to ignore remembrances of Ty’s washboard stomach, golden skin and gleaming silver gaze. The knowing bastard had all but pranced around her, holding that long shaft like an offering.
As tiny as Julia was, they’d probably have trouble fitting.
Her womb clenched.
“No way. No thoughts of sex. Bad things happen around Ty Roderick. Remember that.”
Despite drinking herself into a stupor a month ago—an odd occurrence at that—Julia clearly remembered how difficult it had been to overcome her fears of rejection and ask Ty to make love to her, only to have her fears realized.
“Liquid courage, my ass,” she mumbled. “More like liquid stupidity.”
Still, wanting Ty made a strange kind of sense, from a mating perspective. The sheriff of Cougar Falls, he had the respect, power and strength one looked for in a husband, if one was so inclined to marry. Meghan’s intended , Jason Williams, came from pure human stock. He had no ties to the Ac-taw, none to Cougar Falls, and a family that scared the crap out of Julia. She could all too easily imagine Ned mounting her sister’s head to the wall. Or better yet, stuffing her like the family dog and displaying her like a beloved pet.
She sank down on the couch and closed her eyes, wondering how to handle the mess her life had become.
The first time Julia had arrived in Nowhere, she’d found herself crushed in Ned’s smelly arms. He’d wanted to screw her from the get-go. Somehow, over the last three visits she’d made to Jason’s hometown, Ned’s desire had morphed into some crazy kind of matrimonial need. As if she’d consent to lay down with that man and have his babies.
Eww. He had hair all over him. In an effort to entice her, he’d stripped off his shirt to wrestle Itchy and Snitchy during one visit. The scent of an unwashed Ned, along with sex from one of the locals he’d bedded before coming home, had made her want to gag. Yeah, Julia had no doubt Ned knew less about fidelity than he did about courtship.
“No way Meghan actually thought Ned and I were a couple.” She snorted. Then again, Meghan was in an all-about-me phase. Like a damned teenager all over again.
The girl had smarts. She’d graduated summa cum laude, along with Jason, with a B.S. in Computer Science. Meghan had plans to start her own engineering software business, again like Jason. At least their chosen careers made the prospect of living in Nowhere undesirable. In Seattle, a technology haven, they’d do much better—better even than in Cougar Falls, honesty compelled her to admit.
Yet, in Cougar Falls, Meghan would be safe. The magical totem they celebrated protected the town from unwanted visitors. Those not of Ac-taw blood could literally not see the town. It wasn’t on any map, and only Shifters could find it, be they town citizens or not. If Jason accompanied Meghan home, he’d be aware of the place. But the minute he left the town’s confines, he’d never find it again without help.
Julia wasn’t sure exactly how it worked, but she’d heard the