Kidnapped by My Mate

A first-class wolf trades his seat for hers

Belle is nursing a drink at an airport bar, dreading her eleven-hour flight to visit the mother who abandoned her and her dying father five years ago.

A first-class wolf trades his seat for hers

Belle is nursing a drink at an airport bar, dreading her eleven-hour flight to visit the mother who abandoned her and her dying father five years ago. A massive, impossibly handsome man catches her eye. Someone addresses him as Alpha — a strange title she doesn't understand. He pays for her drink without a word and leaves. On the plane, he reappears: he trades his first-class ticket for the economy seat beside her, introduces himself as Grayson, and cups her face as though she's already his. When their skin touches, electric sparks surge through Belle's body — a sensation she cannot explain. Before she can process any of it, he calls her his mate and presses his lips to hers. She has no idea what she's just started.

Belle's lips save a man, then Grayson's teeth change everything

During severe turbulence, Belle hyperventilates. Grayson calms her with his voice and touch — his words carry hypnotic power, his skin-to-skin contact extinguishes her panic. She sleeps eight hours in his arms. When she later jokes about the creepy man who'd been in her original seat, Grayson's eyes flood pitch black. He storms to first class and strangles the man by his throat, lifting him off the ground. A frantic companion named Kyle tells Belle she's the only one who can stop this — she must kiss Grayson. She does. He drops the man, carries Belle to the airplane bathroom, and while kissing her neck, sinks his teeth into the place where her shoulder meets her throat. Blinding pain flashes to euphoria. She is now marked.

Every step away from Grayson sets Belle's body on fire

Belle wakes in a luxurious hotel room with the Eiffel Tower visible through the window. She is in Paris — and has been kidnapped. Grayson sleeps beside her in nothing but boxers. She carefully untangles herself and tries one door, then another, but Grayson catches her each time with lazy amusement. He warns that the fresh mark on her neck will make her sick if she's far from him. She doesn't believe it — until she makes it downstairs, where Kyle stands watch. The bite erupts into searing, full-body agony. She collapses screaming on the kitchen floor. Only when Grayson rushes down and presses his mouth to the wound does the fire extinguish. She is physically tethered to the man who took her.