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“And as for those who hurt you in the past, princess? I’ll destroy them all. One day, we’ll make both Ironwood and Frost Fang pay.”
Chapter 5
Freya
At the foot of a craggy cliff-face, we stopped for the night near an abandoned lean-to.
“The previous occupant has been gone for a while,” Gage observed, sniffing the air. “Still, Heath and I will scout around just to be sure.”
The pack alpha exchanged a glance with Flint, who turned and began spreading out the blanket under the lean-to.
“Come on, Freya.” My mate motioned to me with an open smile. “Let’s get you warmed up.”
“I always wondered why you refused to sleep in wolf form,” Heath mused.
His caramel gaze swept over me with a playful glance and a flirtatious curve to his lips.
“I guess now you know,” I said, confused by his friendly overture.
I couldn’t reconcile flirty Heath with the guy who fucked me in silence and then left me sprawled across the bed without a word.
Heath whipped his shirt over his head before I could look away, winking as he gave me an eyeful of his bulky upper body. I turned my back, refusing to continue gawking at him. I glanced guiltily at Flint and refused to look directly at the other two.Shifters normally cared little about nudity except for specific situations… like this one.
My heat meant that Flint and I must be mates, but he hadn’t officially claimed me with his bite. The heat left me vulnerable to being claimed by someone else, a fact that should make Flint particularly possessive of me. But when he lowered himself with liquid grace to the blanket beside me, I found no tension in him nor any sign of concern.
The two other alphas soon shifted and disappeared into the rocky terrain around us. Flint caressed my cheek and pushed my hair behind my ear.
“Are you okay?”
I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding. “Not really. I’m exhausted and… it’s… a lot to absorb.”
Then I looked at him. Really looked at him, with the moonlight through the trees making his dark hair shine. My mate, who I’d abandoned.
“Flint… I’m sorry for saying those things.”
“No, Freya. There’s no need to apologize. I’m proud of you.”
“For what?”
“For trying to protect the Moonblessed pack, for one. Few outsiders would do that.”
He leaned forward and planted a kiss on my cheekbone.
“For trying to protect three hard-headed alphas like us. You wanted to protect us like a true packmate would. Few non-alphas think that way.”
His lips moved lower, to just under my ear, his breath heating my neck and making me crave more.
“For facing the facts about your past and who you truly are.”
His praise was making my whole body heat. Distractedly, I said, “She told me that someone cursed me and bottled up my magic. And that same someone also cursed me with the fake fated mate bond.”
His lips traveled lower. His breath flowed beneath the collar of my shirt and down to my collarbone.
“And when we find that someone, you know we’ll do anything to figure out how to free your magic,” Flint promised.
The circumstances had only slightly suppressed my heat-influenced libido, and all his kisses were doing a great job of reawakening it. Brielle had said my heat might still be two weeks away, but with the need I felt right now, I doubted that very much. I’d found my mate, and I was desperate for his touch.
“Flint, you told me once that I should bite my mate back so that we would have an equal mating. Do you still want that?”
