Beta's Fated Mate: An Enemy-To-Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance (Port Ridge Pack) by Lexi Lennox

Author:Lexi Lennox [Lennox, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Faye

I couldn’t go back to the Pack House. Not yet. A house filled with couples who had claimed each other as mates wouldn’t help me right now. I decided to head for the park. Shift and run until I couldn’t run anymore. Maybe exhaustion would stop my mind from replaying the words he’d said. I’m not from the West Side of Port Ridge. Yeah, well I can tell you that being from the West Side of Port Ridge wasn’t something I was proud of. I hated everything about the part of town my father had built. But no one would believe me if I told them that. It looked so beautiful from a distance. Bright lights. Polished wood. Marble accents. But all I saw were brutal fights between my parents, who loathed each other. Hiding spaces where I prayed they wouldn’t find me until they were done. And constant reminders of every time I failed to meet their unrealistic expectations. I locked my purse and phone in my car down the street from James’s apartment.

Nothing has changed. I can’t live up to James’s expectations either. That thought hit me in the gut just as I entered the fence and found a place to shift. I generally took more care to not ruin my clothing, but I was too angry. It was always worse when I shifted with clothing on because the clothing restricted my movements. The pain caused by the clothing felt justified. I started to run. My mind replayed the conversation with James over and over again. The anger and hurt fueled my movements as I got deeper and deeper into the park.

I knew I shouldn’t be alone. I shouldn’t have come without telling anyone where I was. But a small part of me doubted they’d care, really. What was I really? The little sister of the Pack Alpha. That is not really a crucial role in the Pack.

I could feel tears stinging my eyes, even in my wolf form. I knew that was not good. Wolves don’t cry. Not just because my father said so, but because they really don’t cry. The tears would mess up my sense of sight and result in me getting lost. I had to shift back and control these tears before continuing. I knew I was far enough into the Park to shift back without worrying about being spotted.

I groaned as soon as I shifted, and my eyes cleared to see where I was. My wolf had brought me to the one place in the Park I didn’t want to visit tonight. The place I’d run to the first time I shifted. The place where I’d seen my mate for the first time.

It is weird to say I knew the first time I saw him, but I did. I didn’t even know what it was, really. I’d heard talk of mates and bonds, but my family never discussed the topic. Now I know why, but then? That night I knew the wolf across the stream would change my life.

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