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“I’ve got it,” Nico agreed, though he was now grimacing.
“Cool.” I patted the wolf on the head. “Come on, Beta. Got to get back for work.”
The wolf huffed.
Could he understand me?
One of the guys started chuckling, and I ignored him as I followed Nico to his car. I noticed a couple of tents and a big travel-trailer, but we didn’t stop until we reached a gigantic, old truck.
I eyed the thing a little suspiciously.
“Get in the back,” my temporary chauffeur called out, as he climbed into the driver’s seat. “Axel won’t want you too close to me.”
“Axel?” I tugged the door to the back seat open. “I thought his name was Beta.”
“Beta is his position in the pack. Axel is his name,” Nico clarified.
Oh.
Well, okay then.
That was awkward.
“You couldn’t start with that?” I asked.
The guy shrugged. “Sorry. We weren’t exactly expecting some chick to show up in our forest and end up being mates with one of our pack members.”
“That makes two of us.” My voice was clipped.
The wolf jumped into the truck with me, draping his body over the seat and his head over my lap. I fought a groan.
Nico pulled away from the pack’s campsite and started driving down a dirt road that really didn’t look like a road. “How does mating work for demons? You just transport to someone and claim them?”
“No. There are three parts; the capture, the release, and the possession. Right now, my own flames will burn me if I try to get away from Axel. Every myst type has their own mating process; what’s the werewolf process?”
“The mate hunt, chase, and climax. Starts with him being trapped in his wolf form. The only way out is to convince him that you’re not going to run away from him after he bites you and changes you into a wolf too.”
I snorted. “He’s not going to be able to turn me into awolf. I’m ademon.”
“Then you’d better hope your council has some kind of an idea about how to get Axel out of wolf form.”
“The council doesn’t evenlikewerewolves. If they did, you’d be trapped in Mist Valley like the rest of us.”
He lifted his head at that, looking surprised. “Mist Valley? Isn’t that…”
“Less than an hour from here? Yeah, I’m just as shocked as you are. I had no idea there were wolves this close.”
“Well that’s a mind-fuck,” Nico muttered. “Doesn’t really matter, though. You’ll have to move out here with the rest of us.”
I lifted an eyebrow. “Why would I do that?”
“Mates can’t live apart. His wolf would take over and find you.”
Geez. It definitely didn’t work like that for demons.
“Then I guess he’ll be living in Mist Valley too, because I’ll literally be murdered if I try to move out.” I brushed a hand through my hair, cringing at the feel of the dirt that already caked the strands.
“Wolves are pack animals,” the guy countered. “He’d go insane without a pack.”
