Still, I stayed close to her. It made me feel like a masochist or something as we walked across campus.
A group of girls passed us giggling and pointing in our direction.
Next came a couple of guys.
“Dare you,” I heard one of them say to another.
Next thing I know, one of them is striding closer to us.
“Looking good, Zoey. Since you’re officially dating now, just let me know if you’re interested in a real man.” Then he smacked her ass as his friends bowled over in laughter.
I immediately saw red.
A menacing growl erupted from me. Zoey tried to hold me back, but no one was going to touch my mate like that.
I was so angry that I was shaking all over and fur was sprouting up my arms.
“Oh shit!” one of the guys warned, but I had already honed in on the one who had dared to touch her.
“Monte,” Zoey yelled.
“Shift!” I screamed at the guy, but he just backed away, shaking his head. “Shift damn it!” He shook his head harder. “What are you, chicken?”
He nodded. “Y-yes sir. I’m sorry sir.”
I kept encroaching on him until he stumbled and fell to the ground. Had to hand it to him. He was a scrappy little thing as he crab-crawled backwards as I stalked him.
“I’m s-sorry,” he continued to stutter. “It w-won’t happen again.”
“Leave him alone,” one of his friends said.
My head swiveled in his direction and my eyes narrowed.
“Run!” he yelled as they turned and took off.
It excited my wolf as I shifted right there in the center of campus and gave way to the chase.
“Monte, no! Please stop,” Zoey said, but I knew she was safe where she was and those guys had to die. There was no other option. My wolf and I were in perfect agreement of that.
I had stalked them halfway across the quad when Denny and the brothers caught up to me.
“Stand down,” Denny ordered.
I growled back at him.
“What happens if he doesn’t listen to me?” Denny asked Remy.
“How the hell do I know?”
“Monte, you’ve made your point. Calm down,” Brax said.
I snapped at him, causing him to stumble backwards.
Just beyond them, I could see the guy who’d touched Zoey. My fur stood up and I lowered myself to a crouch and growled, completely ignoring my brothers. I was fully focused on the guy.
Pushing myself between them, I leapt over a boulder and pinned him to the ground before anyone realized what was happening. I sneered and growled in his face as he cowered. But nothing I did made him shift. If anything, he was clinging to his humanity.
One of our most sacred rules was never to hurt a human or a shifter in human form. I needed him to shift to finish my kill.
