Lonely Alpha by Ranae Rose

Author:Ranae Rose
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: werewolf romance, ranae rose, Speculative Fiction, werewolves, erotic romance, shapeshifter romance, erotic paranormal romance, shifter romance
Publisher: Ranae Rose
Published: 2012-01-19T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“Pretty bad, I reckon.” His voice was rougher and shakier than she’d ever heard it. “We’ll have to lie low in here ‘till nighttime.”

“I’m sorry,” she said, still speaking in hushed tones. “If we hadn’t made love we might not have been in the cabin when the hunter came, and this might not have happened.” At the memory of their tryst, dual waves of arousal and guilt assaulted her. Maybe her desire for Jack had overpowered her better judgment.

“Don’t be sorry,” he growled. “I told you makin’ love to you would be worth some suffering, and I stand by that statement.”

She eased the embrace she’d wrapped him in, realizing it was probably hurting him.

“No,” he said, catching one of her wrists and holding her palm against his chest. “If we’ve gotta lie here naked together in the dark where I can’t see you, I at least want to feel you touch me.”

She didn’t argue. She’d do anything to keep him calm so he didn’t aggravate his injury further, and even this simple contact with him helped to calm her nerves. What was it about him? Even shot and bleeding, he made her feel secure. She bit down on her inner lip as she thought about the men she’d dated – none too seriously – back in Nashville. She couldn’t say the same about any of them. After being raised by a single mother and never knowing her father, she hadn’t been overeager to place her unreserved confidence in a man – instead, she preferred to get to know someone over time. But she trusted Jack, inexplicably, to her core. The irony struck her in the form of nervous laughter.

“Good Lord Mandy,” Jack grunted. “If you know somethin’ so funny, tell me. I could use a little humor right now.”

“It’s nothing like that,” she said, tracing the smooth line of his collar bone and then resting her palm on his chest again. “I was just thinking that I might be a little crazy.”

“What, vacation not exactly going as planned?” he asked knowingly.

“Not at all.” She’d meant to sound lighthearted – in a good mood, to distract him from his pain – but it didn’t work. A man had never been a part of her plans for her week in the Smoky Mountains, let alone a werewolf, and she’d certainly never imagined the situation she found herself in now.

“Well I’m sorry about the hunter,” Jack said. “Seems like you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But another part of me thinks…well, maybe you were in the right place at the right time. I hate to imagine lyin’ here like this without you. I’m glad I finally found you.”

His seemingly heartfelt confession stirred contradicting feelings of tenderness and alarm in Mandy. “Found – you’ve been looking for me?”

“Not really looking so much as hoping. Hoping for a mate, though I admit, I didn’t think I’d ever really find one.”

“A mate?” Mandy’s mouth went dry.

“Well yeah,” Jack said, as if the idea were the most natural thing in the world.

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