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I ground my teeth before saying, “I’ll take care of Garth.”
“No.” She grabbed both of my arms, letting the blanket fall with her instant distress. “I mean, yes. I mean, no. Shit.”
“Kara.” I cupped the side of her face. “I’m strong. I won’t let him hurt me.”
She placed her hands over the top of mine. “You don’t understand how depraved he is.”
“I don’t need to.”
“Your arrogance will get you killed.”
I choked on a laugh. “Love, I may be arrogant, but I have good reason to be.”
Her icy blue eyes narrowed into slits.
Damn, she was adorable when angry.
I kissed her then. Because I could.
She opened to me, all heat and passion. Fire and ice. Luna, she was delicious and made for me. A soft moan filled the back of her throat and entered mine through our open-mouthed kiss. I swallowed the sound, triumphant in the ease with which I could get her to submit to me. Our mating would be absolute.
First, I had to take care of this Garth.
I broke the kiss and left her standing by the fireplace before I walked to my bedroom to dress. I returned moments later. Kara was still standing where I’d left her. Without a care, she was naked, and I could feast my ravenous gaze on her curves.
“Where are you going?” she asked, a tinge of panic in her voice.
“I need to talk to my second. I must organize a meeting with Garth.” Before I gave in and grabbed her again, I grasped the doorknob. “If he thinks he has a claim to you, then I’ll have to fight him for you.”
The color leeched from her face, leaving her as pale as the snow.
“It’s our laws, Kara.” I flung open the door. The blowing gale whooshed inside. “You know it. It’s why you let me claim you.”
“Titus, wait,” she cried.
But I’d already shut the door and locked her in. Asshole of me, I know, but she was safe in my house. Sheltered and warm from the storm, but more so, she was secluded from the wolf shifter who was hunting her. She was safer with me than she had been all her life from what she told me about Garth and his torment.
I sprinted through the snow. The storm had blown a thick blanket over the landscape, but I knew every secure place to step from my house to my second’s house. I raced up the stairs of his timber cabin and pounded on the door.
Palmer flung the door open and asked, “Titus, where have you been?”
I grinned. “I found my mate. And she’s in trouble.”
“Well, fuck.” He grinned in that bloodthirsty way I knew him for. It was the reason he was my second, plus, we’d been best friends our entire lives. I couldn’t think of anyone better to have my back.
“How many heads do we need to rip off?”
I met his feral grin with one of my own. My thirst for blood was more than his for once. “I may only need to rip off one head.”
“Whatever you need, boss.”
I’d sort out this Garth. There was no question I’d succeed.
Chapter Nine
Kara
The alphahole locked me inside. I rattled the doorknob for the hundredth time and pushed with all my strength against the door, but it wouldn’t budge. I let out an exasperated huff. Wait until he returned? I wasn’t a shrinking violet or damsel in distress. I’d taken care of myself for years. I didn’t need him. I didn’t need anyone.
