Black Mountain Magic (Kentucky Haints #1) by Megan Morgan

Author:Megan Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, southern, humor, paranormal, witches, werewolves, shifters, alpha, lycans, hetero romance
Publisher: Megan Morgan

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Lorena stood in the pool of light from her flashlight and stared down the Wolvite in front of her. Only a few feet separated them, so the awful fetid stench that came off it filled her nostrils.

She couldn’t move. She had to shoot it, but her muscles had locked up, her breath caught in her lungs. She had never been so close to a living Wolvite. The one time she’d been remotely close to one still alive, a thick layer of glass separated them and the creature had been sedated. The one she’d shot in Jack’s yard, she’d barely even seen.

She should have stayed inside and kept shooting at paper targets.

The thing was hunched over. Long, sinewy, hair-covered arms hung in front of it, which ended in hand-like paws with curled black claws. Coarse hair covered its body, matted and glistening with dew, or sweat. The long snout extended wolf-like, black lips curled back and long, sharp teeth on display. Golden eyes fixed on her in hard, deadly pinpoints, its ears erect on top its head. The creature seemed to be sizing her up.

Her arm hung at her side, the gun heavy in her hand. Her heartbeat rushed in her ears. She could still feel the forest, the valley, in tight formation around her, as if waiting to see what she would do.

The Wolvite emitted a warning growl, its muscles flexing beneath the hair.

She snapped out of her paralysis and jerked the gun up, steady in her aim thanks to adrenaline. Before she could pull the trigger, it sprung.

She didn’t have time to react before the heavy, powerful weight of it slammed into her. She tried to fire, if not to hit it then at least to alert those around her that she was in trouble. Instead, the gun flew from her hand and tumbled away in the leaves, out of reach.

She hit the ground hard, so hard her bones rattled inside her flesh and all the air rushed from her lungs. She couldn’t make a sound. She flung her arm up, the flashlight still attached to her wrist, and tried instinctively to shield her face. She braced herself for the sensation of claws or teeth, but instead, the Wolvite scampered away from her.

The flashlight swung wildly on her wrist and threw light around her, making everything chaotic, like watching through a bouncing video camera. The beast’s heavy breathing remained close by, and cold terror gripped her as she waited for the next blow.

It didn’t come.

She groped around frantically, but only dry leaves and cold earth passed beneath her hands. She struggled to get her breath back, to make a sound, but she could only manage a wheeze. She caught the flashlight as it swung against her hand and gripped it tight. She would use it as a club if she had to.

The light fell on the creature, a few feet away. The Wolvite prowled sinuously against the forest floor as it stalked around her.

She tried to think clearly through the pain in her chest and back.

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