Stealing the Heiress by Saranna DeWylde

Author:Saranna DeWylde [DeWylde, Saranna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-948001-15-1
Publisher: Corvus Corax LLC

10

Warner didn’t like the tone in Mari’s voice. It was so resigned.

Why couldn’t she understand that protecting her was his honor? His joy? His privilege?

He’d been about to tell her so when the sat phone rang.

“Turn around,” Blake said. “They want to handle it themselves.”

“Did you explain to them that they can’t handle it themselves?” Warner began.

The Dark Champion stirred, stretched inside him as it became aware that it was being told not to pursue its prey.

“I did what I could, Warner. The answer is no. Come home.”

Warner didn’t say anything for a long while.

“Do you need me to command you?”

“I might, Blake.”

“Warner Woolven, I command you to return home.” His voice echoed with all of the authority of an Alpha. It resonated deep into his bones.

It should’ve been impossible to ignore.

It should’ve caused him agony to consider it.

But it didn’t.

“Warner?” Blake asked. “It didn’t take, did it?”

“No, I’m afraid it didn’t.”

“I’ve been grieving the loss of you since your death, Uncle. Even when you came back, I felt you’d been lost to us.”

Warner’s heart broke. He didn’t know what to say.

Blake said it for him. “Come home anyway. Aphelion will always be your home. You will always be family. You will always be part of my pack. No matter what.”

Warner understood the words that Blake didn’t say. No matter what he did, no matter what he became, Blake wouldn’t turn him away. “I’ll try.”

“Good. This pup needs you. Just like the rest of Woolven. Uncle, I still need you.”

A litany of words were born and died on his tongue. He didn’t know which of them to say. “Nice of you to say, boy. But you don’t. You’re a fine Alpha. The best any pack could hope for.”

“Not just leading pack. You’re the only father I remember. I want my child to know you. Your wisdom, your stories, your ferocity. Your honor.”

Warner couldn’t breathe for a moment. “Even if I don’t come back, all of that lives in you. Your pup will know it well. But I swear to you, I want to come home. I want to be there.”

That seemed to be what Blake was looking for.

“Good. Check in when you can.”

“Just tell him you love him, jackass,” Randi called.

Warner chuckled. “He did. And so did I,” he said back, before he hung up.

Goddess, he did want that. To go home. To see the pup. To run with Noah. But they weren’t safe while this threat loomed. The one in the north or the one inside him.

He turned to Mari and he didn’t know what to say to her.

Warner wasn’t good with talking about his feelings. It wasn’t that he was embarrassed of having them, he simply wasn’t used to them being a consideration. He wasn’t used to expressing them.

He wanted to tell Mari everything, but luckily, it seemed she knew.

As she would, being his mate.

No, he wasn’t going to leave her. Not for anything.

She welcomed him into her arms, and again it seemed as if she were the one with all the strength.

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