The Lycan Hunter (The Gardinian World Series) by Kelsey Jordan Read Free Book Online

know.”
    Kyran sighed. “Okay.”
    “Mom’s in town.”
    He let loose a curse. Their mother wasn’t one for visits without a cause. With a recent rise of battles in his mother ’ s territory, things had to be getting bad in her area for her to come to town.
    “Figured you’d say that.”
    “She doesn’t come by just to say hi to me. She only does that for you, but I think it’s because you look like her.”
    Kyran laughed when his brother threw one of his many pillows at him.
    Ronan hated the reminder that outside of the hard muscular ridges that made him male, his face was very…femininely soft. If pushed too hard, he tended to make sure his enemies knew how cruel he could be.
    Ronan ’ s first exhibition of brutality happened the summer that he turned forty. Erma never kept the alpha males after they reached adulthood. Ronan had been the only exception.
    He ’ d been helping some of the females with the pups when the pack ’ s Tepinok approached him. She insinuated that he was a soft male, judging by his features and his kindness towards the pups, only good for her mattress.
    No alpha from any Lycan species would tolerate a challenge, no matter how innocuous it seemed. Ronan answered the Tepinok ’ s challenge the way that all Lycans understood, with teeth and claws. After he left her second-in-command broken and bloody at the foot of her throne, Erma sent him to the Rockys in hopes that they would see fit to train him to be a more disciplined fighter. Afterwards, Ronan would serve in his father ’ s pack alongside his brother. It had worked , and Ronan was generally harder to rile than any male that Kyran knew.
    Ronan claimed the incident wasn’t one of his proudest moments, but only a human would think badly of him. L ycans , unlike their animal cousins, never pick on or eliminate the weak. They protect them. From the most v ulnerable among them they found their strength, their humanity.
    Kyran drifted through the cave, heading back to his helpless patient, his mind lost in memories and the implications of his mother’s visit.
     

C HAPTER 6
    ALEXIS TOOK STOCK of the room she was in. Sterility clung to the walls of the room, which was why she hated hospitals. They were all as personal as unmarked graves. With the swivel of her head, she could see only one exit, which put a cramp in her escape plans. A clock above the door begged for a bullet with each tick of the second hand. The heart monitor at her bedside beeped steadily, breaking the monotony of the clock ’ s ticking with its own plea for a quick death. A few machines lined a slate grey wall a few feet from a bay of sinks, culminating the decor of the room.
    The door swung open but was quickly slammed shut before anyone entered. She heard the rough tone of the Lycan who had “saved” her , but she couldn't determine who had earned the velvet steel of his anger . She struggled to angle her head closer to the door so that she could hear but found that the restraints at her wrists and the wound in her stomach ensured she wouldn't move much.
    The wolf who claimed to have operated on her entered, pausing to briefly glance into the hallway.
    “You’re late, wolf.”
    Kyran snorted as he entered the room and washed his hands. That strange sense of arrogance and humility that all doctors had, shadowed him, making him more “human.” He wasn’t. She had to remember that. Her life wasn’t worth whatever lie he was trying to convince her of.
    “I’m never late,” he said as he pulled the ultrasound machine to her bedside and began readying everything. “Besides, I just kept someone from eating you.”
    “I changed my mind about the sonogram.”
    He arched a brow at her. “You believe me?”
    “God, no.”
    He sighed as if she were being completely unreasonable. “Of course not. So what do you want as proof?”
    “A full body scan.”
    “I’ll file that under wishful thinking.”
    “And why is that?”
     “Two things. First, this isn’t