Page 96 of His True Mate

Damn that woman!

She might be the death of me someday, but she was mine and I loved everything about her, well, except the part where she’s ready to leave me.

The anguish in my chest shifted into full-on panic.

I jumped to my feet and started running back towards the house just as five large wolves ran toward me.

I would know those wolves anywhere, but it barely even registered in my brain that five of the Six Pack were out for a run together and had left me out.

Normally something like that would bother me, not that I’d ever let them know that, but this time all I cared about was getting home to Winnie and praying that she was still there. I couldn’t allow myself to believe that I’d screwed up so bad that I would lose her forever, but even a glint of that thought had me running even faster.

The paws hitting the ground behind me only spurred me on until I heard Thomas yell out.

“Clay, stop!”

His Alpha powers hit me hard and had me stumbling over my own paws until I faceplanted right into the dirt.

I jumped and turned snapping at him to back off.

Austin shifted next. “You did not just snap and growl at your Alpha.”

Emmett returned to his skin. “Even I’m not that big of an idiot.”

Slowly James and Wyatt closed in behind me still in their fur.

I felt trapped, but with Thomas’s Alpha powers pressing down on me, I was paralyzed to act.

After a snarling stare down with an Alpha, my weaker wolf conceded bowing my head and barring my neck to him.

I shifted back to my skin.

“What the hell was that for?” I demanded.

Thomas pulled his power back.

“Are you okay?” he surprised me by asking.

“Yeah, why?” I asked, wondering just how much they knew because they wouldn’t have come here in search of me if they didn’t know something. It was suddenly clear to me now that my wolf was reined back that they were in fact out looking for me, not just on some run without me.

“Dude, we saw the door. You snapped it right off the hinges,” Austin said.

I groaned. “It’s fine.”

“Clay, what’s going on man?” Wyatt asked.

I sighed. “Winnie and I are having a bit of a misunderstanding, so if you’ll get out of my way I’m heading back to try and fix it.”

“You broke down your front door over a misunderstanding?” James questioned. “I think I smell bullshit here.”

“I thought she was in trouble. She didn’t answer when I called and I figured she was asleep, but I could hear her talking to someone when I walked up and she sounded upset, so I just freaked out a little.”

“A little?” Emmett asked with more sarcasm than I could appreciate just then.

“Yes, I freaked out a little. But she was okay, just on the phone.”

“So you just decided to go for a run?” Thomas prodded.

I scowled. “Why do I feel like you assholes already know what happened?”