Page 191 of Knot What I Expected

“Havoc,” Wreck calls as I turn away.

“What?”

“You need backup?”

The question stops me. Not because I'm going to take him up on it.

Because he means it.

My Alpha. My Crew. My fucking Pack, apparently. Whatever the hell we're becoming up here.

“No.”

I reach for my keys.

“This is my mate.”

Wreck nods once.

“Go.”

I don't need to be told twice. I take off. Monster is practically tearing through my skin before I reach the truck.

Mate. Mate. Mate.

“I know.”

The matebond throbs inside my chest.

Gabby's fear. My rage. Her anxiety.

But the strongest is my need to get to her. Everything is just tangling together until I can't tell where one of us ends and the other begins.

And suddenly I understand something else about this Alpha/Omega connection.

The Fates didn't give me Gabriella because she's weak and needs a stronger male to save her.

Nah, my Honey Girl is anything but fucking weak.

It gave us each other because somehow we're stronger together. Her presence quiets the monster I've spent my entire life fighting.

And apparently, when she's afraid? She wakes every protective instinct I've ever possessed.

I don't know what scared her. Don't know what happened. Don't know who the fuck I might have to kill when I get there.

But the matebond is pulling me toward my Omega like a fucking compass.

And for once in my life, Monster and I are in complete agreement.

Find our female.

Protect our mate.

And God fucking help whoever put that fear inside my Honey Girl.

Chapter 21

Gabriella