Blurb
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Werewolf and clan leader Anthony meets the beautiful Sky Delaney
and quickly realizes that she is the other half of his soul, his one true mate
and the ‘one’ that can set the prophecy on its foretold path, only to find that
she is a frail, pure...human.
Excerpt ~
The doorbell rang, coaxing Anthony out of
the thoughts that he was having. Sky yelled out that she would get it and
grabbed her purse. She answered the door thinking it was the pizza delivery,
but started backing up, clinching her purse to her chest as soon as she saw
that it wasn’t. Three tall men in expensive suits stood wearing looks of pure
rage on their faces. Anthony set his cup on the coffee table and pulled Sky
behind him.
“What are you doing here, Timothy?” Anthony
asked in a serious tone, a tone that Sky hadn’t heard before.
“Tory told me of your findings and by the
smell of this one,” he said pointing at Sky behind Anthony’s back. “You have
already marked your claim.”
“This is none of your affair, so take your
goons and go,” Anthony demanded in the form of an animalistic growl.
“If your decision affects the clan, you
make it my business,” Timothy replied stepping closer to Anthony, showing his
teeth as he spoke.
“I will challenge any wolf to the death
that interferes with my decisions...even you my brother,” he growled stepping
up to his brother’s chest, snapping his teeth that had started to elongate.
Sky couldn’t see Anthony’s face from where
she stood, but she knew that something had changed by the way he sounded and
the way he stood with his shoulders slightly hunched over. His back rose and
fell in a different way; it was if he needed to take deeper, faster breaths. She
looked down and saw his hands reform into the same shape that she had seen back
at the house and became a true believer in what Anthony had been trying to tell
her, at that very moment. His once human fingers now had three inch, black
talon like claws and were twice as long. The bones morbidly snapped and popped
as they transformed right before her eyes. Sky summoned every ounce of courage
she had, placing her hand on Anthony’s back. She instantly felt him start to
calm down. Timothy on the other hand, was being held by the two huge men that
stood at his side.
“Don’t threaten me, Anthony, we aren’t
children anymore and father isn’t here to pull me off of you,” Timothy said
through clenched teeth, trying his best to pull away from the arms that firmly
held him.
“You’re right, we aren’t children,” Anthony
replied, standing straighter. He continued speaking with a calmer tone. “But,
it was a promise, not a threat. I order you two to get him out of my sight,
before I bring you both up on charges of conspiracy.”
Both
men bowed their heads in unison, then dragged a yelling, Timothy down the
hallway away from Sky’s apartment. Anthony shut the door then put his head
against it, with his claw like hand still on the knob. It wasn’t until he felt
Sky’s hand on his back for the second time, that he released the knob and
turned around. She wrapped her arms around his waist, while he wrapped his arms
around her upper body and laid his head down on top of hers.
“What a dick,” Sky said, making her own
observation. “I’m sorry I didn’t believe you before. I thought you were going
to wolf out all the way for a minute there.”
“I almost did. If you hadn’t put your hand
on me, your apartment would need to be remodeled right now,” he replied,
walking with her over to the couch.
“What did your brother mean when he said
you already ‘marked your claim’?” Sky asked as they sat down together.
“He was talking about the mark on your
leg,” he replied, thinking he might as well just tell her and get it over with.
“You’re infected.”
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