Page 27 of Remy & the Wildcat

Rolling them both, he lifted himself over her and returned her smile. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me too, Thyme. Sweet wildcat. Mate.”

“Remy mine,” she said as she cupped his face and brought him to her lips.

He liked being hers and he liked that she was his.

And now, as they played once more between the sheets, he thanked his lucky stars for the strange twists of fate that brought them together on the full moon.

The wolf and the wildcat.

An alpha pair destined to lead together.

And share in a hell of a lot of pleasure.

The scent of motor oil was heavy in the air of the waiting room at the garage where Remy’s truck had been towed the night before. She was still hot under the collar about the tires getting slashed. Remy had cautioned her to be careful as they dealt with the situation, and she was having a hard time reining in her anger.

“I still can’t believe he did this,” she said as she stared through the plate glass window but didn’t really see the parking lot that lay beyond. All she saw was the slashed tires in her mind and all she felt was the vulnerability from having someone follow her and Remy on their first date.

Remy put a comforting hand on her shoulder and her cat let out a low purr. “We talked about this,” he said with a quiet voice. “We have to handle this carefully.”

Her fingers curled into fists at her sides, her nails digging deeply into her palms. She didn’t want to be careful or put a lid on her anger, she wanted to stomp over to Leif’s place and kick him in the balls.

She tore her gaze away from the parking lot and looked at her mate. “He wants me to be distracted. I think he’s planning more things, bigger and more dangerous attempts.”

“What would he gain by that? We’re marked and mated now and we’re next in line for the alpha position. Whatever promise he had to mate a female in the pride on his twenty-first birthday is irrelevant now because we’re ready to move forward.”

She let that roll around in her head. Leif was an idiot, but he wasn’t dumb. She’d always figured that Brilla was behind most of his terrible behavior, but it was equally as likely that he was simply an asshole and felt entitled to the alpha position.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that something else might happen.

“I just want us to be safe. Both of us,” she said finally.

“Trust me I do too. I just got you,” he said, hooking his arm behind her back and drawing her against him with a roguish smile. “I’m not planning on letting you go for the next eighty years or so.”

She grinned. “Just eighty years?”

“To start.”

A service tech pulled his truck up and parked in the spaces near the front door. Remy sighed. “Let’s go talk to Liam,” Remy said. “If nothing else, he will at least know that Leif’s causing trouble.”

She nodded in agreement. They headed outside and thanked the attendant for bringing the vehicle around. Remy got behind the wheel and she sat in the passenger seat.

They found Liam on the back patio of his home a few minutes later. He didn’t seem all that surprised to see them, and when she told him what had happened the night before, he was quiet for long enough she wondered if he’d even heard what she said.

“Liam?”

“Damn him,” Liam said. “I’ll reach out to Jacob, but I’m sure he’ll suggest that Leif wasn’t involved. It’s not as if the tires slashed themselves.”

“We’re going to be careful,” Remy said. “But we did mate each other last night, so the last barricade for Thyme to become alpha has been taken down.”

Liam smiled. “I can see the marks. Congratulations.”

“So when can we start the process for us to take over as alphas?” Thyme asked.

He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, the sleeves of his worn flannel rolled up to expose his forearms. “Friday. That gives us time to get everything ready. Have you chosen a town yet?”

“We’re going to scout today,” Remy said.

“Good. If you can figure that part out by the end of the week, we can make the announcement to the pride at the same time and make plans to take the heads of the families to explore.”

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