Mated to the Pack by Alanis Knight

Author:Alanis Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, bbw, shifter romance, werewolf romance, bbw romance, werewolf paranormal romance, shifter paranormal romance, bbw paranormal romance, wolf shifter romance

Chapter Seven

The leaves crunched heavily under their feet as they walked. Allison was hardly dressed for such terrain, wearing nothing but a tank top and shorts that they’d obtained for her the first night she stayed with the pack, and her feet were bare. Until this moment, she’d never realized that her shoes, inappropriate that they might have been with their spiked heels, had been lost at some point during her abduction and rescue.

“Are you alright?” Michael asked her, glancing down at her tender feet.

“I’ll be fine,” she lied, eager to find Luke and Logan as quickly as possible.

In truth, her feet felt as though they were being ripped apart. Every jagged stone, every briar, every sharp twig tore at her delicate flesh, so used to wearing fuzzy slippers and being moisturized nightly. But she said nothing. The pack was far more important.

Michael was careful to slow his pace, allowing her to keep up despite her aching feet. He knew she must be in terrible pain. He could see her wince now and then, and he could hear the occasional sucking of air between her lips. But he would not belittle her by asking if he could help her.

“Do you have any idea where we are going?” Allison asked.

“I go based only on pack instinct,” Michael said. “Unfortunately, I can no longer sense their location.”

“Why not?”

“I’ve been disavowed. They no longer recognize me as Alpha because of my betrayal, and as a consequence, our pack bond has been broken,” Michael explained.

“Oh, no,” Allison murmured. “Because of me. Michael, I’m…”

“Don’t,” Michael shushed her. “This is as much my responsibility as it is yours, if nor more so. As Alpha, I should have had the strength to resist. This is my failing.”

Allison bit her lip and struggled against her emotions as her eyes began to well with stinging, bitter tears. No, she told herself. Don’t you dare cry!

Crying would do no good. Crying would weaken her, and Michael needed her to be strong. The whole pack needed her to be strong. They were broken, and it was all because of her. She couldn’t let them down.

She swallowed hard, and the lump of raw emotion that had become lodged in her throat was pushed into the pit of her stomach. She took a deep breath, willing herself strength she feared she didn’t have.

“This pack instinct… can it really help find them?” she asked.

“I hope so,” Michael said.

She wanted to tell him how little confidence his hope inspired in her, but she knew that he himself might be lost in a quagmire of hopelessness if she did. So she did the only thing she knew to do. She lied.

“We’ll find them,” she said. “I know it.”

Michael said nothing, but she could see that his jaw muscles were tense and twitching. Not wanting to put him under any more stress than he was already bearing, she walked beside him in silence.

After several long, painful miles, Allison’s feet felt as though they were on fire. Michael sniffed the air and glanced down, noticing a path of blood trailing behind them.

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