Tethered to the World: A Phantom Touched Novel by Brutger Stacey

Author:Brutger, Stacey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Logan slipped out his phone and typed a quick message, then shoved it back into his pocket, his face grim as he led them toward the edge of the party. “The others should be here shortly.”

Xander dragged his arm away from Logan, leaving her staggering under his weight, until he backed her up against a tree, a hungry smile on his face. “I missed you.”

When he leaned in to steal a kiss, her breath caught in her throat at the intensity on his face. It almost looked like he actually…loved her, and her heart twisted painfully when a pang of yearning pierced her heart.

She wanted that love, wanted to belong to someone who would cherish her, and her heart ached over a dream that would never come true.

“Come here, lover boy.” Logan flung his arm around Xander’s neck until he had him in a headlock, dragging the much bigger man away. But when Xander began to struggle, Logan scowled, then met her gaze over the top of Xander’s head. “He can still smell you. I’m not going to be able to hold him for long with you near.”

Annora took a step back, then another as they began to struggle in earnest, Xander nearly taking down Logan with a nasty blow. As the two friends wrestled, a crowd gathered around them, and she retreated until she could no longer see them.

Her heart wrenched at knowing she was the cause of their fight.

She was supposed to draw the team together, but she only seemed to tear them apart.

“What do we have here?”

Annora whirled at the snide voice, and came face-to-face with Vicki and the herd of female wolves from the bathroom. A number of them still showed signs of their earlier scuffle.

“You left before we could finish our discussion.” The leader smiled maliciously, her teeth a little longer than human, her eyes shimmering as her wolf rose to the surface while she and her pack began to circle her. Vicki flicked her nails, the click drawing Annora’s attention to the claws slowly forcing their way out of the tips of her fingers, droplets of blood splattering to the ground.

Her face was black and blue, her nose still crusted in blood despite her advanced healing. Instead of fear, the darkness gathered under Annora’s skin, crackling painfully with the need to hunt, suddenly hungry for blood.

“This won’t end the way you expect. You won’t win.” People often underestimated her—especially since she couldn’t die. She rolled her shoulders, almost eager for the slash of pain.

“What the fuck is wrong with her eyes?” One of the wolves stopped dead, then hesitantly backed away.

“What is she?” Another girl tipped her head back, nose in the air, as if trying to catch her scent. “I can’t get anything but cold…and death.”

The girls stopped circling, most of them looking uncertain, which only served to piss Vicki off even more. “Why don’t we take her apart and see?”

She took a threatening step forward when a guy cut through the crowd, standing between her and the pack.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.