She suspected her new brother-in-law had sent Tor to her because he had known that she would feel connected to him because of his life as a hunter, and that Tor would understand her and know how to handle her because of it too.
Eve lost herself in conversation with her sister, finding it fascinating as Lilith told her about how she had met Lincoln and came to rule a bloodline. The hours seemed to fly by as she listened and added titbits about how her life had been, breaking things about her turning and everything up to when she had met Tor slowly to her sister, letting it out of her little by little.
Tor was always there beside her, either talking with her as a group, or speaking to Lincoln about business. He touched her back from time to time, a small contact that reassured her whenever she felt tense or the memories of her time in captivity began to overwhelm her.
Lilith yawned and quickly covered her hand with her mouth.
Lincoln smiled. “Lilith is still in that stage where she cannot resist the rising sun.”
Eve remembered going through that and how she had hated it. Lilith took her hand.
“I want to keep talking,” her sister said and Lincoln shook his head.
“She will fall asleep on you. She always does when she wants to keep doing something.” The wicked glint in his eyes said Lilith didn’t just fall asleep when she insisted on continuing a conversation into daylight hours.
Lilith scowled at him. It didn’t deter Lincoln.
He rose from his seat beside Tor, took hold of Lilith’s hand, and pulled her onto her feet. “Come along. You can speak with your sister more later. I am sure she is tired too.”
Eve took Lilith’s free hand and pressed it between her fingers. “We can talk later. We have all the time in the world.”
Lilith smiled sleepily. “Literally.”
Lincoln escorted her to the door and looked back at her and Tor. “It is good to have you home. Your room is ready on the main floor with ours. A servant will show you. Goodnight.”
“Our room,” Tor whispered to his knees and Eve smiled at him.
“I have the feeling this is going to take some getting used to for both of us,” Eve said and eased onto her feet.
A young woman entered the room and bowed her head. Tor stood and linked hands with Eve and they followed the servant up to the first floor of the mansion, and along the dark green corridor towards the end of one of the wings. The woman stopped outside a wooden door and bowed her head.
“Thank you,” Eve said and the woman left them. Eve pushed the door open and her eyes widened.
She stepped slowly into the sumptuous rich blue room, her eyes only growing wider as she took in the opulence of it and the sheer size. It was huge, making the four-poster bed look tiny, the space around it enormous. Long black curtains hung across the three windows opposite her, closed to block out the dawn.
Tor shut the door behind them and she glanced at him. He looked as shocked and out of place as she felt.
“Our room,” she said and looked around it again, taking in the white and gold bathroom off to her left, and the large flat-screen TV on a wooden side cabinet opposite the foot of the bed, and the elegant wardrobes and dressing table. “I don’t think I’ve ever had a room like it.”
Tor chuckled. “I know I haven’t.”
She turned to face him. “You think we’ll fit in here?”
He lifted his broad shoulders. “Not sure. It might take some getting used to. I’ve never shared a room before.”
Eve smiled now and sauntered over to him. “You’re sharing more than a room.”
“My position too, apparently.” He mock-scowled at her. “Comes into my life, turns it on its head, and takes my solo position of hunter and turns it into a double act.”
She placed her right hand against his hard chest and pouted up at him. “But think how great we can be together.”
He grinned wickedly. “I already did. We make a good team, but we could make an even better one.”
His hands came down on her hips and he held them tightly in his large hands as he started walking with her, backing her towards the bed.
“Yeah. How’s that?” She tilted her head back and his gaze turned hooded, fire crackling in his warm blue eyes as they zeroed in on her lips.
“You said you want to mate with me.” The sound of those words spoken in Tor’s husky, deep voice sent a hot shiver through her, melting her bones and making her sag in his grip as her knees weakened.
His gaze intensified, scalding her mouth, and she tipped her head back further, on the verge of begging him to kiss her.
Eve slipped her good hand up to his shoulder and wrapped it around the back of his head. She clutched it and forced him down, bringing his mouth to within bare millimetres of hers.
“I do want to mate with you,” she whispered against his mouth. “I want this to be forever.”
Tor growled, dragged her hard against the solid wall of his body and kissed her fiercely, stealing the air from her lungs. She melted into him, lost in the passion of his kiss and the hunger he awakened in her, hunger that had been there from the moment she had set eyes on him.
Hunger that would never abate.
It ruled her and it ruled him too.
It had brought them together and set them on a new path, one that she was glad to walk with him, no matter what lay ahead for them, because they would always have each other.
Tor breathed against her lips, a single word that filled her heart with light and happiness that banished the darkness from it, before he sank his fangs into her neck and connected them in a way she would always crave.
“Forever.”
The End
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The Mating Challenge
by Bonnie Vanak
Alpha werewolf and ranch owner Aiden Mitchell desires the curvy, vivacious Nikita Blakemore, alpha female of the Blakemore pack. He will have her as his mate and no other. To force her hand, Aiden maneuvers her into hosting a Mating Challenge, the ultimate warrior competition for werewolves, where males fight for the right to mate and breed with a female alpha. Fiercely protective of his future mate, Aiden will do anything to make her his own, even fight to the death...
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Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
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PROLOGUE
The Mitchell Ranch, northern Montana
“You’re an animal, Mitchell. Beast. Not a wolf. You’re a savage.”
Click.
Aiden Mitchell dragged in a deep breath and hung up the phone. Nothing like being insulted by the woman he’d intended to make his forever mate. But he was accustomed to her sharp edges. Liked them, in fact.
Nikita’s mood had grown worse as the Mating Challenge drew closer. He supposed it was the stress.
It was almost time for him to finally get mated, and claim the female he’d chased after for five long years.
