Free SizzlingInsanity by Lorna Jean Roberts

glanced up at Connor as he straightened. “Really?”
    “No, not until you say, ‘pretty please, Cade and Connor,
will you fuck me’.”
    “Hell will freeze over before I ever say that,” she spat
out.
    “We’ll see,” Connor said with amusement. Cade stood and
grabbed her, hauling her over his shoulder.
    “Wait,” she cried out, hating the panic in her voice. “Where
are we going?”
    “You’re going back to your room for a long think about what
your options are,” Cade told her as he left the room.
    “I’m not dressed!”
    “I’ll get another T-shirt and meet you down there,” Connor
said.
    “Grab a portable heater too,” Cade replied. “The room is too
cold for her.”
    “This is crazy. If you let me go, I promise not to tell
anyone. I promise to stay away from the senator, whatever you want.”
    “I want you to stop lying.” Cade quickly ran down two
flights of stairs to the basement. He moved into the room she’d been locked in
and threw her on the bed. She winced as her sore ass met the mattress.
    Cade gazed down at her. “I have a lot of patience, Shelby.
But I’m not going to wait forever. Tell the truth and we’ll let you go.”
    “Will you?” she said skeptically.
    Connor entered and placed a small heater on the floor. He
plugged it in before placing a T-shirt on the bed.
    They both turned away.
    “You’re just going to leave me here?” She felt almost
abandoned.
    “I think a time-out is just what you need,” Connor said with
a smirk.
    Patronizing bastard. She wasn’t a child. But as they left,
shutting the door behind them, she sure felt like throwing a tantrum worthy of
a toddler.
     
    Connor shut the door, locking it as Cade took a seat in the
other room. Cade divided his attention between the laptop and his brother, who
was pacing back and forth.
    “What the hell is happening? First she knocks me out, then
she breaks my nose and she smashes your balls and yet I can barely pull myself
away from her. My wolf is tearing at me, wanting her, it’s all I can do to
control him.”
    He looked over at Cade in frustration. Cade nodded. “I know.
I feel it too.”
    Cade leaned back and folded his arms behind his head. His
wolf was very much a part of him. Cade was much more in tune with his wolf than
most werewolves. He and his wolf tended to agree over most things. And they
were in complete agreement in their feelings toward Shelby.
    “She’s ours,” Cade told him.
    “What?” Connor replied, running his hand through his hair.
    Seriously? He didn’t know what was going on? Cade sighed.
Connor often let his emotions get in the way of the facts.
    Cade didn’t have that problem.
    “She’s our mate.”
    Connor stilled and looked at him. “Don’t joke around, Cade.”
    Cade frowned. “How often do I joke around?” Pretty much
never.
    Connor paled and sat at the table. Cade glanced back at the
video feed. Their mate was sitting on the bed, glaring up at the camera. His
lips twitched. Even though she shouldn’t be fighting them, he did admire her
bravery.
    Still, she would learn to obey them without argument. He
wouldn’t put her safety at risk by allowing disobedience.
    “You’re really not kidding, are you? You think she’s our
mate?”
    “I don’t think. I know. She’s our true mate. If we’d fucked
her, you’d have no doubt. Are you sure we should leave her in there? She seems
mad. I can’t see her welcoming our touch again.”
    “Of course she’s mad. She’s our prisoner. It’s possible
she’s trying to harm the man we’re charged with protecting. She can’t be our
mate. You’re mistaken.”
    “I’m not.” Cade didn’t say anything more. He didn’t have to.
Connor knew it was the truth, he was just fighting it.
    “Shit. Shit. What are we going to do?” Connor said
with frustration.
    “Claim her.”
    “We can’t claim her, Cade. What if she won’t answer our
questions? How are we supposed to keep our mate locked up?”
    “We won’t have to.