Wolf on the Road by Lynn Red

Author:Lynn Red [Red, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pnr, werewolf romance, jamesburg, bad boy romance, fantasy romance, paranormal romance, alpha male romance, lynn red, biker romance, shapeshifter romance, scifi romance
Publisher: Yellow Moon Press
Published: 2016-06-06T05:00:00+00:00

8

“Almost got it.”

Jake grunted heavily and twisted his arm. The steel cuff bit deeply into his flesh. Tendrils of pain shot up his forearm. Blood pooled on the back of the shackle and then ran down his hand into the concrete where it soaked quickly into the ground.

The metal had stopped groaning when he twisted his arm, and had started to thickly screech as it grew thinner with each passing second. Then again, the skin on his wrist was getting thin too, and he wasn’t interested in ripping the rest of it off. He looked across the way to where Mali was still sleeping. For a moment he just watched her face, and the gentle rise and fall of her chest and shoulders with each breath she took. After a couple seconds, he didn’t feel the shooting pain in his wrist anymore; he didn’t feel the agony of metal cutting through him. The only thing he felt was a swelling sense of care.

Her eyes fluttered and she woke with a start.

“How did I fall asleep?” she asked no one in particular. It was the sort of thing a person says when they wake up in a strange bed and don’t quite remember they checked into a hotel the night before. It was a probing sort of question, trying to feel out a reality they don’t recall changing.

“Exhaustion, probably,” Jake said in a soft, gentle voice that was still brimming with steel. “You’re gonna need the rest.” He paused for a few moments as he concentrated on trying to get his nerves hardened enough to give another try to snapping the chain. “You’re cute when you sleep.”

She smiled in the way a person only smiles when someone does something completely unexpected that makes them happier than they can explain. “You’re cute when you’re staring at me while you try and rip your own arm off,” Mali said a couple seconds later.

“You were awake?” Jake asked, as he curled the left end of his mouth into a smile. “For how long?”

“Not long,” she answered. “After a while, I really did pass out. I guess this whole transformation thing is sort of hard on the body. I feel better though. Well, as much better as a girl can when she’s still in a cage in some psychopath’s basement. Which, come to think of it, makes me sound crazier than I actually am.”

Jake winced, closed his eyes, and ground the chain again. When he couldn’t take the pain, he waited, gritted his teeth and twisted four more times. The chain was getting markedly thin in the place where he rubbed the links. “You’re not crazy,” he said. “This whole thing is though. But we’re getting out, and we’re getting to my brother. Everything will be fine. One more twist,” he grunted in pain and twisted his hands.

A decided clink was followed seconds later with Jake’s huge sigh of relief. “Damn that hurts,” he said, squeezing his torn up wrist to try and stanch the bleeding.

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