for them was what he had always thought mates should feel for one another. Instead, she fought against him as strongly as she fought for the animals she adored.
Reven would find himself saying things that he didn’t mean out of jealousy and anger at the animals that got all the love and adoration of the woman he wanted more than life. He knew it was spiteful, but he had a hard time realizing it when his mouth was already in motion.
Reven stepped into the small transport and sat across from Jax; who refused to even glance at him when he entered the ship. Sighing heavily, Reven resigned himself to a cold and silent trip back to the barn. To talk to a damn squirrel.
A small creature that even most humans called a nuisance rodent, he thought. The damn rodent would be cradled in her soft, delicate hands and showered with love and affection, the kind he craved of her.
To top it off, Reven thought angrily, she would probably do like she had done many times before, and she would invite it into her home to share her life with it. He knew all too well of her collection of strays that stayed in and around her home in Dillon.
His encounters with them had never been good. He’d been pecked, bitten, stung, struck and mowed down by more than one of her friends; and that was just trying to knock on her door.
It was much worse if she was angry at him, like she was now he thought with a worried frown. He had to suppress the shudder at the memories of the last time she’d been this angry at him.
He’d gone to town to unwind after their last mission together and hadn’t even been thinking about how they had argued and sniped at one another the whole time. Until the first bird, dive bombed him as he got out of his car.
He bypassed the restaurant where he had intended to get dinner, alone, when the swarm of bees stinging him threatened to go in with him. Before he could get back to his car, a Sibiox ran into him knocking him onto the sidewalk and his ass.
Luckily, that had the added benefit of crushing some of the bees that were swarming him, really making the others angry. He was stung a couple of dozen times before he was able to lock himself in his car.
It took him an hour to make the ten-minute drive back home and another five to make it into the house from the driveway due to the animals confronting and attacking the SUV. He had learned the hard way just how many creatures existed in the surrounding area.
By morning, he’d had to call Amun to deal with the various bee, spider and animal bites and stings he sustained throughout the night that had him swelled up so bad he couldn’t get out of bed. The two of them were no longer assigned missions together after that. And people wondered why he was sick of her animals; Reven thought with a frown.
Jax tried to pretend Reven wasn’t there, but she couldn’t help but steal glances at him while he was occupied in his own thoughts. For a guy old enough to have invented fire, he was gorgeous; she thought with a scowl.
His dark-brown hair was lightly peppered with gray at his temples in that sexy way that only men could pull off and his bright blue eyes with green beast swirls were fringed with long, dark lashes most women would kill to have.
The rest of the sexy man looked like a damn mountain. Every inch of his body looked like it was carved out of stone, from his jaw to his calves. He was three hundred and forty pounds of solid muscle that she had drooled over in the training room more than once until she’d learned to avoid him better.
Which was pretty easy to do when he was six-foot nine, and she was only five-feet six. Jax or her friends could spot the damn giant easily while she slipped out of sight, she remembered with a grin at a few of their antics. It served the arrogant bastard right though.
Jax took a deep breath and went through the transport beam to the ground, ignoring the animal hating jerk
Reven would find himself saying things that he didn’t mean out of jealousy and anger at the animals that got all the love and adoration of the woman he wanted more than life. He knew it was spiteful, but he had a hard time realizing it when his mouth was already in motion.
Reven stepped into the small transport and sat across from Jax; who refused to even glance at him when he entered the ship. Sighing heavily, Reven resigned himself to a cold and silent trip back to the barn. To talk to a damn squirrel.
A small creature that even most humans called a nuisance rodent, he thought. The damn rodent would be cradled in her soft, delicate hands and showered with love and affection, the kind he craved of her.
To top it off, Reven thought angrily, she would probably do like she had done many times before, and she would invite it into her home to share her life with it. He knew all too well of her collection of strays that stayed in and around her home in Dillon.
His encounters with them had never been good. He’d been pecked, bitten, stung, struck and mowed down by more than one of her friends; and that was just trying to knock on her door.
It was much worse if she was angry at him, like she was now he thought with a worried frown. He had to suppress the shudder at the memories of the last time she’d been this angry at him.
He’d gone to town to unwind after their last mission together and hadn’t even been thinking about how they had argued and sniped at one another the whole time. Until the first bird, dive bombed him as he got out of his car.
He bypassed the restaurant where he had intended to get dinner, alone, when the swarm of bees stinging him threatened to go in with him. Before he could get back to his car, a Sibiox ran into him knocking him onto the sidewalk and his ass.
Luckily, that had the added benefit of crushing some of the bees that were swarming him, really making the others angry. He was stung a couple of dozen times before he was able to lock himself in his car.
It took him an hour to make the ten-minute drive back home and another five to make it into the house from the driveway due to the animals confronting and attacking the SUV. He had learned the hard way just how many creatures existed in the surrounding area.
By morning, he’d had to call Amun to deal with the various bee, spider and animal bites and stings he sustained throughout the night that had him swelled up so bad he couldn’t get out of bed. The two of them were no longer assigned missions together after that. And people wondered why he was sick of her animals; Reven thought with a frown.
Jax tried to pretend Reven wasn’t there, but she couldn’t help but steal glances at him while he was occupied in his own thoughts. For a guy old enough to have invented fire, he was gorgeous; she thought with a scowl.
His dark-brown hair was lightly peppered with gray at his temples in that sexy way that only men could pull off and his bright blue eyes with green beast swirls were fringed with long, dark lashes most women would kill to have.
The rest of the sexy man looked like a damn mountain. Every inch of his body looked like it was carved out of stone, from his jaw to his calves. He was three hundred and forty pounds of solid muscle that she had drooled over in the training room more than once until she’d learned to avoid him better.
Which was pretty easy to do when he was six-foot nine, and she was only five-feet six. Jax or her friends could spot the damn giant easily while she slipped out of sight, she remembered with a grin at a few of their antics. It served the arrogant bastard right though.
Jax took a deep breath and went through the transport beam to the ground, ignoring the animal hating jerk
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