Forever Is Not Enough [Council Enforcers 2] (Siren Publishing Classic)

point that out to Mitch.
    He let Mitch help him down the hall and followed his mate’s scent to the guest bedroom door his friend Ken was currently blocking. The big man nodded at him then stepped away, more than likely off to find his own mate. Ken was a man of few words, so Ben knew that was his way of saying welcome home. He vowed he would talk to each of his friends later and thank them. He had no doubt they’d done everything they could to find him. First though, he needed to see Jacqi.
    Ben took a breath and opened the door. His mate was in the middle of the room pacing but stopped when she heard the door open. He watched as those large violet eyes scanned him from head to toe before she smiled and threw herself at him.
    “Thank God you’re all right. I was so worried about you.”
    Jacqi pulled back and began rubbing her hands up and down his chest and side, checking his injuries. Ben had to hold back a moan at how good her hot hands felt on him. He imagined how good those hands would feel rubbing his cock and felt himself starting to get hard.
    Now that he wasn’t delirious from the drugs she was constantly injecting him with or running for his life, Ben was finally able to take the time to really look at his mate. What he saw amazed him. He had never seen a woman as beautiful as Jacqueline, and that was saying something. Ben knew beautiful women. They threw themselves at him every day, and he had no problem getting any of them into his bed. It was what he was known for. He was always the guy who vowed to never mate because there were too many women out there to waste his time with just one.
    Looking at Jacqi, he saw that for the lie it was. She stood about five feet five, which, compared to his six feet, seemed small and fragile, but when she had hugged him, they had fit together perfectly. Her petite curvy body molding against his. Add in the long dark chocolate hair and those stunning violet eyes of hers and his mate made all the other women in his past seem like trolls.
    Pulling Jacqi back into a hug, Ben buried his face in her hair and took a deep breath. Her spicy cinnamon scent did more to calm him than anything he could remember. He knew he had to brief the guys and let them know everything that had happened to him, but at the moment, he couldn’t think of anything more he wanted to do than to hold his mate.
    She could be rubbing my belly.
    Let’s not get carried away, pup. She still doesn’t know that she is our mate yet, and something tells me she isn’t too comfortable around shifters.
    She will love me. Everyone loves me.
    Ben held back a laugh. He knew his wolf wasn’t being arrogant. It was just his playful nature that assumed since he loved everyone then they automatically loved him as well. If he let his wolf out now, he had no doubt his tail would be wagging and his tongue would be hanging out of his mouth in a big wolfy smile. What he said about everyone loving him was true also. In some ways his wolf was like an overgrown puppy. He was always ready to play or receive a good belly rub. Most people couldn’t help but fall in love with him.
    “I’m fine.” Ben pulled Jacqi away from him and held her by the shoulders. “Are you okay? You aren’t hurt or anything, are you?”
    “I’m a little sore, but that’s to be expected when a hundred-and-thirty-pound girl gets tackled by an eight-hundred-pound, ten-foot man.” Jacqi glared at Mitch.
    “Hey, I don’t weigh that much!” Mitch yelled.
    Tessa snorted and walked over to Ben’s little mate. “I’m Tessa, and the giant over there is my mate, Mitch. He’s sorry for tackling you, by the way, but we’ve all been just a little high strung with this whole rogue thing and Percival trying to take over the world. Not to mention Ben being missing for almost three months.”
    Had it been only three months? To Ben it had seemed like ages ago since the night he blew up Percival’s home and became a prisoner in the process. Granted most of that time he had spent either unconscious or out of his mind. Still, to Ben, that was a lifetime ago.
    He wasn’t oblivious to the wince his little mate gave when her father’s name was mentioned. He needed to let the guys in on the fact that Jacqi somehow believed the man was her father and that she worked for the bastard. He had a feeling they had trouble headed their way, and he needed to prepare his friends.
    “Listen, guys, we need to have a meeting. First, I need a long, hot shower and