Claimed By The Wolf (Werewolf Fever #2) by Juno Blake

Author:Juno Blake [Blake, Juno]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult, Shifter, Mate, Supernatural, Protection, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Multicultural, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Werewolf Fever Series
Publisher: Juno Blake
Published: 2017-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

It was still dark when Lucy woke up. She stretched out, bracing herself for the shock of cold air as her feet shot over the edge of her too-short, too-narrow bed.

The shock she got wasn’t cold air. It was the sudden realization that she’d woken up in someone else’s bed.

She sat up quickly, blinking sleep out of her eyes. The room she was in had soft gray walls and pale wooden floorboards. A floor-to-ceiling window on the far wall looked out onto the Thames, where the slow-moving water glittered with city lights.

Somewhere out there was the moon, Lucy knew. And somewhere in here…

“Ciaran?”

“Lucy.”

Lucy turned around. Ciaran was crouching by the other side of the bed. He was still in his wolf-man form, and a shiver of trepidation clawed up Lucy’s spine as she looked at him.

“What am I doing here?” she asked cautiously.

She remembered him carrying her, and placing her gently in the back seat of a car… and nothing after that. She must have fallen asleep.

But how was that possible, after everything that had happened last night? How could she have felt safe enough in Ciaran’s presence to let herself be so vulnerable?

Lucy was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she jumped as Ciaran answered her question.

“This is my London flat,” Ciaran said, then added in a harsh voice: “Where you belong.”

Before Lucy could open her mouth, Ciaran jerked back and rubbed his face, growling low in his throat.

“No,” he muttered. “This isn’t right. This isn’t… ugh.”

He jumped to his feet and stalked around the bed. Lucy followed him with her eyes, ready for him to pounce.

But… there was something different about him. At the castle seven weeks ago, the wolf-man had been all uninhibited desire. There had been an arrogant looseness in his gait, as though nothing could stop him doing what he wanted, and he knew it. But now, as he walked around the bed, Lucy could see the muscles in his arms twitching, as though he was straining not to reach out and grab her.

Straining not to. He was stopping himself. Holding himself back.

“This is all wrong,” the wolf-man snarled, running clawed fingers through his thick black hair. “It isn’t even the full moon, and I—”

“You can’t change back?”

“Change back? I can barely control it.”

Control. Lucy gulped. “Delauncey and the other two—what happened…?”

“I should have killed them,” Ciaran growled, not facing her.

“You broke his neck—”

“You should know that isn’t enough to kill one of us. You should know—”

Ciaran was at the foot of the bed. He swung to face Lucy. There was a thick bedpost at each corner of the mattress and he gripped the two in front of him so tightly his claws bit into the polished wood.

“Do you have any idea how difficult this is?” His eyes burned with unconcealed desire. “The things I want to do to you… but that’s where this all began, isn’t it? That’s where everything went wrong. Where I went wrong.”

He tore his claws from the bedposts and stalked away again, tension in every curve of his body.

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