Wolf Bait by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Author:Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Excitement rode the air like barely contained rage. Panic was in there, too, along with dread and the urge to hyperventilate.

Thank heaven, Jenna thought, Jim hadn’t questioned her orders.

Matt had been out the door in a flash, motioning for the she-creature’s cell to be unlocked. They had hit the woman up again with an injection, and she, as director here, had okayed all of this. Because it was the right thing to do? Jenna no longer knew. Maybe she’d done this for Matt as a last farewell. A parting favor. It was obvious he cared for the woman in that cell more than he cared for her. He would risk everything to help someone else.

End of story? Merely a really bad dream? Fact. Matt had become more than Matt in her presence. A blackness had slid behind his eyes when he’d pinned her to the wall, chasing out the green. She could hardly function thinking about it, vowed to get to the bottom of this, no matter what.

She watched Matt lift the woman, now nearly covered in hair that was clumped and matted with sweat, and whose breath came in great chest-rattling rasps, though she’d been given enough tranquilizer to knock out a horse.

It was downright freaky.

Matt cannot be like her.

Not my Matt.

A genetic mutation? A cluster of cells gone awry that had hidden behind Matt’s flawless exterior until now? An illness carried in his lineage? Age-related, maybe? Drug-related?

Why hadn’t I known?

Matt was all but running down the hallway, the creature’s listless body held tightly in his arms. He anxiously waited while she unlocked the iron door.

His body was fending off a series of visible shudders that made her grimace each time she watched one hit. She heard him swear, suck in air, swear again.

His angular features were tight, but the same ones she had always craved. He looked the same. He just didn’t feel the same. She’d noticed it the moment he’d entered the hospital, but had been too preoccupied with her inner thoughts and hopes.

If he was ill, seriously ill, she wanted to help.

Love him. In spite of everything.

In sickness and in health.

Just one more favor. She motioned for Jim to take the creature. Arms free of his burden, Matt reached out to her, silently, a whole lot of unspoken things in an action that did nothing to bring them closer together and only caused her heart to break.

Standing a good three feet away, he dropped his hands, tried to say something, but didn’t. Couldn’t, she supposed.

“Go,” she said.

Just that.

Go.

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