Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Brooklyn

I hesitate, settling down in my chair across from Aden.

He's all feral wolf, and instead of feeling like the strong she-wolf I am, I feel like a doe waiting to feel his teeth sink into my neck for the kill.

His wolf flares in his eyes as he stares at me, almost as if he could leap across the table at any moment and gobble me up.

Images flash through my mind of my skirt hiked up around my waist while Aden Kenwood buries his face between my thighs, literally gobbling me up...

I give myself a mental shake.

Nope. This is Hudson's father-mafia king, powerful shifter, and bad, bad news.

That's why Hudson has a bodyguard, that's why he has so much money.

I quirk my head to the side, still staring at Kenwood, realizing that this is also why Hudson is hiding his sexuality. Many of the powerful wolf packs and crimes families in Grayling City are notoriously

conservative, and family is everything. A gay son would never be accepted in some packs-especially a son that is expected to provide an heir.

I can't imagine being Hudson...having to hide who I loved, pretending to love someone else.

I realize that the man in front of me is smiling, just slightly, his eyes moving over me as I stare at him like a

about his head buried between my

clench my jaw, reminding myself that he

much of a traitor my

NO way I'm feeling my heat for this man.

I turn back to

this a thousand times, Brooklyn! I remind myself. You

your name and place of birth?" I ask, trying

Kenwood says slowly, "that you're

back, studying

lift my eyes to glare at his boldness-he's

But, unfortunately, he's right.

knows this information. I quickly fill

at him, struck once again

jagged edges and rough shards...and some dark part of

me, tapping its fingers down my spine. Somehow, I imagine that they're Aden's

quickly dismiss the thought and try to focus on

whines at

I actually have to look down and read the words I'd long

of the questions that I ask. you today will be of a personal and psychological nature," I say, giving the canned speech I'm required to say to all inmates. "The state does require that you answer

silent in response, and I look up at him, a

on his knees, "what gives you the right

in my chair, unnerved by such a question.

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