Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter Thirty-Five: The alpha won’t let her run alone

Chapter Thirty-Five: The alpha won’t let her run alone

Jason

“For fuck’s sake, Jason. You can’t be thinking about what she’s saying. Sweets, you can’t be thinking about joining a mating hunt and letting someone mate with you like that.”

“I am.” I said, letting my hand fall from Travis’ shoulder as he spun around to face me with an accusatory look on his face. His wolf was so close to the surface but he needed to back down. If he didn’t, he was going to drive Tillie to do something that none of us wanted.

“Jason, alpha. Fuck, you can’t be fucking serious? You know how they hunt, it’s savage. She could be hurt.” Travis scrambled for words, his skin rippling as his eyes lost all color. Gone was the bright green, replaced by the onyx color of his wolf. His anger was almost tangent, burning brighter than the calmness that I had tried to force onto him. I knew it would piss him off, but I didn’t need him pushing Tillie.

Our mate wasn’t like us, she was soft and kind. She was willing to do whatever it took to protect those that she thought of as hers. She had proven that to me already. When she realized that I would go feral if she didn’t mate with me, she had given herself to me in a way that no one else ever had. When I had pushed her too far, she had still accepted me. Letting me make love to her the morning after. I wished there was some way that I could make Travis understand.

He hadn’t been close to going feral without her. That fear hadn’t been sharp in his mind, controlling his every waking thought.

knew how walking that fine edge was dangerous. It would have been so easy to give myself into that madness to hurt those around me. I wouldn’t have wished that feeling on anyone

hers. Travis was right, that we were hers, too. That meant I was willing to fight for what my mate wanted. If it meant doing something, I never thought that I

Tillie to join the mating hunt. But that

Tillie said and Travis looked away from me back to our mate. “If I have to join a hunt to mate with

will not.” Ryan said and Tillie turned to look at him. Her eyes blazing in a way that would have made me afraid if she were a shifter. There was a fire to her that I hadn’t seen previously. It was glorious and I wanted

me to help her

You-“She started to say but

in that hunt. It’s our job to take care of you and if you are hunting with them-goddess, I hate

house. I watched her go. I wanted to follow her but I figured she needed a moment to breathe without the three

hadn’t seen him this mad the entire time I had known him. He was normally so calm, it must have been some

I shared with Tillie, even as I tried to block the feeling away. It wouldn’t do to have

is the one with us.” Travis growled, crossing his arms over his chest. He looked over at the forest but I knew that Gideon was far enough away now that he

I said, tucking my hands into my pockets and looking out at the

She’ll get mated with more than just the