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Thorne paces, the muscles of his back flexing as he looks between the two wolves. “So, you just thought you’d barge in and… what? Bite her?”
“No, alpha. We just want her to leave, so she can leave you alone and you can find a proper mate.”
The conversation is so far above my head, I’m barely hanging in there. Mostly, I’m still stuck on the fact that Thorne is in front of me.
Naked Thorne.
Thorne, who took the place of the giant brown wolf from the forest.
“Get the fuck out,” Thorne snaps at them. “You don’t get to fucking intimidate her. You don’t get to come near her.”
The formerly white wolf shifts on his feet. “Alpha…”
“I am the alpha!” Thorne roars.
The other two men freeze.
“I am the alpha. You do not tell me what to do. If I want to lose my ability to shift to be with a human, then I fucking will. If I want to take a human as a mate, then I fucking will. You do not get to tell me what to do, and you certainly do not get to scare my mate into compliance!”
He spins and tugs me forward. He holds my hand and pulls it forward. “I claim Iris as my mate!”
The two men turn. The strange blurring thing happens to them again. Their outlines go fuzzy, like someone has taken that weird eraser pencil to them. I blink my eyes as the outline of the men swims. I’m expecting them to turn back into wolves, but they don’t.
That’s odd.
It looks almost exactly like before. There’s something weird in the air. There’s weird ozone smell, and it kind of feels like time is standing still.
Except this time, I think it might be happening to me.
I gulp. I hold up my hands, noting that there’s light pouring from my fingers. My hair floats up like it’s caught in water, except there is no water.
The little ermine hops down from my shoulder and runs into my living room.
“Thorne?” I say, my voice unsteady.
He turns.
My eyes widen.
He’s radiating light as well. His face looks like the sun, glowing and beautiful. I reach forward to touch his cheek.
When I do, something like lightning sparks between us.
“What’s happening?” I whisper.
Thorne shakes his head. “I… I don’t… I don’t know…”
Then, I feel it.
Somewhere in my chest, something snaps into place.
I glance up at Thorne. His eyes widen. Fated mates, I almost hear his voice whisper in my ear.
This is all too much.
I feel dizzy. Really, really dizzy. My knees kind of wobble.
“Thorne…”
