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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safe and taken care of. As for Lili you should know when to keep

laid back man who was not 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 more responsibility.

you’ll never fuck as

my mistakes have all already been

should continue the tracking,” I stood up

off at another site up in a tree and set out to find him again. We had him yesterday but he crossed the River in a hurry and lost

I flew home and I spent the evening in

were getting sparser the higher we went and he wouldn’t

ground in the night. His tracks went on a while before I

at the high point when I spotted him. He was scratching his back. Large grizzly, long claws, a patch of fur missing from

leave his

furious if I came home on the

keep him close to me

to hand combat as more honorable. I wanted to use his meat to feed my pack

a marvelous dish from the beast I saw before me. I can’t wait to

without her and I

him

do

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

position I grabbed a rock and with only about half of my strength I lobbed

huffing clawing at the ground, his

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bellowed. I can’t let him get away when

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

charging at me, I planted my feet and positioned my spear

sharp and came for

and tried to cut him but missed. My heart pounding from the sight of him charging me full fury.

I

the spear got stuck

“F***.”

got under him and dug my claws in only for him to stand up. He

and whipped me into a tree. Coming up slobbering biting into my shoulder picking me

lungs from the force, the ground

whatever I could and

shouted and a spear came arching through the air

spear wheezing and coughing trying to find a way to

paw into me. I felt something