Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 48

Good morning

but every morning she

With the distance between us it was hard to speak to one another since we had no practice, but every managed to get to my head with her voice.

The cold mountain air bit at my checks and nose. I huffed and pulled on my jacket and boots rubbing my arms and legs to prepare my limbs for another long day of tracking and climbing up the base of the mountain.

The River phase pack lied at the bottom of the mountain and right now I was scaling the mountain to kill this clever bear. It didn’t matter if it was summer this early in the morning I was freezing.

My pack was positioned in a valley we were surrounded by mountains on all sides the River Phase pack laid on the other side of the eastern mountains and that meant if an eastern wind came it devoured us in our current position.

There was an eastern wind.

This bear was larger than most if Steven was smarter and guarded his livestock he wouldn’t have become so homey

here.

Steven was a loyal friend and I know he is going to fight for my pack. He has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth and when he tries to be a strong alpha all he does is come off as an ass.

Being here away from Annette didn’t endear him to me at this moment. I want to know she’s safe but the men I get from this hunt, as well as getting a threat off my ally is worth this risk.

The bear was climbing higher trying to lose us. I don’t think he knew what he was up against.

“Gray stop looking so f**king miserable!” Steven clapped my shoulder handing me a cup of coffee.

“I’ve left my new wife in danger for you to get rid of a bear twice my size because you didn’t guard your livestock correctly. You’re lucky I haven’t punched you in the nose,” I grumbled, sipping the coffee and walking over to grab some eggs and steak.

“I let my wife track a dangerous wolf for you, alliances are give and take,” he chastised me in a false tone of authority.

“Lili is a saint for being your wife. I’m sure she saw the mission as a vacation,” I dug into my meat.

Any other pack would have been up in arms at such a blatant insult to their alpha but his men knew better than to pick a fight with me.

“I do think I’ll be paying for that comment of Alpha blood for a while. It was only a joke,” he sighed.

“She wants a babe Steven, she is just highly aware you are not ready to be a father,” I kept eating.

“I am not good at any of this Gray. I do what I can for my pack and for Lili. Being a father seems so final for my life that’s only started,” he shrugged shaking his head.

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taken care of. As

meant for the harsh duties of an Alphas life. Lili was raised to be a Luna out of all her sisters, she took her role with far

as much as I

mistakes have all already been

should continue the tracking,” I stood up with an

to find him again. We had him yesterday but he crossed the River

I spent the evening in her arms. All I had to

and he wouldn’t go past those or

had covered a good amount of ground in the night. His tracks went on a while before I found

spotted him. He was scratching his back. Large grizzly, long claws,

doubt going to leave his mark on me. I had only some armor on my back and stomach under a shirt.

furious if I came

on the edge of the fight keep him close to me

huge fans of guns; we saw hand to hand combat as more honorable. I wanted to use his meat to feed my

from the beast I saw before me. I can’t

I was a starved man.

him

to do

were just supposed to keep him by me and not engaged but

with only about half of my strength I lobbed it at the bear’s

huffing clawing

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get away when

hand and reached for another rock and I chucked it at his head again.

my feet and positioned my spear for his

wanted him angry enough that he forgot that the spear was sharp and came for me. Unluckily he stopped short and clawed at me.

tried to cut him but missed. My heart pounding from the sight of him

I

and the spear got stuck under its

“F***.”

and swiped at me again I got under him and dug my claws

feet were gone from the dirt he turned violently and whipped me into a tree. Coming up slobbering biting

my lungs from the force, the ground the hardest

blindly and ripped into whatever I could and thankfully he let

shouted and a spear came arching through the air towards the bear missing

and coughing trying to find a way to get air into my system a

slammed his paw into me. I felt something crack.