Body to Barter (Half-breed Shifter Series) by Miranda Stowe

Author:Miranda Stowe [Stowe, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Linda Kage
Published: 2013-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Gannon’s eyebrows lifted with surprise. “Kidnapped?” He repeated the word as if it were ludicrous. “You were unconscious. I couldn’t exactly wait until you woke up to ask permission to take you to my lair and heal your wounds. There was fighting all around. I had to get you to safety immediately.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry,” Brynn gushed, her tone reeking of sarcasm. Lifting her hands, she motioned to the bars surrounding them. “As if I could tell that, what with being inside here and all. So this cage is what, a healing chamber, not a freaking prison to keep me confined and trapped?”

He let out an exhausted sigh and set his hands on his hips to shake his head sadly before he motioned toward the gap in the cage, telling her she could climb out.

“Yeah, Thanks so much for freeing me,” she muttered. “What a sweet, gallant mate you are.”

“I am your mate,” he growled in her ear, as he followed her out of the cage. He was so close behind her she squeaked and whirled around. He grasped her arm and stepped even closer, making sure he was all up in her business. “And putting you in that cage was to keep you safe. If someone had walked in here—which someone did—and seen you free, we would’ve both been slaughtered. If anyone in my pack finds out we’re mates, that’s it, we’re finished. I had to keep up the rouse that you’re a prisoner to keep you alive, God damn it.”

As the reality of his words crashed down around her, her breath caught in her chest, and fear raced over her skin, pricking the flesh. She remembered clearly what those Mahlikari wolves had done to the mates who’d dared to interbreed their species. And now she was one of them.

Her life was a ticking time bomb.

Yeesh. This was so not how she’d planned on spending her day.

Scared out of her gourd, she realized she feared for Gannon’s life as well. He was in as much danger as she was, and the thought of him in danger made her claws want to stab from her fingers so she could slash anyone who tried to touch him.

Damn it. He really was her mate, wasn’t he?

Shaking her head, she watched him desperately, still wanting to deny it. “Then why did you bring me here?”

He gulped, looking momentarily regretful. “You were hurt. I didn’t know how to heal you, so I brought you to the only place I thought I could make you better.” Lowering his gaze, he reached out to touch her side. “And look. It worked.”

She glanced down and was reminded how naked she was. Covering her breasts, she asked, “You don’t happen to have any clothes somewhere in this mess, do you?”

A damn smug grin lit his face as he lifted an eyebrow. “But why would you want to hide this lovely form?”

Good God, he was hopeless. “Because I’m a civilized human being—I mean, half-breed. I’m used to clothes. I need clothes.

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