My Mate (The Alpha Shifter Collection Book 23) by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent [Crescent, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2025-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Dex had gone from storing the wood in the shed, to now loading it up in his father’s truck, ready to distribute. He didn’t know why he couldn’t have just taken it to the people they were helping.

His father had tasked him with doing this side of the pack business. He had a list of the men and women that needed the firewood. After already going to five homes, he now understood why. They were much older, and they didn’t get around as well. Dex knew it meant they were not going to survive many more winters.

This is what happened to a wolf—they lived for a very long time, until their light started to burn a little too bright.

Several of the people he went to had seen close to two hundred years, as they were granted at least double a human’s lifespan. It was just how they aged. He knew it was going to be a long time before he no longer looked eighteen.

He couldn’t stop thinking about the premonition Lucinda had shared with him, but also Casey’s fear. He had a horrible feeling his mate would attempt to flee the pack. So far, she was sticking around, but he had learned she was attempting to interrogate pack members.

Casey wasn’t known for being very … open with the pack. She’d always been nice and kind, and the pack loved her. Now, she was even more chatty, asking questions, finding out what the pack really thought of her not being able to turn into a wolf.

By the time Dex finished unloading the truck, he headed back to town and parked outside the diner, where his father waited with his lunch.

He came to the truck window, and Dex rolled it down. The cold was getting worse.

“How are the deliveries going?” Klaus asked.

“Good. I think.” He opened the foil-wrapped package and took a large bite out of the sandwich. He was starving and needed all the food he could get.

“Do you want to talk about whatever is bothering you?” Klaus asked.

“Nothing’s bothering me.”

Klaus crossed his arms in front of his chest. “Fine, how about you tell me why Casey is taking it upon herself to start asking the pack how they feel about her not being able to transition?”

Dex swallowed a lump of the sandwich. “You’ve heard about that, huh?”

“Yeah, I heard.”

“It’s nothing. I think it is just her frustration.”

His father took another step toward the truck. “Dex, if you don’t tell me the truth, there is no way I can help you. I want to help.”

Dex took another bite of his sandwich, only this time he didn’t quite taste it. He didn’t know if Lucinda had shared this premonition with him to be kept secret.

His father would find out. If Casey had known he’d gone out to Lucinda’s, then his father already knew. Just looking in his eyes, he knew it was true.

“Don’t get mad,” Dex said.

And he told his dad everything he knew, including the premonition that his death is caused by the fact Casey doesn’t change into a wolf and save him.

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