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“A pack functions similarly to a family. The alphas keep an eye on everyone and do what they can to help. Right now, my betas and I are focused on trying to keep our wolves from losing their minds to immis. We haven’t lost anyone in the fifty years since we took over.”
“Your betas?”
“Rok and Valko. Betas assist the alphas; we work as a team.”
Ah.
Rok and Valko strode out of the forest together, both wearing pants, thankfully.
“And there they are,” Ivaylo said. “Lovely.”
My lips curved upward. “They don’t seek you out just for fun?”
“Not that I can remember.”
The men joined us just outside the pack’s den. Neither of them wore an expression that made me think they had good news.
“Worren is showing signs of fading,” Rok said bluntly.
Ivaylo grimaced and ran a hand through his hair. The gesture made my eyes follow his muscles a little too closely.
“He was clinging to the idea of mating with the first human. I don’t think we’ll be able to talk him off the ledge this time,” Valko admitted. “We spent a few hours with him, and I don’t think he heard a word we said. We can’t get him to shift, either.”
Ivaylo’s grimace deepened.
“What happens if you can’t talk him off the ledge?” I asked.
All three of the men looked at me. If they were surprised I had been paying attention, they needed to get the hell over it.
“His body will fade over the next few days, and vanish entirely when his soul crosses the veil,” Ivaylo explained. His voice was gentler than I expected it to be.
“And that’s the immis taking over, because he wants a mate?” I checked.
“We all want mates,” Rok said bluntly. “Immis takes over when the drive to wait for what we want disappears, leaving us hopeless and purposeless. The magic feeding our immortality fails without any reason to continue living.”
My eyebrows lifted. “Is Serae planning on stealing enough women from my world for all of you to have mates?”
All of the men stared at me, none of them willing to answer.
I looked at Ivaylo, trusting him to tell me the truth even if he didn’t particularly want to.
He dipped his head in a small nod. “Her magic focuses on females who wish to leave your world, and have nothing tying them to it any longer. We won’t take anyone who would regret leaving.”
I didn’t think that logic would work out exactly the way they imagined, but it wasn’t the right time to bring that up. “Then there’s anassloadof hope. He’ll find a mate, he just has to wait for her.”
“We’ve heard that message thousands of times at this point,” Valko said. “It’s nowhere near as motivational as it used to be.”
I put a hand on my hip. I wasn’t sure why I was so determined, but I had the strangest feeling that I could help him. And for whatever reason, Iwantedto. “Then take me to him, and I’ll tell him myself.”
All of the men stared at me.
I met Ivaylo’s hard gaze with my own.
“It could work,” Valko mused.
“No.” Ivaylo didn’t even consider it.
Maybe it was time to break out Serae’s trick and feign biting him.
