Bending Steele by Sadie Hart

Author:Sadie Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, paranormal romance, shifter romance, shapeshifter romance, cat shifter, snow leopard

Chapter Seven

Hexe grabbed Steele’s coat and hauled her flat into the snow again. She snarled up at him, but there was no missing the pain in her eyes. The sudden flare of defeat. He shook her coat, but Steele jerked free. “I wasn’t going to run, she’s already dead.”

He almost laughed. “No. We’re going to haul ass here, Steele. We need to catch him before he finishes skinning her, you got it?”

She blinked at him, but Hexe waved off any questions she might have had. “Stay low, stay quiet.”

Hexe let her go and then leapt into a low run. Blindly, he ran in the direction of the gunshot. Even his inner leopard couldn’t see much in the whirlwind of snow as the storm closed in around them. Frost chilled his lungs as he ran, burning down his throat. He didn’t wait to see if she followed, he knew she would. Steele would be at his side, every bit the warrior he knew she was. He was sure of that much at least, long before he’d gotten her to admit it.

She’d played the cold bitch for so long he’d wanted to hear it from her. That she didn’t want him dead.

Hexe darted amongst the trees, his eyes straining to see, but it was his nose that caught the coppery tang of blood first. Then light from his house flashed into view and he ran for it. The door lay open, revealing a splatter of blood in the snow. Large cat prints just outside his door. Shit. Steele stumbled up behind him and froze, pivoting in place as she too tried to find where the poacher had disappeared. There wouldn’t have been time for him to skin her...

“He missed.” Her hand grabbed his arm and squeezed. “He missed, Hexe.”

The hope in her voice clawed at him.

“Obviously he hit her.” He jerked a hand towards the snow but she shook her head in the dim lighting, snow buffeting around them. The wind howled, rattling through the trees.

“His shot clipped her and clipped her good, but it didn’t kill her. She ran.” Steele grabbed his arm. “He has to catch her. If the silver kills her and he’s not there, or she shifts back, he’s got nothing.”

The trees shook, snow falling so thickly he could barely see the dark outline of Steele now, even in the light of his doorway. Thunder gave an ominous roar, closing in. The roar of the storm snaked through the trees, dark and threatening. “Come on,” Hexe said, pulling the door to his cabin shut behind him, instantly blocking out the light. He stepped out into the swirling snow, darkness encompassing them both. He extended his hand, unable to see fingers. “Let’s find her before he does.”

It was stupid. They should have gone inside, holed up for the night. That much blood, with silver in her veins, the poison would be eating at her. She didn’t stand a chance out here, but he couldn’t leave her. Not without at least trying.

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