“Shit.”
My whole body started to shake. I’d left one hell for another one. Would they let me live? I hadn’t meant to fall onto one of them. The day I’d escaped still seemed a bit hazy.
I backed away from the window, and words filled my memory. The guy who was here, he’d said I was his? Something inside me, my wolf? I didn’t know just didn’t buy that his words, mine, had meant I was a slave. But, my head said that was the only option.
Suddenly I was exhausted. I staggered back and realized how much bigger the room seemed. I started as the door of my room slammed open crashing against the wall.
“What the hell is wrong with you,” said the same male that consumed my thoughts. He was everything I’d ever dreamed of, except in my dreams his anger wasn’t directed at me. No, I dreamt he would come and kill everyone who had ever hurt me.
I could feel the waves of his anger as he stormed forward, but all I could hear was his words over and over. Mine. His. And it wasn’t as sexy as I’d always thought it would be. No, instead the reality hit me that I belonged to someone else. I didn’t want to belong to anyone. My knees gave out, and I waited for the cold floor. Instead, his strong arms wrapped around me as he caught me once again.
“You can’t stand naked in front of the window. Shifters or not, no one needs to see you. Fuck.”
I snuggled into him as irrational feelings of safety took over the fear. The haze of sleep crept in.
“How else would I get your attention? I’m so sleepy,” I said, not sure if this was a dream or real.
His hands gripped me tighter, but it didn’t hurt. I liked the rush of heat his skin elicited against mine.
“You’re fucking gorgeous is what you are and you need to stay in this fucking bed. Goddess, if any other’s saw you I’m going to have to fucking kill them.”
I smiled to myself. This was certainly a dream.
“You think I’m pretty?”
He grunted and as illogical as it all was I liked the deep sound of his voice. It got colder as he lowered me to the bed.
“Fuck. My wolf can’t stay away from you. Although we didn’t expect to see you flashing us through the fucking window.”
My body sank into the soft bed again.
“I wanted to run. It’s been so long since I’ve been free. My wolf, she-”
My eyelids were so heavy. And as much as my brain wanted to circle back to the dangers I’d been told my entire life of the Black Creek Pack or the hell of any of the packs in alliance with the council, I couldn’t fight that it didn’t feel wrong.
“Tell me? Am I safe here?”
He grunted, but a blanket slipped over my bare body. If it were my dream, I wouldn’t be so tired.
“Yes. No one would dare harm a female on these lands.”
The gentle touch of fingers feathered over my cheek.
“No one would dare touch you here.”
Tingles of desire bloomed wherever he touched my bare skin regardless of what my brain was trying to tell us.
“The rumors are that your alpha is bloodthirsty.”
This made my mystery male laugh. For all the pain and exhaustion, the second he moved away I could feel the loss of him and darted out my hand to grab him back.
I forced my eyes open. The moonlight was the only thing in this room, but even so I could see his very chiseled, very naked, very male body. My tongue was like sandpaper against the roof of my mouth at the sight of him.
“Do they say these things?” he said, looking between me and my hand on his wrist.
And my eyes followed my arm to his and then over at the massive muscle inline with my gaze. Wow. He was huge everywhere. I swallowed against the dry desert of my mouth.
Would being his breeder be so bad? The strange tingles of something new running through my belly said maybe not. His voice brought my eyes back to his face.