Storm (Rise of the Pride #12) - Theresa Hissong Page 0,1

to think twice about slapping a spiked collar around her throat. Plus, he was in no mood to play her little games tonight.

“What are you?” she sneered, her head tilting to the side. She inhaled again and narrowed her eyes. “Fucking cat.”

“I’m here to offer you a way out,” he began, already reaching into his pocket to obtain a new collar. “I can stop the order your alpha gave you to harm the humans.”

“Ha,” she huffed, balling her fists at her sides. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

“You can come with me the easy way or the hard way,” he warned, tightening his grip around the warm leather in his hand.

“How about no?” she growled, her eyes glowing with the presence of her wolf. One second, she was leaning against the building…the next, she launched herself at him with canines bared.

Storm dropped low to the ground, catching the female by the collar of her shirt. Spinning her around as carefully as possible, he slapped the collar around her throat as he pinned her to the ground with his knee between her shoulder blades. He didn’t want to touch her exposed skin, but he did. Thankfully, she didn’t cry out in pain. “Don’t shift or this collar will kill you.”

“Have you seen this female?” he asked, producing the worn photo from his breast pocket instead of the syringe of sedative. He shook it in front of her face when she refused to answer, gritting her teeth against the need to shift. “Tell me!”

“Yeah,” she spat as her eyes glowed. The scent of her wolf grew stronger with the shift of her eyes. “I’ve seen her. She’s his newest member.”

Fuck…FUCK! Storm cursed inside his head. That motherfucker had changed her. “Where is she?”

He quickly stuffed the picture away, replacing it with the medicine. He uncapped the needle and stuck her in the arm.

“I don’t know,” the female said as she calmed, her eyes returning to the golden color that told him she was a wolf. She batted her eyes as the medicine worked its way into her bloodstream. “I only saw her right after her change.”

“Is she okay?” he pressed. “I need to know if she’s okay.”

“Of course, she’s not okay,” the female growled as she twisted her head to look up at him, fighting the need to sleep. “We are fucking animals!” The anguish in her face told him all he needed to know. They needed to find Murdock soon and end it all.

“We will send you somewhere to help you,” he promised, focusing on the present. He would get this woman picked up and taken to the airport like the others. “When you get to Colorado, a new alpha will be there to undo what the wolf did to brainwash you.”

“No!” she screamed, her eyes glazing over. The orders Murdock had given her changed the female in an instant. They were not to be taken, and they had been told to fight to the death if they were ever caught. “He will find us. He knows how to do things!”

“Relax,” he sighed, reaching into his pocket for his phone. He sent his location to Taze and Kraven, hoping one of them was close by. “It’ll all be over soon.”

“It’ll never be over, cat,” she growled. “He has an army coming for you.”

Amaya tried to shake off the command, but the animal she’d become growled. It pushed her to do as the man commanded, and no matter how hard she tried to fight it, her body, and the animal inside, betrayed her thoughts. Night after night, they’d sent her out to find females to turn into werewolves. Tears filled her vision as two of the male shifters pulled her alongside them. She didn’t want to hurt anyone, and giving humans her tainted blood caused them the same pain she’d gone through.

Every moment she had since waking up as a wolf shifter, Amaya thought of Landon and his new family. They were the good ones…the ones who were out fighting this new war. She’d heard about the wolves by accident, but she never thought they’d come to the clinic to capture someone related to the pride.

Now, they had her. They’d changed her into a monster, and the men fed on her fear. It was bad enough she was already scared to be out in public because of the physical scars of the things that had been done to her years ago. Now, she was doomed to another life so much like