Free Bound In Sin (A Vampire/Werewolf Romance) by Cynthia Eden Page B

had at least three silver bullets in him, he didn’t hesitate
when they attacked.
    He roared and slashed into the chest of the nearest
vamp.
Another one down. Bye, asshole.  
    The other two vamps–they just turned and ran.
    Drake grabbed a weapon that had been tossed aside and
turned his focus on the one that mattered. The vampire that was
about to lose his damn head.
    “
How?”
Gabe gritted as he stared at Drake
with fury boiling in his dark gaze. “You can’t–you’re not strong
enough–”
    Paige’s laughter cut through his words.  “He’s
strong enough…if he’s got vampire blood in him.” 
    Drake could still taste her on his tongue. 
    Mark me.
    The wolf had claimed his mate. Marked her. And tasted
her blood.
    “You bitch.” Gabe shook Paige, sending her head
snapping back.
    Begging for death.
Drake fired the gun. It
just clicked. No more bullets. That was all right. He wanted to get
his hands bloody.
    “You did this to him!” Gabe shouted. The guy didn’t
even seem to see Drake closing in on him. The stake had fallen from
his hand. “You made him–”
    “Stronger,” Paige gasped out as blood dripped from
her lips. “I made him strong enough to kill you…just in case I
couldn’t.”
    Her words had Drake’s body tensing. He’d kill the
vamp for her, all right.
A promise is a promise.
Drake
grabbed Paige and yanked her away from Gabe.  Drake’s wolf was
snarling, his claws were fully extended, and he was ready to
destroy.
    The stake broke beneath his feet, and he broke Gabe’s
neck with one twist of his wrist.
    But the vampire just laughed–and his bones snapped
back into place almost instantly.
    “Try harder,” Gabe murmured. There was no fear on the
vampire’s face or in his eyes. “Come on, let’s see what you can do,
alpha. Let’s see if you can fight as hard as you father did.”
    His father? What did his–
    More laughter from Gabe. Colder than the night that
surrounded them. “You thought that you got all the vamps from that
attack, huh?  Think again, alpha.
Think fucking
again.
” Gabe barred his teeth. “Those vamps attacked because
I
gave the order.  Only they were supposed to have
killed your sorry ass that night, too.”
    But he hadn’t been at home when his family was so
brutally attacked. He’d been out, watching Paige as she worked at a
little diner. He’d gone to that diner over and over, eager to catch
a glimpse of her. That night, he’d finally asked her out. He’d been
so excited when he’d gone back home.
She’d said yes!
Then
he’d found the blood and the bodies waiting on him.
    “Jeremiah let me in,” Gabe told him as the vamp
circled around Drake. “He knew you’d be the next alpha, and he
wasn’t ready to let go of the pack. He let me kill them all…and
drink all that shifter blood.”
    Because shifter blood was stronger than human blood.
Far more powerful.
    Jeremiah had fed his own pack to this prick?
Why?
    “Your bastard alpha was addicted…the same way she
wants you to be…to vampire blood.”
    He could taste her…
The wolf howled within
him, desperate to break free and attack.
    Drake sucked in a deep breath. Paige was on the
ground. Still, like a broken, beautiful doll. “It’s not the blood
I’m addicted to,” Drake told Gabe, voice growling. The beast was
coming out. The vamp was dying. “It’s her.” 
    He leapt at the vamp even as the shift burned through
him. The vamp would get in a few swipes while he transformed, no
way around that, because Drake was weak in those moments when he
was locked between man and beast. 
    But he had to shift. The shift would push the rest of
the silver from his body, and the wolf would be stronger than the
man.
    The wolf would take the vamp’s
head. 
    Gabe was smiling as he lunged toward Drake. The
vamp’s fangs were barred and–
    “
Think fucking again,”
Paige shouted,
throwing the vamp’s words right back at him. Then gunfire
thundered. Once. Twice.
    She had picked up one of the