“That’s so cool,” I said out loud. “Is that how you and Chance can communicate with one another?”
“Yes. Many alphas and beta siblings can communicate telepathically.”
He placed a kiss against my lips before slowly pulling out of me. He sat on one of the submerged rocks, bringing me onto his lap. I collapsed against his body.
“I feel different,” I said. My body felt like tiny particles of electricity shot throughout it. “What does it mean now that we’re mated?”
“It means you and I will live a very long time together. Beyond the normal length of humans, you don’t have to worry about human illnesses and ailments any longer. You won’t have leg pain anymore. And…” He spun me to face him before placing a palm against my belly. “You’re now able to bear my pups.”
I cupped his hand to my stomach. My eyelids slipped closed. How I could’ve fallen so deeply and so hard for this man after only a few short months felt like a dream. But this was real, oh so damn real. I fell in love with a werewolf.
Fate hadn’t forced Chael to accept me as his mate, as my self-doubt had tried to convince me. But one who was made for me, as surely as I was made for him.
“I’ve never wanted anything more in my life,” I admitted to the both of us. I would have as many pups of his as my body could withstand.
“Let’s start making them right now.” His eyes twinkled, and his lips twisted in a mischievous grin. Before I knew it, I was on all fours as he pushed into me from behind.
Under the supermoon, I spent the rest of the night calling out his name.
CHAPTER27
Reese
“Let go of me!” I yelled and fought to break free of the hand clutched around my arm, dragging me to parts unknown.
“Shut up,” a nasal voice replied, shaking me viciously by the arm. A shadow enshrined the man, so I couldn’t make out his face. We moved down a dark hall with large, painted portraits of men I didn’t know.
“You won’t get away with this,” I replied, desperation lacing my words. “Chael will never let you hurt me.”
He made a disgruntled sound in his throat. “Do you honestly believe he would pick you over his entire pack?” A round of mocking laughter spilled from his lips.
A sinking feeling filled my stomach. “H-he wouldn’t leave me.”
“He’s all about pack over everything.” The stranger snorted, his head falling away from me as he continued to yank at my arm, pulling me deeper into the hallway’s darkness. “His barbarian father taught him everything he knows. Too bad he’s all about brawn over brains,” the man snarled, his hatred for Chael evident in every word he spoke.
“He’s not like his father.”
“No,” he replied, the shadow around him falling away. However, I still couldn’t identify him because he wore a mask. The same mask as the man in Dr. Pines’s basement. And his voice was the same, I realized. “He’s worse than his father,” the man yelled with his fist raised.
I winced in pain when his grip on my arm tightened, the angrier he grew.
“That mate of yours is a fucking animal. A beast. Who kills at random and gets away with it! For years. But I won’t let him get away with what he did to me, to my family! I will take everything he’s worked for, and you…” The man jabbed his finger in my face. “I will take you too!”
He reared back, and I saw him raise a knife over his head.
I threw my hands up in front of my face and screamed…
“Whoa!” I screeched, sitting up in bed and looking around the bedroom.
Henry whimpered at the bedside, looking at me with worried eyes.
Though my heart palpitated inside my chest, I stroked him behind one of his ears.
“I-I’m okay, buddy,” I murmured while glancing around the room, making sure I was safe in the bedroom I shared with Chael.
As I looked over at his side of the bed, my heart sank to see it was empty. He’d left the night before to go to Arizona. But I still hated waking up without him near, and the dream I’d just had shook me to my core. It felt so damn real. That was what rattled me more than anything.
Though it was a dream, I knew the ones that felt so real that I felt them in my bones were more than dreams. It wasn’t merely the work of an overactive imagination. These were premonitions.
