WolfsBlood

By Taabia Dupree

Taabia Dupree, Bestselling Book Author of Jessica's Obsession, wants readers to know that WolfsBlood has mature content.*

When Kaine Maccon left the Rocky Mountains, he thought he had turned his back on them forever. As fate would have it, his father falls ill, and he must return to claim his rightful place. Blood will spill, and old lovers will reunite, but for how long?

CHAPTER 1

Kaine sat at his desk and read his brother Aohdan's letter over.
[Kaine! Da is sick! You have to come back home. Aiden was told to not write. I was away and when I returned Da was down. Brother it hurts me to see him this way. I do not know if he will be in this world for long and it worries me. Rua Rainer has stepped up to help the young ones and my fur bunches to think me or Aiden overlooked because of how he is taking care of the young ones. Kaine come home! No more wasting time away. Ma is gone, and Da has been going downhill for years. He tells you only what he wants you to know. He knows you will not listen to anything else. Brother I am telling you, get your ass home. This time listen to me. Rua will take the lead if Da dies and our family will no longer rule these mountains.]

Kaine stopped reading, grabbed his keys off his desk and walked out of the office to his car.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Taabia Dupree
• Release date: Mar 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310705908

Taabia Dupree

Taabia Dupree was born in the United States and grew up on the Eastern Seaboard. Her love of books and anything with words came from her parents. As a young person, Taabia read anything she could get her hands on, from cereal boxes, to the Encyclopedia Britannica, to the National Geographic, to the business section of the local newspaper. Yet some of her favorite reads came from writers; L'Amour, Tolstoy, Eddings, Tolkein, Hugo, Wright, Dickens and Hemingway. In 1999, Taabia started writing erotic fantasy stories for online story groups. She self-published her first erotic story in 2011. Today, Taabia Dupree writes erotic short stories, mystery & psychological-thrillers, paranormal, and poetry.

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WOLFSBLOOD

BY TAABIA DUPREE

COPYRIGHT 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Smashwords Edition

This book has mature content, and it may not be suitable for those under the age of 18 years of age.

Acknowledgements

Thank you, Billy Thomas, Fiona Jayde, & Bruce Heinsius for my rocking book cover! Billy, I’m looking forward to seeing you on book cover number two.

Renee Waring, for all that you do, it’s much appreciated.

My cheer squad you know who you are and I would be here all day trying to type everyone’s name down. Almost every post I put up on Facebook, the cheer squad is there clicking away. They encourage, they joke, they laugh at my craziness with me, and one or more of them stays up and chats with me during my insomnia phases. Especially when I need that extra boost of motivation, they know when to send me inboxes to get me going.

Thank you, you all rock!

My on the spot beta-readers, you know who you are, thanks for being there whenever you are needed.

David Nicoll thank you for allowing me to use your fantastic music on my WolfsBlood book trailer.

A special smile and a nod to my Fav-Five muses.

To all of you who bought WolfsBlood, I thank you!

Enjoy.

Mom, this is book number two for the year. Keep smiling down on me.

Chapter 1

Kaine sat at his desk and read his brother Aohdan's letter over.

Kaine! Da is sick! You have to come back home. Aiden was told to not write. I was away and when I returned Da was down. Brother it hurts me to see him this way. I do not know if he will be in this world for long and it worries me. Rua Rainer has stepped up to help the young ones and my fur bunches to think me or Aiden overlooked because of how he is taking care of the young ones. Kaine come home! No more wasting time away. Ma is gone, and Da has been going downhill for years. He tells you only what he wants you to know. He knows you will not listen to anything else. Brother I am telling you, get your ass home. This time listen to me. Rua will take the lead if Da dies and our family will no longer rule these mountains.

Kaine stopped reading, grabbed his keys off his desk and walked out of the office to his car.

Once inside the car he slammed his fist against the window pane. He did not care that he’d hit the window so hard it shook.

He yelled, Da, what are you thinking letting that animal come near our clan?

Kaine pounded the steering wheel. His body was tense, and his blue eyes turned gray. He needed to calm himself he thought.

He got out of his car and walked away before he did any damage inside. Despite his temperament, he found himself headed in the direction of the nearby park.

For six years, Kaine stayed away from the Rocky Mountains. His father and brothers still lived near the stream at Oakea. The family was midway into the mountains but not too far up that the weather does not change. The cabin that his grandfather and grandmother built for their family still stood sturdy through tough winter storms.

Kaine's father, Stephan Maccon, and siblings helped keep the land around the cabin cleared and vegetated. The lower village’s townspeople stayed clear of particular paths in the mountains if they hiked. Anyone who walked close to that area would say the area above where they did not trespass was not feasible to vegetation. They also passed gossip around that it was dangerous for folks if they trekked higher up because there was a strange type of wolf that dwelled in that area.

