Taking Nicole (Vegas Mates Series)(#4) Read Online Free

seduction not working. She could smell his arousal. He was just denying the inevitable. They were true mates, destined to spend their lives together. He just needed to accept it.
    She let a smile turn up the corners of her mouth. “These are pretty good, but donuts are better.”
    He snorted and turned his head, focusing his gaze out the window next to him. Chicken. This was never going to work if he didn’t at least speak to her.  
    She put down the bag of cookies in the seat next to her and latched the seatbelt over her hips. It wouldn’t be long now. Her grandparents would carry her off to their mansion and give her over to some stranger, but only after he’d endured a bloody fight to win the right to fuck her, bite her, and claim her as his mate.
    No one should have to fear their grandparents or deal with such a screwed up, twisted society. Damn. She just wanted to go back home. Spending centuries with a man she didn’t want was not in her life plan.
    Her aunt dealt with the situation well, but Uncle Marrock was a special kind of jerkwad. He hated New York and spent his life gallivanting through Europe, sleeping with whomever he pleased while Melinda ran the pack. Of course, as far as the Council knew, they were a happily married pair. They showed up to functions when called upon and did their best to hide that they lived completely separate lives.
    She didn’t want that. She wanted a mate to love. She wanted a friend and companion. Their lives were too long to spend pining away for something that should have been. Her mother was living proof.  
    Nicole Demakis decided she wasn’t going down without a fight. She couldn’t imagine spending her life with anyone other than Aaron and she didn’t even know him. Not really.
    “But you can’t wait to get him naked.”
    Being attracted to someone and actually liking that person are two very different things.
    “Sure.”
    Shut up. If you want to help me, figure out how I can get him on my side.
    “I’m still voting for the seduction angle. Keep showing more skin.”
    She rolled her eyes. Sex was all her wolf ever thought about. Nymphomaniac. It didn’t help that her sister and two good friends had already found their mates. Why did he have to make it so hard?  
    “I thought you wanted him hard?”  
    You’re terrible.
    “Just trying to be helpful.” Her wolf’s laughter echoed in the back of her mind.  
    She grinned inwardly, refusing to let Aaron see her amusement. She was very attracted to him and wanted to know more about him. The primal need to be close to him was the magick calling their four souls together. It would only get stronger as they spent more time together. How he was dismissing it so easily, she couldn’t imagine. Maybe he was torturing himself just to torture her.

    The plane jerked and slowed, touching down. They rolled to a stop on the tarmac and the engines cut off. Time was up. They were here.  
    She followed him to the opening door and paused at the top of the stairs. The bright light made her squint and wish for sunglasses, but the warm salty breeze was very pleasant. She raised her hand, shielding her eyes and saw several people standing next to a black limo a dozen yards from the plane. One was a woman who looked strikingly similar to her mother. The other was an older gentleman. Her grandfather. Another man stood near the front of the vehicle and another near the trunk. Hired muscle.
    “ You’re just going to let me go, aren’t you?” She whispered. “We’ll both be miserable for the rest of our lives because you won’t even try to fight for me.”
    “I can’t fight this,” he snarled. “I can’t even ask to fight in your hunt. I’m not a wolf. The same rules don’t apply. I’m just a soldier, a slave to your grandparents. I’ll not endanger my sister’s life. She’s all I have left. Wolves killed our parents. I’m all she has left in this world.”
    The pain in his eyes and his loyalty tugged at Nicole’s