His Arrogant Human Mate novel Chapter 3

All I had to do was get up front, grab my bike, and go. Part of me wishes I still had heelies, cuz then I wouldn't have to waste time by getting the bike. I'd just roll into freedom.

I tiptoed around the side of the house. I just made it around the corner to the front, peering around. No one was up there. But I should have noticed the sound of footsteps approaching me immediately. By the time I realized I was being snuck up on, a hand slapped over my mouth and my back was roughly pinned to the bricks of the pack house.

Dickwad stood over me, his eyes a deep black, the first sign of a wolf about to shift. "Sugar..." His chest rumbled.

A shudder ran through me and I shut my eyes. This was it. I was dead. At the hands of my greatest enemy, who would probably end me as he cooed that wretched pet name.

"You like a little chase, human?" He whispered threateningly, his breath feathering on my face. "I know I do. I'll give you a ten-second head start."

I shook my head wildly, trying feebly to pull his hand off of my mouth. "Hands down, dammit!" He snapped, my body obeying immediately. "What did I tell you no less than an hour ago?"

His hand removed from my mouth slowly, letting me talk. "N-not to es-escape," I squeaked.

"And what were you doing?"

"Um..." Think up a lie! Make something up. "I was try-trying to get some air, that's all. I-it was stuffy and there were a lot of Shifter's-"

His hand clamped over my mouth again and I whimpered as his face came closer to mine, our noses bumping together. "Lies."

With his cold gaze boring into mine, all my body knew to do was nod in submission. "Since you like to run, we'll play my favorite little game. You're my prey, and I'm hunting you. You have ten seconds."

"Ten?!" I yelped.

He released me. "Nine."

"But-"

"Eight."

I shrieked and sprinted towards the woods, my mind flipping through possible hiding places when I heard the horrifying sound of flesh tearing and bones snapping.

I didn't know he was going to shift! That's no fair! I'm good as dead now!

I glanced behind me, and through the gaps in the trees I could see the massive, heaving form of a dark brown wolf, eyes blazing a fiery orange. His tongue wetted his muzzle before he snarled.

I made a half-hearted attempt at crawling away, but his massive head butted my side, flipping me onto my back, belly up. Just like a submissive runt.

"You're a fool, sugar. A plain, mundane fool," he muttered as he shifted back, kneeling above me. "I don't take kindly to disobedience. Not even from humans. And I'm tired of hearing you call me Dickwad. If I didn't find you so amusing, I'd have killed you by now."

I panted wildly, trying to get air back in my lungs from the chase and the fall. "I will have to think up a punishment suitable for an ungrateful human like yourself. What do you think, sugarbaby? How should you be punished?"

I shook my head, trying to roll over, but he easily held me down. "No. While we wait for your Alpha and my second to arrive, you will remain like this. I want them to see what I've reduced you to."

"M-my hip. Can I please just look at my hip?" I grumbled.

Dominic held my thigh and turned my bottom half, pulling my soaked shorts down to expose my hip - which took the force of the fall. He pressed a thumb straight into the sore spot, and I cried out in pain, trying to smack him away.

"Bruised the bone. Poor thing. That'll hurt to walk for a while. Days, without using a Shifter's blood to heal," he claimed.

I gagged at the thought. "I'd rather it hurt for months."