Linda O. Johnston by Alpha Wolf

Author:Alpha Wolf [Wolf, Alpha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-04T14:04:11+00:00

None of this was really happening, of course, Melanie thought a short while later as she drove her minivan along the twisting highway north, toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge linking the Eastern Shore to the mainland. Shock? Hell, she had to be delirious. Hallucinating.

Except, beside her in the passenger seat, rode Drew Connell.

He was silent a lot of the time, although now and then she heard a sharply indrawn breath as he fought the pain of his wounds. The only light came from her headlights on the road, so she could only see a shadowy outline of his body. His human male body.

The body that had belonged to a wolfen-appearing dog when she had taken it inside her clinic.

And then had looked so gorgeous, naked, after she had watched him change from a dog to this man. No! That hadn’t happened. It couldn’t be real.

“Drew?” She didn’t like the shrillness that had crept back into her voice. “It’s time. Talk to me. Maybe that will help keep your mind off your pain.” And make me wake up to reality again.

“Worth a try.” He spoke through gritted teeth. “So, what do you want to know? Why am I a freak of nature? Why is the legend so prevalent in Mary Glen? What do I do at the base—at least as much as I can reveal without violating its top secrecy?” The more he spoke, the less his tone sounded forced and in pain.

“That’s right,” she said curtly. She clutched the steering wheel even harder, watching the road carefully. Otherwise, she might run off the narrow pavement in the darkness and kill both of them.

Or could he even die at all, let alone in an accident?

“That was supposed to be multiple choice.” This time Drew’s voice expressed both humor and a touch of exasperation. “Which do you really want to know?”

“All of them. What would you want to know, if you were in my situation? First, though, tell me everything about…shapeshifters. Werewolves. Apparently they do exist. Why? How? And how is their presence usually kept so secret?”

Melanie braked as a reflection of her headlights glowed briefly in the eyes of a small creature at the side of the road. Another shapeshifter? Only if people morphed into raccoons as well as larger creatures.

Drew apparently sensed what she was thinking again, since he said, “Don’t run over Cousin Rocky.” She must have flinched, since he laughed. “Just kidding—this time. If that animal was a kindred spirit, I’m not aware of it. Besides, the only shapeshifters of my acquaintance change into wolves and large cats like lynxes and tigers, a couple of raptors, not smaller creatures. And truth be told, Melanie, I don’t think I can explain everything you’re asking even if I wanted to.”

She aimed a brief but irritated glare at him. “Go ahead. Change the way you did, right in front of me, and then say you can’t explain it. Or are you going to claim now that I was hallucinating?”

“The point is that I don’t know everything, even though I’ve made it part of my life’s work to learn it.

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