Stay With Me: A Rejected Mates Romance (Claws and Fangs Book 6) by Sarah Spade

Author:Sarah Spade [Spade, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

CHAINS

Chains.

Every pack has a pair. Forged from silver, they’re absolutely unbreakable. All supes react to silver, and shifters are no exception. It weakens us—a fact I know all too well after my time in a cage lined with silver bars—and it burns our skin raw if we touch it.

No shifter will choose to put on a pair of chains unless there is no other option. They’re for ferals, mainly, or those who aren’t too sure of their control.

Everyone in Accalia knows the rumors about Ryker and the chains. I hate to admit that I know for sure that they’re not rumors, and our Alpha spent every night of the full moon chained in his cabin’s basement because he was a danger to the rest of us.

He was a shifter without his true mate, and for a whole year, he didn’t know where Gem was hiding out. Their bond was strained, magic covering up her scent, and he had no way to track her since it seemed as if she’d just disappeared. No one knew she was insane enough to risk death by fang in Muncie—or that she survived, the only shifter living in the Fang City. Ryker’s wolf still wanted his mate, though, and he would’ve burned the whole world down to get to her if he could.

The chain were essential. When the moon fever hit him, not even an alpha wolf could break through the mystically forged silver chains. His pack council set him free every morning, and we all agreed to pretend that it wasn’t happening. Alphas need complete faith and loyalty to lead their pack, and none of Mountainside wanted their pity for Ryker’s unfortunate situation to get in the way of that.

If he felt anything like I have tonight, I put him through torture. Tomorrow, when the fever breaks, I’ll experience guilt for my actions all over again. But tonight? All I can think about is how my wolf picked one male for me to entice—and he needs the Alpha’s chains.

There’s only one reason why he would: Duke is a shifter without his mate.

I’ve known him for seven months. More, really, but our friendship only began those awful days in California. He’s never once mentioned that he has a mate. No one in Accalia has. As far as I know, he’s unmated, just like me. No female would stand by and allow their mate to protect another she-wolf, no matter what his position in the pack is.

So maybe he doesn’t have a mate—but he has an intended. A female his body and wolf believe is his, and who he’d be with if he could. Since he can’t, he’s choosing chains and a night of agony in Ryker’s old basement.

Makes sense. Only a handful of cabins have the underground rooms to begin with. From the rumors that have whispered through the pack’s gossip mill, Ryker’s chains were big and heavy, but also screwed into the cinder block wall in his basement. They’re not something that Duke could bring to his single-room cabin.

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