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to notice he was holding her captive in the
middle of her driveway in the pouring rain. He stepped back, appearing upset
with himself, and ran his hands through his hair.
    Mina wanted to wrap her arms around him
and tell him everything would be okay. But she couldn’t. She didn’t dare. She
was a bona fide chicken when it came to him. “I’m sorry, Brody,” she whispered.
She looked over her shoulder at him before she walked away. “For everything.”
    Without warning, he grabbed her arm and
pulled her into his embrace. His lips locked onto hers, and he kissed her. She
was momentarily a prisoner of his desire, and she didn’t respond right away.
His hand lowered to her back refusing to let her pull away. He wasn’t going to
let her escape.
    She didn’t try. She leaned in and met his
kiss. The ember of desire that she’d been squelching for so long started to
burn hotter. Maybe it was because Jared was gone that she felt lost…alone. She’d
closed herself off from so many other emotions that she forgot what it was like
to feel. And right then, with his kiss, she felt more alive than she had in
weeks. Her hand reached up to cradle his neck, encouraging him. Never before
had their kisses been like this. It may have started off soft, unsure, and confused,
but then it was as if something awoke in them.
    Their lips remembered. Then the sparks
that have been pushed down for so long resurfaced.
    He pulled away and Mina gasped for breath,
his mouth still inches from hers. His eyes locked onto her lips as if he
couldn’t believe what they had just shared. Their breaths were ragged, and he
squeezed her closer to him.
    “See, we’re a natural fit. We’ve must
have done this before,” he buried his head into her shoulder, hugging her
close, the rain a forgotten thing.
    Mina sighed in happiness. This—this
was what she could have if she had a normal life. Brody leaned back and brushed
away a wet tendril of hair that had wrapped around her cheek. “If it’s okay
with you, I’d like to try that again, just to make sure I won’t forget this
kiss.”
    Mina smiled. “I’m not going anywhere.”
    Brody’s face lit up and he lifted her
chin slowly. Her heart raced with anticipation as he leaned in to seal their
kiss and their new relationship. She felt the warmth of his breath whisper
across her lips before an animal-like snarl ripped through the night, searing
fear into her heart.
    Brody spun, and Mina stared over his
shoulder to see an impossibly large black wolf only feet away. The wolf’s mouth
was opened wide, teeth glaring as he lunged for Brody’s throat.

 
 
    Chapter 6
    Mina screamed in terror as Brody was
knocked to the ground with the full force of the large wolf. Brody lifted his
arm to protect his throat, but the wolf locked his teeth around his forearm and
continued the attack on Brody’s arms and stomach with his powerful front legs.
    Brody twisted, brought his feet up, and successfully
launched the wolf off him. He rolled to his side and looked toward Mina, his face
filled with fear as he struggled to his knees. The wolf recovered from the
throw quickly and prepared to attack again.
    “Brody!” Mina cried out. She rushed
forward, putting herself between the wolf and Brody. Her arms flailed wide as
she made herself a human shield. Tears fell from her eyes as she challenged the
wolf. “Come on! I dare you!”
    It wasn’t fair. Just when she thought she
could recover and have a normal life, normal boyfriend, something terrible
happened. She was sick to death of it.
    “Mina, no !” Brody warned, as he slowly got to his feet.
    The wolf rebounded quickly and began to
pace in a half-circle, searching for a way to get to his target. His dark fur
bristled, and he growled in warning. He turned his canine eyes on her, and she
gasped at the intense blue that stared at her.
    The rain began to pour down faster, and—as
the wolf continued pacing—Mina found it difficult to focus on where he
was. One minute