Vega Brothers: Alexander: BBW Paranormal Romance Reluctant Bride (The Bear Shifters of Vega Ranch Book 3) Read Online Free Page A

overwhelming. He needed to take her; to bring her to his cabin. He didn’t know what for or for how long but the motive was clear: his mate belonged in his cabin.
    His bear beamed inside him, cheering him on and encouraging him for the first time in years. His inner polar bear wanted him to take his mate and claim her.
    He got to the river and ran along the bank as Elena began a new barrage of punching his back with her fists. It didn’t slow him down at all. If she punched a little harder it would have felt like a gentle massage.
    “You’re kidnapping me, you psycho!” she screamed from the bottom of her lungs. “Let me go!”
    Alexander just lowered his head and kept moving. His cabin was just up ahead.
    “Okay,” she said, lowering her voice, apparently trying to change tactics. “I have money. You want money?”
    Alexander had enough money for two lifetimes yet he willingly lived in a rundown shack in the woods. He didn’t need money. He needed his mate.
    “Will you say something?” she screamed. “Where are you taking me?”
    “There,” he grunted when the shack came into view.
    She pressed her hand on his back and used it to lean up and look behind her. “Oh crap,” she gasped when she saw the abandoned shack. “I’m getting murdered.”
    “I’m not going to hurt you,” he said, walking up to the entrance and ducking under, careful not to let her head hit the doorway.
    “Then why am I here?” she asked as he gently dropped her to her feet. “What do you want with me?”
    Her eyes dropped down to his exposed cock and she gulped. Alexander stirred with desire. Having his mates eyes on his dick was enough to make it start to harden.
    “Oh, God!” she said, covering her eyes with her hands. “I knew it!”
    A pain shot through his heart at seeing her so afraid of him. He grabbed a pair of shorts off of the bed behind her and slid them on. “I told you I’m not going to hurt you,” he said again and she opened her eyes.
    She saw the shorts on his muscular legs and took a breath of relief.
    “There’s a shirt around here somewhere,” he said, lifting up the blanket on the cot and looking underneath.
    “That’s okay,” she said, staring at his abs. “You can leave your shirt off.”
    She was still standing there with tight shoulders and a pale face. He couldn’t get over how beautiful she looked with her sweaty forehead and uncontrollable shaking. He could stare at her for days.
    “Please, sit,” he said, motioning to the bed behind her.
    The rusted metal springs squeaked as she sat down. She looked all around her, up at the ceiling, behind her. Alexander slipped his hands into his pockets and sighed. She looked so uncomfortable. He desperately wanted her to like this place.
    This abandoned shack in the woods.
    I have a lot to learn about women.
    “Are you hungry?” he asked. “I can go hunt a deer and cook up some steaks.”
    She twisted her face in disgust.
    “At least he’s not planning on eating you,” she whispered to herself.
    Ouch . This wasn’t going very well.
    Elena glanced at the open door and twisted her shirt in between her fingers. “Why am I here again? Oh wait, you didn’t answer me the first time.”
    Alexander cleared his throat. “I thought I’d get to know you better.”
    “By kidnapping me?” she yelled. She caught herself and looked at Alexander meekly. “It’s just a funny way to do it is all. For future reference, a cup of coffee might be a better idea.”
    “You want coffee?” Alexander asked, springing up and opening a cupboard drawer under the sink. He had made coffee here once a few years ago. The can might still have been there.
    He opened the cupboard and a raccoon burst out of it, sprinting out the door. Elena screamed and raised her feet off the bed as he ran by. Great timing to come back, asshole.
    It accidentally slammed its shoulder into the doorway as he ran out and disappeared into the forest.
    Elena’s scream turned to laughter. She