Maximus: #1 (Luna Lodge: Alpha Squad) by Madison Stevens & Willow Hazel

Author:Madison Stevens & Willow Hazel [Stevens, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Madison Stevens
Published: 2020-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Selena wondered if Maximus could hear her pounding heart. She’d been trying to focus on their hike and investigation, but now that she knew the truth, it was almost impossible not to stare at him and wonder.

With the retreat of the Luna hybrids from their old lodge, public interaction with hybrids of any type had dropped to almost nonexistent. People liked to claim they’d run into a hybrid on the street or in the woods with obviously faked videos uploaded to the net, but the truth was the hybrids had achieved what they’d originally intended, hiding away from the world. From what Maximus said, he was a different sort of hybrid, too.

She glanced over her shoulder. Maximus didn’t live in Maui and was investigating something related to the hybrids. Selena might not be an expert, but one thing she did appreciate is that they tended to run in packs. How many hybrids might there be on the island?

She shouldn’t be in the woods with a hybrid investigating something potentially dangerous. Every part of her logical brain screamed for her to turn around, despite having talked Maximus into letting her continue along with him.

Some of her motivation was curiosity, but that wasn’t the main reason. For whatever reason, she felt completely safe around Maximus, like he would never, ever let her get hurt. Before, when she believed he might be a mob enforcer, she was nervous but still found herself wandering into the forest with him. Perhaps, on some level, she understood he was a hybrid.

But why would that make a difference? Hybrids weren’t the villains the early media coverage painted them as, but she didn’t know much about the man. Their initial conversations had been filled with lies. She shouldn’t trust a man she barely knew who had knowingly lied to her, even if he had a good reason.

Selena pulled out her phone and stared at the map, glad she was smart enough to download it before they’d traveled deep enough to lose signal. She motioned behind her. “Based on that stream we passed a few minutes ago, we should now be in one of the blank spots.” She surveyed the trees, not finding anything that stood out. More trees, birds, and bugs. Certainly nothing she could use to convince the permit office, if that was still even a good idea.

Maximus slowly looked around the forest, his brow furrowed in concentration. Selena tried not to stare at his now exposed amber eyes, but they kept drawing her in. She forced herself to look elsewhere. This wasn’t the time to get distracted. Her attraction before had been ridiculous, but now that she knew the truth, she couldn’t help but wonder if all the rumors about the hybrids’ other impressive traits were true.

Stupid. Her job was on the line, and she was horny for a hybrid who had just got done admitting he was waiting around for a soulmate he couldn’t even detect. That wasn’t the kind of man she should let herself get involved with.

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