Unexpectedly Mated
After years of lusting over Jake Wolfe, Nicole Acosta finally got a taste of the dirty-talking bad boy. During the scenting ceremony, he showed her how explosive things can be between them. But Nicole doesn’t do love. She doesn’t even know what love is. So how can she know if a relationship with Jake would be the right path to take?
Jake Wolfe wants Nic more than his next breath. She’s curvy, mouthy and so hot his blood boils just thinking of her. But Nic’s been keeping him at a distance. And Jake is tired of her games. One fateful trip to Sin City and all bets are off.
After a fun night of drinking, Nic wakes up married to Jake and with a second shifter wanting her for himself. She'll have to finally face the feelings she has or shut them out forever. Their newly formed bond will either allow her to open her heart to love or leave Jake without a mate to call his own.
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Property of Latin Goddess Press
© Milly Taiden
FOR CRYING OUT loud! Nicole Acosta tugged the earpiece out
and glared at it. It wasn’t that she didn’t like Emma, heck, most of the time
she pretty much ignored her friend. Emma was just…bossy. Yeah, bossy. But
tonight, that wasn’t the problem. She glared into the darkness. There better
not be any mosquitoes or she’d go ballistic. Already her skin crawled with the
thought of what could be in the area.
She shoved the ear piece back in.
“It’s only for a little while,” Jordan said. “We’ll be out
of here in no time, Nic.”
Right. Not frickin’ likely. She bit her lip to swallow the
yell she wanted to throw at her friends. There were bugs all over the place and
she and bugs did not mix. She’d have to buy new trainers after this. There was
no way in hell she’d wear those mud-covered ones again.
“It’s not the end of
the world,” Emma whispered. “We all agreed to come and do this for Ellie. Just
suck it up.”
Suck it up? Easy for her to say. Emma loved the outdoors and
all that stuff. Outdoors to Nic meant the park. Or the pool. Now here she was,
like a deranged teenager, spying on a scent ritual that was sacred to Ellie’s
people. All for what? To catch a glimpse of Jake Wolfe. That philandering mutt.
She couldn’t help herself, she peeked over the ceremony site
where Mrs. Wolfe or as she preferred to be called, Barbara, motioned the guys
into the woods. Ellie said they’d be on watch. Something moved on Nic’s leg. Oh
God. Was it a snake? She peered into the darkness and swatted away whatever
crawled on her.
The things she did for her insatiable crush on Jake. It’d
been that way from the first time she’d met him. And what a way to meet a man
that had been. If first impressions were everything, Nic got the best first
impression of Jake ever. She’d visited Ellie’s house for a weekend sleepover when
they’d been in college. Their gazes met and she swore she’d been electrocuted.
She’d been rooted to the spot like an idiot, staring at his hunkiness in all
his wet and naked glory with stars in her eyes. Well, that’s what he loved to
tell her.
From that moment on, Nic knew she couldn’t let Jake get to
her. He was the world’s biggest flirt, used to women falling to his feet. And
while she wasn’t familiar with the whole love thing, she knew all about lust.
He’d smiled one time. That’s all it took. For him to show her that dimple she
adored and her girly bits had readied for surrender. Not to mention her brain
cells had gone AWOL. It was pathetic. It was also the reason why she’d let
herself get talked into sitting on a picnic blanket, with her knees to her
chest. She still couldn’t figure out what made the noise in the grass.
Maybe Ellie was wrong. What if there were snakes there? A
firefly zoomed around her. She watched the tiny bug light up the dark with its
yellow glow, zipping and buzzing back and forth in front of her. Some bugs
weren’t so scary. From far away.
Her attention shot down to the blanket in the darkness.
She’d swear it moved again. Her mind ran on overdrive and she knew the
likelihood of her seeing shit that wasn’t even there was big. She took a deep
breath and sighed. Her muscles ached from how tense she held herself. The
night’s coolness did nothing to stop the heat from the earlier part of the day.
Her tank top stuck to her back. She yanked on the front part and blew on her
boobs. Thank goodness she was alone or she’d look so stupid doing that.
The others had gone silent. She wondered what they were up
to. Where they as freaked out as her? Probably not. She’d bet Emma would live
in the damn forest if she got a chance. Leaves crunched from a nearby bush.
