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He warns her to run right before I take over. Silly human, I love the chase. Having her run is only further giving me something I desire.

Time to claim our mate. I smirk as I watch her running with her hair whipping through the air. Oh, good, she is heading to the woods, even better. Now I won’t be yelled at for doing this in public.

Inhaling deeply, I smell her arousal on the wind. She doesn’t realize she is giving me a trail right to her. I could sit here and still find her. As my mate, I will always be able to find her by scent alone. Howling towards the sky, I take off running after her.

She glances over her shoulder and sees that I am running behind her. Her eyes widen in fear, and now her arousal is tinted with fear. This is the best dessert in the world. Scenting my mate with arousal and fear rips a growl from my throat. I can’t wait to sink my teeth into her neck.

I could have easily caught her by now, but where’s the excitement in that? The thrill of the chase is intoxicating as I watch her struggle to escape. With a swift movement, she spun around a towering pine, the scent of pine needles filling the air, hoping to disappear. Silly girl, you’re approaching this all wrong; it doesn’t work that way. I shift to stand behind the brush beneath a tree close by. She looks around, her eyes scanning her surroundings. Seeing that I am no longer standing where she last seen me, she comes to a stop, deeply breathing. Huffing out a chuckle, I shake my head back and forth. Lesson number one will be survival. Our mate is clearly lacking survival skills.

She bends over and puts her hands on her knees as I watch her body try to calm itself. Silas is knocking on our mental walls. Heis trying to stop me, but I won’t let him this time. He thinks that the full moon is the only time that I can take full control, what he doesn’t know is that I just have never had a reason to before.

Right before I go to step from behind the brush, Silas gives one last attempt to stop me. He pushes me back to keep me from coming out. Growling, I thrust past it and thrash my head back and forth.

I lunge at her right as a scream rips from her throat. Pinning her to the ground, I bare my teeth at her. She starts thrashing from side to side, I need to get her to sit still. Snapping my teeth at her, she freezes. Before anyone can stop me, including Silas, I lunge forward and clamp my muzzle down on the junction between her neck and shoulder. She perfumes the air and I can’t resist any longer. I will have the perfect Luna. The venom drops down my canines and into her neck. She will be ours forever.

She is crying below me, but I can’t stop now. She has to have all the venom, or this won’t work. I don’t know when I will have another chance before the full moon.

Silas comes forward in our minds,“What have you done?”

I respond back with, “What needed to be done.”

After the last of the venom drops out, I unlatch from her neck. I lick the wound to help heal it faster. Lifting my head, I look down at our Luna. She is sleeping as the venom works its way through her body.

Silas finally breaks through the mental wall,“What have you done!”

Chapter 16

Silas

Once I finally break through the mental wall that Storm put up, I look through his eyes to see that he has bitten Nova. I scream into our mental shared space, “What have you done!”

I am stunned. I know he was determined to claim our mate, but to force the wolf life upon her. What was he thinking?

Now I will have to fix this mess with a woman whom I had just built trust with. I don’t know that she will be happy to see me after this. Storm releases his hold on his form, allowing us to transform back into our human form. This asshole really made this gigantic mess and then left me to deal with it.

Swooping down, I pull Nova into my arms. She snuggles into my chest as she softly snores. She is so beautiful while she peacefully slumbers. I know when she wakes up that I will probably never see this again. Although she doesn’t know that I am the one who turned into a wolf. I will have to tell her somehow.

Growling, “Do you realize what you have done, Storm? You are forcing her to become a wolf and took away her choice in the matter! What if she didn’t want to be a wolf?”

He huffs into our shared mind space,“We can’t have a human mate. I couldn’t resist the chance to turn her into a wolf. You can be mad at me, but we both know that you aren’t mad that she is a wolf. You are mad that I took the choice away.”

“I am mad that you took her choice away, and that you forced her to become a wolf. Yes, I am glad that I have a wolf mate now, but I don’t want her to believe that this is what we do. You don’t even know that she can take the venom and become a wolf. You know she has to have it in her lineage, otherwise it will kill her.”

“Trust me, get her back to the pack house before she wakes up,”Storm mumbles before disappearing into the back of our mind space.

Grumbling to myself, I pick up the pace to make it to the pack house. I don’t know how I am going to explain this to any of the pack mates. Let’s hope that I don’t come across any of them on my way to the Alpha’s portion of the pack house. I also need tofind Gail, hopefully she can help me with explaining everything to Nova.

As I’m carrying Nova into the main hall of the pack house, thankful nobody is around, I glance down to the silent woman in my arms watching her chest gently rise and fall. All I need to do is walk up another flight of stairs and to the back…

“Why is Nova unconscious?”

Turning around, I find a furious Gail with her hands balled up on her hips. “I can explain what is going on, but first I want to get her into the Master Suite. I know you are angry, but can you help me get her settled in and then you can yell at me?”

“Fine, but you are going to explain yourself as soon as she is settled. I will also call Willow, Aspen, and Hazel to come here immediately. Hopefully, they can help as well.”

We walk into the Master Suite; it has obviously not been used in a long time. A thick layer of dust coated every surface, the air heavy with the stale, musky odor of neglect. I am going to have to get someone to clean this up immediately. Although, that isn’t the most pressing issue right now. Laying Nova down on the bed, I pull the comforter from under her and cover her with it.

I need to get a fire going to warm up this room. Log cabins don’t exactly have central heat and air. I move to the massive fireplace in the room and clear it of the old debris. “I know you are going to want the full explanation, but I don’t have it.”

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