Slip the Skin by Shanley Tera

Author:Shanley, Tera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Linden clenched her hands against the fear threatening to suffocate her. Hiding her phone under Graham’s unused shirt, she stood beside him as Ned descended the stairs with a sawed off shotgun held tightly against his shoulder.

“Get in the cage, Linden,” he commanded.

“What are you doing?” Strain and fear seeped into her question and Graham wrapped his hand around the smallest part of her wrist, clenching until the bones promised to snap in two.

“Now!” Ned yelled, alpha’s order brushing against her skin like a gale force wind.

Her wolf cowered, shifting deep within her, but the instinct to obey was missing.

Chest heaving, she dragged her gaze from the barrel of the weapon pointed at her torso to Graham’s inhuman gaze. What had he done?

With an almost indecipherable nod of his head, she could almost see the order in his gesture and her wolf pushed to obey.

Clever wolf. He’d plucked her alpha bond from Ned and placed it on himself during his thorough seduction. Graham wouldn’t have been strong enough to do such a thing, but looking into the billowing smoke of her mate’s eyes, she couldn’t deny it any longer. This wasn’t Graham. Not anymore.

From the look of furious triumph on Ned’s face as she slunk into the cage, he hadn’t figured out he’d been robbed yet.

“Kneel down,” Ned commanded, swinging the shotgun in the general vicinity of Graham’s forehead.

Shirtless, it was easy to see the strain of Graham’s muscles as he lowered himself to his knees.

“Lock the door, Linden.”

No, no, no. She had to stall for time. She’d texted Tristan the second the crack of metal on metal sounded from upstairs as Ned loaded the shotgun, but he could be back in the city for all she knew. “You poisoned Graham, didn’t you?”

“You just couldn’t leave well enough alone, could you?” he said, eyes seething with hatred. “You meddling bitch. Everything was in place to annihilate the Hayes bloodline, and you ruined it all. Entitled, spoiled legacies, genetically superior to everyone and born without an ounce of appreciation for the gift they’ve been given. Lock the door!”

“Do it,” Graham’s voice caressed her mind, more perception than words.

He hadn’t moved and her fingers trembled as she clicked the lock into place. Now, she was trapped as thoroughly as any wolf snared by hunters in the woods.

“I could see what was coming.” Ned swung a dark gaze to Graham. “You’d take my pack long before I was ready. I was born to lead. Unlike your bitch over there, I knew exactly what I was getting myself into when I took the bite. I’d researched werewolves for years, stalked and hunted until I found one who would take enough money to turn me. I trained my body, disciplined my mind to be ready to hold a pack and I inherited you and Tristan when I challenged Old Walt. Just my fucking luck. Two legacies in one pack.” He spat and a low growl rippled from his throat.

“It was you,” Linden breathed, gripping the bars of her prison.

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