Resisting His Mate by Christa Wick & C.M. Wick

Author:Christa Wick & C.M. Wick [Wick, Christa & Wick, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christa Wick

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Braeden

"That is ugly as shit," Clover said as I sank the last nail into the plywood.

She had already given me hell over putting it up in the first place, especially after I confirmed her suspicion that this was the only room getting the window blocked. But it was either that or I was going to have to sleep in the same room as Paisley because I had no doubt Clo would run away with her best friend. The board would stay up until I felt confident I could trust them to ride out the thirty days.

"Really," she kept poking. "It could not be uglier if you literally rubbed feces all over it."

I shrugged, hammer bouncing lightly against my thigh. "So tell Clark what color you want him to pick up at the hardware store."

"Prison gray," Clover sniped.

I shrugged again, my gaze locking on Paisley. Through all the hammering, she had stayed on the bed, silent as she slowly unpacked her bag.

"Like I said, tell Clark."

Paisley stood, her gaze darting to pick out a path from her spot by the bed to the door without brushing against me before she returned to staring at the floor.

"I need to use the restroom," she announced to no one in particular.

I took a few steps away from the door. I wouldn't coddle her the entire month, but I would give her a day or two of doing everything within her power to avoid acknowledging my existence or looking at me.

She hated me. I got that. Hell, after what I had done last night, I kind of hated myself. I had taken her out to the barn to let her have a private melt down after telling her Taron's plan. But the idea of anyone else, shifter or human, wooing her hit me hard. It didn't help that she had Rooster's scent on her and I had just watched a video showing me how close I'd come to losing her completely.

But no matter how badly I wanted to claim her, or how willing her body had been, I shouldn't have taken her.

There were more reasons for holding back than I had fingers. Paisley had gone through a hell of a lot of trauma in less than 24 hours. She had been shot, had seen her best friend shot, had dragged Clover to safety then discovered a wolf that half an hour later would transform back into Clover and now she was a prisoner facing a parole that came with a lifetime mated to some male from a different species.

Hell, I couldn't even begin to guess what she thought about the fact that we could shift or if Clover had told her about the alpha state. For humans, the alpha state was the real horror show. Alpha shifters were not cute little doggy-woggies. We were beasts.

The state of the pack added more reasons to why claiming her was a mistake. Taron had only achieved an uneasy agreement by insinuating any single male was free to court Paisley so long as she was willing to be courted by the male.

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