Through the Veil by Lacey Thorn Read Free Book Online

and looked back toward the door that
Jamison had already closed. “Where is he?”
    “Right in front of you,” Jamison replied, watching her.
    “Are you trying to tell me that Taggart is the wolf?” she
laughed.
    “Show her,” Jamison said with a sigh. “I think it might be
the only way that you start to believe.”
    The wolf moved back so that all four paws were on the floor.
She could hear popping noises and then right before her eyes the wolf began to
change. So much happened at once that she couldn’t keep her eyes on just one
spot. The muzzle retreated, the fur began to shimmer and transform to skin and
soon the wolf was gone and Taggart rose to stand in his place.
    “You’re-you’re…” she was stuttering and her mind was as
well. There was no way that she had just seen a wolf transform into a man.
Werewolves didn’t really exist. Not outside books and movies.
    “We do exist,” Jamison answered quietly as Taggart just
stood before her, watching her. “And soon you will see for yourself.”
    “What does that mean?” she wanted to know.
    “You’re one of us now,” Taggart replied. “Your wolf is
already awakening and soon you will transform as well.”
    “That is why you feel the ache in your bones,” Jamison
added.
    A wolf? Werewolves? A veil that separated worlds? She must
be going crazy. That was it, had to be it. She was locked up in some hospital
somewhere because she had lost her mind. She closed her eyes, squeezing them
tight.
    When I open my eyes, I’ll be back home. When I open my
eyes all of this will disappear. When I open my eyes, I won’t be here. When I
open my eyes I’ll be in my bed at home and this will have all been just a
dream. Just a dream.

Chapter Five
     
    “We are not a dream,” Taggart said. “And when you open your
eyes we will still be right here.”
    Jamison watched her eyes flash open, saw the fear and uncertainty
in them, heard the echo of panic in her thoughts and felt them like a knife to
his heart, to his soul. How was he to protect his mate from her fears when what
she feared the most was him? Lynx had warned them that this would be hard, that
the woman meant for them would be filled with doubt. Jamison had hoped
differently. But now he understood exactly what they faced. And if they didn’t
convince her before the change began in earnest, before her wolf forced the
shift, Reggie might not survive.
    “You must calm down and listen to us,” Jamison urged,
wanting to move closer to her, to take her in his arms and yet knowing that she
would not be accepting of such an act in her current state. “Reggie, I am
begging you to stop panicking and listen to me, to us.”
    He watched her struggle to gain control and felt pride when
she finally managed and gave them a nod. This was their one chance to win her
over. They had to fight past the fears and doubts she’d brought from her world
and open her up to how life worked in theirs.
    “You have bonded with us,” Taggart said. “You are now mated
to us for life. Soon your wolf will call and you will have no choice but to
answer and let it free.”
    Well, apparently his brother would be of no help. But then
Taggart had always been the one to act first and think later.
    You are not helping the situation , Jamison told him.
    No, he’s not. He started as he heard Reggie’s voice
in his head. Not her chaotic thoughts but her actual voice.
    He smiled. He couldn’t help it. “You spoke to us,” he told
us. “We heard you.”
    She shook her head. “None of this makes sense. What you are
asking me to believe just isn’t possible.”
    Taggart stepped forward and took her hand, pulling it until
it rested against his chest. “And yet I am real. I am the man who made love to
you until you passed out from the pleasure. It was my cock buried in the snug
grip of your ass. Tell me you don’t remember the pleasure you experienced with
us.”
    Jamison watched Reggie blush, read the memories of the
previous night in her