ALPHA SHIFTER: Protected By The Alphas (Alpha Werewolf Shifter Menage Romance) (Paranormal Werewolves & Shifters Romance Short Stories Book 1) Read Free Page B

kissed both on the lips before he answered, “My loves… I am sorry. I-I did my best but… but…”
                  “Tom, what is it?” Molly asked again as she hugged him close to her.
                  Tom began to shudder as tears flowed from his eyes, “I-it’s Sheila… she was taken.”
                  Gavin held Tom by the shoulder and demanded, “What do you mean, she was taken?”
                  Tom looked back and met Gavin in the eye, “The bear. That bear we killed, it had a mate; female, large, and angry and it even had an adult pair of children with it. We couldn’t handle three large bears, Gavin. We just couldn’t!”
                  Gavin rubbed Tom’s back and tried his best to comfort him, “We’ll get her back.”
                  “I’ll come too. I can bring Jared’s gun with me.” Molly said.
                  Both Tom and Gavin spun to look at her and exclaimed simultaneously, “No!”
                  “Our job is to protect you,” Gavin told her. “We will not deliberately bring you closer to harm’s way.”
                  Molly pushed herself away from the two men and told them directly with a firm tone, “You’re supposed to protect me, so if I go out there to help Sheila the only way you’ll be able to do your job is to come with me.”
                  Tom and Gavin looked at each other as they both knew that at this point there was no way to dissuade Molly from her decision.
                  “Get your gun,” Gavin told her, “and get dressed.”
     
                  The large back doors of the mansion flung open as Molly walked out in a tight pair of denim shorts and a loose white tank top. She had Jared’s shotgun strapped to her shoulder and a long hunting knife holstered to her waist.
                  As she strode out, Tom and Gavin ran past her. In a blink of an eye she saw them shed their clothes on the ground and transform into a pair of large, hulking gray wolves. Tom stayed by her side while Gavin scouted out ahead.
                  They entered the forest and almost immediately were greeted by the rest of the pack. Helen, Kyle and Rick were darting to and fro as they waited for Molly, Tom, and Gavin to catch up. As soon as they did Helen darted out, indicating which way the bears had taken Sheila.
                  What Molly couldn’t understand was why the bears would even take Sheila instead of killing her. Bears weren’t the types of animals to keep prisoners. They mostly ate fish and small animals. Attacking and kidnapping a wolf was not natural to a bear, let alone to three of them.
                  They crossed a small creek and past a small glade. Molly could see the pathway beyond a small bend which led to the wolves’ den. Helen didn’t stop for home though, and just ran past all that to make sure she wouldn’t lose Sheila’s scent.
                  Gavin once explained that a wolf pack’s territory normally stretched for a 30-mile radius. That would be a long run if the bears were beyond their hold, which was most likely since wolves and bears never get along.
                  Crash.
                  All of a sudden Helen crashed through a hole in the ground. Her yelp and howl pierced the sky.
                  Molly rushed in and found Helen lying in a deep hole. Her left hind leg seemed sprained and she couldn’t get up.
    Gavin transformed into his human form the moment he saw Helen’s predicament. He stood there, naked as the day he was born, and said, “We need to get her out of there. She’ll die if she stays there too long. Other animals will find her or maybe even humans. This trap looks like it was made by humans.”
    That didn’t make any sense to Molly. “But our home is the only place here for miles