Embracing the Wolf by Felicity Heaton Read Free Book Online

climaxed. Kat moaned with her lips still
wrapped around him. Amon sighed and slowly sunk back into the
mattress.

    In the wake of the warm
rush came pain, searing and white-hot, so strong that he lost
control.

    Amon woke with it wracking
his body. He stumbled to his feet, blind with pain and trembling.
Grabbing the bars of his prison, he screwed his eyes shut and
fought the darkness rising inside of him. The blackness crowded in
at the edge of his mind and control slipped through his
fingers.

    His body twisted, bones
popping out of place and clicking back into another position. Black
wiry fur erupted across his skin. His ears elongated at the same
time as his nose. Razor sharp canines replaced his
teeth.

    Falling to his knees, he
pressed his hands into the dusty concrete floor between the bars
and stared wide-eyed at his claws as they extended and blackened.
He couldn’t do this. He reared up onto his back legs and ripped his
jeans apart, angered by their restrictive presence. He had to keep
control. Kat needed him. He would not let her go through this
horror too. He had to go to her. He had to protect her. He would
not turn rogue.

    Snarling, he hunched down
and shook all over as his body finally shifted completely into his
werewolf guise.

    Throwing his head back, he
howled out his rage.

    ***

    Kat jumped when the phone
rang. She hopped across the room, still trying to get her left boot
on, and grabbed it. Flipping the mobile phone open, she slammed her
foot down into the boot at the same time.

    “ Hello?”

    “ Kat, it’s
Paul.” He sounded out of breath. She frowned at the
phone.

    “ What’s up?”
Picking up her other boot, she slipped her foot into it and bent to
tie the laces, pressing the phone against her ear with her
shoulder.

    “ We’ve a new
boy on the list.” He paused and there was a hint of hope in his
voice when he next spoke. “You going to come out and hunt with
me?”

    Her eyebrows rose and she
straightened up, retrieving her phone from her shoulder. She knew
that Paul hated the fact that she always hunted alone. It was
understandable. It wasn’t as though she had offered him any
explanation for her distance and she was supposed to be his
partner. All the other teams in the unit hunted
together.

    Of course, none of the
other teams had a werewolf in hiding as one of the partners. At
least, she didn’t know if they did.

    Kat finished tying her
laces and then crossed the lounge to her coat, tugging her black
shirt back into place as she walked.

    “ Maybe,” she
answered and slid her arms into the holster, switching her phone
between hands. Her guns still felt heavy tonight.

    “ You might want
to come on this hunt.” His voice was ice.

    A shiver ran through her.
In a quiet voice, she said, “Why?”

    “ Apparently
it’s the alpha of a pack that just moved into the
neighbourhood.”

    Her heart picked up pace.
A pack that had just moved in? It couldn’t be.

    “ Amon,” he said
without the slightest trace of emotion. “You knew him didn’t
you?”

    Her stomach roiled and
flipped. Staggering backwards, she grabbed the couch to steady
herself. It was a fight to remain standing as her knees gave. She
clung to the couch with tight trembling fingers and stared blankly
at the carpet. It couldn’t be.

    Amon couldn’t have turned
rogue.

    He would fight it. She
knew in her heart that he wouldn’t give up without a fight. He
wouldn’t let her slip into the darkness too. He
wouldn’t.

    Kat’s heart levelled out
again but a dull ache throbbed in its depths. She breathed slow and
steady, calming herself. She had to move fast if she was going to
help Amon. Now wasn’t the time to be frightened.

    It struck her that Paul
had said ‘knew him’, as though Amon was already dead.

    Her eyes
widened.

    “ Paul?” Her
voice shook with the cold fear stealing through her. He couldn’t
have said ‘knew him’ for a reason. Paul wouldn’t have killed Amon
and then called her. He