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8. Eyes in the Dark - Part 1
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~ CARA ~I almost groaned. His voice was delicious when he dropped it so low like that. My stomach fluttered and I fought another nervous smile.He can’t be trusted. He can’t be trusted. He can’t be trusted, I sang to myself in my head. But my very unhelpful mind conjured images from just a moment before of Rig being open and vulnerable, his awkwardness over admitting his feelings about his brother—but, no. I couldn’t give in to that. Even if he was being more open with me, that didn’t mean he wasn’t a complete horndog.Trouser-snake. Remember? I thought. He’s a trouser-snake.But he was also very obviously not okay. Even though he kept smiling, even though he kept dropping his chin and staring at me out from under his brows--trying to flirt—his jaw was tight. Those little muscles at the back kept flexing. And his eyes kept darting away as he spoke. Like he had to watch our surroundings.I sighed. I knew that feeling. I’d always been good at reading people, even people who were good a
Hunted by My Alpha 10. On the Scent
~ CARA ~“Hey… are you okay?”I looked up from my lunch tray in the cafeteria to find Meg, the quiet girl from my study-group standing on the other side of my table.“Oh, hi. Yeah. Did you want to sit down?” I said, gesturing towards the chairs where Meg was standing.She smiled hesitantly, then nodded, placed her tray on the tabletop, then sat down directly across from me.For a minute we both just ate without speaking. I was distracted. My leg was hurting—and got worse the longer I was on my feet—but I had to work that evening at the library again. How was I going to get back to the dorm after? I didn’t have to close out the night this time, but I wouldn’t finish until nine and it would already be dark—“Are you sure you’re okay, Cara?” Meg asked gently. She leaned her elbows on either side of her tray, picking apart a bread roll without eating it.I sighed. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to ignore you. I’m just distracted.”“What’s going on?”“Nothing…” When Meg looked at me, clearly sk
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Hunted by My Alpha 12. Stranger Danger
~ RIG ~I almost shifted, but if this thing was just a strange human, or if there were other humans around I needed to be in human form—and not be naked. So with a low growl, I moved as quickly as any human witness would think was realistic, following Cara’s trail deeper into the trees.Why had she done it? Why had she come in here alone after what had already happened?A tiny voice nudged at the back of his mind—why had I let her? But I shook it off. She was human and an adult. Not my responsibility.Moments. It took only moments to find the trail and follow it at a full sprint, first down the trail, then, where her scent mingled with that other thing, into the trees and underbrush.Teeth bared, hands whipping branches aside, I tore through the trees, then broke out into a small clearing where the moonlight turned everything silver and black… and my chest turned to stone.The moment I broke through the trees, the male on the other side of the clearing froze.He held Cara facing me, o
Hunted by My Alpha 13. The Human Condition
~ RIG ~“Yes, I’m certain. It was one guy. But he had… he had a dog or something with him.” I said the words carefully, avoiding Cara’s eyes, praying she didn’t hear me. There were lights in the clearing now. The Police Officer stood just a couple feet away, his notebook in his hand and a stern look on his face. Cara, the wound on her neck already cleaned and covered, was being strapped to the board so the ambulance officers could carry her out, but her knee was causing her a lot of pain.“We have had a couple of attacks recently. But no one has seen them except the victims. You’re absolutely sure—”“Did I stutter?” I snarled. My tension was growing, but they didn’t know that. The officer’s face tightened and I made myself take a breath. My frustration wasn’t for this human, but for the conversation going on in my head between my packmates who had followed the creature’s trail all the way to the main street just outside of Campus where it went cold.Either the thing had a car, or some
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Hunted by My Alpha 16. Never Have I Ever - Part 1
~ CARA ~The next morning, I was swinging myself along the sidewalk towards the cafeteria, starving. I’d eaten all of my snacks and couldn’t afford to buy more until I got paid at the end of the week. With everything that had happened over the weekend, I needed to catch up on the studying I had missed. But if I was going to concentrate I needed to eat, and that meant having breakfast in the cafeteria. Which meant, with the crutches, that I was out of the door early to give myself extra time.I thought I would be sore after working so late the night before. But all that sleep had done my knee good. I still couldn’t put weight on it, but it wasn’t aching as badly as when I’d come home from the hospital. As I clunked onto the sidewalk outside the dormitory, I winced. The undersides of my arms were being rubbed by the crutches. How was I going to handle two more weeks of this?I wasn’t even halfway down the block when the rumble of a vehicle approached from behind, then slowed to roll alo
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Hunted by My Alpha 244. In the Right Place
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Hunted by My Alpha 243. Done
~ RIG ~I started towards her, but was halted almost immediately as I watched in awe while my mate carved through lines of wolves as if they were butter.Claws, teeth, whirling body—despite her bulk, she moved like liquid, tail lashing and claws like wicked hooks designed to tear through fur and flesh.I shook and trembled because my father’s power was shifting to me and my veins were boiling with it—while the rest of me simmered in the rising rage and terror of the wolves around us.The transfer of Alpha should have been peaceful. There was an established hierarchy waiting, swelling with the newfound power. But my father was a liar and cheat, and he’d encouraged his wolves towards the same.The hierarchy, the elders, his advisors, every pack and family of power rolled towards us, howling in rage and fear.And my wolves, newly risen and brimming with the triumph of victory and the added confidence of success, tore right back to meet them.Mack, Charlie, Jack, and Natalie tore for me,
Hunted by My Alpha 242. When Hell is Broken
SOUNDTRACK: “Legendz” by AG and Devvon Terrell ***** ~ RIG ~ Everything slowed to a crawl, time seemed almost not to move at all as I watched my father go for my mate and I turned, twisting, pushing my body in ways I never had, panic screaming in my head, frantic to reach him before he got her. I couldn’t move fast enough. He was going to land at her feet before I did and his power would carry him right to her throat. She wasn’t equipped for this… It all washed through me in that second—the rage for what he’d done, the fury about his injustices, the anger that he would still cheat, even before the witnesses, and the shocking weight of grief because that was my mate. But then the second wave arrived that left me desperate, panicked, humiliated and hating myself. If she died right now it was my fault. My side screamed in pain as I launched myself after him, but my father seemed to hang in mid-air. I had time to see Cara bare her teeth and crouch. Everything moved so slowly I could
Hunted by My Alpha 241. Death on Four Legs
~ RIG ~My father saw the opening he’d been waiting for, gathered himself on his haunches and launched at me, the light of victory in his eyes.Instinctively, I didn’t even try to meet the attack, just leaped straight into the air in an attempt to deflect, dropping my chin, trying to hide my throat as my father snaked in—and to my horror, he would have taken me, except that was the moment Stephen howled in the link, then sent images to us both:Himself. Head bowed. Shoulders rolled forward. His human form submitted.To me.It was a boom of thunder right over my head. In any context, the submission of an Alpha brought al
