Page 90 of Fated to the Wolf Billionaire

“Is he dead?”

Her voice was small, timid, but she stood straight. Probably in a little bit of shock, based on her pale complexion.

“No, we don’t kill humans, even misguided hunters like that asshole.”

She nodded, looking relieved. “Are we just going to leave him there?”

“Yes. The police will pick him up and assume it was a mugging. It happens.”

She bit her lip, and I traced her jawline with my thumb. “He’s going to be fine, Stormy girl. I just knocked him out, I promise.”

Her shudders made me scoop her up, holding her against my chest as I strode out of the alley. I was distracted, concerned about her reaction to the attack after a long night.

Which was why I didn’t scent the other male until it was too late.

FORTY-THREE

Fiona

One moment, I was curled against Reed’s chest, his comforting scent and familiar warmth helping ease my shaking body, the next, I was flying through the air, landing hard against the damp, hard cement.

I didn’t know what hit us, only that it felt like a semitruck.

I stared down at my bleeding palms, blinking in shock as my brain struggled to catch up to what had just happened. Frantically, I looked around for Reed, only to see that he had shifted, his massive black wolf tangling with another.

No, that wasn’t right.Three others.

They weren’t as large as he was, but they’d caught him by surprise—while carrying me—and in human flesh. Blood was pouring from multiple wounds on his sides, and he was limping on one back leg.

A sob broke out of my chest as I used my bloody hands to push myself to my feet.

“Stop it! Leave him alone!” I charged forward, not thinking clearly as I stumble ran toward the nearest wolf. All I knew was that I had to help Reed, had to help him fight off the attackers.

I might as well have taken a fly swatter to a rhino for all the attention the shifter paid me. I shoved at his haunch, trying to distract him, but he swung to the side and knocked me over, sending me right back to the pavement.

I hissed when my elbow connected with the pavement, jarring pain shooting all the way up to my shoulder. That was a mistake.

The wolf I’d shoved turned, glowing yellow eyes fixated on me, where I was down, injured and completely at his mercy.

The snaps and snarls mere feet away told me Reed was still fighting for his life, and I was on my own. What I didn’t expect was for the big fucking wolf to change before my eyes into a very naked, very aroused man.

Shit, shit, shit!

“Well, hello there. Aren’t you a pretty little piece,” he cooed, closing the distance between us easily on foot as I tried to scramble back.

I didn’t like the hungry look in his eyes, and I suddenly remembered what Reed had told me from a meeting with Galyna a few weeks back.

If an omega-marked female is unbonded, she’s basically flies-to-honeyto any shifter male nearby.Most will just try to breed her.

Fuckity fucking fuck.

I rolled over, pushing to my knees, getting ready to run for it, because this asshole trying to breed with me wasnoton my bingo card. But before I’d even made it fully to my feet, his hand was fisted in my hair, his knee knocking my legs out from under me as he followed me back down to the ground.

I froze in fear as he ran his nose down my neck, inhaling sharply and moaning. The sound of his pleasure, hisenjoymentof my terror, sent a frisson of disgust and fury through me.

Fuck no.Fuck no!I was not about to get raped on the street by some asshole wolf who had attacked my mate and me.

I didn’t consciously call the power to start with, but when the wind started to howl, blowing down the alley with the gusting howl of a tornado on the way, I closed my eyes and pushed everything I had to the well of blue flame that resided in my chest.

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