Chapter 99

Chapter 99

The rest was a blur. I hardly noticed the flurry of fangs and claws-all I saw was that face. Those lips. My mate kissing me in the alley.

When it was over, I stood panting in the middle of the clearing, surrounded by the bodies of my enemies. Blood dripped from my fur, some of it mine, most of it not. The forest had gone quiet.

“Alpha?” Gabriel’s voice came from the edge of the trees. He limped out of the forest in human form. “The rest have fled. We’ve won.”

I nodded, too exhausted to attempt shifting back to human form just yet. My wounds were already beginning to heal, the deep gashes closing up, leaving behind matted chestnut fur sticky with blood.

As I followed Gabriel back toward the others, my mind kept wandering back to those final moments during the battle. I almost lost. I should have lost. I was exhausted, outnumbered… And yet, I had closed my eyes and there was her face.

Why had I thought of Ella during those moments? Why had her face driven me to push through the pain and fight back?

“Because she’s our mate,” my wolf snarled.

course a wolf would think of his mate when he

yourself that,” my wolf scoffed. “But we both know

care for her? That the sight of her in my sweatshirt made my fucking heart pound? That I looked forward to our nightly chess games more than I’d looked forward to anything in

parents’ death, if she was a spy… Besides, she had said she

“Alexander!”


voice rang through the

“Alexander!”

be right. Ella was in the hospital, miles away. I was hearing things, my exhausted mind paying tricks

“Alexander, where are you?”

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head toward me, his eyes widening in panic, and I knew

the hospital, not

I raced toward the sound, heart pounding. If there were still rogues out there, if she was

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