Howling Sacrifices (4 page)
“It’ll hurt more if ye fight it.”
“Fight what?” She yanked her arm from his grasp and stumbled back. The pain was unbelievable, as if every bone and organ and muscle in her body was shifting, warping, changing. She fell to her knees and bent over, clutching her stomach.
She leaned forward to retch, aware that the fingers she curled into the earth had grown impossibly sharp claws. She closed her eyes against the short, wiry hair that suddenly covered her arms.
A scream echoed in the night, but turned to a crazed howl halfway through.
Lucy realized it had come from her.
“Welcome to the world of myth and legend.”
She tried to speak but couldn’t. Her muzzle pointed toward the stars and she howled once again.
“Ye make a beautiful black wolf, my adventurous girl.” He got down on one knee before her. When he held out his hand, she snapped her teeth and snarled, but he reached over her head. The fingers he buried in her new fur felt so good she stood still and let him touch her.
“Come run with me, brave Lucy. Run with me for always.”
A moment later there was no more Dougald, just like there was no more Lucy. Only two wolves. One dark and one light.
Running together under the Highland moon.
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J.K. Coi is a multi-published, award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She makes her home in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and son and a feisty black cat who is the uncontested head of the household. While she spends her days immersed in the litigious world of insurance law, she is very happy to spend her nights writing dark and sexy characters who leap off the page and into readers’ hearts.
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