Lycan Heat by S. Yule (polar express read aloud TXT) 📕

“Yes. It does.”

“I’m his mate.”

“Raze thought so too the first day he took you.”

“So now that he thinks I don’t want him any more, how do I get him back?” Sherry’s heart ached. She couldn’t believe that he’d actually think she didn’t want to see him again after what they’d shared in the Jeep.

“I think I can help you, if you really love him, and you are really sure this is what you want.” Janine squeezed Sherry’s hand. “I’m sorry. I just couldn’t stand the thought of you getting hurt.”

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“I’ll forget all of it if you help me.” Sherry grinned.

“Deal.” Janine stood. “I’ve got everything ready. Let’s start for home.”

“But Piers doesn’t know where we live.” Sherry was confused.

“He doesn’t need to. Trust me.”

* * * *

“Raze, if you ever lie to me again, I swear I’ll kick your ass.”

“I did not lie to you, Janine.”

“Technically, no, I guess you didn’t. But you let me believe that Piers had left. You lied by omission. Sherry loves him, and while I too thought it best at first to keep them apart, she quickly made me see that it wasn’t my decision.”

“I’m sorry. I wasn’t sure what Anthony and Brent would choose to do with him, and I didn’t want you involved. I was feeling guilty. This all came about because of me.”

“Well, if it’s your fault, then it’s mine too because I was with you when you ran away from the pack.”

“How do you figure it was your fault? You were kidnapped, and I helped you escape. If I hadn’t run, they wouldn’t have tracked me to Sanctuary and Daniel would have never been killed.”

“I figure it was my fault too because you and I are a team now.

Remember? We have to be honest with one another, Raze. You can’t protect me from everything. I love you, and I love that you want to keep me sheltered and safe, but you can’t keep me in a glass cage.”

“I know. I just hate to see you upset about anything, and you were already so stressed about the whole ordeal with Sherry. I didn’t want to put any more on you to deal with.”

Janine sighed and walked into Raze’s arms when he held them out to her.

She knew he loved her and would never do anything to intentionally hurt her. He hadn’t really outright lied to her about what had happened with Piers, and he was obviously regretting the decision to keep it from her. She couldn’t find it in her heart be mad at him.

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“I know, but don’t do it again.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

He bent his head and captured her lips, and she surrendered to him.

* * * *

After Piers woke up from being clubbed in the head, he had been furious. Anthony and Brent had him imprisoned in an iron cell. Iron was a lycan’s only weakness. When he’d been informed that Sherry never wanted to see him again, a murderous rage had built deep in his chest. He hadn’t believed it at first. He was the only man she’d ever let make love to her. If she didn’t care for him, she wouldn’t have given herself to him.

When he was told Raze would be taking her someplace he would never find her, Piers had laughed at that and informed them there wasn’t anyplace on earth that he couldn’t find her. He’d explained to them over and over that he’d made a mistake by trying to attack Anthony, tried to convince them that he’d realized only after the fact that the information he’d gotten about his brother’s murder wasn’t all the truth.

To make matters worse, Anthony and Brent relayed information they’d received from Raze about how depraved the pack was that Daniel belonged to. Daniel had participated in rapes, murders, tortures, and had also been present when Janine had been dragged into the den. His own brother had put his mate’s sister in danger. Piers would have killed him himself for doing that alone.

In the end, none of it had mattered. He’d been kept in the cell until the next morning before they’d finally let him out. By then, Sherry was gone and any chance of him tracking her scent had vanished. If she did want him, wouldn’t she have gotten word to him somehow? Left him some kind of clue? She was just gone, as if she’d never been there at all. Maybe she didn’t want him. Maybe they had been telling him the truth.

Maybe they had kept him in the cell because they knew he’d come after her, and when she refused him, he’d try to take her again, an act which would 77

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have probably led to his or someone else’s demise when they tried to stop him.

Two days later, he sat in a hotel room. He’d already sucked down half a bottle of Jack and was working on the other half. He wasn’t drunk—his high metabolism burned the alcohol out of his system about as quick as he downed it—but he was trying like hell to get sloshed out of his mind so he could forget about her if only for a moment.

He’d been searching for her since they’d let him out of the cell. He was exhausted, his chest ached at the emptiness left behind from her absence, and he wanted to beat the shit out of something. He hadn’t slept or eaten, and anger boiled inside him. Claws shot through his fingers, and he could feel the long slide of canines from his gums. Only ancients could partially change, and the complete helplessness and rage was calling to the predator in him.

He growled and let out a sound that was a mix between a cry and howl.

He needed her. He was lost without her. Despair settled in his soul. He didn’t want to be alone anymore. He wanted a family, someone to