Alpha on the Hunt Chapter 8

“That is not what I am offering!” I growl, pulling my keys from the ignition. Yet still, I know I should go home. This wasn’ t how I planned this out.

“Why are you still hesitating?” Axton questions.

“Because my pack is without an alpha if I stay,” I tell him, the words leaving my lips taste bitter, knowing I should be home by now.

“I sent Eli and a few of my men to patrol your borders al- ready, so please tell Sondra not to shoot them!”

“You did?”

“I won’t leave your pack defenseless, Elena, so yes. I knew you wouldn’t be able to stay away for long. You’d fret for them. They are still under one. All she-wolves fret for their young, especially when you are breastfeeding.” I chew my lip when another thought occurs to me. If Eli isn’t here, that means we would be in his house alone unless he has a nanny to help with the boys.

“Wait, if Eli is gone, who is inside with the boys?”

“No one, they are asleep, and I’m only a few meters away from the door. They are perfectly fine and safe tucked in their crib.”

“How would you know that when you’re out here?” I snap at him, climbing out of the car, and he rolls his eyes at me be- fore reaching into his back pocket. He holds up a baby moni- tor with a little screen. Showing the boys sleeping together in their crib.

“See, now you know your pack is safe; the boys are safe.

Can we go inside?” I look at the huge house when Axton snatches my keys and slams my door shut. He hits the fob, locking it.

“Now you have no choice but to come in or sit in the rain,” he says, stalking off toward the front door. I growl, marching after him.

By the time I reach the door, I am just as drenched as he is. The rain outside only got heavier, like the rain was waiting for me to get out, so it could wash me away. Yet stepping in- side the packhouse, it is toasty and warm. Axton heads for the stairs, and I close the door, staring at the lock before shaking my head and locking it. It’s not like he can order me.

“I can, but I won’t,” Axton answers, reminding me once. again just how much stronger the bond is for him. It won’t be long before he can hear my thoughts, as if they’re his own at this rate.

“Not quite hear them unless you mark me, more of a sense of them like they are mine.” Axton shrugs. Wow, the in- vasion of privacy just climbed higher on the ladder of creepi-

ness.

him upstairs to the kitchen when he stops by the linen cupboard. He pulls a towel out, handing it to

only because I spent so much time around you today. Once you go back home, don’t worry. It will be like starting the bond from scratch again.” His words offer me very little in the way of

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that uncomfortable being here

me?” he

ourselves, you had me locked in that prison apartment. The time before that, you knocked me up. So sorry

flicker, and that is the first time he acknowledged what happened with Jake wasn’t by my choice. He walks into the kitchen, and I follow, drying myself the

want to believe it because you hate me, that doesn’t mean I would do what he did?” he growls, reaching

much better. And nothing like what

you, despite

to lock me in your basement earlier?” I

on you. Besides, you’ll come to me soon enough anyway when you go into

romantic, he’ll kidnap us but not rape us. Oh, I’ m glad he draws

mit while ignoring Lexa, not wanting to think too hard about the fact I just locked myself in a house

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Axton shoots me a

it, Elena, those things are dangerous. You deny your heat too long when you do finally go into heat. It can

already gone into heat?”

my eyes.

I haven’t had to take them yet. She only got them for me today while I was at the council. She

don’t take them. You don’t

having

damn life over, Elena. And it’s not like

They’re perfectly safe or

bond for too long. I get you don’t want to complete the bond. I am not asking you to mark me; I’m just asking you not to risk your damn life when I’m right

“And you reject me,”

my name on it?” I

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you in my bed than in my basement, but if

may just have to

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