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That time, the werewolf licked my fingers.
A shriek escaped me.
My phone started to ring, and Tea immediately recognized the ringtone. It was the sexiest-sounding one that came with my phone, and we’d about died of laughter during our first semester when we’d assigned it to my friend-with-benefits.
“Aw, crap,” Tea muttered.
“What?” one of the guys in the back asked.
I’d nearly forgotten they were there.
“Whatever you do, don’t answer that,” she warned. “And not because I kidnapped you—which I didn’t—but because the wolf won’t—dammit.”
“Reed!” My voice came out a helluva lot higher than it should’ve.
“Ebony, where are you?” Reed wasn’t a particularly good guy. But things were easy between us, and—
I screamed as the gigantic wolf-monster-dog snarled in my face.
And then screamed again when he chomped his teeth at me.
My eyes closed as I prepared for my death… but then I peeked one opened when I didn’t get eaten.
Instead, the wolf was chomping away at the phone I’d been holding a minute ago.
Tea sighed and tossed her phone—whole and uneaten, unlike mine—into the back seat. “Jesse, call Reed from my phone.”
“Who’s Reed?” His voice was a bit cautious.
“We can’t talk about this right now, or you-know-who will hear and want to kill him.”
You-know-who?
Was that the werewolf on my lap?
“The thing ate my phone,” I said, panic officially overwhelming every damned inch of me. “The thing—it ate my phone!”
“The thing’s name is Ford, and he’s just your average werewolf. No need to be judgy.”
Screw her reasoning.
The wolf snapped his teeth at her.
“What, you don’t want to be called average? Fine; he’s awesome.” Tea rolled her eyes at me, as if I could relate to her imagined argument with the monster making my legs go numb and my heart pound like a damned drum. “Jesse? How’s the call coming along?”
“We should probably wait,” Jesse said.
“If we wait, he might call the cops. And I’m pretty sure the cops are going to see this as a kidnapping, even though she got in the car willingly.” She glanced at me. “You did get in willingly, you know.”
The wolf shoved his nose up against my neck, and sniffed a couple of times. Then, a mangled screech escaped me as an animalistic snarl rattled the monster’s whole damn body. “Teagan!”
“Were you with Reed earlier?” Tea checked.
“Yes,” I squeaked.
She sighed. “Hold on tight, then. We’ve gotta get you back to Moon Ridge, fast.”
Her foot slammed the gas pedal, and the sports car flew through the forest fast enough to give me something to panic about other than the wolf on my lap.
