Free Wild Fire (Wilding Pack Wolves 5) - New Adult Paranormal Romance by Alisa Woods

intimately entwined.” She threw a quick smirk to Daniel, whose face, astonishingly, actually turned red.
    Witches were often hot for wolves—and when the witches were less than honorable, which was most of the time, that could end up being a very scary fate for the male wolves trapped in their beds. And there were more than enough flat-out evil witches who hunted wolves for their magical body parts—blood and heart and more. There was distrust between the species for a reason. But the flirtatious looks Skylar was throwing Daniel’s way, and his response to them… that looked a whole lot more like the normal kind of sexual tension.
    The kind Zoe felt heating her up every time Troy came near.
    Skylar turned back to Zoe after tormenting Daniel with a sly licking of her lips. “It may be ancient history to you wolves, but several of my sisters are long-lived enough to remember when stories about the ancient unification of wolves and witches were not stories at all. But the white wolf you guys are expressing is the closest I’ve seen in modern times to combining both sides. My sisters and my coven are all jealous of me—not only do I get to spend my time with some hunkalicious men, but the white wolf could be the start of something special for wolves and witches both. Something we haven’t seen for hundreds of years.”
    “What do you mean?” Troy asked from behind her. He had edged up to get a better look at what they were doing.
    “I mean,” Skylar said with another glance at Daniel, “that the reunification of our species could be a possibility.”
    Zoe couldn’t tell if she meant unification as in getting it on with a hot male shifter body or an actual unification of the two species as a whole.
    Perhaps both.
    “Right now,” Zoe said, “I’m really just interested in knowing how to blast a certain Wolf Hunter to hell if he happens to come to my lab again.”
    Skylar sobered a little. “That’s something I would like to see as well.” She narrowed her eyes at Zoe. “Show me what you’ve really got, sister.”
    That challenge sparked something inside Zoe—that plus the anger she felt about the Wolf Hunter. He had slowed down her research by blowing up her lab. He had been hunting her family. It would be more than satisfying to be the one to send a blue blast of magical energy searing through his body and putting an end to all his nasty plans. And with him out of the way, she might have a chance to actually get back to work and solve her own personal problems. Maybe someday, she could have a man hold her the way she wanted Troy to wrap his big, muscular, fire-fighting arms around her. She hadn’t been able to get that image out of her head ever since he’d told her he wanted to know all her secrets.
    Someday, she’d have a normal life. And right now, the Wolf Hunter was standing very much in the way of that.
    Zoe closed her eyes and tapped deep inside herself… to where her white wolf lay. She commanded it to come out with all the force that it had and show her what she was capable of. If there was a time to unleash her wolf, while she still had it… now was it.
    She held out both hands, peeking to make sure they were directed at the tree stump. She could feel the power inside her, rumbling like an earthquake up from the depths of her soul. It seemed to literally shake her body with its power. She squeezed her eyes tight, focusing on channeling that energy up from the depths and out through her hands. The sudden rushing happened almost like she had uncorked something—she had no control as it flooded out of her. A loud cracking sound forced her to pop open her eyes—the stump was gone.
    Obliterated.
    She quickly looked around in horror.
    Wisps of blue magic were still darting around the field, jumping from tree to tree, and then to the ground, and back to another tree—as if it were lightning looking for a place to land. A line of burnt destruction at about a three-foot level ran straight across