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Pure Blooded (Jessica McClain #5)(9)
Author: Amanda Carlson

What’s wrong? Hearing the hesitancy, I slowed automatically. Rourke glanced behind him and let out a small roar as he came to a full stop. He growled, his unease flowing through my veins. He was likely trying to talk to me and I wasn’t answering.

This entire thing is much more dangerous than we’d originally thought, my father finally answered. We figured that the fracture pack was buying the services of a voodoo priestess to achieve their agenda—which was getting rid of me—using her to create these abominations. But it seems the priestess has a mind of her own and she wants something so desperately she’s willing to fight us to the death.

What does she want?

Power of some kind.

A single voodoo priestess fighting a pack of werewolves was completely unheard of in our world. Priestesses were not stronger than witches, from what I understood.

And she thinks she can achieve that power through the Made wolves she’s creating? I asked.

Yes. She’s building an army.

Once I’d switched off with my father, I’d filled Rourke in.

We sped up, feeling the urgency of my father’s words. Hearing from my dad had been wonderful and much needed. Relief and gladness swept through me, making me slightly euphoric. We made stellar time and were almost to the two-hour mark.

I scanned the horizon for the vamps, but I didn’t spot any movement.

Jessica, let’s stop up ahead. There are a few trees in the distance. I can smell the cypress to the west now.

Sounds good. Surprisingly my body wasn’t tired, even after the long run. But I could use some food in a big way. My wolf clacked her muzzle at me and hinted we could hunt. There’s no way I’m eating a lizard, I told her. I was always hungry, still in my newborn stage, but I managed to compartmentalize it. If I didn’t, the constant hunger would make me crazy. In this form we burned even more calories, and my stomach felt hollow. It begged to be filled. My wolf growled. I know you have no issue with it, but I can’t eat a snake, or any reptile for that matter, so let it go. She angled her nose up at my stupidity.

I think we’re actually fairly close to a town, Rourke said, interrupting my wolf as he slowed to a stop. I’m picking up on human smells. The vamps should be here soon. I’m going to shift back before they land.

Because you don’t want them to see you? Other than these two times I’d shifted with my mate, no one had seen his true form in centuries. Keeping his nature cloaked had aided him well as a mercenary.

No, because I want to talk to them. He chuckled, which sounded like a series of small sneezes tickling my senses.

I hope Naomi was successful in snagging you some new clothing or it’s going to be a very one-sided conversation.

I’m sure she was. She’s nothing if not reliable. I hope she spotted some water channels with parked airboats from the sky as well. We need to move quickly.

He had stopped at the base of a very small, scraggly tree. If you could even call it a tree. It had a branch. He lay down to begin to shift back, and I joined him. Hopefully we were close enough to our destination so we didn’t have to change back and run.

By the time I finished, Rourke was already up scanning the area.

I stood and walked over, running my hands over his very naked back. He turned and growled low as he pulled me into his arms. “We don’t have much time,” he said, nuzzling my ear, “but what I wouldn’t give to be able to whisk you away someplace private. It frustrates me I don’t have the power to take you out of here.”

“I know,” I murmured, leaning into his lips. “We only have a few minutes at most to ourselves, but since we can’t go back to Rum Cay, I’ll take what I can get right here.”

The kiss was blistering and urgent.

Our mouths fused together passionately with an intensity that weakened my knees. We both knew whatever lay ahead was going to be tough, and there never seemed to be enough time to bond with him the way I craved.

“You taste incredibly good,” he said into my mouth as his tongue stroked my bottom lip. “But I hear something in the distance, so we have to make this shorter than I’d like. All the adrenaline from the change is making me crazy with need, and you standing naked so near is a dangerous combination. I need to back away from you now so I can calm myself down. I don’t want to flash my bounding enthusiasm for my beautiful mate to the world.”

“Ha,” I said, glancing downward and licking my lips. “Would being naked and horny embarrass you?”

He leveled a hooded gaze on me. “Hell no, but I know it would embarrass you. You had me disrobe behind the plane so I wouldn’t shock Naomi.” He raised a single eyebrow in a very sexy way, laced with intent. “If you had less of a human nature, I’d already have you on the ground right now.”

I shivered. “Well, as much as I would love that, we’d be caught in the act.” On cue, a truck honked in the distance. Rourke maneuvered himself behind the small tree as best he could and I ducked down behind a single scrubby bush.

Before the truck arrived, which I saw was a souped-up pickup with huge tires that almost looked as though they could float, Naomi landed in front of me. Her cheeks were a little pink, indicating a blush, which made me think she’d been near enough to overhear our sexy banter.

“It is of no consequence, Ma Reine,” Naomi stated, addressing my discomfort as she deftly tossed me my backpack. Then she turned and threw Rourke a bag of clothes. “Your mate is correct. Supernaturals don’t have the same issues as humans when it comes to our bodies and… other personal things. But, you are my superior, and I would show you respect by not interrupting until I was sure you were not going to… interact. But in the future you don’t need to be so shy.”

   
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