With an agility she knew she didn’t possess, she got on her knees on the
blanket. The noise in the trees increased. Fear froze the blood in her veins.
Her heartbeat thundered in her ears along with the sound of the harsh breaths
that struggled in and out of her lungs. There was a wild animal near her.
Holy. Shit.
“Oh, hell no!” There was no way she would sit around to find
out what the heck was in the bush. She struggled to her feet. Her leg had gone
numb so she had to put her weight, which was not just a couple of pounds, on
her other leg. Screw the video, she’d return in the morning and remove the
camera.
She bent and yanked her bag from the blanket. Something
poked at her ass. She turned on her heel to run. Her knees hit a big lump
of...fur? Her body did a full flip over the big furry body and she landed on
her back with a thud, half on and half off the blanket.
“Ouch!”
Within seconds, a furry face she knew all too well came into
view.
“Jake?”
The big wolf lowered his head down to her face and licked
her cheek. Figured. He was such a horndog. Even in his animal shape, he was
still a flirt.
“Jake, I’m sure you have better things to do than scare me
half to death.” Then, when she remembered where she lay, she scooted up to sit
on the blanket. “I need to get out of here before something else crawls on my
leg.”
Jake growled. She widened her eyes in disbelief. “Did you
just growl at me you big mutt?”
The wolf prowled around her in a full circle. She couldn’t
figure out what the hell Jake thought he was doing, but she had to get off that
grass. There was shit in it and she couldn’t see it for the life of her. She
lifted a hand to her ear. The others were much too quiet. Her hand touched a
small diamond stud. She’d lost the ear piece.
“Fuck!”
Jake growled again.
“Shut it, mutt. If you’re not here to help me, then you better
go,” she hissed, then tapped the massive wolf’s nose and turned. Now on all
fours, she tried to peer into the darkness for the ear piece. “This is the shit I get into for minding
other people’s business. If I’d have stayed home and bought shoes online, this
wouldn’t have happened,” she mumbled, feeling along the blanket for the small
piece of technology. “I could be having a nice Apple Martini or a Cosmo and
watching my man Vin Diesel riding the streets in his latest flick. But no, I
had to come here to see what all the fuss was about with mating between
shifters.”
She didn’t care that she continued to ramble while Jake, in
the form of a wolf, stood behind her. The idea of him as nothing more than a
possible pet was easier to handle than his sexy human face. Or those big arms.
Or those washboard abs. She gulped. Crap if she continued to think of him as a
man, she’d end up all kinds of turned on.
If she started thinking of him naked she’d be in all kinds
of trouble. That had been the worst way to meet a man. Although with his body,
it was probably the best unexpected nudity she’d ever come across. Her first
time in the Wolfe household and she’d opened the wrong door to see Jake. A very
wet and naked Jake that had just showered. Her mouth had dropped open, ready to
apologize, but then he’d smiled. She’d been a goner ever since.
So many years had passed and he’d never let her forget that
day. From then on he’d flirted endlessly with her and did his best to taunt her
into seeing him as more. Only with Jake, more came at a price. From what she
knew he wasn’t interested in anything long-term, much less a serious
relationship. Not that Nic wanted long-term commitment either. She wouldn’t
mind long-term fun though. And Jake the dirty-talker could probably make her
come with just the things he said to her. Christ. Most of the time their
conversations ended with her rushing home to take a cold shower...with her
vibrators.
Jake was another story. According to Ellie he didn’t even
have a cell phone on contract because he didn’t like commitment. That spoke
volumes of him. It didn’t stop the fact that Nic had developed some feelings
for Jake. Feelings she didn’t like to think about most of the time. Emotions
were dangerous. She wasn’t familiar with them much and preferred to keep them
as far away as possible.
“Nic…”
Hearing Jake say her name made her squeal. Before she could
catch her breath, his hands were on her hips, pulling her back into him. Air
caught in her throat. He gripped her waist. Held her captive. The hard bar of
his cock pressed at her butt, the thin spandex from her yoga gear no match for
his hardness.
“Jake…” What? Her throat went dry. She didn’t know what to
say, only that she really liked how good he felt holding her. How wet it made
her to feel him pressing on her ass.
“God, Nic,” he growled softly. “I love how fucking good you
smell. You’re hot for me. Aren’t you, sweetheart?”
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