Free Morgan by Ashley Malkin Page A

disappeared. If he was seeking permission for the kiss, she made it clear he had it by lifting her mouth to his and licking his lips as Cameron had done to her.
    Ben moved his hand from her cheek to her nape and held her to him as he deepened their kiss. He kissed nothing like Cameron. His mouth was gentle and coaxing, but it was hot as hell and he tasted just as good as his brother.
    Morgan found she was breathless when Ben slowly pulled his lips from hers. He rested his forehead gently on hers as he caressed her neck with his thumb. “You are so goddam sexy, Morgan. How did we get so lucky as to have you as our mate?”
    Morgan was about to ask what he meant when a growl made Ben release her and step back. Evan stepped up and took her gently from his brother. He had his pants back on, but his wide, smooth, heavily muscled torso remained bare. She could see that he had several long scars and a few puckered ones that could only be bullet wounds, but he looked magnificent to her. She thrust out her bottom lip in the first pout of her life. “You got dressed.”
    Evan smiled his crooked smiled and a deep chuckle rumbled from his chest. It sounded hoarse, and she suspected from all his wounds that he probably hadn’t had cause to laugh in quite a while.
    “You already saw me naked once. Wasn’t that enough for you?” She shook her head and he lowered his head to kiss her reverently on the lips. “There’s already too much mating musk in here. If any more pours off you I’ll be starting our mating on your sister’ s kitchen table. ”
    “I didn’t understand anything you just said, but if you’re implying that we ’d end up having sex in Bethany’s kitchen, then ewww.”
    “Thank you, Evan,” Bethany said. “We have to eat here.”
    “We’re the only ones who get to have sex on our kitchen table,” said a tall man with short brown hair. He had his arms wrapped around Bethany, his hands possessively splayed across her baby mound.
    “Ewww,” Morgan said again, a laugh slipping out.
    “Hi there. I’m Michael. We have got to talk later.”
    “Don’t look so worried, Morgan, it’s nothing bad,” Cameron said. “Michael is a computer genius and was seriously impressed with your skills. I think he may even want to offer you a job.”
    Michael smiled kindly at her and she felt a warm feeling spread through her. She had a sister, three brothers-in-law, and who-knows-what with the Harvey brothers. Her life had changed completely in the course of one day and the emptiness in her soul had been filled. She reveled in the feeling of being fully alive and complete for the first time in her life.

Chapter 10

    Ignaty released the human nurse and let her body fall to the landing. He left her in the dirty stairwell and moved at full speed to the bottom of the fire escape and out the door. From the amount of cigarette butts littering the ground outside the exit, he could see that this was a well-used area and he walked briskly to his car before anyone saw him.
    Relaxing back into the leather upholstery of the hire car, he reached for his cell phone. He was confident in the fact that his new position as Beta to Artur Petrov was now secure. He would not become complacent like his brother, Yefim. The idiot deserved to die for the way he had let Artur’ s long -lost daughter slip away from him. Yefim was a spineless coward and he always had been.
    Artur answered his call on the first ring. “Where is she?” he demanded.
    “She was taken away by policemen who were also shifters. The hospital still carried their scent. They were from a town in the state of Colorado called Eminence. Morganya’s discharge papers state that she was released but offer no further information.”
    Ignaty had tortured the policemen’s identities out of the nurse. She’d been unwilling to share patient information with a stranger, but his form of persuasion always yielded results.
    “I will send Yefim ahead to do the reconnaissance while we