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  Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Iii

Chapter Four

Chapter 5

Affiliate Half dozen

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Affiliate Ten

Affiliate Xi

Affiliate Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Epilogue

Near the Author

Other Books

My Commander

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Bewitched and Bewildered

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ALANEA ALDER

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Dedication

To my street team, I couldn't have washed this without you lot! You lot actually are my Angels!

~Amor Vincit Omnia- Love Conquers All~

PROLOGUE

"Aiden, come discover me!" The soft voice teased. Aiden looked around, he was in the forest betwixt the Alpha and Beta billet. Stumbling blindly he couldn't see where she was hiding. A growing sense of dread had his heart beating out of control.

"Quit playing and come out." He yelled.

"Sourpuss!" Her feminine laughter echoed off the copse.

"Come on now, no more than playing." He chosen out. There was nothing but silence.

"That's non funny, come out!"

"Aiden!" Her scream shattered the silence. He ran toward her vocalism. When he got to the immigration he bellowed out his rage. She was lying in a growing puddle of blood. Her long, dark-brown hair framed her petite trunk on either side. She wore a delicate white lace summertime dress and was the almost beautiful woman he had ever seen. She was his mate, and she was dying. He raced over and dropped to his knees, lifting her pocket-sized body into his arms.

"Stay with me baby, please!" He begged.

"Why didn't you look for me?" Her large green eyes held and so much hurting.

"I didn't know." He choked on the words.

"I would have loved you forever." And so her eyes airtight.

*****

Aiden sat up in bed clutching his chest. He had been dreaming of this adult female for the past ii weeks, with her long, soft brown hair, expressive green eyes and stake skin. She looked so innocent and fragile. Most nights the dreams were wonderful, but the nightmares had started three nights ago and he was scared to death that his mate was out in that location and he had no idea where to discover her.

He swung his legs over the bed and leaned frontward, elbows on his knees, face in his hands. He tried to milk shake off the feeling that something was terribly incorrect. Sighing he sat up and scrubbed his easily over his face. He stood and decided against taking a shower, they were doing drills today, and he would exist sweaty and rank in less than an hour anyway.

He put on his preparation gear and went downstairs. Gavriel was at the table frowning into his coffee mug.

"You too?" Aiden asked. Gavriel looked up and nodded.

So far they were the only ii in their unit who had started dreaming of their mates. In theory he understood the Elderberry's concerns for the next generation. At first casting a spell to bring their mates to them seemed extreme, only with his nightmares came a growing sense of urgency. Peradventure they had been right subsequently all. Damn.

"Bad?" Aiden asked turning his attention back to his second in command.

"I think my mate may be mentally retarded, either that or she has a severe inner ear imbalance. Every dark it'south as if I sentinel her from afar, I accept never seen a more accident decumbent person in my life. I fear she will get herself killed before I can observe her." Gavriel scowled. Aiden winced. Gavriel was one of the most elegant, svelte men he knew. What could Fate exist thinking pairing him with a adult female similar that?

"You?" Gavriel asked.

"She was murdered once more. I didn't get in that location in time." Aiden whispered. Gavriel set his loving cup downwardly.

"Aiden, you say the discussion, we'll brainstorm looking for her."

"Thank you, I would have, but I have no thought where to start."

"You 2 look specially gloomy this morning." Colton breezed in and immediately went to the coffee pot.

"Had problem sleeping." Gavriel said smoothly, nodding at Aiden with a knowing look. Aiden smiled back, he was grateful that he didn't have to discuss his nightmare further.

"So what'due south on the agenda today?" Colton turned, property his favorite mug. It was a caricature of a busty beer maiden holding ii beer steins, the caption read "I similar large jugs and I cannot lie". Aiden felt himself brainstorm to smile. Merely Colton could pull him out of his bad moods so hands.

"Nosotros're doing drills." Aiden sipped his coffee.

"Which ones?"

"All of them?"

Colton choked on his coffee. "All of them?"

"All of them. Every mother's son of yous. We get until we drop." Aiden figured that if he had to push himself to exhaustion to avoid dreaming, he was dragging the men along for the miserable ride.

"Can I call in ill?" Colton faked a cough.

"No. Telephone call Lorcan and Sascha, nosotros're training with Beta and Gamma today. Allow them know we'll be using our facilities." Aiden drained his coffee cup every bit Gavriel finished what was left of his. The both of them headed out to the unit's grooming grounds, leaving Colton to moan and groan backside them. Aiden began calling out drill exercises to the early on arrivals. He turned to stare at the woods.

It was simply a dream. She isn't existent. Aiden exhaled and concentrated on the men. He didn't need a adult female cluttering upward his life and he sure equally hell didn't need the distraction.

