Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 33372 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33372 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
He’d always been in charge of his wolf. Always. But he felt compelled to move.
Pushing the sultry woman’s hand off him, he moved down the line, and that was when he saw her.
Long, blonde hair that didn’t even look like it had seen a brush. He spotted some twigs and a few leaves that were weaved in the strands.
The voice, though, was hypnotic. She wasn’t paying him any attention. She just stood, bouncing on her feet, on the spot, running fingers through her hair, giving a soft hum.
Rose must have seen his intention, because the woman turned, and that was when he saw the shocking blue eyes, sharp and stunning at the same time, as she looked at him.
Once he was closer, her scent made his mouth water. Wrapping his fingers around her neck, he didn’t squeeze, couldn’t control himself. He pulled her close, pressed his face against her neck, and breathed in deeply.
Heaven—that was what he smelled.
Against all the fucking odds in the world, he’d come to Westblood for peaceful understanding, and right here, right now, he had found his mate.
Pulling away, he stared into her eyes, and was about to say the words to Will that he’d take her. The woman in his arms opened her mouth, and he waited for her to say that she’d found her mate as well, only she screamed instead. A scream of fear.
He couldn’t believe it and then, right before his eyes, his woman—his mate—was pulled from his arms. Rose stood in front of him, as did Gale, Sean, Ben, and a few of the pack. What the fuck was happening?
His own pack sensed the threat and were at his back, ready to fight.
They were trying to hide his mate from him and his wolf wasn’t having any of it. He kept demanding to be let out, but Rage had a lot more control.
He spotted Patricia, Will’s wife, going to his mate, pulling her against him, and that was it. With a hand on Rose’s arm, he pushed her out of the way.
The three boys may have come from an alpha’s loins, but they were not as strong as him, and he swatted them away as if they were nothing but flies. He pushed everyone out of his way, and then Will was in front of him.
“Rage, you must stop this,” Will said.
The other alpha was strong, but Rage knew, against him, he didn’t stand a chance.
“She is mine,” he said, growling. “Who is she? Why did she scream?”
“Her name’s Karina,” Will said. “She is my young daughter, and Rage, she is also … a human.”
Chapter Two
“Well, that escalated quickly,” Karina said, sitting on her bed. She couldn’t help but wrap her fingers around her neck where he’d touched.
There was no pain, just a hum, like she knew he’d touched her, which he had. Not hard either, but possessive. It was kind of hot and sexy, and yet very alarming. One moment, Rose had been scolding her for humming, the next second the alpha was in front of her, hand wrapped around her neck, and then everything got kind of fuzzy.
She knew she screamed. Who wouldn’t? That had been a pretty scary experience.
“Do you feel anything?” Rose asked.
“Silly, mostly. I screamed. Is Daddy going to be upset with me? I know humming can get on a lot of people’s nerves, but I was so bored, and I don’t even know why I had to join the whole lineup.”
Rose came to her and took her hands. “You don’t realize he chose you.”
“Nah, that is not … no way, you can’t…” Rose kept giving her a strange, pointed look, that made her stop and frown. “You can’t be serious.”
“I don’t know exactly what happened, one moment he was talking to Felicia, and you know what she’s like.”
Karina shrugged. Yes, it was known that Felicia would spread her legs for any man willing to have her for the night. She didn’t like to trust vicious rumors, though, they tended to be a massive error in judgment, at least in her experience.
“The next moment, you started to hum and he came to you, because he chose you. I don’t think it’s just down to the humming, though. I’ve only ever seen men who are … mated, do that.”
“Mated! That can’t be possible. There is no way I can be mated to him. I’m not even a wolf. I don’t turn into a wolf. I don’t have any special abilities. I am useless.”
“You’re not useless.”
“I’m the only one here that has to take cold medicine, Rose. Don’t try to pretend otherwise. I am, for all intents and purposes, useless. You can pretend all you want, but we both know I am.”
“You’re not, and I swear I will bite you if you keep saying horrible shit about yourself,” Rose said.