Free New Beginnings (True Hybrid Book 1) by Katie Breaux Page B

will put him off for a little while.
     
    As soon as I step foot on the bank, I can hear the sound of paws hitting the ground. I start running again. Zander isn’t far behind. I hear him cross the stream and know he is going to catch me. I climb up a tree and decide to travel along the tree top. It will be a lot harder for him for him to follow my scent this way.
     
    I’m staying as quiet as I can. I haven’t heard Zander behind me for hours now. Maybe I lost him. I have to be at least a state away by now. I’m going to slow down. I feel how tired I am. My body is close to shutting down. I need a shower and a long night’s sleep.
     
    About 30 minutes later I come across a town. I jump out of the tree I’m standing in. I walk into the town looking like hell. People probably think I’m crazy. I really don’t care at this point.
     
    It takes me about 10 minutes to locate a motel in the small town. I pay with cash, don’t want a paper trail.
     
    When the clerk asks for an ID, I hand him a hundred dollar bill, which he accepts.
     
    I walk to room number 5. It is the farthest away from the clerk’s office and closest to the woods. The safest place in this whole damn town.
     
    I walk in the room and the smell of bleach hits me. They are hiding something. Something happened in this room that they don’t want anyone to know anything about. I really don’t care right now.
     
    I throw my stuff on the queen size bed, positioned on the right of the room, and continue on my way to the bathroom in the back. There is soap, shampoo and, towels in the bathroom. I turn on the shower. The water is cold at first but it heats up pretty fast.
     
    I strip my clothes off and step into the hot water. I hear a vehicle that sounds a lot like my SUV I pull up outside. I listen as the person goes to into the clerk’s office. When I don’t hear anything for a few moments, I continue my shower. It is wonderful.
     
    I don’t want to get out. The water feels too good. I stay in and just let the water run down my aching muscles, until I hear the door to the room crash on the wall next to the bathroom. I jump out the shower and crouch down in an attack position.
     
    I left the bathroom door open just in case Zander found me. I suspect it is him.
     
    “Elisabeth I know you’re in the bathroom. So, please come out and talk to me.”
     
    I don’t relax. His voice has the opposite effect on me. I tense even more. My body is preparing for the impending fight between us. I stand up and wrap a towel around myself before he barges back here to try and make me get out the bathroom.
     
    I walk into the area where the counter and sink use to be, right outside the bathroom door. I lay eyes on him, and literally feel the anger roll off of him. His eyes are the bright emerald green of his wolf. He and his wolf are furious with me for leaving again. I don’t care.
     
    What I want to know is why he is following me. Doesn’t he realize I don’t want anything to do with him?
     
    “Why are you here? I know you can sense I don’t want you around. So, why follow me all this way just to be turned away again? Oh yeah, and you’re paying for that door to be replaced!”
     
    I am getting tired of his little game of being the macho man and always trying to make me do what he wants.
     
    “I told you we can’t survive without each other. Even if you don’t want me or to complete the bond. We still have to deal with each other unless you’re ready to die.”
     
    His voice sounds low and calm.  The complete opposite of how I know he is feeling.
     
    “I think I’d rather die than be around you and watch you with other women for the rest of my life. Or more specifically the Luna you chose even though you knew your bond was out there, somewhere.”
     
    A smile appears on my face when I witness the shocked expression on his. He don’t think I know about her, but guess what? He is so very wrong. I can handle a lot of things, but that is