Alphas Divided Complete Series by Jamie Klaire, J. M. Klaire

the sex was fucking fantastic. I've never felt anything like that before. I know you're still a virgin and won't get it, but the draw to him was more than magnetic. I needed him, to make me whole. I can't get enough of him, Em. And this deep, soul connection thing, I think I can love him, eventually. Really love him, like your dad still loves your mom. That part will take time, I'm not stupid, but I feel like I am right where I am supposed to be."
    Emma looked around, watching everyone celebrate Galen and Kate's mating. They really seemed happy about it, humans and wolves alike seemed joyous and welcoming.
    Their quiet discussion was interrupted when a small group came over and pulled Kate away. Kate tried to include Emma, to get her to go dance with them and join the festivities, but Emma shook them off. She ushered Kate off with them, but wasn't ready to join the crowd herself just yet.
    She watched Kate get pulled into the group, watched her trying to learn their dances and move to the rhythms of their drums around the fire, but soon her eyes were drawn to the edge of the crowd.
    Galen and Elam stood together, watching the merriment and talking to each other.
    Emma watched as the brothers embraced, Elam slapping Galen on his back in hearty congratulations.
    The men broke apart, and Emma saw the sheer joy on Galen's face as he turned to watch his new mate integrate herself with his people.
    He looked happy, smitten even, as his eyes followed Kate.
    Emma felt suddenly very alone.
    She felt a tug on her attentions, like she was being watched as well.
    Her eyes searched the crowd, scanning people who were strangers to her before yesterday, and she zeroed in on the stare she felt burning into her.
    Elam.
    She wasn't in the mood.
    His face was washed in shadows, but she was almost certain he was the one watching her so hard she could feel it.
    "Oh, come on. Surely this pack has had strangers here before. Surely they weren't so far from civilization that two female newcomers could draw this much attention from the two top dogs. This place is crawling with hot chicks." Emma said to herself. "OK, maybe not crawling, but..."
    Emma looked around.
    The females she saw were unnaturally attractive, but there weren't very many of them. And most were older, her parent's generation. Most of the females their age were clumped around Kate, and very few females ran around with the youngest of the pack.
    Emma spotted a few young females, probably six to twelve years old, and a few really young ones on the hips of some of the others, but by far, maybe by a 4-to-1 ratio, this place was crawling with males.
    Weird.
    She looked back towards Elam, the pull of being watched still strong.
    He moved then, or the flames from the fire did, but suddenly his face was no longer hidden in shadow.
    Her eyes locked with his, and she had to remind herself to breathe.
    Damn, he was breathtaking.
    Kate's words when she spoke about mating with Galen rolled in her mind as she met Elam's gaze over the fire.
    Remnants of the visions she'd had last night, sitting right here when Elam had sat down beside her, touching her, filled her mind with flashes of the two of them locked together in passion made her flush. She was glad she could blame it on the fire if need be.
    No! She would not fall like Kate had, into the arms of the first hot male to catch her attention here. No matter how his mere presence affected her by making her stomach roll with slow, sensuous butterflies, and no matter how she felt the urge to clench her thighs tight against each other for some kind of relief.
    She was going home in a year, just as she arrived, unattached.
    Their stare was broken when Elam suddenly stood taller, turning his head away from staring at her, and looking past her, over her shoulder instead.
    Slowly, everyone around the bonfire stopped dancing, and turned to join Elam in staring behind her.
    The drums slowed and then stopped, and then someone gasped the word, "Thomas."
    The