Watching Out For Fangs (The Cloverleah Pack Book 7) Read Online Free PDF

and lost him all in one afternoon, while he was unconscious. Josh needed some solitude to lick his wounds and come to terms with his new reality. It was going to suck big time, but he would do it.
    “I appreciate your support,” he said, pleased his voice didn’t waver. “Thanks for that and I’ll…I’ll let you know if anything happens.” Josh stood up. He was still a bit wobbly on his feet, but a shift would take care of that. What he did know was he had to get out of the pack house. He couldn’t stand the pitying looks from his friends a moment longer.
    “I’m gonna…patrol. I’m on patrol. I’ve got to go,” Josh managed to say, heading for the door.
    “Josh, you should eat something, you have just gone through a pretty major injury.” Kane’s voice was designed to stop him, Josh could hear the authority in his Alpha’s voice. But his need to run was growing and there was no way he could sit and eat at the table with friends who had witnessed his humiliation.
    “I promise I’ll get something later,” he said.  Quickly opening the door before Kane could say anything else, Josh pulled off his shirt. His jeans fell to the ground and moments later, Josh was in his wolf form heading for the trees like the hounds of hell were after him. And in the strangest way they were. Josh was determined to keep running until the humiliation of being rejected, the pain of being deemed unworthy and the anger Josh felt against Vadim for not even staying to reject him to his face while he was conscious was gone. He figured it might take some time. But without a mate in his future, Josh had all the time in the world.
    Back in the living room of the pack house the men were silent for a moment. It was Fafnir who spoke up first. “You’re all just going to let this happen? Isn’t there a good chance Josh will die once his wolf realizes the stupid vampire has let himself starve to death?”
    “There’s not much we can do but be supportive,” Kane said, his deep voice tinged with sadness. “I don’t want to lose Josh, and although the thought of having a bloodsucker in the pack gives me the creeps in all honesty, I would far rather welcome Vadim than see Josh suffer. But Atlanta is too far away and it’s not safe for any of us to go there, not after our last visit. You two and Dean would be in grave danger. Besides which Vadim seemed pretty adamant about rejecting the bond when he left, even though he knows he can’t feed. No one can be forced to mate with another and if Vadim has said no, which he has done so pretty equivocally this afternoon, then there is nothing we can do.”
    “Josh saved my life,” Fafnir pleaded, turning to Jax. “We owe him something. Can’t you see that?”
    “I do see it, Angel, you know I do. I would do anything to help Josh right now,” Jax said. “But I’m not sure that vampires feel the same way about mating that we wolves do and with Vadim leaving like he did – you heard Kane - mating has to be a two way choice. We can’t force him to accept Josh even if we dragged him back here in chains and locked them in a room together.”
    Fafnir looked at Aelfric who had a little grin on his face and Jax had a horrible feeling his two mates were plotting something.  He tightened his hold on both of them as if that would stop them doing something reckless.
    “Find out all you can about Vadim,” Kane said, including Diablo and Griff in his gaze. “Maybe…I don’t know. But Vadim introduced himself as Regent D’Arcy’s brother and yet I would swear looking at the man, Vadim is the older of the two. The Regent was a lot more insipid than Vadim appears to be. Do all the digging you can and see if we can come up with a reason why Vadim would walk away from Josh the way he did. Maybe it’s a vampire thing, or maybe Vadim is in some sort of trouble or something. But let’s find out all we can about this man before we go zapping into Atlanta and getting ourselves into more trouble.”