Jager reached down and hooked one of her legs over his arm as he pumped his hips a little faster. “We can die. We’re just a lot harder to kill, and we’re very long-lived. The oldest our kind lives to be is around three thousand years. So, if you let Roxie turn you, we’ll have more than a few centuries to be together instead of a single mortal lifetime.”
His eyes started to glow as he gazed down into her eyes. “And, Daylen, I want to have every day of those centuries. I know the choice is yours, and you would have to eventually give up your family and friends, but I don’t want to lose you before I have to.”
Looking up at Jager, seeing what she could only describe as love shining in his eyes, Daylen knew she would take that final step to make them mates in every way. No man had ever looked at her the way Jager was now. “I really don’t have any family. My mom died when I was ten, and my dad passed away three years ago. The only family I have is my dad’s brother, his wife and my cousins. We have never been close, even when my dad was still alive. So they won’t miss me. The only close friend I have is Nick. He’s a cop at my precinct. It’ll be hard leaving him, but I’ll have a few years before I have to worry about him noticing I’m not aging.”
“Is Nick the cop you were talking to in the alley the other day?”
Daylen smiled. “You were watching us?”
“Of course. He’s also lucky he never touched you or I would have had to take it out on his hide.”
She reached up and tucked Jager’s long hair behind his ears. “Nick is very happily married, and his wife is very pregnant with their first child. So he’s no threat.”
Jager bent his head and kissed her long and hard. When he pulled away, he asked,
“So we’ve worked out the first topic of discussion, what about the second? From what you said about your family and friends, do I take it that you’re willing to let Roxie turn you?”
“More than willing,” she said with meaning in her voice. “We’re mates. We should be mates in every sense of the word.”
With a low growl, Jager kissed her once again as he moved more forcefully inside her pussy. Daylen moaned into his mouth and held onto his biceps as he brought her arousal to a fevered pitch. When she came, Jager came with her. Daylen put her arms around her mate and held him tight when he collapsed on top of her.
Chapter Eleven
Jager and Daylen had just gotten out of the shower in the en suite when someone knocked on his bedroom door. Quickly wrapping a towel around his waist, Jager went to answer it while Daylen stayed in the bathroom.
He cracked open the door to find Dirk on the other side with his cell phone held against his chest. “Daylen’s detective friend is on my cell. I figured she’d want to talk to him.”
At the sound of footsteps coming up behind him, Jager looked over his shoulder and saw Daylen with a towel wrapped around her body walking toward him. When she reached his side, she said to Dirk, “I’ll talk to Ted.”
Dirk passed Daylen his cell phone. Both Jager and Dirk quietly waited as she talked to the man on the other end. After a few minutes, she snapped the cell phone closed and handed it back to Dirk.
“Ted came through again,” she told them with a smile.
Jager nodded and then turned to Dirk. “Tell the others that Daylen and I will be down in a few minutes.”
Dirk nodded then left to head downstairs.
Jager closed the bedroom door and turned to watch Daylen getting dressed. His gaze ran lovingly over her body. She had curves in all the right places and had enough muscle on her that he didn’t have to worry that she would break in his arms. Even though Daylen wasn’t ready to tell him she loved him, he already loved her. If he hadn’t have been able to fall in love with her practically at first sight, his mating urge never would have kicked in to tell him she was his.
Realizing Daylen had finished dressing and he still only wore a damp towel around his hips, Jager dropped it to the floor and scooped up his jeans. He felt Daylen’s gaze following his movements as he pulled them up his legs and fastened them at his waist. He moved over to his dresser and took out a clean dark blue t-shirt. Yanking it on over his head, he turned to face Daylen. Her gaze most definitely had a heated look to it that made Jager wish they didn’t have to go downstairs.
As if Daylen had read his mind, she said, “Don’t even suggest it. I have to tell the others what Ted told me. And besides, you just had me a minute ago in the shower.”
He grinned. “You enjoyed it though.”
She shook her head and smiled. “Yes, but you’re going to have to feed me first before we have another marathon of sex. If I don’t get some food into me soon, I’ll start wasting away.”
Jager crossed over to her and put his hands on the sides of her waist. He then brushed a gentle kiss across her lips. “We can’t have that. After we’ve had our meeting with the others, we can go to the kitchen and get something to eat.”
They left his bedroom hand in hand and headed downstairs. They found the others once again congregated in the living room. Much to Jager’s surprise, he saw that both Beowulf and Roxie were still there.
Guiding Daylen over to the couch to where Beowulf and Roxie sat, he got Daylen to sit next to the other woman while he lowered himself onto the arm. He said to the other couple, “I thought the two of you would have left by now.”
“We thought it best to stay to hear what that police detective Daylen knows could come up with,” Beowulf replied. “Plus if we’d left, Saskia would have sent a few of your brothers along to watch over Roxie. We didn’t think it would be fair.”
“Enough chitchat over there,” Leif said from one of the armchairs. “What did your buddy have to say, Daylen?”
“Well, first off,” she said, “Ted couldn’t find anything on a Miles Jensen with the description I’d given him. No driver’s license, no social security number, and no properties under that name either.”
Saskia nodded and said, “Miles must be using an alias. He isn’t stupid. He would know if he used his real name we’d have found him by now.”
“Ted did manage to find out who the owner is listed for the warehouse. It’s owned by a company named Denco Ltd. Ted also figures it has to be a dummy corporation, because he couldn’t find anything else out about it. But, after he did a little more digging, he found an old factory that is no longer in use was recently purchased by a company named Wolfen Inc., which also happens to be a subsidiary of Denco Ltd.”
Kye snorted. “Miles couldn’t come up with better names than that? We’d never be able to guess that a werewolf owned those properties with names like those,” he said sarcastically.
Saskia spoke up before anyone else could add anything more. “What’s the address of the factory, Daylen? Some of us will go check it out while the others stay behind and watch over Roxie. Jager, since you and Daylen are newly mated and shouldn’t be separated just yet, I suggest the two of you stay behind.” When Daylen opened her mouth, Saskia said, “I know you’re one of us now, Daylen, but you still have much to learn about werewolf kind.” She then smiled. “Plus newly mated couples tend to be a little distracted. You and Jager will have more pleasurable pursuits on your minds.”
Jager couldn’t argue with that, and he guessed neither could Daylen when she closed her mouth and blushed slightly. He put an arm around her shoulders and pulled her over so she leaned against his side while Saskia split up the other Protectors.
In the end, she decided Roan and Ansley would stay behind with Jager and Daylen.
Saskia, Eli, Skylar, Kye, Leif and Dirk would be the ones to go scout out the factory.