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“Mason! Watch out!” Jane screamed as Mason's dad shifted into a scraggly wolf and descended on him with a fury she had never seen. His eyes turned blood red, foam dripping from his mouth. He looked more like a rabid animal than a noble wolf.
How could a father attack his own son so viciously? It made her sick to think their relationship had come to that point. That Mason’s dad would rather see him dead than anything else.
Mason spun around and landed a blow with his back leg to his dad’s abdomen. His dad's wolf flew backward and bounced off a cement pillar. Mason didn’t hesitate. He was on the wolf in one single leap, tearing into his back leg.
Howls of pain quickly turned to a man’s screams.
“Let me go, you piece of shit!”
Mason shifted back to his human form. “I will let you leave with your life this one time, old man. But if you come at me, my mate, or my pack again, I will end you. Do you understand me?” Mason growled down at this father.
His father kept his mouth shut and nodded up at his son. Mason turned to Jane. A look of worry and sadness passed over his face. She grabbed her neck. The pain reminded her that she had been bitten by Jax.
“Let’s get you out of here,” he said, bending to help her up.
Her view was blocked by his enormous body. She had no idea what was happening when he quickly spun around. That was when she saw his dad in wolf form, jumping toward Mason’s neck with his crooked teeth bared.
“No!” she screamed. Her heart dropped. She could not, and would not, allow anything to happen to Mason. He was too important to her. Her future with him flashed before her eyes. She saw what life with him could be like. And damn it to hell, she wanted it.
She wanted to wake up every morning beside him. She wanted to kiss him good night and tell him that she loved him every day. She wanted the laughs they would share, the late-night lovemaking.
She wanted it all, and she would not allow his dad, who seemed to be hell-bent on destroying his son, to take it all away. But what could she do with her hands tied behind her back? Not to mention the fact that she was probably bleeding out from the wound on her neck.
Thankfully, she didn’t have to do anything. As quickly as Mason’s dad had sprung at him, he dropped to the floor. She watched as he shifted from wolf to human, his lifeless eyes staring back at her.
Mason unbound her hands and then scooped her off of the floor and cradled her in his arms. “Let’s get you out of here.” He kissed the top of her forehead.
“What do you want us to do with these guys?” one of his men asked.
Mason glanced around at the remnants of Jax’s pack. “Am I going to have to kill the lot of you?” he asked.
“No,” a few men said as the others shook their heads.
“Leave and don’t come back,” Mason ordered.
Several of the men dropped to their knees.
“What are they doing?” Jane asked. If Mason had just told her to leave after the devasting violence she had just witnessed, she would have hightailed it the fuck out of there. Instantly.
“They are submitting to me,” he replied.
“Why? What do they want?”
“To join my pack. They want me to be their alpha.”
“What!” Jane gasped, unable to wrap her head around the whole damn thing. “Why would they want that?”
“Probably because they see the pack here, and they know that someone as bad as or worse than Jax will become their new alpha if they go back. They don’t want that. Do you?” he asked the men.
“No,” one of the men replied. “I don’t know about these guys, but I want a better life for my kids and wife. You seem like an honest man with a good pack. What more could a wolf want in life than to be a part of that?”
Jane could practically see the wheels churning in Mason’s head as he debated what to do.
“Rise,” he said, and all the men stood. Their eyes were downward, never once meeting Mason’s hard stare.
What he said next shocked her to her core.
“You are more than welcome to bring your families here and join the pack. But I will not put up with any of the shit your former pack is known for. You will each be assigned one of my men to get you situated and show you the ropes of our pack. If you have a problem with this, leave now, and don’t look back.”
