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It was just our nature

I tried like hell to focus onmy mate was so close, the incessant drive to take her away andour fated connection permanent—rode me so hard my hands shook

I forcedthe exact di about the task at hand, how the pack was currently building a longhouse for our little shifter community

The Black Wolf Pack had currently acquired another hundred acres of thickly forested land in the Black Hill Mountains of Colorado Our pack roups in the country, but ere known for our strength, were territorial as hell, and were content to live our lives hidden deep in the woods and away fro eyes

But because of that seclusion, itour fated mates all the harder When you’re only surrounded by your own people, the chances of finding your female was cut down drastically I knew some males in the pack had never found theirwith anyone other than their fated females, they now lived isolated and lonely lives I could see that dark loneliness in their gazes while they lived as if they weren’t ral part of what made them up

Although we could never produce children with anyone but oura companion, someone who they could still share their lives with in a purely platonic way These companions had also never found their mates, so they were strictly friends The best of friends who they could talk to, connect with on some level

I hated that fucking idea

I’d much rather wither and die alone than share my life with anyone asn’t my female

And I’d come to the conclusion that my life would probably end up like that I assumed I’d never findthe Beta meant I stayed where the Alpha did, and Aidan was content in Black Wolf territory

So this here I stayed as well

But then Mia cae, and I felt our connection And I'd never been happier that I stayed, because the reason I even existed was here

I glanced across the center of the village at the cabin we used to discuss and plan new structures for the community I couldn’t see Mia, but I knew she was in there with Aidan I’d seen them head in there just a few minutes before, and since then, I’d been unable to focus Who the fuck was I kidding? I hadn’t been able to focus from the moment I found out she wasthat she was mine

“How ain?” Felix asked, and I forced myself to look away

“Six,” I said autoe slab of wood and took it over to the saw After it was cut, I handed it off to Felix He’d engrave the wolf depictions of our kind and ancestors before handing it off to Sean and Stein, who’d s out Then after that, it would be passed to Milo, who’d take it to the assehouse