Her Wicked Wolf by Kendra Leigh Castle

Author:Kendra Leigh Castle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2013-04-17T23:00:00+00:00

SIX

Alistair’s shocked, slightly panicked expression told Brie that she’d hit on the one thing he really didn’t want to talk about. Unfortunately, it was the thing she found she most wanted to know. Five years completely alone, she thought, and he’d spent much longer than that isolating himself to protect his pack. “I don’t need anyone to take care of me,” Alistair finally stammered. “I’m a five hundred year old werewolf!”

Brie looked back at him skeptically. “You’re living in an apartment in a little Vermont town, and you never talk to anyone. Except...”She looked around with a frown, suddenly remembering. “Don’t you have a cat? I always hear you talk when you, ah, come home.” She flushed, realizing that she’d just made it sound like she listened for him. Which she did. Brie hunched her shoulders, aware that she probably looked fairly pathetic.

Alistair burst into unexpected laughter. It was the first time she’d heard the sound, and it was richer, and sweeter, than she could have expected.

“No,” he said as he subsided into chuckling. “Cats don’t like me, for obvious reasons. I have a fish.”

“A...fish?” It was so normal that after all he’d told her, it actually seemed a little bizarre.

“A betta,” he said. “Galahad. He’s lovely. No, don’t look at me like it’s sad, I know it is. I’d rather have a dog, but I’d worry too much about it, considering.”

“You talk to your fish.” Brie considered this. “That’s actually kind of sweet.”

Alistair snorted, looking mildly embarrassed. “I’m not sweet. Gods, I’m glad none of my pack is around to hear that. I’ve got a reputation to uphold, you know.”

Brie watched him with a soft smile. She’d bet his pack found him intimidating. And grouchy. It was amazing how different the man underneath that image was. Alistair veered between formal and charmingly awkward now that he wasn’t trying so hard to get away from her. But she’d seen the other side of him when she’d seen the huge black wolf he’d become. It would be a mistake to forget that part of him, and of his life. Her smile faded.

Brie looked over his shoulder, out at the darkness full of wind and snow beyond his partially drawn curtains. He might say they were safe tonight, but morning would come eventually. And given everything he’d told her, she could only come to one conclusion.

“You’ll leave as soon as you can, I guess. Tomorrow?”

She saw his surprise. And she saw the truth.

“I haven’t got much choice, Brie.”

Her mouth tightened, but she nodded. Protecting his pack, now protecting her. That seemed to be Alistair’s mission in life, making sure no one got hurt but him. It was ridiculous, the despair she felt at the idea of him not being here. But that didn’t make it any less real. Something he’d said earlier played on a loop in the back of her mind, refusing to let her be. That true wolf mates had a chemistry that was combustible. Like a wildfire, she thought. Or an explosion.

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