Angel waited for her to meet his gaze and he peered into her eyes as if he was trying to gauge her sincerity. Nadia hated that he still had his reservation about her. It was quite evident in his eyes. She felt even worse when he didn't say anything and just held his gaze forward. But she did notice his fingers tightening around hers as he urged her forward. She swallowed gently not quite sure how to take that. Angel took her to a big oak tree not too far away from the pit. Holding the bag in one hand, he turned his back to her and asked her to wrap her arms around his neck. Nadia hesitated for about a millisecond before doing as he asked. Angel carried her up the tree at a fast pace that was enough to make her heart thud with fear. Stopping at about fourteen feet up, where the trunk stopped and spread out its branches, he placed the food on the widespread space atop it and hoisted himself up along with her. Nadia got off his back and gingerly sat, facing him and backing an enormous

‘Damn it!’Angel thought as he watched her turn her back to him and strode away. He clenched his jaw to keep from snarling He knew why she had gotten that way but he didn’t give a damn! He felt it was quite arrogant of her to expect him to just blindly give in to her because they enjoyed fucking each other?! A voice inside him reminded him it was much more than that and he was in fucking denial but he stomp it, allowing his irrational anger and irritation to win. Feeling utterly possessive, the thought that she belonged to him was making him illogical.‘The audacity of her to think she could just turn her back on him and walk away – him, an alpha Were, her mate!’ he fumed quietly. His heart tightened as she continued to stride farther from him, leaving him standing there. He knew it was sensible for her to go back. They had already been discovered by one guard and more would come to look for him. It was best he found where to stash the dead body of the guard and let Nadia go back to

With Nadia over one shoulder, Angel headed up the stairs to Antonio Rufus' floor. The gruesome sight of burnt and dismembered bodies that greeted him made him smirk.“This is way more than I had hoped for,” he muttered, enjoying seeing the table turn for a change. At the stairs landing, Mathew’s unmistakable scent carried from the doorway, leading from Antonio Rufus' room and Angel hugged his back to the side wall, slowly skittering towards the entrance. When he was close enough to see, he discovered the bastard sounded like he had the upper hand and he knew he must be armed or had someone as leverage. Without thinking twice, Angel crept up on him from the back, half-shifted and raised his now protruding claws to stab his neck from the back, fast and hard enough to cut it off, using the other paw to hold him still by the shoulder with his claw digging into his flesh, and at the same time, a bullet hit Mathew in the forehead, causing blood to splatter all over his chest and Nadia’s

Soon enough they got to the house. An average-height woman was pacing impatiently on the front porch. Even with the bulky winter jacket she wore, Angel could see that she was pregnant when she let out a relieved sigh upon seeing them. Angel heard Xavier growl, “It’s freezing out here, Amèlie !” using his alpha voice. “I was worried, love!” she replied, rushing down the flight of stairs to meet up with them. Xavier drew her into his arms with so much tenderness that made Angel smile. He need not be told who the woman was. “Where are Cole and Jason?!” she asked as soon as she drew back from her mate, darting her gaze from one figure to the other. “Sorting out the mess we created. They will join us soon…” Xavier replied. When Amèlie ’s eyes locked with Angel’s, her eyes widened in shock. “We are related… I am Xavier and Isabelle’s cousin,” Angel answered her silent query. “Oh, my God! I am so sorry for your ordeal …” she said with great compassion. Her exotic purple eyes gleam

Angel shut his eyes, dragging his hands over his face and back to his nape. All the information he just got swirled inside him, making him feel tired to the bone. He doubted Nadia was going to agree to come with them, especially when she find out what he had done to his uncle and cousins. She might not have a great love for what her family was doing for business, they were still her blood. That was why he had deliberately left that part out, making her believe he just needed the weapons to aid their escape. He, however, didn’t know how she was going to take the news of her being his mate and having the blood of a wolfless clan. And of course, the possibility that she might already be a full-blown wolf. The thought of Nadia being able to shapeshift somewhat excited him. The knowledge filled his beast with pleasure. Seducing him with the thought of being able to roam with her, hunt, feed off of the land and fucked with no restrain. He sat beside her on the bed and raised his hand to gen