Mated To Magic (Stark Creek Shifters Book 1) by Barb Shuler (free ereaders .TXT) 📕

What had he done to her? The needle he’d used was on the ground. I sniffed it and my nose wrinkled up at the scent. I sneezed, shaking my head.

He’d dosed her with a liquid form of GHB. It had a distinct chemical smell to my wolf's nose. It was something a human nose would never catch, as it had no real smell. The fucking bastard dosed her with the date rape drug. I don’t know where he got it, but it would be the last time he ever hurt someone. I looked up at Sy and snarled again. He jerked in fear.

“She…she’ll be fine!”

I shifted back to two legs before him, my fist connecting with his face when Kody let go and stepped back.

“Mia! Get her to the hospital. He dosed her with GHB. Even with her metabolism, she could be in trouble. Max, go with them.”

“I’ve got her,” Ty growled. I turned to give him a look. His eyes were rimmed in gold. I didn’t have time to argue with his asshole cat. I nodded.

“Max is still going with you.”

“Dalton…”

I moved to Mia, kissed her lips. “Go. Kody, Liam, and I have this. Get her to the hospital.”

I left Jayden’s care to them and turned to give Sy a hard look.

“Boss,” Liam came around the corner, “Cameras have been taken care of.”

My smile grew at that news. That was Liam’s way of saying no one would see what happened to this sack of shit.

“Wait! I have money. I just wanted Mia—”

“Mine!” My wolf pushed forward with a deafening snarl.

I hit the ground on all fours, my nails clicking on the asphalt. One paw at a time moving closer to him.

“Sylvester, for someone who knows about shifters and how they work, you’re kind of stupid. You go after a shifter’s mate, an Alpha’s mate at that…you should pray he kills you quickly.”

Kody stood back, scowling down at the man trying to get up from the ground. My body surged forward and I grabbed his thigh, biting down and shaking my head. My muscles flexed as I turned and released him. Gravity did the rest as he slammed into the brick wall.

Time and time again I bit into his flesh, dragging him back and shaking him like a rag doll. His body was broken and bleeding, but I wasn’t done. My claws extended and I buried them in his chest, opening him up like a can of pumpkin purée. I ripped his heart out, no one would ever need it, it beat for someone he couldn’t have. Someone he was supposed to help and protect.

Mine!

My wolf howled in triumph as we devoured the heart of our enemy. He may have had her friendship at one point, but he’d never have her. She was ours. Pack. Pack protected pack. I shook myself from head to tail and let the energy of my change wrap around me. When I was on my own two feet again, I looked toward Kody and Liam.

“Mind taking care of this? I need to get to the hospital and check on the girls. Mia is one surprise away from going all witchy and…no one wants that.”

“Go, we got this. I’ll let Kody dispose of that. I’m waiting on the guys to get here with another door.”

I winced. That was the second door I’d busted through in two weeks. At this rate, we may need to buy a few spares and keep them in the store room. I sighed. Jesus.

“I’m going to clean up and head out. Cell will be on.”

“Got it. Keep us posted,” Liam called out as I ran to my truck and grabbed my go bag. I went back into the club’s locker room and showered, changing into a Reed Security polo and cargo pants before pushing my feet into my boots.

When I ran to my truck, the boys and the body were out of sight. It was over. Finally. Sy had been the last piece to this crazy puzzle.

No more late night hunts. No more spending hours upon hours watching security cameras from all over town trying to spot one of these assholes. No more tapping into tracking systems, though Liam had a lot of fun doing that. The kid was scary sometimes.

We could relax security at the bar, slightly. At least the Deltas could go back out in the field and work some of ten other cases we had…and Angus wouldn’t have to be Mia’s shadow. Unless my little witch tried blaming me for moving Jay’s water bottles again.

My witch was going to keep me on my toes. I wasn’t complaining, not one bit.

I’d loved her for so long. Now that I got to call her mine, hold her at night and keep her safe, nothing else mattered, other than the pack. Our family. We had dysfunctional written all over us, but we worked.

23

Dalton

With everything that had been happening over the last few weeks, I wanted to do something extra special for Mia. She was feeling guilty about Sy attacking Jayden and that she’d dismissed the fact that a few of us had bad vibes about him. None of this was her fault. It was all on Sy. Lately, she had been doing to Jay what Angus had been doing to her. The girl couldn’t move without Mia there. It was sweet, but I could tell Jay was ready to strangle her.

Hopefully I could give her something else to focus on. I wanted to help her heal and move on from this experience. Shit happens. That’s life, right? Nothing any of us can do except ride it out. You know the saying, “life goes on,” well, it’s true even if it makes you a little mental.

When we first moved to town, she had mentioned wanting a dog. I used to joke that she had a wolf, she didn’t need a dog, but I could see the look she