We sit in more silence for a moment, everyone kind of facing each other while I wait for one of the boys to start talking. But instead of talking, something else happens.

The boys glance at each other again for a quick second, as if they’re making sure they’re all on board with what they’re about to do next.

Rory’s the first one to stand.

“At this point,” he says, “maybe it’s better if we show you.”

In the split second that it takes me to realize what he’s about to do, he lurches forward and his body contorts into an unnatural position. I scream as his spine look like it’s breaking through the center of his back, and in a moment, his face elongates into the shape of a wolf’s muzzle.

Fight or flight mode kicks in and I jump to my feet in what will probably be a feeble attempt at running away. Kaleb grabs me by the waist and pulls me toward him with surprising grace. Even as I stumble backward, he makes sure that I end up falling onto his lap.

“Let me go!” I scream, but he doesn’t.

“Sabrina, calm down. It’s okay. We’re trying to show you the truth,” Kaleb says, only gripping me tighter.

Behind me, wolf-Rory growls. I can’t bring myself to look at him.

Instead, I bury my head against Kaleb’s chest. After a

moment, I manage to choke out a few words.

“You’re the same as her. The girl in the woods.”

Unless I’m mistaken, Rory chuckles along with the other two, though it’s a decidedly more wolfish sound—throaty and rough.

I dare a peek through my lashes at him.

All I can see from beneath Kaleb’s arm around me is a flash of thick, dark, fur. My heartbeat quickens.

“It’s okay,” Kaleb says. I can feel him stroking the back of my head in an attempt to calm me. I can also hear his heartbeat in my ear, and from the way it picks up at my touch, he’s as nervous as I am. He has one arm wrapped around my waist while the other hand gently cradles the back of my head against his chest. “Sabrina, please. You can trust us, we aren’t the bad guys, I promise.”

Neither one of the other two boys is saying anything. I’m assuming Rory can’t talk, since he’s now some form of giant canine. I’m not sure why Marlowe is quiet, maybe because he always seems to be the one to sit back and watch what unfolds before he gets involved.

Out of the three of them, I currently trust Kaleb the most.

“You need to look up,” he says quietly, after a minute.

“No,” I say like a stubborn and frightened child. “I don’t want to.”

I feel his hand cup underneath my chin as he tries to gently raise my face off of his chest. When I look up at him, his face is so close to mine that our lips are almost touching. He stares at me with a look that seems almost desperate, the kind of look that someone has the second before they can’t stop themselves from doing something that they know they shouldn’t.

And I realize in that frozen moment of time how much I want him.

Before I have a chance to think about how troubling it is for me to be swept up in desire for Kaleb while there is a predatory—and up until now, fictional—animal standing behind me, Kaleb puts his mouth on mine and kisses me. And I am completely lost and overcome as I succumb to the moment.

Instead of preparing to run, I put my hands against Kaleb’s chest and kiss him back. He’s warm and the kiss so much more delicious than I thought a kiss could be.

“Kaleb, what the hell?” Marlowe calls out, shattering the moment.

But Kaleb doesn’t draw back right away. Before he pulls back, he wraps his tongue around mine one more time in such a tantalizing way that my thighs automatically squeeze together. He does pull his mouth from mine, but he does it so slowly it’s as if it kills him to do it.

I sit here, in his lap, and look at him transfixed.

He just smiles at me and kisses the top of my nose before he looks up at Marlowe and apologizes to his brothers.

“Sorry,” Kaleb says. “You know as well as I do that I couldn’t help it.”

When Kaleb turns his look back to me, he nods his head in the direction behind me. “Look,” he says. “Don’t be afraid.”

Tags: Eden Beck Wolfish Paranormal
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