Chapter 40
“I’m sorry,” I said, knowing the tears were only seconds from falling again and I would be unable to stop them. “I can’t do this.”
The pain in his eyes nearly broke me, but I forced myself to get up and run.
“Kelsey!” I heard him yell after me.
I didn’t stop or turn around, and I ran out of the office leaving everything behind. When Lily called to me from the lobby, I ignored her and kept running. I ran past the parking lot, cursing and kicking off my heels, and ran down the street. I needed to get home. I needed my den. I couldn’t deal with
the emotions that kiss had stirred within me. I had never wanted anything or anyone in my entire
life, but I wanted Kyle Westin, and I knew I could never do that to him. I couldn’t drag him into the living nightmare of my life.
I just kept running, not even noticing two men walking out of the woods next to the road until they were blocking the path in front of me. As my wolf went on full alarm I slowed up in my approach of
them.
“What do we have here, Ted?” the larger man asked the shorter, stockier one. They both sniffed the air. I didn’t think I imagined it this time. My wolf growled in my head, escaping from my mouth, but that only seemed to make them smile.
“Looks like we got a little lone wolf out here. Now, little she–wolf, what are you doing out here in the middle of nowhere? No car. No protector.” He snarled back and barred his teeth.
I gasped! It couldn’t be. I briefly wondered if these were the two werewolves that had killed my parents, even though the odds of it were insane. How many things like me actually exist?I had never stopped to think about it.
“Mike, don’t. You know what the Alpha said. She’s off limits.”
“I heard ‘em, but no one ever need know. This little bitch needs to learn a lesson or two on respecting the pack.”
The man called Ted just shook his head.
“Pack Council’s got their reasons for letting this bitch stay here in our territory. I ain’t going against them, Mike. You know I’m already on suspension. What the hell am I gonna do if they find out and
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exile me from the pack? I can’t chance it. Please don’t do this.”
Mike snarled back at him calling him a few choice words before he changed right in the middle of the road. His clothes flying off in all directions. I was facing down a real live werewolf. A small part of me rejoiced in the idea I was not alone. Mostly I feared for my life. I turned and took off running
back towards the office.
The wolf was fast, but even in human form, I was faster. I felt certain I could outrun them and get back to safety, until I saw him up ahead, still yelling my name. Oh no, I had to get him away from
here.
“Kelsey!” I heard Kyle yell.
“Go back, Kyle,” I screamed as loud as I could. “Run!”
He did run. He ran straight for me. I could barely keep back the hysterics as my wolf threatened to change me at any second as we ran for our lives.
“No, Kyle, run. Kyle run!” I yelled over and over as he continued toward me.
When I was almost within arm’s reach of him, I tried to grab for his hand, but it was too late. His eyes were already fixed on the wolf chasing me. A loud growl ripped through him, and I watched in stunned silence as he leaped and shifted in mid–air. His clothes lay in tattered shreds across the road
in front of me.
I stopped and turned back to look. I expected a fight, but the wolf named Mike cowered quickly and whimpered in his presence. A shiver went through him and he was suddenly standing naked in the middle of the street. I was so shocked I couldn’t stop staring.
“Aw, calm down man, we were just giving her a little fright. All in good fun.” His smile as he looked my way made my whole body shudder, but it was nowhere as shocking as seeing my large brown wolf staring him down and knowing he was Kyle Westin.
Kyle was still growling at Mike and snapping his jaws as the man called Ted approached.
“I ain’t had nothing to do with this, Kyle, I swear it!”
While they seemed distracted, I turned and ran.
Kyle’s a werewolf. Kyle’s a werewolf. Kyle’s a werewolf.The verbiage was on instant replay in my head as I tried to make it sound real. Even seeing him change with my own eyes didn’t stop the disbelief.
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I had left my keys in the office, that’s why I hadn’t gotten into my car to begin with, and I ran straight there, grabbing my purse. On my exit, I literally plowed over Lily, knocking her to the ground.
“Kelsey, what’s wrong?”
I needed to warn her. “Werewolves! Lily hide, quick, they’re coming.”
She was yelling at me to come back, but I couldn’t listen. I was in full survival mode as I jumped in the car and nearly ran over Kyle and the two men as I tore out of the parking lot. I heard Kyle howl. It didn’t sound as reassuring as usual, though it didn’t really sound scary either, more sad, very very sad, and that sadness called to my wolf like never before.
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