Animal Desire: A Paranormal Romance (Werewolf and Shapeshifter) (The Animal Sagas) Read Free

growls emanating from his body.
    But just as her psychic senses became more heightened with her need to detect her mates wants and fulfill them, she suddenly had a flash of an image. It was so vivid, in fact, that she could almost feel as if she were a part of it. The image she had just envisioned was of the darkened window in their bedroom, immediately followed by the twins’ empty bassinets.
    “No!” she cried out and pushed Ben off of her, which was no easy task as he had lost himself in the throes of passion just now. Confused, he sat up as he watched her bolt off across the woods, back toward where they had just come from. He only hesitated for a moment before he began to chase after her. He knew something was wrong, or at least she felt that something was wrong, and he immediately followed her to help her in any way possible.
    At that same moment, Sonya, back at the cabin of Ben and Lynda, was just starting to adjust to caring for the babies. She even found that, despite the spit up, she fairly well enjoyed taking care of them. She had sung a lullaby to each one, rocked them both, and even told them a little story or two, which she hoped they couldn’t retain as it might get her in trouble in the future.
    The evening was going well, very well in fact, and all she could think to herself was how much she had proven Lynda wrong. A little later when the twins dropped off into a deep slumber at almost exactly the same time, she felt like caregiver of the year. She laid them each in their bassinets and left the door slightly cracked open to be sure that she could hear them cry. But before she left she checked the bedroom window to make sure it was locked and did a little security walk through of the bedroom and bath. She left the room when she felt everything was a-ok.
    Then she settled down on the couch and turned on the television with the volume way down so as not to wake the babies. She really had no idea what Lynda was so exhausted from. To her the twins had been the easiest babies in the world. She was half way through one of those torrid romances that only came on after dark, when the door to the cabin suddenly burst open. And by burst, it practically splintered beneath the force of a full grown were-panther tearing into the room at full speed.
    Sonya jumped up, so startled by the event that she immediately began to transform with a loud snarl. At the very same moment Lynda shifted back into her human form. Ben came barreling through the front door only seconds behind her. Lynda ignored Sonya’s growls while in puma form and then her questions once she transformed back as she stalked toward the slightly open door of the main bedroom.
    Lynda threw it open expecting to hear the scared crying of two infants, rudely awakened from their slumber… instead she heard nothing. And then she slowly crept over and looked into the bassinets. She could feel the cool crisp air of the evening inside the room. Weird… it shouldn’t be that cool in here with the babies. She stood there for a second, frozen in time, giving her mind a chance to decipher what her eyes were already telling her.
    There were no babies in the bassinets…  There were no babies in the bassinets? There were no babies in the bassinets!!! And then she felt the stir of the breeze inside the room again. Weird… it shouldn’t be that cool in here with the babies. And then it dawned on her as she slowly looked around the room… the bedroom window was wide open!

Chapter 4
    Needless to say, complete chaos erupted after that, signaled by Lynda’s heartbreaking wail as she turned into a cougar right there on the spot and jumped right through the open bedroom window. There was no sign of anyone outside. Ben followed suit and jumped out the window right behind her changing into his growling wolf form too as she tried to bolt off into the woods. She growled back, her teeth snapping as she challenged him.
    Ben howled, and the pack almost instantly gathered around