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Sixty-One

KianBullets rained upon them from the clubhouse, buying me a fighting chance. Dogs swarmed all over me like a prime steak, biting, snapping, snarling like rabid mutts. Something switched inside my brain, letting the bloodthirsty creature from within take the wheel. Coarse brown fur burst through my skin as I tore through my shift, rising on my hind legs in a sky-splitting roar.Dogs leaped this way and that, and I swatted them away like flies. My claws scored through fur and flesh in a monstrous game of war. The ground shook with every forceful impact. Wolf shifters skidded through the dust, crashing into parked cars, buildings, and taking out the boundary fence as if it was made of string.Claw had seized the opportunity to shift while they incapacitated me. He struck me hard across my face in a cheap shot. Light burst in my eyes and blood fell from the sky like crimson rain, splattering all that it touched. Claw jumped into the thick of the battle, butting me in the stomach to wind

Sixty-Two

GiaJaxton said we could stay at his place for as long as we liked, but we didn't want to impose. Two weeks passed, and I felt awkward about putting him out. He insisted it was fine, volunteering to stay at his parents’ house to give us some privacy. We’d scoured the real estate pages like hawks, but nothing caught our eyes. I didn’t like the idea of a log cabin in the mountains, and Kian didn’t want to move to the suburbs. The barn conversion we kept talking about seemed more appealing day by day. Kian was keen to take on the construction side of things, whereas I was happy to observe as the project manager. He would do all the donkey work, and all I would have to do was make it look pretty.“Come sit down, your coffee is getting cold,” I called out to Kian who was searching high and low for a phone charger.I noticed it poking out beneath the newspaper on the kitchen table, and I chuckled to myself. He stalked back into the room with the look of doom etched across his face, then slu

Sixty-Three

Kian"You're quiet," I mentioned, breaking the forty-five-minute silence.Something was bothering my wife. Bears could not telepathically link with their mates and read their thoughts, but we could sense when something was wrong. Gia had been staring through the window with a vacant look in her eyes, not even acknowledging the passing scenery. It was like her mind floated off to someplace else. Somewhere I couldn't follow."Gia, baby, is everything all right?" I kept talking, trying to drag her mind back to the present.She sucked in a breath like she remembered she needed air to breathe."Oh, sorry . . . I was daydreaming," she muttered an excuse and shook her head as if her thoughts were too troublesome."About?" I prompted, wanting to know what she was thinking. All she had to do was confide in me, and I would help in the best way I could.This was her chance to share her problems or to lie and keep them bottled up inside. We were mates, and mates were not supposed to have secrets

Sixty-Four

Kian"Stop stressing about me; I'll be fine," Gia returned, hinting at my initial query. "If you must know, I was thinking about my parents."She released a heavy exhale. "It was something Max said to me earlier. All this time I spent feeling angry and rejected, but now I know my dad wanted me, and my mom gave me up to protect me. This changes everything. I'm not confident that I'm ready to step foot into Whitevale, but that doesn't mean I can't reach out to let him know that I’m safe. I just wish I had a forwarding address for my mom."My brain had to reboot before I could verbalize a reply."Whatever you want to do, I'll support you." It was the only rational thing I could think to say.This was her choice. Taking a trip to Whitevale would be a life-changing experience for her. It would activate her werewolf gene, and it would force her to shift. I thought she should go for it. But it was the shifter side of me who thought she would be better protected if she was attuned to her inne

Sixty-Five

GiaKian was on the phone to someone as I finished getting ready. The glass door was closed; it muffled the sound of his voice, making it difficult to hear what he was saying. I could tell by the relaxed look on his face that it wasn’t the Reaper. His eyes flashed in my direction, and he did a double take as he saw what I was wearing. The leather jeans, red cross-over top, and spikey heels did wonders for my petite figure. Kian’s manager wanted me to look every inch the biker chick to complement my husband’s image. I noticed the price tags, and my eyes popped out on stalks. Now that I was ready, I wanted to flaunt my new look and see if Kian approved. I caught his attention with a sultry wave, then made his jaw drop with a sexy dance. Kian mouthed something at me through the glass panel, then pointed to his dick and made a lewd gesture. His grin vanished in a flash as he resumed the conversation on the phone. He turned around so I couldn’t lipread him. Whatever he was talking about, i

