Things That Go Hump In The Night by Lily Marie, Terra Wolf, Artemis Wolffe, Mercy May, Amanda Jones, Bliss Devlin, Steffanie Holmes, Christy Rivers, Lily Thorn, Lucy Auburn Read Free Book Online

I was promising her was true. It was unfathomable that Delta Shift would miss two extraction times.
    The afternoon flew by as I contacted General Lockhart to confirm the plan, and we all got showered and dressed. I gathered everyone in the living room before we left.
    “The extraction point is a ten minute jog from here, but with me carrying Meredith it might take a little longer.”
    “Should we just shift? We could get there in two minutes if we did,” Michael said but I discarded the idea. Shifting in this situation made sense but not if Meredith was with us.
    “No, we’ll just keep to the buildings and be careful,” I replied and all four men nodded, accepting my decision. We didn’t carry any weapons because we were the weapons; I just hoped we wouldn’t encounter any militants along our route.
    Meredith looked scared sitting in a chair and listening to our discussion. Derek moved over and put his large hand on her shoulder, making her jump. She looked up at him and relaxed her muscles when she saw the shy smile on his face.
    “Stop trying to get with Trevor’s girl, Derek,” Michael said, and Derek stepped away from Meredith immediately. I laughed at the look of horror on his face.
    “Way to make a girl feel special, Derek,” Meredith said, and everyone laughed then, easing the tension that filled the room.
    “Okay, let’s go,” I said, and a few minutes later we had left the house. We were walking at a swift pace, with Michael and Derek in front, and Alex and Logan behind me while I carried Meredith over my shoulder. We followed the plan to the letter, moving into the dark shadows cast by the buildings we passed. We had about a minute left before we reached the small field where the helicopter would land for exactly thirty seconds – just enough time for us to board – before it lifted into the sky again.
    We were walking by the last building, with the field in the distance, when I was tackled from the side and Meredith and I landed hard in the dirt. Alex and Logan were already shifting, and I started to shift as Michael and Derek turned around to see what was wrong. When I rose up a moment later in my full werewolf stance I was horrified to see that a man with a black mask on his face was holding Meredith in front of him with a handgun to her temple.
    All five of us had shifted now and we advanced on the man, growling and roaring. My ears picked up noise from the rooftops and I looked up to see men with semi-automatic rifles pointed down at us. They couldn’t hurt us, but they certainly could kill Meredith. In the distance I heard the faint sound of chopper blades.
    “The men said wolves had taken her but I did not believe,” the man that held Meredith said in a strong Middle Eastern accent. My rage was immense at the sight of a gun to Meredith’s head, and a strange man holding her against her will.
    Not again .
    I walked right up to them and growled my anger into the man’s face, feeling his fear on his skin, but also hearing Meredith’s fear as her blood pumped quickly through her veins as her heart raced.
    “Trevor,” her voice shook with terror as she stared at me and tears streaked down her face. The chopper was getting closer; we only had another minute left before it would land. Michael and Derek moved behind the man slowly while the rest of us advanced on him again.
    “Come closer and I will kill her,” the man said, his hand shaking against Meredith’s temple.
    Suddenly, the night erupted in gunshots as the men on the buildings started firing. Meredith screamed and I launched myself at her and the man, bringing them both down to the ground. The sound of the gunshots was ear-splitting but I still heard Meredith screaming on the ground next to me. I rolled on top of her as I felt gunshots hit my body. Michael pulled Meredith out from under me by her clothes and started dragging her toward the field. I knew she would be safe but that wasn’t enough. The man had to pay with his