The Alpha Men's Secret Club 4: Intrigue: A Shockingly Hot BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance by Steele Dawn

Author:Steele, Dawn [Steele, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-02T07:00:00+00:00

16

Rita Cunningham got the phone call before the incident even happened, as the best investigative reporters often did.

“They’re going to arrest Rust O’Brien,” said her informer.

Her pulse leaped.

What she had seen at Aaron Mitchell’s estate played very clearly in her mind. The thing was . . . what was she going to do about it?

“Thank you,” she said. “I’m on to it.”

She grabbed her jacket and her purse.

And also her handgun.

17

There was a wall of darkness around him, one that was not made of brick or steel but a cloudy vapor of some sort. Rust could not grasp it in his hands, but he could not break out of it either. He hurled himself into it endlessly, and yet escape eluded him. He neither felt warmth nor cold, and he was not sure he could experience normal sensations through his entire body.

The beast!

The beast that was a part of him was trapped behind that wall. It was like excising an organ from him. An organ that was part of his brain and his soul. Without it, he felt stunted, deformed, confused – as though he had been lobotimized. The beast was a cancer which consumed him, and yet it had nourished him, sustained him.

And now he was lost and bereft without it.

Had he made a terrible mistake?

But the beast was lethal. It was making you into something less than civilized. It was making you a killer.

I don’t know about that.

You don’t know that you didn’t kill Teddy Mitchell either. But you do know that you were on the verge of tearing Kate apart.

Kate!

His beloved Kate.

He loved her. It was predominantly her that he had done this for – so that he would no longer be driven by his lust to possess her and mate with her and rip her from limb to limb.

This was a good thing.

But now he was lost. A wanderer in the dark fugue of his mind. He hadn’t counted on being lost. He had counted on being cured.

Maybe it took a few more times. He might as well be an inmate at Bellevue for as long as it took him to be cured. If he ever got cured.

Sometimes, he heard voices in that dark tunnel. He thought he heard his father’s voice. And his mother’s. But most of all, he thought he heard Kate.

“I love you,” she said, and the sound of that filtered through the fugue and expanded his soul.

“I love you too, Kate,” he tried to say, but he didn’t think she heard him. He wasn’t sure she was really there either. After all, hadn’t he pushed her away for her own good? “I love you. I have loved you for a long time. But I didn’t know it. I didn’t recognize if for what it was. I’m sorry I failed you, Kate. I don’t deserve you. I’m weak now. I can’t protect you.”

At least he had done one thing right. He had protected her from himself.

But still, he clawed through the walls to reach her voice.

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