Built for Lust by Alice Gaines

Author:Alice Gaines [Gaines, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2010-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Gray’s mate hardly sat throughout the entire pack meeting. He watched her perch on a chair at the end of the table and then flit here and there. The matriarch, the older alpha female with graying hair and a body softened by time and childbearing, sat quietly as the others talked, but her eyes followed her daughter’s movements. She was worried. About Cara. Cara had a mate now, and he’d take care of things.

“So, Gray, where do you come from,” the mother, Bess, asked. “Who’s your pack?”

“He doesn’t have a pack,” Joe said. As the largest male, this brother had loaned Gray a robe like the others wore. “Cara made him in her lab.”

Bess looked toward his mate, who stood by a window staring out. “Is this true?”

Cara didn’t answer but continued to look outside. Silence fell over the room, even as it was filled with all of Cara’s sibs and their mates. Of the mates, only Ilse’s had spoken since the discussion had started. It was his house, after all.

“Well?” Bess prompted.

“She was making some kind of bionic mate in her lab when I visited,” Ilse said. “It looked like Gray.”

Bess trained her attention on him. “What do you say, young man?”

“I don’t remember anything before the lab,” he answered. “Maybe they’re right.”

Joe gestured toward Gray. “He’s a damned machine.”

“He’s not a machine.” Cara finally turned from the window. “Ilse took care of that.”

“What is she talking about?” Bess demanded.

“She has some crazy idea that I changed Gray from robot to real,” Ilse answered.

“It’s not crazy.” Cara walked to the table and rested her fists on the top, bending toward her sister. “I don’t know how you did it, but you did.”

“I don’t have that kind of power,” Ilse shot back.

“Yeah, sure,” Cara said. “Then, how did you get that headache?”

Bess gasped. “You fought with your sister when she was weak?”

“She deserved it,” Cara answered.

“I got the headache helping the police find a lost boy,” Ilse said. “The creep who had him was evil. It took a lot out of me.”

“Like I believe that,” Cara shouted. “Joe put you up to it. The three of you had it all planned.”

“Sit, Cara,” Gray ordered. “Over here, next to me.”

She stiffened, and her eyes widened. She obviously hadn’t expected him to talk to her that way. Maybe no one else ever had.

Joe’s wife got up from the chair next to Gray, and he stared at his mate, letting her know in no uncertain terms that he’d shift and enforce his will if he had to. He wasn’t just throwing his weight around. For the good of the clan… all of them… she needed to fit in. Everyone had to work to protect their social bonds. Their kind couldn’t survive alone, and the sooner she realized that, the better. He hadn’t been flesh and blood for long, but the pack instinct already ran strong in his blood. Being a lone wolf was no kind of existence for him or Cara.

When no

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