IceAgeLover Read Free Page B

Carson was
right. Her head was against the headrest and her eyes were closed as she
breathed in even breaths. Kajakti reached across the seat and brushed a lock of
hair off her forehead. She didn’t even move.
    Kajakti watched his mate sleep the rest of the drive home.
Once they arrived, he carefully lifted Jaren out of the SUV and carried her
into the house while Carson brought her suitcase. He planned to take Jaren
straight up to his room and put her to bed, but stopped when the women of the
household confronted him after he stepped through the front door.
    “Who do you have there?” Cassidy asked.
    “This is Jaren,” he replied.
    Eryn gave him a quizzical look. “What happened to you just
wanting to get laid and nothing more?”
    He was glad Jaren was asleep and couldn’t hear what Eryn had
asked. He didn’t want his mate to think he only wanted her for one night of
sex. “Would I have brought Jaren home if that were the case?”
    It didn’t take long for Cassidy, Haven and Eryn to catch on
to what he meant. They smiled and congratulated him. Then Haven asked, “How
long is she staying? Did you already tell her everything?”
    “I’m hoping forever, and no, I haven’t told her anything
yet.”
    “Either you’re a fast worker to get Jaren convinced to stay
here with you after only knowing you for a few hours, or you had to get her drunk
to accomplish it,” Eryn said. Of course her brother laughed since it was the
same thing Carson had asked Kajakti in the car.
    “No, I did not set out to get her drunk. We had a few drinks
at the bar after I found her standing outside the hotel, looking lost. She’s
from Canada. She came to Alaska with her now ex-boyfriend. They fought and he
abandoned her this morning, taking all their money and her passport with him.
He also checked them out of the hotel so Jaren had been left with nowhere else
to go and no way to pay for another room.”
    “So you came to her rescue,” Cassidy said with a smile. “I
take it she and her ex didn’t have much of a solid relationship if he did
something that shitty to her. The guy sounds like a real asshole.”
    “From what she said, I don’t think so. They were having
problems even before they arrived in Juneau.”
    Carson clapped Kajakti on the shoulder. “Which has worked
out for you, considering she’s your mate. Now you don’t have to worry about
stealing her from another man.”
    Even if Jaren had still been with Matt, Kajakti didn’t think
he would have had to work very hard to get her to leave the other man. If she’d
been perfectly happy being with her ex, he doubted she would have set off his
mating urge. It didn’t work that way, at least as far as he knew, it didn’t.
    Jaren sighed in her sleep. Kajakti kissed her forehead. “I’m
going to put her to bed and let her sleep off the alcohol.”
    “Good idea,” Cassidy said. “Hopefully she doesn’t wake up
with a hangover.”
    Kajakti carried Jaren up the stairs while Carson followed
him with her suitcase. Once his wolf brother set it on the floor near the
dresser, he walked out the bedroom door and shut it behind him.
    He carried his mate to the bed and gently laid her on the
mattress. Kajakti straightened and stared down at Jaren. She murmured something
unintelligible and rolled to her side toward him. He ran his gaze over her,
soaking her up. The restlessness that had plagued him had evaporated once he’d
found Jaren. He now had a future to look forward to with her in it. If he could
convince her of that.
    Kajakti took off Jaren’s shoes and managed to pull the
covers out from under her enough to tug them over her. At least he didn’t have
to worry about convincing her to move in with him. Now he only had the hard
part of revealing what he truly was and finding a way to have her accept him as
her mate. Contrary to what she’d said about wanting him as her new boyfriend,
once she was sober, she might rethink that, especially after just ending a