Free Saving Margaret by Krystal Shannan Page A

pack rules and hierarchy, he’d been in the army. He had to understand there was an order to things. She couldn’t just go against her alpha and the pack beta. It was against everything she’d been taught and against every basic instinct in her body. Her father, her alpha, was there to protect her. She followed his direct orders.
    Surely he didn’t expect her loyalties to be to him only. They weren’t even completely bonded yet. Though the pull to his bear was very strong. She’d been sorely disappointed when Allan and Kyle had spent the night at her house yesterday.
    Gods, she been so horny. It had been painful to walk away and leave him in her living room. Her body ached to hold him and to feel him within her. The throbbing need had plagued her most of the night and had started again in the morning. Working at the casino today, taking care of her clients, had taken her mind off of him at least temporarily.
    But now, standing naked before him. The ache burned within her again and she moaned just a little.
    His breath hitched on her ear. He’d heard her.
    “No more secrets, Margaret.”
    She shook her head back and forth just the slightest. No more secrets. Her breathing grew heavy. His piney scent filled her nostrils. Thoughts of leaping into his arms and tearing his clothes from his body flitted through her mind.
    “I promise.”
    The fact that over a dozen family and pack members stood around watching this little exchange was the furthest thing from her mind until she heard her aunt cough.
    “Chase’s room is empty. Y’all look like you need some privacy.”
    “Breena Marie Taylor!” Margaret’s mother snapped.
    Margaret gave her aunt a wink and snatched a towel from the back of a patio chair. Scott backed up a step and swung his gaze toward her aunt.
    “You. Are. Terrible,” he said slowly.
    “I know.” Breena grinned. “Keeps everyone on their toes.”
    Margaret shook her head. Scott had no idea. She wrapped the towel around her bare torso, thankful it covered most of her ass. Giving her father a nod, she hurried through the patio door and back upstairs. Maggie and the two O’Brian wolves followed her up the stairs and back into Maggie’s bedroom. They shifted the second the door closed.
    “I thought a run would be nice,” Maggie whined, but the smirk on her face told Margaret she was just being a pain.
    The two O’Brian girls giggled and pulled on the dresses they had shed only a few minutes before.
    “It was until Margaret’s bear got all possessive-y,” Maeve O’Brian tossed out.
    “Just hush,” Margaret answered.
    “Margaret, your wolf was eating it up. You wanted to rub all up over him on the patio,” Maggie chimed in. “Those alpha waves had you nearly begging him to touch you, right there in front of everyone.”
    Margaret could feel the heat rising in her cheeks. Her friend was not far off the mark. The power it had taken to force her to change was huge. Only a very strong alpha would even try it. She’d never seen her father even attempt, even if he was angry. It had also been a huge turn-on for her and her wolf.
    “Hell yes, it was.”
    Hush!
    “Just agreeing with you,” her wolf cackled.
    “I got goose bumps just watching you two,” Maeve spoke out again. “If only Kyle could make me feel that way now. Gods, I hope he is a mate match when I come of age.”
    Twenty-year-old Maeve was terribly in love with Margaret’s cousin, Kyle, but rarely spoke to him. He probably didn’t even know she was sweet on him.
    “You could talk to him once in a while, you know,” Margaret offered, pulling on a pair of Maggie’s yoga pants and a t-shirt. No way was she getting back into her work clothes. She snagged a small bag from the corner of the room, carefully folded her nice dress clothes, and slipped them inside.  “Enjoy being young while you can, Maeve. Twenty-five will come faster than you think.”
    “Yeah, I guess.”
    “Whatever,” her sister Bethany scoffed. “At