Elijah: Calhoun Men _ Erotic Paranormal Wolf Shifter Romance by Kathi S. Barton Page A

can get you a few dozen of them.”
    “Not a chicken egg, you idiot. An egg from your body. You are a female, right? You do know your own reproductive system, right? Christ woman, we can’t use chicken eggs for you to have a child by. Not even a chicken for that matter.”
    She might not have killed him had he not laughed. And for so long. It had taken her nearly a week to find this fool, and in two minutes, he was dead. Not that his death hadn’t been fun, but it was over and she’d had to go and find another guy. The fucking bastards weren’t as plentiful as she had thought they would be.
    The second guy had told her the same thing. It wouldn’t work. And when she’d asked him about the egg, he’d explained it to her. They needed an egg that was produced from her body for the child to grow in. Then they would put it back inside of her and she’d have a child.
    “I don’t have anything like that.” He nodded. “No, I don’t. I have nothing in me like a human has. Just magic. The rest of it was useless to me, so I removed it.”
    “You must have a heart. Everyone has a heart.” She told him that the only heart she had in her was the one she’d eaten before going to get him. “I don’t understand.”
    “I ate it. The last man who laughed at me, I killed him, then ate his heart. But this thing with the eggs, there is no other way to make it work?” She handed him the book she’d found in her ruined lab and noticed the horrid look on his face. Good, she thought. She loved the terror of others. “Basil, the other lab guy, he took notes. He said that he made sure that all his findings were right here.”
    The man had read over the book for several seconds and handed it back to her. “This won’t help anyone. It’s about you, and his tricking you into paying him to work on a lost cause. He goes on to say how stupid you are as well.”
    “Read it to me. Tell me what he said.” The man took the book back and read three sentences before she snatched it back from him. “There is no way that he was lying to me. I got him everything that he needed. Everything.”
    “Well, apparently he was selling off some of that too. And so you know, he thought you were going to kill him. My favorite part is where he says that at one point he had you bring him eggs, and that you brought him ones from a chicken. He put them in the incubator and then took the chick home for his children. Are you really that stupid?”
    This time her rage was consuming. Not just of the man in front of her but the buildings surrounding the one she’d set up. As she left the wreckage, the place blowing up different areas around it, she took the book and went to her home. It was the only place that calmed her when she was like this.
    Helenia walked around her lair. There was so much stuff in the room, furniture that had taken her fancy, jewelry that she’d liked, and even a few things that she still had no idea why she’d bothered with it. But she couldn’t part with it. Any of it. The things here calmed her.
    Reaching out to her alpha, she wanted him to kill. She might not be able to see him do it, but she could feed off his rage for a few minutes. When nothing touched her, not any part of the alpha, she tried harder. There wasn’t anything there. It was as if he’d been killed.
    “No. I won’t have that. I found him first.” Going out into the night, she reached further, far beyond where she thought he’d be. When she found Noah she nearly moved on, but he spoke to her.
    Helenia. Causing trouble, are you? I think that, on several occasions, you’ve been warned to behave. She told him to fuck off. I think not. If you were the only thing...and I do mean thing…left on this earth, I would not touch you. I’d rather meet the sun.
    I can do that for you. I have the power of several suns. You just stay where you are and I’ll come there to show you. You should have been dead long ago. Noah asked her why. I heard from Dante that you