Free A Mate for the Alpha and His Brothers by Cara Adams Page B

glad she found you people.”
    “We’re glad she did, too. Elsie means a lot to us,” said Amory.
    Heat raced through Elsie. The warmth in his voice tugged at her heart and her cunt and everywhere in between. She wanted to stay with the men forever. Maybe it wouldn’t work out, but she sure hoped it did.

    * * * *

    Brayden had taken over the driving from Favian after two and a half hours, and that was almost two hours ago so he had maybe an hour left to drive, or perhaps a little less. The route was an easy one, and traffic wasn’t that heavy. The standard joke in Michigan was that there were only two seasons, winter and construction. Well, they’d gotten lucky so far today. It wasn’t winter, and there’d been very little construction. He just hoped that didn’t mean they were about to meet up with an endless series of workers digging up the road.
    He flicked his gaze up to the rearview mirror again. It had been ten minutes or more since a white car had come racing up behind them driving like a bat out of hell. But instead of passing them, which it could easily have done, it’d dropped back, sitting a couple of hundred yards behind them now and traveling the same speed as them, which happened to be the speed limit.
    Brayden wondered if the driver had a CB radio and there were police ahead booking speeding motorists, so he eased off the accelerator a bit, dropping to two miles under the speed limit. There was no sense in risking a fine unnecessarily.
    Amory had his nose in his iPad again, typing away on the screen, and Favian seemed to be taking a nap. In the back row of the minivan, Elsie and her brother were talking quietly. Brayden couldn’t remember the last time they’d taken a road trip as a family. Likely not since they’d actually come from the UP to Ohio to live. When they were kids, summers had been spent on the lake. Surrounded by a national forest, and with Lake Superior to the north and Lake Michigan to the south, nothing was much more than an hour’s travel from them.
    It was only once they were adults, and the business had expanded to support the entire pack, that travel down to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin had started to become a problem. Their current location was much more central.
    Brayden had been watching closely, but there was no sign of a police speed camera, and the other car had maintained the same distance from them, even though he’d slowed slightly. Starting to feel suspicious, Brayden dropped his speed still farther from sixty-eight to sixty-five and then sixty-three.
    Amory looked up. “What’s the problem? Are you tired? Is it my turn to drive?”
    Brayden didn’t want to say anything. Likely he was being paranoid. “Sorry. I wasn’t concentrating.” He increased his speed slowly, and as unobtrusively as possible, inching up to seventy and then seventy-five.
    The car behind them copied him, maintaining the same two-hundred-yard distance. Well damn. The driver would know Brayden had discovered him, and if he was being followed, trouble might be just around the corner.
    “Is everyone wearing their seat belt?” he asked.
    “Yes.”
    “Sure.”
    “Why?” asked Amory.
    Trust the Alpha to have worked out there was a problem.
    “Likely it’s just my imagination, but the white car behind us raced up really fast, then when it got close to us, it dropped back and has stayed there. I slowed down so it could pass us, but it’s still there.”
    “And now you’ve speeded up, and it knows you know,” said Favian.
    “Yeah. Sorry about that.”
    “JJ, climb over into the back and get the coats. Toss them over to Elsie,” ordered Amory.
    The boy instantly did as he’d been told while Brayden concentrated on riding the curves in the road, lifting his hands off the steering wheel from time to time to get a feel for how well balanced the wheels were and whether the steering was slightly off center. It all looked good to him.
    “Elsie, get your coat and another one