"Do you mean do I want to have hot, sweaty sex with you?" She asked.

"No! Wait. Do you?"

"Not answering that."

"Do you know about animals?"

"I guess I know what most people know."

"Do you know that wolves mate for life?"

"So do swans." She had seen that on National Geographic. He looked surprised.

"They do? Really?"

"Yup." She nodded.

"I never knew that."

"What was your point?"

"Sorry, got distracted. The point is that people like me and Colton, we get one mate in life, like wolves in the wild. You are my mate." He smiled down at her.

Oh God, he wanted to mate with her!

She grabbed the lamp and pulled the wire from the socket.

"Is this some freaky ass cult?" She threw the lamp as hard as she could at him. She smiled in satisfaction when it bounced off his head. The satisfaction was short lived when he turned his irritated gaze her way. She jumped on the bed and kept going until she backed into the corner with the second nightstand at her back and the king size mattress between them.

"I won't become part of the collective. I refuse to have your babies. Resistance isn't futile!" She screamed and picked up the second lamp. He turned and fled the room. Breathing hard, she put the lamp down with shaking hands. He seemed to run from objects thrown at him. She decided she needed to search the room and bathroom for more projectile objects. Feeling better now that she had even a small plan she got to work.

*****

Aiden sat downstairs with his men around him. He let Lorcan's unit set up patrols in case any other women decided to scale their perimeter fences. How could one tiny woman cause so much damn trouble?

"She's lively." Darian said consolingly.

"I have no idea what she is saying half the time." Aiden groaned.

"She's female of course you don't." Keelan said.

"Let her calm down. She's been up there for the past of couple hours, she should be getting hungry. Maybe by providing food, you can show her that you mean to take care of her and be a good mate." Gavriel suggested.

"That's not a bad idea. I know food always makes me feel better." Aiden nodded. Maybe a nice quiet dinner where they could get to know one another was just the thing they needed.

"Do we have any food here?"

"Leftovers from that Italian place we went to the other day, it should still be good." Keelan reminded him.

"Okay. I'm going to try to feed her and get her to listen." Aiden stood with a renewed sense of purpose. His men on the other hand, looked worried.

"I'm sure everything will be okay." He smiled, feeling more and more confident. He could after all handle one small human female.

*****

She heard him at the door and jumped up. Grabbing the heavy porcelain toilet back she ran over and climbed up on the long dresser next to the door. She held her breath when the door inched open. He had only taken a single step inside the room when she brought the toilet back down on his head as hard as she could. He fell to his knees with a loud crash. Two styrofoam containers dropped out of his hands and landed on the floor. He floundered around on all fours before falling forward. Shaking, she dropped the toilet back, hopped down and ran out of the room. She sprinted through the hallway and down the stairs. If she could just get outside, she could make her way back to the fence and find her car. She was about to open the front door when she was grabbed from behind. The blond man, Colton held her again.

"Let me go!"

"No way small fry." A pain filled roar echoed from upstairs.

"Okay, I know I pissed him off, please let me go."

"What did you do?"

"Hit him over the head with the back of the toilet." She whispered.

"Seriously?" Colton began to shake with laughter, never loosening his grip. She twisted and turned in an effort to get away. Loud footsteps had her looking up. Aiden, looking furious stomped down the stairs cursing and rubbing the back of his head. Not stopping, he grabbed her by the arm, swung open the front door and dragged outside.

"What are you doing Aiden?" Colton asked, jogging behind them.

Aiden was taking such large strides he was literally dragging her along. They didn't stop until they came to a car. He opened the back and threw her in. He got in the driver's seat and she began to kick at the back of his head. When her sneaker bounced off for the second time he got out, opened the door and grabbed her again. When she saw where he was about to put her she began crying.

"Please, don't!" He tossed her in the trunk and slammed it shut. Darkness began to close in on all sides.

"Dammit! She's human Aiden, you can't drive around with her in the trunk." She heard Colton yell.

"I'm not going far."

"Where are we going?" The voices were getting further away.

"My parents' house." The two car doors shutting vibrated the frame of the car. Seconds later the engine started and she could feel them moving. Crying softly in fear and frustration she prayed he wouldn't kill her.

CHAPTER TWO

When the car stopped Meryn was exhausted. She had been kicking the roof of the trunk the entire trip. She heard the doors open and shut, then male laughter.

"You're going to have to get that hammered out." She heard Colton say.

"Goddamn woman!" The trunk flew open and she scowled up at the men. Their bodies were black silhouettes blocking out the brightness of the sun. His hands pulled her from the trunk and half dragged, half carried her up the path to a very expensive looking mansion. The front door opened and a man in butler attire, without batting an eye, stepped aside for Aiden to enter.