Officer Wolf (Sizzling Shifter BBW Romance) (With Bonus Book) (4 page)

Chris drove aimlessly around town for an hour before heading out towards the highway. He had no leads and hadn’t seen any damn cars on the road. He might as well check the hillside where he’d found McKinney – the damn backstabber. He trotted along in his cruiser going seventy on the old town’s narrow streets, and then he finally was out of the lights and on the old country highway.

Please, Lana, be alive
.

He was sweating and his heart was pounding, but he didn’t have the urge to cry. He was too damn hard for that, and too damn determined. He was going to get Isaac Jones and McKinney, and make an example of them. They had to be stopped. He drove quickly down the highway and still saw no cars even after travelling a few miles. His eyes were heavy and his lips parched, and he felt like he could use a drink of water. But it would have to wait.

Everything would have to wait until he found her – his
mate
.

The view of her walking down the side of the road came so sudden and unexpected that he almost skidded off into the ditch as he slammed on his breaks and felt the car lurched forward. His neck cracked slightly from the whiplash and then slammed back against the headrest. He shook himself slightly and then opened his eyes and squinted out into the darkness.

There she was, Lana was standing right in front of his headlights waving her arms. She peered at him from beneath her cupped hand which sat above her eyes, and then ran towards his cruiser and crawled in.

“The Sheriff took me, Chris. He’s dead.”

Chris’s mind began to reel. He didn’t know what to say or think.
The Sheriff did this? Was McKinney even involved?

“What? Lana, what do you mean he took you?”

“He tied me up and didn’t say anything. I was cooking in the kitchen and he came and bashed me over the head with something then I just remember waking up in the back of his car and I was tied up. He bound me with rope and said he had to take me somewhere.”

“Good god.” Chris growled and gripped angrily onto the steering wheel. He felt like he could kill someone at that very moment, and if the Sheriff wasn’t already dead he’d be his top choice.

“I got loose as we were driving down this road. I used the rope he’d tied my hands with to strangle him…. I….” Lana began to sob and then wrapped her arms around his chest, “I didn’t know what else to do. The car ran off the road and I thought I was going to be dead, but I’m okay. Just scratched up is all.”

“You’re… You’re
bleeding
.” Chris wiped her forehead and found the source of the wound. Luckily it was just a small cut around her hairline, nothing that would require stitches. But he’d make sure to take her to the hospital later to see if she had a concussion.

“I’m fine. I’m fine, really.
Chris
, what do we do?”

“There’s something funny going on in this town tonight,” He said with a drawl, “And I am to find out. But first thing’s first. You need to go to the hospital and get checked out.”

“I’m scared, Chris.”

“We have to see if you shook anything loose in the crash – or when that son of a bitch hit you across the back of your head. How far up is the car?”

“Just up ahead, maybe three or four minutes in the car.”

“Lana, I need to tell you something.” Chris said.

“What?” She stared at him to expect the worst.

“I’ve fallen for you, rather quickly. This isn’t like me. I sense something about you, however. Lana, you’re my mate. I
know
it.” He rasped.

She didn’t say anything, and she didn’t have to. She stared at him with a newfound sense of wonder that twinkled in her pearl-like eyes, and then she leaned forward and kissed him. Her body tingled as she did so, and she gripped her hand around his muscular forearm and felt a cold shiver pass down her spine.

She pulled away and looked at him, and gently licked her lips, “I want you so badly,” She said, “It hurts… Despite everything, I want you. Right here,
right now
.”

Chris tried to fight his own urges off, but he couldn’t any longer. He kept the lights on in the car and knew he had to have her
now
, if only for a moment. They made out in the center of the deserted road, and she tickled his prickly neck with her tongue before sliding it down to his chest after unbuttoning his shirt.

The hairs on his chest stood up as her tongue slid down the center and stopped at his stomach. Her eyes shifted up and looked at him as if they were seeking approval. He nodded his head and a moment later felt her fingers unzipping his slacks and her mouth wrapping around his tender throbbing dick.

He leaned back in the seat and stroked her hair, and then felt guilty that he was the one receiving the pleasure. He wanted to fuck her, but he knew it was a horrid time to do so. He wanted it to be a special moment, the
right
moment for that to happen. He pulled out of her mouth and then grabbed her at the waist and flipped her onto her back. Her legs rested over the arm rest between them and he pulled her pants down and dove his tongue into her glistening moist pussy.

She was sweet like she’d been before, and it made his cock throb even more than it already was.
God, he could practically feel himself squeezing inside of her tight pussy with his rigid cock… It just wasn’t the right time. He had to learn some willpower…

Her body began to squirm and she let out a low pitched squeal as he nibbled teasingly on her clit, “I just came,” She said, “Oh heavens, I just came so fast.”

Chris smiled as he pulled away from her and watched her seductively as she pulled her jeans back up to her waist and zipped them. Her face reddened and she looked embarrassed, and felt guilty as sin. She smiled at him and reached forward and stroked his chiseled jawline. Gosh, he was just so handsome. So protective and sweet, and so alpha male.

He was perfect. He just was.

They drove on towards the crash site and held hands. Both of them felt slightly guilty about the dirty sexual encounter, given the dangerous circumstances surrounding the town.

After checking out the scene Chris called into the station of a bigger town and reported the incident. He told them everything and they told him to stay with the body and that they’d arrive there within two hours, but he didn’t have time for that. He’d hung up the phone and gotten back into his car where Lana sat twirling her thumbs thoughtfully. She looked scared and broken, yet not as much as she had when Chris picked her up. It warmed his heart to see that he comforted her, even if it was just slightly at that moment.

