Accepting the Jaguar by Cristina Rayne

Author:Cristina Rayne [Rayne, Cristina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fantastical Press

Chapter 14

“You’re crazy if you think I’ll be able to get any sleep after all of that,” Kylie grumbled, but she still allowed Hunter to pull her into his arms after he had propped himself up against the headboard with a couple of pillows.

“At least try,” Hunter coaxed as she settled against him, her head on his chest. “Who knows when you’ll get another chance. Negotiations between clans, especially the clans of different cities are tedious at the best of times. I’ll probably be on the phone for hours, not to mention that I did promise your dad that I’d make sure you got some rest.”

Kylie blew out a frustrated breath. “My friend, Molly’s, missing, maybe even hurt. Probably because of me. I should at least be down with Tara at the police station. It just doesn’t seem right that you and Maxim are doing all of the work while I sleep the night away. There must be something I can do to help.”

Hunter hugged her more tightly against him. “You have no idea how much you are helping me by just being here with me, and I’m not saying that lightly. You may not see it, but I’m barely keeping a reign on my jaguar. The human part of me knows that the best chance my brother, Anna, and all those other captive shifters have is to gather as much information as possible and plan our next move carefully, but my jaguar half just wants to race over to that ranch and start tearing out throats. Without you here to remind myself of the costs, I doubt even Maxim would’ve been able to talk sense into me after a while.”

Kylie pressed her nose against his chest and inhaled deeply. Until that moment, she had never considered that anger had a scent, but—something was definitely strongly present among the scents she had come to associate with Hunter that she had never smelled before. Neither metallic nor earthy or even acrid, it was a scent that was more a sensation than having any sort of distinguishable fragrance.

She glanced at the door, wondering if Maxim had given off a similar scent. She had been too distracted by the revelation about Anna to pay attention to the scents swirling around in the air. How much more information was she missing because she was still too new to the animal side of her shifter nature?

A light tug on her hair had Kylie looking up at Hunter’s face. “What is it?” he asked.

“I had no idea that your reason was that close to snapping, and that really bothers me,” she admitted.

“Even filled with rage, I would never hurt you if that’s what you’re worried about.”

Kylie shook her head. “That’s not what I mean. I just realized that I might as well have been blind because I’m still not used to living as a shifter. If I had bothered to pay attention to the scents coming off you, I would’ve known something was up with both you and Maxim even if I hadn’t known exactly what that new scent meant.

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