Page 39 of The Wolf King's Mate

No big deal

Itwasa big deal, though. Shifters healed faster than humans, but it wasn’t instantaneous. It would take a few days before he was back to full health, and that meant he would be fighting more challenges with those injuries.

Me

Are they going to back down?

Fletcher

Don’t know

Hope so

I started typing out an apology as I rounded another turn, but just before I stepped down, I noticed a guy in the side of my vision and nearly had a heart attack.

I jerked away while I was in the process of stepping down—and lost my balance, entirely.

I went down so hard, there wasn’t even time to scream. My shoulder collided with the floor roughly a moment later, and I stared up at the staircase, dazed.

The guy who scared me was kneeling next to me a minute later, an “OH SHIT” expression on his face.

“I thought you heard me coming, I’m sorry. Are you—” he reached toward me, but hesitated.

“Fine. At least it was just one flight,” I mumbled.

“Shit.” He dragged a hand through his hair. “I’m grabbing Clay for help. I’d help you up myself, but with the Alpha’s orders…”

“It’s fine, I get it. Dick said not to touch me. Hunter would be better, though,” I mumbled.

He was the nice brother, even if he didn’t seem like it.

“Sure,” he said quickly.

I could feel dominance coming off him. He was an alpha. A powerful one. But one who answered to Enzo, apparently.

“Who the fuck texts while they walk down the stairs?” Hunter growled, striding out a door one flight above me not even a minute later. He took the steps two at a time and kneeled next to me when he reached the landing I was sprawled over. “Your ankle looks broken from the security cameras.”

“It’s fine,” I protested.

“It’s not fine. You fell down the stairs and wrecked your ankle.”

“I noticed.” I pushed myself up to a sitting position.

“Enzo’s busy with some rogues. I’ll let him know what happened when he’s done,” Hunter said, lifting me up to a sitting position. I winced as my ankle was moved.

Yeah, that hurt.

Maybe itwasbroken.

“I wasn’t trying to scare her,” the alpha wolf said. “I was on the other side of the stairs.”

“I know. I saw the security footage. You’re fine, don’t worry about it.”

Relief crossed his face. “Thanks.”

My phone buzzed.

The alpha looked down at it. “Screen’s broken, but Fletcher says he can handle the challenges. Fletcher Keys?”

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