Outfoxed by Love (Kodiak Point Book 2) (20 page)

How long he ran, Gene couldn’t have said. But no matter how far and how long he fled, Boris’ damning words rang through his head.

“I forgive you.”

The nerve of the moose. As if he had anything to forgive. If anything, Boris should have begged Gene for forgiveness. Instead he’d apologized and absolved him.

Who the fuck did that? Gene had done bad things. He’d intentionally set out to hurt the men he once loved as brothers. He’d generated terror and pain and fear among the people living in Kodiak Point
, all in the name of vengeance.

By all rights, Boris, cold
and calculating Boris, who never hesitated to shoot when they’d faced enemy troops, should have ended Gene’s life back on that impromptu battleground. But his old army buddy chickened out and instead of killing the moose for his lack of nerve, Gene let his emotional demons send him fleeing. He fled for the ice plains, alive, for now.

I might still die yet.

In siding with Boris to save Jan so Gene could have his chance at a fight, he had done the unforgivable. He’d intentionally acted against
his
plan. It wasn’t enough that Gene walked out without a word of where he was going, no longer interested in the plot to overthrow Reid and take over the clan at Kodiak Point. Gene had actively fought against
his
army.

That would not go over well at all if the one who’d dragged him from the desert ever
found out. And
he
would.
He
always did.

Gene feared few people. He could count them on one hand; the devil when he came to collect his due, his mother
, who would have skinned him alive for what he’d done, and
him
.

If the devil was the world’s scariest demon, then
he
was the devil’s brother. An enemy like no other. While Gene knew what to expect, the others didn’t. They might have glimpsed but they certainly had never encountered someone with a core of evil so great, so encompassing, it was a wonder the very foliage didn’t wilt under
his
feet.

If Gene ever encounter
ed
him
again, he had no doubt he’d die. Probably painfully, unlike the merciful and quick death Boris could have given him.

Stupid
, rotten jerk.

Forgiveness.
As if. Just for that, Gene would return, bigger and badder than ever. Eventually. Maybe. But not right yet. First, he needed some time to himself, a moment to regroup and plan.

And he knew just the place to do that.
A place where a polar bear could frolic in the cold ocean waves. Sunbathe on sea ice. Catch the freshest fish.

Avoid a pesky—yet cute
—little human intent on tagging him and studying his habits for a research piece.

So much for his vacation plan
s. How was he supposed to plot revenge when he couldn’t shake the persistent woman with her camera and inquisitive mind, charting his every move? She was a shifter’s worse nightmare and a man’s wet dream.

I swear, i
f she doesn’t leave me alone, I’ll eat her.
And he didn’t mean for dinner.

The End of this story.

To see what happens next, keep an eye open for
Polar Bared
.

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~ Eve

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