Page 64 of The Alpha Wolf Defying Fate

I shook my head and pushed her back from the front of my mind. Of course, she wouldn’t understand. She only saw the best in him. That’s all she wanted to see, because to her, our mate was perfect and saw us as perfect. But that just wasn’t the case, she’d have to learn it sooner or later.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Ayden

“Howaboutthisone?”Baer called out from an opened door. “Looks like there are at least a couple rooms not including the kitchen and living space. I can see some stairs leading upwards too. Given the era style, must have been a rich merchant’s house or something.”

“Does it look like there are any provisions kept here?” I asked as we all walked over to have a look for ourselves.

“Only one way to find out,” Baer said.

He dipped into the building as we all reached him and made his way towards the back of the house where the kitchen should be.

“There’s some bread here, and some cheese. Nothing molded, so this place must have the same time freezing over everything that the last city had.”

Baer came out from the kitchen, holding up his findings. “This place is like something out of those old movies, based during the Medieval era. It’s incredible that this is how people lived during that time.”

Aurora smirked and walked over to take the bread from him. She brought it to her nose and sniffed before letting out a deep sigh.

“It smells like it must have been fresh baked just before time froze here. It’s heavenly.”

I smiled and turned to look at Sasha. My smile fell as I watched her.

She stood at a bit of a distance from me and the others, her arms crossed over her chest and face set to a serious expression. She hadn’t taken what I said well, and it was hard for me to understand why.

How could telling her that I needed help to help her be so insulting to her? How else could I have worded it for her to not think I was calling her a burden?

“What do you think?” I asked her, my voice low for only her.

She looked over at me, then shrugged before heading to the staircase.

“I’ll see what the upstairs looks like. Let’s hope that we can find more than chamber pots for bathroom use here.”

“Ew!” Aurora suddenly shrieked as she ran after Sasha up the stairs. “Don’t say that! Please, please, please let there be indoor plumbing!”

I watched them both and sighed as Baer joined me.

“You said something stupid again, didn’t you,” he surmised.

I shook my head. “Seems like that’s all I’m ever good at when it comes to her.”

“I don’t know about that,” Baer said with a mischievous grin. “I’ve heard other things coming from your tent that would say you are good at, at least one other thing with her.”

I growled as I looked at him, my wolf not enjoying the cheeky remark of what we do with our mate.

“Calm down,” Baer laughed. “I’m a happily mated man myself, remember. I’m simply saying that you two are good together. She is just a little pricklier than her cousin I suppose. Though, I’ve put my foot in my mouth more than a few times with Rory. Especially those first couple months.”

“I find that hard to believe,” I said, my wolf still pushed forward on guard. “Aurora seems to enjoy everything you say and do.”

Baer laughed again. “No, no,” he said. “She used to get so embarrassed by some of the things I would say. Especially speaking my mind to her parents. Her mom was my dad’s beta, so there were times that I would push my authority against her a bit and Rory would turn on me in the blink of an eye, ready to rip my throat out.”

“What did you ever have to push your authority over her mom for?” I asked, a bit taken aback at the idea that Baer would use his alpha king abilities on someone who wasn’t even his pack member anymore. Not since she mated to Sasha’s uncle.

Baer rubbed the back of his neck and turned his eyes down a bit. “She was getting pushy with some of the mate ceremony plans. Things that I knew Rory didn’t want but was too nice to tell her mom she didn’t want it. So, I did.”

My eyes widened as pieces clicked into place then. Baer tilted his head as he looked back at me, clearly seeing the lightbulb light up inside my head.

“What?” he asked.

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