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Relief had tears filling her eyes, but there was still much to be done.Fuck.What was she doing?Should she be here at all.Panic and doubt welled inside.Maybe she was just a distraction for Konstantin and inserting herself in his life was presumptuous?
Fuck no!
Her Lioness snarled at the thought.Their matebond pulsed and tightened around her, and she closed her eyes allowing the supernatural connection to reassure her.Yes, this went beyond mere sex.
She and Konstantin had made love over and over again on her tiny bed until it was time for her to leave to pick up Mikey from school.The Tiger had been everything she’d ever wanted in a lover.Sweet, demanding, and downright fucking amazing.He did not claim her though, but he’d stated his intentions quite clearly.
“I will mark you as my own, moya lyiveetsa, in the way of my people.Back home, a man takes his mate under the full moon with all of his Pride surrounding him.”
“Eww, I am not into voyeurism, Kon,” she said and giggled at his horrified expression.
“No!Not in front of them, but they are there in the village or town.To keep guard, understand?So the new couple is safe to give themselves to the other completely and freely without having to be concerned with anything else.That is what I want for us.For you to come to me carefree, with only love, like the love I have for you,” he whispered.
She’d never laughed and played while in bed with a man before.It was thrilling and new, and so damn sweet.Yasmin had never had that.And dammit, he did make her laugh.He made her feel carefree.For the first time in five years, she felt safe and secure.
“Okay, you ready to go hunting, Eduardo?”
“Yes.I’m gonna scope out the building my informant believes Alina was taken too by the bratva.But I need Konstantin before I do anything else.I won’t risk Alina’s life,” Eduardo replied, choking up on the last.
“I understand,” she said, and she meant it.
“It will only be for a little while, Ed.Konstantin will make it right.”
She had no doubt whatsoever when it came to her Tiger’s strength and determination.She would leave the boys to their part, it was time to do hers.Yasmin sat down on the stairs and grabbed her cell phone.Her mind was racing, heart pounding, and inner beast scratching and antsy.
When this is over, we will go for a long run in Central Park, she soothed the animal with promises she meant to keep.With any luck, a certain Tiger would run with her.
ChapterTen
What the actual fuck?
Konstantin wasn’t sure whose corn flakes he’d pissed in, but the last few days had been unbelievable.He was still reeling from everything that had gone down.
How had he gone from being claimed by the most beautiful woman in the world, a female he wanted above all others, whose flesh he was dying to mark with his mating bite, to being locked up and kept away from her?
Motherfucking Ivanovich, that was how.
He’d been arrested, kept in holding for a day, and arraigned at the latest possible time.When his lawyer, one of the Tiger’s from the Jensen Pride whose members frequentedThe Stripe Club, often courting Konstantin to join them, had come to speak to him, he’d learned the truth behind the charges.
Theo Jensen was young and brilliant, apparently one of the best defense attorneys at Jensen & Associates.In very little time and with practically no information, he’d discovered the warrant for Konstantin’s arrest had been set in motion by a local young prosecutor with high ambitions.Cletus Ermine, Weasel Shifter, was hoping to make a name for himself as the man who stopped the Russian mob.
Apparently, he got Konstantin’s name from a badly translated a wiretap along with the wordswash,money, andStripe Club.It was enough for the man to issue the warrant.Only, he forgot to wait for Konstantin to commit the crime, which is why the little vermin added illegal importation of goods to it.
Asshole.
Every Shifter entrepreneur who worked in the food industry in any capacity skated the line of what was legal and not.No supernatural judge was gonna burn him for that.Of course, it would be harder to prove he wasn’t in the mob.His books were good, but were they spotless?How the fuck should he know?He hired accountants for that.
But Konstantin was only half listening.He barely had his Tiger under control.The beast was adamant he be freed, to hunt down his mate and sister.But he knew better.Ivanovich would have Alina under heavy guard, and Eduardo had contacted him through his lawyer and told him Yasmin was at the club which had its own security in place.
The guard she’d given the slip to, had been chewed out but he remained in place.Keeping watch over Michael, and Aunt Lisa.Konstantin’s beast chuffed at the images of the new additions to his family that flitted through his mind.His animal already accepted the unique cub as his own.He would protect the boy with his life, and if he was lucky enough, his sweet Yasmin would allow him to be a father to the child.
“Finally,” he growled after he was released from holding.
He called an Uber, not bothering to wait for Eduardo.His Tiger was seconds away from bursting through his skin by the time he reached the club.Konstantin growled at security, as they opened the door to his club.
He took the stairs three at a time, needing to check in with Eduardo before he hunted down his mate.The beast inside him needed to see her.Before he took another step, he inhaled.Beneath the bleach and harsh chemicals that had been used to clean all traces of the beating he’d taken from the Ivanovich brothers, Yasmin’s tantalizing scent reached him.Fuck yes, she was right there.Her sweet and spicy fragrance filled his nostrils and the Tiger stilled.
Konstantin entered his office and could have wept with joy seeing his little Lioness sitting in his chair, facing the other way.She was speaking rapidly to some sorry fool on the other end of the line about deliveries or something pertaining to his club.The air condition was on full blast and the scent of chemicals was stronger inside.
