Chapter 103
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She needs us
103: 103.
She needs us Liam
Ronan tips his head to the side, indicating that we should give the females some more space.
No.
My wolf protests.
We need to stay near our mate.
She needs us.
God’s the big beast has been chatty since we recognized Hazel.
I ignore him, stepping into the mountain with Kade, Theo, and Barric.
My wolf snarls, unhappy with the distance we’re putting between us.
I look around the hall, and no one seems adamant about moving further.
I hate to say, but all my judgment on how needy the males got if my sister got too far from them is starting to make sense.
We’re not even bonded, and I can already feel this…pull towards her.
It’s like my skin gets too tight when she’s far away, and I have this urgency to make it right by being close to her.
“So…are we going to talk about it?” Ronan asks.
I look at him, distantly aware I’ve been staring in the direction where Hazel sat with Aria.
“Right.” I pull my mind back to our current predicament with the Assembly.
“I think we should spend our time reinforcing our alliances.
It’s clear that Aldren doesn’t have as tight a hold on the other packs as we thought.
This could be the best time to—”
“That’s not what I’m talking about,” Ronan interrupts.
“We’re talking about the female, Hazel,” Barric adds bluntly.
Okay, so I wasn’t as inconspicuous as I thought I was.
Fine.
“She’s mine,” I say simply.
And yet you’re standing here with them instead of making sure every male in this mountain knows who she belongs to, my wolf barks.
“She’s your mate?” Theo says, shocked.
“Yes.”
“Are you sure?” Kade asks, worry clouding his features.
“Yes.”
I know that look.
It’s the look of a male thinking of all the ways this can go tit’s up.
The Assembly crusaded against the shift of human couples.
Eliminated them as they did, and humans they seemed a risk.
And half-shifter children…well, they were given a choice to live in the shifter town without contact with any humans, or they would conveniently disappear.
Another horror that was ignored.
Give her our mark.
Make her ours, my wolf whines.
We can’t mark her.
Yes, we can.
She’s human.
So, she knows about shifters.
She will say yes to us once we tell her, he says with confidence.
You know what happens to human shifter pairings.
I try talking sense into my wolf.
We will destroy the Assembly.
Then Ronan will lift the ridiculous ban.
“Have you told her?” Ronan asks.
“No.”
“Damn, I haven’t seen you this chatty in a while,” Theo snarls.
I narrow my eyes on him.
“What the hell do you want me to say?”
“Are you going to claim her?” Barric says.
“Because you know if you want to, we’ll stand by your side.”
“We only want you to be happy,” Kade says.
I scrub a hand over my face.
Claiming her will only put a target on her back.
A bigger one than what already exists after she turned her back on her family.
“Now isn’t a good time,” I say finally.
My wolf snorts.
Idiot.
“Liam, look at me,” Ronan orders, his Alpha voice ringing between the words.
I face my Alpha.
“I will kill Aldren and dismantle the assembly. Don’t let their twisted actions hold you back. If you choose to mate her, it should be because of a choice you make. Nothing else.”
I know he’s telling me to take the risk, the small window of happiness the gods have given me.
I want it
God’s, I want it.
I want her.
Her sunshine and spice smell.
Her snarky mouth.
Her strategic mind.
The darkness I’d seen behind those hypnotic green eyes.
“I hear you,” I say, because there is nothing else to say when I’m still wrestling with our decision.
“Thank you for giving us some space,” Aria says as she walks through the door.
“Yeah,” Hazel says flippantly.
“That must have hurt.”
Her scent tugs on my dick in a way that makes it take interest, and I want to groan.
I can see the way the males look at Hazel now, like they are seeing her through new eyes.
When their eyes last too long, I let out a low growl.
I don’t give a damn if they’re mated; the only eyes that should be on hers are mine.
Kade smirks obnoxiously.
Hazel looks between us, then shakes her head as if she’s deciding this is something she won’t be dealing with.
“I’ll see you later, I’m going to go meet Ransom,” Hazel says to Aria.
I start to walk behind her
At first, she doesn’t say anything, but when we turn into a larger main corridor that runs alongside the entire mountain, she stops dead.
I know the others have already turned off the main hall and gone to their duties, I just didn’t think she would realize it so soon.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she asks slowly.
“Walking,” I say.
She gives me a hard look that screams bullshit.
She’s right, but instead of saying more, I just stare at her.
We enter into a staredown that begins to make me hard.
She is so beautiful.
Even the low light of the mountains’ interior can’t take away from the sultry tilt of her eye and the dangerous plush, fullness of her petal rose lips.
Kiss her, my wolf urged.
She can feel it.
I know she can.
She releases a sigh.
“Look, Liam, I’m not your enemy
“I know.”
Her golden brows rise.
“Then why are you following me like you expect me to go on a killing spree?”
“I’m…protecting you.” The words come out like I’m chewing on glass.
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