Total pages in book: 46
Estimated words: 44098 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44098 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
“It was an old shop?”
“Yep. The shop closed down, but the apartment it’s attached to is more than fine. Trust me.”
In an odd way, she kind of did. It probably helped that she was the first and only woman to be nice to her in a long time. She watched as Amelia pulled out her keys and went to the door. Following her inside, Agatha knew instantly she had fallen in love with the place. It was small, quaint, and in a bizarre way, smelled exactly like home.
“This is perfect,” she said. “When can I move in?”
****
“You allowed her to move in?” Alpha asked.
Boyan looked across Alpha’s office to see Amelia sitting with Wolfe right behind her, hands on her shoulders.
“Yep.”
There was no fear in Amelia’s eyes. She had allowed the human woman to move into her old place, since she now spent most of her days with Wolfe at either the club or the home they shared together.
Alpha swore and paced the length of his office. It was rather entertaining to see him losing his shit. Boyan was thoroughly amused. There was still the problem, though, of the human female now living amongst them, especially as they were two weeks away from a full moon. This posed a huge threat.
“I’m also talking to Val, I believe he’ll have a job opening for her as well. Poison is always so very busy, and there are not a lot of the pack willing to be a waitress. She’s looking for work.”
“Wolfe!” Alpha all but growled.
“Do not tell your man, my husband, to shut me up. I don’t see what the big deal is.”
“She’s human,” Boyan said. “That poses a big threat to all of us. We accept tourists to a certain extent but not like this. You have made a massive mistake with this one.”
Amelia shook her head. “If you actually spoke to her, I’m pretty sure you would sense that there’s something different about her. Something … off.”
“Boyan said the exact same thing,” Enzo said, still knitting away.
“What?” Alpha asked.
“She’s … her scent isn’t strong,” Amelia said. “She’s not easily scared either, and I do think she finds this pack charming. All of us. All the crap they’ve done, being rude.”
“What do you mean, her scent isn’t strong?” Alpha asked. “All humans have a strong scent.”
“It fades,” Boyan said.
He’d been watching the woman from afar, trying to figure out what it was about her that made her so different.
“That’s not possible,” Alpha said.
“I’m telling you, when I followed her from the diner through town, her scent faded within the pack.” Boyan shrugged.
“What do we know about her?” Alpha asked, seeming to grow even more tense.
Boyan knew why he was tense, as did Wolfe, Enzo, Rocco, Draco, and Gunnar. They all knew why he was tense. They’d found … another one.
A year ago, Wolfe’s mate, Amelia, had been attacked by a vet she used, Dr. Milton. He’d helped with a couple of the deer she’d attempted to save, which had then led to the petition to stop the pack from hunting them during a full moon. Anyway, Dr. Milton had discovered they were wolves, and as he did so, he had started to infect people, including himself.
Up until two weeks ago, they hadn’t found any more people infected, until they stumbled on a man, squirming, his bones shattering as he went through a transition. This man was no longer human nor beast, but something mixed, something deadly. They had him chained up in a secret location, under constant watch. They didn’t trust the beta team with him. This was something for the club.
Not long after they found this man, Agatha showed up in town. Boyan wanted to believe it was a coincidence, but he had a horrible feeling it wasn’t. Whatever Dr. Milton did, he had infected people with their blood, and now, it was up to them to try and clean up the mess.
Humans were not meant to turn. Full-blooded wolves could turn. Humans didn’t have the strength of mind or body to withstand such a transition. It would kill them. Everyone they encountered had so far perished. They tried to save them, but it was impossible.
“She’s alone,” Amelia said. “She has no family, her parents are gone. No boyfriend or loved one.”
“I’ll run a check on Agatha Preston,” Boyan said.
The club looked toward him.
“That’s how she introduced herself to me. She gave me her name.”
“And once she meets Val, I can give you a date of birth,” Amelia said.
“You’re willing to do this?” Wolfe asked.
“We need to protect the pack, I understand that, but if you just spoke to this woman, even if you only said a few words, or smelled her, you wouldn’t see a threat.”
“Boyan didn’t see a threat,” Enzo said.
“Fuck off, Enzo,” Boyan said.
“What does he mean?” Alpha asked.