Once Mated Twice Shy by K. S. Martin Read Free Book Online

and moved out of his lap.  “I’ll
be back in a few minutes.  Don’t try to get up.” 
    “Okay.  Can I have
something to put on?”  He got a tee shirt out of a drawer and tossed it to her
then left the room.
    Lettie tried her
legs and they held.  She was getting better then, right?  She went to the
mirror and lifted her shirt.  Wow.  He must’ve been hard up to want to have sex
with her.  She was a mess, running her fingers through what looked like a troll
doll’s hair, she braided it quickly. 
    “I thought you
promised not to get up.”  He said bringing a tray in and setting it down.  She
grinned.
    “I needed to look
at the marks.  I just needed to see.”  Lettie climbed up into the bed and sat
against the headboard.  “I feel better, when can I go home?”  He sighed and put
the tray in her lap.
    “I’d like you to
stay, permanently.”  Her head shook.  “Lettie I know that we had problems but I
think that we can work through them.  I love you.  I’ve always loved you.  I
want to be with you again.”  He sat on the edge of the bed.  “I even have a job
here for you, the pack needs a bookkeeper, and there’s nobody better at that
than you are.”  Lettie dipped her spoon into the tomato soup and sipped it.
    “So you want me to
come back for the pack.”  She watched him intently over her soup looking for
the lies.  In the last few years of their marriage, Lettie found one general
rule good to remember.  If his mouth was moving then he was probably lying.
    “No, I want you to
come back for us, for me.  Whether you do or not, I want you to do the books
regardless.  Once you get going with them, I don’t think it will take very long
each week to do them.  You know I suck at that stuff.  I wanted to thank you
for keeping the bank account like you did.  I needed the money to pay pack
bills, they were all over due, and well, there isn’t much left.”  She sipped
and listened.   “That’s what I meant when I said that you weren’t a productive
member of the pack.  What I wanted to say was that we needed your skills as a
bookkeeper.”  He took a drink of water from the bottle on her tray.  “When you
do go home, take the SUV, it has air.  I don’t need it anymore because I’m not
driving all the way to Lennox.”  Her eyes snapped up to his.  “When I said that
you should give the old truck to me, you didn’t wait for me to explain, you
just ran off.”  He could see she was starting to get angry and backed it up a
notch.  He dropped his head.  “I know most of what happened between us was my
fault.  But I swear Lettie that I’d do anything to put it all right again.” 
She set the spoon down on the tray.  Her soup bowl was empty.  He took the tray
and put it aside.
    “Anything?”  She
asked softly.  He nodded.  “Give up your alpha position, go back to work in
Lennox and move back to the bungalow.”  He stared at her for the longest time. 
Jordan got up and carried the tray from the room.  “Yeah that’s what I
thought.”  She whispered.  “It’s still more important than I am.”
    “It’s not.”  He
said coming back into the room.  “It’s not more important than you are.”  He
was angry.
    “It is Jordan.” 
His head shook.
    “Done.  I will
announce it tomorrow at the pack meeting that they need to find a new alpha,
that my mate wants me all to herself.”  He grinned and climbed onto the bed and
sat across from her.  “If that’s what you want.”
    “If I was going to
stay, I would want to be more important to you than anything else, like I used
to be.  I’m not saying that I will just that if I were.  I still need to think
about that.”
    “You always were Lettie. 
I wanted to be the alpha so that we could have the biggest house, so
that we would be the most important pack members, so that I could stay
home with you instead of driving for hours after spending all day away from
you.”  Her brows