Affiliate Ane

"I love stone and scroll so put another coin in the jukebox baby." Meryn turned upwardly the volume to her iPod and jammed along with the B52's. She had woken upward to an overwhelming need to go exploring. So she had shoved her laptop into her backpack and jumped in her car. 30 minutes later she parked on the side of an old land route and head out on foot. She was now staring at a high, very official looking chain link debate. Her inborn sense of marvel which had gotten her into more than than one scrape in the by coupled with the foreign feeling to go forward, was pushing her to scale the fence and meet what lay across. Shrugging she started to climb. She speedily came

to the determination that climbing fences was much harder than information technology looked on Goggle box. She cleared the top, climbed downwards a few anxiety and and then jumped the full length of the fence downwards. Bopping her head to the music she looked effectually and began to walk forward.

It was October and the crisp autumn air that smelled of leaves and world fabricated information technology a perfect twenty-four hours for hiking and exploring. She zipped her hoodie closed when a deject passed over the sun lowering the afternoon temperature. She always wore her hoodies iii sizes too large which fabricated them comfy and snuggly like a blanket. She had been waiting for autumn atmospheric condition all summer so she could begin wearing her hoodies again.

The only thing she didn't similar about wearing them was that they ordinarily covered up her favorite tee-shirts. Today she was sporting a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tee she had found at the thrift shop. She had layered that over a white thermal and was happy with the outcome. Graphic tees were her weakness.

As the current of air picked up she started to second guess cutting her hair. She ran a hand over the curt, pixie cut and grinned. She loved how easy information technology was to accept intendance of, and it was a fun, sassy await. Only damn if the dorsum of her neck wasn't getting cold. Note to self. Purchase more scarves! She was about to keep with her walk when movement out of the corner of her eye had her freezing mid-step. She turned to see a tall, blond man with light-green eyes staring at her with an amused look as he leaned against a... was that an assail burglarize? She pulled her earbuds out of her ears.

"Um, hello."

"Hello little i. Did you know you lot're on private property?"

"Actually? I had no thought." Meryn fudged.

He raised an eyebrow. "The ten pes fence correct behind you didn't give it away?"

Meryn turned to await at the fence.

"How'd that go there?" She pretended to be shocked.

"You're funny. But not funny enough to avert problem." He took a footstep forrard and she took a step back.

"I was simply curious about what was back hither."

More than men began to pour out of the woods on all sides. Panicked she turned and ran for the argue. Big hands grabbed at her and pulled her astern.

"Put me down yous asshole!" She screamed equally the men looked at each other in daze.

"Quit squirming. Ow! Stop trying to kicking me in the assurance!" The blond man yelled as Meryn flailed uselessly.

"This is assault and battery!"

"You're the one assaulting me, you crazy female! I think you broke my olfactory organ!" Finally, he gained command and held her out in front end of him, grasping her upper arms.

Meryn looked around helplessly as she dangled in his grasp. Her hopes for escape plummeted when she saw that they were now completely surrounded by no less than twelve huge men all carrying weapons.

"Okay, I saw this pic and I didn't similar it. Tin can I just go home now?" She took in their military gear and closed her eyes. "I didn't see annihilation I swear."

"Who sent you?" Meryn opened her eyes to see some other blond man stepping forward. At kickoff she thought he might be related to the guy holding her, merely this homo had bister colored eyes, not green. He also had higher cheekbones and fuller lips. Information technology was a gorgeous combination.

"No 1."

"So yous just decided to climb a random argue, just to meet what was on the other side?" In that location was no hiding the sarcasm in that question.

She nodded frantically. "Really, yeah. I but moved to boondocks and today when I woke up, I had this overwhelming urge to become exploring. It pushed me here." She noticed how the men gave each other meaningful looks.

"So are y'all guys similar paramilitary? Secret CIA grooming base of operations? That would be cool." Meryn asked.

All eyes turned back to her. She flinched and closed her eyes once more.

"I mean, I see nothing, I hear nothing and I most definitely won't say shit."

The homo behind her snorted as the sound of men approaching had her opening her optics once more. Out of the woods two more men appeared. I looked like he glided over the fallen leaves; the other trampled through them recklessly his deep blue eyes hard. He looked similar he was the blazon of man who wore a perpetual scowl.

The aroused ane looked her over. "What'southward your name?"

"These are not the droids you are looking for." She said. The smaller auburn haired man to her left cracked upward. The hulking man glared at him.

"Quiet Keelan." He turned his gaze back to her.

"Come on, that's Star Wars." Keelan explained.

"She fights star blazon wars?" He asked concerned.

She looked up at him. "Seriously?"

