Moon Shifter 02 - Primal Possession

death.
    And she’d survived. Physically anyway. After a shifter bite, the transition from human to shifter was always quick. Either the human body survived or it didn’t. Which was why shifters rarely bit humans. And if they did, the possible repercussions and rules of pack life were fully explained to them. Becoming a shifter was a life-altering decision, one never taken lightly. Often humans turned feral and the changed human would have to be put down. But not Kat. She’d obviously been strong enough to withstand the change. He guessed her strong psychic mind had something to do with it, but they’d never know for sure. There wasn’t a science behind who survived a bite and who didn’t. The only ones who survived one hundred percent of the time were bondmates.
    Jayce had never been so consumed with the desire to hunt and kill as he was now. He hated himself forwanting to kill the man who’d saved Kat, but he did nonetheless.
    Aiden was now his enemy. Linked to Kat. To his woman.
    As he listened to the conversations around him, he gathered that the men who’d hurt Kat were dead. One in the woods by Ryan’s hands. One killed by Aiden. And one had been killed by the unconscious blond female in Ryan’s arms.
    Jayce should have been here sooner.
    Then he could have avenged what had happened to Kat. No one had come out and said how they’d found her. Just that she’d been near death and Aiden had bitten her to save her.
    For a moment his gaze strayed to the still unconscious petite blonde. She wasn’t tall like most Fianna warriors, but he knew that’s what she was. He could scent it on her. She must be the missing warrior the others had been looking for.
    “Everyone needs to shut the hell up!” Connor finally roared.
    Silence descended on the small group. Jayce couldn’t tear his gaze away from Kat. She clutched on to Aiden tighter and the other wolf did the same. When he leaned down and murmured something in her ear, pain screamed through Jayce’s lungs as if he’d been shot with pure silver. His muscles began to tremble. For a moment he couldn’t breathe.
    The possessive rage flowing through him burned like acid. He should be the one holding her. Not some stranger. Clenching his fists tightly, he tore his gaze away from them and turned to Connor. If he stared longer, he’d do something he’d regret.
    Like kill Aiden.

    December stared at Liam’s brother in trepidation. His dark eyes had turned even darker and his canines had protracted slightly. She didn’t think he’d hurt any of them, but he looked seriously pissed. And all she cared about was getting Kat out of there. Her friend might be healed, but after seeing her so bruised, so bloody, she could only imagine what she’d been through.
    Connor looked pointedly at the enforcer. “There’s a body just outside. Dispose of it.” Jayce took a step forward, as if to defy him, but Connor shook his head sharply. “You can’t help her now,” he murmured.
    It was obvious Connor meant Kat. December’s heart cracked for the other wolf. He’d been staring at Kat since the moment he’d entered the barn, and the pain on his face was so raw, so real, it made her want to cry for him too.
    Next, Connor looked at Erin as he pointed to one of the decapitated males. “You go with him and dispose of that one.”
    Once they both moved into action, he looked at Liam. “You and I have some digging to do.”
    December looked up at Liam in confusion. “What’s he talking about?”
    “There are bodies buried underneath here.” He stomped once with his foot. “Not killed by us and we don’t know who they belong to. We’re going to uncover them, then anonymously call the cops once we’ve disposed of the men we’ve killed.”
    “What about…” She glanced at her friend.
    “We don’t want anyone to know she was here. We’ve come up with a cover story, which we’ll go over with her later. We need to destroy any of her blood evidence too. Go back to the ranch with them.” He looked at Kat, thenat the dried blood on the wall and ground. “She’s going to need you right now,” he murmured.
    Liam reached out for a moment as if to cup her cheek, then jerked his hand back as if he thought she’d burn him.
    She looked at Aiden and Ryan. “I’ll be right behind you.”
    When the two men started to leave the barn, she grabbed Liam’s arm as he started pulling a shovel down from one of the racks. “We need to talk first.”
    “Now isn’t the