Mistakenly Mated by Sonnet O'Dell Read Free Book Online Page A

fingers over his chest hairs.
    “So, how long do you think it will take you to pack?”
    Kerry raised her head from his skin, the afterglow faded just a little at his words. She gave him a skeptical look.
    “Excuse me.”
    “Your stuff. I mean you still live with your folks so you won’t have that much in the way of furniture, but clothes and personal items. Could we get you moved in this weekend?”
    Kerry pulled up to her knees and stared down at him. “Moved in?”
    “Yeah, I have a nice place on Pine Ridge Road. You’ll like it.”
    “I’m not saying I wouldn’t. Don’t you think that’s rushing things just a little bit? We barely know each other. I don’t even know your last name.”
    Caleb shifted his arms behind him, pushing his upper body up so he could look into her face.
    “It’s Vander, but what’s with all the looks? We’re mated now. As soon as the month is out, we’ll be married. I’d compromise and we’d combine our households if you had one.” Caleb quirked one of his eyebrows.
    “You want to get married just like that. We barely know each other,” she said incredulous.
    He just kept staring at her like that was exactly what he imagined. “That’s just the way it’s done.”
    Kerry turned, wrapping her arms around her knees.
    “That’s not the way I was raised. It can’t be that simple. What about love?”
    Caleb ran his fingers up the muscles of her back slowly. It made her shiver but that was all it was—a physical sensation.
    “It will come in time.”
    “That’s what my momma said,” said Kerry, blowing her hair out of her eyes.
    Caleb smiled cockily. “Your momma would know.”
    Kerry pulled away from him, getting to her feet. She looked back at Caleb who discreetly covered himself with a bent knee while still looking completely scrumptious.
    “That just goes to show you know absolutely nothing. My momma knows nothing about it. She didn’t follow pack law. She didn’t meet the man she was supposed to mate with a night before. That was it; no going back. She grew up next door to my daddy. She fell in love with him over years of being together. They ran away from home, got hitched at a chapel outside of Vegas, and mated in the honeymoon suite of Caesars Palace . They’re clan shame Caleb. They came back and neither of their families wanted to know them. They took what they could and moved a state over, having to start all over without any help or support. Now Momma’s Momma came around when she had me but Daddy’s folks still won’t even pick up the phone if they know he’s calling.”
    Caleb thought about what she told him. His family was very different—traditional. His parents—although they cared very deeply for each other—never had a passionate love. It was why a lot of were-families often only had the one child. They did their duty with the one and there was no desire to continue on after that. After the first month of mating frenzy and mating dances, the couple could be satisfied with nearness at the end of the day. His parents were fine not seeing each other all day. Not speaking even when they were in the same room. His mother had been more affectionate towards him as a boy then he ever saw her be with his father.
    “I understand.”
    “I really don’t think you do,” she continued. She paced back and forth which distracted Caleb slightly from watching the way her body moved. “They hated the thought of being without each other so much that they chose to lose everything rather than be without each other. Now, I don’t know if you can imagine a love like that as you were raised in a traditional household but I can. I thought I might have found that.”
    Caleb ground his teeth together. He didn’t like to hear her admitting this love for someone other than him. It irked him to think she was someone’s before his.
    “I’ve given it up for you because that’s what the hell I’m supposed to do. Therein lies the problem and makes your job really,