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Not to o from red-hot lover to news junkie in about one-point-three seconds I sighed, then focused on inhaling that delicious coffee aroround, freshly brewed coffee to lift a girl’s spirits Besides, I couldn’t really complain about Kane’s devotion to his job It was my fault as much as his that we hadn’t seen each other in teeks (three days and fifteen hours) We were both workaholics; it was one of the reasons we got along

By the ti roo on the sofa, clicked off the TV and turned toHe put it down on the coffee table and pulledin This wasmy heart race as Kane’s lips moved from my collarbone and up my neck, then to my ear His breath warmed my skin and made me shiver--both at the sa, I kissed hiths against each other This was definitely more like it After a ain I felt his warm breath at my ear

"You know" His murmur brushedwith o ice-cold? That’s the effect his words had onhio with hi lihts in Massachusetts, olves were required to spend three days each month--the time of the full moon--at a secure olf preserve: in Princeton, in Athol, or out in the Berkshires in Savoy For those three days, olves were free to unleash their inner beasts, as long as they stayed inside the twelve-foot-high electrified fences topped with silver-coated razor wire The surveillance towers, staffed by sharpshooters, h that they didn’t shoith torches and pitchforks

You’d think that Kane--cahts-- would object to what amounted to a three-day imprisonment of all olves every month But that wasn’t how he talked about it now

"You have no idea how beautiful it is The ht as day Not a hu all the raer and strength that you’ve held back allyou’ve kept coiled inside" He moved back in, so close his lips brushedWe can be e really are"

He reached for ain "Who youreally are I’m not a olf" I slid over to the far end of the sofa

"But you can change into a wolf You’d be just like one of us"

"Just like," I repeated darkly, reaching for e into a wolf But I could never be one of them I was a shapeshifter; my instincts were different I didn’t wantto be a shahed, then picked up his coffeeWe both sipped in silence for a minute

"Besides," I said "I already shifted once this ot two left"

"So come on Saturday instead of Friday Stay for two days"

"But then--" I tried to think of another excuse and came up dry

"What are you afraid of, Vicky?" he asked, not looking at ht, professional voice I used on the phone would cover up the lie "This month doesn’t work for me, that’s all"

His look--brows raised over skeptical eyes--said I didn’t fool him for a second

I opened my mouth, but he held up a hand "Don’t answerto say no" He scooted next to h "We’ll talk about it later, all right?"

"Later won’t ht, checking his watch "Da a press conference in front of City Hall, and I need to get there early There’s a ru for governor on an anti- "Monsterchusetts" platforhts PAs had won and drive us fro to crash your press conference?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>