Page 30 of A Wolf's Heart

“What does being your mate entail? Weylin explained what a mate was, but what does it mean?”

“That you’re mine,” Rainor growled, and I knew it wasn’t him. It was the creature of the night that I met back in the alley. The one they call the beast.

His hand reached out, gripping my hair at the back of my skull and pulling, angling my face up towards his lips. The red in his eyes grew.

“Rain.” Weylin growled the warning.

Rainor chuckled. “You belong to me. My mate. I own you, every part, from this mouth to your pussy. I will give you every inch of me.”

My wolf practically shouted in glee. My breasts pushed up against his chest, my hands gripping the edges of his suit jacket.

“Shit,” Weylin cursed, and I glanced at him from the corner of my eye. His claws were already out, his eyes lit; he was ready to shift. Would he get in trouble for shifting here? In such a public place? No one was in the restaurant when we’d come in, but I wasn’t sure who was out there now.

“No,” I told Rainor. I stared back into his eyes, his lips so close they briefly grazed mine. “Let me go.”

The red flared at first, the growl that followed was menacing, but I slipped my hand up to the side of Rainor’s neck. The heating pulse from his skin was comforting, the exchange of energy and power nearly palpable.

“Let. me. Go,” I ordered, and his hands released, nearly instantly. Rainor sat back in his spot, staring at me with the utmost confused look.

“You have got to be shitting me.” Weylin stared at me with an open mouth. “Who the fuck are you?”

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RAINOR

My mind was running a million miles a minute, and I wasn’t sure what thought string to follow first. Although the beast raged about letting Lila go, he didn’t push. It was as if he was there with me, alongside me, but he hadn’t taken over. She had commanded him not to take over. She didn’t just command it; she used persuasion over me.

This was something Weylin and I had to report to Kage, though I could tell parting from Lila was difficult for him. This was big, and a piece to the puzzle that didn’t fit. It had me questioning all over again just who Lila was.

I was completely consumed by my thoughts, staring at the ground, until we got into the elevator. In the small, confined space, Weylin’s voice was all I heard as he sang under his breath. I raised my eyebrow at him.

“What?”

“What are you singing?” I had never, in all my years, teenage life, young adult, ever heard Weylin sing.

He shrugged. “Grunge.”

Love songs. He was singing fucking love songs. “Knock that shit off.” I reached up and straightened my tie, smoothing out my shirt.

Weylin grinned from ear to ear.

The doors opened, and I walked into Kage’s penthouse, going straight for where I knew he would be. Weylin detoured and grabbed a beer from the fridge.

Kage stood as he normally did, looking down at the world. Brooding was a talent of his. “You need to check your guard,” I informed him. He took a deep breath before turning to me.

Weylin walked in just then. “I feel fucking fantastic. Maybe if you took out the anal plug, you’d feel better too.”

I choked on air. “Guy is deluded. The silver in his veins went right to his head.”

“Is this a problem I have to deal with, or will the two of you idiots sort it out yourself?” Leave it to Kage to kill any kind of mood and level things out. Weylin took a sip of his beer. I put my hands in my pockets. Kage nodded. “I want a report,” he said.

“She’s sexy as fuck,” Weylin retorted.

Kage flattened his lips, so I quickly stepped in before Weylin could piss him off any further. “From the short amount of time I spent with her, she’s smart. She’s very intuitive and she takes her job seriously.”

“Intuitive?” Kage asked.

I took one hand out and tapped it lightly on the desk. “When we were communicating through the pack link, she looked between Weylin and me. I don’t believe she heard us, but she knew something was up.”

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