Charmed Wolf by Aimee Easterling

Author:Aimee Easterling [Easterling, Aimee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fae, werewolf, wolf shifter, Alpha, paranormal, urban fantasy, fated mates, Strong heroine
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2021-03-16T22:00:00+00:00

“YOUR FRIEND IS DELIGHTFUL,” Rune murmured as we stood there together, watching taillights slide away down the pack driveway.

“Natalie?” I raised my eyebrows. Willa had often growled at me spending so much time with a human. Plus—“Most people consider her an acquired taste.”

Rune’s response was simple. “The best tastes take time to be acquired.”

As he spoke, his fingers found mine in the darkness. He hadn’t looked. Hadn’t fumbled. As if the same electricity that sparked at our touch had guided him unerringly to me.

I tried and failed to ignore the sensation. Finally, I cleared my throat. “You requested information about the role of the Consort.”

“That isn’t exactly what I asked for.” He was so close that his persimmon curled warm around me. It stroked the skin atop my cheekbones, my neck, my collarbone. “But it will do.”

Somewhere behind us, a shifter laughed and I jolted. She wasn’t laughing at us. Every pack mate was too far away to see us. But if the party was breaking up, I didn’t want to hold an intimate conversation out in the open.

Not intimate. I shook my head at the slip. Intense.

Still, word choice aside, motion was necessary. “Come with me,” I told Rune, tugging lightly on his fingers. Unlike Natalie, he didn’t require any coaxing. Instead, he stalked in my wake like a persimmon-scented shadow as I led him into the mansion and up three flights of stairs.

The Alpha’s quarters were a tower that loomed above the rest of the edifice. Isolated by distance and top-notch insulation, even wolf ears couldn’t hear conversations held here. Usually, the silence felt lonely. Now, the open space was strangely close and warm.

Warm because a pack mate had started a fire in my wood stove. When I wasn’t present, the tower was usually unlocked—I had nothing to hide from my pack mates, after all, and little time to clean. So I wasn’t surprised by the glow reddening the floor in front of the glass viewing pane. I wasn’t surprised...but wasn’t quite ready for the firelit mood either.

Still, my finger hovered over the light switch without flicking it. “I’d rather the pack not know you’re here,” I told Rune by way of explanation.

The fingers twining through mine tensed very slightly, but he didn’t say anything. Or, at least, not with words. Instead, his free hand cupped my neck, tilting my chin upward. Persimmon licked closer. The barest millimeter of air lay between us.

He was arranging our faces for a kiss.

Yes! my wolf crowed. My human instincts were similarly jubilant.

Swallowing down all need, both human and lupine, I pushed off his chest and took one long step backward. I was Alpha. I couldn’t forget that.

“No,” I told Rune. “Keep back.”

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