Icould hear sirens again.
“Thesleeping powder won’t hold much longer. Have you done a memory spell yet,Aurora?” Adrian asked me as Kai shifted and walked around in the victim’sblood.
I shookmy head no. Adrian went over to the two women and placed his hands on theirheads. He lowered his head and chanted under his breath. A fine white mist lefthis hands and wrapped around the women’s heads. He walked over and did the sameto his partner.
‘Kai,go! If they see you they will shoot you,’I urgedhim.
Helooked at Adrian one final time and let a low growl rip from his throat beforecrashing through the window. The sirens were closing in.
Adrianfinished with the spell and walked over to me. “Your boyfriend doesn’t trustvery easily, does he?”
“Mymate, actually. No, he doesn’t. I can’t imagine he is happy to leave me with aman in uniform.”
‘Iheard that!’Kai shouted in my head. I smirked.
“Thewomen outside saw you, so I want you to give a quick statement,” Adrian toldme.
“Thankyou for your help. If we can repay you in any way let me know.”
Adriannodded. “I could use some powerful Alpha blood for my spell castings.”
Inodded in return. “Consider it done.”
Witcheswere always after werewolf blood or hair for their spells. Hopefully Kai didn’tmind me just offering his up.
Afterfilling out the report, I gave and small speech to the women about the rabidwolf and got in my car. I drove down the street to a protected strip of forestand spotted Kai. He was hiding near the bushes and was naked save for a welcomemat over his private parts.
Ilaughed when he got in the car. “Welcometo my car.”
Heglared at me playfully. I grabbed some pants from the back seat and threw themat him.
“Putthese on. Although, I’m sorry to see you cover up,” I flirted.
Atthat, he dropped the welcome mat and fully exposed himself inside the car. Heleaned over the armrest and grabbed my neck, pulling me in for a long kiss.
“Whenis our wedding night? I’m not sure I can wait any longer,” he confessed in ahusky voice.
Ismiled. But behind my smile I was worried. I wanted to marry him. I wanted toset a date, but … Layla. “You know we don’t have to wait to do it until we aremarried. This is the 21stcentury.” I laughed at his nakedness.“Cover up before someone sees you!”
Kaislipped into his pants and gave me a side glance. “Call me old fashioned. I’vewaited hundreds of years for my mate. They say the first time you go to bedwith your mate after the mating ceremony, it transcends this reality. Themating ceremony opens the bond forever.”
Whoa.Having a link with Kai I could never close sounded terrifying. I was astubborn, private woman with daddy issues. He would know everything, all thetime. I drove the rest of the way home in silence thinking about his words.
Rogue
‘Packmeeting, now,’Kai sent to the pack. The merge ofthe Portland pack with our Mount Hood pack had made our family larger, morepowerful. Kai was never after power or large numbers, but it did help.
Kaistood on a picnic table and looked down on all of us. We were clustered in ourlarge backyard surrounded by hundred-year-old trees. The moss was thick on thebranches and the fog was settling on the ground. God, I loved this mountain. Iheld Kai’s tablet pointed at him so that the werewolf council on the other endcould see him as he spoke through video chat.
“Therehas been a vampire attack on Safe Haven. A human was killed. Mutilated is abetter description.” Kai’s voice was deep and boomed with the power of theAlpha. The pack members were outraged.
“Formany decades, we have lived separately from the vampires and witches. Ourconcern was with our territory, our own dwindling population. We have beenconcerned with finding our mates and having children. I fear now that if wedon’t deal with the vampires properly, than we will be leaving our children toa world of chaos. They will grow up as warriors and their childhood will betaken from them. Their parents may not live long enough to show them the way ofthe wolf.”
Thepack roared their agreement. I spotted Devon, who placed his hand on Emma’sswollen belly and nodded to Kai.
“Legendsays that Spirit created werewolves to protect humans. There are tales of werewolvesguarding the heavily populated human streets from thirsty vampires. Ofwerewolves being so big in number that the vampires fearedus! We haverelaxed and become complacent. We let the vampires feed off of the humans andonly intervene if they kill a few and it makes it in the news. When is the lasttime we guarded a human night club or bar from the bloodsuckers?” He let thesilence linger.
“Thisstops today! From now on, we are the guardians of humanity and of werewolfculture. We protect what is ours! Our way of life, our females, our traditionswill not be taken! It’s time to live out our legend. It’s time to go to war!”Kai screamed and the last part came out in a half-wolf howl.
