Total pages in book: 194
Estimated words: 187754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 939(@200wpm)___ 751(@250wpm)___ 626(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 187754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 939(@200wpm)___ 751(@250wpm)___ 626(@300wpm)
“You don’t know that.”
“She was a danger to everything he’d built. I wouldn’t be surprised if he fucked with the plane, and it wasn’t the storm at all.”
Thorin blows out a breath. “That’s a little far-fetched.”
“Yeah? Well, what would you do for complete control of a billion-dollar fortune?”
You heard right.
Our girl wasn’t kidding when she said she had the power to crush us. She’s filthy fucking rich, and it’s not even in the top fifty reasons why I’m obsessed with her.
Thorin grunts, jarring me back to this side of sanity where it’s so fucking boring. “If she dies, he probably inherits it all,” he grumbles.
“You really think she has no one? What about that kid we found? He kept saying her name when we radioed for a med-evac and choppered him out. Maybe he’s her boyfriend.”
Ah, yes.
Tyler whatever.
Fuck that guy.
The pussy was too busy dying in the snow with a leg half gone to frostbite while our girl made it all the way here and found shelter.
Found us.
No. Tyler won’t do at all. He’s not good enough for her.
“He was her boyfriend. Someone ought to tell him that, like his leg, he’s never getting his bitch back.”
I chuckle at my own dark humor.
“You just focus on keeping your mouth shut,” Thorin orders. “Now is not the time to stir up trouble for the hell of it.”
My gaze drops to the snow when I remember the lost look in Aurelia’s eyes. “I didn’t mean to make her sad.”
“Maybe this is a good thing,” Khalil says. “It’s out in the open now. We don’t have to worry about it blowing up in our faces later.”
I frown at that since the last thing I want is to make things easier for these assholes.
Team Sunshine all the way.
A low growl interrupts whatever bullshit excuse Thorin is about to make to continue torturing that girl. Pivoting slowly, I search the tree line thirty feet away, and at first, I don’t see a thing.
And then I see two things.
Glowing eyes piercing a solid wall of black.
A lone wolf with tawny fur steps into the opening with its head low to the ground and wary eyes shifting between Khalil, Thorin, and me. There’s a snarl on its lips as it slowly closes in, but the three of us hold our ground. We don’t look away, and neither does the tawny wolf. It stops five feet away, lips pulling back to bare its teeth as it gives another menacing growl.
Awww, she looks just like Sunshine.
“What’s the matter, girl? Where’s your pack?”
The wolf snarls and rears back as if she understood me. Her pack must be a sore subject. It’s then I notice her rounded belly and battle scars.
No pack, then.
Pregnant as fuck, though.
“Seth,” Khalil exhales my name with a quiet breath when I reach out with my palm up.
The wolf gives a low warning growl, but I don’t draw my hand back.
I wait her out.
She sniffs the air, looks away, and then sniffs the air again before inching forward. Her hackles are still raised, but she’s curious, too.
Just like Aurelia.
The wolf sniffs my palm, and I can see Thorin and Khalil from my peripheral moving into position just in case this inevitably goes south and I lose my hand. If I do, I’ll make sure to gift it to Sunshine as an apology for hurting her that night and all the ones that will no doubt follow.
The wolf is still scenting me when I sign my death wish by moving my hand through the fur under her jaw. I keep it there, admiring the untamable wildness in her gaze as she watches me back.
“It’s okay, girl. Go back to your den. We won’t bother you,” I promise.
With one last warning growl, the wolf turns and jots off into the trees. I guess it was too much to hope for a few palm licks before she went.
Looking over my shoulder, I smirk at those cowering pussies when I see Khalil and Thorin looking at me like I’d lost my mind.
The joke’s on them. I never had it.
“She’s getting ready to whelp those pups, so her den must be nearby,” Khalil remarks.
“I’ll track her down tomorrow. Make sure she doesn’t come back,” Thorin says.
I’m still watching the tree line when I answer. “Don’t bother.”
“And if it’s Aurelia out here the next time she comes?” Thorin retorts.
“Maybe she’ll learn to stay her ass in the cabin,” Khalil mumbles.
I roll my eyes at them both. “The wolf won’t be back. She’s not interested in us. She was just checking out the competition.”
I don’t give either a chance to argue. Unzipping my jeans, I pull out my dick and watch the steam from my warm piss hitting the frozen ground rise and curl in the air.
“What the fuck, Seth?”
I look over my shoulder to see Khalil pinching the bridge of his nose and looking exasperated. “Why?”