Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

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I wasn’t proud of my actions after leaving the hotel and my mate. Ashley wouldn’t stop crying and demanding to know who Everly was to me, but I also knew if I told her right now, it would be all over the city by the end of the day, and the last thing I wanted was the media hunting Everly down and harassing her. So, I remain quiet the entire drive until I pull up out of the front of her house. Ashley reaches for me, and I pull

away.

I can’t stand her touch; it repulses me, and my entire body is pulling me back in the direction of my mate. I know I needed to figure out something fast. I had been away from her for only five minutes. I don’t know how my father survived my mother dying. This was agony, and barely any time slipped past.

“Get out!” my voice escapes as more of a growl. Startled by it, Ashley jumps, looking at me nervously.

“Get out,” I repeat at her when she sits frozen in her chair, staring at me. The command rolls over her, and her hand reaches for the door handle before hastily getting out.

“And Ashley?” I ask as she climbs out of the car. She stops, her hand still on the open door and looks back in at me.

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“Don’t come looking for me. Stay the fuck away from me, or you will find yourself living with the rest of the forsaken,” I tell Ashley.

She gasps; I had never banished anyone from the city before. We try to usually avoid forsaking wolves, but she just made finding my mate an entirely new struggle when she couldn’t remain in the Goddamn car like I asked. Her puffy red eyes blink at me in shock at my words before she nods and slams my door shut.

I start the drive home with a sigh, wanting nothing more than to go back to the Mountainview Hotel and retrieve my mate. I can’t understand why she didn’t want me. Wasn’t that all she- wolves wanted was to be mated to an Alpha? Yet, she tossed me aside like she felt nothing for me. And she is a damn rogue. She should be jumping for joy.

Alpha being bonded to a rogue were rare. It isn’t like it has never happened, but most Alpha’s are bonded to other Alpha’s; I only know of two other Alphas in the country mated to someone of lower rank.

could have been a freaking unicorn for all I cared. I have always wanted my mate; I trusted the Moon Goddess to make the right choice for me, and after seeing her. I couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. My mind is entirely consumed with her, her scent, the tingles that

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definitely would have recognized my mate had I seen her before, but even her name, I swear I had heard that name before. Why couldn’t I

our laws, as Alphas can be weakened without

will feel the pull; it is inevitable. She is good at pretending I don’t affect her, but her heart rate said otherwise, the way her breathing

back into the parking lot of my hotel, I groan when I see my father’s car still parked where it was. I was hoping Marcus could get rid of him while I was gone, but what intrigued me the most was the car parked beside it. A growl escapes me when I see Alpha John’s car parked in my reserved parking spot beside my father’s. What

when I toss

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growl that escapes me, echoing off the marble floors and the

he” I

of the elevator, not willing

half was the sectioned–off and all restaurants and bar areas. When I reach the door, I swipe my card to let myself in and then hear the click of the locks before the door swings inward. Walking past a few open doors, I can see pack members look out at me nervously. It is no secret that Alpha

a few public incidents recently that had the entire city on edge that a war was coming. Honestly, it

pack’s border and was willing to try and get it by any means necessary, no matter who he

the main streets and the streets behind it were neutral territories, he couldn’t stake a claim to the land, but that didn’t stop

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businesses there out.

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