Fated to a Cougar: 4 (Cougar Surrender) Read Free

Deciding there was no point in trying to chase after
him, she returned to her cruiser and got inside. She turned off the flashing
lights before she put it in drive and drove away.
    She really couldn’t believe she’d so quickly agreed to go
out with Grady or that she’d allowed him to distract her enough to slip away
without making sure he went to the hospital. Tomorrow night she’d get to see if
he’d had someone look at his wound or not.
    For the rest of her shift, Sage went from looking forward to
seeing Grady again to dreading it. And with no way of contacting him, it wasn’t
as if she could call and cancel. Then there was the fact she’d given him her
home address without knowing anything about him. At least being a cop she would
know how to handle him if things got out of hand. But the big question was, who
would handle her if she got out of hand with him and jumped his bones?

Chapter Two
     
    “Ow. Would you take it easy?” Grady asked.
    He sat at the kitchen table at his home that he shared with
his parents, his brother and his brother’s mate. Katarina, who’d become mated
to his brother Jase three months before, tended to Grady’s wound.
    “Stop being such a baby,” Katarina said. “I thought all you
cougar shifters were tough guys.”
    “We are, but that freaking burns.”
    “It needs to be disinfected with rubbing alcohol. I know
it’ll be healed by tomorrow, but it’ll help to have it cleaned out.”
    “Yeah, Grady, stop being a crybaby,” Jase said with a
chuckle. He sat across from Grady as he watched his mate work.
    “Bite me,” he said with a growl. “I still can’t believe
Caleb managed to get the drop on me. But I guess he did me a favor.”
    Jase gave him a confused look. “How can getting your skull
almost cracked in two by a metal pipe do you a favor?”
    Grady smiled. “I ended up with a date for tomorrow night.”
    His brother snorted. “With who? An imaginary woman? Caleb
must have hit you harder than I thought. You’re seeing things.”
    “No, Sage was very much real. She’s the reason why Caleb
stopped hitting me and took off.”
    “He was afraid of a human woman? I’m assuming this Sage is
human.”
    “She is, and she’s a little more than just a human woman.
She’s a cop. She saw Caleb with the metal pipe and turned on her flashing
lights and siren.”
    Katarina stopped poking at Grady’s head and leaned around to
look at him. “You have a date with a police officer?”
    “Yeah. I asked her out after I kissed her and she said yes.”
    His brother’s mate whistled. “You kissed an on-duty cop?
You’re lucky she didn’t try to arrest you.”
    “I thought she might, but it was the best thing I could
think of to distract her from calling an ambulance for me. She insisted I go to
the hospital. I don’t think she would have taken no for an answer if I hadn’t
laid one on her.”
    “So you only kissed her and asked her out for that reason?”
    “No. Sage is gorgeous. I would want to date her even if I
hadn’t been trying to stop her from getting me to go to the hospital.”
    Katarina went back to cleaning Grady’s head wound, and he
sucked in a sharp breath. He had to be thankful his mother wasn’t at home. She
would have been fussing over him too much. His parents had gone away for the
week. They’d flown to the Gulf Islands, which was off the eastern coastline of
Vancouver Island in British Columbia. They owned a cottage on their own tiny private
island. It was big enough—and had enough trees for coverage—for them to shift
to their cougar forms and go for runs. Grady figured his parents mostly went
there to have some alone time without him and Jase hanging around.
    “At least we now know Caleb is still in Anchorage,” Jase
said, changing the subject.
    “Yeah, but he got away,” he added. “And the male human he’d
been talking to when I first spotted him was gone when I went back to see if I
could pick up his trail. He must have had a car in