“How do you know about that?” Holy shit was he one of the kidnappers? Cold fear flooded her veins.
His face grew grim. “I knew about the kidnapping. In fact my brother told me they were planning to take you and wanted me in on it.” He shook his head. “But I said no. And then Jayden comes along. That motherfucker killed my brother. Broke his neck.” Mark’s eyes shifted to yellow as he snarled.Haley felt the blood drain from her face. It all hit her at once. Mark’s scent, his familiar face. She had only caught a glimpse of her potential rapist before Jayden came in and killed him. It had been dark and she’d been so scared that she hadn’t really paid attention.
“He was your brother?”
“Yes.” Mark glared at her. “My twin.”
“But, how did you … I mean, I would have recognized your….”
“My scent?” He chucked darkly. “I camouflaged my scent on the rare occasions I was around you.”
“But wouldn’t Dana have recognized your scent?” Red werewolves had a very distinctive odor.
“You’d be surprised how much a desperate female will overlook.” Mark arched his eyebrow. “Besides I made sure to spend a lot of time in the cadaver room. The formaldehyde scent covers just about every kind of smell you can think of.”
Haley swallowed the lump in her throat. “But, Mark, you were going to be a doctor. And doctors help people. Not hurt them. You still have time. Just let me go.”
Mark gave her a look of amusement. “That’s sweet. You have this all figured out in that pretty little head of yours.”
His amusement faded. “It’s not that easy. It never is. It didn’t start out this way, you know. I started following you after you left LSU. It seemed to fill the void left from my brother. I really did love you, Haley.”
“Did.” She swallowed.
“It changed when Jayden entered the picture. If you had just kept quiet I would have been able to court you, to make you feel what I feel about you. I knew you were untouched, still a virgin.” His gaze hardened. “But you had to go and tell Barrett. And he assigned my brother’s murderer to guard you.” Mark looked up, the muscle in his cheek twitching. “Do you know how much that hurt seeing you with him? With the one who killed my brother?”
“Mark, please…” Haley backed up a step, her mind going a million miles a minute. She didn’t have any more time. She was going to have get herself out of this mess.
“If you had just waited, but no, you listened to his lies and let him touch you.” His hand clenched around the gun and his free hand hit his upper thigh in a rhythmic motion.
“You shouldn’t have been such a whore, Haley. Maybe then I could have loved you again. And now you don’t give me a choice. After I fuck you I’m going to send you back to Jayden in pieces.”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Jayden shifted back into human form the second the cabin came into view. He grabbed the gun out of the holster and dialed Barrett as he ran toward the house.
“I’m here.” He hung up. He had broken protocol by disobeying Barrett’s orders to wait. He’d deal with the fall out of that later.
If there was a later.
The scent of red wolf stung his nose as he passed the piece-of-shit truck.
He heard Haley’s voice and held his breath as he leapt onto the porch and shoved his way through the door. Wood splintered and groaned as he went straight through the fucker.
Mark turned, clearly startled before leveling the gun at Jayden.
Jayden rushed him, tumbling them both to the floor. Jayden’s gun skidded across the floor. Haley screamed and then a gunshot rang out. He tightened his grip around Mark’s hand and shoved the gun across the room.
He glanced up to make sure the bullet hadn’t hit Haley. She stared back at him with terror in her eyes, her face as white as a sheet.
“Haley, are you okay? Are you hit?” He wanted to go to her, but he couldn’t let go of Mark “Jayden,” she whispered. She pointed at him.
He glanced down into Mark’s face thinking he’d killed the other brother as well. Instead of a death mask, Mark was smirking.
Jayden frowned.
“How’s this feel?” Mark punched Jayden right in the gut. Pain rippled through him, white-hot and fiery. Jayden looked down at the blood across his abdomen.
He’d been shot.
Jayden held back his groan. He tightened his grip on Mark.
“Haley, get out of here. Now!” Jayden screamed. He had to make sure she was safe.
Mark grinned and dug his finger inside the gunshot wound. Jayden grabbed his arm, but his hand was slick with blood and he slipped out of his hold. Mark arched and tossed Jayden off him and stood.
Jayden grabbed his side and stood, keeping himself between Mark and Haley.
Mark laughed. “This is perfect. You get to watch me fuck her before I kill her. What do you think about that, asshole?”
A feral growl erupted throughout the cabin shaking the windows.
Jayden thought at first it was Barrett coming in from behind him, but a sudden dizzying flash of petite gray fur had him rethinking.