Bound by Nature by Cooper Davis

Author:Cooper Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Werewolf;Wyoming;Dartmouth;M/m;romance.
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Present day

The full moon rose in the distant sky, appearing unusually large. Hayden lifted his head high, sniffed at the air with his wolf’s senses, and released a mournful, plaintive cry. It had been days since he’d left Joshua chasing after him as he tried to make sense of the man’s surreal words. Every time Hayden recalled them, he was swamped with new grief, new confusion.

The council can’t urge us to do what’s already been done.

It wasn’t just those words that haunted him, either, but the raw expression on Joshua’s face, the broken, exhausted look in his vivid eyes. All of it chased Hayden more relentlessly than Josh had tried to do. The questions storming through his wolf’s mind were endless, and he vacillated between believing Josh told the truth about their mating, and deciding the Alpha was spinning a complex web of lies.

For five years Hayden had been heartbroken, lost—and, as Joshua observed—falling apart. Convinced that the only person he had ever loved or yearned for had turned on him as a traitor.

Surely he would remember making love with Joshua, mating with him for life. Wouldn’t he? How could he forget something so intense, so utterly primal that it came from their deepest wolf’s nature—and especially if the mating had happened with Joshua of all men.

Except, of course, he recalled nothing after their sweet, spellbinding kiss in the snow. Everything was a blank canvas from that point onward. Right up until the moment when he emerged from his six-week long coma. Right up until the cops had arrived at the intensive care ward, questioning him about the accident—an accident he couldn’t recall in the slightest.

Staring at the moon, Hayden forced his mind back to that night, determined to seize hold of at least a single fractured memory. Something to validate or disprove what Joshua had claimed about their relationship.

Perhaps it was the moon’s fullness or maybe the sheer intensity with which Hayden probed his lost memories, but an image flooded his mind suddenly. Flashing like a beacon into his consciousness, it startled him, rang with all the truth of genuine recollection—Joshua naked, straddling him in the truck, thrusting his hips hungrily.

Hayden grew stock still, and listened to the night sounds of the land about him, smelled the snow. The splintered image expanded, blossoming into a much fuller memory. He could taste Joshua’s mouth, scent his intense arousal. A spicy aroma filled his nostrils, so rich and musky, it could easily have been wafting past his nose now—and it matched the scent he’d caught off of Joshua in the bar the other night. It was the Alpha’s undeniable, alluring mating scent. The one Josh had claimed was meant to draw Hayden to his side, to compel him to mate.

Hayden sank down on his hind legs, then folded down onto the snowy earth, planting his head atop his paws. A deep, mournful emotion filled him, alarming his very soul. All at once he did remember. And he recalled Joshua’s mating scent—not just from a few nights ago—but from long, long ago, as well.

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