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  Lilly exhaled into her pillow as her body quivered in bliss underneath her warm covers. When her tense muscles finally relaxed, she stared out of the nearby window, feeling more alive than ever.

  Chapter Four

  Lilly tightened the strings on her apron and kicked her feet into her white sneakers. Bodhi stood in the kitchen as big and mighty as ever while he cooked some burgers on the griddle. Now, it all started to make sense. No man could be as sturdy and built as Bodhi was without being some sort of mythical beast. She still couldn't get her mind off of him. And Lilith knew it was silly to spend so much time focusing on one man. Bodhi was still a man after all, but a part of her felt excited that she could even have these feelings again.

  Aside from that, she felt overwhelmed. Tallulah hadn't shown up for her shift and now Lilith was running double the tables.

  Quickly, she stepped up to Bodhi.

  "Kinda have my hands full here, any word on where the hell Tallulah is?" Lilly asked picking up a tray of food.

  "I was thinking the same thing about Sage. His set should have started by now, damn kid doesn't take anything seriously..." Bodhi growled.

  Suddenly, the door swings open and Sage forced himself inside.

  "Holy shit..." Bodhi whispered.

  Lilly cocks her head to the side not really understanding what's going on. But when she turns to see Sage's heavily blood shot eyes, it's now obvious.

  "Oh no!" she blurted out. "Your brother is hella drunk!"

  "Fucking, Sage!" Bodhi fumed.

  Before Sage took another step forward, he tripped faced down on the floor.

  Bodhi glanced over to me. "Take care of this. Help him to my bedroom, alright. The last thing I need is for this jackass to make a scene."

  Lilith panicked "What about the tables?"

  Bodhi nodded. "Don't worry about it. I got it."

  Lilly grabbed one of Sage's bulging biceps and veered up from the tile diner floor.

  "Alrrighhhtttt, come on big fella!" she grumbled.

  She then dragged Sage, half conscious, to the back of the diner. She sensed an intense pain in her back and knew there was no way in hell she'd make it all the way to Bodhi's room. With her bedroom right around the corner, she stopped immediately and slammed Sage down on her bed.

  "Jesus, you're heavy," she gasped. "Why are you drunk off your ass, Sage?"

  Sage only studied Lilly's curvy features. He then wrapped his arm around her back and pulled Lilly up against him.

  "Wait? Wait? What are you doing?" Lily gasped as Sage pinned her underneath his weight. Lilly felt the stiffness of his crotch press up against her thigh. Sage held her as he greedily took her in his mouth. He chewed her bottom lip and then invaded Lilly's mouth with his tongue.

  As Lilly tried to push him away, her fingers felt the contours of his muscles through his henley tee. Sage was all hot-blooded man. And it made Lilly furious that it attracted her.

  You must stop this! Lilly thought.

  "It's chaos out there, but I think I finally got—" Bodhi strayed into Lilith's room at the worst possible time.

  "Lilly?" Bodhi erupted.

  Sage rolled back and looked groggily into his brother's eyes.

  Bodhi lunged at him, knocking Sage down on the floor.

  "You get the fuck off of her!" He roared. Sage exploded up from the floor, shoving Bodhi against the wall.

  "Oh, it's not like you could ever satisfy her—like I could," Sage teased.

  Before Bodhi could shove him down again, Lilith screamed at the top of her lungs.

  "Bodhi! Sage! Cut it out now!"

  Bodhi released Sage out of his strong clutches. Sage straightened the wrinkles in his shirt. He then took off out of the room.

  "Good Fucking Riddance," Bodhi growled.

  "Just let me speak with him. He's drunk and something's wrong,” Lilith insisted.

  *

  Lilith raced off behind Sage.

  "Slow down, will ya?" she cried.

  Sage just kept on stomping forward down the sand dunes and towards the beach.

  "Are you gonna tell me what's really going on or are you just gonna be a baby about it?" She asked wishing Sage would just stop brooding.

  "Don't even say that word..." Sage grunted.

  "What word?" Lilly shouted throwing up her hands.

  "Baby?"

  "Why not?"

  "Tallulah's pregnant—at least that what she says...."

  God, Sage. How could you be so stupid getting a gold digging weretiger knocked up like that?

  "A baby isn't the end of the world, Sage."

