2. Help Me

Eyes glued to the glistening metal lightly cupped in his large hand, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. He had caught me so off guard when he popped up with his rippling physique that I had failed to notice something as vital as him pointing a gun at me. It was beyond stupid and reckless. I might be superior to him in different ways, but a bullet could kill me all the same.

"You're bleeding."

His soft raspy rumble of a voice made my stomach clench. Geez. The man even sounded sexy. Deep vibrating tones that felt like velvet rubbing down my spine, the slight rasp to it making my heart thud heavily against my ribcage.

Blinking rapidly, I swallowed my sudden boost of hormones and tried to remember what he had just said. I was bleeding? Tearing my eyes away from his, I glanced down and noticed that there was bloody grimy foot prints leading up to where I was standing. Fuck me. Not only had I broken in, but I had contaminated his kitchen with my life essence.

"Where did you come from?" his soft question had my guilt stricken eyes darting back to his. Those vibrant green eyes were shadowed with confusion and a small amount of alarm. "There isn't a house around here for miles."

Shifting my weight to my bad leg I winced and quickly shifted back. "I didn't mean to intrude," the sound of my vice startled me, hoarse and small from having not using it much aside from screaming and pleading, "Ill repay you for the lock."

Quickly hobbling around the island away from him, I spotted the door, my means of escape. My palm had just touched the doorknob when a strong muscled arm flew past my face to against press the door. Flinching away, I quickly stepped back and my wounded leg decided to give out on me. Amber eyes widening, a small gasp escaped my lips as I feel back and landed hard on my butt on his clean white tiled floor.

"Jesus." Crouching down in front of me, he held up his hands in a beceeshing way. I couldn't help sneaking a peak at his abs as they scrunched with his movement, his pecks rippling. Jesus was right.

"I couldn't care less about the door," his deep voice had my eyes flickering back up to his face. He was breath taking up close. Smooth bronzed skin and those eyes surrounded by long black lashes. I was having trouble concentrating. Not good.

"I am curious how you completely destroyed the lock, but I'm more worried about you turning up wounded and ..." I watched as he paused, his eyes glancing down towards my exposed chest, his adams apple bobbing as he swallowed softly. "...naked." Clearing his throat, he pulled his gaze away from my body.

At least I wasn't the only one affected. Warmth pooled in my stomach. Feeling suddenly daring, I let my knees fall open a bit and felt a thrill shoot through me when his eyes were pulled downwards with the movement. A pink hue colored his face before he yanked his gaze away, but it was enough to let me see the flash of manly appreciation darken his eyes at having a glimpse of my womanly petals peeking out at him.

Glancing down I noted with satisfaction that my pink sensitive flesh was free of grim, glistening from being out in the rain. Hell part of my wetness was probably caused by him. I hadn't even thought about being filthy down there before I wantonly spread for him.

"Where are you bleeding?" his gruff voice had my knees snapping closed and a blush to grace my own cheeks. What was wrong with me?

Swallowing loudly, I sat up straighter and covered my breasts with my hands noticing that pieces of the apple I had been holding now stuck to my hand. Apparently I had crushed the apple in my fall.

"My leg," I whispered, turning my mud covered face away in shame.

His large hand suddenly appeared in front of my face and I instantly flinched back, dropping my hands to scramble back a few inches. Stealing a weary glance at him, I caught his face drop. Sadness and something else shined in his eyes before they smoothed out, looking calmly back at me.

"I won't hurt you. I'm not the kind of man who would. The gun is put away and I apologize for startling you. I honestly wasn't expecting to find a woman in my kitchen so late," lifting the hand he still held out, he continued, "let's get you cleaned up and bandage your leg. There's enough blood on the floor that I'm concerned that it's serous."

We stared at each other, me assessing him while he patiently waited with his hand outstretched for me to make a decision. Pushing down the sudden bout of nerves, I started to reach for his hand but stopped when I noticed how truly dirty my hand was. I honestly didn't want to ruin his beautiful skin with my grunge.

Seeming to have read my thoughts, he gave me a soft smile that made my heart skip a beat. "It's only mud and I don't bite."

He might not, but I did.

Nodding slowly, I let the fact that I was the one who was stronger give me courage enough to gently take hold of his hand. The moment our palms met a jolt of electricity shot up my arm, making me gasp out in surprise. His own gasp followed mine, his hand locking around my smaller one just when I would have jerked away.

"You're a wolf," he murmured in a husky voice, those three small words leeching the blood from my face.

I stared at him as panic made my heart thump in a frenzed rhythm in my chest, my breathing coming quicker at the thought of having walked into the enemy's own house. Was he one of those twisted bastards? God help me. Was he alone?

Tugging forcefully against his rather resistant grip, the panic blossomed into full out terror. Fuck me. His strength matched my own and then some.

"Please, don't send me back," tears burned at my eyes as I tried to pull back with my full weight pulling against his secure, but not painful hold on me. "Please. I'd rather die then go back there."

He seemed to freeze, his hand tightening momentarily around mine. Dark brows scrunched over startled green eyes as he stared at my frightened trembling form pulling against him. Puzzlement battled with his shock before the green of his eyes slowly bled to a pitch black swirl of emotion.

"What do mean by that? Did your Pack do this to you?" his voice came out a growl so deep that my entire body locked up.

Understanding dawned on me. After all these years of believing I was some lone survivor of my species, I had finally come across someone else who carried more in their body then just blood. Not only had I found a wolf, I had found an Alpha and he was pissed.

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