Page 33 of Claimed By the Hunter

“Blake is waiting in back,” Roman said. “I’ll come in the front.”

Hunter nodded and headed that way. He found Blake with his phone out, watching the girls.

“Fuck, Nicole just knocked the guy out,” Blake said.

Both men rushed into the back door to see the man on the floor.

He pulled Nicole into his arms and just breathed her in. This was the second time he’d almost lost her, and his nerves couldn’t handle much more. It was actually the third time she’d been in danger when Brenna’s stalker found them, but they hadn’t mated yet.

The guy was waking up as they dropped him on the ground a few miles into the forest.

“Fuck,” the man said and held the back of his head. “What did that cunt do to me?”

The men stood over him with crossed arms and stared down at him. When they stayed quiet, he looked up, and his eyes widened.

“Who the fuck are you?” the man barked.

“We’re the mates of the women you terrorized,” Roman said.

The man grunted. “Mates? What the hell is that?”

“They’re the other half of us, and when they hurt, we feel their pain,” Blake told him. “Now, you’re going to feel pain.”

“Where the hell am I? Mars?”

“No, you’re in the middle of the wolf pack area,” Hunter said.

The man’s eyes widened when he looked at him in his uniform. “Oh, hell, yes. Sheriff. These men are threatening me…”

Hunter grinned and shook his head. “Right now, I’m not a sheriff, I’m a mate, and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for her, including killing anyone that frightened her.”

“Jesus Christ.” The man held up one of his hands while he used the other to try to move away from the men. “You guys can’t just kill me. That’s cold-blooded murder.”

Hunter looked at the other two and smiled. “We might not, but our wolves can easily kill you.”

The man screamed when Blake and Roman turned into their wolves and stood before the man showing their teeth and growling.

“God. Fuck … what? What’s going on?” he shrieked and tried to move away again, but the wolves just stalked toward him.

“I tell you what,” Hunter said. “If you tell me where you tied your daughter, I think I can talk them out of eating you.”

The guy’s terrified eyes snapped to him, and he nodded. “Yeah, okay. I chained her to a tree north of town.”

“Why did you do that?”

“Because the little slut tries to run away from me and go to the cops.”

“So, you tied her up whenever you had to leave her for some reason?” Hunter asked.

“No, I had to chain her all the time, or she would have gotten away when I was sleeping.”

“I see. Are you her real father?”

The man shrugged. “Some whore I slept with dropped her on my doorstep and told me the kid was mine, so I kept her.”

“Was she a good kid?” Hunter asked.

The man laughed and then squeaked when the wolves growled. “Yes. She had to be, or I’d show her who’s boss.”

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