Free The Mating Call: Drekinn Series by Jana Leigh Page B

constantly needed to get laid, it didn't matter who it was. That was the first stage, when you scented your mate. If they just walked by in a crowd, and you couldn't find them, you went crazy with lust.
    That's what happened to her brother, it had driven them all nuts until they had put an ad in the paper for another shifter who was in heat just as bad as he was. Her father had to lock him in the basement for a day until she finally called. Calli said they should put him out of his misery and shoot him, but her mother had insisted.
    The second stage was the courting. You still felt the need to mate, but you also wanted to connect with them on another level. Her mother called it the cooling-off period. She hoped that was coming soon. Some shifters didn't wait for the cooling off and just mated. She was not going to do that and tie herself to a douche bag her entire life. No, even though they were part animals, they still had a choice. That is probably why Mother Nature put in the stages of mating into their DNA.
    After the second stage, then there was the claiming. This was where the wolves kinda took over. The need to bite became impossible to ignore. If she could go by what her brothers went through, she should have at least two weeks before her wolf insisted on the claiming. That should be good. If he was an asshole, she would have him transferred to the arctic post and let him freeze his ass off. Although she had never heard of anyone actually denying their mate, she had seen what being mated to an asshole could do.
    Her mother would insist on the whole enchilada. She would want the Breyting ceremony and everything. Shit, she was stuck, because she knew Kade was not an asshole, and would probably not fuck up bad enough for her wolf to turn her nose up at him.
    The Ulfer were different; they mated whoever they felt like, because they couldn't make the connection with each other. It was sad, but still kinda cosmic. She wished she could not feel anything for just a second.
    The heat was still riding her hard. She could tell it was Kade too, because he stood so close to the door.
    "Shit, what do we have to do? Are they putting her up in a hotel?" she asked hopefully.
    "No, Ms. Praton said our building was perfect. We have security. So we are staying at our place. The girls have their private Enforcers, so it will be us and the guy you just assigned for Kiki in our apartment. Brooks and Ms. Praton had furniture, and stuff moved in that they had in storage, until we can replace it with our own," he said quietly.
    This just got better and better. Not only was her mother going to be a pain in her ass, but her bosses were also. Why the fuck did they all want her mated so bad? Shit, it wasn't like she walked around all the time being a bitch to everyone because she didn't get laid. She was a bitch because she liked it, and that wasn't going to change. Calli hoped they realized that.
    "Fine, let's get this over with. I'm going to call the girls down here to meet Kiki, and then we'll all be leaving in separate transports to the building. I don't want anyone following us. We have worked hard keeping our address a secret. So we will take the long way around. Only a handful of people knew the exact address, and we are keeping it that way. I have handpicked the Enforcers; they would not betray me. And don't think I didn't hear the 'our' thing," Calli said, stood up and pushed the link on her desk that went to her friends' offices.
    "Meeting now," she said.
    "Oh yes, my master," Cherri said sarcastically.
    "On my way," Rissa called.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 9
     
     
    It was like a fucking sorority all over again. Calli wanted to pull her teeth out. She had gone that route the first time through college because Cherri and Rissa wanted to experience it. It had been a nightmare. She had never seen so much pink in one place before, besides Cherri's closet, but that didn't count. Cherri proclaimed her signature color as pink in