Alpha Howl (A BBW Shifter Werewolf MC Romance) (Sons of Thunder MC: Book 2) Read Online Free

Promised Land?
    “I’m dangerous. You should avoid me.” You came to my house to tell me to stay away from you? There’s a comedy skit. It’s called Really?
    My face burned with a searing flush of rejection.
    “You said I shouldn’t fear you at the beach. Now that you’ve planted your sandy butt on my couch, you say you’re dangerous?”
    I leaned my head back.
    Karl held out his hands. “I’m complicated.”
    In my pocket, I kept my finger close to my phone’s number six key. It’s programmed to dial 911 with one push.
    “Shit, Karl, murder me and take all my meat. I have some prime rib in the freezer. That’s what you wolves really want us for, right? Easy meat?”
    His brows dove for the bridge of his nose and his top lip lifted like he might growl.
    I laughed.
    He laughed then too, and I knew I was safe. Serial killers never have a good sense of humor.
     

ten
     
    “Look. You saved me. I guess you’re not going to kill me, or you would have left me out there, with those men.”
    His eyes clouded and his brow furrowed.
    “You don’t understand, Grace—”
    “Karl,” I cut in, “I’m a big girl. I can handle you.”
    “I’m different, Grace. I need things most people think are strange.”
    “I know you’re strange. You like kinky sex and you turn into a were…a weir…a wolf-thing.” I stopped, out of breath. “I hope there isn’t something else I don’t know about you?”
    He didn’t say anything.
    “I don’t care. I never felt anything as good as last night.” My voice wavered and my hands trembled. “I like you.”
    “I like you too.” My heart thumped, skipping. He said he liked me!
    “Still, you would be safer if you stayed away from me.”
    He ran his fingers through his hair, tousling the golden strands.
    “My life is…trouble. Dangerous people are after me, and not all of them are actual people.”
    He grimaced, showing deep lines I’d never noticed before around his eyes and his lips.
    “I have enemies who live to warm their paws at my funeral pyre, and if you’re with me, you’ll have them too.”
    Karl could have said a million things when I told him I liked him. The nice guys I usually dated would have made some silly joke. Telling me to stay away because he cared about me was not a line any guy tried on me before. I had to know more. I had to keep him around until I learned his secrets. All his secrets. Telling me about his powerful enemies just made me want to be with him more.
    “I’m not scared, Karl. I can hold my own in a fight.”
    Not really. Or maybe I can, but I’ve never had to. So, I have no idea. I definitely identify with girls who can, though.
    If pressed, I would go all Viper of Dorn on whoever tried to hurt Karl.

eleven
     
    “I’m sorry I left so abruptly last night.”
    “You were smart to leave. Like I said, I’m bad news. A rough beast.”
    Ok, that’s the third time.
    “Slouching toward Bethlehem?”
    He gave me a surprised look. “You know poetry?”
    “Literature and technology are my two passions.”
    He smiled. “Just two?”
    “I’ve enough trouble satisfying those two.”
    “So you are a woman of few passions, indulged deeply.”
    “Sounds like a quote. I don’t know who by?”
    “Quoted from the life works of Karl Norman. I haven’t written them yet, so I’ll forgive you for not recognizing the line.”
    “You’re funny.” I leaned my head back and half shut my eyes, giving him the hairy eyeball. “So, just how bad news are you? Will you turn me into a were…thingy?”
    “Nothing like that, no. I’m not going to change you into something else.”
    Maybe not, but you have changed me into someone else. The Grace from a few days ago would never imagine herself sitting here with a man who shifts into a beast when he gets excited.
    “I need you to sign an agreement before I tell you more.”
    Time for the Really? show again.
    Karl spread his hands in a gesture of helplessness. I got the sense that he was not made