One True Mate 4: Shifter's Innocent by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew [Ladew, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heat Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Grey woke slowly, trying to open his eyes, but unable to. They felt strangely swollen, like he’d been stung by a dozen bees on his face. He pressed his fingers to his overripe skin and pulled his eyes manually open, cracking the seal of yuck that had sewn them shut. He forced himself into a sitting position, shivering violently. The day was overcast, socked in almost, so he couldn’t tell what time it was, but common sense told him he’d been there for hours, unconscious in the snow.

The pendant!

He searched for it, his fingers finally grazing it in three inches of powder. He pulled his hand back and stuck his fingers in his mouth, realizing his lips were swollen, too, his entire face, maybe. He found the cloth he had wrapped the pendant in and picked it up with that, desperate not to touch its cool surface again. It had hurt him.

But he knew what route to take. If he and his team got lucky, maybe they could catch up to them before California, ensure no one else got involved.

He placed the wrapped pendant back in the folds of the child safety seat, then closed the door and opened the driver’s door, about to slide behind the wheel, but something stopped him. A scent on the wind.

He lifted his swollen face and flared his nostrils. Was it what he thought it had been? He strode to the front of the minivan, then climbed on the hood, then up the windshield as high as he dared, trying to gain high ground, pressing his face to the sky again, and flaring his nostrils.

Yes. Myles Pekin lived nearby. Less than two miles away. Or had, when he’d been alive, betrayed by his sour scent, which was a fixture on the wind.

Grey grinned and hopped to the ground. Coincidence always meant that The Light or Rhen or Khain or an angel was at work, molding the futures of the humans and the shiften, shaping their paths, lighting their way. What greater coincidence could there possibly be than Myles and Sandra Pekin fleeing Grey in New Mexico and settling in Serenity, less than two miles from Cerise Pekin’s fated mate.

Although a lesser wolf might have argued this particular coincidence worked against Grey’s plans and not for them, Grey knew different. Someone was helping him. Someone wanted him to succeed.

Rhen? Possibly. He stood stock-still and drew lines in the murky sand of his mind until he convinced himself of more than that. Possibly turned to almost definitely. Almost definitely morphed into certainly. He was untouchable.

He got in his mom-van and backed out, turning right on the road, seeking the highway.

Nebraska or bust.

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