Free Surrender (The Tribe MC: Chase of Prey Book 2) by Heather West Page A

why they’d been set forth, right now, the two were at war, not only with themselves but with the outside world.
     
    But Nico had just given Sebastian his blessing, temporary and fleeting as it was, because he knew that after tonight, whatever there was between his daughter and this Wolf could never be again, and he could not bear to be the one to take it from her before then.
     

 
    CHAPTER 8
     
    Cara ran into her room and flung herself on the bed, dislodging many of the garments that had been laid out for her inspection. Something on this bed would be what she wore later tonight as she danced in the sacred circle.
     
    Angry and heartbroken, she snatched up a thin, silvery scarf. Small coins dangled from the center of it. She wanted to rip it into shreds, tear it until it was as tattered and torn as she felt. But she could not — it had belonged to her mother.
     
    Clutching the pretty scarf close to her heart, she rolled over onto her belly and sobbed violently. She was only nineteen — why couldn’t anyone see that? She wanted a life that she carved out for herself — not a life that people insisted that destiny had decreed would be hers.
     
    How could that be fair? How could there be just one outcome for someone’s life? If that were so, it would mean that her mother had been destined to die by the teeth and claws of a rogue; she just couldn’t believe that destiny would give anyone that ending.
     
    Nor could she believed that destiny would be so cruel as to force a husband like Nico to have to remove his own wife’s head. Cara knew how much her parents had loved each other, and she knew her father had never taken another mate because none could compare to the love he felt for her mother.
     
    There was a knock on the door and she buried her face in her pillows, trying to wipe the tears away from her cheeks. “Come in,” she said in a muffled voice. It wouldn’t do any good to tell whoever was out there to stay out; they would not listen. She refused to roll over; she just lay there with her face in the wet pillows and her body sinking into the soft feather mattress.
     
    The mattress sagged and then a hand landed gently on her shoulder. Her entire body responded. She knew that touch; she knew that hand. It was Sebastian.
     
    “What do you want?” she said.
     
    “To live the rest of my life with you. I know it sounds a little hasty, all things considered. But I want to say ‘fuck you’ to destiny and do exactly what I want. I want to go to Hawaii. And right now, this second, what I really want is a shrimp po’ boy. I think that about covers it.”
     
    Cara rolled over and looked up at him. His handsome face was so dear to her. “Do you think it’s possible, Sebastian? Do you think we can just say ‘fuck you’ to destiny?”
     
    “No, but I think we can tell it to wait its turn.”
     
    “How do we do that?” Her words were a whisper.
     
    “Like this.” His lips met hers in a soft, slow kiss. Her mouth opened as his tongue ran across her full, soft lips and then traced the outlines of her teeth. His tongue slipped past her teeth and into her mouth, teasing her until she began to meet his kiss with her own.
     
    Their tongues intertwined, danced and caressed. His hands held her face tightly as he lowered himself onto the bed next to her, pulling her body snugly against his. Cara could feel his hardness; it pressed against her lower belly and she ran her hands down his back to the waistband of his tight jeans. Her fingers dipped below that waistband, traced the lean angle of his abs then slid forward so that her fingers were brushing against the thick blonde bush of his pubic hair.
     
    His low gasp told her that he wanted her as much as she wanted him. Cara already knew that if he was here, it meant that her father was going to allow whatever happened between them to happen. Maybe he figured that if she could have this one day, then she would go willingly into the circle tonight. She