Claimed by the Wolf by Saranna DeWylde

Author:Saranna DeWylde [DeWylde, Saranna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

They left the facility in flames behind them and no one alive to tell the story.

Stefan cast a spell that judged the evildoers, and they’d all paid with their lives. Beth and her beast both felt a certain peace with that outcome. Those people could never hurt anyone again.

Walking through the foliage and forest as they tried to orient themselves and figure out their location, Beth’s mind wandered. What had happened to them made her think of her own involvement with the Aeternali and how they’d experimented on the infected wolves. She’d like to think they were kinder and more humane to their test subjects, but now she wasn’t so sure.

“Stop it, Beth. You were trying to find a cure. They were trying to make a weapon. There’s a difference.”

“Did you know what I was thinking because you looked?” she asked, looking up at him.

“I don’t have to look. I know you.”

The sun haloed around him and she couldn’t help but admire him. The glossy sheen to his midnight hair, his hard profile, wide shoulders—how had she ever believed he was an accountant? The man before her was meant to lead.

Then her eyes settled on the scar at his neck. She had only vague recall of what had happened when she’d bitten him. Beth had come back to herself with the sweet copper tang of his blood on her tongue and pain shooting through every nerve ending. How he didn’t hate her, or even fear her, she couldn’t fathom it.

“Don’t do that either.” He stopped and turned to her, tilting her face up and forcing her to look him in the eye. “I claimed you, Beth.”

“I hurt you.”

“Honestly?” He arched a brow. “It was just a love bite. I liked it.” He brushed off her concern.

“That’s one hell of a hickey.” Bitterness tinged her tone.

“Don’t mistake me—you didn’t force my hand. All of my actions were my own. We’re mated now. I don’t know what that means for us except there’s no going back. There’s only forward.”

“What about your people? You lead men who kill my kind.”

“I don’t know. We’ll have to deal with these things as they come. Right now, we have to figure out where we are—not emotionally or metaphysically, but here and now.”

She noticed he hadn’t said he wouldn’t kill her people anymore, or that his views on werewolves had changed. Only that they would figure things out. That was Stefan code for “I don’t want to talk about it.”

Beth knew she should be grateful for what they had. They’d escaped with their lives, they’d punished those who’d wronged them and they were together. He’d claimed her as his mate and she’d claimed him. The rings, the plans with dresses and bridesmaids and a piece of paper with their names on it paled in comparison to what that meant.

A smirk curled at the corner of his mouth and Beth imagined nipping at his lip. “No, woman. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to talk about it.

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