Wolf Lost (The Wolves of Kismet Book 1) by Sam Burns

Author:Sam Burns [Burns, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Simple Man

They finished work early on the afternoon of the full moon. The chairs were all restained, drying, and all that was left was to reupholster their seats, something Dez could have done in his sleep, bad hand or no. It wasn’t like he could hurt himself too badly with a staple gun.

Gavin had decided they required red meat for the full moon, so he’d suggested they go out for steak, even though Gavin rarely ate meat since their last mission in Afghanistan. With all the physical labor of the previous few days, Dez could have eaten drywall, but steak sounded better, and everyone else was enthusiastic about it.

Sawyer had been right too. They needed to start making their own traditions. Sure, they were werewolves, but they were nothing like any pack Ash or Sawyer knew, and there was no point in pretending they were.

When Sawyer had said they could run in their fur, something deep in Dez had thrilled at the idea, and his heart had beat faster. Maybe that was what it meant to be a werewolf.

A tiny part of him had always hoped that when he finally managed to turn into a wolf properly, it would heal his leg. He didn’t have a logical reason for thinking it was possible, but in the end, it didn’t matter.

Ash said most people turned for the first time on a full moon. He didn’t have experience with bitten wolves, just children, but it made sense that the two would be similar.

They were only starting to come into their own as wolves, and the pull was stronger as the full moon approached. It was always there, that slight tug in the back of his mind, reminding him of his connection to the moon if he started to feel untethered. For those days around the full moon it tugged harder, and his instincts were stronger.

Gavin seemed to be nervous about it, but Dez loved the way it called to his senses. It was like Sawyer. Something about falling into the man’s orbit pulled at his new instincts as much as his old ones, and that was a first since he’d been bitten. He’d found other men attractive in the past few months, but none of them had ever called to those new instincts. None of them had ever been strong enough, or smelled quite right, or given him that cheeky grin.

Maybe Dez should have been more nervous about giving in to his new instincts, but the stronger Sawyer pulled, the less he cared to pull away. There was something freeing about being a wolf. Like maybe all those human expectations he failed at—being happy and cheerful and outgoing—they weren’t demanded of a werewolf. Maybe for the first time in his life, he was okay exactly as he was.

Including his leg. Maybe even his hand.

Sawyer didn’t act like he cared about Dez’s disabilities. Why should Dez let them hold him back?

Given the wealth of fiction about werewolves, and how it depicted their behavior on the full moon, Dez had expected to be irrationally angry.

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