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The beast crouched to wait.
What are you waiting for?There was nothing left to wait for. This was it. He looked around the empty room. This was everything.
The wolf could sit like this all day, a patient hunter waiting for its prey, but Aiden was already bored. Maybe he should try audiobooks if the beast was going to sit at the window like a paranoid neighbor.
He’d get a few hours here and there to reinforce the barriers whenever the wolf grew too exhausted to function, and then apparently, they would sit here.
The wolf snapped at him to pay attention.
Pay attention to what?he asked irritably.
His wolf sent a rambling series of images of Nathan, Buck, and wolves fighting.
He knew some shifters could hold what amounted to a normal conversation with their wolves. He had never become that fluent with his wolf’s images and scents. Even so, he got the gist. His wolf was convinced their pack mates would not let him live after the last fight.
You were fighting for your life. It wasn’t a challenge.
A rush of longing told him how much the beast wanted it to be a challenge.
No one’s coming,he told the beast firmly.
It continued to ignore him.
Another hour passed, and Aiden was about ready to tear down the wire himself just for something to do.
So much for our reputation as fearsome hunters,he thought ruefully.
His wolf rose within him.
I wasn’t talking about you.
Seconds later, Aiden noticed movement in the trees.
He shut up.
Nathan walked into view, and Aiden kicked himself.
You were right,he told the beast.
The wolf continued to ignore him.
He hadn’t conceived that a threat might come from the outside. He’d set up his barriers to keep the wolf in. He hadn’t spared any defenses to keep people out.
In seconds, a crowd followed the older shifter, and Aiden frowned. Was this good news or bad news that Nathan had brought a bunch of witnesses? His mother walked a step behind Nathan. That had to be good, right?
The wolf didn’t react at all. He just watched the crowd march closer. Nathan had a huge bandage around his neck from Aiden’s bite.
Even with shifter hearing, the murmur of the crowds was indistinct through the window, but he heard Nathan say, “You can just walk right in the wards.”
Aiden watched Buck stumble back, and Nathan pushed him forward.
“Nathan, think about this,” his mother said.
“You don’t want to shift?” Nathan said to his son. “Your wolf won’t give you a choice when he gets a load of him.”
Aiden’s wolf was intent as ever, but inside, he was reeling. Nathan was makingBuckconfront him?
“Nathan, just leave him be. That’s all he wants,” Kathleen said.
