Page 10 of His Beast Mate

Chapter Four

Kitten

With my mate’sbody and the scent of his arousal surrounding me, I felt safer. A strange feeling since he was human and therefore physically weaker than me. I should be guarding his body, not the other way around, though I couldn’t object or reject his cover. It felt good to be protected.

Owner stalked toward us.

I glanced over my shoulder.

My mate pressed a finger to his lips.

I tried to suppress my mating call, but it was involuntary. I’d go into heat soon so that he might breed me. I had enough brain cells left to listen for William’s footsteps, though. He veered to his right, my left, and I heard metal clink. I tried to remember what he stored near that wall. Swords. He collected katana swords, and a pair of them were crisscrossed and nailed on that wall. Perhaps he was a great swordsman.

“Kitty, kitty, where are you hiding?” he called out.

I glanced back at my mate, who shook his head.

Alarms blared through the house.

Startled, I jerked and head-butted John, probably in the nose. I spun around. Yup, he held his nose, blood seeping through his fingers. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” I whispered.

Many footsteps entered through the front door.

We were in trouble. My mate had four rounds and me. Better make myself useful. I waited for the footsteps to stop. They had. Probably the men had taken cover. William also halted. A sword pierced the couch next to my shoulder.

My mate jerked to the left, taking me with him.

This wouldn’t do.

I pushed him away and stood, then rounded the couch.

“Hello, William.” Multiple red beams streaked over my body, his security team aiming and ready to fire. They wouldn’t until the boss said so. Instinctively, I knew this because I knew William well, had spent time under his iron fist. He was no different from Alpha Nie. Domineering not dominant, strong not strong-willed, so he had to suppress another’s will in order to elevate his own. A sociopath, Vice would call him.

Sure enough, Owner lifted his hand. “Hold your fire.”

I leapt onto the table and bounced to the opposite wall, where I swiped the katana. I landed on my feet and hefted the weapon in my hand to get a feel for its weight. I’d prefer something heavier. With this one, I’d have to measure my swing.

William looked confident. Judging by the smirk on his face, he thought he had us trapped. He’d kill my mate and keep me. Win-win for him. He’d gotten money for me. My mate hadn’t taken a single penny from the stash on the table. And now he’d get to keep me for Men of Earth when they came to pick me up. I would rather die together with my mate, something William would never understand. A man who cheated on his wife was not a man at all. William was a boy, looking for thrills, and I’d give him that thrill.

I strolled toward William, then hopped on the long iron coffee table between the two couches, my mate behind the couch on my left.

“This is a beast woman,” a security guy said.

William snarled. “And?”

“You didn’t say anything about a beast woman in the house.”

“William, you bad boy,” I said. “You shouldn’t have let the security inside. They’ll find the basement and the other girls.” I glanced at the security. They could be with Men of Earth, but judging by the white letters on their black T-shirts, they belonged to a private contractor. I watched for signs of surprise on the faces of the three men who trained their guns on me. One of them, the one who crouched, glanced at the man to his right. Their eyes met, and the one who’d spoken jerked his head. “Check it out.”

Ha! I snapped my fingers. Contractors were paid soldiers, and they needed to know the threat level on the house a person had hired them to secure. William hadn’t told them he kept a beast female in here. Everyone knew what Alpha would do when he found out.

I turned back to William. “One of them might tell your wife.”

An eye twitch. Ha!

I pressed on. “Is that how you came into your wealth? Your wife’s money, not your money, so instead of worshiping the ground she walks on, you’ve decided to cure your inferiority complex over her. No more, William-boy, no more.”

“Kitten, drop the sword and come here,” he ordered.

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