Pursuing Paige Read Free

widened.
“Who are you?”
    “I’m Jarek.” He
motioned at Kaiden. “And that’s Kaiden.”
    Paige glanced at
Kaiden, bolted up and scrambled off the other side of the couch.
““Where’s my sister?
    “She went home.”
    “Why didn’t she
stay?”
    “She thought we needed
some time alone.” He paused. “You, with us.”
    Paige stood warily, her
gaze skirting between them. “Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not
polite to stare, especially when someone is sleeping? It’s creepy,
just FYI.”
    He wrinkled his brow.
“FYI?”
    She shook her head. “I
really want to see my sister.”
    “And you will,
tomorrow. Tonight, you eat a good dinner, have good conversation
with me and Kaiden, get good sleep.”
    Her stomach growled at
the mention of food, loud enough to hear across the room. She
pressed a hand to her abdomen and wanted to turn down any meal they
offered, but couldn’t. She glanced toward the kitchen.
    “I can’t cook, but
Kaiden makes the best vegetable stew I’ve ever tasted.”
    Probably all vegetables
she’d never eaten before. Alien vegetables from a different
dimension. She swayed on her feet.
    Jarek caught her before
she went down. She stiffened at the feel of his arms around her and
the alluring scent of his skin. He lowered her into a nearby chair.
“No more fainting. If you do it again we’ll need to take you to a
doctor.”
    “You’d faint too if
you’d just been pulled into another reality.” She paused, looking
between them. “So you’re supposed to be my soul mates?”
    Kaiden walked toward
them, the expression on his face intense. “Not supposed . If
there was any question you were not meant for us, you would not be
here.”
    Paige curled her pretty
lip. “I’ll reserve judgment on that one, okay?”
    Kaiden was hurt. No one
but Jarek would have seen it because he’d known Kaiden since
childhood, but it was there in his eyes. Kaiden was tough on the
outside, six and a half feet of massive muscle, with a strong jaw
and a stoic demeanor, yet the man had an emotional side too. Paige
could have no idea how intensely they felt for her.
    “I’ll make dinner,”
said Kaiden, moving into the kitchen.
    Paige watched him walk
away and Jarek had the sense that maybe she did understand she’d
hurt him after all. Breaking her contemplative stare at Kaiden’s
back, she shivered and hugged herself. “So, if I didn’t suffer a
psychotic break and am somewhere in a hospital hopped up on
medications and all of this is actually real, I have two weeks
until I can go home.”
    “It’s called the
bonding period. The hope is that you will see that our bond means
more to you than anything you left behind at home.”
    “I left my sister at
home. I left my dancing.”
    Jarek nodded, but his
heart sank at the tone in her voice. It said you two could never
equal their worth.
    “And why can’t I just
go back and forth? Why does it need to be all or nothing?”
    “It’s not easy or
without health consequences to pass through the energy field that
separates our realities.”
    “Great, now I’m going
to get cancer.”
    “Cancer.” He searched
his mind for what that was. Both he and Kaiden had done much
reading about her world. “We don’t have cancer here.”
    “You don’t have— How is
that even poss— Nevermind.” She shook her head.
    He hesitated a moment,
watching the pout of her lips. It was wrong how sexual his reaction
was to her. He wished he could stop imagining those lips around his
cock, or parted on a moan from the ecstasy he was giving her. He
tried to think of other things, but it was impossible. He wanted
her too much and had waited too long.
    Of course, he was
betting that she hadn’t had sex in a while either. Maybe that could
work to their advantage. She was a young, healthy, physical woman
who seemed to have put her libido in the closet for some reason.
Maybe freeing it from its prison would heat her up and open her to
the possibility of a life with