Werewolves in Love 1: Kiss and Kin Read Online Free

today?”
    “Well…I guess so.” The doctor sighed. “But I want someone with her the rest of the day, just to be sure. The effects of GHB can linger as long as twenty-four hours, so no driving till tonight at the earliest. I’ll start the discharge.” He left.
    “You knew about my hospital thing?”
    He shrugged and looked away. “Yeah. I guess Mom or Myall mentioned it once.”
     
    TJ had brought some clothes from Lark’s apartment. Taran stepped out into the hallway so she could get dressed.
    As soon as the door closed behind him, TJ jumped at him like a curvaceous little terrier. “Finally. You done? Is she okay? Did you yell at her? If you yelled at her, I swear…”
    Nick slouched against the far wall, silently laughing.
    Taran put an arm across the door to block TJ’s access. “She’s dressing.”
    “So? I’ve seen her naked a hundred times.”
    Momentarily distracted by the image that summoned, he didn’t protest when TJ, all of five foot two, walked under his arm and through the door.
    He went to join Nick against the wall.
    “You okay, wolf?” asked his Alpha quietly.
    “They almost got her. They almost took her, in the middle of a crowd.”
    Nick nodded. “You think they planned it in advance?”
    “No.” Taran shook his head. “Right now, I’m thinking this El chick was the target; they probably expected her to show up alone. Maybe she went willingly, maybe the other women did too. But when Lark showed up with El, and got a good look at them…I’ll have to check my notes, but I think the other women also went there alone to meet someone.”
    “You think they recognized you? Pegged you for a cop?”
    He shrugged. “Don’t know. It’s possible. If they did, and they saw her talking to me…” He put his hands on top of his head and leaned back against the wall.
    “I keep thinking about her being dragged out of there, no one noticing, and she wakes up alone and terrified, and they…” He closed his eyes, unable to finish.
    Nick crossed his arms and stared at the floor, ponytail dangling over his shoulder. “She’s not your blood, Taran.”
    “No. She’s not.”
    “So…feelings. You’ve got feelings.”
    “Yeah. She’d be shocked to hear it, but yeah,” he said morosely, grateful he could trust his Alpha with this.
    “As opposed to just wanting to fuck her.”
    “Right. Although I definitely want to do that, too.”
    “Are these feelings the biologically imperative, completely out of your control, last for a lifetime kind?”
    “Yep,” he said resignedly.
    “Your mother’s adopted daughter.”
    “Yep.”
    “Shit,” said Nick. “I’m sorry. If it makes you feel any better, I know how—”
    TJ emerged from the room.
    “I’ll drive her home,” she announced.
    “No,” he said calmly. “I will.”
    “Why?”
    “Because I said so.”
    “What if she doesn’t want you to?” the tiny redhead said stubbornly, hands on her hips. “What if she—”
    “TJ, we’re leaving.”
    “Wait a minute, Nick, I want to know why—”
    “TJ.” Nick didn’t raise his voice. But he said it with all the force of a Pack Alpha, and it worked on humans as it did on other werewolves.
    “Fine.” she said quietly. “I’ll meet her at her house.”
    “Whenever I get her there.”
    “Asshole.”
    “Leaving, minion,” said Nick. “Now.”
    She rolled her eyes. “Right behind you, master.”
     
    Lark looked so forlorn, so vulnerable as she sat the edge of the hospital bed, dressed in jeans and a sweater with her long legs stretched in front of her. Her glorious chestnut hair hung limp around her face. A raccoon mask of smeared mascara ringed her eyes.
    She’d never looked lovelier to him. He’d do anything to protect her.
    “Where’s TJ?”
    “Nick needed her to do some stuff for him,” he lied without compunction.
    “On a Sunday? When her best friend was almost kidnapped? That sucks.”
    He shrugged. “You’re stuck with me.” She just looked at