Claimed by the Alphas: Part Two by Viola Rivard

Author:Viola Rivard [Rivard, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

The sheer, peach cloth of her dress billowed in the drafty room. Her chestnut hair had been combed and spilled in waves over one, exposed shoulder. Her elbows were on the windowsill, cupped hands propping up her chin as she stared out into the valley.

Her back was to him, and Asch knew that she hadn’t heard him coming. He hadn’t been deliberately quiet as he made his way to her room, but she did not have a wolf’s hearing.

He watched her for longer than he should have. She seemed to be in deep thought, perhaps regretting ever agreeing to join his pack.

In the months he had spent dreaming of finding her, Asch hadn’t really considered what he would be bringing his human mate in to.

Initially, he had thought that he and Caim would each take their own mate, much like they had their own favorites within the pack. When he had expressed this to Brae and Lotus, they swiftly rejected the notion. If one woman was more favored by the pack, the other would be isolated. If neither women liked one another then it would cause friction between the alphas and, by proxy, the pack. If one woman was dominant over the other, the wolves would come to see her mate as the dominant alpha. The list of reasons went on and on.

After weeks of trying to work out a solution, with minimal input from Caim, Asch had grown frustrated and impatient. His entire human life had been about denying himself what he needed. Now that he was free of that torture, he would not deny himself a mate.

The woman, he decided, would just have to choose between them. Naturally, a human would choose him over Caim, and the other wolf would either have to accept that and stay, or move on.

But she hadn’t chosen him. For some reason that Asch could not fathom, she had let Caim imprint on her first. Even if he said that didn’t piss him off, it did.

He couldn’t blame her. He had dragged her into a shit storm of pack drama and she was doing what she could and what he couldn’t, which was finding a solution to their problem. If anyone was to blame it was him, but as the breeze brought her scent to him, woven with the heady smell of Caim’s imprint, he felt his wolf thrashing against its chains, voracious with the need to stake his own claim.

He knocked his fist on stone of the doorway, letting the sound alert her to his presence so as not to startle her. She jumped a little and looked at him over her shoulder, her brown eyes misted. Her mouth dropped open at the sight of him. He went to her, not waiting for her invitation.

He drew her into his arms. She didn’t protest. She let her head fall onto his chest, but kept her hands at her sides and her eyes averted.

“I don’t deserve this,” she said, blinking rapidly. He caressed the hollow of her back in an effort to ease her distress.

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