Beauty and the Wolf by Lynn Richards Read Free Book Online

trembled. She hated when people assumed since she was a big girl that food was her main concern. She’d even had a man in the past state he w ouldn’t be taking her to any of the all you can eat buffets because he didn’t want to be embarrassed if she couldn’t control herself around all that food. That date had needed before it even began.
    Much like this d ate was going to end. She’d known it was too good to be true.
    She rose from the booth and placed her napkin on the table very gently . “I can decide what I want to eat and when I want to eat it . I’ve decided I’m not eating a nd I’m most certainly not eating with you.”
    She turned on her heel and walked away.
    “Well that didn’t go quite like you expected.” Robert leaned back i n the booth watching as his pseudo date f ollowed her friend from the restaurant. Mmmm , he liked the sound of that, his date.
    “What the hell happened?” Jake looked at his father with bewilderment in his eyes. “What did I do?” The number two rule of pack was to keep your mate healthy and sa tisfied. By any means necessary . Sex, food, love. It didn’t matter. The needs of your mate were to be met above anything else.
    “I suspect you didn’t do any thing, Jake. She just needed an excuse to get away from you.”
    “What?” He looked at his dad as if he’d gone crazy .
    “That was some kiss you were giving her outside. I’d say she’s running scared about having sex with you.” Robert tried to keep his expression somber. He loved the fact that his son’s mate was giving him hell. He just hoped it wasn’t too much hell, he’d like some grand pups before long.
    “What?”
    “Sophie isn’t like the other women you’ve dated . She has no confidence in her ability to attract a man. Much less a man like you.”
    “A man like me?”
    Robert laughed. “You’re damn good looking, son, even if I do say so myself. You’re intelligent, rich , and a wolf. In short, you’re a woman’s wet dream.” He frowned. “Do women have wet dreams?”
    “She doesn’t know I’m a wolf. ” Jake motioned the waitress away as she started across the room with th e appetizers he’d requested . They meant nothing now that Sophie wasn’t here. He motioned the bar keeper over and ordered a whiskey.
    “That’s another hurdle you’re going to have to face.”
    At a loss for probably the first time in his life, he asked his fath er what the other one s were .
    “ First, you going to have to convince her you love her. You do love her, don’t you?”
    Jake growled.
    Robert chuckled. “That’s not going to be easy. You’re going to have to wear down her resistance. She’ll be convince d you’re only after her for sex and sex just for something new. ”
    Again, another frown from his son.
    Robert sighed, how had his boy lived so long and not realize what made women tick. “Do I have to spell it out for you?”
    Jake tossed the whiskey down in one gulp. “Apparently so,” he snapped.
    “ Sophie thinks you’re just bored . Trying something different in the bedroom. She doesn’t believe you find her attractive. Women have hang ups about what they look like. Skinny women want big boobs, big boobed women want small waists. Short women want to be tall, tall women want to be short, women with curly hair – ”
    Jake held up a hand. “Okay, I get it. Sophie has some major hang ups because she’s not Cosmos’s body ty pe of choice for women. She’s g oddamn better looking than those skinny twigs they put on the covers.”
    “Those skinny twigs are what you’ve been dating since you came to Anderson ’s . Especially the last four months. Skinny twigs no doubt Mary Ann has told her about in detail.”
    “Well, shit.”
    Jake motioned for another whiskey , a double this time . He t old the man to keep ‘ em coming.
    * * * * *
    Jake arrived on Sophie’s doorstep sometime after midnight . He’d spent the night in the restaurant drinking. His father had spent the night