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“It’s no big deal,” I mutter, shrugging a shoulder.
“Is that why you’re sad?” Adeline murmurs quietly.
I spin to face her, realizing she still has my hand in hers. “What?” I demand, my voice harsh in a way it shouldn’t be. I’m doing a shit job of making a move on her.
A smile hovers on her lips, even as her blue eyes stay serious. “Like attracts like.”
For the second time in the last few minutes, I can’t hold her gaze. Instead, I look down at our joined hands. This is going better than I could’ve ever planned, so why does a part of me want to get up and run faster than I ever have in my life?
Slowly, almost hesitantly, Adeline interlaces her fingers through mine, her touch sending electric shivers through my body. She’s telling me she doesn’t want me to go.
She’s asking me to stay.
Which is what I came here to do.
Just like that, the butterflies drop dead. They change back to rocks as I remember my vow to my pack.
I push to my feet. “Let’s dance,” I growl, even as I wait to see if she’ll agree.
A mischievous look glints in her eyes as if she’s doing something naughty—as if this is forbidden. Does she know who I am? Maybe it's because she thinks I’m human…
And then she tugs me toward the half-lit dance floor. She stops in the center, music pulsing around us as she guides my hands to her hips. As we begin to sway, I have to remind myself that I’m here to seduce her, not the other way around.
This beautiful, wide-eyed shifter may hide behind her innocent charm, but I know exactly what kind of monster she and her brothers are. Evil courses through her veins. This seductive play is proof of that. She doesn’t even know my name and yet her eyes are already filling with all the things she wants me to do to her body.
I jerk her in close, pushing my arousal against her so she can see exactly what she’s doing to me. I’m rewarded with a startled breath, then a supple melting of her body against mine, as if she’s already welcoming me inside. A growl instinctively climbs up my throat and my fingers dig into her hips, exploring the boundaries of how far I can go with a female shifter in the open, surrounded by her pack mates.
I’m all too aware of the hostile gazes and soft growls in the room from wolves who have no idea my intentions go far beyond the moans I intend to elicit from her body. From wolves who would’ve ripped me to shreds long ago if they knew who I was.
Adeline shudders delicately, looking up at me with wide eyes as we continue our dangerous dance.
A dance that will end with her death.
And the blood of her family on my hands.
Chapter2
Adeline
Being a female in a family of possessive wolves—actual wolves—isn’t a walk in the sun. It’s more like a walk in a hurricane. Trudging through the onslaught of the storm. While chained to my brothers who act as if they are protecting me when all they’re doing is locking me away in a tower as if I’m Rapunzel.
What they don’t know is that every time they insist I stay in and “be safe” they’re only pushing me right out my bedroom window, as if I’m still a teenager, and right into the very place they deem unsafe. Moonlit, the bar that my pack frequents.
For a moment, I consider going somewhere else, only to know I won’t. As pathetic as it is, Moonlit is as far as my rebellion goes—a bar where everyone knows me. Beyond that are all the dangers my parents and brothers are always telling stories about. All the dangers they tell me I’m not strong enough to face. Although I tell myself I don’t believe them, I also haven’t tested their theory…
Stealthily, I slip out of my window and land almost silently on the grass in our backyard. Surrounding me are countless other homes that my pack-mates live in. One day, I’ll be living in one of these with my mate, popping out pups and living under the watchful eye of the Alpha. I could gag if I wasn’t trying to be so quiet and sneak off unnoticed.
One step at a time, I tell myself. Then I’ll see if there’s a world beyond the boundaries of my pack.
I throw my hair over my shoulder and adjust the straps on my tank top. It’s my skimpiest outfit, which really isn’t all that skimpy, because heaven knows my parents would never allow for that much of me to show. It would draw attention. Gritting my teeth, I push open the door to the bar. I love them, I do, but sometimes I wonder if life would be easier had I not been born a shifter.
I take one step inside and stop.
Jake arches a brow as he straightens from the billiard table he was about to execute a move on. “Addy?”
Of all the people to run into…
Pack loyalty is drilled into our heads since we’re just pups. But there are loopholes and places where the definitions of this loyalty shift. Moonlit is one of those places. Sure, everyone knows that sweet, innocent Adeline isn’t supposed to be at the bar, but they also know that if I’m here, I’m not sneaking off elsewhere. They know just as much as I do that Moonlit is where I can run away to, without actually running away.
