Page 58 of Bred Mate
His knot is starting to soften, and I realize that he is really not going to let me come. And then I realize that there’s a reason for that. One that makes me forget all about orgasms, and sex, and feel sorry for myself.
“We need to go,” he says. “There’s a car waiting for us on the road.”
“Do we have to go right now? Can’t we just enjoy the night a little longer?”
He shakes his head. “I knew you needed what just happened. You needed to hear what I had to say. But we don’t have time right now for anything. I was going to let you stay on the run for a little bit before I brought you in, but I can’t give you, or us, any more time. I need you to come with me now.”
“Why? What could I do that you’re not already doing?”
“Connor is missing. Your mother took him.
I stare at him for a long moment before my jaw unhinges and words just start falling out of my mouth.
“Wow,” I say. “It’s really hard to keep up with us, huh. We just go missing left and right.”
My sarcastic response covers a void of terror that opened up inside me the moment he told me my younger brother was gone. My mother has taken him. I can’t imagine what she has planned, or what she might already have done.
“I’m going to fucking kill her.”
Karl
She’s gone. In an instant. She just gets up and starts running in a direction. She’s panicking. I have to run after her, grab her before she can shift into animal form and do something stupid like try to run all the way to her little brother. I don’t think she’s worn clothes in about a week. It’s really distracting if I am to be honest, but serious things are afoot and I need her in her human form, and unfortunately, I am going to need her clothed.
“Stop!” I say, grabbing her around the waist and swinging her off her feet. “I need you to listen to me. We were following her. We know where she is. She went back to Baltair with him.”
“They’re going to try to ransom him to us for Patrick. It will be a trap. Fuck them. Fuck them both. I’m going to kill them.”
“Calm down. He’s alive. I have Baldwin watching him. She doesn’t seem to be hurting him at all.”
Ellie looks at me with wide eyes. “Did she put silver on him? I’ll kill her if she did. She refuses to acknowledge what she is. She denies she’s a wolf. It’s crazy. She’s crazy. Why couldn’t she just leave us alone?”
“We can’t go off half-cocked. We have to be sophisticated about this, do you understand?”
I look at him. “We have to be sophisticated? We have to besophisticated? Why?”
We start to walk toward the car. Fortunately her mad dash through the woods actually was in the direction of the vehicle.
“Because Rainer thinks his son is missing. He thinks you are too.”
“He hasn’t worked out that the guy’s not coming back?”
“We don’t know. But it’s not a good sign that she’s taken Connor there. So if you want to come with me, get in the car, put a sweater on, and stop feeling sorry for yourself, that would be great.”
We get to the car and I get her dressed. Black jeans, thick boots, a dark denim jacket with a wolf patch on the back and a tank top underneath. She looks cute. She looks like trouble. She looks like she should look.
I put her into the car and I get in the driver’s seat, and I do my best to get us back to the little town where this stage of the saga started.
Ellie has questions.
“Why did we fuck first before you told me that my mother kidnapped my brother?”
I can see that we are going to bicker all the way there if I don’t find some way to distract her—and there’s no real way to distract her given how big the problem is. Margaret is a stone cold psycho.
“You needed it. I needed it. And an hour isn’t going to make a difference.”
“How do you know that? An hour is long enough for a thousand terrible things to happen. The world could end in an hour. You should have told me up front.”
“I did what I wanted to do, and what I thought was best. We’re going to get your brother back. He’s not in immediate danger, and if I thought he was, I would have had one of the ten soldiers I have stationed around that house storm it already.”
