Suzanne's Sexy Shifters [Shy River Pack 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Bec Adams Read Free Book Online Page A

most likely a group of werewolves would call themselves the same thing.
    Was the whole, out-of-character blurting of poorly thought-out questions a side effect of the change as well? She was usually very rational. The person she was at the moment seemed both familiar and new and strangely, rather appealing. She’d been a timid mouse for too long. Maybe it was time she said what was on her mind. But Brigden seemed so sweet. She couldn’t sass him the way she’d been doing with Gideon.
    “The Dry Creek pack is the pack Gideon and I are visiting at the moment. We’re here to help them set up electronic surveillance so that when something like this happens they’ll be able to quickly pinpoint anyone—human or shifter—in an area they shouldn’t be.”
    “Oh,” she said as she let Brigden lead her back into the strange little room at the back of what seemed to be a large wolves’ den. Her thoughts swirled as she tried to imagine how everything that had happened so far was going to affect her career. It was probably really stupid considering how disillusioned she’d felt these past few months, but it seemed like something she should consider. “So your pack is elsewhere?”
    “Gideon and I were both born into the Shy River pack. As long as we can keep the surveillance project on schedule we should be able to introduce you to our alpha in the next few weeks.”
    “Your alpha?” she asked, feeling confused even more now than when Gideon was here. Somehow things had been much easier to understand with the big man right beside her.
    “Your alpha now, too.”
    “My what?”
    “Sorry, sweetheart,” Brigden said as he indicated for her to lie down on the pile of blankets she’d woken up on not long ago. “When Gideon changed you into a werewolf, you automatically became part of the Shy River pack. Ordinarily we would have sought permission first, but under the circumstances there wasn’t really any time.”
    She got the impression that not getting permission was going to be a sore point with the alpha.
    “So he’s like the boss of the pack? The CEO?”
    “Something like that,” Brigden said quietly. He lifted her two-way radio and handed it to her. “You need to tell your old boss something to stop them from coming to look for you.”
    She took the walkie-talkie and wondered what the hell to say.
     
    * * * *
     
    Gideon hurried. He didn’t want to leave either of his mates alone for too long, but it was necessary to inform their alpha as quickly as possible. He had in his head what he wanted to say. Now he just had to hope he got a chance to say it. At least being this far away from Suzanne meant he could think clearly and no longer hear her thoughts.
    It had been an unexpected side effect of turning her into a wolf. He wasn’t even sure if it went both ways, but it had made Suzanne’s annoyance even harder to understand. He’d very clearly heard her wish to kiss him, but when he’d given her what she wanted, she’d fought her way out of his embrace.
    Very confusing.
    He loped back into the main area of the pack headquarters and turned back into his humanoid shape. He was a little disconcerted to realize some of the searchers weren’t back yet. Hopefully he and Brigden would be able to help this pack move into the twenty-first century with human technology. They may want to stay isolated, but that was no excuse for ignorance.
    Fortunately the alpha was one of the people crowded around a picnic-style outdoor table, enjoying a cold beer.
    “Gideon,” he said with a wide smile. “Thanks for your help today.”
    “Anytime, sir,” he said, trying to convey his respect for the leader of this pack.
    “What happened with the human woman who was injured?”
    “I bit her,” he said, hoping like hell the alpha wouldn’t react badly. Technically, Gideon only needed to answer to his own alpha on this subject, but since he’d been on Dry Creek pack lands at the time, he probably should have asked this