Broken Mate: The Eternals Crossover Novella (Badlands Territory Book 8) by J. Marie & Jordan Marie

Author:J. Marie & Jordan Marie [Marie, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

9

Jay

I drag my ass back to the hotel. My head is still a mess. I don’t know how I feel about anything, but I know that I can’t let Lita get away. My mind is mush. I let my wolf run in the woods, and it took hours before he finally calmed down. He’s as confused as I am.

It takes me a bit, but when they were trying to create the perfect soldier in the lab, I got a lot of training. Breaking in was just one of my lessons. Putting the chair in front of the door was a curveball I wasn’t expecting. It makes me grin despite my misery. Apparently, my mate is resourceful. Unfortunately, she also sleeps like the death, because even as I broke in she still slept.

Once I get inside I push the chair out of the way. There’s a chest that’s heavy as hell. I have a lot of strength despite the scars and injuries I’ve received, and I still have to call on a boost of power from my wolf to move it the small distance to the door. I look at Lita and she still hasn’t moved. When I walk over to her, I notice that she has one of those sleep masks over her face and…earplugs. We’re running from people who would kill her and think nothing of it and yet she thinks it is smart to sleep like this? Christ, how did she manage to stay alive on her own all this time?

I also don’t like her sleeping with an eye mask. What if it slips and gathers around her neck? Shit. She could choke herself and not even mean to.

At the mere thought of that happening, my heart flips in my chest. It doesn’t matter that I’m not being reasonable.

Everything about Lita makes me want to be protective of her, make sure she’s always ok, and to cherish her for the rest of my life.

All of that would be great except for the fact that she’s here because she was supposed to send me to my death—or worse. Because there’s one thing those years in the lab taught me—there are definitely worse things than dying.

I look at the bed beside Lita, but it holds no appeal to me. I don’t care what guidelines she was going to set up, or silly rules she has in her head. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. I’m nervous about it. Just because Lita is my mate, I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t guarantee she will feel the same. She’s not a shifter. There’s no wolf in her. I would be able to scent it if she was. Plus, she hinted that she knew I was more than just a shifter. Does she know my origins? Is she repulsed by the fact I was basically created in a lab? Hell, I’ve spent most of my life in a glass cage. Does Lita see me as a failure for not saving my brothers? Does she even know about all of that?

It seems all I have are questions without answers.

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