Chapter Nine

Vanessa

Am panting.

Wet.

Freezing.

And utterly captivated by Jake casually removing his jeans. He kicks them off from his ankles, his body already morphing into a

giant white wolf. It takes him milliseconds, his shift akin to taking a breath. The five wolves growl in response, lunging at him as one.

I hold my breath, my heart beating chaotically in my ribs.

But Jake ’s snarl comes out above the rest, his body moving with a power that makes my knees weak.

He knows I’m here. Because those words were for me, not the other wolves. You can’t say I didn’t warn you.He did.He told me not to run.

That he would not be happy when he caught me.

And for some sick and twisted reason, that sends a shiver of excitement down my spine.

I tried to throw him off my path by moving through the stream to distort my scent. I even rolled in some mud. But he found me far faster than I ever could have anticipated.

A fact that pleases my wolf to no end. She’s practically doing flips inside me, telling me to fal