Free Alpha Male Incorporated: Take Control by Marie Rochelle Page A

even know about Alec?” Jax questioned. “I only met him once when he came to pick up Raya from my house.”
    “You knew about this…person and didn’t tell me?” Thorsten hissed. “He’s trying to take Raya from me. Do you know he brought her back to her house from a bar? He was about—”
    “Why do you care? Weren’t you the one who lied that you stopped dating women after you found Raya? Hell, you even saw Cordelia one last time and we both know she doesn’t like for men to dump her. This could be karma coming back to bite you in your conceited ass.”
    He heard a heavy dose of sarcasm in Jax’s voice. His cousin’s remark grated at him because of the ring of truth. He had slept with a lot of women. He might even still be sleeping with Cordelia if he hadn’t laid eyes on Raya hurt in Sahara’s living room.
    He had been so scared for her that he had dumped all of his lovers the same day she was admitted into the hospital. He started going after her the same week she got released from the hospital, but nothing he had done so far had made her like him.
    “You’re right, but it still doesn’t give my Unique woman the right to go out with other men after I have staked my claim on her.”
    Jax stared at him then burst out laughing. “Please tell me you aren’t serious. Raya isn’t a piece of property or business you’re trying to acquire. She’s a living, breathing human woman. You can’t approach her the way you are. It just won’t work to win over her heart.”
    “What if I’m not worried about winning over her heart?” Thorsten asked.
    All traces of laughter left Jax’s face as his brows drew together into an angry frown. His cousin moved so fast that he didn’t have time to react before his back hit the wall and he was staring into a pair of angry green eyes that were slowly turning black.
    “Don’t ever let me hear you say those words again. A lot our family members have fallen to the “sleep of the dead” because they weren’t lucky enough to find their human mates. Hell, I could have been another one if it hadn’t been for Zander opening my eyes. I would have lost everything. If you want to pull yourself down you do it, but leave Raya alone.”
    Thorsten loosened Jax’s grip from his shirt and shoved him away. “Why are you so concerned about Raya? I didn’t think she was your favorite person and vice versa.”
    “We have an understanding,” Jax told him, watching him with his emerald eyes again. “She loves Sahara as much as I do. In addition, she’s my wife’s best friend, so she has my protection forever. If anything happened to her even a broken heart it would crush my wife. No one not even you will get the chance to make my mate feel pain again. She’s happy and she’s going to stay that away. Do you understand me?”
    He stiffened as though Jax had struck him. “How dare you tell me you’re going to be the one who protects my mate? You are overstepping, cousin.”
    Jax smirked at him. “Prove to me that you’re vampire enough to do it and I’ll fade into the background,” he said, then vanished from the room.
    “Fuck!” Thorsten yelled then tossed his car keys across the room. They were the second thing he had tossed today because of Raya. He had to get himself together or everything in his office would be in shambles.

Chapter Nine
    I want you. I need you.
    Why don’t you let go and relax for a little.
    I mean it won’t hurt for a few days to let
    Me be the one who is the leader.
     
    Let me take control of you. I mean I would
    Give it to you so good, better than any other girl from your past.
    How could you look at me and not want me to have my way with you?
     
    I’m not trying to be self-centered, but I know I look good.
    You have told me yourself that I’m the best looking female You have ever seen.
     
    Warm lips brushed against the back of Sahara’s neck as strong hands eased underneath her shirt, stroking her stomach. Sahara’s fingers stopped