Chasing Harmony by Sabrina Rue

Author:Sabrina Rue [Rue, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Always the Good Girl LLC
Published: 2018-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

As Harmony barreled into him, he braced her shoulders. Unfortunately, her Wolf was still a little too close to the surface and she snapped her teeth at him in fury.

“I-I…dear gods. What else?” she asked no one in particular. “I’d apologize but that’s gonna get old quick.” Rubbing her temples, she tried to smile but couldn’t look Ryker in the eye.

“Mate.” His voice was gentle. When she didn’t look up, he touched the underside of her chin with the side of his hand. “It’s alright.” She shook her head. “Harmony.”

He gathered her in his arms and held her firmly. He knew she was mortified when she started crying and tried to break away.

“No, stay. Stay with me, Harmony. I understand. Let me hold you. Let me calm your Wolf.”

He picked her up and she wrapped her body around his. Walking through the home he’d been raised in, he settled on a heavily padded sofa in his den with her in his lap.

His Mate sobbed brokenly against his chest and he stroked her back, murmuring soothing words until she calmed.

Loosening his hold, she tightened hers. In a voice hoarse with her tears, she said, “Don’t let go.”

“I’ll never let you go, Harmony.” He turned her so he could stretch out with her beside him. “Let’s be still together.”

“Ryker…”

“No apologies. Not to me. I understand. Let me breathe you in.” She pressed as close to him as she could get. “You don’t have to run anymore. I have you in the safety of our home. Your Heat is behind you. A dozen men search for your sister. We can be still. For the first time in too many years, Harmony. We can be still and I can soak up the joy of holding you.”

She released a gasping sob and buried her face at his neck.

“There’s nowhere else to be.” He raked his fingers through her hair and rubbed her back. “You’re warm, safe, loved, and exactly where you belong.”

Ryker let her cry out every instant of fear, every drop of blood shed, every aching moment of bone-deep grief she’d set aside to stay ahead of hunters, every hour of lost sleep…he gave her the opportunity to feel her pain and leave it behind her.

Years of it whooshed from her system and he kept her focused on the way his arms felt around her, how safe she was now.

In this moment, her Mate was the only thing she needed and he was happy, honored, to provide his presence.

* * *

Ryker wasn’t surprised that Harmony’s long-suppressed grief and exhaustion wiped her out.

Leaning back, he stared into her sleeping face and felt as if his heart would swell from a chest too small to hold it.

He held his Mate.

There were so few females of their kind. Pure-blood Were females were usually infertile with all but their Mate. When they gave birth, only one child in a hundred was female.

Humans were compatible with Weres and easily impregnated but had difficulty carrying the babies to term.

That Harmony’s human mother had carried four children for her Were Mate was a miracle.

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