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Teris
The fight was over fasterthan I expected, even knowing how much manpower we had when we began. I knew that between my brothers and the unseelies, someone would’ve thrown out the fact that we needed to know where these creatures were coming from, so we could either eliminate the threat or scare them into staying the hell away from us. Clearly, they weren’t a match for us, but we didn’t want our females living in fear of being attacked.
I found Naomi exactly where I’d left her when the fight was over, thankfully. I shifted when I reached her, and she threw her arms around me, hugging me fiercely tight.
“That was terrifying,” she said, as I hugged her back just as tightly. I hadn’t been afraid in the slightest, but that didn’t diminish her own emotions.
“You’re safe, Nai.” I brushed my lips over her throat, and then her collarbone, before taking her lips.
She kissed me back, but pulled away a few moments later. “What do we do now?”
My expression grew grim. “We’ll have to hunt the ones that got away.”
She bit her lip, but nodded.
I pulled her onto my back, and slipped through the trees. The bears were wandering around; most of them seemed to be headed to the nearest river, to clean up. They nodded toward us when they saw us, so I figured they were probably more intelligent than they’d seemed at first, and nodded back at all of them.
“We need to decide, now,” Aeven was saying, his voice calm and steady. I shifted back, tucking Naomi to my side. They seemed to be talking to the mated men, which didn’t bode well for me.
“I can’t leave my female,” Lian said.
“Iwon’tleave mine,” Priel growled.
“No,” Ervo said bluntly.
“What’s the question?” Naomi checked.
“We need two or three men to leave their mates behind so we can communicate with everyone back here while we follow the monsters,” Dakota explained quickly. “The life-bringers have to go, to communicate with their bonded klynnas, and we can’t see any men agreeing to stay behind while their mates follow the group. We need men to go who’ve had enough time to figure out how to communicate, too.”
Shit.
Naomi’s face paled, but she jerked her head in a nod.
Dakota looked around the group again.
There really weren’t many options left.
I looked at Nev.
Typically, he’d be the Wild Hunt member to go.
“My female is pregnant. I can’t leave her,” he said to me, and everyone else.
My throat swelled, and I looked at Naomi at the same time she whispered into my mind,“You should go. It would be hard, but I’d be okay.”
“I don’t want to,”I growled back.
What if one of the males touched her?
What if she changed her mind?
What if…
Dammit, she was right.
She bit her lip, leaving it up to me.
“I can go,” I finally said, reluctantly. “We don’t struggle to communicate mentally, and Nai isn’t pregnant, or plagued with visions.”
