Page 29 of Hunting Savage
“What did you do?”Aurora yelled, holding onto Starla’s arms as she glared over her shoulder at Savage.
Savage had one hand on his chest, the other hung in a loose fist at his side.“How are you able to break from my order?”
“Release my sister at once, Savage, or so help me I will...I’ll hurt you,” she promised, ignoring his question.This man, who had shown her so much pleasure only moments ago, was fast becoming her mortal enemy.
“Vita Mea, I have only halted their ability to make foolish moves that could set me off.Right now, my emotions are a little...unpredictable.”
She glared at him, then motioned toward her sister.“Release her, right fucking now.”
He let out a sigh.“I will release her, but not the others for now.”
Aurora felt the stiffness leave Starla the second Savage’s power no longer held her captive.Her sister shivered from head to toe, then, being the teenage hothead Aurora knew and loved, Starla flipped Savage the bird and told him.
“Eat a bag of dicks, asshole,” Starla snarled.
Savage’s eyes widened, and then his head tipped back as he laughed.The deep timber rolled over Aurora, sending a delicious thrill through her.
“Little girl, I’ve eaten a lot of things, but dicks have never been one of them.Of course, I could be persuaded to add a certain—”
Aurora crossed the several feet separating them, her hand covering his too sexy lips before he could finish what she was sure to be a scandalous suggestion.“I will cut you,” she warned.
His eyes glittered in the bright room, and then she felt his tongue lick her palm.Warmth radiated from that one touch, making her entire body heat up.
“Ah, sis?Do you two need a room?”
“You make me lose my head,” Aurora groaned, taking a step away from Savage.
“That makes two of us,” he agreed.
Savage sighed and ran his hand through his hair, giving her a reprieve from his too mesmerizing, too intense, too intoxicating presence.She needed to get a grip on her emotions and remember why she’d come to New York in the first place—hello, it was to save her little sister.
“Starla, this is Savage.Ah, this is...”
“I am Savage Rossi.This is my territory, and your sister is mine, little one.As such, you are under my protection as well.”
Starla’s mouth dropped open and snapped shut.“Um, say that again?First of all, buddy, I refuse to be a sister wife.Second of all, this is not an episode of Wicked Mormon Wives or some shit.”
Aurora’s eyes widened at the low growl her sister emanated, but she also couldn’t help but laugh.
Starla pointed her finger at Aurora.“Don’t you dare tell me you’re good with sharing a mate with me, Aurora.That is so not happening.I’m not even eighteen.Well, technically, I’m eighteen in a half hour if you go by when the clock strikes midnight, but whatever.I’m still not sharing a mate, man, hubby, dick, or any other male part with you or any other female, period.”
By the end of her sister’s tirade, her chest heaved so hard Aurora feared Starla would hyperventilate.She moved toward her slowly, both arms extended.“Starla, I have no intention of sharing a mate with you or anyone, either.I am a strictly no-share kind of female, too.I think that’s part of our DNA, Biddy Bee.Calm down.”
“Don’t tell me to calm the fuck down when he literally just said that because he claimed you as his, then I was automatically his, too,” she snarled.
On her last word, Aurora gasped as Starla’s hands became covered by fur and claws, and inside her mouth, her canines became much more pronounced like those of her wolf.
“Um, Savage, I think my sister is about to undergo her first shift.”
“No shit.Can I ask why she’s never shifted before now?”he inquired in a tone that was a bit too calm for the occasion, in Aurora’s opinion.
She let out a defeated sigh, wondering how the fuck to explain their past.“Can they hear us in that state?”Aurora gestured toward the males in the room.
Savage shook his head.
“When I was Starla’s age, our parents discovered we were being hunted.They didn’t share with me who hunted us, just that we had to run and leave everything behind.Our father was a shifter, while our mother was a very powerful Fey.Together, they decided to suppress our shifter sides so that we could be part of the human world without the need to be part of a pack.I’ve never felt...that burning need to be part of the shifter society.My father said it was all-consuming and didn’t want my sister and me to feel compelled to follow the rules of his world.Our mother, on the other hand, didn’t have any such ties to another world.She didn’t have other Fey to speak to, as her mother died giving birth to her, so she’d been brought up in Foster Care.Nobody wanted the weird child who had vivid dreams and believed in magic back then.Their mother learned through those dreams how to wield her magic and said she had met a fairy named Jenna who would one day save them.Goddess, if you were to see her, you’d have thought she the most beautiful being to have walked the Earth, but the way she spoke of Jenna, you’d swear the fairy was the true Goddess.”Aurora paused and took a shaky breath.
Starla moved to stand next to her.“She really was.You look a lot like her, Aurora.You have her hair and strength.”
