Hunter’s POVFuck! I ground my teeth together, a muscle ticking in my jaw. My dick flexed, pulsing with the need to keep thrusting. Any guy would be agitated and riled up after being forced to stop halfway through, and I was an Alpha，I wanted more！ I craved her body, missed the feel of her warm, lithe chest arching up against mine.She’d ended our sex – the sex that she had initiated – without a second thought. Shit! Was I so bad in bed that she could get over me that quickly? No woman had ever asked me to make that sort of crap promise before. Hell, usually the opposite happened. Usually, the women I bedded begged me to call them, to have another round, to see them – touch them, taste them – again. But this Omega had asked me not to touch her any more.Who did she think she was? Did she think she was my only option? Did she want me to feel like this, pent up and frustrated, so that I’d be forced to keep thinking about her，playing hard to get？I clenched my hands into fists. Wh

Hunter’s POV‘Reg, what are you doing? You’re crying?!’ I was so angry I didn’t know what to say to him! ‘Don’t tell me you’re crying over an Omega you’ve only met a few times? Where’s your pride?’ I snarled.His sobs wracked through him and, as I spoke, his whole body started to tremble. His sobs became bawls; he threw his head back and tried to talk, his bottom lip quivering like a baby’s.All I could think about was him crying. It filled my mind, sending waves of pain reverberating through my skull. Fuck – I wanted to rip him out of my head and throw him into the woods.He finally managed to choke out some words. ‘Hunter! You’re an asshole! Jane will sleep with Carl now, and then she’ll get pregnant, then they’ll have their pups, and they’ll be a family, and then I’ll be left behind! Nobody understands how I feel!’My head buzzed and pulsed. All I could hear was, ‘sleep, pregnant, pups, new family.’ My nerves were alight, stimulated by Reg’s whining – and by those words in particu

Hunter’s POV‘Great,’ I mocked him, ‘you’ll be the first Alpha wolf to be arrested by the A.P.S.!”‘Come on,’ he whined, ‘I want to shift back! Unless, of course, you want to spend the night with a bunch of stray dogs – with fleas. Come on, come on, hurry up! If it weren’t for the fact that we’re forbidden to harm humans at will, do you seriously think I’d let myself be chased around by them?’‘But I haven’t got any clothes to wear! Do you want my naked picture to be on the front page of every magazine and newspaper tomorrow?’‘Oh my God,’ he groaned, ‘what am I going to do?’ He dodged a tranquiliser dart, spinning around in a circle. ‘Oh, Hunter, I don’t care! Please please please let me shift. Your nude photos have been seen by everyone anyway! The girls in our packs, they founded a group where they all share your nudey pics. They look at them, discuss them, and, you know… enjoy them.’My jaw dropped. I stumbled around to say something more articulate than a plain old what the fuck,

Jane’s POVMy leg and ribs throbbed relentlessly, the pain sharp enough to make me worry that they were broken. Compared to an Alpha’s raw power, an Omega’s body was nothing more than a piece of paper. My body hurt – but nowhere near as much as my heart.I worried endlessly about my boys, even as darkness fogged the edges of my vision. I faded in and out of consciousness, the pain trying to force my mind to disappear in its wake, but distantly I thought of my boys’ fondness for Hunter. Would they be sad to see me thrown out by him? As I fought to regain consciousness, common sense smacked me almost as hard as Hunter had. It didn’t matter what they thought about Hunter and I – I just needed to know where they were, why I couldn’t hear them, and if they were safe.How would Ares react to seeing me like this? He was fierce and protective, but he also knew he couldn’t shift in front of so many people. Needing to know that they were okay, I managed to raise my head just enough to see.I

Jane’s POVI forced myself to smile, trying desperately to stop my uncontrollable tears.“No, that’s not it.” Hunter frowned, seemingly overwhelmed. “My apology came from the heart, Jane, I promise.”“I need the antidote for your own good,” he went on. “Amy can’t die – at least not right now.”“Yeah, Amy is your Luna. I get it.” I sniffled. “She’s higher up the pack than me. Her life is worth so much more than mine. It’s me who should die!” I met his gaze unfalteringly, though tears carved my pain down my cheeks. “I’m sorry I’m not dead,” I spat.“No, that’s not what I meant. I’m doing this for you, not her. Amy’s death will bring you and your kids a lot of trouble.” He shifted in his seat, his eyes darting from me to the squeaky linoleum floor, as if he were uncomfortable with this conversation. Well – he’d been the one to start it; if he was uncomfortable, so be it.“I’m not afraid of trouble,” I said levelly, trying to hold his gaze, “I want her dead. She tried to strangle Ares.