Force of the Dark Wolf (Force of Nature Series) (18 page)

“Do it
,
” he told her softly.
“Change for me.”

She stared at him for several seconds and he knew she was going to tell him no.
She nodded once and went to the door this time.
He started to follow
,
but she stopped him at the doorway.

“No. You have to stay here and watch me through the glass.
I can’t do it with you too close.
You’ll make me nervous.”
She looked at the window and then back at him.
“The sun will be up soon and you’ll be able to watch.
I won’t come back here until…you’ll be gone when I return
,
or I won’t.
It’s as simple as that.”

He didn’t answer or move until she turned and walked away.
He wasn’t leaving. He wasn’t even going to stay inside and wait for her to change.
As soon as she was out of sight he closed her door and rushed to the panel he’d come through.
Tearing off the towel and letting it fall to the floor he shifted and leapt to the first left.
In no time he was at the falls and diving into the water as his beast.
Coming up on the side
,
he shook the water free and looked skyward.
Just as the sun crested over the trees she flew over his head and took his breath away.

Chapter 10

“Okay, tell me again why you can’t get into the compound.
Because the last I’d heard from you
,
it was a done deal. Nothing was in your way.
You had her in the bag.”
Paddy looked at the man cowering before him and felt his fear wash over him like a very good drug.
“But now,” he said with a heavy sigh
,
“
n
ow you’re telling me that it’s not so easy to get to her and that…and how did you put it?
Oh yeah, ‘she’s slipp
ery
as an eel in a tub of soapy water.’
What the fuck does that mean anyway?”

“She’s got her some guy living there all the time.
He’s a big fucker too.
And he has this family I don’t think you should be fucking with.
Some say that they’re all a bunch of wolves.”
Logan someone…Logan Glass
,
Paddy thought his name was
,
started nodding and all he could think of was that he’d like to snap his fucking head off.
“And that lawyer guy?
He’s been telling people around town that he’s gonna sic some heavy stuff on whoever tried to touch his friend.”

Paddy knew about the pack. Hell, he was trying his best to get one gathered up himself. But he was having some…difficulties.
Mostly it was because the current pack leader was a pussy and the wolves he had in his pack were loyal to him.
Fuck that shit.
Paddy wanted them terrified of him.
Loyalty only got you so far before someone threw you under the bus and took your spot on the ladder up.
Then there was the lawyer.

He’d heard he was a vamp.
Paddy hadn’t really believed in that sort of thing before and he hadn’t dreamed there were werewolves
,
and now look at him.
He stood up and stretched and took a deep breath of the fear rolling off the man in front of him.

Paddy started to pace.
He knew that he had to get to Alexis before the fucking wolf she was mated to really claimed her. He needed her and the fucking kids that his first wife had given birth to.

Judith hadn’t been the one he’d wanted.
At least not after he’d seen Alexis
,
at any rate.
Where Judith was small and willowy, Alexis was an Amazon with her long
,
slim body and all that rich
,
dark hair.
He wanted to fuck her every
time he saw her.
Reaching down
,
he adjusted his throbbing cock and smiled when Logan whimpered.

“Rest assured, you idiot, if I wanted to fuck you right now you’d bend over and drop your pants so quickly that my dick would still be tucked in my pants before you were begging me to fuck your tight ass.”
Paddy grinned as he stroked his cock and continued talking to the man.
“She is to be here by Friday night or you’ll pay the consequences.
Do you understand me?”

“Yes.
But how I gonna do that if’n she is locked down in that fucking house with—
”

Paddy kicked him in the face.
He watched as the man rolled head over ass several times before he gathered himself up and cowered against the wall.
Paddy needed to show this mother fucker who was boss and unsnapped his pants as he strode across the room.
Before he got to the injured man he had his cock out and was fisting himself hard.

“Suck me,” he ordered.
Logan tried to make himself as small as possible by rolling into a ball
,
but Paddy jerked him up by his hair and pulled him to his cock.
“Suck me off and I’ll think about letting you live.”

