Chapter 170

I wake up in the huge king-sized bed of the Rathborn apartment in the Roberts Corp building, and I’m immediately assaulted with the scent of my mate’s arousal all over the sheets.

Sonofabitch

I’m instantly hard, despite how s hit ty I feel.

I roll out of bed, frustrated from both getting jumped and almost killed last night, and infuriated at the lust surging hard through my system from the simple fading scent of my aroused mate in the blankets.

I stagger into the bathroom and get the shower running from multiple jets, even more annoyed at myself as I remember how I modeled this bathroom and the shower in particular after the one at the hotel, where Leah had put on an erotic, decadent display for me, and I’d nearly lost it. Almost smashed my way into that shower and claimed her as my mate right then and there.

I wonder now, if I had given into those base, animal instincts that night, would things have turned out the way they had?

In the shower, I jer k myself off, mostly in anger and frustration, but it doesn’t do anything to make me feel any better.

I’d never considered coming to California dangerous before last night.

Who the he ll had thought they could kil l me and steal my Alpha abilities like that?

Had it just been some random rogue wolf?

k ill me for months now, starting way back when Leah had still been in the hospital and I’d narrowly escaped that first

part of the reason I can’t be around Leah-my mate-besides all the hurt and

my mate could get caught in the crosshairs-or worse, used against me-makes both me and my wolf feel the sort of unhinged that

keep myself and my wolf in check because we’re staying away from

I’m more volatile and restless without

let this happen to me

seeing what it did to my father when

was never going

But Leah…

when exactly she got under

know how to live without her, even if

in the remote cabin

for anyone to sneak up on me out there, where I can hear or scent them coming for miles. What I don’t sense, the surveillance

the bottom of who is out to get

a strong suspicion it’s someone on the Council, either an official plot to get rid of

alone, I’m not sure.

Elders on the Council are uneasy about me possessing three packs, even though I’ve reassured them I

I want

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