Page 34 of Bait Wolf
I clenched my shaking hands, anger overcoming me, blinding me with rage.
Why? Why? Why is this person here? What do they want from me? Why do they think they can justhaveme?
“I know you’re here, you little slut,” the intruder growled as he climbed the stairs. “We were watching the house. We saw the high and mighty Redwood leave here without you.”
He laughed and the sound echoed through the corridor toward me.
“How does that make you feel, huh?” he asked. “Your new alpha obviously cares more about his sister than he does about his own mate.”
I nearly laughed. The fact that Coal cared so much about his little girl that he was willing to sacrifice our mating time together meant that he was someone special. It meant that he had morals and a heart. It meant that he was the only person I would trust.
“How about you come away with me?” he asked, stopping in front of the bedroom door, his voice chillingly low. “I can give it to you good...”
He stepped inside and the strong scent of his alpha anger swept through the room, seeping through the small gap in the closet door. It was familiar. And I’d scented it recently.
Suddenly, I realized who he was. The other alpha from the fight.Lambert. Coal had already won. What the hell did he want with me?
“What do you think?” he asked in a whisper.
There was no need to speak any louder. He was just on the other side of the closet. He knew that I was in here.
“Are you ready to make the Redwood suffer?” he asked, gently scratching the door with his claws. “I’m here to take what was meant to bemine.”
Normally, an alpha’s anger would make an omega cower, but all I could feel was fury.
He threw the door open but I didn’t even see him standing there. All I saw was red.
It was like every person who had ever wronged me had taken form in this alpha. He was the last straw.
I couldn’t accept anything bad happening to me ever again. I had hit my limit. It was this life with Coal or dying trying to keep it. There was no in-between.
I leaped at him with all my strength, and only when my teeth latched onto his face did I realize that I had shifted.
I had shifted!
For the first time in months, I was whole. I had never felt more empowered and it was perfect timing.
Lambert fell back with a surprised shout. I landed atop him, feeling bone under my fangs as we jostled, and then I ran my claws over his chest and thighs, trying desperately to cut through his clothes and skin until suddenly, I was flipped off of him.
I crashed into the dresser, sending everything atop it cascading onto me, including the big-screen TV.
Before I even got my bearings, a large jaw clamped onto my ankle, and I was pulled from the wreckage none too gently.
I tried to scamper out of his hold, but he was too strong. When he released me, I tried to swing around to face him, to bite him again, but his teeth latched onto the back of my neck, biting down hard.
Every time I tried to move, his teeth tightened even more, but that didn’t stop me, not until I was flat on my belly, the larger wolf atop me, holding me in such a way that I couldn’t move even if I tried.
I lay there, panting, pinned under his impressive weight, and then suddenly, he was human again, his large hands holding my arms down, his face still pressed to the back of my neck.
He started to laugh, the sound deep and reverberating through me in pure ecstatic joy.
“Mm,” he moaned, pressing his face behind my ear, “I like an omega who can fight back.”
“Oh yeah? What about an alpha?”
Coal’s voice growling the question was all the warning either of us got before Lambert was tackled off of my back.
I gasped, struggling to my feet on limbs gone numb from the angle I’d been held down at.
