Wolf Out of Water by Abbie Zanders

Author:Abbie Zanders [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Abbie Zanders
Published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 – The Best Laid Plans

“You don’t know anything about me.” Shell-shocked, Jessie stared at Matt. “And you want me to marry you?”

He shrugged. She knew that mating entailed much more than the human concept of marriage, but he didn’t know that she knew. He probably thought he’d start there and ease his way up to the whole I-am-a-werewolf and maybe-I-will-make-you-one-too discussions.

“I know enough.”

Typical Alpha. He wanted, therefore he thought he should have. She rounded on him, arms crossed. “Yeah? What do you know?”

“I like you.”

She gaped at him. “You like me? Don’t you mean you like to have sex with me?”

“That, too.”

“Sex is not a solid foundation for marriage.”

“It’s a good start,” he countered reasonably. “How many marriages break up because one spouse cheats on the other? If the sex is epically good, then neither partner has a reason to stray.”

“You’re insane.”

He stared at her, looking so puzzled that she almost felt sorry for him. Clearly he’d expected her to be thrilled with the news that he wanted to “marry” her. Of course he did. He was an Alpha, and a damn fine one at that. He probably had scores of female she-wolves chomping at the bit for a chance at whatever bloodline created that.

Which begged the question, why was he sniffing around her? As far as he knew, she was one hundred percent human. Good for some fun but definitely not mate material.

And another thing, she thought as her mind continued to whirl at dizzying speed -—Alphas didn’t marry. They mated. There was a huge difference. Marriages could be dissolved if they didn’t work out, but mating was the epitome of “till death do you part”. Of course, if one partner was a human, the death part came a lot quicker than if it was a full-blooded Were union.

Not that it mattered, because it wasn’t going to happen.

“I like you, Matt. And these last couple of days have been fun, but I can’t ma-, uh, marry you.”

“Why not?”

“It’s ... complicated.”

Matt gave her a sympathetic smile and tried to encompass her in his arms, but she dodged him. “It’s not complicated. It’s very simple. You and I, we belong together, Jessie. Why wait?”

She was shaking her head. How the hell had it come to this? Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire! All she’d wanted was one last week of freedom. One last chance to let loose and have some fun.

These last couple of days really had been great. Matt was wonderful. Had the situation been different, she could have seen herself falling for him in a heartbeat. But it wasn’t. And she couldn’t.

Because her family’s lives depended on it.

“One week,” Lucas had said. “You have one week to get it all out of your system. Then you will return and tell your family you have changed your mind and accepted my proposal.”

“And if I don’t?” she’d asked.

The grin he had given her still sent shivers down her spine. All gleaming, sharp, white teeth. “Then I will beat your father and brothers to within an inch of their lives.

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