Feral Escape by Autumn Jones Lake

Author:Autumn Jones Lake
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943950119
Publisher: Ahead of the Pack, LLC

Nine

Molly stared out the window. Mortification clouded her thoughts. Ivan had seen her parents condemn her and cast her out. What Zane said about mating with her sister angered and depressed her. More, she couldn't get to her sister now. Helplessness tugged at her. How could she have just left her little sister behind?

“Becca will be okay.” Ivan spoke without looking at her.

“For now.”

“Tell me about Zane.”

Molly let out a disgusted snort. “He's a perverted jerk.”

Ivan remained silent, giving her time to elaborate.

“I don't know where to begin. A few years ahead of me in school. Wealthy family. Perfect life. All the girls liked him. For some reason, he constantly asked me out or flirted with me. But something about him always seemed sleazy and sneaky to me. I mean even at that age, I found it weird that I attracted the interest of this older boy who could easily date anyone he wanted. I didn't find out until after my change that my parents had promised me to him.”

“That's not unusual for shifter parents to wait until after the change to tell their kids about their arranged mating.”

Molly blew a short breath out her lips, making a pfft sound. “It's frickin' creepy and barbaric.”

Ivan didn't disagree, but, out of the corner of her eye, she caught him nodding his head.

“The night of my twentieth birthday party, he offered to drive me home.” She paused, taking a deep breath, the memory of that awful night made her heart pound. “He tried to rape me.”

She flicked a glance at Ivan to see his reaction. His face remained stoic, but his big hands tightened on the steering wheel, knuckles going white.

She wiped her sweaty palms on her thighs. “I kicked and clawed until I got away. He'd found out I wasn't a virgin and threatened to tell my parents unless I slept with him too. It would have been a reason to invalidate the mating, so he thought he had me in a position where I couldn't say no. When I did, he tried to reason with me that since I'd already given it up to someone else, I might as well let him have his turn.” She shuddered in disgust. “When that didn't work, he just attacked.” Her hand automatically drifted to her throat as she remembered him choking off her air supply. “I barely fought him off.” His crazed voice telling her how much feisty girls turned him on echoed in her mind. She closed her eyes and tipped her chin down toward her chest, taking a few deep breaths to calm herself.

Once she locked down her emotions and could speak without crying, she continued. “I told my parents that he attacked me, but they didn't understand the problem. As my intended mate, I guess it was okay with them. They still expected me to go through with the mating and not kick up a fuss.”

She paused to collect her thoughts, years of shame burned her throat, but she forced the words out anyway.

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