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Chapter 32
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2021-10-09 23:58:40There was a thick silence in the room. It was deafening. Mia gave herself a few mental slaps for her slip.
After what felt like forever in which, Mia tried to think of anything to say and came up blank. It was Asher that broke the silence.
“Why is it too late to take precautions?” he asked cautiously. His eyes never left her face, as though he was trying to read the answer to his question in her eyes. Although there was already something in his eyes that suggested he knew the answer to his own question. He was a smart man. There weren’t many ways her words could be interpreted.
Mia looked away, unable to continue reading the different emotions that crossed his face. Damn it. That was not how she had imagined breaking the news to him. Not even in her wildest imagination had she pictured it like this. She considered dodging the discussion or making something up to throw him off what he was obviously putting together in his head, but
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“In short,” Asher started in a low, measured tone. “What you are simply saying… is that you can’t tell me anything.” He raised his hands and counted his fingers as he spoke. “Not why your family is after you... You won’t tell me who your family is or what they even do, or why you ran from home in the first place.” He grabbed a fourth finger, his anger very visible at this point. “Not who found you through me and caused you to run from my home. Or even how they managed to make the connection… I am still puzzled about that one, by the way. And lastly, but not the very least, you can’t even tell me… Correction... Let me rephrase that. You can’t even promise that you won’t run again. Even though you are carrying my child. Have I missed anything?” The silence that fell in the room following his count of all the information she refused to give stretched uncomfortably. Mia was past the point of explaining herself. There was nothing she could say to hi
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Like a very satisfied woman, Mia sighed peacefully in her sleep. She could feel a warm body next to her that smelled so good and made her want to rub herself all over it. Even though she could feel her sleep fading away, she desperately tried to hold on to it and just enjoy the moment. Then a cool breeze blew over her skin, causing a shudder to run up her spine. Mia reluctantly woke up and opened her eyes.The cool air did not add up with what she had been enjoying. She paused and took a moment to orient herself to her surroundings. The scent in the room and feel of the sheets against her skin immediately grounded her. She was in Asher’s bed, wrapped in his firm arms. Asher was deep in sleep. She could tell from his even breathing, but his arms still tightened around her when she tried to move away from him. As though even in his unconscious mind, he was still trying to make sure she didn’t leave again and disappear into the night.
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Asher had the mother of all headaches pounding insistently at his temples. It was as though a tiny mad man had been handed a hummer and told to torture him; he thought. And although he was mostly out of it and dazed from the pain, he could feel the rough hands of at least two men drag him out of the car they had been travelling in. He wasn’t sure how long they had been driving, but it must have been hours because compared to the darkness of night in which they had left his house; wherever it was that they had arrived hours later, the sun was up in the sky and bright. He had woken a few times during the drive. And each time, he had noticed how quiet Mia had been. He hadn’t heard her say a word, not even when the men in the car had accused her of causing so much trouble. Most of what they had said made little sense to him. He blamed most of his confusion on his aching head, but some of it was just weird. He had heard comments about packs
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A totally stupid, still rebellious part of her wanted to ask her father what exactly he meant.The words ‘did what?’ danced on her tongue, but she swallowed them before they tumbled out and put more fuel to the fire. She wondered if the angry alpha would spell out in detail what he knew with his nose his daughter had done with the human. It was indeed a very tempting idea just to spite the man further. However, that would be a dangerous game to play. Besides, it was just impossible to play dumb about something anyone with a nose could catch. What the alpha had caught in the air the instant he neared Asher was the scent of their bond. Her scent was all over Asher, just as his scent was all over her. It was intertwined, as only a scent of mates could be. Faced with her father’s rage, Mia lifted her chin defiantly and looked him in the eyes. The simple action was enough of an answer to his angry question. In a swift motion, on