  "No, but it's the end of everything else I wanted."

  Lilith didn't understand.

  "I'm talking about you, Lilly. I barely got a chance to get to know you—and now I've gone and made the biggest mistake of my life."

  Lilly didn't even realize Sage had any real feelings for her. This whole time she just figured he was the biggest player on the island. She thought he'd be willing to spout any lie if it meant getting into some girl's pants.

  "Well, I wouldn't just take Tallulah's word. They’ve got to have some kind of weretiger paternity test, right? Then you can know the truth," Lilly suggested.

  He smells so good. She thought as she stood at Sage’s side.

  Sage stopped Lilith as she started to trek back up the sand and towards Wild Cat Diner.

  "So, you and Bodhi are a thing now, huh?" Sage asked grabbing hold of her arm.

  Lilly shrugged. "I'm still trying to figure it out. I don't really know what we are. But yes, Sage. I like your brother."

  Sage then let go of her arm.

  "Do you love him?"

  Lilly laughed. "We just met. You can't fall in love with a man you just met."

  Sage cocked a drunken eyebrow, "Tigers do it all of the time."

  "Well, maybe tigers should be more... y'know. Reasonable... take things slowly..." I replied.

  Lilith could see that the alcohol was now burning off and that Sage seemed a little more calm and collected. He looked at her with those flaming eyes, and she immediately had to look away.

  "My big brother is one lucky tiger. I had my eye on you the day you showed up in our rink-a-dink diner," Sage confessed.

  Lilith knew that if she hung around Sage's gorgeous musclebound body, she'd only get worked up again. Even though the tiger might be a father to another woman's cubs, she still couldn't quit being obsessed with how sexy and tantalizing Sage was.

  "I've got to go, Sage," she exhaled pulling away.

  Sage twisted Lilly around and gave her a fiercely deep kiss, holding her so tight her breasts pressed up against his chest. His length was still as hard as when Sage manhandled her on the bed.

  "In case you forget..." he whispered, giving Lilly one last sniff of her hair.

  Lilith stumbled away with the strong urge of needing to be touched. She noticed the WE'RE CLOSED sign being hung by Bodhi in the window.

  Thank God!

  Because given the need that surged all over her body, she knew that Bodhi would be just the thing.

  Chapter Five

  Lilly rushed through the door and saw Bodhi pressure washing the dishes in the sink. Without thinking she pulled him around, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. Bodhi widened his eyes.

  "Woah, well now..." he breathed when Lilith finally let up. "What's gotten into you?"

  "I need you to touch me..." Lilith pleaded trying to go in for another deep kiss.

  She kissed him so hard Bodhi pressed his hand on the cooling stove.

  "Oh, I'm so sorry!" Lilith cried.

  Bodhi spoke fast, wanting nothing more than to taste her lips again. "No worries, I heal fast..."

  Bodhi then groped Lilly's hips, ripping her stained apron off of her sun-yellow dress. Lilly kicked of her scuffed white tennis shoes gazing into Bodhi's smoldering golden eyes. He pulled his shirt out of his pants and then ripped out the buttons. Lilly laughed at the sound of loose buttons skipping acr
oss the tile floor.

  Bodhi struggled to pull down the top of her dress. With enough force, he yanked down both her top and bra and took Lilly's nipple into his mouth. Lilly moaned as Bodhi closed his hot mouth on her nipple while posting her up against the fridge. The two of them stopped for a second, panting heavily, to really look at each other's eyes.

  Lilith hadn't made love to a man for almost seven years, and she hardly counted the times with her husband. Hogan didn't care one bit to try and satisfy her. Not like the way Bodhi touched her, tasted her and ravaged her like she always dreamed a man would take her. The strapping weretiger gathered the curvy Lilly into his arms.

  Lilly pointed. Noticing that they passed her bedroom. "Where are you going? My room's right there!"

  Bodhi shook his head. "I can't that whole room is marked with Sage's scent."

  Bodhi charged up the stairs with Lilly bouncing in his arms. He turned the corner in his room and thrust Lilly on the bed. Lilly laughed so hard she could hardly undo Bodhi's black leather belt.

  Bodhi let his hand drift down her curvy thighs. With an aching speed, Bodhi tore the soft white stocking at Lilly's crotch and shoved her cotton panties aside.

