Their Runaway Mate by Selena Cross Read Free Book Online Page A

door, he pulled it open then turned to look at her and said, “I’d really like to see you for dinner, if it’s okay.”
    She nodded, but bit her lip again. Carter barely held back a groan as he stepped out and closed her door quietly. It was going to be a long two months.
     
    *****
     
    Drew just sat in the office of their Pack’s compound gaping at his mate. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
    “You told her she could leave in two months if she wasn’t happy?” he asked, hoping he hadn’t heard him right.
    Carter just nodded solemnly, and then put his head in his hands as he leaned against his desk. “I didn’t know what else to do, Drew. I didn’t want to say it, but it just popped out and then I couldn’t take it back after I had.”
    Drew was tense all over. He couldn’t lose Anna after all the time it took to find her, especially since once he’d found her, he’d fallen in love with her, instantly. He just sat there, watching his mate as the man tore at his hair. He saw how much Carter was beating himself up over this and couldn’t help but want to comfort him.
    He stood up and rounded the desk to stand beside him. Then he slipped his hand into one of the hands in Carter’s hair and pulled it away in order to get his attention. Carter looked up at him and Drew’s chest tightened at the lost look in his eyes.
    “Don’t worry, Carter. We will just have to work extra hard to convince Anna that she needs to stay with us. It will work out, you’ll see,” Drew tried to smile, even though now, he didn’t really know whether he was lying to himself and Carter, or not.
    “God, I hope so, Drew. I don’t want to lose her.” Drew’s breath hitched at his confession. Just the day before Carter was ranting about how she was nothing but a selfish human, not worthy of their mating. Now here he sat looking completely helpless and afraid that he was going to lose her.
    Anna had a way of wiggling in under your skin quickly, once you gave her a chance. She’d done it to him almost instantly and it seemed, once he let his guard down and his prejudices go, she was doing it to Carter too.
    Drew knelt down a bit until his lips brushed against Carter’s.
    “We won’t let that happen, Carter,” he said before he kissed Carter fully.
    Carter opened for him instantly and he plunged into his mouth. Tasting the tangy delicious taste of his mate, he wondered what it would taste like when he kissed Anna. Would she be sweet and decadent, with a hint of innocence, or would she be spicy and filled with fire?
    Gods, Drew couldn’t wait to find out. He only hoped that he’d find out and it wouldn’t take as long as two months.
    All he knew is that Carter and he had to work extremely hard to keep their mate from running away because neither of them would be able to survive without her now. Damn, it was going to be a long two months.
     

 
    Chapter Four
     
    A month had gone by since Carter had made his declaration to let Anna leave after two months if she wasn’t happy. Drew now stood in the middle of his Pack’s training field conditioning the male members of his Pack into soldiers, and all he could think about was whether, or not Carter and he were convincing her to stay.
    After she and Carter had spoken, she made an appearance for dinner. Everything was tense and no one seemed to eat much that night. Anna had hidden inside her shell and Drew wondered if anything he or Carter did would even matter. He worried that she’d just avoid them at all costs for the entire two months and then disappear from of their lives, forever.
    However, the next day, when they’d come down to breakfast, she was already in the kitchen, sitting at the table, talking to Ella while she made breakfast. She’d smiled at them when they came in, Drew had come accustomed to seeing the same sunshine smile every morning, but it wasn’t the same. She answered them when they told her good morning and spoke cordially toward them about