Home for the Howliday (Ushers Run Pack Book 1) by Cassie Leigh

Author:Cassie Leigh [Leigh, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Broken Typewriter Press
Published: 2016-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

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“I heard him,” Gunner said, his words clipped to restrain the anger that had begun to grow with every word he heard through the door. “No man is that possessive over a one off piece of tail unless he believes he’s a mated wolf.”

Noelle looked away sharply, her eyes narrowed. She crossed her arms in front of herself, rubbing absently, as if to soothe her ruffled emotions. “He claimed to Ambrose that he did mark me, but he didn’t and Ambrose won’t recognize it. My brother will recognize us.”

“Where?” Gunner asked again. His heart seemed to beat faster with each denial she made. If Pierce really had marked her, then Gunner was the trespasser and he could not bear the thought of losing her now. Of course, if he kept pushing Noelle like this, she might give up on Gunner. The idea of it made his blood run cold.

“Stop. There’s only you now.” Noelle’s voice was full of unshed tears. The blue, green and red lights from the tree reflected off the watery veil over her aquamarine eyes that he loved. “I did a dumb thing and slept with him. One time. I never let him mark me.”

Gunner’s heart burned with conflict. He wanted to believe her—needed to. From the outside looking in, everything about this looked wrong. Appearances—his life always seemed to come down to that. “Tell me why?” he asked at last.

“You said it yourself. To him I am nothing more than a political advantage. He caught me at a low moment when I just needed to be…” Noelle’s voice trailed off, her eyes averted. When she answered, her voice was a whisper that struck him sharply. “Filled—I needed to chase the emptiness away and I did it the wrong way.”

What had he done to them, pushing her away for ten years? He drove her into the arms of a scheming, drunken waste of fur, and he was paying steeply for his foolish belief that he needed to leave for them all. If he had only stood for what was right—against his father—he would not be losing her to the werewolf mating hierarchy.

“You should have waited,” he said, knowing just how unreasonable that was.

Her eyes grew wide and luminous with the flash of her own anger. “You think I should have stayed some innocent virgin, pining for you forever? You arrogant ass. You said you were never coming home.” Her arms straightened, rigid at her sides as she inched towards him. “I do not, for one second, believe you waited a decade for me. How many others were there, Gunner?”

“That’s irrelevant,” he snapped, his nostrils flared in anger. That was a mistake. With his senses heightened from the wolf lingering so near to surface, the heady scent of her arousal, still clinging to his skin, struck him like a blow. Even though Gunner laid his claim before Pierce’s intrusion, his body was primed to mark her all over again and assert his place in her life. Something he doubted she would welcome in her present state of pique.

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