All Chapters of Reclaiming His Mate: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

“Dad?” Even Catrina was oblivious.“What’s he talking about?” asked Colt.“Grandbay’s previous Alphas, Martin and Bria Steele, were slain by Inkscale dragons. I made a deal with Lothair to hide his clan from the Mythguard when it formed three years ago in exchange for weakening Grandbay,” David confessed.Fire hotter than ever before raged inside me. I could barely breathe; it was as if my lungs had filled with smoke and my entire body burned. “It was… you?”David stared firmly at me. “I’m capable of doing far worse, Gavin.”No mate bond could mitigate the fury David woke in me. He had always been working with the dragons. Ever since my parent's death, it was him pulling the strings, him controlling everyone, him scheming to take over the Gunnison area. I thought David cared about me, but I realized then that I was just another pawn to him. Words failed me; in the moment my anger burned hottest, I aimed the rifle at his head. Only the front door crashing open stopped me from firing.“

“How do you know?”“Dalesbloom is the largest pack of the three of us. Both of our territories have the resources David needs to keep up his profits. It’s not fucking rocket science, especially since we know now that he’s willing to murder us all,” said Gavin.“Then I’ll deal with it when he makes the threat against Eastpeak,” said Everett.“Why can’t you and the Mythguard do something about it?”Sebastian raised his hands. “The Mythguard are discouraged from interfering with intra-shifter politics. We will act to protect one race from another, but we cannot intervene in the affairs of groups unless one group has demonstrated a distinct threat to both shifters and humans.”“He’s going to kill us!” Gavin shouted.“Acting pre-emptively could severely damage the Mythguard’s standing with other groups,” said Sebastian.“So you’re just going to sit and wait until Dalesbloom murders us, then you’ll step in just in time to prevent Eastpeak from going down?”“You don’t know that’ll happen,” s

“I won’t let Catrina hurt her.”His meek response didn’t convince me. He’d never been able to stop Catrina from hurting Billie before. I knew he was lying, and that idea alone sent me over the edge, igniting my anger into another flurry of blows. I pushed Colt down and knelt on his ribs as I punched him again, this time in the cheek. Then I stood and kicked him hard in the stomach. “You slimy piece of shit. You asshole! You’re a fucking snake just like your dad!”Colt coughed and rolled onto his stomach, frantically dragging himself away from me. “Gavin, please,” he rasped.I wasn’t done. I dropped my knee onto Colt’s back, grabbed his head and shoved his face into the dirt. “I should just fucking kill you!” I raged. I could do it. There was nobody here to save him. “Get it through your thick skull that Billie doesn’t want anything to do with you. She hates you, and Cat and David too. She hates what your family did to her.” Every second word, I shoved his head harder until I was sure

I pulled my head back and regarded the bloody scene, but all it invoked in me was hunger. Before my Moondream, the savagery would have made me nauseous. Now, I didn’t even think before ripping open my prey and devouring the sweet, succulent flesh on its flank, crunching bones and piercing its dark, slippery organs.I reclined on my stomach to rest and digest when I finished eating. Human thoughts gradually filtered back in, but the hunt afforded me clarity I didn’t have before. Clarity about Colt and Gavin. About my own place in Grandbay, alongside Muriel, facing down my fears.I was strong enough to be a wolf. I would prove to David that I was strong by standing beside Gavin, if Gavin still wanted me. But… I wasn’t going to let Gavin’s anger get the best of either of us anymore. He needed an anchor, a voice of reason, and I knew I could be strong enough to be that too.Chapter 24: GavinI got a taste of my own medicine when Billie took off on her own. While I risked my life patrollin

Chapter 25: BillieLast night was the most beautiful evening I’d ever spent with someone. Going on dates wasn’t something I was used to; in high school, I was asked out once by a boy I wasn’t sure I liked and we went to see a movie. Another night we went bowling, but it didn’t pan out after David forbade me from going out with the boy again. He claimed he didn’t like that I spent so much time away from the manor after school. It felt like a small mercy to me because I didn’t think I could be the girlfriend to that boy wanted anyway; I was quiet and nervous and couldn’t make very good conversation. That was the extent of my experience with dates, and I thought it would stay that way. But Gavin showed me what a real date was like, he showed me that I was deserving of that serenity shared with another person, and even after we got back to the apartment and fell asleep, I kept waking up in disbelief that it was actually real.Over the next week, the Grandbay pack had developed a routine t