Rivals (Shifter Island #2) by Carol Davis

Author:Carol Davis [Davis, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Nine

“I won’t,” Aaron said. “She’s not threatening me, Daniel. She’s not threatening anyone.”

Something had changed, Abby saw. The elders had been stern before; now they were angry. Threatening. And Daniel—the very sight of him made her flesh crawl.

She’d seen enough movies and TV shows, and had witnessed enough real-life encounters, to know that if Aaron didn’t obey Daniel’s instructions quickly, there’d be hell to pay.

Almost holding her breath, she turned toward Aaron to see what he’d do, hoping she was misunderstanding the whole situation.

“Leave her,” Caleb said.

“And what happens to her then?” Aaron demanded. “What do you intend to do with her?”

He moved to his haunches, taking a position between her and the elders, so that she was looking at his back. She blinked a couple of times, unsure of what she was seeing: an odd movement of the muscles of his shoulders and back, something that made his neck look both shorter and longer.

He was going to turn into a wolf again.

And that couldn’t end well, if he intended to threaten or even attack the elders. Daniel might very well tear him to pieces.

No; Daniel would tear him to pieces.

“We mean her no harm,” Caleb replied, his voice almost emotionless. “She’ll be looked after, until we can return her to the mainland.”

Abby couldn’t bring herself to look at any of them. Certainly not at Daniel. She tried not to think about what they really intended to do with her, now that she knew they were all wolves.

I’ve seen TV! she wanted to scream. You’re just telling him that so he’ll cooperate!

“You said you’d remain at your father’s home,” Daniel said in a voice honed as sharp as a razor blade. “And that this human would remain at Granny Sara’s. Yet here you are. You’re untrustworthy, Aaron. You cannot be relied upon to keep your word. You need to be confined.”

“I’m no more guilty than any of you,” Aaron told him. “I’ve done nothing wrong. I won’t be confined, Daniel.”

“Come NOW!” Daniel bellowed.

The sound seemed to make the entire landscape around them reverberate. Abby, who had experienced a small earthquake during a vacation trip out West, thought this felt almost the same—like the ground was shuddering underneath them. As if to bear that out, a shower of leaves fluttered down from the trees, and she heard a sharp cry of protest from a bird.

Slowly, Aaron got to his feet. He didn’t take all of his attention away from Daniel and the elders as he extended a hand toward Abby, an offer to help her stand up. She grasped his hand tightly, but not because she needed the help; it was the contact she wanted, the comfort of his touch.

“I’ll go with you,” he told the elders, turning away from Daniel. “As long as you give me your word as elders of the pack that she’ll be taken care of… and that you won’t take her anywhere off the island.”

“She has no place here,” said Mason.

“Yesterday, you were willing to consider the question.

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