Free Patient Mates: (Book 7 Grey Wolf Pack Romance Novellas) by E A Price

when he took in Kira’s flushed appearance, and the fact that the buttons on her sh irt were now out of synch.  Gabe didn’t say a word. Let the smug pup draw his own conclusions.
    Gabe drove her home and gave her a thorough kiss goodbye.   He asked her out on another date and blushing she agreed.
    As he drove back through town he whistled to himself.  Today could not have gone better.  Well he would have preferred not to have fallen off the horse.  And honestly he would have preferred their sexual escapades to have gone a little further.   But they were hardly real complaints.
    Gabe frowned as he spotted the same rusty Cadillac from the other night drive past him.  He spied the same man in the driver’s seat and three other bulkier men in the passenger seats.   He couldn’t say for certain that they were shifters, but they were big guys…
    He immediately thought about Kira and Lilah’s old pack.   His wolf whined uncertainly.  Doing a U turn he headed in the direction of the Sheriff’s station.  He should run that license plate now.  Just in case.
     

Chapter Nine
    30 th November
    Gabe glanced over at Kira.  She was picking at the blindfold he insisted she wore.   She had been resistant at first, even more so when Jolene and Lilah started laughing at her but he told her it would all be worth it.  She looked at him doubtfully but had relented and worn it.  She warned him it better be the best surprise in the world.
    “How much further my eyes are itching!”
    Gabe chuckled.  “I swear just a few minutes.”
    “You can’t tell right now but I’m rolling my eyes.”
    “Well I appreciate you telling me, and by the way I’m smiling right now.”
    Kira grinned.  “Glad to hear it.”
    Finally Gabe stopped the car and within a few seconds he was helping her out the passenger seat.  She felt a rush of heat as his hands settled at her waist.  She mewled as he removed his hands but soon quit as he took her hand and securely laced his fingers with hers.
    As he led her she sniffed the air.  Apart from Gabe’s lovely citrus scent she could smell freshly cut grass.  Her feet tested out the ground, yep definitely grass.  She couldn’t hear any traffic or people.
    “Wow!  You appear to have brought me to a field... in the middle of nowhere.”  She tried to eye him speculatively.  Impossible in a blindfold .  “If you’re an axe murderer if you have to tell me you know.”
    “Nah if I was an axe murderer I wouldn’t have picked you up in front of your sister and Jolene.  I would have made you to come to me, and I would have given you a fake name.”
    Kira smiled wryly.  “I can see you’ve thought about this.”
    Gabe squeezed her hand.  “I’m nothing if not thorough.  Come on we’re almost there.”
    Gabe stopped moving and placing a gentl e hand on her waist maneuvered her to the right.  “Wait here.”  He whispered in her ear.  She shivered as his breath tickled her skin. 
    The she-wolf flinched as a tinny rendition of ‘baa baa black sheep’ began to blare at her.  It was followed by a lumbering, mechanical sound.
    Instantly Gabe was by her side carefully removing the blindfold.  “You can look now.”
    Kira gasped.  In front of her was an old fashioned carousel ride.  The bright smiling horses bobbed up and down as they slowly made their way round and round.  She spied a powder blue horse with bubblegum pink hair and her face lit up.  It was beautiful!  Just like the one she remembered.  She spied a picnic basket in one of the chariots.  He’d thought of everything!
    “I figured I wasn’t exactly cut out for real horses so I’d give mechanical ones a try.”
    She turned to Gabe practically bouncing up and down like a bunny rabbit.  “How did you find it?”
    Gabe shot her a lopsided smile that sent warming jolts directly to her womb.  The flickering lights of the ca rousel danced over his chiseled features.  God he was beautiful!
    “I’d like to say