Lycan It, S. Yule [book recommendations for teens TXT] 📗

She couldn’t help it, but she laughed. “I’m sorry. You are big and strong, but I’m not a petite woman by any means. You can’t run through the woods carrying me and expect to escape. I’m too heavy.”

He smiled at her. “Don’t underestimate what I can and cannot do. This is just something else you will have to trust me on.”

“Well, let’s say that by some small miracle you do get us out of here.

Where are we going afterwards because I will not go home and risk leading any of these animals back to my sister. She’s all I have. I won’t let anything happen to her.”

“I know of somewhere we can go in Michigan. There is a pack—um, there are some friends of mine there that can put us up and keep us safe. I won’t lie to you, though. It will be rough outrunning these men, and Damon 23

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will be hell bent on getting his claws in me. He won’t stop until one of us is dead.”

Janine shivered. “Why? If you want to leave, what is the big deal?”

“I’ll explain it some other time. Right now, I need you to concentrate on acting like you can’t stand the sight or touch of me in front of the others, and react appropriately to what I do to you.”

“I’ll do my best.”

He nuzzled her neck. “You’re doing great so far.”

“Why are you being so nice to me? Wouldn’t it have been much easier for you to have really done what they told you to do? You’d be free within a matter of days and wouldn’t have to worry about me being an obstacle to your escape. I mean, why are you concerned with helping me at all?”

“Because we are both prisoners, and I think I can also safely say that we both hate those sons of bitches out there. If I get you out of here, too, it’ll make it all the more sweeter for me knowing that I pissed Damon off that much more.”

She wasn’t one hundred percent certain she could trust Raze, but he’d kept to his word thus far. She prayed that he wouldn’t double cross her and leave her when it came time to run because she’d never get away on her own.

She was dependant on him, and she’d never felt more helpless in her life.

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Chapter Five

Two days later . . .

Raze watched Janine as she waded into the lake in her underwear. Her limp was pronounced in her right leg, and she’d been correct in confiding in him that she’d never be able to run. He was pretty sure if she was scared enough, she’d get along at a decent pace, but she wouldn’t be able to flat out run with that leg.

He was aware of the two other pack members close by watching her as well. His blood boiled, and he wanted to rip their balls off for daring to look at her. The first night he’d been escorted to the lake with her, she’d argued with him when he’d told her to strip and bathe. She had been, and still was embarrassed, but he’d let her maintain some modesty by keeping her undergarments on, which did nothing but arouse the hell out of him. He hadn’t had the heart to tell her once the fabric was wet, the dark hairs of her mound, and her tantalizing nipples were all but bare to his gaze.

Her skin was creamy and soft, and he longed to make love to her, but he’d never take her like an animal in front of the pack. They’d put on a good show, but he refused to defile her for real like that. He’d rather die than inflict such humiliation upon his mate. The guilt that burrowed deep in his gut was bad enough over the way he had treated her, no matter how necessary it had been for their survival.

The only good thing about Damon was that he was so full of himself, the huge ego of his could never fathom that Raze was playing him. It had only been two nights, and the lack of interest the pack was showing in keeping an eye on him told him that Damon had thought his punishment had broken him, had forced him into submission and compliance. Raze gritted his teeth and bit back a smile. He couldn’t wait to knock Damon’s holier-than-though attitude down a couple notches right along with knocking his teeth from his filthy mouth.

Tomorrow night would be the night he and Janine would make their escape. He’d stall on taking her for her bath at the normal afternoon time by saying she was sick. Right before dinner, he’d tell them she was feeling better 25

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and request to take her to the lake. He hoped the fact that Damon and the pack thought Janine was sick would relax the surveillance on them that much more.

He watched Janine duck under the water to rinse the soap from her blonde hair, and wished he could allow her a hot shower instead of a dip in a lukewarm lake. It was fine for him, but her normal temperature was a few degrees lower than his, and he knew she got chilled from the baths. He’d made sure to warm her up as fast as possible afterwards. He didn’t want it to be the truth when he said she was feeling ill tomorrow night.

He kicked off his jeans and waded into the water behind Janine, and she turned and slapped at his hands when he tried to help her finish rinsing her hair. His breath sucked in when he caught another glimpse of her pretty pink nipples pushing against the wet, transparent lavender of her bra. She’d become quite the actor at showing her distaste for him. He’d been worried at first that