A Wolf at the Door: A Werewolf Mystery Romance by Scarlett Rhone

Author:Scarlett Rhone [Rhone, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Enamored Ink
Published: 2016-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Jake hit the ground in the fighting circle, a furious growl caught in his throat, but the greater struggle was in his wolf. Alistair had already wound him up good; his first lunge had gotten him a crack across the jaw and a knee in his wounded midsection. Now he was on the ground and his wolf wanted to take over, to shift and fight for real, but Jake fought it. Though his every instinct told him to do it, to fight to kill, Jake fought it, keeping himself in his man skin and taking the beating.

He didn’t really want to have to kill Alistair and he knew that in the end Alistair was a better alpha than Jake could ever hope to be. Even if he died like this, they would still save Amanda, and he used that to keep himself from turning. Alistair himself hadn’t shifted yet, and Jake knew if he did it would be over. So even as blackness began to creep in on his vision, his chest on fire from the inside out, he fought back the wolf.

Alistair bent down, leaning over him.

“I can see you fighting it,” he growled. “I can feel it. How has a human woman defeated the heart of a wolf?”

“She didn’t defeat anything,” Jake gasped. “She just helped the man be stronger.”

“But you’re a lone wolf. You’ll never be happy in a pack, never be accepted,” Alistair said.

“She accepted me.”

“She isn’t one of us.”

“She’s mine. I’m hers. That’s all that matters.”

Alistair ground his heel down on Jake’s windpipe, and Jake felt tears of pain springing into his eyes, but he didn’t shift. He wouldn’t shift. If this was the end, then so be it. He was prepared to die for Amanda. He closed his eyes against the pain, locked the wolf tightly up in his heart, and thought only of her.

And then the pain stopped.

He wasn’t sure at first, thought maybe he was imagining it.

In an instant, it was gone, and Jake hauled in a trembling, gasping breath as he opened his eyes. Alistair was standing above him, arms folded, glaring down at him. But he’d taken his foot away. He was just standing there, watching Jake come back to his senses. His wolf, Jake realized with some surprise, was silent.

Suddenly Fred appeared above him as well, looking down at him with wide, worried eyes. “Is he dead?”

“No,” Alistair muttered. “I’ve spared him.”

Jake heard a murmur run through the gathered pack. He lifted his head. The bandage around his midsection was soaked practically all the way through with blood, and he had a screaming headache, but every breath he took was revitalizing.

“Can you do that?” Fred asked Alistair.

The pack alpha glared at him, and Fred actually took a step back. “Of course I can,” Alistair said. “It’s my pack. I make the rules.” He looked down at Jake. “And you don’t really want to take my place, do you?”

Jake shook his head a little and started to sit up. “I just want your help.

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