Awakened from Ice: 1 (Werewolf Sentinels) by Marisa Chenery Page A

brown eyes. “Yes. I only thought to do what would be best for you and the others. I can’t give you everything you need.”
    Edensaw put his hands on either wall near her head. “You are the only thing I need. It took ten thousand years to find you, and you now own my heart. It beats only for you.”
    Cassidy swallowed back the emotions that threatened to rise to the surface. In the den of the local pack leader was not the place to make a scene by blubbering like a baby from the strong feelings Edensaw’s words invoked in her.
    “You’re leaving me almost speechless here, Edensaw,” she said as she gave him a trembling smile. “No man has ever told me I’ve meant that much to him before. And my history with the opposite sex hasn’t been great.”
    “They weren’t meant to have you as theirs. You were fated to be mine. If that wasn’t the truth, I never would have awoken. I would claim you today if you would let me.”
    “And turn me into an immortal werewolf? You forgot to mention that part when you first told me I was your mate.”
    Edensaw gave her a small grin. “You didn’t exactly react well when you learned we were werewolves. And I can still claim you and have the mating bond form between us without you being turned. We can wait to do that.”
    “You really have given me an awful lot to think about.”
    He closed the distance between their lips and took them in a possessive kiss. Cassidy soon forgot about where she was, and that there were other people in the room with her and Edensaw. He turned her world upside down, but she had to think it was in a good way. Already she felt more for Edensaw than she had for any man before him. At the rate she was going, it would only be a matter of days before she handed him her heart and accepted all that her immortal werewolf mate offered her.

Chapter Seven
     
    The days went by with the wolf brothers spending a fair amount of time with Brice and the local werewolf pack. Also the pack leader managed to get fake ID for all of the men. Along with that, he helped them convert over all the gold and precious and semi-precious stones into cash, which now sat in a joint account all the hunters had access to.
    They’d even found a big enough house with a lot of treed land that would be perfect for everyone. And lucky for them, the owners were quite happy to have a fast closing date since the place sat empty. Cassidy had given her notice on her apartment and they were to start moving things to the house in a week’s time.
    Cassidy was also growing closer to the wolf brothers. With no family of her own—her parents had died in a small airplane crash when she’d been twenty and there were no other close relatives—the men had filled that empty slot in her life.
    As for Edensaw, their relationship grew stronger with each day that passed. Every night he held her in his arms, giving her pleasure, showing her exactly what she would be missing out on if he weren’t there. She also saw the strain it was becoming for him to hold back from claiming her as his mate. Even though he kept assuring her that he managed his mating urge, Cassidy knew it was going to come to a point where he wouldn’t have as much control.
    So for the past week, Cassidy had done some long, hard thinking about Edensaw and her feelings for him. No man had made her as happy as he did. And she was falling for him. The idea of becoming his mate looked better and better. With the mating bond that would form between them, she’d never have to worry about him leaving her. He would always be by her side. Hers to love. And when she allowed him to turn her, she’d have an eternity to share with him.
    The decision made to accept all she could have with Edensaw, Cassidy planned to tell him that night after they went to bed. It wasn’t something she wanted him to learn in front of the others.
    Cassidy had dropped the wolf brothers off at Brice’s place earlier that day and had returned to the apartment to get