Soul Bonded by Malone Meghan

Author:Malone, Meghan [Malone, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: North Bay Press
Published: 2012-11-16T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Katie’s startled gasp sent Rafe stumbling away from her. His wild, luminous eyes instantly lost their amber sheen, reverting to pretty green and transforming him back into the man she’d already come to love. He turned and hid his face, cursing audibly under his breath. With that, the peace she’d created for them vanished. Awkward silence lingered in its place.

She wanted to tell him that everything was okay—that she was okay—but her throat wouldn’t work. While she’d understood that touching him carried the possibility of unchecked passion, she hadn’t expected that at all.

Rafe curled his hands into fists, knuckles going white. “I’m going outside.”

She stepped out of the way without protest. “Rafe, I’m sorry. I was startled. That’s all.”

He brushed past her, then hesitated with his hand on the doorknob. “Get the gun. Whatever happens, do not come after me.”

“All right.” Hating that her reaction to his appearance must have seemed like disgust, Katie reached for him but stopped short of making contact. “Please be careful. I want to finish our conversation.”

He grunted, then opened the door and stepped outside to a round of jeers and catcalls. He slammed the door in her face before she could make out what was being said, but she didn’t need to hear specifics to know that it was going to take all of Rafe’s considerable resolve not to rise to their baiting. Between his pent-up sexual energy and his simmering rage over their threats to her life, Rafe had to be on the verge of explosion. She just wished that he would let her do something to help. Even with his eyes gone wild and a sky-high libido, he still hadn’t attacked her. The opposite, in fact—he’d allowed her to push him away.

Rafe wouldn’t hurt her. She knew it in her bones—all she had to do was figure out some way to make him see that, too.

Sighing, Katie jogged to the coffee table and snatched up the revolver. She didn’t trust Lisa and her friends not to instigate trouble. More directly, she didn’t trust Rafe to keep his cool in his current state of mind. There was too much bottled up inside him, and it made him vulnerable to the threats and taunts she knew were being hurtled at him outside. Aware that Rafe wouldn’t approve, she took a chance that everyone was too distracted with antagonizing each other to notice as she cracked open the front door an inch.

The first thing she heard was a crude remark from Lisa. “Driving you crazy, isn’t it? I could smell her cunt from here. It’s only a matter of time before you tear that bitch to shreds.”

“Back off.” Though Katie couldn’t see anything through the narrow opening she’d created, Rafe sounded like he was standing close to Lisa. Too close. “Let me pass.”

“Or what?” Lisa snorted. “You ready to go against your Alpha and attack me? I’m not ready to cross mine.”

“Then get the fuck out of my way!”

Rafe’s booming voice echoed off the bare trees and set Katie’s heart racing.

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