Kane's Mate (Armageddon Mates) by Hazel Gower Read Free Book Online Page A

could have lost you. You stupid girl, I can’t ever lose you again.”
    She cried, her shoulders shaking as he started to walk with her.
    “I love you, princess, and you said you wouldn’t play hero.”
    Faith froze in his arms, looked into his eyes. “What did you just say? Do you really mean it? I know you said it earlier but...”
    Kane stopped walking and looked at her face. He frowned. “I’m sorry, princess, I’m an arse, but you scared me to death when I saw you on the back of that demon.” He shook his head. “Let’s just say if werewolves could have a heart attack I would have had one. I can’t live without you anymore, I love you.”
    Faith didn’t care about the cuts, blood, and bruises. She reached up and pulled his mouth down to hers and kissed him. “I love you too. I will move in and give you a chance.”
    He smiled. “Let’s get you cleaned up so I can see if we’ll need to stitch you. The cleanup crew should be at the warehouse.” He took off her bloody and holey singlet top. “Your jeans probably saved your legs from a lot of the burns.”
    Faith shut her eyes and leaned into him, breathing in his familiar sent. She snapped her eyes open and yelled, “The little girls!” She looked at Kane. “Who’s looking for the girls?”
    “Rane is looking for them.”
    She punched him, grimacing as the cuts bled again. “You idiot. I love Rane, but he’s huge and scary as hell.”
    Faith jumped out of his arms, wincing as every bruise and cut made themself known, and started jogging in the direction of the warehouse she knew the girls were in. Once there she began to sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star out loud, and repeated it.
    After the second time Kane asked, “Why are you singing that song?”
    “Their dad used to sing it to them. To tell them everything was going to be all right he told them whoever knew the song was good and would help them if they ever got in trouble.” She stopped and turned to Kane. “I have an idea. Change into your wolf form before we round the corner.”
    He nodded. Faith started singing again. “ Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ,” but in between she would say, “Aren’t you a good doggie? You’re my protector. Good doggie.” She leaned down and whispered, “Bark like a dog.”
    His wolf huffed. Wolves did not like to be compared to dogs, they thought they were superior. He barked and Faith praised him.
    “You are such a good doggie. You and my other doggies saved me from the monsters.”
    After about ten minutes of this, a scraggly little redhead popped out from behind some crates, next came a smaller, brown topped head. They slowly came out from hiding, walking toward Faith and Kane cautiously.
    Faith smiled. “Hi. Do you like dogs? I have lots of doggies. This one is called Kane. There’s another around here you might have seen, and his name is Rane.”
    Rane came in wolf form around the corner. Faith collapsed on the floor, wincing as the bruises and cuts made themselves known again. The wolves came to help her sit up, and she gripped Kane’s fur as she put her arms around their necks.
    “See, my doggies are protectors. They look after me and only hurt the monsters. They’re really big, soft teddy bears.” She buried her face in their necks.
    Muffled laughter could be heard now from outside, damn wolf hearing.
    The two frightened girls slowly moved forward until they were just out of arm’s reach. Faith smiled. “Hi, my name’s Faith. Let me introduce you to Kane and Rane.”
    The youngest little brown headed girl giggled. The redhead said, “They’re funny names, they sound the same. They look the same too, how do you tell the difference?”
    Faith laughed and kissed Kane’s head. “You’re absolutely right there…argh, I don’t know your name. As I said, my name’s Faith. What’s yours?”
    The redhead looked down at her feet and mumbled, “Grace.”
    “Well, Grace, they have lots of differences, you just have to come a little