Page 111 of Mates: Posy

His whole body tensed up, and I snuck a peek at his face. Sid flashed in his eyes for a split second before Ash reined him back in.

Why did that make him angry?I wondered.

Because you no supposed to see every rib and bump of you spine!Lark growled.Father starve you just to torture you!

"You aren't heavy or fat." Ash's voice turned gruff. "You're actually too light. We'll help you get to a healthy weight, okay?"

"Okay," I whispered to both him and my wolf.

"Besides, even if you were as plump as a little piggy, I'd still want to carry you."

Laughing, I kissed his jaw and laid my head on his shoulder.

With my other mates following, he carried me about two hundred feet off the back porch to the edge of the woods.

"You can undress behind one of these." Ash swiveled to show me three giant trees that stood sentinel by a well-worn path. "The betas will have packs for us to put our clothes in, just in case we need to shift during the run."

"The betas are coming?"

"Yes. They are your guards, after all, and you need to get used to each other."

I twisted my fingers nervously into the back of Ash's shirt, and Jayden looked up at me with concern painted on his face.

"Did one of them do something to make you uncomfortable?" he asked.

"They better not have!" Cole growled. "Did they, Posy?"

"Um, no."

He pulled me off Ash, set me on my feet, and bent almost in half to go eye to eye with me.

"Did they?"

"No, Cole. I swear they didn't do anything to me. They took very good care of me." I looked at the ground, then back at him. "But I didn't like how Matthew treated Tyler."

"I gave him a warning." Mason came over and patted me on top of my head. "If he bothers Tyler again, I'll discipline him."

"Good. It made me mad and upset to see. Tyler's so sweet and nice."

"Hey! He's not your mate.Weare!" Ash plucked me away from Cole, slung a heavy arm around my shoulder, and pulled me tight against him. "Never mind. You don't need to spend any time with them."

Feeling mischievous, I grabbed the hem of his shirt, yanked it up, and blew a raspberry on his belly button. He jerked like I'd tasered him, and I used his distraction to dance out of his long arms. The look on his face cracked me up.

"Ha! That gets you back from last night!" I teased him.

"Oh, cupcake, you asked for it now."

He grinned and looked like he was going to pounce on me, but Wyatt came up behind me, wrapped an arm around my waist, and swung me around in circles.

"Me, too, cutie!" he demanded. "Zerbert me, too!"

"Stop spinning me! If I get dizzy, I'll vomit!"

Abruptly, he set me down, and I turned and jumped on him. Using his surprise to my advantage, I tugged up his shirt and blew a raspberry in the center of his chest. I went to run away, but he grabbed me with one hand and yanked his shirt down over me with the other, trapping me against his hard torso. It was a super tight fit, and I could hear the seams tearing.

"Let me go. We're going to rip your shirt!"

"I got plenty of others, cutie."

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