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Asher blinked. His brain was having a seriously hard time understanding the data it was receiving. “It’s not possible,” he murmured quietly. He shook his head as though it would help his head process what he was seeing better. It didn’t help. And no one paid him any attention or the confusion he was experiencing. They focused all eyes on the two wolves that growled at each other. One of which he couldn’t believe, but knew was Mia’s father. Who was the other wolf? Asher suddenly wondered. In the back of his mind, he knew, but he didn’t want to accept it. He looked at the black wolf standing over his legs. Its black fur almost glittered in the sunshine. The line of red fur on its back all the way to its tail was very telling. So were the shredded clothes on the ground. Still, Asher refused to acknowledge it. It just wasn’t possible. Tension increased around them. Soon it was obvious growling wasn’t the only thing the wolves were going to
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A man stalking towards the center of the gathered crowd accompanied the gravelly voice that had spoken. Asher turned his head to look at the newcomer. He didn’t even know what to expect anymore. This had been the weirdest day of his life. The man was as tall as him, from what Asher could access, and looked to be around his age as well. But that was where Asher acknowledged the similarities ended. Asher was no skin and bone, but the man he was looking at had shockingly huge shoulders and arms. His body tapered into a narrow waist, then huge thighs. He looked like a bodybuilder on steroids. The kind everyone warnded to stay away from. After what Asher had seen of Levi’s wolf, he had to wonder what this man’s beast would look like and if he actually wanted to find out.Because he had no doubt the man was also part animal. Then the man’s words hit him. Asher frowned. He realized the man had to be the Dylan that had been mentioned just
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Asher gave his teeth a painful workout, grinding them against each other to stop himself from talking. For a man used to being in control and giving orders, this was a tall order. Asher knew he was not the typical billionaire businessman. He had tattoos and loved riding his bikes. He felt more comfortable with a little grease on his hands than in a board room surrounded by tycoons in suits, ties and expensive Italian shoes. But in that moment Asher would have taken a ten hour boring meeting with the worst competitors in the business. That was preferable to being dragged by Connor into the warehouse. The warehouse was large, old and mostly empty, but what Asher noticed the most was the dust that covered every surface in sight, and the thick chains that came out of the walls like spider legs. The windows high up, almost touching the ceiling, provided enough light to make everything crystal clear and creepy. Ash
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Mia’s heart wasn’t breaking. No, that would have been far too much better. What was happening was it was being ripped out of her chest. She literally felt like her heart was pushing its way out of her chest through her ribs, cracking them painfully one at a time in the process. Fates be damned. She had known it would be really ugly if they got caught by her pack. Hell, it was the very reason she had fought so hard to not let it happen, Mia thought. Yet, somehow, she had been prepared for it, but Asher was not. Asher wasn’t even a wolf. This wasn’t his fight. He wasn’t even equipped for it. How well could a human handle such a situation? She wondered. Of course, she knew compared to other humans, Asher could hold his own. But compared to werewolves or any other shifter, it was a sad joke. She humphed, not happy with her own thoughts. They were depressing and only agitated her more. Mia stood up and began to pace up and down her old room like the
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Asher sat on a fallen tree, comfortably leaning against a rock. Mia watched him from a distance.He wore a black top that showed off his muscles and tattoos, just like she enjoyed. A black leather jacket sat next to him on the fallen tree trunk. It was part of his bike gear, but the bike was nowhere in sight because they had left it in a clearing almost a mile away.Mia completed her shift and stood up. She smiled as she watched her mate bounce their son on his knees and pointed out the trees and rocks. She couldn’t believe this was her life now. Not only did she have a mate, but she had a beautiful son as well, and she adored them both.They were in the woods because Mia needed to ‘stretch her legs’, as Asher liked to put it. And since the house they had bought wasn’t too far, Asher liked to ride them all on his bike to this secluded area.Since Ren wasn’t yet old enough to run with his mother, he stay
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Asher watched the rather busy happenings of people passing by the window as he took a last sip of his coffee, then placed the empty mug back on the table. He hadn’t thought pack life was such a hive of activities.His thoughts, however, were not truly on thecoming and going of man and beast outside his window. No, his thoughts were bombarded with what he had discussed with Chris and James. If Levi would not fold, then they had to take drastic action and run.It was the same plan Asher had entertained the first time he was in the pack lands, chained to a wall. But unlike that time when death would have fallen on him swiftly in a blink of an eye. This time, the plan had potential to succeed. Chris and James were there to give Asher and Mia a fighting chance.Chris and James had already left the house to plot out the best route of escape. Asher was waiting for Mia to show up as she usually did, just as the sun touched the horizon.
