AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Tetrim is dead.
It’s over.
It’s finally over.
I swallow the taste of his blood, knowing it will change me forever.
When I turn back, gore covering my fur, I find Vale and Lucien crouched over an unmoving Jai, and for a moment, my heart stills, breaking all over again, until he moans in pain, and I hurry over.
All the kids are gone, but I see pack members milling around worriedly. I quickly change back, barking orders. “Clear up the mess, no ceremony for him. Check the perimeter and see how he got through.”
“Yes, Alpha.”
“White, bring me the healer just in case,” I call.
My entire focus is on my mate who lies on the grass, his own blood puddled beneath him. He was too brave to run and so fucking strong.
I rush to my mate as he gasps, lying on his front, his shirt torn open to expose furrows on his back cut to the bone. Oh god. I almost vomit at the sight, and my poor mate didn’t even make a sound. I fall to my knees and then to my side, turning his head.
He winces, his eyes tight. “Sorry I wasn’t fast enough to take the kids and run.”
“Shh, you were amazing, my love,” I tell him, leaning down to kiss his face. “Now let your mate fix you.”
He reaches out with a groan, capturing my hand. “I’m sorry you had to kill one of your pack members. No matter what he did, I know you feel that loss greatly.”
“Not as greatly as the regret I feel for not doing it sooner,” I reply, leaning down to kiss him again before lifting my eyes to Vale and Lucien. “Hold him while I heal him.”
“Do not waste your healing. I will be okay?—”
I growl, cutting him off, and he tries to laugh, but it ends in a moan. “I am healing you,” I state. “So hush.”
Closing my eyes, I lay my hands on his back, feeling them slip in his warm blood, and for a moment, fury fills me again before I swallow it down, along with my guilt and grief. I push mymagic through him, finding the wounds are so deep, they have punctured one lung and his spleen. He would have died. I heal them, taking extra time to make sure there is nothing else before healing the deep furrow. When I lift my head, he’s breathing easily, his eyes closed in bliss.
Leaning down with a purr, I clean his back, swallowing his blood as I lap at it. He groans and buries his face in the grass. “Baby, you need to stop. It’s super inconvenient for me to get hard right here.”
I lick long lines along his back, exposing clear, pink skin. At his ear, I purr, “You will have scars, but I will kiss them all better later and ride you until you forget the taste of that agony.”
“Fucking hell, just leave me here for a minute. I don’t want to scare the children with what’s in my pants right now,” he mutters.
Grinning, I sit up as Marie rushes to my side, healer in tow. “Who dared to hurt my son-in-law?” she roars, casting her blazing eyes around the clearing. “He might be human, but he is one of us!” I shrink back under her wrath. “Who was it? Challenge me right now!”
“Mother.” I reach for her, but she tugs away.
“I want names!”
“Jesus,” Vale mutters.
“Marie,” I snap, and she turns her head. “It was Tetrim. He’s dead.” I nod at the gore as a few wolves try to clear it away. I might have gone a little overboard, but hey, he touched my mate.
“Oh,” she grumbles, deflating. “Well, someone could have told me.” She sinks to her knees, brushing back Jai’s shaggy hair. “Are you okay? Let’s get you to bed. I’ll make you my famous healing soup.”
“I’m okay. Quinn healed me.” He smiles, although it seems a little watery. “Sorry to be a bother.”
“A bother?” She huffs, smacking his back. “You saved the pups. I heard that much. Human or not, you are one of us, boy, and we wolves don’t talk about ourselves like that. Now, let’s get you up.”
Lucien grins. “He needs a minute.”
“Why?” Marie frowns as I snigger.
