Free Ava's Mate by Hazel Gower Page A

what do you want to do? I’m not going to tell you what to do and expect you to follow. It doesn’t work like that. I want you to be happy.”
    He didn’t know what to say. He closed his eyes, and his head swam with questions, ideas, and the mango and cinnamon smell that was getting stronger again. Opening his eyes, he muttered, “Can I have a shower? I need a minute to myself.”
    She nodded and pointed at a door he hadn’t noticed on the right side wall. He walked to the bathroom, shut the door, turned on the water, and got under the warm spray.
    He should be angry. Ava had mated him without permission, given him extra abilities, making him even less human, and gone into heat to get pregnant. He laughed and knew it sounded hollow. Who was he kidding? He was never going to be human again or anything that could be classified as a normal person.
    Straightening his shoulders, he turned the taps off, grabbed the towel that hung on the wall, wrapped it around himself, and walked out to see Ava still pacing. He watched as her long, midnight black hair flowed behind her. She looked worried, biting her bottom lip, and her hands clenched and unclenched at her sides. She turned to him as he entered the room.
    “I did tell you to leave. I shouldn’t have done it without your permission.”
    He felt like a jerk. Ava looked at him like she’d done the worst thing in the world. Logan knew she was worried about his reaction and how he would feel about the new changes to him and the possibility she could be pregnant.
    “I’m sorry. I have been holding myself back the whole time I’ve been with you, because I know how you feel about us werewolves.” She sat on the edge of the bed. “Are you going to leave now?”
    Shit! He really was an asshole. Walking over to her, he sat next to her. “I’m the one who should apologize. Look, I’m working on not being a dickhead, but these last couple of months, finding out all this crazy supernatural stuff has thrown me for a loop. But I know it was no excuse for my behavior.”
    Ava rested her head on his shoulder, and he wrapped his arms around her and held her tight. “What do you want to do?” she whispered.
    He wasn’t sure what she was referring to. But he decided to stick to the safest and get out of the house. “Let’s go out. We need to have a night out, just the two of us.”
    Ava let out a loud sigh. “I’m going to get a shower myself. You should go get your stuff.” She looked up at him with her big blue eyes. “We’re mated now. So…you don’t have to stay on base. This is your house now too.”
    He was going to do this. He felt good around Ava, he got to be himself around her. Standing, he smiled. “Okay, I’ll get my stuff. Let’s see if you can put up with me.”
    Ava grinned up at him, got up, and walked to the shower, pausing to wink at him. “Wanna join me?”
    Logan moaned as images of Ava’s naked body with water sliding down it filled his mind. His cock became instantly hard, and he followed Ava into the shower.
     

Chapter 7
     
    Waking up in Logan’s arms the last couple of mornings had been a dream come true. Now that they were mated and he was using his powers he got to go into the barracks a lot later. Logan hadn’t mentioned anything about her going into heat and the possibility that she was pregnant.
    He arrived at her office every day around lunch time, and after they ate she wouldn’t see him again until she got home at five. Usually they didn’t have much more than a few hours together before he went out for the night to patrol for demons.
    Earlier that afternoon her brothers came to see her to ask her how the extra barracks were coming along. When they said they had even more recruits coming tomorrow, she’d finally blown up at them for not telling her things until the last minute.
    On the positive side, she was starting to fall in love with Logan, and after what he’d done today she thought he might be close to loving her too. She