Real Men Snarl_Real Men Shift by Celia Kyle & Marina Maddix

Author:Celia Kyle & Marina Maddix [Kyle, Celia & Maddix, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

It’d taken Kade a good hour to pass out after the kiss he shared with Ally. Even then, his dreams had been filled with tempting images of his mate sprawled across his bed, no clothing in sight. He’d just trailed a line of kisses down her tummy and his lips teased the apex between her thighs when he was jerked awake by blaring sirens and flashing lights.

He leapt from the bed, fangs descended and fur covering his spine by the time his feet hit the floor. He strode from the room, finding a wide-eyed Ally standing in the hall wrapped in a comforter. Her gaze frantically swept the area, searching for the threat that triggered his alarm system. She spun his way, and to her credit, didn’t so much as twitch when she saw his half-shifted state—or his nudity.

In the flashing of the lights, she looked so pale and small. His instincts were to gather her in his arms and comfort her, tell her everything was fine. But he needed to make sure everything was fine first.

“Stay here,” he growled, before setting off to search the house.

The windows and doors were still secured, and he didn’t catch any unusual scents in his home, but something had tried to breach his system. So, whoever it was hadn’t gotten into the house—invaded his territory.

Probably just that dim-witted raccoon that liked to crawl around his window sills, not knowing that its presence sent his wolf into fits of slavering, murderous rage. Or maybe it was the smartest raccoon in the world and knew exactly what it was doing.

He punched a code into the alarm box by the door to turn off the blaring and flashing, then threw open the front door, ready to pounce… on nothing. The chirp of crickets and flavors of damp grass greeted him. Stepping onto the porch and closing the door behind him, he breathed in deeply, taking advantage of his wolf’s senses even as he remained mostly human.

Deer. An owl. Red cedar. And… something else. Something that made his stomach churn and his blood pound in his temple.

The stench drifted on the wind—a condemned house, a pile of garbage, dead things. The wolf that carried the foul odor of decay was not part of the Blackwood pack, but he wasn’t an unknown. The fog of sleep still clouding his mind, it took a moment for Kade to recall where he’d encountered that aroma before.

The mystery wolf from Pepper.

Except this was fresher and the disgusting taint infinitely stronger. He followed the trail, more fur rippling across his body as he carefully padded across the yard—searching for evidence of an intruder. He froze in place when he found it. Kade stopped and stared at the unusual print among the scattered leaves and fallen twigs. Bold as day, even in the dark, lay a footprint. A human footprint. Not wolf, as he would have anticipated.

The problem was that the indentation was right in front of Ally’s window.

The sight of that print transformed his anger into utter fury.

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