Page 62 of Wolf's Claimed Mate
“Fuck,” I groaned, panting as Conall brought me back to devour my mouth. “Fuck, I need this.”
Iwantedit. Need and desire burned through me.Just a distraction,I still told myself.Just release.
We kissed like we argued: snapping, sharp-edged.
It wasn’t until I heard Conall’s name that I stopped.
I pulled back abruptly. He was still hard against me, and my heat was aching and aroused, but I tuned back into the feed. Slowly, I took my seat again, enjoying how flushed and disheveled Conall looked. It looked like it took effort for him to recenter himself. He adjusted his erection in his shorts.
“Christ,” he muttered, pushing his hair off his forehead. “You’re going to be the death of me. Still can’t get enough?”
I tried to muster a grin, but it slipped off my face. I pointed to the speaker.
“We have Charlotte, the lynx. Forget Sasha.”
“IwantSasha.” That was Jackson’s snarled voice.“Nobody else is to touch her, she’s mine. Kato’s dead, he has no right to her anymore. He can’t hold my fucking contract over me or force me to leave for his own gain.”
A snigger went around the pack. Jackson’s responding growl silenced them all. I watched in horror as I realized theystillwanted me so they could create leopard-wolf shifters. They would… They would go through with Kato’s original contract.
My breath came shorter.
“So we get Sasha, and then what?”
“Mayoress Randon’s retirement celebration is coming up just before the holidays.” That was Graham’s son, from what Conall had pointed out.“We attack then?”
“Exactly. We get the town while it’s passed between hands. Fenrys doesn’t take over until the new year. Everyone will be distracted by the party and the holidays. It’s the perfect time.”
Hums of approval went around the room, picked up in crackles.
“In Oak Hill, we have five more stationed, and more coming in from towns past Atlanta. Kato didn’t have the vision to expand the pack like I do. He didn’t trust enough to give his secrets and ambitions away to more people. But with our ranks doubled, we’ll take Oak Hill and Silverlake Valley at the same time.”
“But the alpha—”
“Will be dead by the week’s end. As will the Silverlake Valley golden bastard and his pack. Then we take the women and we start a new reign in the towns of Oak Hill and Silverlake Valley. We’ll get the vision Kato always saw, at last. For Kato.”
“For Kato,”the rest of the pack agreed.
“If Kato was alive, I’d kill him again,” I cursed. “For Kato my damn ass.”
“Sasha, I need to get you out of here.”
I went to protest that we could do with hearing more but Conall was already slamming the gas to the floor. The tires screeched as he backed away.
“Conall!” I yelled. “Slow down, you’ll alert—”
A bullet exploded the glass on Conall’s driver’s side window. Shards rained everywhere, and I screamed, ducking. Conall’s seat was still pushed back, and I realized that he would have been hit directly if it hadn't been. Blood sprayed, and I screamed, trying to get to him. Conall slumped over the wheel, his chest rising and falling.
Then another explosion from in front of me, and more glass. A bullet whizzed over my head, smashing through the backwindscreen of the car. I sobbed, trying to get to Conall, but my hands shook too hard, and I tried to get out of the car to shift and protect myself.
Hands grabbed my shoulders, digging in painfully, and I screamed, kicking out. I began to be pulled up and through the smashed window. Broken glass sliced my arms and sides, and I whimpered, crying out as someone dragged my body through the window and let go of me.
With a cry, I crumpled to the floor, my head smacking off a black combat boot. Groaning, I rolled onto my back.
I stared up at Jackson.
He propped his boot on the center of my chest. Greasy red hair hung in his eyes as he looked down at me.
“Hello, Sasha.”