  Bodhi savored the taste of her, heat letting his scratchy tongue lick down deep into Lilly's hot folds. Lilly moaned again tightening her thighs around Bodhi's head.

  Oh, Sage. She thought in her head. I mean. Bodhi. Dear lord!

  Sage's hot kiss on the beach only made her want Bodhi to take her pussy from every angle. In the back of her mind, she knew this was a game Sage was playing. He wanted her all hot and bothered with his sexy image on her brain.

  God, Sage! What the hell have you done?!

  Bodhi held on to Lilly tight, flipping her over and lifting up her dress. Bodhi inhaled a deep breath with an eagerness to feel her warm sheath around his hard length. Lilly looked back as Bodhi drew his cock from out of his gray briefs. With sweat dripping down Bodhi's body, he bent over her and zipped her dress all the way down. Now, all Lilly wore was her Smile and her ripped stockings.

  He teased his cock against her moist clit before easing himself in Lilly's voluptuous heat.

  Bodhi's predator instincts would make him eager to tear into her. But he resisted. He only spread Lilly's legs further and started grinding himself inside her. He then pulled back and roughly pounded deeply into Lillith’s cunt with reckless abandon. Lilly moaned as her hair cascaded over her face with each one of Bodhi's hard penetrating thrusts. Lilly grinded her hips against his cock, forcing Bodhi to groan uncontrollably.

  Bodhi grabbed onto her tightly as his cock pulsed deeply in her pussy and Bodhi came inside her. Lilly's body flinched as her heat clenched around his cock. Bodhi brushed her hair out of her face, still with his hard cock inside her, and kissed her soft lips.

  Lilly could taste the sweat on Bodhi's tongue when she slipped her tongue into his mouth.

  As Bodhi held her in a post-lust embrace, Lilith couldn't help feeling like she cheated on him in some way. For nearly all of it, she imagined Sage propping her up on her knees and rhythmically thrusting deeper and deeper into her without stopping no matter how much she begged. She could see the animalistic lust in Sage's eyes when he kissed her.

  No matter how hard Lilith wanted to forget the entire thing. Her need wouldn't let her. Bodhi fucked her hard and tender, but not hard enough to push Sage from her mind.

  Chapter Six

  "Rise and shine..." Bodhi whispered into Lilith's ear. Lilly blew some of her curly red hair out of her face. And Bodhi had brought her a tray of fresh fruit.

  "How about we just sleep in today?" Bodhi told her swiping Lilly's wild mane from out of her eyes. Lilly looked around and noticed Sage had left his guitar in Bodhi's room.

  She hesitated. "I don't think that's such a great idea. I mean..."

  "Didn't you have fun last night?" Bodhi growled against Lilly's neck.

  Lilith smiled. "Yes, it was incredible really, but I'm worried about Tallulah," she lied. "I'd like to go and find her."

  Bodhi cocked his head to the side. "Tallulah? Don't worry about Tallulah. That girl just can't be fixed. Even the most desperate tigers of our clan have zero interest in mating with her."

  Lilly stuck to her guns. "I need to do this Bodhi. Just because we don't like each other doesn't mean I don't care about her."

  Bodhi rolled away. "If that's what you really want..."

  Bodhi then rose up from the bed to his feet, totally naked, with his sizable length dangling for Lilly to see.

  "I'll just go ahead and fire up the grills..." he rumbled, still feeling the need of wanting to dominate Lilly in his bed.

  As Bodhi deserted Lilly in the room, she picked up the guitar case and set it behind the door.

  "Bo, I'll be back in a couple of hours—tops," she shouted.

  Lilly then pulled on her wrinkled dress and slipped her feet in her tennis shoes. Her ripped stockings still lay on the floor underneath the bed. She grabbed Sage's guitar and slipped out of the door.

  *

  Sage told her that when he practices his music, he likes to sit on Bright Hills beach in the early mornings. Lilly squinted her eyes and noticed Sage sitting there just staring at the sunrise. Quickly, she hiked up the shifting dunes, but before she approached Sage spoke up.

  "It's rude to sneak up on people..."

  "How did you—oh, right. The whole tiger thing... you probably smelled me a mile away..."

