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The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE
It’s been a long morning out on the beach. We’re training wolf shifters, which mean we’re a bit more casual and friendly with them, more open about who we are, than when we’re with human clients. But this group has been slow to warm up to us. They’re from a wolf pack out in Maine, sent out by their Alpha to train with us, and it’s clear that not all of them were too thrilled to spend a few weeks out in California getting run ragged by Jasper and me.“It’s miserably hot out here,” one of the shifters whines as he grabs a towel and wipes his face. Santa Cruz isn’t exactly a tropical paradise, but there’s no shade out on the beach, and it’s probably warmer than wherever they’re from in Maine.“We can go for a swim in the water later,” I promise him, handing him a fresh water bottle.“That’s too cold,” he says.“Not in wolf form,” I tell him. “Have you ever gotten in the ocean as a wolf?”He shakes his head. “Always figured the salt water would be bad for my fur. Plus, the o
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX
Zach and Orsina don’t have any idea who the wolf shifters were who tried to attack them in Serpent’s creek.But I think I do.“Let me see that again,” I ask, gently taking Zach’s arm and inspecting the burn from the wolfsbane weapon. “You said it smelled bad?”“Awful,” Zach says, wrinkling his nose at the memory.“I couldn’t smell anything,” Orsina says with a baffled shrug.“That’s because it was wolfsbane,” I tell them. “It’s an incredibly dangerous magical herb that can kill or severely weaken werewolves. You were lucky to make it out alive.”Zach and Orsina seem to share my relief at their well being. They lean in on each other, arms around each other’s shoulders.“There’s only one wolf pack I know about that’s running around with wolfsbane weapons,” I say.“Really?” Orsina’s eyes go wide. “You know those guys?”“If it’s who I think it is, yeah. It’s Sarah’s old pack out of Flagstaff, Arizona.”“Your Luna’s old pack!?” Zach looks angry, worried, like h
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Orsina seems relieved that the plan ends up being to take them back to Montana. I can’t blame her. We leave Regan and Isaac in charge of Howling Wolf, which is much easier to do this time for a handful of reasons. One, I’m tired of dealing with the unhappy training clients from the pack out in Maine. Isaac, with his gruff, silent warrior personality, will probably be able to handle them better.Second, I know they’ll do a great job. Now that we’ve been working together for six months, I trust Regan and Isaac with every aspect of the business. I know that Regan had some past problems with Sarah and Nash, but all of that seems like water under the bridge, and since it didn’t even involve me, it’s easy enough to just be Regan’s friend and business partner.They see us off, waving from the driveway as Jasper, Orsina, Zach and I head out on the road, making our way back toward Montana.“I can’t wait to get to Clara’s,” Jasper says, watching as the mountains and cliffs of Montan
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT
JASPERWeston leads me and Zach over to a small path that leads into the woods. I’m genuinely surprised that he wants to spend time with us. But we’re about the same age, and now that he’s taken over as Alpha, maybe he wants to demonstrate strong leadership by forging these bonds.There’s a clearing in the woods with a little campfire already burning. Weston sits down on a log and starts handing out hot dogs and sticks to roast them on.“Thanks for this,” I say, still feeling a bit uncomfortable about this. Up until very recently, Weston and his crew were engaged in a blood feud with me and Zach, trying to kill us and destroy our ancestral cave.But I’m grateful for the second chance. I’m not sure what my parents would think of me having this sort of “guy time” with a bear shifter, but we’re the generation in charge now, and we get to forge a new path forward. “So,” Zach says, biting into his charred hot dog, “how’s it been, taking over as Alpha? I always figured it mus
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Orsina and I are trying out best to get out of the trailer. She’s shifted into bear form and managed to claw back a small metal panel, which I’m doing my best to pry open and unscrew using a blunt butter knife from one of the camper’s drawers.Suddenly, just as I’m about to give up on this plan and attempt something else, there’s a massive THUD against the side of the camper. We hear Zach and Jasper pounding on the windows, shouting for us.With their strength added to our efforts, they’re able to rip the window out of the camper’s wall completely. Orsina shifts back and scrambles out, with Jasper reaching in to help me do the same.“What happened?” I ask. Jasper and Zach both look bloodied and battered. I jump into Jasper’s arms and he holds me tight, obviously grateful to see me again.“We’ll tell you later,” Zach says, breathlessly. “For now, though, we’ve gotta get out of here.”We race through the woods, all four of us shifting into our animal forms to make better t
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
We need a way to defeat Malcolm and his Flagstaff pack once and for all. Now that they’ve teamed up with Weston and the Serpent’s Creek bear clan, they’re a huge danger to all of us and our loved ones back in San Diego and Santa Cruz.Which means I’ve had to wrack my brain for anything I can think of. And some ideas start to come to me.Things that I try not to think about. Things I’ve never tried before. Things I really don’t want to do.But things I think could work. Things we might have to do. Things that could save us from this enemy intent on murder and kidnapping and destroying the beautiful little family Zach and Orsina are trying to build.“What’s your idea?” Jasper asks. He reaches out his hand, which is wrapped in bandages after he cut it helping me out of the camper window, and rests it on mine. “We’re all listening.”“So,” I explain, “there’s something we have back at the Howling Wolf base in Santa Cruz. Well, not something. Someone.”“You think Isaac and
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE
Because Orsina and Zach need to keep a low profile for the time being, we do most of our driving at night.Maybe it’s the pregnant “mama bear” instincts rising up in Orsina, or maybe bear shifter mercenaries work differently than wolf shifter ones, but Orsina is convinced that if she’s seen anywhere out in public, she’ll immediately be targeted by Malcolm and Weston’s network of spies and hired killers. Jasper grumbles a bit about the unnecessary nature of these precautions, but he drops the issue when he sees how serious Zach is about protecting his mate and doing whatever it takes to help Orsina feel safe. “All that anxiety, it’s not good for the baby,” he tells his cousin. Jasper just shrugs and tells him that, in that case, Zach will be buying coffee for the whole crew. So we spend the long nights, with the inky black sky stretched out above us and the some how even darker, blacker asphalt running along under our wheels. We take shifts behind the wheel and make up ga
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO
The various wolf shifters staying with us to help out have been instructed not to speak with the Moon Rabbit, but to keep a close eye on him. Coello soon gives up trying to draw them into conversation and instead just wanders around the busy tree house, doing what he clearly thinks is subtle reconnaissance in preparation for his escape attempt. What he doesn’t know is that his ability to slip out of here isn’t going to be the result of his own careful cleverness. It will be perfectly engineered by me and my team, right down to the very moment. It’s early afternoon when we get the signal. We’ve had scouts placed in inconspicuous locations all around the forest and the town of Santa Cruz watching for any sigh of Malcolm or Weston. Sure enough, they roll into town with a huge entourage of bear shifters and werewolves. Our scouts say that they’ve set up a campsite near the beach about a mile south from our location, and that Malcolm is heading our way on his own, apparently to chec
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