Cold Moon Rising: A New Adult Paranormal Romance (Cry Wolf) Read Free

but I brushed it away. There was enough going on in the Pack as it was. Jared, the Pack’s second in command, was up to no good. He had a few loyal followers, and anyone could see that he was planning something. Since the beginning of December, I’d taken a step away, not wanting to get involved in the clashing politics. The Alpha’s son could be an ass at times, our Alpha was a good leader who wanted the best for his Pack. I respected him. I only hope the others wouldn’t see that as a sign of me shirking my duties to the Pack.
    Besides, Kelly and I weren’t mates, nor were we headed in that direction from the way things had gone earlier. Turning humans into wolves was forbidden. Jared wanted more recruits for our dwindling Pack, which was part of his fall from grace, but none of my kind liked the idea of letting humans know about our existence, which was fine, except I might never see Kelly again if I couldn’t glean some insight into where she was or where those men were taking her.
    However, I wasn’t out of options. My thumb hovered over my brother’s phone number, but doubt clouded my thoughts. If they’d taken her from her apartment, which had to have been risky, then they really wanted her. This could be more than I would want to involve Shane with, but if it got too out of hand, I’d reach out to him. They were probably taking her somewhere secluded, somewhere on the outskirts of town, if not further than that from the direction they’d gone.
    I rolled down the window, hoping to get lucky and scent the van or anything that could prove helpful. To my surprise, the faint smell of familiar exhaust fumes hit my sensitive nose. The high grade diesel wasn’t typical in the city. Something about it stood out like a sore thumb as if the not all of additives were normal in the area. Breathing in deeply, I regained my inspiration to keep going outside of town. I only hoped I was headed in the right direction since I couldn’t see them anywhere, but a wolf needed to trust his nose.
    And right now, I needed to trust mine.

CHAPTER THREE
     
     
    Kelly
     
    I woke up to the sound of men’s voices and the low rumble of an engine. My cheek pressed against plastic sheeting that lined the floor of a utility van. That was unusual. I rolled to my side to get a better look around, but rope bound together my hands and legs. However, my skirt rode up revealing my bare ass.
    Shifting my weight to tug it down, the plastic crinkled beneath me. I froze as the slender man with glasses turning his head toward me. I closed my eyes feigning sleep. My heart pounded in my ears, nearly blocking out everything else.
    “ Shit! ” Lloyd’s panicked tone caused me to jump. “This girl is not the one from the file.”
    “What? Stop with the melodrama, Lloyd. We went to the address in the file, right?” Papers shuffled, and I peeked beneath my eyelashes, my curiosity getting the better of me.
    “Uhh... this says 535 Chestnut Street, Apartment 202,” Lloyd said, pushing up his glasses. “That’s where we went right?”
    I groaned. The Post Office always sent that woman’s mail to me. Why would a kidnapping be any different?
    “Girl, I know you’re awake. What’s your address?” For such a scrawny guy, Lloyd sounded downright intimidating sometimes.
    They couldn’t possibly think I would freely offer up my address. If those dyslexic kidnappers did, then they were crazy.
    “If you don’t answer in the next five seconds, I’ll pull this van over and come back there. Your hot little ass wouldn’t want that.” Baldie stared into the rearview mirror, and I shivered at the maliciousness in his eyes.
    “Come on, Brad. Do you really have to go that far? We did just kidnap the wrong woman.” Just like that, Lloyd circled around to being the ‘nice’ one.
    Brad shot a look at Lloyd. “Do you have any idea how our boss will react when he finds out we nabbed the wrong girl? Do you? He’ll make damn sure we never make the same