Logan only looked up at him and Paddy rubbed his cock over his mouth.
He was so close to coming watching the blood drip from the man’s nose that he almost simply came on his face
,
but the moment Logan’s tongue licked at the tip of his cock, Paddy knew he wanted more.

He watched at Logan’s tongue curled around his thick head.
Still holding his hair, Paddy forced his mouth over his cock and moaned when he slipped inside.
He rolled his hips, fucking Logan’s mouth until he thought he might explode.
His balls tightened to his body and he felt the first tingling of his climax racing up his cock.
When Logan cupped his balls and rolled them in his hand, Paddy came.
And came hard.

Dizzy with his sexual release and that fact that he’d c
o
me in a man’s mouth, Paddy put his hand on the wall in front of him and leaned against it.
He closed his eyes and t
r
ied to shut out what he’d done.
Anger surged through him and he lost his temper. Something he’d been doing more and more lately.
Jerking Logan up with one hand, Paddy jerked his head back and bit deep into his jugular.

Hot
,
fear
-
spiced blood poured down his throat.
He barely noticed when Logan began to struggle less, noticed even less when he lay limp in his arms.
When Paddy had his fill he simply dropped the man on the floor and stepped over him toward the door.
He needed a woman right now and he had not a care in the world who it was.
The first female he saw was his cook.

Not saying a single word to her
,
he slammed her against the counter where she was cutting up something.
He took the knife from her hand
,
threw it toward the wall
,
and barely noticed when it stuck there and quivered from the strength of the impact.
Taking her pants in his hands
,
he ripped them off her and bent her over.
Before he could enter her
,
he heard a scream and knew it wasn’t from her.
Turning
,
he saw a movement and a quick streak of color and then something hit him hard.
Paddy had a moment to realize that he should take more care when he did things with a witness.
His eyes closed as he slipped away, the feeling of blood pouring from his head.

Paddy woke slowly.
The silence around him was profound.
He knew that he couldn’t have been out long or he’d been out long enough for it to be night again.
He could see from where he was laying the moon streaking across his body. Moving gingerly so as not to make noise, he stood up.

His pants were still down around his thighs and his shirt was bloodied where his head had bled on it.
He reached up and found that other than a tender stop on his temple
,
he was fine.
Adjusting his clothes
,
he moved through the house toward his office.

He didn’t see anyone.
Nor could he smell anyone in the house.
Death was there, and when he found Logan slumped on the floor where he’d dropped him
,
he wasn’t surprised.
Glancing at the clock in the corner
,
he realized that maybe an hour had gone by.
He looked at the body again and wondered if the others of the house, two others beside
s
his cook
,
had seen Logan there and if he’d have to be explaining to the police what had happened.
Probably not
,
but he still picked up the body and took it to the rear entrance of the room and out into the darkening yard.
Heaving the body into the bushes
,
he looked up at the
waxing crescent
.

The new moon was nearly here.
He needed to get to Alexis before then.
If not
,
he’d have to give her up.
And as much as Paddy wanted Alexis for his own, his master wasn’t going to be denied.
That was Paddy’s price for being changed into the marvel that he was.

Tom Garrison was an old and feared vampire.
And he was a person who made things happen.
When Paddy had first come to him about being turned he’d turned him down. Then Tom had seen his daughter Darcy.
And then his ex-wife Judith.

“I’ll tell you what, you bring me your wife and I’ll convert you. I won’t even charge you my usual fee if you bring her to me before the next moon phase.”
Paddy was already thinking of ways to get her to him as Tom continued.
“And if you throw in the daughter
,
I’ll change you to a wolf too.”

He didn’t even ask why he’d needed his daughter too
,
but said he could get her as well.
Paddy was changed the next week and had gone to his wife’s home to get them when all hell had broken loose.

~~~

Alexis knew it was Gordon the moment she landed in the branch above him. He looked so big sitting there as a wolf looking up at her.
She thought maybe he’d just move on
,
but the longer she sat waiting for him to leave
,
the more relaxed he seemed to get until he simply lay down on the ground and watched her.