They finally changed all the way and then they looked towards her with menace in their eyes. They stalked her over to the bed and they jumped up and came towards her with her whole body trembling in fear.
She thought that they were going to attack her, but then their tongues began to lightly lap at her skin like tiny little puppies. She was still scared, but not nearly as much as she was.
The wolves felt connected to this woman, but they still needed the freedom of the open air. They turned and went over to the door, scratching their paws against the wood and then looking over at Jasmine to see if she was going to give them a hand.
Jasmine was still trying to wrap her mind around all of this, while she walked on unsteady legs and opened the door for them. They bolted and before she knew it, they had disappeared within the tree line. She gathered up her clothes, put them on and then looked out the window to see if there was any sign of them.
She left, not leaving a note or any kind of explanation. She needed to get some distance and she drove in a haze all the way home to an empty and darkened house. There was no sign of Brad and she was right, he was probably out banging the little chippy that she had just found out about. It wouldn’t have surprised her in the least if it was Barbara. They always had eyes for each other and if they thought that she didn’t notice, then they were mistaken.
She got undressed and slipped underneath the black silk covers of her sheets. She drew them over her head trying to block out the very memory of what she had seen. She finally found her much needed slumber, but not until she went through a time where she thought that she heard noises outside.
Chapter Five
In the morning, she woke up thinking that it was all a dream, but it seemed so damn real that it was making her skin tingle with excitement and nervous energy. Brad had already left a message to say that he wasn’t going to be home and that he was working late at the office. What the hell kind of excuse was that.
She had decided that today was the day that she was finally going to break the cycle of monotony. She packed up her belongings, not bothering to take any of her jewelry. She knew that they probably cost a small fortune and that she could get a nice little penny for them at the local pawnshop. She just didn’t want anything to remind her of Brad. She would have a lawyer draw up the papers and have it delivered to him in the next couple of days. In the meantime, she was going to have to find someplace else to lay her head.
She had very little money and no job prospects, so maybe this was a knee jerk reaction. She needed to break this hold on her and it was time to pick herself up and start all over again.
She went towards the door with her luggage in tow and opened it to find Steve and Joseph both standing there sheepishly looking at their shoes and trying to not make eye contact.
“What the hell do you both want?” She didn’t mean to be defensive, but it came out in a rush that she couldn’t control.
“We want to apologize and we never meant it to go that far. We always are able to get out of the hotel room before it happens. I don’t know how to explain this to you, but I think you have a reasonable idea that we are werewolves or wolf shifters. We were wondering…I mean…we wanted to ask you….”
Steve couldn’t say what needed to be said and Joseph looked at him and knew that he was the one that was going to have to continue where he left off.
“What my friend is so eloquently trying to tell you is that we would like you to become part of our pack. I guess that’s not exactly the right way to say it. We did bite you and on the next full moon, you’re going to feel things that you have not felt before.” He didn’t mean to pull it off like a band-aid, but there was no use in keeping her in the dark.
“I’m going to be…a werewolf.” That was a statement that she never thought would come out of her mouth. Now that it had, she was taking stock in her life and realized that she enjoyed her time with both men. The sex was something that she would want more of. “I’m going to need some time to adjust to this.”
Steve took her hand and brought her into her own house and knelt down at her feet. They looked at her trying to come to terms with everything and they saw the storm brewing in her eyes. It made them feel like they were 2 feet tall.
“Joseph and I have been wolf shifters since we were in high school. I met my wife and we settled down, but she had no idea what I was. She still doesn’t know and even though we share a son, she still thinks that everything is normal. She doesn’t even know that Daniel is going to be a wolf himself. I have to tell him before his 21st birthday and that’s not a conversation that I’m looking forward to.”