sheet off, wrapping it around her body. She began to walk to the door, but Luke’s voice carried through it.
“Ev? Lock the front door and don’t let anyone in but me.”
“Luke?” she questioned, pausing with her hand on the door. Her voice was scratchy and her throat was raw from overuse. And the sound of Luke’s voice made her belly clench. After all the orgasms over the course of the day, her body lit right up for him.
“Did you hear me, Ev? I fucking mean it. Don’t open this door for anyone but me.” He was angry. Really angry.
She swallowed hard as she heard another vehicle arrive. This engine was louder than Luke’s, and she didn’t know who was driving, but Luke was agitated enough that whoever it was couldn’t be good.
She looked at the deadbolt that her father had installed when she was fourteen after a group of teens from another town had jimmied the door lock and gotten in and partied, trashing the place.
“It’s locked, Luke.”
“Baby, if things get bad, go out the back and get in your car and get the hell away from here. Got it?”
“Luke?” she asked, confused and scared.
“Baby?” he reiterated.
“I promise.”
She clutched the sheet tighter to herself, went to the window next to the front door, hooked her finger in the curtain and pulled it open enough to peer out. She gasped in shock.
Luke stood on the front porch, facing the front yard and an SUV. All four doors of the SUV opened and Vince, Rufus, Barry, and Taylor climbed out. What the hell were Vince and his cronies doing here? How had they known where she was?
“What are you doing here, human?” Vince demanded.
“Protecting Eveny.” Luke widened his stance and slipped his hands behind his back. She couldn’t see what he was reaching for in the darkness, but her gaze traveled down his legs and she saw a baseball bat and what looked like two police batons at his feet. He was going to fight them?
Her heart began to race. Fear and relief twined together inside her. Relief that he had come for her, but fear at what he was facing.
Vince snorted and the other guys laughed. “You’re only delaying the inevitable. I have permission .”
Luke’s voice came out on a snarl. “Fuck that. Acksel did not give you permission to invite your asshole friends up here to join in.”
Vince laughed loudly. “Fuck Acksel.”
“He’s your alpha.”
Vince snorted. “When he finds out what I’ve done, he’ll be so torn up with grief that he’ll go berserk, and we’ll be waiting for him. He’ll be crippled so badly by losing his only sister that he’ll be easy pickings.”
Eveny’s mouth fell open. Was Vince saying he was going to rape and then kill her so that he could take over as pack alpha?
“If you want to be alpha, be a fucking man and go challenge him. Only a pussy attacks a female when she’s most vulnerable.” Luke said.
“You know nothing about us, human. Leave now while you can.” Vince ordered.
“ You leave now. I’m not going to tell you again.”
She saw Luke pull two small canisters from his back pockets and make some motions with his thumbs.
“You ready to die, human?” Rufus growled, cracking his neck.
“For her? Absolutely.”
The four males were a few dozen feet away from the porch. She didn’t know what they were doing at the cabin, but she could tell from the looks on their faces, illuminated by the SUV’s headlights, that they didn’t have anything good planned. She didn’t understand how they’d come to find out where she was, but it seemed as if Acksel was involved somehow.
Luke’s hands whipped out from his back and liquid arced and splashed on the faces of Barry and Taylor, who had moved slightly closer. They howled and went down, rubbing their faces and rolling on the ground. He’d maced them. She’d never seen mace work on wolves before, so it must have been a special kind.
While the two
“Ev? Lock the front door and don’t let anyone in but me.”
“Luke?” she questioned, pausing with her hand on the door. Her voice was scratchy and her throat was raw from overuse. And the sound of Luke’s voice made her belly clench. After all the orgasms over the course of the day, her body lit right up for him.
“Did you hear me, Ev? I fucking mean it. Don’t open this door for anyone but me.” He was angry. Really angry.
She swallowed hard as she heard another vehicle arrive. This engine was louder than Luke’s, and she didn’t know who was driving, but Luke was agitated enough that whoever it was couldn’t be good.
She looked at the deadbolt that her father had installed when she was fourteen after a group of teens from another town had jimmied the door lock and gotten in and partied, trashing the place.
“It’s locked, Luke.”
“Baby, if things get bad, go out the back and get in your car and get the hell away from here. Got it?”
“Luke?” she asked, confused and scared.
“Baby?” he reiterated.
“I promise.”
She clutched the sheet tighter to herself, went to the window next to the front door, hooked her finger in the curtain and pulled it open enough to peer out. She gasped in shock.
Luke stood on the front porch, facing the front yard and an SUV. All four doors of the SUV opened and Vince, Rufus, Barry, and Taylor climbed out. What the hell were Vince and his cronies doing here? How had they known where she was?
“What are you doing here, human?” Vince demanded.
“Protecting Eveny.” Luke widened his stance and slipped his hands behind his back. She couldn’t see what he was reaching for in the darkness, but her gaze traveled down his legs and she saw a baseball bat and what looked like two police batons at his feet. He was going to fight them?
Her heart began to race. Fear and relief twined together inside her. Relief that he had come for her, but fear at what he was facing.
Vince snorted and the other guys laughed. “You’re only delaying the inevitable. I have permission .”
Luke’s voice came out on a snarl. “Fuck that. Acksel did not give you permission to invite your asshole friends up here to join in.”
Vince laughed loudly. “Fuck Acksel.”
“He’s your alpha.”
Vince snorted. “When he finds out what I’ve done, he’ll be so torn up with grief that he’ll go berserk, and we’ll be waiting for him. He’ll be crippled so badly by losing his only sister that he’ll be easy pickings.”
Eveny’s mouth fell open. Was Vince saying he was going to rape and then kill her so that he could take over as pack alpha?
“If you want to be alpha, be a fucking man and go challenge him. Only a pussy attacks a female when she’s most vulnerable.” Luke said.
“You know nothing about us, human. Leave now while you can.” Vince ordered.
“ You leave now. I’m not going to tell you again.”
She saw Luke pull two small canisters from his back pockets and make some motions with his thumbs.
“You ready to die, human?” Rufus growled, cracking his neck.
“For her? Absolutely.”
The four males were a few dozen feet away from the porch. She didn’t know what they were doing at the cabin, but she could tell from the looks on their faces, illuminated by the SUV’s headlights, that they didn’t have anything good planned. She didn’t understand how they’d come to find out where she was, but it seemed as if Acksel was involved somehow.
Luke’s hands whipped out from his back and liquid arced and splashed on the faces of Barry and Taylor, who had moved slightly closer. They howled and went down, rubbing their faces and rolling on the ground. He’d maced them. She’d never seen mace work on wolves before, so it must have been a special kind.
While the two
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