A Beta Protects (The Weakest Wolf Book 4) by Eve Bale

Author:Eve Bale [Bale, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

13

KIRA

Ican’t keep my eyes off the man leading me into the forest.

“I can feel you watching me.” He lifts a low-hanging branch before I can walk into it.

He’s wrong about the watching. What I’m doing is nothing less than staring.

“I’m not sure I should have agreed to this.”

He stops immediately and looks down at me. “Because you’re afraid of me?”

I shake my head. “I saw that bloody T-shirt. You shrugged it off in front of Shawn, but you should be getting medical treatment, not showing me the beauty of this world.”

“I’m a Marine.” He keeps walking. “Bullets bounce off us.”

I grip his wrist.

Every muscle in him tightens.

I immediately snatch my hand away, heart lodged in my throat, and I back up, bumping into a tree. Bryce hated when I touched him without permission. A wife lets the husband take the lead. And here I am just… I gulp. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have⁠—”

“Kira.” Dom’s voice is whisper quiet. I’d run away, but the intensity in his gaze cements me in place. “I’m going to tell you something important, and I want you to really listen to me. Can you do that?”

All that intensity means I should run, right?

I know intense.

Intensity comes with a threat and a gun gently placed on the nearest surface to remind me of my place. It’s a reminder of what will happen to me if I don’t behave.

Intensity is something I don’t want.

So why am I not running away from Dom?

“Kira?” he asks softly.

I force myself to breathe in, dispel the panic which must be the thing freezing my ability to run.

Dom gave me his bed. He had Shawn come over to help me, so Bryce couldn’t force me to return to him if I didn’t want to. And I don’t want to. Dom has never threatened me or scared me. He is not Bryce.

“Yeah?”

“If you ever want to say anything, touch anything, do anything, you are free to do it. I can be possessive of the people I care about, and that’s because I don’t want them to hurt. You never have anything to fear from me, Kira.”

“I know you won’t hurt me.”

Relief flits across his gaze so quickly, I nearly miss it. “Good.”

My eyes flick to his side. “I know Marines. Aaron fell down the stairs once and when I asked him how he was, he said⁠—”

One corner of his mouth lifts in a faint smile. “Outstanding?”

I nod, fighting a smile of my own. “He’d broken his leg and couldn’t walk for six months, so you can probably understand my suspicions about what you’re nursing under that shirt.”

I’d thought Aaron was crazy for not telling me how bad it was, but he said it was as much about mentally pushing through something when everything has gone to shit. Or, in his case, when you’ve broken your leg in two places and don’t know if you can stand. Instead of saying you're having a shit day, it’s outstanding.

I’m not sure I get it, but I’m not a Marine, so maybe I’m not supposed to.

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