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might
appreciate it later, but right now he wanted no one near his mate.
His brothers knew it… and they taunted him constantly. They popped
in often and lingered, eating Brianna out of house and home. She
was charmed, and he was pissed. She just laughed and went to the
grocery store after their visits . The bastard! They were
enjoying his agony. He sincerely hoped they all found their mates. Payback would be hell.
    Ethan leaned back against the headboard of the bed as
he grumbled to himself, “I don’t like dealing with unknowns.”
    He acknowledged to himself that the whole situation
was an unknown. His friend and fellow Coalition member, Adare, had
mated a few months ago. Adare was three hundred years old and that situation had been an unknown. Before Adare’s mating,
no mated vampire had ever crossed the age of one hundred and fifty
before finding their mate. There were some who were never called
and remained unmated, but the ones who were mated now had been
summoned early, soon after they had lost their ability to have
sex.
    The intensity of Adare’s possessiveness and desire
had been beyond the normal mating instincts because of his advanced
age.
    And Ethan was two hundred years older than Adare.
    “I’m so screwed.” Ethan spoke aloud with quiet
resignation. He was already caught up in a web of desire and
possessiveness for his mate from which he couldn’t escape.
    Did he actually want to escape? Hell, no ! He
had waited hundreds of years for Brianna and she was a miracle. But
he hated the unknown aspects of the situation. If he had a problem…
he solved it. If it was evil… he killed it. His life had been
fairly simple… until he had found his mate.
    Now he was faced with a “situation unknown” and he
didn’t like it. The only thing he knew was that his mating instinct
was nearly out of control. It grew worse with every day that
passed. Every day he spent with Brianna brought another reason to
like her… or a dozen reasons to love her.
    I love her. I’m not just drawn to her as a mate. I
love her.
    “Oh hell… I’m totally screwed,” he whispered
fiercely, knowing his love added fuel to his fire… and he was
already a raging inferno.
    Had Brianna not been in her weakened state, he would
have tried to seduce her. It probably would have taken the edge off
of his need to mate, a need that was sitting on a hair-trigger at
the moment, just waiting for a tiny nudge to make it explode.
    Just as he had decided to roll out of bed, Brianna
came breezing into the bedroom.
    His heart accelerated and his muscles clenched. For
Ethan, she brought light where there was darkness and he
desperately needed to be inside her. He needed to consume her. He
wanted her so damn badly that he heard a low growl erupt from his
throat and he tried to swallow it.
    He bit back a groan as his eyes roamed her body. She
was wearing a pink night shirt that molded her curves and ended mid
thigh. It wasn’t meant to entice… but it did. Ethan could see her
nipples through the thin material and the shirt caressed her
beautiful, perfectly formed breasts.
    His already stiff cock twitched as he smelled her
arousal. His eyes sought and locked with hers. He could see the
heat and desire in her gaze as she eyed his naked chest. She was
wanting. And he needed to satiate her.
    Mine!
    She slid into the bed beside him, never taking her
eyes from his.
    Ethan snapped, sanity deserting him. He needed to
possess this woman and he couldn’t wait any longer.

Chapter 6
    Brianna no longer knew if the desire she scented was
hers or Ethan’s. She heard a low growl from his throat and she knew
he needed her as much as she needed him. She had been like a female
animal in heat since she had first touched him. As she had regained
her normal strength, her desire had grown into a mass of raw
need.
    Brianna knew that her vampire was an alpha who needed
to dominate sexually, especially before they mated, and she wanted
to be dominated by him. She wanted him