Caging Ash by Novalee Swan

Author:Novalee Swan [Swan, Novalee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-648-69152-5
Publisher: Swan Press

Chapter 9

Ash stood outside the brick building that housed the Rosewood Sheriff’s Department. Just stood and stared. Gathering her courage. It had been a full day since Cage left her. She thought he might come back when he was done with whatever had called him away. Break in again.

She shivered at the thought. She would never in a trillion years admit this to him. It wasn’t PC and feminists would burn her at the stake, but she liked him invading her space without permission. Making it–her–his.

She liked it when Cage broke the rules.

That he broke them because of her.

He’d taken a chance on her and she was not going to fail him. She was going to do what he asked.

Find him.

Just as soon as she could make her feet move. Someone had taken industrial strength superglue and coated the soles of her shoes when she wasn’t looking.

She’d thought about waiting until her heat cycle was over, but heat or no, she’d always felt this way about Cage.

She wanted to keep him forever.

He wanted her to keep him forever.

So she was going to give them both what they wanted.

She was still thinking about how that scene would play out when she saw Michelle Westward on the sidewalk opposite, approaching the station. She was dressed in a sexily understated wrap-around dress and sling backs.

Ash’s lioness tensed. Began to rumble, very, very low. What the fuck did that woman think she was doing? She better not–she did not just start up the station stairs. Ash’s feet came unglued without effort.

“Michelle,” she called out as she crossed the street. The other woman turned and saw Ash. Looked down at her, where she ended up, on the step below.

“Michelle,” she said again. Then it came out. “Cage is mine.’

“I beg your pardon?”

Was she being fair in thinking there was more than a hint of snootiness in that reply. Ash repeated herself. “Cage. Is. Mine.” She let her lioness show through the words.

“Yours, kitten?”

Big mistake. Only Cage got to call her kitten. On his lips it was Catnip. On Michelle Westward’s, it was nails on a chalkboard.

Michelle’s eyes swept up and down Ash, as though the idea of her and Cage was ludicrous.

Ash let it wash over her. “Mine,” she said sedately.

“Are you challenging me?” Michelle drew the words out, as though highly amused at the thought. Michelle was the most dominant lioness in Shifter Town. She let that dominance show in her face. Glimmer through, as though she was about to shift.

Ash swallowed, but didn’t back down. Whatever it cost to keep Cage, she’d pay it. “Just stating a fact.”

“A fact? Well, the fact is he’s not yours unless you can keep him. And I intend to take him away. Right now.”

Ash stiffened as Michelle turned and began to climb the stairs. “Stop.”

Michelle ignored her.

“I said,” Ash let her wilding glimmer to the surface, “stop.”

Ash made the first move.

After the fact, she freely admitted it. She’d never started a fight in her life, certainly not one in lioness form, but that’s just what she did.

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