Wicked Werewolf Secret (The Werewolf Society) Read Free

Riley had turned into the warehouse district, Kole eyed the broken window above his head and launched himself up to the ledge. He settled silently on the other side of the wall, in a dark hallway, pausing to draw his weapons. His knife was silver and his gun was loaded with the same silver that would kill a wolf if it touched the bloodstream. He crept down the hall toward the entrance of the warehouse.
    The instant he was inside and he heard the rebel bastard Derek’s familiar voice, he knew this was worse than he’d imagined. He inched his way down the hall, bringing Riley’s back into view, but unable to see the rest of the warehouse and what he was up against.  
    “So,” Derek taunted Sarah, his voice pure evil. “You choose. Who do I kill and who do I rape? But wait. Before you answer, remember. Once you’re dead, you don’t come back. Rape, well, you might even enjoy it.”
    “Me,” Sarah said, her voice terse. “Kill me.”
    Kole knew what a loose cannon Derek was and he wasn’t waiting to find out if Derek would shoot Sarah. He threw the poison blade at the back of Riley’s skull, and closed the distance between them so quickly that he’d shoved Sarah behind him before the bastard ever hit the ground.  
    “Run!” he shouted at her, drawing a second gun.  
      He fired at the wolves and three of the four went down, but that bastard Derek managed to get away. Kole   turned, aware that Sarah was still behind him.  
    “I have to untie them!” she shouted, but he grabbed her.  
    “No,” he said. “They’ll shoot you the minute you’re in the open. “ It was then that his keen, ancient nose sniffed the explosives.  

 
    Chapter Three
     
    Kole threw Sarah over his shoulder and took off running, hitting the outdoors the same instant the building went up in a massive explosion that threw them both in the air. Somehow he managed to hold onto Sarah and land on his back to absorb the fall. His bones rattled from the impact, but he didn’t let himself pause. He rolled Sarah onto her back and covered her body with his just as fiery pieces of the building came down on top of him.  
    Pain ripped through Kole’s back, fire torching his clothes and then his skin before he heard the shouts behind him. He rolled off of Sarah and tore off his jacket, and she was there in an instant, throwing dirt on his back to stop the flames.  
    “Be okay,” she was ordering him. “Be okay. God. Please be okay.”  
    Kole hurt but he didn’t care. It was the desperation and pain that rolled off of Sarah that was killing him, not the fire. He knew the instant the flames were out and he turned to Sarah and pulled her into his arms.  
    “I’m okay,” he promised. “Are you okay?”
    Sirens sounded in the distance. “Yes, I–” She gasped and turned to the building as the implications and horror the explosion hit her. “No! No! No! No!” She started to run and he wrapped his arms around her from behind, halting her progress and molding her back to his front.
    “Let go! Let go, damn it!” She kicked and fought and he held her tight, knowing it was too late, knowing she’d die if she ran into those flames. He wouldn’t let that happen to anyone, especially not her. She mattered to him in ways he couldn’t explain and had been trying to understand for weeks now.  
    “Damn you, Kole! Let go!”  
    “I can’t do that,” he said, burying his face in her hair, her pain twisting him in knots. “I can’t do that.”  
    She stopped fighting and a sob escaped her lips, followed by another. He couldn’t imagine the hurt he’d feel if he lost his parents, how he’d react, and he desperately wanted to turn back time, to make this not be real. She was shaking so hard it scared him. She was going into shock. He sat down and pulled her close, and would have called for Nico, their pack leader, but he never got the chance.  
    “I’m here,” Kelvin Ross, the Society’s primary doctor shouted, running