Page 44 of One True Mate

I looked at him horrified. He couldn't possibly be serious!

He smirked seeing the horror on my face. “That's what I thought. Okay, let's do this.”

“Now?”

“Now.”

“What do I do?”

“In theory, you shouldn't have to do anything, your natural powers should take over much in the same way it did when you felt Vanessa was a threat.”

“But I do not see you as a threat, Sir.”

“No, perhaps not, but your wolf should not appreciate the dominance I'm about to invoke on you.”

I gulped, not liking the sound of that.

“Rise and face me. You will hold my stare for as long as you possibly can. You will feel my full power directed at you and you are free to respond in kind.”

I was terrified of what he was asking. I didn't know what to expect but Kyle smiled and encouraged me to continue.

I stood before him and met his stare. I had never had a problem with that, only dropping it out of courtesy as the girls had told me to do. I felt a tingling across my body that lightly stirred my wolf. She didn't like it, but it was tolerable. As the pressure increased, goosebumps came across my body. The tingling grew to the feel of pins and needles, like when you've sat in one position too long and your foot falls asleep. Tolerable. And I felt no release like I did with Vanessa.

“Kelsey, I need you to push back.”

“I don't know how!”

I felt a surge come off him and it was uncomfortable and awkward, but I never dropped his stare or budged from my spot. I tried to conjure up something similar to throw back, but I didn't know how and I felt stupid standing there like that.

He eyed me suspiciously as one would a chess opponent.

“Interesting.”

He upped the dosage again, or at least that's what it felt like. I imagined my hackles were standing tall if I had been in wolf form and a small growl released from me but nothing in the way of power like before.

“You are strong, I'll give you that, but I feel no return power from you, only sheer defiance.”

“I'm sorry, Sir, I don't know how to make it happen.”

Next, he looked at Kyle and turned his focus to him. I saw Kyle's knees start to buckle under the strain.

“No!” I yelled and like a bolt of lightning my powers released in one swift punch aimed for Jason Westin. I saw the shock on his face when it hit him, knocking him over into the chair behind him and flipping him over and into the wall beyond. The wall was the only thing keeping the Pack Alpha on his feet. He waved a hand in the air acknowledging the end our experiment.

I immediately ran to Kyle whose knees had given out from under him and he was fighting to catch his breath like the air had been punched from him too.

“Kyle! Kyle, are you okay?”

I was terrified I had hurt him.

“I'm fine. I'm fine. Just need to sit for a minute. Can you help Dad into a chair too?”

“Did you feel that, Son?”

“The drain just before she sent you flying across the room?”

“Yes. We're going to have to work on that. I'm not sure how she's doing it, but we need to find some way to control it. I've heard of she-wolves bonded to Pack Alphas able to pull pack power through their bond, but this. Wow! I've never felt something like that before.”

“What? What did I do?” I was trying not to freak out.

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