Ace's Mate

Ace stared at his mate with a mixture of frustration and lust. There she was, sitting right across from him, peering over some ancient book, looking for a wolf that was maybe born with a physical anomaly. Well, he would rather be doing something about anatomy than an anomaly.

Or, since his mate had been avoiding him ever since his confession of love and other things, maybe he could go out and torture the witch. Or even her human father who had been in touch with the man who had attacked them. Another discrepancy they had discovered led to him being drugged.

From his vision, Crystal had escaped with only her foster mother and not her foster father. And he had joined her later. It was also her foster father who had procured the wolfsbane the past two times and lured her to the clearing the third time. And then after Marius' timely prophecy, it had been her father who had mentioned the coincidence of timing between the rogue attack on her pack and his own challenge to his father. It was