Page 44 of Wrong Mate

“Killian, this is hopeless. You need to return to your pack and get on with your life. Leah needs to find peace.”

“The only peace she’s going to find is with me. I have been a fucking idiot, not demanding she see me. Keeping my distance. Giving her time because that’s what I thought she needed, but it’s not. Leah is my mate and I’m going to get her.”

“Killian, wait…”

“No, I’m done waiting. I’m done fucking this up. She is mine as I am hers.” He had made a mistake and he would do everything in his power to fix it.

“What changed? Leah is still a witch.”

“I don’t care that she’s a witch. Witches have never bothered me, otherwise I would have never spoken to you. It was that fucking prophecy. It messed with my head, and now I’ve ordered all prophecies to be destroyed. They are far too dangerous and I won’t risk anyone else misreading them. They are removed from the pack. We make our own fate, and right now I’m going to claim my mate.”

“You have no idea where to look,” Lucinda said.

“That’s where you’re wrong.”

He hadn’t taken the potion, neither had Leah. They were mated, bonded together. Six months apart hadn’t changed that. They werestill meant to be together.

Leaving the coven, he took off into the forest. With Leah disappearing at night, she couldn’t have gotten far.

Once inside the forest, he tipped his head to the sky and inhaled deeply. The earth was such a tantalizing scent.At first, he didn’t detect her. Leah was so part of Mother Nature that her scent was easily masked, but it was ever so faint, so he knew she wasn’t too far.

Stripping out of his clothes, he called upon his wolf and took off through the forest, following her smell. He could have done this in his human form, but he was much faster as a wolf. As his wolf, he sensed Leah’s pain.

He did this to her. He hurt her. He lied to her, betrayed her, and it was up to him to fix her. Six months of attempting to grovel hadn’t worked. He had fucked up big time. Killian knew he should have forced herto spend time with him, but he was doing what he thought was right. Now, he knew he’d made an even bigger mistake. Leah felt like her coven and family had betrayed her, as well as him. They had tried to do what was right for her.

He stepped near a tree that was covered in her scent. Leah had rested against the tree.

I’m coming for you, Leah.

He didn’t know if she could hear him. Mates were able to connect and communicate on a deeper level. It was what he hoped to achieve with Leah, eventually. She wasn’t too far. Leah didn’t know the forest like he did.

Charging past and between the trees, jumping over fallen ones, turning left, then right, Leah’s scent got even stronger.His wolf was more than happy to take this run. They both wanted to.

I’m coming foryou, Leah.

I want you.

You’re mine.

They’re all the words he should have said to her when he first saw her. That infernal fucking prophecy had played on his mind for far too long. It had interfered with his desire for a mate. Never again.Leah would come first, always. He looked forward to starting a family with her, to showing her how he could really be as a mate, not just for a few short hours or days, but for weeks, months, and years.

Excitement flooded his body. He was so close. It wouldn’t be longnow.

He heard her footsteps, and then charged forward as he caught sight of her, walking at a steady pace. As he leapt into the air, he changed back into his human form as soon as he caught her, taking them both to the ground. He spun around in the air, so that he took the full force of the ground as they collapsed together.

Wrapping his arms around her, he smiled up at a glaring Leah.

“Hey, beautiful.”

“What are you doing? Trying to give me a heart attack?” she asked, shoving her hand against his chestto get away. With the hold he had on her, there was no chance of her escaping.

“I’m not letting you go.”

“And you think you can stop me?”she asked.

“Do you want me to show you I can?” He winked at her. “There’s my little fiery witch.”

“I’m not yours. You gave up that right.”

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