Page 26 of Bodyguard Wolf Shifter
The eerie silence let me know his feelings for me were manufactured. Getting close to me was a means to an end.
"I no longer require your services. Good luck in your future endeavors. I think you know why this is happening. Let's not kid ourselves. There will no longer be any contact between us. Your last paychecks will be waiting for you. Don't come looking for me. I know the truth."I drove myself crazy with what I had written him.
The anger still fresh in my mind made my blood boil with rage.
I thought for a moment he deserved more, but he had ruined any chance of remaining friends. That loving feeling was frozen.
I sat paralyzed at my desk slowly cutting myself off from my emotions.
My left eye twitched when another attachment came through. It was marked private and confidential for my eyes only.
I moved the cursor to open the attachment with one click of the mouse.
A video clip came to life. He wasn't in my office but outside with the other two.
I was so angry I couldn't even remember their names.
It looked like someplace isolated off the grid away from a populated area.
If I thought what I had learned about him already was shocking enough, then I was in for a rude awakening.
What I saw was impossible.
The clean images must've been taken from a stationary camera. The footage slowed down until I was able to see everything second by second. The way his body arched and the bones became pronounced through his skin was nothing I had seen in my lifetime.
He dropped to all fours along with the other two. Their images twisted and changed until they were no longer human. They turned with red eyes and black fur. They were wolves.
I didn't think it was real until I saw the truth in his eyes. It was him under the disguise of the wolf.
CHAPTER 12
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FLEX
The message came at the most inopportune time. The cloud coverage had broken to reveal the full moon. We were so preoccupied we didn't even realize it was happening.
Luke looked at me and we both knew sitting enclosed in the car was a bad idea. The alternative would mean exiting the vehicle. It would shine a spotlight on us but there was no stopping the transformation.
We got out of the car and gently closed the door still two cars behind the checkpoint.
We hunched down and used the vehicles as a temporary refuge.
One bone cracked in my ribs and protruded against the cavity of my stomach.
Luke was going through the same thing.
The twins were alone back at base camp. They were just going to have to fend for themselves.
The putrid exhaust smell from the cars idling in neutral curled my nose.
Those in the other cars were getting out to get a closer look. That was bad news for everybody. We couldn't let them see us that way.
I doubled over with both hands clutching my stomach.
Luke managed to absorb the pain until he was close to the safety of the trees. The pain was much more overwhelming to an alpha. It was a known fact the alpha responded differently to a full moon.
I lost my balance with one hand gripping the bumper of a black sports car. There was some sort of logo of a horse on the back.
