The Wolf’s Fake Mate: A Wolf Shifter Boss Romance by Layla Silver

Author:Layla Silver [Silver, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 – Silas

The snow crunched under my paws, and the scent of the pine trees filled the air pleasantly. Usually, roaming around in my panther form felt divine. However, I was so angry today that I felt none of the usual satisfaction. I ran as fast as I could, dodging the trees and jumping over logs, trying to tire out my fury.

How dare the Morrans speak that way about my mate? They were her family, for fuck’s sake! She worked so hard every day, yet when she came home, she had to endure all those veiled and apparent insults. No wonder she’d been so eager to stay behind when I’d requested it. Hailey didn’t enjoy being home, and her family’s unreasonable demand that she find a partner for the wedding only added insult to injury. I understood now why she had approached me asking for a fake relationship. Hailey hoped that pretending to mate would get her family off her back, but I felt like our ruse had made little difference. Or maybe it had. But if they dared speak about her that way in front of a guest—her supposed mate no less—I was worried what they were like to her in private.

I wondered what I could do about this situation. I still didn’t understand it fully—why did Hailey’s family pick on her in particular out of the four Morran sisters? Was this why she didn’t want to commit to a relationship? I had an inkling that those things were connected, but I had no idea how. I needed to talk to my mate; however, I feared she wouldn’t want to speak about her family problems. Hailey was a very closed-off person. Speaking of private matters was hard for anyone, but it was especially complicated when you were used to dealing with things on your own and holding back your feelings. Still, I had to find out the truth behind her family situation. Otherwise, I felt we would remain stuck as we were.

I also wanted to help Hailey as much as I could. I longed to protect her. If it meant cutting ties with her family, that was okay with me. I didn’t have a great relationship with my parents either. When I left the pride, they basically stopped thinking of me as their son. My decision to join the wolf pack felt like a betrayal of our panther nature to my family. They were fiercely loyal to Allegra Carrington, even more so now that they thought they had to make up for my decision.

If it meant long talks with the Morrans and trying to fix the family relations, I was up for that too. Either on our own or with the help of a family counselor, if Hailey decided she wanted to remain in contact with them, something had to be done. I couldn’t handle my mate being bullied. Even if she acted like she didn’t care, like she was used to it, I didn’t buy such bullshit. I’d felt her twitch when a particularly nasty thing was said about her.

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