Forever Mates by Spade Sarah

Author:Spade, Sarah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

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I wait the rest of the afternoon to see if Elizabeth is going to come back. When hours go by and there’s still no sign of her, I decide it’s about time to go for a walk. The wolves here are so eager to prove that I’m a guest, not a prisoner, and I’m gonna hold them to it. I refuse to hide out in the cabin on my own.

Plus, my stomach has been growling for ages. I need something to eat, and I’m focused on chowing down before Walker decides to host another dinner for me.

As soon as I step outside of the cabin, I’m surprised to discover someone is standing about ten feet away. He’s staring at the door, but as soon as I pulled it open, he freezes as if he never expected me to come outside.

Blue-black hair. Light golden eyes. The cleft in his chin.

And four jagged claw marks that go from temple to jaw.

They’re angry and red and, holy shit, just looking at them makes my cheek twinge in agony.

I’m rushing toward him before I even realize I’ve moved.

“Theo! What the heck happened to you?”

His hand slides up to his face, fingers spread to cover the marks.

As if that’s going to make it any less obvious.

In the Lakeview Pack, I grew up with my Aunt Corrine’s boys: Devin and Max. They were a year older than me, and super protective of their “omega” cousin. They treated me like I was super fragile, as if I was made of spun sugar, while occasionally beating the shit out of each other because, at the end of the day, that’s what shifters do. Add in the fact that they were brothers and it was inevitable.

So, yeah. I’ve seen marks like that. Sometimes Devin got in a lucky hit, sometimes it was Max, but until they healed any injuries from their sibling squabbles, they often had a few fresh scars covering their skin.

As a shifter, there are only two ways to actually bypass our regenerative properties and leave a true scar: mating marks, and a shifter tattoo. Unless he treats the marks with a blend of silver and herbs, Theo’s face will heal. Considering the raised ridges and jagged flesh are more of a purpley-pink, I know it’s a fresh injury; from this morning, at least. Claiming marks turn white when a shifter chooses to keep them, and a shifter tattoo shimmers with the silver shoved into the wound to make it permanent. Those marks are neither. In a few hours, there would be no sign he was carved up at all.

No wonder he’s trying to cover it up. He never meant for me to see them.

Now, it could just be that he’s a vain alpha. After living under Wicked Wolf Walker, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of my bio-dad’s vanity rubbed off on his packmates. Something tells me that there’s more to it than that, though.

“What happened?” I ask again when he doesn’t answer me.

“It’s nothing—” My look of disbelief has him changing his story halfway through.

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