remember what had happened. He’d told her about his bed, then he’d mentioned a hotel. He looked up at Kahn, who nodded at him as if to say he was glad he got it.
“She hit me.” His brothers laughed. “What the hell did she do that for? She’s my mate, for Christ’s sake. I wasn’t going to hurt her.”
“But you didn’t tell her that, and even if you did, it’s doubtful she would have understood.” His mom hit him in the head when he was helped up and sat in a chair. “You idiot. What the blazes were you thinking treating her that way?”
“I didn’t do anything to her.” But he had, now that he thought about it. He’d treated her badly, suggesting they go to a hotel, and they’d not even as much as kissed. “I was a bastard. And I should have known better than to treat her the way I did.”
Walker looked him over and told him that he’d been lucky he’d only hit the table on his way down and not the stove. It was metal and he might have bent it. As it was the table was broken. For some idiotic reason Reed was proud of her for knocking him out. When everyone left but his mom and Monica, he looked at them sheepishly.
“I found her and scared her off.” Monica nodded. “I didn’t think about…I guess I didn’t think at all. But she was right here and I couldn’t help but want to mark her.”
“And now she’s gone.” His mom patted his hand and stood up. “What do you plan to do about all this? Are you going to stalk her again and make her even more terrified of you? I don’t think she’ll go very easily.”
Reed didn’t have a clue what to do. He wanted her to be his mate, have the same relationship that his brothers had with theirs, but he didn’t want to have all the turmoil that they’d had leading up to it. He looked around the room and saw something just under the cabinet. He stood up to get it and nearly fell over. She’d hit him pretty hard. Monica leaned over and picked it up for him.
“What is this?” Reed turned it over in his hands twice before he realized it was some sort of drive. He’d seen this sort of thumb drive in the stores a lot lately, different character shapes that had a drive as part of their inner workings. This one was a small white dog with a little yellow bird on his shoulder. He took it to his nose and sneezed when he smelled it.
“She’s touched this, but there is also wolf on it. Her scent is stronger because its fresh, but I would bet that this belongs to the wolf.” Reed looked up at Monica and his mom. “I don’t think he likes her overly much either.”
He wanted to take it and put it into a computer to find out what was on it. He knew for some reason it wasn’t going to be a good thing, and looked up when his brothers came back in. This time they were very serious as he told them what he’d found.
“You think it’s hers?” He nodded at Marc. “Well, I wouldn’t just put it into a computer without having something secure attached to it. There’s no telling what could be on it, or once it’s in the system what it could do if connected to a network. Would you like for me to have a look?”
“I can do it, but just in case there is something on it I’d very much like for you to be there. It might be nothing more than a few pictures, but I don’t think so, do you?” Marc shook his head. “I have a laptop here if you think that’ll do it. We’ll take off the wireless and make sure it’s dead to the rest of them before we start.”
He went out to the car to get his computer and thought about the woman. He wanted to go and find her now, but knew that if he did she’d more than likely hit him again. Smiling, he wondered what she would taste like when he got her to let him mark her. He adjusted his cock as it hardened and told him to behave. He was going to have to work on making her trust him before he could think of her under him. He felt his cock stir again and his cat race along his skin, begging him to go and find
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