Prowl the Night by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

WANT ME

1

He had blood on his boots.

Exhaustion threatened to crush Rafe under its weight. He hadn’t even noticed the rusty stains splattering over his shoes and up the legs of his pants until he’d gotten up to shuffle off the flight from Cairo.

Then again, he’d damn near missed his connection in New York, so he’d been sprinting through the airport to make it. Or running as fast as a human could. Even dead on his feet, a Panther could go a lot faster than any mortal. He’d passed out in his seat before they’d even backed away from the JFK terminal, which might be why he hadn’t seen the gore on his clothes.

Luckily, the guys he was meeting wouldn’t care. In fact, Ric and Diego would think it was awesome and want details of his latest adventure. A wry smile twisted his lips. If anyone was up for an adventure, it was the Cruz twins.

“Excuse me,” an older man said politely as he elbowed Rafe in the gut.

“Don’t worry about it.” It was all he could do not to snarl at him.

This assignment had been grueling. One of those times when nothing went right. It happened, but this time it had grated on Rafe’s nerves so much that he’d come close to losing his cool with a panhandling teen the day before. Normally, he was more amused than anything else with the ploys the kids used, but not lately. He was just . . . tired. Tired of not having roots, tired of not having family, tired of going from one place to the next and never having any permanency at all.

Sure, he was a member of the North American Panther Pride. He could stay there forever and never leave again if that was what he wanted, but it wasn’t. As a travel journalist, he’d been everywhere at least once and lived to write about it. He’d gotten caught in riots, pinned down in war zones, stranded in the desert, and lost at sea. He’d seen all Seven Wonders of the World, hiked through rainforests with pygmies, ridden camels with Bedouin tribes, and seen sunrises on mountaintops that would make God Himself weep from the beauty of it.

It had been one hell of a life so far, and he’d loved every minute of it, but something had been riding him lately. A restlessness he couldn’t understand. It used to be he got antsy staying in one place too long, and now the constant travel frayed his nerves. He’d cut his last trip short to come back to the Pride for a while. Some instinct told him he needed to be there, though he couldn’t put his finger on why. Maybe staying put for a month or two would do him good. It couldn’t hurt, and might let him shake whatever it was that was eating at him. He could catch up with old friends, get some writing done and thus make his editors happy at the same time.

He wove his way through the crowded airport, leaving the old man far behind.

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