Running Wild

holidays.” Ri realized Seamus was waiting for an answer. His family was important to him. They weren’t perfect. Ri was still somewhat angry that they’d let Seamus down so badly years ago when he’d come out. But they loved Seamus and had come to accept him for who he was. Maybe the same would happen for Ri one day, when he was ready to tell them he was a shifter.
He nodded. “Sure, let’s go there for Christmas.” He brushed a thumb over Seamus’s lips. “I’m hoping you get some holidays for just us too.”
“Ri,” Seamus said in a low voice. He hugged tight, face in Ri’s neck, and Ri couldn’t stand it anymore. He lifted them both in one movement.
Seamus clutched. “Christ, I forget how strong you are sometimes.”
“Don’t forget.”
“You are sounding quite commanding.” Seamus mouthed Ri’s neck, and his arousal ratcheted up. He kicked the bedroom door open.
They had a lifetime to figure out how to spend more of their time together, but right now? Right now, they were going to make love.
About the Author
    To learn more about Joely Skye, please visit www.joelyskye.com . You can reach Joely at [email protected] .
She also writes as Jorrie Spencer ( www.jorriespencer.com ).
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Moon Run
© 2011 Joely Skye
    Wolf Town, Book 3
Iain’s head has called Wolf Town home for six years. His heart, hurt by a childhood spent suppressing his wolf, won’t let him believe he isn’t one misstep away from exile.
During the first moon run of the year, the electrifying connection his wolf makes with Teo, the pack’s beta and resident doctor, has potential mate written all over it. Yet the only emotion that rises above the tangled scars of his past is excitement over ensuring a permanent place in Wolf Town.
Teo can’t believe Iain so easily crashed through his rock-solid resolve never to date within the pack. The young wolf’s artless, fumbling explanation for his attraction only serves to remind Teo why he set those rules—his own past in a dysfunctional pack. Guilt that he let Iain so far under his skin forces Teo to do the one thing his heart rails against. Keep it clinical.
Teo’s apparent rejection not only breaks Iain’s heart, it triggers a deep-seated desperation that pushes him to take a terrible chance for the sake of the pack. And to show Teo their connection is no illusion.
Warning: Contains explicit m/m sex for all the wrong reasons, all the right reasons, and a relationship that starts out on the wrong paw.
Enjoy the following excerpt for Moon Run:
    After plonking his beer on the side table, Teo turned back just as Iain reached him. He grabbed Iain by the arms—not what he’d been expecting. He thought Teo would stand, get out of the way. He thought he was chasing Teo out of his apartment so he could stop feeling this shitty emotion of regret and hurt. Too easily hurt, that was him. But he’d forgotten—because his wolf instincts were worth shit—that Teo was beta and didn’t stand down from challenges, even stupid ones from the pack idiot.
    They glared at each other, Teo’s what the fuck expression sapping Iain of some of his anger. He pulled his legs under him, even as Teo continued to hold him, not allowing him closer, not pushing him away either. Iain’s knees now leaned against Teo’s strong thigh, and he reacted. Of course he did.
    Not how it fucking went, this dance. No. But still, the press against that thigh, the pressure of those large hands on his arms—Iain shuddered in reaction. And when Teo didn’t throw him aside, Iain leaned in and placed his face in the crook between neck and shoulder, while his chest rested against Teo’s side.
    Needy. Never enough. It put people off. He should know. He’d done it before. He was always like this, unless they got down to the fucking right away.
Goddammit. But still he breathed in Teo, soaking up the physical contact…waiting for Teo to gingerly extract himself from this embarrassing display, or for his body to become tense with displeasure at the unexpected embrace.
Just a little longer…
    What was going on here? Besides the obvious. A part of Teo wanted to shove Iain away, but the idea of sending him sprawling caused Teo pain. It was the oddest embrace he could remember, his hands on a man’s