A Little Green Magic (The Little Coven #1) - Isabel Wroth Page 0,33

hit the ground running. The roar that tore out of him might as well have been a battle cry.

“Shit,” the ranger hissed. It was impressive, the way McManus leapt up and over his truck to give himself time to change, but Uriah wasn't deterred by something as trivial as a half-ton pickup.

He flipped it like a pancake with one massive paw to get at the lion rising up from a pile of shredded clothes. From one minute to the next, a full on battle happened in the front yard.

The level of violence was unlike anything Ivy had ever seen, the roaring, snarling, and vicious yowls made Ivy’s skin crawl.

Blood splashed across the green grass as teeth and claws came into play; Uriah clearly doing his best to kill the intruder, McManus struggling to evade the bear's brutal advance.

As a group, the girls skittered out of the way when McManus gave a twist of his flexible spine and slipped out of range, leaping and bounding away, using the oak by the house as a spring board to land on the first-level roof.

Uriah came up on his back legs with a furious bear bellow, eye level with the golden lion.

“Get your bear, Ivy! Get your freaking bear before I lose my shit!” Rowena shrieked, stepping away from the knot of witches to fearlessly shake her fist at the two beasts. “The first one of you bastards to wreck my house is cursed!”

Fearing Rowena's rage more than the two shifters duking it out, Ivy hustled to get between her coven leader and her mate.

The bear took a swipe at the lion, but McManus danced out of the way, the roof giving an ominous creak beneath his enormous weight.

“Uriah,” Ivy called out to him, not daring to get too close when he was so riled up. “I need you, Uriah. Please, you can kill him later if it's really important to you, but if he breaks the roof, Rowena will make sure you never get another erection. Ever. I have a problem with that.”

The bear curled his lip but took two lumbering steps back and reached down to grab her up like she was a doll, snuggling her against his hairy chest while he kept both eyes focused on McManus.

Uriah backed up with her all the way to his truck, not setting her down until the truck was between them and where McManus was still perched on the roof.

Uriah began his shift while Ivy looked over her shoulder to see Rowena shaking her fist at the lion. “Get your hairy ass OFF. MY. ROOF!”

McManus didn't obey until Uriah fully shifted and hopped into a pair of pants that he'd jerked out of his truck. Uriah's aggression was still out in full force, but his hands on her were gentle when he cupped Ivy's elbows and bent his head to search her face.

“Are you alright?”

Ivy tried to stem the wobbling of her lip, bombarded with too many shocks and emotions all at once.

“No, but not because of him. He showed up just a few minutes before you.”

Obviously worried, Uriah ran his hands up her arms, drawing her in to hug her up tight. McManus made the mistake of opening his mouth, and the muscles beneath Uriah's skin turned to stone.

“What the fuck, Uriah?” McManus demanded with a furious wave of his arms. “I came down here to do my job, and you bust medieval on my ass for no damn reason?”

“Wrong,” Uriah growled, his voice having dropped an octave or two. “You are not here. You are not anywhere near my mate.”

McManus gave a blink, seeming unconcerned about the bleeding puncture marks on his shoulder and upper arm where Uriah had taken a chunk out of him. Red ribbons streamed down the Ranger's skin, dripping off his fingertips into the grass.

Ivy did her best not to stare at the rest of him, all naked and completely unconcerned about it, but when he set his hands on his hips and took a wide stance, it was unavoidable. She looked and saw his enormous cock dangling like a battering ram between his powerful thighs.

Uriah was plenty big, but even soft, McManus was bigger. Ivy glanced over to where Juliet stubbornly looked everywhere but at the naked shifter. When she caught her coven sister's eye, Ivy let her brows hike up to express her shock and amazement that Juliet wasn't dead after having taken that monster for a ride. Juliet scrunched up her nose and rolled her eyes