  "What are you doing here, Lilly?" Sage asked spinning around in his folding chair.

  "You left this at Wildcat..." and Lilly handed the guitar over to Sage.

  Sage launched up out of his chair and his shadow loomed over Lilly's body. She swallowed hard. "Here. Take it."

  "Is that the only reason you came here? To give me back my piece of junk guitar," he growled leaning in close.

  "Stop it, Sage. We talked about this. I'm with Bodhi..."

  Sage wrested the guitar from Lilly's grasp, taking in the sight of her. Her messy hair blew all about her face because of the early morning chill. Lilly didn't know why Sage always had to be so rough with her. Every conversation turned into some kind of fight. Lilly hated that she just couldn't have a normal chat without being attacked for every word that came out of her mouth.

  Bodhi skulked behind her as she trekked through the sand and back to the car.

  "Don't lie to me, Lilly. Are you gonna tell me that you drove nearly four miles to hand me a fucking guitar? I could have picked it up later tonight. Listen to me, when I'm talking to you!"

  Lilly didn't turn around. Sage ruthlessly grabbed Lilly by her waist. She gasped and simpered in Sage's strong hands. Maybe I liked being abused. She thought. Maybe she felt something for Sage because he had a short temper just like the man she spent so much time running away from. Sage had a true animal buried deep inside him.

  An animal that loved being dirty and disgusting and thought nothing of degrading her.

  Why do I just let him talk to me any way he likes?

  "Christ, Lilly. You don't think you drive me crazy...coming up here in that fucking short skirt—smelling like my brother? I can be rough, but I would never hurt you," Sage hollered, gripping Lilly's hips tighter.

  "I know," Lilly said half-aloud.

  "Then why the HELL do you keep HURTING me!" Sage shouted.

  Lilly lifted her hand to her face crying intense tears. It was true. She came for more than just a friendly gesture. She wanted to see Sage and she couldn't wait till the evening when he'd show up to sing at Wildcat Diner. But she insisted on lying anyway, because admitting she liked Sage also meant admitting she didn't love Bodhi.

  "Lemme go, Sage!" Lilith shouted snatching back her arm.

  Sage only tackled her to the ground.

  Lilith persisted in pummeling him as he worked his way up her hips. She panicked, needing to stop this. And at the same time, not wanting to. Lilly softly moaned when Sage spread her thighs. Her fingers raked lines in the sand as she grabbe
d a handful and hurled it in Sage's eyes. Sage pulled away and Lilly scrambled to her feet.

  "Is this how you make love to Tallulah? Don't pretend you know anything about my life. Yes, I admit it. I'm attracted to you, Sage—okay. But there can be nothing between us if you keep acting like some wild animal. You're thirty-something years old, Sage. Getting drunk and getting in pissing matches—isn't cute anymore. If you’re really an 'alpha'... act like one."

  Lilly then dusted off her dress and slammed the doors of her car and drove off.

  Chapter Seven

  Later that night the usual crowd came into the diner. The late night truckers passing through, the summer vacation tourists, and the down to earth locals. Lilly didn’t even expect for Sage to drop by. Maybe she came on a little too strong on the beach. It's hard for a man to hear, he's screwed up, especially an alpha. You've gone and done it now, Lilly. She worried.

  Bodhi moved in right behind her.

  "It's gonna be less chaos today..." He growled behind her ear, holding her close to his chest.

  "How's that?" Lilly asked.

  "Tallulah, out of the blue, showed up on time for her shift..." Bodhi pointed at Tallulah traipsing around with strawberry and banana milkshakes balanced on her tray. Lilly was shocked to see her there herself.

  Bodhi shrugged and said. "I guess whatever you said to her was exactly the kick in the pants that sassy little hellraiser needed."

  Lilith smiled confused. Early this morning, she never actually saw Tallulah. Instead, she saw Sage. So, she needed to get to the bottom of this real quick.

  Lilly unraveled Bodhi's arm from around her hips.

  "I'm just gonna go over there and say a few words," Lilly said.

  Bodhi stepped back. "Sure thing."

  He then kissed Lilith in her soft red hair and took flight towards the kitchen.

  Lilly dug her fists in her full waist.

  "You've got a lot of nerve showing up here after what you did..." Lilly scolded.