First Moon by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Author:Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Published: 2022-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Nikki had never heard of a werewolf sacrificing himself for the greater good. Werewolves, on the whole, were wild, moon-crazed creatures in need of culling. She certainly had never encountered anyone, werewolf or otherwise, willing to do something like this for her. Give himself up.

She did not fire the gun. She stayed frozen, watching the first transformation from man to wolf she’d ever seen take place.

The shift was fascinating. A grotesque miracle. She felt sick to her stomach, wondering if this is what she’d have to look forward to if the monsters didn’t get her first.

The man, so handsome before, she had to admit now since she was being honest with herself, had grown taller, wider. His face had lengthened to resemble something of a wolf’s muzzle, while clearly not going for exact. His flesh went from tan to red to black with nearly subliminal speed before settling on brown, the same color as his long, swinging hair.

Fur quickly sprouted from his pores, though not from all of them. His bare arms were covered, as was his chest and throat. Some fur covered his chilling-featured face, though not much more than a bearded man with some dense follicles. His previously ear-length brown hair now brushed his shoulders, not coarse, but smooth, shiny and looking almost as silky as his shirt, still tied to her arm.

She felt absurdly turned on. She closed her eyes, swallowed, wanting to touch that hair, feeling as though she’d gone over the deep end of sanity.

“I had no idea,” she whispered, waiting for him to strike.

Nothing happened. The Were didn’t attack or knock her to the ground. He didn’t touch her in any threatening way. Not in any way at all. She opened her eyes to find them separated by several inches. She had to look up to find his eyes, which were very like a human’s and still studying her intently. She could have sworn she saw that same gleam of intelligence in those eyes that had captured her attention earlier.

“All right.” She tripped over the words. “Thank you for helping.”

The beast nodded in understanding. Did he smile, too, as he waved a hand toward the streetlight, then immediately put more urgency into the gesture?

“I can feel them in there,” she said, looking to the alley. “They’re angry and assembled at last.”

The werewolf repeated his gesture, a universal signal of approaching danger and the direction to get out of the area, quickly.

“Am I to believe you were telling the truth about differences and goals?” she asked him, uncertainly.

A great hand closed around her own. She felt the sharpness of his claws on her bare wrist. But the van reappeared in that instant, heading toward them, causing this wolf to stall.

He’d been trying to help her again. Suddenly, Nikki wasn’t sure about anything, especially her special task, the one for which she had been born, and for which she had been chosen. If this wolf fought the dregs of his own kind, he had to remain at large.

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