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 for Lili

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.

as much as I do,” he

my mistakes have all already

stood up with an

up in a tree and set out to find him again.

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

went and he wouldn’t go past

the night. His tracks went on a

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

and took off my coat. He was no doubt going to leave his mark on me. I had only some

furious if I came home on the verge

on the edge of the fight keep him close to me that’s it, he’d

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

marvelous dish from the beast I saw before me. I can’t wait to have her cooking again. I can’t wait

her and I was a

circle him, I’ll draw him out,” I ordered them.

to do

had the bear circled. They each were just supposed to keep him by me and not engaged but were equipped with a spear

only about

found me roaring and huffing clawing at the

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him get away when he realizes he’s not strong enough for me.

my right hand and reached for another rock and I

at me, I planted my feet and positioned

that he forgot that the spear was sharp and came for me. Unluckily he stopped short

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

I

the spear got stuck under its

“F***.”

him and dug

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

my lungs from the force, the ground

I could and thankfully he

a spear came arching through the

find a way to get air into my system a deliriousness clouding

slammed his paw into me. I felt something crack.