Southern Shifters: Dangerous Prey (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Erika Masten

Author:Erika Masten [Masten, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2015-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Rory heard it all, every damn word said in the cell, despite the interference to his connection with Kendra. The Agency was moving her, putting her into play somehow, and he was running out of time to do something about it. Only knowing she needed him calm, knowing that he couldn’t leave her surrounded by people who killed supernaturals as a matter of course, kept him focused. The effort to hold onto her took more energy than he’d let on to her or to Martin, but the wolf could probably tell Rory was sweating more than the heat justified and breathing harder than the incline of the terrain demanded. Of all the times he resented the characterization of his breed as prey animals, this was the worst, feeling like it was true. If he was able to lead Martin to her, would Rory be any use at all in rescuing her?

The horse shifter left the remote, unmaintained mountain trail he and Martin had followed at the insistence of Galloway’s instincts. He braced himself against a tree for balance before pouring all his concentration into holding the tenuous thread of emotion anchoring him to the psychic. Fragments of what Kendra was hearing and feeling flew through Rory mind, some too fast to catch. The shifter snorted out in pain and slumped against the rough bark of the trunk.

“What is it?” Martin demanded. “What are they doing to her?”

“I can’t get….” Rory shook his head, trying to the clear the thick-headed sensation that felt like sleeping too long or being underwater.

“Galloway! What is it?”

In a matter of a split-second, Rory had come up off the tree and taken hold of Martin by the front of the werewolf’s t-shirt. “It’s you and all that damned anger, for one thing.” So much anger all the time, and now even the natural calm of Rory’s breed could not insulate him from it. In just a couple weeks, he was so far from himself it wasn’t funny. In just the last few days. His first physical confrontation with a human and then… then his first kill. Kills. That was just another day for a warhorse, but for a psychopomp it was like slow suicide, losing a little bit of himself with each act of violence committed in true anger or bloodlust. And yet, how else was he going to save Kendra?

Rory panted through this strange confusion, the conflict between remaining true to his nature and… and wanting to slaughter every human hunter who had touched her.

It wasn’t like Martin to hold his tongue when confronted like that, to let a challenge lie. And it wasn’t like Rory to keep pushing, but he couldn’t help demanding, “Do you even know where all that anger and hatred and bitterness comes from? ‘Cause I’ve been in there with you, in your skin, in your head. I can tell you.”

Wincing, the dark-haired wolf shifter shook his head no. “You don’t need to.”

I know, Martin was thinking, and Rory heard it whether or not that was the intention.

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