Sixty-Six

Gia“It’s the prettiest grave in the cemetery,” I mentioned, not knowing what else to say. “Did you plant all these flowers? It looks beautiful.”“Nah, her granddaughters, Elora and Camari, did it,” he replied, speaking fondly of the girls. “I just gave them some cash, and they designed it themselves. You’ll meet them soon. They are eighteen and twenty now. Time flies . . .” His voice trailed off, the sound fading as the words died on his lips.Then Kian exhaled a wistful breath. “You’ll meet them soon enough. They come to all my fights with their dad, Charlie. I know they’ll be dying to meet you.”“Is it weird that I’m nervous?” I chuckled. “I want them to like me.”Kian bounced his gaze to me and rolled his eyes. “What’s not to love about you?” he muttered under his breath. He removed some withered flowers from a water urn and set the moldy stems to one side. “Now, take this vase to the tap over there and fill it with water,” he instructed, pointing to where he meant.I set down the

Sixty-Seven

KianGia and I made it to the restaurant, but I could see she left a part of herself behind with Kellen. She was sitting in a dream-like state, bouncing her leg beneath the table, looking at nothing at all. She told me to choose something for her, and that wasn’t like my Gia. Her head was someplace else, worrying about what her father told her. I ordered some steaks, potatoes, and steamed vegetables. It was the only thing on the menu that I could pronounce without sounding like a remedial. Gia liked steak. We ate it plenty of times at home. She liked to wash it down with half a bottle of wine. So, I ordered some wine too. See? I did take notice of the little things.“I still can’t believe you bumped into your dad today. How about that?” I brought it up to break the silence.“Did you know that he would be there?” she asked, not accusingly, but with a curious look in her eyes.Shit! She thought I orchestrated that.“No,” I replied, taken aback that she thought I would spring something s

Sixty-Eight

KianI stopped cutting my steak and paused, looking long and hard at her. “You’re a bright ray of sunshine today, aren’t you? We should be celebrating instead of stressing over things that might never happen. We’re mated, we bought a house, and you found your daddy,” I pointed out. “Look at it this way . . . at least you don’t have to search for him in Whitevale and activate the werewolf gene.” I arched my brow and shoved a cut piece of steak in my mouth.Gia twisted her lips as she pondered that thought. “True . . . I guess there is that I suppose. But I can’t stop thinking about my mom. I’m worried for her, Kian. What if her father found out about me and did something awful to her? She gave me away to protect me. That tells me that she wanted me. If it wasn’t for him, she would be with my father right now. I would have been raised by parents who loved me. My life would have been so different.” She exhaled mournfully.“But look how well you turned out despite all that shit,” I remind

Sixty-Nine

Gia“Breathe, honey,” Kian consoled me, rubbing small circles on my back.Never mind being killed by hunters. The inscription on my headstone would read “Choked to death on a sour cherry gin sling.” It burned my throat like a motherfucker.“What’s wrong?” Cyrus asked, sounding alarmed. “Did she swallow one of those damned cherry stones?” he whirled around and glared at the bartender. “It’s supposed to be a cocktail, not a fruit fucking salad!” he roared. “Pit the fucking stones before I pit out your fucking heart.” He turned to me, his face flooded with concern. “Are you all right, shug?”I swatted the air dismissively. “It’s okay . . . it’s fine . . . I’m all right. It just went down the wrong way.”Kian handed me a napkin to wipe my eyes and the cocktail juice from my chin. Cyrus’s frown remained in place. I was trembling from head to toe, scared shitless that hunters wanted to kill me. Clearly, I was a long way from being fine.“This isn’t a conversation I want to be having around

Seventy

KianAfter a much-needed vacation, Gia and I returned to Forest Hills to pick up the keys to our love nest. It wasn’t spectacular to look at. Sure, we owned plenty of land, but the barn was a dilapidated wreck. We had to see past all the shit and debris and visualize how we wanted it to look. Gia had her own ideas, and they conflicted with mine. She wanted whitewashed walls, floaty, see-through drapes, polished floors, and decorative crap that served no purpose other than to look pretty. She made a fucking mood board and showed every female at the Clubhouse, recruiting an army of minions to peck my head and drive me insane. I spent every morning, noon, and night at the barn alongside my brothers, working hard on putting the damn thing together. We worked tirelessly for weeks. And when we were done, Gia presented me with a small velvet box containing her contraceptive implant.“It’s out,” she announced as I eyed it with scrutiny, wondering what the fuck it was. “Dr. Rayne thinks my shi

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