This Weakness For You (Entangled Select Otherworld) (Taming the Pack) Read Online Free Page B

den. The hospital was calling?
    “What? What’s happened?” His mouth went dry. Vanessa had seemed fine when he’d seen her. Her baby had seemed healthy.
    “Hey,” she said. “So…scent-matched on Dane’s sister, huh?”
    He sighed, his shoulders relaxing. “He’s not there?”
    “Nope. He went home to shower so I figured I’d call and…you know…poke at the wound. So, scent-matching on a human…that seems dumb.”
    He rolled his eyes. Okay, he deserved this from her. Possibly this and more. Two years ago, he’d had a lot of pride, and everything was black and white. He’d known what was best for the pack. He’d been an arrogant fool, and everyone had paid.
    “Not just a human, but someone from the stubborn, stubborn Hansen family. Remind me again how those rules go for when I scent-matched with Dane. Let’s see—his life was forfeit if he interfered with pack business—or if he wasn’t good enough—or if I blew him off one day and decided he wasn’t worth it.” She cleared her throat. “So, is that for all Hansens or just the one I picked?”
    “It doesn’t matter. It might as well have not happened. It’s not going to happen.”
    She snorted. “Yeah, right. Good luck with that. I lasted about three hours that first day. How long did you make it? Or did you wait for her outside?”
    He didn’t answer.
    “Yeah, I figured. The next night, I showed up at his house, and I barely remembered leaving my house to go there. The pull is intense.”
    “It doesn’t matter. I’m not going to have anything to do with her from here on out.”
    “That’s what I told Dane about you to calm him down, but I knew I was buying you time so he could get used to you and his baby sister being together.”
    Jordan blew out a slow breath. She shouldn’t even be saying that—shouldn’t be filling his head with the possibility, because it wasn’t going to happen. He needed to focus on trapping the poachers in their own net. That made sense.
    The phone line went fuzzy and clicked.
    “What was that?” Vanessa asked. “Did you drop the phone?”
    “No. It’s this house.” He moved closer to the cordless phone’s receiver, even though he knew it wouldn’t help.
    “You need a new phone.”
    “It’s not the phone. It’s my phone lines. The hell of rural living.” He rubbed his forehead tiredly. No cell reception, and a constant buzz on his line.
    “Get it fixed.”
    “I’m not home often enough for it to matter.”
    Vanessa groaned. “Yes, you are. You’ve gotten pathetic. If the pack hadn’t split, you’d have been challenged for Alpha because I had more fight in me last night in the middle of the epidural, and Dane can tell you—he asked the nurse if there was an epidural kit for at home because we weren’t fighting for the first time in our marriage.”
    They did like to argue.
    “I’m older…and wiser now.” He felt older, at the very least.
    “No, you’re pathetic. You’re taking crap from me, even. Hell, I’ve wondered if you want someone to challenge you to end it. I know if Troy had challenged you instead of leaving with the others, he’d have taken the fight to the death.”
    There was silence. Heavy silence.
    “Jordan, tell me it’s not like that.”
    He’d been relieved when his former acting Alpha, Travis, had left Glacier pack to start his own and taken the younger, unmated Lycans like Troy with him. If Jordan had wanted someone to challenge him, it would have been easy enough to force them to stay.
    “It’s not like that.” Life just wasn’t as intense anymore. The arrogance that had driven him had been false—based on idealism and this crazy surety that he could change things and impact the greater good. Now he knew he was a single Lycan in a bigger world, and he had no intention of passing on his genes thinking he was a great gift to mankind. He’d leave that to Vanessa and Dane, who appeared to have every intention of repopulating the species