Nikita Blakemore. Alpha leader of the Blakemore pack and owner of the Blakemore Ranch. Sweet and fiery Lupine, one of the toughest wolves he’d ever known.
Almost as tough as himself.
Inside his office at the pack’s lodge, Aiden Mitchell propped a booted foot upon his desk as he regarded the birdhouse before him. Painted powder blue, it had little hearts and flowers decorating it. He’d spent hours thumbing through catalogues to find the perfect birdhouse as a mating gift.
Nikita would adore it. She had an array of bird feeders in her back yard, and mentioned wistfully wanting to have hummingbirds nest and feed there.
Soon as he won the Mating Challenge and Nikita, he’d build her a nice nest, too. A big one, with a king-sized bed for all the hours he planned to make long, slow love to her.
Or hard and fast love.
Or upside down.
Hell, he could find several ways to sexually bond with her. And bite her on the neck, giving her his mating mark to seal their union and prove she was his. His blood ran hot and thick as he envisioned Niki naked beneath him, her sweet blue eyes dazed with pleasure as he nudged open her plump thighs and pushed himself deep inside her body…
He just had to remember that could never, ever do something stupid as falling in love with her. No, not him. Long ago, he’d made a promise to his old man. The bastard.
You’re a godsdamn fool if you fall in love, Aiden. You’re incompetent enough as it is and you’ll make a lousy alpha leader. Don’t be an ass, too. Love is a bitch that will rip your heart apart and an alpha must never let that happen.
Alastair, his father, had fallen in love with his mate, and when she died, everything went to hell. Aiden vowed he’d never do the same. No woman, not even his future mate, would rule his heart.
He just needed to get the Mating Challenge over with, and beat the hell out of his opponents. And then he’d deed Niki’s ranch back to her, as promised, for he held the mortgage on the considerable spread.
He’d bought the note to force her into a Mating Challenge, for the proud leader of the Blakemore pack had refused to take a mate.
Aiden sat up, took a length of red satin ribbon, tied a bow around the birdhouse. It looked lopsided, but good enough.
A brisk knock came at his door. He glanced up. “Yeah?”
Kyle Morgan entered, his jeans dusty. One of the two best hunters in the Mitchell pack, Kyle was a good cowhand as well. The ranch ran like a well-oiled machine, thanks to Kyle.
Aiden’s gaze sharpened. Wide shouldered and leanly- muscled, Kyle looked like just another tall, muscular cowboy, except for the distinctive Z slashing his left cheek.
“Did you finish building the new corrals?” he asked. They’d need them for Niki’s horses when she came here to live at the ranch with her pack.
“Assigned that to Garth and Jake. I had to round up some stray cattle.” Kyle pushed back his Stetson. “I know you’re leaving for Nikita’s soon, so I stopped by to wish you luck. Not that you’ll need it.”
“Thanks.” Aiden pushed away from his desk and looked at Kyle. “I need to see Sam. Where is she?”
“She and Darius went riding. When I saw them, they were going to take a shower.”
As Aiden started for the door, Kyle added. “Together.”
Terrific. He shook his head. “Going to be a long shower.”
“Uh huh.” Kyle shuffled his feet. Aiden glanced at him. The half Lupine, half Satyr shifter was taciturn, but never this quiet.
“What’s up?”
Kyle finally dragged his gaze up to meet his. “Arianna’s pregnant.”
Joy and envy rushed through him. Aiden swallowed back the envy and engulfed the shifter in a giant hug. “Congratulations. About damn time.”
A dull flush tinged his cheeks. “Yeah, we tried. Hard. She’s about three months.”
Three months? Aiden stared, waiting for the explanation.
“We wanted to wait to tell you until we were sure she was far enough along. In case she lost the baby.”
Still, he waited.
“Ah, we didn’t want to make a big announcement. Because of your…ah…status.”
His status. His unmated status. Aiden massaged the tensed muscles of his neck. “I’m the one who urged you two to get pregnant. Congratulations, Kyle. Soon as I return, I’ll throw a party for you and Ari.”
He headed
for Darius’ suite of rooms on the third floor. When Darius and Sam completed their bonding in the mating rite, Aiden had given them an entire section of rooms in the lodge for privacy. His best friend and beta deserved it. Deserved to be happy, after spending ten years believing that his mate was dead.
In the hallway, he went to knock and hesitated. Privacy. He needed to give them space. But he needed Sam. He’d grown to love the half-Lupine, half-Elf like a sister, and trusted her judgment.
Nikita would also need a female friend when she came here to live at the Mitchell Ranch. Sam was a good choice.
Aiden paced in the hallway, hoping they would finish. Soon.
***
“Careful.”
“I’m always careful around you, sweetheart,” Darius murmured.
Standing beneath the gentle spray of water in the shower, she watched her mate. His brow furrowed in concentration, he gently scraped the razor over her soapy skin. When Sam insisted on showering, he’d insisted on joining her, and helping her shave.
Shaving her legs had never been so much fun.
Sam shuddered with pleasure as he finished, set down the razor and then slid his fingers down her ribs to the curve of one hip, and then cupped her thatch. “Shall I shave this?”
“Leave it. It’ll take too much time.”
He trailed his tongue across her breasts, down her belly. Leaning back against the marble wall, she moaned as he parted her legs and began to tongue her. Slow, succulent licks just the way she liked, each flick of his tongue stroking her sex with expert caresses. Darius’ strong hands squeezed her bottom as he buried his face between her legs. Sam gripped his hair as the orgasm slowly built and then she squeezed her inner muscles, feeling herself shatter. She screamed.
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