Chapter 1 TEASER

• "Between that and your woman's scent," He pointed at my groin. "I can find you anywhere. I'll have more of you and by the end of the night. I'll mark you as mine to possess."
• "No." I shook my head.
• I don't want to be anyone's. I savored my freedom.
• If he marked me, I'd be his to command each and every day and his to own every night.
• No. It can't be.
• "It's going to happen." He asserted stonily.
• "No." I breathed. Knowing my defiance could be ended with a single command from him.
• I already cringed out of his reach like a beaten animal.
• He tilted his head. "You don't want my mark?"
• "I don't want to belong to anyone."
• "You've belonged to me a long while. Everyone in my pack knows it. Except you."
• "I don't want to."
• "Well, Miss Lyra, you better pose a challenge then."
• What's that supposed to mean?
• "Go ahead." He grinned cockily. "Run."
• "Why? Why would you let me go."
• "Oh, I'm not." He sauntered around me pensively. "You're fast. But I'm faster."
• ***
• Fear pulsed through me because I understood what he was saying now. Every word.
• "The hunger hasn't even set in on me yet." He warned. Gray eyes brightening. "But soon it will. And I'll mount you all night, once it does."
• I was shaking my head, backing up. Knowing my only chance was to sound a quiet retreat but hating that to do so, I had to obey him. And that it sufficed as some intriguing game for him.
• He stepped forward and caught my arm. He pointed to the bridge down by the creek. "Go that way. It's the only chance you have to escape our pack. Cross the bridge and veer North. Another woman hid in the cottage built on the right. It'll cause them confusion once they get there."
• Chewing my lip I wondered if it was a trap. But hearing them howling I knew I was running out of time to decide.
• "Better run, Lyra Lani. I'm getting hard again."