Vulfen Alpha's Mate by Laina Kenney Read Free Book Online

will accept my mate,” he
    declared arrogantly, “and their allegiance is forever.” “No divorce, then?”
     
    His expression when he pulled back from her was blank, so why did she get the impression that he was hurt?
    “Never.” The word was firm, short. “You would never be permitted to leave me. I could not continue to live with half my soul torn away. I would come after you always.” His eyes were changing, glowing fiercely. “Ellie, we are not yet fully mated. I can still leave you tonight, give you your freedom, and it will be forever. I can give you that gift.”
    He grasped her hips and began to push her away.
    “Wait, no! I don’t want that,” she protested, clinging stubbornly to his shoulders as he tried to put her aside. “I want you. I want us! I’m not saying no to you. I’m just trying to understand all of this.”
    “You are uncertain of me.” “Well, it is a bit of a shock!”
    Rylek sighed. “Yes, it is a shock for me as well.”
    His tone was wry, and he was no longer trying to lift her off his body where she was holding him strongly. Ellie began to relax.
    “Ellie, you must know that I did not expect to find you. Not tonight, certainly, but truthfully—not ever. I had become…resigned to living without a mate of my own. When I first scented you, I doubted the magnitude of the gift that was being offered to me.”
    His quiet statement had Ellie wrapping her arms more tightly around his brawny neck, offering the physical comfort of her body to assuage the terrible loneliness laid bare by his revelation.
    “This choice you say you’re giving me, it means you’ll leave me tonight if I choose to be free?”
    When he nodded, she continued, “Would you offer me freedom if I were a vulfen female whose scent appealed to you? If I were a vulfen female who was your mate?”
    “No,” he said flatly, his eyes suddenly fierce and hot, burning into hers. “I would seduce you and give you the mating bite immediately, so no other warrior could steal you from me. I would leave my scent all over you, inside you, as a warning to all other males to keep their
     
    hands off the treasure that is mine alone—if they want to live.” Ellie shivered as his words sank in.
    Rylek’s glowing eyes were locked on hers. “So the other males would know who will kill them if they fail to resist your dangerous beauty.”
    Dangerous beauty indeed. She almost laughed. Her mirror showed all her faults quite plainly, but if this amazing male wanted to call her beautiful, she certainly didn’t intend to argue the point.
    Ellie smiled softly. “Seduce me then,” she sighed in an open invitation. “Be my mate.”
    “Ellie! Yes, my beautiful mate.”
    The last word was almost inhumanly deep. He wasted no time. His hands roved over her body with devastating precision. His mouth began to taste her skin, openly savoring her essence.
    The touch of his lips on her skin was mesmerizing, and she sank into the simple pleasure he offered. She let her eyes close and basked in his focused attention. When he finally took her lips with his, she was smiling, languid and aching to experience the tumultuous power of his kiss.
    As their mouths fused, her fingers moved down the buttons of his white shirt, unfastening each one and pushing the shirt off his massive shoulders. She ran her fingers appreciatively through his dark chest hair, exploring his tight male nipples.
    His own hands were busy divesting her of her silk robe, turning her so that she was lying on the sofa, stopping only when she was completely bared to his smoky gaze. His eyes were heavy-lidded as they moved down her body, lingering in intense male fascination on her most feminine places until she moaned softly and quivered in his arms. She felt the weight of his gaze like a physical caress. She curled her body against him in a plea he read immediately.
    “Your body is begging me,” he said sensuously, and Ellie had no answer except the uncontrollable and