Page 72 of Bad Blood Wolf

Monster Wolf slammed into her, knocking the breath out of her. Dimly, in the background, she heard Bastian’s roar of triumph, but all she felt was the rush of love through her chest, and her mate’s fangs at her throat.

“I submit.”

The words were no more than a whisper, but she felt the shiver run through his massive body when he heard them.

“I love you. I submit.”

They rolled over on the floor, and she could feel his massive jaw closing, teeth sinking into the flesh of her throat. No, not her throat. The big muscle of her neck, where it met her shoulder.

She heard Monster Wolf in her mind, as if he and Brody were speaking in unison.

We Claim you. Mate.

Jasmin replied, I love you. I submit. Mate.

Power blasted out of Brody into Jasmin, shooting through her like a thousand shock sticks, filling her soul. For one timeless moment she could see inside of Brody, past, present and future, all the fear and rage, all the depthless love that drove him to keep trying, never giving up. Trying to fit in. Trying to find his way. Trying to escape what he knew he was, trying to choose the right way.

And she saw herself, embracing only the badass, building her steel armor which turned out to be a steel cage, smothering the gentleness, the vulnerability, the caring. Trying to kill that side of herself was just as bad as what her family had done, trying to kill her strength.

Brody had saved her from that.

Brody released her, and Jasmin rolled free. Power was still reverberating through her, and she felt stronger than she ever had before. Her wounds were healing themselves as she watched.

She and Brody both went still. As one, they looked at each other, and then at the men outside the cage.

They had to be stopped.

One last surge of power went through her, and Jasmin’s jag burst out of her once more. Tawny fur, black spots. And then her body gave another shudder. With a crack of bones, she grew—and grew. Something else crashed through her jaguar skin, with white fur and claws like knives, and fangs like a saber-toothed tiger.

She was one with Brody, and she was Monster Kitty.

She and Brody turned, faces twisted in identical snarls.

Then they lunged at the cage door together, and started ripping it from its hinges.