Chapter Six

I hadn't run far when suddenly I was drawn up short.

Red was right in front of me, but his back was to me. I clung to his arm for balance lest I topple over backwards.

My lust-addled brain struggled to make sense of what he was doing.

Was this some new game?

"Stop, Misha." His eyes glittered down at me from over his shoulder and I felt frozen in place. "Stay behind me."

I looked past him and suddenly saw what had his hackles up; a group of hulking men in camo hunting gear, toting some very large guns, and in one man's case an actual machete. Another had an axe, but not like a firewood axe, like a battle axe.

About six or seven of these burly surlies were blocking our path ahead.

Damn, right when it was about to get good, too…

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"You alright, Miss?" The biggest, burliest of the men asked me.

They appeared and smelled human. I looked them over suspicously. I had never seen any of these men before, and there were 8 of them, I counted, and a 9th off in the woods keeping a bead on us, thinkin' he was bein' real slick. But I could smell him and hear him, rustling the leaves around him softly, breathing low and shallow.

Hell, I could hear his heart beat.

Well, that was new.

I nodded, trying to regain my composure. My body was still on fire with sexual need.

I slipped up against Red's side, pressing into him.

His arm dropped around my shoulders automatically. Protective and possessive.

Alpha.

It rang thru my blood, it sang in every cell.

"Just out playing a little game." Red told the gentlemen with a certain smirk that some of them returned, I noticed.

Men. What perverts.

But not all of the men smiled. The leader certainly didn't.

"Didn't realize it was hunting season." Red commented casually.

"It is for what we're hunting." The leader replied in the same careful flat voice.

"Have you seen any wolves around here lately?" Another one asked.

'Hold on to me. Don't let go.'

I obediently threw my arms around him and clung to his muscular frame.

We took off like a bolt of lightning into the woods, and I heard the hunter's angry shouts fading into the distance rapidly behind us.

Then I heard a gunshot.

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