Free The Wolf Inside Me (BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance) by Celene Lowe Page A

lose control of yourself.
    Don't let anyone get too close to you. You'll only hurt them.
    I gritted my teeth as I balanced the tray of nachos and carefully stepped out into the crush of men. My heightened senses made moving through the crowd without upending the food an elegant dance. For a big girl, I'm pretty damn graceful.
    "Here you are! Sorry about the wait!" I lowered the tray to the table while flashing my most dazzling smile, hoping that my charm would make them forget how cold the nachos were.
    I froze when I finally set down the tray and looked at the table. Four men sat there, loggers by the looks of their clothes, but they were the biggest and frankly the handsomest, loggers I had ever seen. They were squeezed into our tiny booth, looking ridiculously oversized.
    Then one of them turned to me. When his green eyes hit mine I shuddered as a bolt of pure desire electrified my core. I felt his intentions swirling around me like a whirlwind and every single one of them was focused on me.
    Steadying myself on the table, I tried to calm the thumping of my heart. Get ahold of yourself, Selina. Don't lose control.
    But there was something inside of me that was bursting to get out. It had been woken from a dreamless sleep like it had been summoned and it was those green eyes that called its name.

Chapter Two
    Zev
    "Stop the truck!"
    Marrok growled, but immediately pulled over to the side of the road. "We ain't got time for this shit," he muttered, speaking his words so that Zev could hear just how irritated he was.
    But Zev didn't give a shit. He rolled down the manual window and sniffed the air. His wolf leapt inside of him, itching to be freed. But this wasn't the right time. They were in town, the human's territory, and they were all crammed into Marrok's broken down pickup truck. This would be a very bad time to shift into a wolf.
    "We gotta get a move on," Gray thought at him. The old man was more wolf than human. He was agitated by being in the human's territory, no matter if their mission dictated it or not.
    "Will you shut the fuck up?" Zev barked. The three other men fell back into resentful silence. They recognized him as their alpha in spite of Zev's young age. "There's a wolf here."
    "Here?" Dolf piped up, speaking his words out of deference to Zev. "There ain't no wolves in Alpine Springs. If there were, we wouldn't have to be doing what we're doin'."
    "I swear I smell one," Zev retorted, leaning his head further into the cool mountain air. It was there, a faint scent of one of their own, but unfamiliar too. "I'm getting out."
    He slid from the passenger door, confident that his three fellow wolves would grumble but follow. They had a few hours until nightfall. Their sabotage mission could wait.
    Zev paced quickly across the gravel parking lot of the tumbledown bar. The scent was rising off of it in waves, calling to him. It flowed over his nostrils and into his throat so that he could taste it on his tongue. It permeated every cell in his body, drawing him forward like he was being pulled on a tether. He didn't understand it.
    "Zev!" Gray shouted in his mind. "We can't go in there!"
    Zev had reached the door and placed his hands on it. This was as close as the four of them had been to actual humans in months. The noise, the smells, the cacophony of thoughts and feeling and intentions, they whirled around him, making him momentarily dizzy. He longed for the peace of the woods.
    But that scent wouldn't let him go.
    "Let's just go in," he thought to all three of them. "We're shifted into human form right now, they won't know and they won't notice, I guarantee. Humans are too caught up in themselves to really see what's going on around them."
    "That's why they're letting the mountain be destroyed," Dolf thought darkly.
    "Stupid fucking humans," Marrok agreed."
    "We're dealing with it," Zev thought, and let them feel the finality of his decision. Maybe he wasn't acting wisely right now, but that smell was driving