The Wolf I Want for Christmas by Abigail Owen

Author:Abigail Owen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday, christmas, werewolves, shifters, wolf shifter, werewolf book, alpha wolf, werewolf alpha
Publisher: Abigail Owen

Chapter 7

SHYLA

I can’t believe I asked him that.

Cade’s reaction, however, about knocked her into a full-on panic. He went from laid back in his chair to kneeling beside her, her face in his hands, blue eyes gone almost navy and deadly serious. “What do you mean a wolf shifter attacked you?”

This much aggressive male in her space should be sending her heart rate sky high. Not even her dad and brother had been able to do much more than hug her since that night. Instead of needing to fight her way out of Cade’s hold, though, her muscles slowly loosened as though the heat from that simple touch soothed away her anxiety.

She blinked at the sensation, then took a deep breath. “It happened a few days after you left town. I was home alone. Mom and Dad were at one of Sean’s basketball games. I went to bed early and woke up with a man in my room, his hand over my mouth.”

A snarl ripped from Cade’s throat, and that should have terrified her, but it didn’t. He wasn’t angry at her, she could tell.

She raised her hands and wrapped them around his wrists, not to pull him away, but in some perhaps misguided attempt to sooth him. “I’m okay,” she whispered.

“What happened?” A demand, not a question.

She grimaced. “I got lucky. Dad came home for Sean’s jersey that he forgot and scared the man away. He’d come in my window.”

“Fuck,” he muttered.

The air whooshed from her lungs as he scooped her off her seat and sat down with her in his lap. Then he buried his head in the crook of her neck, inhaling deeply, his body practically vibrating with tension.

The logical part of her mind should have categorized this as a blatant overreaction. He hadn’t seen her in ten years. What should he care? But some instinct, deep in her core, told her this was important.

The same instinct also told her to hold very still. The predator inside him was close to the surface.

“Sorry,” Cade muttered. Then whispered a kiss over the curve where shoulder and neck met, so softly that when he lifted his head, she wondered if she’d imagined it.

“There’s a reason I’m acting like a caveman, and I’ll tell you about it soon. But let’s get your thing hashed out first. Okay?”

This much male wolf shifter, this close in, should have her in a dead faint at his feet. Instead, she felt more relaxed sitting in his lap, the powerful bands of his arms anchoring her to him, than she had in years and years.

The caveman comment pinged around inside her, and finally she let her mind open to the thought she’d been holding off since he showed up at her door. Am I his mate?

“Okay,” she murmured, keeping her thoughts to herself.

“Did the sheriff find out who did it?”

“No.”

He canted his head. “Did you see who it was? Recognize him?”

“No.”

Cade’s jaw tightened almost imperceptibly. “Then how do you know it was a wolf shifter?”

Here we go again.

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