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Chapter 23
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The sound of his phone ringing brought Alpha Dylan out of his private thoughts. He didn’t appreciate the disturbance, not that he was actually thinking of anything positive.
Not bothering to hurry and find out who was calling him, he gently set the cold bottle of beer on the table and retrieved the phone.
He gave the screen a stoic glance before sliding his finger across the screen and then pressing the phone to his ear.
“You have something?” he asked the person on the line without bothering with pleasantries.
“It could be nothing…”
“If you thought it was nothing...you wouldn’t have called,” Dylan interrupted in a hard tone, his growl almost following his words.
The line went silent for a moment. Dylan called on all the self-control he could muster. Keeping a cool head was vital for an Alpha, but the situation was beyond testing his limits. When he had agreed to Levi’s offer to mate with his daughter,
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Her wolf nearly jumped out of her skin when Mia realized who was seated at the bar. If her mind hadn’t been miles away for weeks, she would have caught his scent above the usual stench of the place before she even walked into the main area of the pub, but she hadn’t. So she’d had no warning. For a moment, she actually thought she had imagined him out of her stressed mind, but there was no denying what all her senses were telling her. She could see him, smell him. And almost feel her body react to his. Fates, she could actually hear his heartbeat. Asher Deavan was in the pub seated at the bar, just like the very first time they met. It was so good to see him again. She felt like a heaviness had been lifted off her shoulders for a breathtaking moment, before it crushed back down on her like a kick to her chest. He couldn’t be here.Then he spoke. “Yes, Mia… Is everything ok here?” Asher said evenly, but she could still
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Her strong paws crushed leaves and twigs as they hit the ground in haste. Mia could now hear the obvious sounds of wolves fighting in the distance. It carried to her on the cool breeze that blew her way. She was almost there. The telling scent of blood was enough to churn her insides and confirm it. She didn’t exactly think she would single-handedly fight for her pack and spare them from certain death at the hand of the Ice Lake pack. Her ego was not that inflated. She rather just believed her presence would count. No sounds of a wolf running behind her floated her way. That only meant Sam hadn’t come after her. That was excellent. It would have been a struggle she neither had the time nor energy for. Despite her troubled thoughts, Mia had enough sense to come to an abrupt stop when she reached the fight and just quickly analyzed the situation. Almost immediately, the first thing she noticed amongst all the gruesome fighti
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