Desert Hunt (WOLVES OF TWIN MOON RANCH) by Anna Lowe

Author:Anna Lowe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Shapeshifter, Romance, Twin Moon Ranch, Paranormal, werewolf
Publisher: Twin Moon Press
Published: 2015-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Jesus, but the she-wolf could run. That pronghorn, too.

Zack panted and searched for another gear to throw his four feet into, but he was already going flat out. Yeah, he really ought to feel guilty for scaring off her prey, but hell, he’d still been half asleep when he came across them. And anyway, Rae was the one who’d walked out on him in the middle of the night.

A night he’d thought was perfect, until he woke up alone.

He couldn’t believe it at first. A couple of rounds of intense sex, a quick cuddle, and Rae had made tracks.

Well, maybe she was smart to do so. After all, a man like him couldn’t offer much: just a shack on the edge of the ranch, a crazy job, and an uncertain pedigree. The only thing he could really offer was his heart, and that was worn as thin as an overused couch.

Still, it hurt. Bad. Because that feeling of being left behind was an old one, and the pain went further back than a couple of hours. It went back years. Lots of them.

One night, his father would be there, the warm bass of his voice filling the house; the next, there’d be the roar of a motorcycle engine, carrying an impatient man out of a young boy’s life. Every couple of months, his dad would drop in, looking clean and repentant and deceptively sincere, which would last just long enough for Zack to save up a little hope. Long enough for it to sting three times worse when the man disappeared again. In and out, in and out, with little Zack hiding beneath his patchwork quilt, afraid to fall asleep for fear of who might come—and worse, who might go. Wondering what it might be like to hear an engine coming instead of going.

He’d pushed the memories away for so long that when they came back, they came back with a bang.

At first, he’d sat slumped on the bed, kneading his brow and wondering at what point in the night his subconscious had decided that things could be different. Where had the wild ideas come from? Ideas like sleeping long and solid and off guard, knowing that he’d have a person he loved for more than one night.

He caught himself there. He wasn’t a kid any more, and as for love—no, he didn’t love Rae. More like…liked her. And he’d had his fun, so what more did he want?

More, his wolf whimpered, morose. Mate. Keep.

Forever, the coyote added.

He shook his head. He couldn’t love Rae. It was forbidden. This whole night was a mistake.

Coyote and wolf voices roared in unison in his head. No mistake!

He’d been planning to sit there and feel sorry for himself a while longer, but his nose had started twitching. There was something was in the air, and not just the scent of regret. Some nocturnal event; something exciting. His hands fisted in the sheets. Was Rae in danger? Was Jed back? He leaped to

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