Electric Moon Read Free Page B

No chance later for a loophole to come back and
bite her on the ass.
    She watched his hands as he picked up the pen and offered it
to her. Those chocolate eyes of his regarded her with complete confidence,
never doubting her or her ability to do the right thing.
    The way he’d infiltrated her life scared the crap out of
her. If she took one wrong step, they would take him from her. That she bit him,
took his blood and claimed him, made little difference until she could prove
her alpha status.
    She snatched the blasted pen he held so patiently and
scrawled her name on the line, sealing her fate. Tightness gripped her chest at
making her position official. She just prayed she hadn’t placed a bigger target
on her back.
    Taggert took the pages from her, his hand casually brushing
against hers in a way that shifters frequently touched one another. Her
heartbeat sped up pathetically at the barely-there brush of skin, and her wolf
leapt out of the shadows in her mind so unexpectedly that Raven gasped.
    The wolf was fully-grown, almost completely white except for
a few distinguishing marks around the face, back and tail where the tips of her
fur were dusted black. Intelligent blue eyes peered back at her.
    Taggert’s eyes went pure yellow in seconds, his wolf rising
at the call of hers. And since he couldn’t shift, pulling his wolf so close to
the surface had to be extremely painful.
    They both froze.
    Taggert didn’t react overtly. Delicious heat poured off him,
all that tempting warmth soaking in her skin. Fur brushed against her mind, and
her wolf lifted its head. The smell of woods, Taggert’s scent, lured her closer.
Urged her to grab the freedom he offered.
    “Uh...” Very aware of her body and his, the act of pulling
her hand away was a physical effort.
    “It’s the call of the moon. As an unmated alpha, you will be
hit sooner and harder than the rest of us.” Taggert calmly took the papers and placed
them in an envelope, staring at her under his brows. Not a direct challenge,
more like he couldn’t take his gaze off her.
    She could see the want in him, feel it tingling against her
skin. It was all she could do not to leap across the desk and rub against him as
her wolf urged.
    Instead, she gritted her teeth and pushed to her feet. She
had to get away from all the shifters that had somehow taken over her house.
    She accepted the envelope, taking care to avoid touching him.
Disappointment at her withdrawal didn’t show on his face. It was there in the
way his eyes lowered, the subtle stiffening of his body. His silence made her
feel petty and frustrated all at once. “I better drop this off.”
    She beat a hasty path to the door, but halted when he breathed
her name.
    “It will only get worse. You have to learn how to control
your response or you will have every shifter in a mile radius hunting you down
to put in their suit.”
    Like the coward she was, Raven slipped out of the room. She
leaned against the door and greedily gulped fresh air not tainted with his
scent.
    “Where are you running off?”
    Raven nearly squeaked. She turned and pasted a smile on her
face. Griffin’s scruffy appearance had a more groomed cast today, but did
little to tame the wildness that lingered just under his skin.
    His expression said she didn’t quite succeed in hiding how
much even the smallest physical contact had rattled her.
    She couldn’t forget that he was dangerous.
    Always watching.
    She lifted the crumbled envelope clutched in her fists.
“Delivering this document. I’m needed on a new case.”
    “Alone?” Griffin cocked his head, studying her like a riddle
to be solved.
    It settled her panicked senses, though the effort didn’t go
without cost. The door at her back opened. The smell of woods reached her, and every
inch of calm she’d gained vanished like a wisp of smoke. She shifted her stance
so she wasn’t between the two of them, ashamed at herself for giving way to
them.
    If anyone else saw her so weak,