The Wolf Inside Her
When Selene Vireaux, a rogue werewolf, arrives in Chicago to disappear into the noise of the city, she expected loneliness.
But then she sees him.
Lucas Carter is everything Selene shouldn't want — human, innocent, young, soft — but the moment their eyes meet across a rain-slicked street, something ancient awakens inside her. It's not hunger. It's not instinct. It's need.
She stalks him through alleys, watches him in silence, memorizes his every movement from the shadows. But when a violent attack leaves Lucas bleeding in the dark, Selene breaks her vow of distance and reveals herself — beautiful, feral, inhuman — to save him.
Now bound by blood, danger, and a connection neither of them can understand, Selene must decide if she’s willing to destroy the fragile peace she’s built just to keep Lucas for herself… and Lucas must choose whether to run from the monster who saved him, or fall into the fire of something far more dangerous than love.
Obsession burns.
And under the full moon, nothing stays human for long.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter Seven: Way She BurnedThe metal shutter clanged closed behind him with a finality Lucas hadn’t expected to feel. The keys jingled uselessly in his hand, nerves still thrumming from what had happened inside. Selene had kissed him like she wanted to break him open.He hadn’t even locked the café door before she’d backed him into a wall, fingers in his hair, mouth devouring his like she couldn’t stand the distance between them. It was madness. Electric, wild madness.He’d expected her to disappear afterward— back into the night like some reckless storm cloud. But no.She was waiting by her car.Leaning against the driver’s side door like she owned the night, hair wild around her shoulders, black leather jacket unzipped halfway down to expose the line of her collarbone. Her eyes found him instantly, glowing faintly in the streetlights.Lucas slowed. “You are still here?”Selene didn’t answer. She tilted her head.And then she moved.Fast.Her hand caught his wrist, spinning him before he could react. The door
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Chapter: Chapter Six: Fire Beneath SkinThe bell above the door jingled.Selene stepped into the cafe, her boots clicking softly against the worn wood floor. The warmth of the space circling around her like smoke—espresso, cinnamon, and something else.Him.She spotted Lucas immediately. Behind the counter, half-apron hanging low on his hips, sleeves rolled to the elbows, wiping a glass clean as he smiled.Not at her.At her—a woman leaning against the bar, laughing. Blonde, relaxed, seeming far too familiar. Lucas said something that made the woman tip her head back and laugh again, her hand brushing his arm.Selene didn’t move.She didn’t need to. Her senses narrowed like a razor's edge. The glass in her hand would’ve cracked if she had held one. Her fingers curled against her palm as that sharp twist of something ugly, hot, and absolutely primal surged in her chest.He didn’t see her yet. Good.She watched.His smile wasn’t fake. His posture—open. Comfortable.That bothered her most.Because she wanted to be the only one
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Chapter: Chapter Five: RideLucas adjusted the collar of the borrowed oversized button-down shirt and rolled the cuffs up a little higher. The scent of something sweet, intoxicating with somewhat musky and earthly undertone clung to the fabric.Her scent.He rubbed his temples and glanced toward the door. “I should go. Don’t want anyone thinking I disappeared.”Selene, seated by the window with one leg tucked under her, didn’t move. Her amber eyes tracked him, slow and steady, like a wolf watching a deer who hadn’t noticed he was standing too close to the edge of a cliff.“You’re not walking,” she said flatly.Lucas looked over. “What?”“I’m driving you home.” Her voice held neither a questioning tone, nor force. Just a simple truth.He raised an eyebrow. “You’re not gonna ask?”Selene stood, languid and unhurried. “If I ask, you’ll say no. And I’m not interested in arguments this early.”Lucas opened his mouth, then shut it again. Something about her tone made him feel like arguing would be like stepping into a
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Chapter: Chapter Four: MorningMorning crept in through the heavy curtains, pale light slanting across the hotel room floor like a lazy afterthought. Selene’s amber eyes blinked open, sharp against the softness of the room. Her senses reached before her body did — the steady thump of a heartbeat that wasn’t hers.Lucas was still here.Still alive and asleep.Still hers — if only in this penny of stolen time.She turned her head slowly on the pillow, the sheet cool beneath her cheek. He was curled on his side, back to her now, the sheet low on his hips, the bandage on his temple still intact.Selene sat up quietly, careful not to wake him. Her shirt clung open at the chest, buttons carelessly half-done from the night before. The cool air licked against her skin, but she barely noticed it. Her focus was already on him.She leaned in and brushed his hair aside again to check the bandage. No bleeding, skin still pale, but clean. She exhaled a slow breath through her nose.He looked human like this.Soft and breakable.
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Chapter: Chapter Three: StaySteam fogged the mirror.Selene wiped it with the back of her hand, stared at her reflection, and saw only restraint in them. Long damp hair clung to her shoulders. Her shirt stuck to her ribs and those amber eyes, even dulled by hot water, still glowed faintly — too much like a wolf’s.The blood was gone but the scent still lingered.She’d washed it from her skin, but not from her memory — the feel of it, warm and human, sticky between her fingers. Lucas’s blood.That alley had nearly turned her. She’d been seconds from ripping out throats of those bastards. For him.It was stupid and reckless as her father would say, but obvious thing to do.Selene took a breath and stepped out of the bathroom barefoot.The lights in the hotel room were low. The air smelled of antiseptic that clung to him. She expected to find him gone — or sitting up, panicking, maybe calling someone.But he was curled on her bed.Asleep.He lay on his stomach, his arms tucked under the pillow. His chest rose and f
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Chapter: Chapter Two: FeverLucas didn’t stir after few minutes, she laid him down.The hotel room was dim, warm, scented faintly with whisky. The curtains were drawn tight. Rain tapped against the windows like fingers scratching to get in. She watched him for a long moment, her amber eyes unblinking. Blood had begun to dry on his temple. His pulse still throbbed beneath skin too pale.Stupid human, she thought, but there was no heat behind it.She moved fast. The first aid kit was already on the counter. She dumped it out, fingers selecting what she needed with a speed born from decades of knowing what injuries looked like some which ones killed and other which ones left scars.This one would scar. Selene grabbed a towel and soaked it in warm water, knelt beside him and began wiping the blood from his face, slow at first, then firmer when it wouldn’t lift.Lucas winced.His lashes fluttered. His lips parted.“Stay still,” she murmured. “You’re safe.”He blinked up at her. “You… what happened?”“Some assholes t
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