Chapter 28 – Bloom
My eyelids grate against my eyeballs like sandpaper as I pry them open. As I try to push myself up into a sitting position I feel arms come around my back and shoulders to help. I turn into my helper, planning on thanking them, but when I meet the gun-metal grey eyes of a stranger I recoil. He steps back and runs his fingers through his golden hair. “I’m sorry. I was only trying to help.”
“Who are you?” I ask, my voice coming out croaky as my wolf rumbles her warning. Strange wolf, don’t trust!
He straddles a chair that’s setting in front of a vanity table. His arms laying along the top he asks. “If I tell you will you promise not to explode until I’ve given you an explanation?”
I narrow my eyes. “You’re the Wright Pack Alpha.” Enemy!
“I prefer to be called, Carson, but that’ll work as well.” He sighs.
I force my legs out of the bed and try to stand. I almost collapse to the floor, so I settle on sitting on the edge of the mattress. Glaring at the man I growl. “You kidnapped me!”
“You’re mine.” He responds instantly.
“You’re delusional.”
He stands, pushing the chair out of his way. He’s in front of me so quickly I gasp. He wraps my hair around his fist, forcing my head back, so I’m staring up at him. Leaning down so his face is right in front of mine he growls. “You. Are. MINE!”
“Too late, asshole.”
“If you think a bond to that weak wolf is going to stop me from claiming what is mine then you are sorely mistaken.”
“You can’t break a mating bond.” I say, trying to push him away.
He releases my hair, but doesn’t move. “Little do you know. Killing your mate is a pretty effective way of breaking the connection you have.”
My mouth falls open in shock, and my wolf lets loose a warning growl so strong that it causes my skin to ripple. Is this guy completely off his rocker? “You’ll kill me.”
“Not as long as I mate you right away. Bonding with me will save you.” He smiles like a big fat know-it-all as he eyes my rippling skin, questioningly. I try to resist the urge to hurt him, but my anger over rules that, and I end up punching the jerk in the eye.
He slaps me so hard my head snaps to the side. Grabbing me by the back of the head he jerks me forward. “You will learn your place or I’ll beat it into you.”
“Do you really think that’s the way to treat the person you see as your mate?”
“If they need to be trained, then yes.”
“I’m not your mate, and I sure as hell am not some pet you need to train.”
“My parent’s sent your mother to mate with that human so you would be born. For me! You were created…For me! If that bitch hadn’t taken off and hidden you from us you already would’ve been here with me, and I’d have you trained to know your place. But since she pulled the shit she did you’re behind so let me start with your first lesson.”
“Oh, Psycho, please enlighten me.”
He ignores my comment and continues. “You don’t mouth your Alpha, and you sure as hell don’t slap him. Doing so will cause you to be punished by my hand. That slaps was just the tip of the punishment iceberg you have coming your way if you keep this behavior up.”
“Thanks for the suggestion, but I choose to set my own rules.”
“So be it. But don’t cry to me when you’re more black and blue than creamy white.” He says releasing his hold on me and walking away. At the door he stops and turns. “I’ll send someone in with food. I don’t know what that worthless pack was doing to you, but you’re about as weak as a rag doll, and I need you strong for what I have in store.”
“Good, strengthen me.” I mumble as he makes his exit. We’ll use it to rip out his throat. My wolfs adds, and I whole heartedly agree. If the fool thinks I’ll just roll over and let him take possession of me he’s a bigger moron than I thought.
Chapter 29 – Tucker
My connection to Bonnie leads us deep into Kentucky. The heart of the Wright Pack’s territory to be more exact. Rose guides us to a two-story Greek revival home that is surrounded by woods. The brick building, with its large white pillars, is being guarded by no less than ten wolves. That should be deterring me from wanting to barrel in to rescue Bonnie and Bloom, but my wolf is on the verge of going feral, and wants nothing more than to run in there to rip apart the enemy. We want our mate back. We want our sister back. And we want the strange wolves dead, especially the one who dares to claim our mate.