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“A place you use,” she muttered. “That tells me nothing. Can you at least tell me why there are vampires and werewolves running around?”
“Wolf shifters,” he said again. “We don’t have time for me to tell you everything.”
He went to touch her arm, but she stepped back, glaring at him.
“How about you start with why it’s safe for us to be here?”
“You’re going to do this now?” The frustration bordered on anger in his voice.
“Yes. I am. I have a right to know. At least…something.”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake, Tamaska. Get your shit together.”
“My shit’s as together as it’s going to be. Talk.”
“Fine.” He sighed. “This is safe, because this is where my pack members go to hunt when they’re in wolf form. We needed a place to run safely.”
Her eyes widened, and acid rose to her mouth. Oh, God. Were they all here? She looked about, sudden fear grabbing hold. She needed to run. She needed to—
“Tamaska,” he said, cutting through the wild emotions threatening to take over. “Calm down.”
“I can’t. I have-have to go. You’re one thing, but others? I can’t!”
Kodiak squeezed her hand reassuringly. “I’m the only wolf here, and I’m not about to transform.”
Tamaska nodded, the warmth of his hand in hers soothing. “So what, are there charms and spells protecting this place from vampires?”
“Something like that,” he said with a shrug. “And advanced technology. No vampire or supernatural being will be able to approach the hut without me knowing about it. I’ll have more than enough time to react.”
“Oh. I suppose you are in the security business, after all,” she said.
“We are.” He smiled at her.
It was too easy to remember his security business was the reason the Blood Opal had been stolen. Although, as more information came to light, it became more apparent the theft had been set up by the vampires.
She was going to have to change her perspective in so many ways.
“I don’t see the place.”
“You will. It’s hidden but it’s right here.”
She looked about but she couldn’t see a house or hut. Just bushes and trees. “You own all this?”
“It’s a sizable property, but really, we chose this because it’s deep enough in the bush and yet close enough to civilization to make it convenient. But also, that we don’t get disturbed.”
She frowned. “Disturbed?”
“As wolf shifters, we need the chance to roam free and, at times, to hunt.”
“Why didn’t you take me back to the pack?” Her voice was tight and strained as she tried not to think about being surrounded by multiple wolf shifters. As she tried not to think about hunting. “Wouldn’t we be safer with them? Numbers and all that.”
Kodiak tensed, then pulled his hand away from hers. Immediately, she wanted to touch him again. How would she ever learn to cope with this seesaw of emotions, knowing he was human, but also wolf?
“Because I’m not supposed to be with you,” he said, his facial expression now pained and creased with stress.
“I don’t…I don’t understand.”
“You’re human, and Olcan has forbidden the pack members to bond with humans.”
