Mated to the Pack: Wicked Wolf Shifters

By J.K. Harper and Anna Craig

Wicked Wolf Shifters Serial, volume 1, part 4

***this is the final short novella of a serial. This is NOT a full-length book. Each title must be read in order.***

Cassandra Wakefield was a normal girl with a normal life...until she met wicked sexy wolf shifter Trevor Reginald. Her alpha male, smokin' hot mate. Oh, yeah. Get to have scorching, wild sex with this man forever? Um, yes, please. Then, just when things seemed to settle down, ugly wolf politics threatened everything. But Cassie is much stronger than she ever believed--especially when she discovers she has a secret weapon that might save not only her life, but her sexy mate's heart and soul as well.

Trevor Reginald absolutely doesn't believe in fate. Fate has let him down before, leaving him crushed and nearly broken. To hell with that. But when he meets Cassandra, he realizes that destiny is stronger than fate. Particularly when destiny is a curvy, amazing woman who is more than a match for his dark, hardened ways. His lovely Cassandra holds the key to his locked heart--if only he can allow her in before he loses not only himself, but the captivating woman who was destined to be his.

The final chapter in Cassandra and Trevor's story!

To the reader: This story contains hot sex with all the dirty details, naughty language, characters who say "oh, hell yeah" to the fun times, and shifter violence. If that isn't your thing, this story probably won't be either. But if all that sounds great, this short serial is for you!

Wicked Wolf Shifters reading order:

Trevor & Cassie:

Surrendered to the Pack

Claimed by the Pack

Taken by the Pack

Mated to the Pack

Tamsin & Jackson:

Ruled by the Pack

Hunted by the Pack

Destined for the Pack

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.K. Harper
• Release date: May 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386843023

Book preview

1

Cassie was falling.

Her stomach dropped with a sickening lurch as air whistled past her head. The sheer impact of having a wolf slam into her with full force was nothing compared to the sensation of gravity doing its thing on her body.

For the first time in her life, she felt light.

She also felt so shocked her fear seemed to fall away into space as well.

Trevor's howl rang in her ears, the pure horror and helplessness in it twisting her heart even as she hurtled toward the ground far below. Poor Trevor, she thought from some weirdly distant place. He'd just found her, and now he was about to lose her. Her sexy alpha sure was having a tough year.

Aliana's snarl slashed through the air, punctuated with a note of triumph.

Well, at least that bitch was going down with her. Literally.

In the next heartbeat, something sharp and really painful sliced across Cassie's leg. Aliana's snarl sounded again directly in her ear as they fell together, Cassie still tangled up with the wolf's body.

Pain, more shock, and something that felt a lot like anger flashed through Cassie. That wolf bitch had just slashed her with a claw. Still trying to hurt her, even though she was about to die anyway.

With a wrench, Aliana suddenly yanked herself back from Cassie, snarl-laughing in a kind of insane way. Her furry body tumbled off and away, flipping to the side and then down toward a ledge below the lip of the cliff.

As if she knew what she was doing. As if that fucking bitch had planned this.

How dare she.

Rage began to replace shock.

Cassie was alone in the empty air.

Falling.

Falling.

Falling.

The cliff she'd just been shoved over pinwheeled in front of her spinning vision, alternating with wild glimpses of sky. It really was a pretty sunset, Cassie thought, again from that distant place that didn't seem to be a part of her. She knew mere seconds were passing, but it felt like a thousand years. Such a pretty, colorful sky streaked with reds and oranges and pinks, swiveling around with flashes of the cliff and the ground far below her.

Hard ground. So very far below. Ground that was going to end her life. Her brand-new, crazy but amazing life. The life that had been getting bigger, better, more interesting than she'd ever imagined her life could be. The life she was meant to share with her mate. With Trevor.

Her very life.

Something hot, sharp, and determined spiked inside her, roaring up out of a place she didn't even know she had.

You will not die.

The words were hers but not hers. They sent a blast of willpower through her, sizzling through her every nerve.

No way. No fucking way was she about to die like this. She wanted more time with her amazing new mate, with her new life, and she wasn't going to get cheated out of it. Any of it.

She was going to live. No matter what it took.

Trevor's heart stalled for a moment before it seemed to explode in a crazed rhythm of beats, pounding in his chest with the fury of a charging wild boar.

NO! tore out of his throat, a deep, ragged scream of agony and denial at once. He lunged for the cliff, teeth already lengthening in his mouth as the wolf in him howled for release.

Strong arms caught him, latching onto his shoulders and chest. A foot simultaneously hooked his leg to send him sprawling to the ground.

Tamsin's fingers dug hard into his skin, refusing to let him go. He sensed her wolf-enhanced strength as she held onto him, combined with what must be an adrenaline rush from her own fear giving her a momentary burst of strength powerful enough to hold him, even if only for an instant. But he was already throwing her off and struggling to his feet.

Don't! The cliff is too high to survive a fall, even for us. Tamsin's breath heaved in a ragged gasp. She whispered, She's gone, Trevor. You can't save her.

Her voice was as pain-soaked as Trevor's soul felt. Coldness draped over her tone as well, lending it a glaze of ice he knew was pure shock.

Shaking his head, Trevor wrestled himself completely free of her desperate grip. He lurched toward the cliff, despite reason telling him she was right. But his wolf refused to believe it.

His wolf would do anything to save his mate. Anything at all.

Tamsin hot on his heels, Trevor reached the cliff edge, nearly overtaken by his wolf before he got there. His sister grabbed the back of his shirt before he could careen over the edge, her fingers grasping both cloth and fur as the shift rippled over him. He snapped with involuntary reflex as his fur pinched and pulled in her hand, his teeth seeking something to bite, something to latch onto and vent his engulfing rage and sorrow.

And his guilt. Crashing through him, galloping over every nerve he had. The seemingly endless old guilt drove him to sheer desperation as he prepared to launch himself over the cliff after his mate in a frantic attempt to save her. Desperately, pointlessly, he willed either of his earth-bound shapes to sprout wings so he could reach her in time.

Damn Tamsin and her grasping, clutching fingers. Refusing to let him also fall to his death, which would at least relieve him of the terrible burden of guilt he now held for the loss of not just one, but two mates.

Let me go, he snarled at his sister, completely wolf now. His canines snapped dangerously close to her still-human face.

And it was was her face that stopped him short. She ignored him, staring below the cliff, her expression beyond stunned. Lit by the sky's fire, her slack jaw and huge eyes were illuminated by more than just the sun's dying light.

Look, Trevor, Tamsin whispered. Her voice strangled on itself as she pointed below them. Look!

Now, that same strange voice deep within Cassie whispered. Now, I live.

She had no idea what that meant. But she felt, with a sudden, excruciating pop, exactly what happened next. Everything simply—changed.

She changed.

She...shifted.

Her nose grew longer. Her teeth grew longer and sharper. Her bones and flesh and hair and eyes and skin and limbs all changed,