Read Online Preternatural: An Erotic Paranormal Romance Collection (3 Book Bundle) by Cara B. Connor - Free Book Online

expect her to come and live with a monster just because of those three words? That is so lame, he thought to himself.
    Lucas began pouring his his heart out to her, “Jennifer… without you, baby, I’m nothing more… than an awful monster… but your love… it has changed me… back into a man. Please, baby… give me one final chance… and come back. We can do this… I can do this… if you’ll just give me a chance. Please, Jen.”
    Lucas just lay there for a few seconds before he hung up, feeling like his chest was going to explode. Days went by with no answer from her, and eventually he just gave up. The will to live had finally left him. He had convinced himself that without Jennifer, he had nothing to fight for anymore.
    And then one day, as he lay there on the bed, he heard a key turn in the door knob and the familiar clicking of her heels on the hardwood flooring, and the sound of her bag hitting the countertop in the kitchen.
    I’m hallucinating, he thought to himself, I’m hearing things. But then she walked into the room, her arms crossed, looking unusually pale except for her eyes that were red from crying. She looked small and weathered, like she’d been through as much as he had.
    She kept her distance, not moving any closer. “I’m not going to pretend that I’m not afraid of you, Lucas,” she started, looking down at the floor, “because I am… but I won’t try to tell you that I can go on with my life after what I saw that night either. You broke a lot of things between us that night, good things… but I’m not saying this is going to work. This is a trial run only…”
    “Jennifer, I’ll do everything I can… I’ll try, whatever you want, baby.“
    She looked over to him then and their eyes met. A fire ignited in him he thought long dead, “I just can’t do this without you, Jen. I don’t want to.”
    Jen smiled a tiny smile and then stopped it before it grew too large, “I don’t know if I can do it with you either, but I have to try.”
    “Jennifer,” he whispered, as fresh tears streamed down his cheeks.
    She was back! He couldn’t believe it, but she was back! He would fight, forever, to beat the beast. With her, he knew it was possible. Looking at her now, he knew she was made just for him. Before him was a woman who would risk her life to be with the one she loved, no matter the consequences.
    He slowly sat up, supported himself with his hand on the bed and, with great effort, stood up next to the bed. Weak and wobbly, he just stood there hoping to move over to her, but he didn’t have the strength to do it…
    Jennifer just stood there looking at him, now more aware than ever of how much her absence had affected him. Tears flowed down her cheeks  as she immediately took four steps forward and embraced him in a tight hug, burying her face in his fuzzy neck, and supporting his frail frame as he tried to hug her back.
    She loved this man and she would not desert him, especially in his hour of need; and despite his being a werewolf. Jennifer had thought long and hard on it for weeks, and she knew that if her Lucas was given the liberty of choice, he would never have chosen this life for himself. She couldn’t help the animal in him but she could help the man. And she would, no matter what!

Calming the Wolf: An Erotic Paranormal Romance, Chapter 7
    10 months later … things were slowly getting better between the two of them.
    Lucas arrived home after work. About a year ago they had been separated for almost that long it seemed like. It was the longest that they had ever been apart in over 6 years. They had fights before, but never resulting in separation, never even close. But they had finally gotten back together and were now healing as a couple.
    It was a slow process but he was nothing, if not ecstatic, about waking up every day with her by his side. Jen, however, was still not completely trusting of him as she had been before the event months ago, but they were