Forsaken: A Rejected Mate Shifter Romance (Rejected Mate Academy Book 2) by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

16

Nathan refuses to set me down, carrying me through the forest on swift legs. We’re at least half a mile away from the party on a peak, grassy knoll. I tell him I can walk, but all he does is grunt at me as he slips easily back into thick trees and brush. His breath isn’t even labored when we hit the road. Clouds darken the moon, splaying shadows over Nathan’s face as he peers both ways.

I wiggle, wanting to walk on my own, but he merely holds me tighter. “Calm down. I’m trying to figure out what to do.”

“What can we do?” I ask.

“Well, I’m not taking you back to the fucking party. If he’s there, I’ll cut his throat. I don’t want to stay on the road because the only shifters out will be coming to and from the party, and we don’t want to be seen.”

“How did you get away? How did you know?”

He starts off in a direction, staying close to the trees. “The longer you were gone, the more I panicked. Then Gayle began to act funny, trying to get me to drink when I haven’t had a drop all night.”

I narrow my gaze at him. “You didn’t?”

“I’m not letting my guard down with them.”

“Wish I would’ve been that smart. He spiked my drink.”

A low rumble emanates from his chest. I press my hand against it as if I can get him to stop. He’s still naked as a newborn pup, so I filter my fingertips through his chest hair. The soothing motion must put me to sleep again because I wake up on a thin cot in the corner of a room. A single light on the bedside table illuminates most of the space. Bare bones is all I can call it. Two-by-fours flank the room with plywood screwed into them for makeshift walls.

Fingers play over my feet, and I peer over to find Nathan—now fully clothed—tracing designs across my skin. My movement makes him look at me. “Where are we?”

“My brother’s place. Well, an outbuilding on his property. You passed out on the way here.”

I stare at my leg where there’s a dull throb beating from the slice the magical lady gave me. A white bandage covers it. “Thank you for fixing me up. Did your brother see us?”

He shakes his head. “Only me. I told him I needed a place to chill for an hour.”

Nathan’s spoken of his brother before. They’re still on good terms, but I’m sure that wouldn’t transfer to harboring a shifter that wasn’t his true mate. Guilty by association.

“I needed to decompress before I went after Sean and killed him.”

His words, the way he acts, it’s the possession of a male wolf over his female. “Why do you think you feel that way?”

“I made my own path. Screw fate. I made it lead to you, and my wolf is one hundred percent on board. We want you. No one else.”

“Then Sean got off easy,” I breathe out.

“You’re fucking right he did,” he growls.

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