Enchanting the Alpha (Hex My Heart, #4) Read Free Page B

night.
    But he couldn’t offer her the stars he saw staring back at him from the depth of her jewel-colored eyes. Lone wolves didn’t have that privilege. That’s why he’d meant to come here tonight and end things, despite the fact his wolf wanted the forever kind of relationship with the witch.
    In order to claim a mate his law demanded he be part of a pack. For the most part, the idea worked and provided the normally tight kit community a sense of a large family, as the law intended. Until they turned on their own and he had no intentions on letting that ever happen again.
    This close, her undiluted essence shot through him with each inhale of cold air and served as a shot of pure lust. His wolf lured him closer to the edge of losing what little control he had with every second they neared the winter solstice.
    At the stroke of midnight the full moon would be at its strongest, and so would his wolf. Going in there probably didn’t sit high on the smart move list, but he had a job and it currently had McKenna’s name all over it.
    A static-riddled voice crackled through the police scanner, forcing Caden’s attention away from his dick and back to the arrest warrant in his hand. He looked at the detailed description of the suspect again in the muted moonlight. No mistake, the woman wanted for breaking and entering into an exotic botanical garden a town over was one Harmony of Sweet Briar Hollow.
    Female, not an inch over five feet, long brown hair that brushed against the delectable curvy ass that fit so damn well in the palm of his hands, and one kissable Marilyn Monroe-styled beauty mark just above her lip. Also said to be a witch. That last detail was the dead ringer.
    The official report might read differently, but he liked his version better. They’d forgotten the sweet Southern lilt that colored her voice and light creamy skin that made him want to take a nibble just to prove she tasted as sweet as she looked.
    Caden shifted in his seat for a better look at the shoppe. Soft light bathed the sidewalk through some kind of wispy curtain that didn’t block out a damn thing. He watched as she crossed from one side to the other, head down as if she was concentrating on a task.
    She’d gotten herself into trouble, left witnesses, and now he got to slap cuffs on the sassy witch. Maybe he should thank her. The fantasy of having her at his mercy crossed his mind on more than one occasion.
    He smiled. Harmony, her emerald eyes lit with a mischievous fire and wearing his hardware made his cock ache with anticipation.
    He tossed the paper into the passenger seat. Easy boy. The minute he touched her, his wolf would take over and he’d gladly pass over the reins, all foreplay forgotten. He couldn’t let that happen. The last time they were together, he’d almost lost it and claimed her. When his control slipped and focused on not Harmony the delectable woman he enjoyed, but to Harmony, his mate and the woman that lit the fire in his belly and pulled on a deeper, more primal fiber of his being, he knew he had to leave.
    Shifter law had forced him out of the only home he knew before hitting double digits as a kid and soon after, left him to care for a drunk of a father that had nothing better to do than make him understand how worthless he was to a pack. For years Caden thought it was his fault the pack had disowned his family with the way his father degraded him. It wasn’t until years later he realized it was his deadbeat father’s fault instead. Killing a pack elder while moon drunk had a way of sealing one’s fate.
    In the end, he’d been left without a pack or a family, but he managed to land on his feet. One thing he would never do again, though, was give someone the power to make him feel that way again. Ever. That meant no pack, which meant no Harmony.
    At first, he thought maybe a strand of all-nighters would work her out of his system and he could get back to business as usual. That meant keeping Sweet Briar