Page 107 of Psycho Shifters
Slap.
The tingling cold intensified, and the hands shaking my shoulders refused to let me sleep. Why was my life so hard? Could the moon goddess give me a break, just once?
“Little alpha, don’t you dare go to sleep on me now,” Jax alpha-barked, and my eyelids fluttered open against my control.
“Whaa?” I tried to say “what,” but my lips were numb with cold, and they were tingling like the rest of my miserable body.
Snowflakes fell heavily around Jax, and even dying from frostbite, a part of me was shaken by how beautiful the large man was.
I was also jealous that he had been blessed with so many muscles and I had been barely given any.
“It is too cold. You can’t fall asleep. Your heart will stop beating!” Jax shook me with increasing ferocity as he stared down at me in concern.
He had me gathered in both his arms and pressed against his chest as he ran through the snow.
“Fabulous,” I garbled and let my neck fall back. It was too much effort to hold it up.
“You’re immortal but you’re young. I can’t risk it and this isn’t working. It’s too far,” Jax said mostly to himself.
Abruptly, he began to unzip his heavy coat and take off his massive sweatshirt.
My mouth lolled open, and I would have told him I was not feeling sexual, but I was too busy admiring his eight-pack and ridiculous V lines.
My eyes started to drift shut, and I wondered how many sit-ups I had to do to look like him.
“I’m going to tuck you against my chest for warmth. It’s the only way.” Jax maneuvered me against his naked chest. Somehow, he pulled his sweatshirt and jacket on top of both of us.
“One b-b-billion sit-ups,” I said with a manic giggle. My tongue was numb in my mouth, and the world was spinning.
“You’re losing it. Keep your eyes open, Sadie,” Jax alpha-barked again.
I giggled as his hoodie completely encased both of us. The head hole was too tight, so Jax leaned down and ripped it open so we could both fit.
“T-T-Two heads!” I pointed out helpfully and sighed at the delicious warmth wafting off Jax’s chest. It was so much better than the freezing cold.
It was also a good thing that Jax was a massive man, because his clothes were also massive. He easily put his arms through the jacket and zipped it up atop both of us.
I was completely curled up in a ball against his expansive chest, and he supported me with a hand across my backside.
With me cocooned against his warmth, buck naked, Jax sprinted faster through the forest. It wasn’t sexual at all.
Just one alpha giving another alpha heat.
The longer I was pressed against his warmth, the more my skin tingled with pain. Little pinpricks bit me everywhere, and I wished I had access to the numb.
Fucking John had really done it, dragging me out in the cold, ass naked. What a jerk. You really couldn’t trust shifters these days.
“Th-Th-Thank you,” I said softly as my teeth chattered from the cold.
As my core temperature was slowly heating, sanity was also returning.
The pain focused my brain, and the world stopped spinning around me.
“Where was John taking you?” Jax asked softly, and I sighed heavily in response.
I leaned my head against his chest. Cradled against him, I felt protected from all life’s evils. There were a lot of them.
I was also really grateful that Jax had been the one to find me. Cobra would somehow have spun it so that I was on John’s side, and would have found a way to blame me. He was always angry with me lately.