Page 76 of Destined
My eyes narrowed. "I'm not weak."
"If I wasn't locked up, you would be dead already," he warned in a sinister tone.
I was an alpha of a pack, not some weak werewolf he could threaten. But before I had a chance, Crystal jumped against the bars between the Keeper and me.
"I will kill you," she yelled and, unbelievably, the steel bars she had her hands wrapped around began to move.
The acuteness of her raging emotions suffocated me. I took a breath to try and get my head around what I was witnessing.
"And when I've killed him, you will be next," Flynn added, crossing his arms as my mate continued to claw at the bars, trying to get at him.
I was shocked. I had never seen anything like it before. Flynn's eyes met mine smugly.
"This is what I warned you about."
Crystal
I was still shaking. I put a hand to my mouth when I remembered losing control. It had taken four male werewolves to pull me off the bars. Even now, two hours later, I still felt so angry. My loss of control had led to bent bars in the cell.
"I don't know what's wrong with me," I whispered, feeling emotional as I looked down to my hands. I had already been strong before but now my strength was at a whole other level. My eyes rose to catch my reflection in the window, but the person looking back wasn't me. This wasn't me.
"Don't," Kyle said. I felt the heat from his body behind mine.
I turned to face him.
"I lost all control. The only thing I wanted to do was rip his throat…" It shook me to my core. I had never experienced such a primal need, and no reasonable thought had been able to stop me.
I looked up at him. My eyes pleaded with him.
"I'm…scared," I mumbled, feeling my throat constrict with emotion.
He hugged me to him and soothed my hair from my face.
"I'm here," he assured me softly. "You don't need to be scared. I won't allow you to do anything you'll regret."
Believing his words would have been more than naive. The truth was I was physically stronger than him so there would be little he could do to ensure I didn't do something horrific.
Kyle stiffened and pulled away from me. I could tell he was talking to someone in the pack via the mind-link by his distracted look.
"James just told me that Curtis thinks he may know why you tried to attack Flynn." Had he found something in my blood work that could explain the loss of control? "James is on his way here with him now."
I began to pace as I waited for the next few minutes under the watchful eye of my mate, who stood a few feet away.
"Come in," Kyle said when there was a knock.
Curtis hurried in first, looking excited and holding some papers. James followed behind.
"What did you find?" Kyle asked, getting right to it.
Curtis walked to the nearby table and spread some of the papers he was holding on it.
I walked over to take a look but nothing I saw made any sense.
"I've taken two samples of blood from Crystal since she went through the change." Kyle nodded. "The hormonal activity in an average female werewolf is higher when they initially complete the mating process."
I frowned as I listened to him.
"Now, as we know, Crystal is not just a werewolf. Her blood work indicated her hormonal activity was reading four times the average of a female werewolf."
