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Chapter Six
GALEN
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.I’d begged, pleaded and threatened Talia, just to get her to tell me the truth. Now that she had, I was faced with another problem I had no solution for.
And I had no idea where to begin to try and find one.
Talia had been marked by a demon shortly after the attacks began. I knew they were connected, that the demon mark meant something, I assumed Talia being the one that was marked was a coincidence.
A demon appeared in my father’s house and attacked. She fought back. He marked her. End of story.
But Talia being the cause of it all? The reason a demon appeared at my dad’s place, that the witches had been cursed and my pack members buried? The thought never crossed my mind.
Until that moment.
Was she a harbinger of doom? A curse on our town and pack? Had I doomed the pack to destruction when I made her a Long Claw?
None of that mattered.
The only question that was worth asking, was how was I going to save her? Because losing her was not an option. I’d fallen head over heels in love with her. She was my mate. Not just my mate, my fated mate. Mark or no mark.
And I would do whatever was necessary to keep her by my side.
“Your eyes, do they turn red every time you shift?”
I uncrossed my arms and hooked my thumbs in my pockets; switching up my body language and hoping to appear more relaxed. But I was far from it. I needed to see her eyes for myself and there was a good chance Talia would close herself off and run when I asked her to show me.
“I need you to shift, Talia.”
“Here?” She whipped her head around, golden locks fanning out around her as she searched the room behind her. “What if someone sees me? If they find out what I am, they’ll want me thrown out of the pack. You’re their alpha. You have to do what is right for the pack.”
“You’re what’s right for me, Talia, and that makes it right for the pack.” I closed the distance between us, pulled her into my arms and reassured her with a kiss. “Everyone left. Even Theo, Marcus and David are gone. We’re alone, but I’ll lock the doors if it will make you feel more secure. You can trust me, you know that right?”
At least I hoped she did.
After the way I’d acted back at my apartment, I wouldn’t blame her if her faith in me faltered. I’d taken her secrecy as a personal slight and that whatever she was hiding from me was somehow about me or about us.
And in a way I supposed it was.
She feared rejection. Understandable after everything she’d been through. She was afraid of losing me and the pack - of being marked by a demon and tossed out to fend for herself.
“I claimed you, Talia. No demon mark, demon wolf clan, or having red eyes is going to change that. We’re going to fix this. Just don’t shut me out. We’ll fight this, whatever it is, together.”