He opened his mouth to answer and froze. He closed his optics and dropped his head back. His muscled chest expanded every bit he took a deep breath. His entire body shuddered. His head snapped dorsum and when he looked her upwardly and down he had a stunned expression on his face up.

"Yous cut your hair." He whispered.

She nodded, then froze. How in the hell did he know that? Meryn began to struggle to get downwards. Something freaky was going on and she had to get out of there.

"So, what exercise nosotros do with her?" Her captor asked, shaking her pocket-size frame as if she were a rag doll. The large man's eyes turned solid blackness and a depression rumble emanated from his pharynx. Growling he stepped forward and pulled her from the blond man's easily and into the curve of his body. He snapped and snarled at the other men.

"Get dorsum, that woman is his mate! Dorsum off, that's an order Colton!" A nighttime haired man yelled. Meryn felt the huge homo rub his cheek on the summit of her head almost as if he were trying to get his scent on her. She felt a rush of panic when the men began to motility away. They looked normal. They weren't snarling and growling. She reached a manus out to the blond human.

"Please! Don't let him take me!"

The blond man looked torn. "Aiden she's scared! Calm down!" He yelled.

A roar from the man property her nearly burst her eardrums. He slung her over his shoulder and she thrashed to become down. Her stomach was killing her from where his shoulder kept squashing her insides as he ran. Grabbing his waist she chip his dorsum over his kidney. Roaring he flipped her around cradling her in his artillery. His pace quickened equally he turned and darted through the trees.

"Neanderthal! Put me down! Put me down now!" Her tiny fists beat on his chest and head. He ignored her efforts. When a large firm came into view, she struggled more, knowing that if he got her within she would never exist able to go out. It had zero issue on the man. He kicked the door in.

The downstairs became a blur every bit he moved through the house. He ran up the stairs and down a long hallway. Too soon he was opening a door. He quickly closed it behind him before setting her down. He stood dorsum smiling down at her. He was even so smiling when her fist connected with his nose. He shook his head looking like he was trying to focus.

"Let me go!" Her foot connected with his shin and he allow out an undignified yelp.

"Adult female, quit hit me!" He bellowed.

"This is kidnapping and false imprisonment!" She slung her haversack forrad and pulled out her phone. He plucked information technology from her hand. He grabbed her haversack to take it from her, simply she held on tight with both hands.

Frustrated, he lifted it over her head but she notwithstanding didn't let go she only dangled from the straps. He shook it and finally she lost her grip and brutal to the floor. She scowled up at him from a sitting position.

"You're the soft, feminine woman from my dreams? My delicate innocent? Y'all, with your curt hair, muddy sneakers and preadolescent male person vesture?" He sounded confused. He leaned forward and inhaled over again.

"Why are yous sniffing me?" She scooted abroad, crabwalking backwards on her hands and feet.

"Oh God, is this like Silence of the Lambs?" Tears flowed down her face. "I don't want to go downwards the hole! I won't put lotion on the skin! Wait at me, you won't be able to wear my skin, I won't cover your huge ass!" She wailed.

He took a conscientious step backward.

"I'll be dorsum." He turned and fled from the room. She heard the audio of a small metallic click as the door was locked. She then heard something that had her brain working overtime.

"My mate is fucking n

uts!"

*****

Meryn jumped up when the door shut and tried to open it. Dammit, she was locked in. Mate? What did he mean past mate? She ran to the window and looked down. She was at to the lowest degree iii stories upwardly, and so jumping out was impossible. She was about to plow back to the room when she saw the man who had grabbed her from the fence run into the backyard. The huge one Aiden had called the blond human Colton. She watched as Colton began to strip out of his wearable. She tilted her caput to admire the view. He had a great ass. A moment later she started to think that one of the military guys had slipped her some hallucinogens, because ane second Colton was a man with a fine ass, the next he was a huge domestic dog running into the woods.

She stumbled back from the window, tripped over an expensive looking rug and fell apartment on her butt. She was in a world of shit now. Fact one: the big guy that growled and brought her back here had to exist i of the sexiest men she had e'er seen in her life. Actually, all of the men were gorgeous, only in that location was something about that hulking brute that just fabricated her desire to snuggle up and accept a nap...after a long afternoon of hot sex. Fact two: at least i guy here turned into a dog. Fact iii: no i seemed all that concerned that she had been taken, so help was probably non on its way. She was on her ain. Why did all the crazy stuff happen to her? Did she but attract crazy shit?

She heard the door open and the large guy walked in slowly before shutting the door behind him. She stood and backed up until she hit the wall. He held up his easily.

"Your name is Aiden right?" She asked. Somehow giving him a proper noun made him slightly less scary and more likely to exist reasoned with.

He nodded. "I'k non going to hurt you."

His deep, sexy voice should be outlawed.

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