this female was to him. It
made him step back, but not out of her way.
“Beau, is she…is Megan your mate?”
Kyle looked at Maddie and before he could deny or agree with her question the
woman moved toward the door again.
“I said no,” Beau thundered, and
struggled to calm his voice. “Sit down, mademoiselle .
We must talk about what has happened to us.”
“Us?
I don’t think so. The last time someone licked my neck he turned me into a
monster. Not again, never again, thanks. I’ll be going now and I’d appreciate
it if you would just move the hell away from the door.”
Aaron
moved forward and, with a flick of his wrist, a chair was suddenly behind the
female and she was sitting in it. Beau was impressed and a little pissed at the
same time. She was his mate and he would handle her.
“I
would like a word, if you please? I have to explain to the young…what is your
name, mademoiselle , so that I can address you properly?”
The
girl simply glared at him. Beau wanted not to be impressed with her, but he
found it hard to resist her stubbornness. He would deal with her obvious
disobedience in a moment. For now he wanted to set down the rules of their
relationship. He looked at Maddie with a raised brow.
“Oh
no, big boy. You’re on your own here. If you get her name, it’ll be from her,
not me. Sara told me your views on you and your mate.” She sat in the big chair
again and looked ready to watch. “Go ahead, ask her—no, sorry—demand it again.”
“I do
not see the humor in this. She is my mate and there needs to be rules. Merde! The sooner she learns her place in my life the better things will be for her.”
Aaron
sat too and the female jumped up from her seat immediately. Beau had only a
moment to look at the master before he was defending his body against her
fists. She was a wildcat and while he may have appreciated this in a woman, not
in his mate. He brought her close to his body to subdue her before she was injured.
When
her tiny fist connected with his nose and her foot his balls he tried to be
calm, but the pain was too much and he grabbed her leg as he fell to the floor.
He hung on even as the pain radiated throughout his body. When a pain exploded
in his head his last thought was he’d made a mistake. This could not be his
mate.
~Chapter 6~
Megan
was furious. The nerve of that man thinking he could just treat her like she
was some small child. And rules! She’d show him rules the next time he tried
that crap on her. But his smell, the way it had called to…she wasn’t going to
think of that right now. She had to find another job and find it quick. She
thought longingly of her car.
It
had been her last touch with her human side. The only thing she’d had left that
she could feel beneath her fingers that had been hers. She did have her
letters, the one from the Board of Medicine, but it had done her little good
after she’d figured out the sun thing. She thought back on those first few
weeks and shuddered.
She’d
had no idea how much time had passed when she woke in that cave. It had
actually been only a week, but she felt as if it had been months. Her body had
ached in ways she’d thought she’d had a bad case of the flu. But somehow she
knew that it was much more than that. Fear had her stay in the cave throughout
the night. Fear of Alfred coming back and fear that he wouldn’t. She didn’t
have any idea where she was and sat watching the opening of the cave for hours.
Toward
dawn she realized that she couldn’t sit there any longer and moved toward the
opening just as the sun was rising. Her body felt tired, beyond tired really,
and she thought she’d take a nap first, but wanted to find someone to help her.
Alfred had kidnapped her and she wanted to get back home.
By
the time she was several yards from the opening, she realized that she was
feeling strange; her body and mind felt heavy and she could hardly keep her
eyes open. And she hurt.
At
first she