Chapter 023 Mate

Rylee

I plummet downward uncontrollably. My mind goes blank as I look down at the surging sea below.

Is this today? I’m going to die?

Suddenly, a sharp pain shoots through my arm. I look up and see Alvar’s naked body hanging off the cliff. He’s pulling me up with one hand, the other clambering over the saltpeter at the edge of the cliff. His expression is angry and agonized.

I stare at him in disbelief. How is he suddenly here? Out of nowhere.

Alvar pulls me up easily with one hand.

Then he climbs up the cliff.

I sit paralyzed, rubbing my chest, terrified. A tall, imposing figure looms over me… Alvar!

He towers over me. His fangs protrude, his eyes are bloodshot, and his hair stands on end.

He has no clothes on.

I’m still in a daze. What the hell? Where’s the giant wolf that just scared the shit out of me?

Alvar says coldly to Ruth, who has her head down, "Have the cliffside closed off immediately. No one is to approach without my order."

Then he roughly pulls me up and toward the Man