Rane’s Mate(36)

He smiled as she took his lips to hers again. “I’m so lucky to have you, little red.”





Chapter 9




Rane had two days to get the humans ready before he paired them with a group of werewolves for the raid on Thursday. This would be their first underground raid of a demon stronghold, and he needed them trained to save the demons’ hostages.

Arriving at the military compound, he knew that he had to deal with Kirby’s brothers first before he had to focus on his other major issues. Finding them in the gym, he smiled as he saw the worry on both of their faces.

“Follow me.” He walked to his office.

In his office, he turned to them. They stood at attention.

“At ease. I know you’re not happy about your baby sister being my mate, but I really don’t give a shit what either of you think. The only person I care about is Kirby. Because she cares for you, I’ll give you a couple of options. One—suck it up, or quit. Two—start trouble, and I don’t advise this, because you would be surprised at what us animals can get away with. Or three—and this is the one I recommend—be happy for your sister and accept us werewolves into your family. If you choose the last one, there will be lots of benefits.” He stared at both of them directly in the eyes. “What’s your choice?”

They both stared at him, and it was Hayden who spoke first. “I’ll choose number three.”

“Welcome to the family.”

“You better not hurt our sister, or you will be surprised at what we will do.”

Rane smiled, showing his sharp teeth, and nodded, giving his full attention to Logan. “What about you, Lieutenant?”

Logan frowned. “I suppose I’m on the same page as Hayden.”

Rane nodded. “I’ll see you at my house this weekend. You’re both dismissed.”

They nodded and walked out.

As they were leaving, Rane added, “Lieutenant Logan, you will need to be ready tonight, you’ll be with my patrol.”

Logan nodded again and walked away. Rane breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t perfect, but it had gone better than he’d expected.

He called all of the werewolves together so he could relay of the information that he hadn’t gotten a chance to tell them yesterday. Eight werewolves squeezed into his office. After he had explained and told them all the important things, Tray was the first to speak up. “Fifty more men are way too many, Rane. Fifteen is way too much. We’re struggling with the six we were initially sent, which is now only five. Yesterday we had another six arrive. We are too small a pack to handle this.”

Rane sighed. “I said that. Their reply was they are calling most of our werewolves back from missions and so on. Which at the moment is only eight, but there are ten more werewolves coming from England’s packs, they’re going to be given citizenship on entry. They should arrive in a day or two, just in time for Thursday’s rescue and destroy mission on the underground demon hold. It has taken us three months to get ready for that, and I’m still not sure we are. Not for a place like that.”

His brother Kane came into the room. “You’re going to have the humans practicing tonight. They’re going to have to be thrown into the deep end. If we use all werewolves and do shifts of four to five hours hopefully we’ll be ready for Thursday. I need them to know what they’re getting into and what they’re up against.”

Rane looked at them all, not keen to tell them the next lot of info Faith had said. “Mates that have gifts can now be used against the pack, so if the demons capture mates, if they don’t kill them, they can train them to use their powers against us. Faith says it’s one of the reasons the demons are taking all of the paranormal humans, they are not chancing any of them not being our mates. We need to find as many mates as we can before the demons do, and rescue the ones they already have.”

Just as he thought it would, his comment caused mayhem.

“Tonight at eight-thirty Sandra will start teaching self-defense fighting classes for all of the women we have saved, and any willing to join in. Faith will be here to observe Sandra’s teaching skills.” Rane sighed. “Speaking of the devil…” Before he could continue talking, Faith, Jamie, and Ben came in.

Faith smiled at everyone. Ignoring their chatter, she said, “Ah, I see I’ve come just in time. Yes, self-defense classes tonight for the women. I’ve come to tell you some good news, hoping it will pick up your spirits. By the end of the year over half of you will have mates, and all of them will be joining my classes.”

All the werewolves talked at once again. Faith held up her hands just as Kane told everyone to be quiet. Kane looked at Tray and him. Rane got a sinking feeling as his brother spoke.