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What are you doing out here? Did you lose someone too?” he asked. I know I’ve seen him in the pack hospital, but f don’t immediately remember his name. He’s only recently turned eighteen and started fighting, so he hasn’t come in as offers as the others.
I did I lost the man I think was my mate. I would have known for sure tomorrow. What about you? Who did you loser
My brother. He was a good warrior. But there’s only so much that can be done with all this fighting. None of us has fime to heal properly
Who was your brother?” If he was a good warrior, I’m sure I knew him.
Theodore
I turned and looked at him. “Teddy is your brother?”
He had nodded and tried to smile, but instead his lips had trembled, and he’d pressed them tightly together to keep from crying
“He was the only family I had left. He was good brother. He sure did like you. He thought….well, I guess it doesn’t matter
“He thought what?” I asked.
He’d looked at me sadly. “He thought you were his mate. He told me he couldn’t wait until you were eighteen so he would know for sure
I thought so too, I’d said, looking back at the burning pyres. “What’s your name?” I’d asked, realizing I didn’t know.
Bennett. But you can call me Benny.”
That night, Benny and I had forged a friendship through our combined sorrow and loss. I’d made a point of making sure that when he came in to the hospital that it was Savannah that saw him and treated him. I wasn’t going to lose another friend, and eventually, he and I had become lovers. At first, it felt like a betrayal to Teddy, but I realized I couldn’t go my whole life wishing he’d return. He won’t. And if he loved me, like I’m pretty sure he did, he wouldn’t want me to be sad and alone. Part of me hopes that he’d be happy that it’s his brother that I’d given myself to, the only man I’ve ever been with.
Benny was one of the warriors whose wolf had gone quiet and was dying a slow death when Luna Yara arrived in our pack. He was just one of the many lives that she saved and I’m so thankful to her for that.
Now as Flisten to Alpha Warren giving his verdict to Dr. Stephens, I feel Benny’s hand slide into mine. I turn and look at Hin and I see that same possessiveness in his eyes that I saw in his brother’s so long ago.
I somehow anderstand what he’s trying to tell me without words. This, Dr. Stephen’s death, will close the loop on his Brother’s death. Teddy’s murderer, because that’s what Dr. Stephen’s is, will die for his sins. I know what Benny wants. He’s been asking me for months to make it official between us. Knowing that Dr. Stephens will die today, it feels right. It feels like
can finally ler Teddy go.
1 nod, letting him know that I’m ready to take him as my chosen mate. He smiles a smile that is very much like his brother’s, and I blush. He strokes his fingers over my cheek, getting that same possessive look that Teddy used to get. I wonder if this is teddy’s way of letting me know that he’s okay with my decision. I hope he is.
When Alpha Warren steps back, the pack, almost as one, steps forward to attack. As expected, Dr. Stephens takes off running. 1 don’t need to kill him, but I want one good swipe at him for letting all those good warriors die while we, the nurses, tried everything in our power to save them.
The pack leaps, immediately giving chase. Benny and some other strong warriors get to him first, tackling him to the ground. Benny holds him while me and some other weaker wolves catch up, taking our opportunity to swipe our claws
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When they release ham, he begins to run again and once again, the pack gives chase. I let others have their turn. Once again, no one said it, but we all know that our Lona doesn’t like the idea of us tormenting Dr. Stephens for a long period of time and we will respent her wishes.
It still takes us hours, but without our Luna, we’d have made him suffer like this for days. I was glad when Katie came out and poured alcohol on his open wounds. “That’s for our warriors, you asshole,” she’d yelled and kicked him in his stomach.
I’d stayed and watched, everyone wanting to give Dr. Stephens a piece of the pain that he had inflicted on so many. It was Haynes who had shifted and holding Dr. Stephens, had looked around.
“Anyone not get their chance at him?” he asks, Dr. Stephens‘ wolf hasn’t been able to keep up with the assault the pack had given him, and his open, bloody gashes and bite marks are bleeding, making him weak. His wolf had forced his shift back to his human form hours ago.
When no one steps forward, Gamma Haynes pulls Dr. Stephens‘ head back. “You deserve so much more than you’re getting. But we, this pack, love our Luna more than we hate you. We never want to disappoint her and while she agreed to allow this, we know it’s hard for her. You can thank her, the one you scoffed at when she first arrived, for your easy death.”
Dr. Stephens screams, but it only lasts a moment before Haynes extends his claws and removes his head from his body.
When we shift back, Benny turns, walking straight toward me. There’s a hunger, a desire that I’ve never seen in his eyes before. He wraps his arms around me, taking my mouth in a possessive, dominant kiss. I wrap my arms and legs around him as he carries me inside.
When we get to his room, he closes the door and finally pulls away from the kiss.
“Time to make you mine,” he growls.
“Yes, Bennett, Make me yours,” I say.
I send up a silent promise to Teddy that I will be a good mate to his brother, and I feel like something tight inside me, something I’ve been holding on to, finally lets go, allowing me to give myself freely to Benny, to be and have the kind of mate we both deserve.
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Chapter 99
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