Little did Chris know that it was much more than
slightly
. Lana felt like she was safe from
anything
when she was around him. She knew he would keep her safe and protect her, and that everything would be okay with him. She breathed a sigh of relief as they made their way back to town, and she felt like she was in the clear. Chris believed her, and the larger police station headquarters believed him. It was a case of a dirty cop gone worse, who’d taken her for some unknown reason.

She thought it was over, but the truth was – it had just begun.

****

The lights of the bright orange flames first came into view as they were nearing the town from the highway. At first, Chris thought it was just street lights or the lights of the town’s hospital. But it wasn’t. Dancing flames hopped to and fro throughout the north side of town, which is where most of the residences were. It was the middle of the night and Chris knew that most everyone would be asleep in their beds, seemingly safe and sound.

“Do you see that? It’s… It’s burning, Chris!” Lana said nervously.

Chris nodded his head in disbelief with widened eyes. He saw it, but he didn’t say anything. There was nothing he could say. He slammed his foot on the gas pedal and rushed towards the burning town as his eyes narrowed in determination. Isaac Jones was the source of this, and it sounded like he was working with the Sheriff. That much he’d deduced from what had happened to Lana. But McKinney? Chris had no idea as far as that went. Although it was fishy that McKinney hadn’t appeared back at the station at the same time as Chris, he hadn’t been there for very long until the bombs went off, and for all he knew McKinney had pulled up twenty or so minutes later after stopping for some fast food on the interstate.

But he hasn’t radioed me at all. I’d have heard from him. Maybe something happened to him.

Or maybe he’s just as guilty as your conscience is telling you, Chris
.

He pressed the gas pedal so hard as he clenched his teeth together that they got up to one hundred ten as the sped towards town. Lana screamed at him to stop but he couldn’t bring himself to. He had to save the town before it burnt to a crisp. He had to stop Isaac Jones and whoever was working with him before they did any more catastrophic damage.

“We’re almost there,” Chris said after a few minutes of speeding off the highway, “I’ll slow down now, sweetie. I’m sorry, but… I’m not going to let my town
burn
.”

Lana cupped a hand over his which thrust the car’s gear shift back and forth, “I know, babe. I’ll help you.”

Chris turned his head and his eyes narrowed as he stared at her, “I can’t have you get hurt. I can’t risk that.”

She smiled, “I got rid of that nasty old bad man back there – what makes you think I don’t have more tricks up my sleeve?”

She had a point and Chris knew it. Still, he shook his head and said no. He just couldn’t risk losing her to the fire, or to Isaac Jones’ evil hands. They were driving down Main Street and smoke had begun to waft through the air – it was like driving through a dirty cloud and hard to see. Chris knew that shifting into a wolf might make it a little easier, but it would also be damn near impossible to operate the car, so he didn’t chance it.

He didn’t want poor sweet Lana to be involved in more than one car accident that night, especially one of which was his fault. He gripped onto the steering wheel as he squinted his eyes and rolled up the windows. The smoke was heavy and he drove to the nearby fire station to see if any of the fighters were there. Luckily, they weren’t. That meant that they were already on the scene and hopefully had managed to put the flames out, but Chris doubted that very much.

From his view on the highway, the fire looked immense in size. It was massive, and would take a lot more than five firefighters to put it out within twenty minutes.
It would take a shifter with nothing to lose like himself
. Then he reminded himself that he had
a lot
to lose – Lana, who was worth more than anything to him at that very moment.

He ran into the station with Lana and they picked out two masks to wear. He secured it over her face and then put his own mask on along with one of the outfits. They were too big for Lana to fit into so he knew there was no way in hell he was going to let her get any closer to the flames. He was just glad that she had a mask so she wouldn’t breathe in any of the toxic fumes.

He pulled away from the station and then drove in the opposite direction away from the smoke. He took his mask off and then told her it was safe for her to do the same.

“What are you doing? Where are you going?” She asked.

“I’m taking you to a safe place. A place no one will find you.”

She yelled angrily, “I told you I was going to help!”

“Lana, I can’t have you fighting fire! Don’t you understand that, sweetheart? You don’t even have a suit on and even if you did!... I wouldn’t let you. I’m taking you to the bomb shelter below my house. You’ll be safe there and it’s hidden by a secret passageway through the floor. Once you get in there you’ll stay there until I get home. I won’t be long… I don’t
think
I will be.”

“Chris… I’m scared for you.”

Chris turned his head and stared longingly at her beautiful face. He knew he would have to come back for her. He couldn’t die tonight. He turned onto his street which was clear and free of smoke, and then he led her into his house after peering around to make sure no one was watching. He handed her a pistol and led her into the shelter beneath the stairs of the house. Lana was shocked at how hidden it was; Chris was right about no one being able to find her there.

The shelter was all stone and would be safe from any kind of fires or blasts, and the shelter itself even had an emergency exit that went through a tunnel in the ground and came out on an old farm that Chris told her about. He explained everything to her before planting his lips against hers and sliding the tip of his tongue into her mouth.

She looked at him and her eyes filled up with tears, but she quickly wiped them away and took a deep breath, “Promise me you’ll be back for me.
Promise
that, Chris.”

Chris stared at her with a serious look on his face. He knelt down and cupped her hands in his, and he kissed her torso lightly before craning his neck back and looking up at her with his beautiful eyes.

“I promise, Lana. I’ll return for you. And you promise me, that if anything happens... If you smell smoke, if you hear someone coming… You’ll run through the tunnel and come out at the farm. I need to hear you say you promise.”

“I promise.”

They kissed again, and then Chris left. As Lana watched him crawl up the ladder and disappear into the darkness, she felt a heaviness swelling up in her heart. She had a bad feeling, a very bad feeling.

There was a good chance Chris wouldn’t return that night
.