CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

“Mate?”

This time Ted looks at me, visibly shaken before looking back at Lucas, “You took Sarah as your mate? Don’t you know she can’t shift?”

His words are deliberately cruel but they hurt none the less as if the fact that my wolf is trapped within my body makes me less of a human.

“I know,” Lucas says, steadily and I can feel a thread of cold anger in him as he adds. “It doesn’t matter to me. Sarah is smart, resourceful and kind. Why wouldn’t I want someone like that to be the mother of my pups?”

Ted flinches at his words and casts a guilty look towards me which I just ignore. Rejection and disdain from my own pack mates, who once loved me, is something I have to now live with. When I was brought back the first time, I had avoided everyone unless I absolutely couldn’t avoid it and hence, I had only interacted with a handful of the pack.

My gaze wanders over to two of the soldiers and I recognise them as being the ones who had grabbed me when Hunter had banished me. The