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Before he realized it, Asher had already spent an entire week with the pack. The days had flown by in an interesting mix of frustration and relief. The relief was, he had spent every waking hour in Mia’s company. Although under the very watchful eye of one of the pack enforcers. Asher imagined it was like having a chaperon in the nineteen hundreds. Making sure the virtue of a woman was kept intact while in the company of a man. It was a little late for that, of course, but it didn’t seem to deter their devotion to the task. Although it really pissed him off to high heaven and beyond, Asher managed to bite back his anger and tolerate it. At least he was grateful they hadn’t thrown him out, which would have made Levi extremely thrilled, he had no doubt. Something else that would have made Alpha Levi happy was James and Chris leaving the pack lands. But the duo had stuck around like an awful skin rash. The two made up Asher’s night c
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Asher and Mia left the alpha’s house in a deep, thoughtful silence. It was like words failed them both at that moment. Or it was a matter of where to begin. It was actually the first occasion they were getting to talk ever since Connor and Sam had stormed into Asher’s house in the middle of the night. It was also their first time talking ever since Asher discovered what Mia was. Everything was now out in the open. There were no more secrets hidden in omissions, half truths, or lies. Mia bit her tongue and avoided Asher’s scrutinising gaze, which she felt like a burning flame on her skin. Her own thoughts caused a different fire within her. He had come back for her, yes, but she wasn’t still certain what he felt about the whole matter of werewolves. Not to mention her father’s frosty behaviour and the whole Dylan story. James’ words flashed through her mind. ‘What you see there is nature’s perfected killing machine. That is
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Levi’s words filled the air and hung there like a toxic smell, ready to suffocate everyone present in the room. Or at least five out of the seven people present in the room. Everything and everyone seemed to first freeze in place, including the air, before things suddenly blew like a time bomb running out of time. Mia jumped off the couch, a deep growl erupting from her chest vibrating the walls when she faced her father. Her eyes glowed with her wolf, so close to the surface. She clenched and curled her hands, feeling her claws dig into her palm. Any second blood would sip out of the minor cuts and find its way to the floor next to her feet. Asher didn’t stand, but he moved to the edge of the couch, leaned his elbows on his knees and steepled his fingers before placing his chin on them. He closed his eyes for a moment and mentally counted to ten, very slowly, trying to calm himself before he did something stupid. When he
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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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Mia sat up with a jerk when she heard her father’s howl cut through the air outside the house. Even though she was in a closed room, the sound had penetrated the walls and reached her as though the alpha had howled right there in the room with her. The Alpha’s call vibrated through her, calling to her wolf, calling to the pack. Calling to the bond that connected them all. It was a call to warn of intruders, a call to warn of serious trouble in their land. And a call to all pack members to fight for their pack. Mia recognized it all. Her feet hit the ground fast as she made her way to the closed window, desperate to find out what had provoked such a call. Nothing but calm trees met her eyes. She couldn’t see and anyone running in panic or otherwise. Her bedroom window didn’t have a view of the center of the pack homes, so it was pointless. Suddenly, behind her, the bedroom door opened. Mia turned to find her mother’s panicked face. In th
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For a moment, it looked as though Alpha Levi didn’t know what to do with the human. He actually seemed to be speechless. Had it been a less tense moment, someone would have actually dared to laugh. Asher finally saw what Chris had meant by shocking the old alpha and surviving longer than five seconds. He didn’t dare to look away from Levi. The older man’s angry glare was almost too much to bear, but Asher refused to give in and look away. If he was going to get Mai, he knew he had to go through her father. Just as the tension seemed to reach breaking point, the Alpha’s attention snapped to the trees above them. He snarled. “You brought a rogue wolf and a blood sucker as your backup to steal my daughter?” Levi asked in an accusing but mocking tone. Asher chanced an indifferent shrug. “In desperate times, you can’t be too picky about who your friends are.” “You must be pretty desperate,” som