Kaine’s grandmother, Stephan’s mother, who died several years before Kaine came into the world, loved her flower beds and tended them until she expected the first frost. She would fill their cabin with the scent of freshly cut wildflowers during their springs and summers. His brothers and sisters had separate areas to rest their heads, but when they were old enough they went off on their own. Mostly the boys, the girls lived nearby in the village of Oakea.

Kaine heard these stories over and over as he grew up.

As he walked closer to the parks edge, he watched children playing and mothers sitting nearby watching and chatting with others on benches. The park was near his office, and he usually went there to think. Today he went there to figure out what he would do about his brother's letter.

His younger brother Aiden only twenty-one years old had a backbone, he heard, but not enough to take on someone like Rua Rainer. Aohdan, twenty-six, strong willed, but more of a nature lover like their grandmother, had not sufficient strength to take on any Rainer, Kaine thought. Perhaps one of the others in Rainer’s pack, but not Rua himself.

Anyone who took on a pack leader had to be as tough as Kaine’s father, and cocky. Willful wasn't enough; they had to be that assured of themselves to fight for what was right, and fight to kill if needed.

With a tensed body and balled fist, Kaine cursed his father. Dammit Da! Why did you have to get sick and not tell me? Why? Why is it so hard to speak to me? So I left! So I made a life for me! I deserved a bit of freedom. I worked hard to get where I am, and I refuse to....

He stopped. He knew his next thoughts would be lies, and he could not lie to himself. He wanted to say he would not go home. However, he knew if Rua took over as pack leader, the Maccon's would be shunned and run off their land.

Chapter 2

Kaine turned away from the children who agitated him, because they stirred up memories of his childhood. He hated most of the memories of his past, but some were not as bad.

Kaine, you listening to me boy?

A younger Kaine stopped throwing rocks in the stream and looked over at his father. He was a sturdy 160 pounds or more in wolf form. Kaine grinned at the wolf proudly. He knew his family was the only family in the Rockies that had pure wolf's blood. Kaine went through the change at an early age. He was not as strong as his dad, but he knew one day he would be as big.

His father came near him and pushed his body. Kaine laughed and sat next to the large wolf.

He closed his eyes and listened. His father talked to him. He learned about wolves that could speak to each other telepathically. That was the word his grandfather Cian taught him when he started school. He thought it a funny name....

Concentrate boy!

Kaine jumped. His father’s scolding always made him close to tears, but this time he lowered his head in shame and listened. He never wanted to disappoint his dad.

"We are a proud race. We have lived for over 5000 years. Wolf's blood has run through our veins since the beginning of creation; stories passed down from generation to generation, which is when our blood mixed with the wolves. The reason for us was so there would be a fierce and feared human race that could protect the land and the people that lived here in the mountains. As humans, we walk side by side, brother to a brother, but like a wolf, we do our job to protect these magnificent mountains.

Many of the Maccon's are of Irish ancestry with wolves’ blood. I always thought it a shame this is what makes a Rainer boil on the inside. They are of German-Irish descent, and this foolishness started in Ireland after sixteen hundred.

Our people descended from there, but others had already moved here to the Rockies

These people in Ireland found out about us through villagers who traveled through a small town. One old gentleman swore he saw a dangerous wolf turn himself into a man. He said that the wolf-man came to him and spoke to him in a friendly way.

The supposedly wolf-man said the area then was controlled by a deadly wolf that killed humans in sight. The man feared for his life and brought his wife and two children to the tavern in town. He told his story to anyone who would listen. Some of the villagers ignored him and thought he was a drunk.

It was a young shepherding Rainer that heard the story one day. He went straight away to tell his Da, and his Da gathered the boy’s uncles. They moved to the area the man spoke about and hunted for the wolf. Kaine, they found that wolf and killed him.

When his spirit left his body, he was no wolf. He had gone back to his human form. Let that be a lesson to you son. If you are ever injured, and then killed, your body goes back to its human form. My grandfather explained to me, about your age, we are from the earth and thereby we are sent back to the earth."

Stephan waited to see if his son had questions. If a wolf could smile, the large wolf would have, because of how proud he was of his son for being so attentive.

The ignorant bastards cut his body up. Dissecting it to see what was different about him. Butchered that man as if he had no worth.

Kaine shuddered when he heard his father howl and growl, but he did not open his eyes. He sat still and waited. He could feel his father’s anger. There was a touch he felt inside of himself. Kaine’s young body changed. He was no longer a young boy but a smaller version of his father. His father said, Let’s hunt!

He was a little frightened but ran after