Free Feral Awakening (The Feral Series-Book 2) by Erin Ashley Page B

at her neck. She braced herself for the pain that was
sure to follow. She was shocked when his teeth remained on her neck but didn’t
break the skin. Why was he waiting? A strange calm began to break its way
through her panic. Her struggling limbs beginning to slow. What’s happening
to me? Kat could feel her mind beginning to fog over as the urge to fight
seemed to pour right out of her. Her body relaxing, she instinctively turned
her head to the side, fully baring her neck to him in submission.
     Feeling her small body
relax in surrender, Ronan struggled to pull his teeth away from her slender
neck. He hadn’t realized how hard it was going to be to keep from marking her
neck, a mark that would bind her to him for all time. Leaning away from her now
quiet form he released her wrists and ran a trembling hand through his hair. The
surprising need to mark her shook him to his core. What the hell was wrong with
him?
     Kat lay quietly
beneath him now. She had fortunately submitted to his bite in the way that most
female Lykan would. He wasn’t sure if he could have kept his beast at bay had
she continued to fight him.  
     Sliding his arms
underneath her legs he scooped her limp form into his arms and carried her to the
truck. She was docile now but he feared it wouldn’t last long. Opening the
passenger side door he carefully laid her on to the bench seat. Opening the
glove box he rummaged around until he found a length of rope she probably used
to secure her boxes in the bed of the truck. Quickly he wrapped a piece around
her ankles and used another to secure her wrists behind her back, she wouldn’t
be swinging anymore skillets at his head. He might have actually found it humorous
had it not been his own skull colliding with the skillet.  She had actually
attacked him!   Ronan was still in shock.  Clearly he had made a mistake by
expecting her to behave as other Lykan female did.  It was a mistake he
wouldn’t make again.
     He was careful to make
sure the sleeves of her shirt were under the rope, protecting her skin. He remembered
how soft her skin had been as he ran his hand down her back as she lay pressed
against his chest in the cave. With a low growl he quickly shut the door of the
truck, sealing her inside and putting a barrier in between them.

Chapter 5
     
     Kat’s brain floated in
a fluffy cloud. The dashboard of her old truck began to come into focus. Her
head was gently lifted and something hard and warm was placed underneath it. Kat
was confused when a low voice filled the cab of the truck. “Should of just done
this earlier.” The roar of her truck starting up was like a shot of caffeine to
her system and she was suddenly wide awake.
     She struggled for a
moment to use her hands to push herself up only to realize they were tied
together as well as her feet. “What the hell?”
     Finally managing a
sitting position, Kat could do nothing as she looked out the window and saw her
little house fading into the distance. Still not sure how he had managed it Kat
realized she was truly caught. The jerk was actually kidnapping her!
     Kat gasped and pressed
into the back of the bench seat as Ronan suddenly leaned across her, grabbing
her seat belt and buckling her in.
     Thoroughly piss at him
and more than a little scared Kat stared out the window and fumed in silence
not willing to make eye contact. Where the hell could he be taking her? All he
had said earlier was “somewhere safe”. Exactly where do you supposed a werewolf
considered “somewhere safe” anyway?
     Kat could feel herself
approaching meltdown. Being kidnapped was the last straw. There was only so
much a girl could take. First the feral attack, then Benji turned out to be a
crazy werewolf, now this. Now that she thought about it, she was also
completely weirded out by the way she had melted under his bite too. There was
no way in hell that she would let him see her break though.
     They drove for several
more miles when Ronan’s