Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
He got to his feet and faced a very pissed-off Pam.
“She told you what happened.”
“Yeah, she did. She filled in a great deal of the blanks.” Pam shook her head. “You said that shit about her?”
“Look, it was a bunch of guys, and we were just talking—”
“It doesn’t matter if it was the damn Devil, Shadow. I thought you were better than half the pack men that go to that town.” Pam threw her hands up in the air and growled. “How long do you think it’s going to be before they get fed up with being used and discarded?”
Shadow got to his feet and glared at her. “That is not my problem.”
Pam laughed. “Oh, no, it’s not your problem right now, but in the future it might be, when there is a town dividing the packs within this vicinity. And what’s more, they’re hunting us down like fucking dogs!”
“You’ve seen way too many horror movies.”
“And you’ve not seen enough. It might not happen. They might be happy with being used and left behind. None of them are good enough to be anything more than toys to us. One day, that is going to change.”
“Did you talk to Lisa?” he asked.
He had no control over what other men or women did, nor what other packs did. No Wolves Road was a safe place. There were rules in place to protect the humans just as much as the wolves. He didn’t see a problem with any of it.
“No, I didn’t. This mess, you fix by yourself,” Pam said, and she turned on her heel. “Or better yet,” she stopped and spun back to face him. “Why don’t you think about why you want to fix it? Why bother continuing with Lisa? She already knows the truth, and you’ve been dating for six months. Surely you’re bored now, and it is time to move on.”
“I don’t know if you’re trying to be cute or not.”
Pam shook her head. “I don’t get you. I don’t get any of you.”
And with that, Pam left him alone.
He glanced back at the hammock, but it didn’t appeal to him anymore. His book had also lost its appeal. He shoved the book inside his jacket. Lisa had been the first person to take him to the No Wolves Road Library.
She had caught him stealing her books. By stealing, he’d been taking them, reading, and returning. She didn’t have a large enough selection, so she got him a library card, showed him all the books, and since then, he’d been taking a book out a week. This current read was taking him a lot longer, but he knew why.
He got this book out two weeks ago, when shit had hit the fan between him and Lisa. Rubbing the back of his head, he blew out a breath and then started walking. He had every intention of going to his house, but then he found himself walking back into No Wolves Road, heading toward Lisa’s home.
He wanted to be close to her. To inhale that scent of chocolate and vanilla. He took a deep breath then another, and sure enough, her scent was there. Subtle, but there. If he’d not been a wolf, he wouldn’t have been able to detect it. He wanted to go to her.
In his mind flashed a few memories he’d shared with her. One of them had been the two of them, naked, in her living room. The fire was on, because Lisa felt the cold. He had gotten a tub of chocolate-and-vanilla ice cream, and had been drizzling it on her body and licking each droplet up. After he’d thoroughly licked every inch of her body, he’d made love to her. By the time he was finished, she had been begging him for a release, and he’d granted it to her when he’d been good and ready. She’d been so exhausted, she collapsed on the floor and he’d held her throughout the night, refusing to let her go. He didn’t want her to get cold.
Those were the memories he had with Lisa. So many of them. He’d spent a great deal of time with her the last six months.
They hadn’t always been having sex. Taking her virginity had come as a pleasant and very welcome surprise to him. No other man had touched her. In a way, she had belonged to him in that moment. She still belonged to him.
Her front door opened and Lisa stepped out. She was wrapped in a robe, and her naked legs appeared out of the bottom. She wore a pair of fluffy slippers, and she made her way toward him.
“What are you doing here?” Lisa asked.
“I came to see you.”
“Why?”
“Look, I know I messed up, but you and I had a good thing going.”
She began to laugh. “Wow, you just don’t give up, do you?”