Lost Shifters 5: A Wicked Caress by Stephani Hecht

Author:Stephani Hecht [Hecht, Stephani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mm
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2011-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

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Since Mitchell had been out on a mission, Noah didn’t get the chance to confront him until breakfast the next morning. As he took his place at the long table, he smiled a greeting to Ranger, Cassie, Carson and Keegan, but pretty much ignored the rest of them.

Keegan mouthed, Are you okay?

Noah gave a weak smile. Truth was, he felt far from good. Too upset and embarrassed after Seth’s very public rejection, Noah had skipped out on the training session. As a result, he spent all night in his cold bed, tossing and turning as his mind worked over the previous day’s events.

At first, Mitchell didn’t even seem to notice Noah had sat down. He and Brent were too busy discussing some mission. After listening in for a while, Noah allowed his mind to drift. All the discussion of battle tactics and crap always had been too complicated for him to wrap his mind around.

The problem with letting his thoughts wander was they went back to how Mitchell had been keeping the whole Black Jaguar issue a secret from him. The anger continued to build until his stomach grew so tight, he couldn’t stomach his cereal. “You had no fucking right!” he snarled as he threw his spoon down. He hadn’t realized how loud he’d said that until all the conversation stopped and every gaze fell on him.

“Oh, boy, here we go,” Keegan muttered, but he didn’t make any moves to calm Noah down.

Of course, fucking Mitchell had to stay calm, just like always. A frigging bomb could have gone off, followed by a parade of Can-can girls and juggling clowns and the guy wouldn’t so much as even raise a brow in response. He just set down his own spoon and pinned Noah with a stare.

“Is there something you wish to discuss?”

“Why didn’t you tell me that I’m a Black Jaguar?” Noah demanded.

“I didn’t think you were ready to handle the added stress while you were still healing.”

“What gives you the right to decide what I can and cannot handle?” Noah’s voice had risen again.

“He’s your Alpha and he’s also the head of this family,” Brent defended.

“Yeah, you would take his side,” Noah snapped.

“Noah, why don’t you calm down and we can talk about this,” Cassie soothed as she tried to reach out and take his hand.

He pulled away from her touch. “They’ve had six months to calmly talk to me about all this shit.

Instead, they decided to treat me like some coddled idiot. I’m sick of it. I managed to make it this far in life without them just fine.”

He waited for someone to call him out on that one by saying that he’d been captive and near death when they’d found him, but nobody did.

Mitchell just continued to stare at him with that same calm façade and that finally made Noah lose the last shred of control he had. He’d never been one for angry fits before, but damned if he didn’t pick up his bowl and throw it against the wall.

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