Free Unexpectedly Mated (BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance): An Alpha male. A curvy but sassy BBW. A trip to Sin City neither will ever forget. (Sassy Mates) by Milly Taiden Page A

sick mess of dread and hope.
    Everything she’d ever questioned about her and Jake was no more. So maybe she didn’t have the family history Karla or Jordan had. But that didn’t mean she trusted people. People to love her. She didn’t know what love was. She didn’t know if she could love Jake. And he sure as hell wouldn’t take anything less from his mate.
    She was in such deep shit. Not to mention the headache blazing in her temples. “Oh, God. Just kill me now.”
    “Nic?” Letty’s voice sounded from the bedroom.
    Nic glanced at the door and saw her little sister’s wide, shocked eyes staring at her.
    “Hi, ” she mumbled.
    Letty shook her head and tsked. “Damn, girl. You look like shit!”
    She definitely felt like shit.
    Letty handed Nic a bottle of water. “Jake said to give you this.”
    “Thanks .” She took the bottle and set it on a shelf next to her.
    Letty grinned. “Have you looked at your face? I saw that makeup last night. Looked much better then.”
    “Ha-ha, real funny. We both know I went to bed without taking it off. One thing I did let go for the night was my use of common sense it seems.”
    Letty placed a white towel on the edge of the tub and sat down. She must be on the clock. “I leave you alone due to an emergency and you go and get hitched?”
    Nic dropped her head in her hands and groaned. “My head is going to kill me. But if it doesn’t my own stupidity will.”
    Letty laughed. “Stop being so dramatic. I heard you wanted the world to know you were finally getting ‘that wolf to commit’.”
    “Don’t even joke.” She leaned back, placing her head on the towel by her neck.
    Letty’s lips twisted in a wry grin. “I wish I could say it’s a joke, but we have it on video. In fact, I think Kel put it up on the internet as ‘Wild Bride Rides Her Groom to The Altar’. From what I heard, you’re trending.”
    “ What!” She sat up and almost wet Letty with the sloshing water. “Tell me you’re lying. Please.”
    “Sorry , Sis.” Letty stood just in time to stop herself from getting soaked. “Hey, stop pouting. I’m not the one who yelled it to the world. You did. Would have been nice if you could have waited ‘til I could stand as your maid of honor. Why did you have to run off to The Wedding Chapel O’ Love and not say anything to me? I believe Jordan and Ellie are pretty pissed that you went and got hitched and didn’t bother to tell them to come join the party either.”
    Waves of embarrassment rolled through her. “I don’t remember any of it.”
    Letty gasped. “None? Not even proposing?”
    Oh, good God. She’d done that in public too? “Nothing. My last memory was when I was sitting at the table, drinking with Barbara and she encouraged me to try some strange liquor combo I never heard of before. House specialty or something.” She gulped back the acid rising up her throat. “I had a lot of shots.”
    Letty tskd , shoving a strand of golden brown hair behind her ear. “Wow. You sure know how to party. What are you going to do?”
    She couldn’t wrap her head around what her sister was saying. Nic was married. To Jake. Jake Wolfe. The only man she’d wanted in forever. The hottest, sexiest most unbelievably fine hunk-a-licious man she’d ever been with. So why was she ready to cry?
    “I don’t know. I don’t really know Jake that well.” She gulped, pushing back the flashes of insecurity and panic. She didn’t do panic. Nicole did lots of talking back but no panic.
    Letty sat down on the edge of the tub again, her arms folded over her chest. “Well, there has to be something you like about him. You’ve never been a person to rush into anything. You’re super cautious. Even around Mom and Dad. You try to watch what you say so you don’t hurt feelings, but since you can’t help yourself, you try to stay away.”
    She glanced at her sister as if seeing her for the first time. “You noticed that?”
    Letty winked. “You’re my big