Ava's Mate by Hazel Gower Read Free Book Online

mess, her lips puffy, and her eyes looked dreamy. He forgot all his plans. He picked her up, the food forgotten, and took her back up to bed.
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    Ava didn’t know a werewolf’s body could ache so much and yet feel the best it had ever felt. She watched Logan as he strolled up to her brother Kane’s front door like he hadn’t just had an almost twenty-four hour sex romp. That’s what it was, she wasn’t fooling herself. Ava knew Logan was trying to get her out of his system, he just didn’t know if it would work. She hoped he didn’t do anything stupid to test his theory, but she had a feeling from his quietness that that was what was going to happen.
    The door opened to her brother’s house before they had a chance to knock. Kane stood with Rane behind him. They both sniffed the air, looked at Logan, then back at her. She bit her lip to keep from laughing when they both raised an eyebrow in acknowledgement of her unmated state. It had been the hardest thing she’d ever done in her life, but she had stopped her wolf from mating Logan. Her brothers might not approve of her mate, but they knew enough about fate to know that she was not totally in control of her destiny.
    Ava raised her eyebrows back at her brothers. She so wasn’t going to discuss her mating with them. She grit her teeth at the standoff, and silence, as no one moved or said anything, then growled. Pushing Logan out of the way, she stomped past her brothers, going to the living room where she found Faith, Kirby, Sandra, and Logan’s brother Hayden all talking quietly about powers and who had what. Kane, Rane, and Logan stalked in after her.
    She plunked herself down on her brother’s ugly lazy chair, turning a glare on Kane when he opened his mouth to protest where she sat. Ava felt Logan come stand behind her chair. Both her brothers picked up their mates, sat, and placed their treasures on top of their lap. Ava smiled at the love that shone from the two women as both sighed and got comfortable on her brothers’ laps. Her brothers stared behind her at Logan with their eyebrows raised, waiting for him to talk and confess his secrets.
    Huffing out two breaths, she groaned. “Kane, Rane, he isn’t going to say anything unless you ask. Don’t you guys know if he was going to tell you, he would have by now.”
    Her brothers shot her a glare. Rolling her eyes heavenward, she prayed for less testosterone in her family.
    “You were quite impressive the other night,” Kane said in a matter-of-fact way.
    She let out a moan when Logan growled, “I didn’t tell anyone about my powers because I didn’t want to be used as an experiment, or like a weapon as you all use my sister. I want to be important for reasons other than my power.”
    Rane growled and probably would have gotten up if the woman in question wasn’t sitting on his lap frowning at her brother.
    Ava sighed at the audacity of men. “You are a weapon, Logan. Isn’t that what the army trained you to be?”
    Even though she couldn’t see him standing behind the chair, she could definitely feel the glare he gave her as he answered. “I’m a different kind of weapon. Before all this supernatural shit, I fought and saved the world from real stuff, not things out of books, or fantasy and all that crap.”
    Ava winced at Logan’s rough talk about what he was and the way he felt about them all. She jumped when he whacked the back of the headrest.
    “I didn’t voluntarily sign up for this supernatural stuff. I don’t want to use my powers for work. I’ve had all I can take on coming to terms with the fact that we’re not the only Homo sapiens on earth. Let alone fighting demons, minions, and zombies. I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to get more involved with you lot. I want to do my job and get the fuck out.”
    Ava shut her eyes, blocking the pain she felt for herself for having a mate that clearly didn’t want her. Opening them, she found Logan had moved from behind her