Familiar Desires: 5 (Protective Affairs) Read Online Free PDF Page A

It had looked very bad. They needed to
get over it. She hadn’t been behind that scene.
    “Well, we wouldn’t have run away.” Michael took a slow step
forward. “Regardless of whether the man was shifter or wizard he would have
been carried out of there and then we’d get to you. The connection between us
is too intense to be anything but the strongest kind of Familiar tie. We wouldn’t
walk away from it even if the relationship had a rocky start. You likely knew
that even then, but still left and didn’t return until now.”
    “Yeah, but I can do a lot more physical damage than you can
when I’m angry. With what I saw, I wasn’t thinking much beyond maul, maim and
tear. Along with that letter, it looked like you wanted nothing to do with me
and I wasn’t forcing anything on you. You didn’t want me. I wasn’t going to try
to make you take the role of my wizards.” Alana rolled her eyes.
    “We’re not quite so considerate. You are our Familiar and
you’ll be staying here. We will push you into the role.” Kane mimicked her pose
and crossed his arms as he stared down at her.
    “I’m here to do a job and when I finish I’ll be going home.
That’s not here. Not anymore.” She took a deep breath and resisted the desire
to get closer to him. This wasn’t the time to try to fix the problems in their
relationship. If this mission was serious, she wanted her mind clear and not
clouded with questions about their relationship or thoughts of sex.
    “No, you won’t. You should know better than this, Alana. We’re
not going to allow you to ignore the connection between you and your wizards
any longer.” Roger Davison’s voice cut in before Kane or Michael could answer. “And
you haven’t told us the name of the woman who severed the tie in the first
place.”
    She whirled around and bared her teeth at him. She barely
held back the snarl. “And I’m not going to tell you. I’m not a true Familiar
even though the linking occurred. So I’m not answerable to you.”
    “Can’t you order her to tell us what we want to know?” Roger
shot a glare over at the Shifter Council who’d sat quietly throughout the
exchange.
    “No, she did what she did while she was outside of the prowl
and pack. She wasn’t accountable to us in these last few years. She’s
technically still a member of the prowl, but unlike some who leave, she didn’t
have our protection because she went against our advice. We can’t order her to
talk about any part of that time and a lot of that is your fault.” Gail Thomas
looked over at the man and a small, satisfied smirk curved her lips. “You
wanted us to put pressure on her to come back.”
    Alana eyed the older woman and couldn’t hold back a grin.
Apparently Roger got on someone else’s nerves nearly as much as he did hers.
Gail was one of the few women on the Council and she’d earned that respect over
the years. Alana had always admired her. That grew now and not only because she
was denying the wizard what he wanted.
    “If we had any right to do it, we would, Alana. Don’t make
the mistake of thinking that we’re on your side here because of this. You have
wizards and you should be with them. It’s time you stopped running.” Will
Emerson leaned forward and his blue eyes gleamed and shone in the light.
    She sighed. The man sure knew how to take all the joy out of
a situation. His eyes were even freakier than she remembered. Blue wasn’t that
odd an eye color for a wolf shifter like Will, but there was normal blue and
then there was the clear almost-transparent silver-blue of his eyes. It sent
chills down her back.
    “I know you would. You try to work with them when possible.
It saves me from having to disobey an order like that.” She turned to the Witch
Council. “I’m not telling you anything about the person who did the spell for
me. What I did is none of your business.”
    “You’ll tell us eventually.” Roger leaned forward and
narrowed his eyes in what was