Mating Hunt by Bonnie Vanak

Author:Bonnie Vanak
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-08-06T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

DEEP DOWN, HE suspected she’d known all along. His revelation was more an acknowledgement of what she’d tried to forget.

Kyle tightened his jaw. Finally it came to the hard truth. For years, he’d kept his nature secret, revealing it to a select few, like Darius and Aiden. He never wanted to tarnish her shining image of him. But if they were to mate, and his fierce Satyr blood was determined to have her this night, Arianna must know.

“The beast you saw in bed with a woman when you were fifteen.”

“A Satyr.” The word came in a hushed whisper.

“Hybrid. Half Satyr, half Lupine.”

Arianna bit her lush lower lip. He steeled himself against a sudden surge of desire. Damn, the things he’d love to see her do with that mouth of hers...

Kyle leaned against the wall, studying his charge. “Tell me what you want to know, Arianna.”

“What you did out there, that wasn’t Lupine. No Lupine can run that fast.”

“Satyrs are creatures of the wild. My powers link me to nature’s elements and endow me with certain gifts. Speed, taken from the wind. And strength, taken from the earth herself.”

He did not mention his other, more well-known endowment. Gods, he hoped like hell to show her later, after he’d loved her with tenderness and taught her about passion.

Fisting her hands in her lap, Arianna stared at the fire. “When you turned like that ... was it like shifting into a wolf?”

Kyle joined her on the couch, watching her guarded expression. “A little. Except I sometimes can’t control it. I did just now when I became enraged and purposely released the beast. But sometimes others prod its release, such as what Aiden did when he provoked my basic instincts. And during the full moon.”

Throat muscles worked as she swallowed convulsively. “Let’s leave the full moon for later. So is this why you’ve never settled into one pack, why you wander?”

Acid churned in his stomach. “A Lupine pack is about security, stability and belonging. They don’t welcome freaks into their fold.”

“Freaks?” She finally turned to look at him. “You mean like me? Someone too scared to try sex?”

“No,” he said quietly. “You suffered a trauma. Your sensual nature will emerge when the time is right, when someone takes the time and patience to teach you.”

He wanted to have that honor. But first, she must know the truth about him.

Heart beating fast, he looked deep into her eyes, his stomach tight. “I’m talking about a freak who is the lowest of the low. Zeta, the kind who doesn’t belong anywhere. Me.”

Silence draped between them, broken only by the occasional snapping of logs on the dying fire. His heart pounded hard against his ribs as he waited for a response. Zeta, the last letter in the English alphabet, not the Greek. He remembered the mocking words, how he wasn’t even good enough to be considered Omega. Because Omegas belonged with pack.

He did not.

Arianna moved over until their thighs touched. She gently traced the cruel brand on his cheek.

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