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CHAPTER SIX

STONE

The next morning, Zuri lay on my bed, cuddled up with the pillows and sheets. I walked into the room with a tray of the best food that the pack cooks could make. They had brought some over earlier after news that I had found my mate spread like wildfire through the pack.

She sat up and leaned against the headboard, pulling the sheets up to hide her naked body from me. I hid my canines behind my lips and bit back a growl. Every time she did that, it pissed me off even more.

“Here,” I said, handing her a glass of tea and a pastry. “Drink this. It will help you recover.”

After eyeing it for a moment, she grabbed the glass and took a huge gulp. “What is it?”

“It’s tea I bought specifically for you from a trinket shop in downtown Durnbone.”

“A trinket shop?” she asked, brow furrowed. “They have tea at a trinket shop?”

“It’s a special kind of tea … and shop for that matter,” I hummed, tilting the glass up so she would drink more of it.

She took another long sip and licked her lips, handing me the cup. I placed it on the tray.

“It’s for pregnancy.”

She choked on the tea, eyes wide. “Y-you mean, birth control, right?”

“No,” I said. “It’s to better the odds of you getting pregnant with our child.”

“What?!”

“Baby, I know you heard me loud and clear,” I said, setting the glass on the tray and then heading toward the closet to find clothes for today. I planned on ripping her ex-alpha to shreds at some point, but wanted to spend time with her.

War would come later.

“Finish eating,” I commanded. “Then, get dressed. We have plans.”

“Stone!” she exclaimed. “Are you serious?!”

“Dead serious, baby.”

After her initial surprise, she finally set the tray on the bed next to her legs and grasped the blankets tighter to her chest. “But I don’t have anything to wear, and I doubt that they’ll have any clothes for me in Durnbone at this hour.”

“You’ve never been to Durnbone, have you?” I asked.

“No.”

“People here don’t give a shit about how you look, especially after the new demon king rose to power a few months ago,” I said. “There are people of all shapes, sizes, colors, and species here. They’ll have clothes for you.”

“But it’s early morning.”

I tore off my shirt and tossed it to her. “Then, you’ll wear mine until we can go shopping.”

She dropped her gaze to my torso, pupils dilating, then whimpered softly. “It won’t fit.”

A low growl escaped my mouth. “Come here.”

While she scurried out of the bed, she didn’t follow my orders, but instead waltzed to the mirror with the sheets still wrapped around her body and my shirt in her hand.

She stared at herself for a few moments, then tried to maneuver herself in a way where she could pull on the shirt, but not drop the blanket.

The blanket fell anyway, and I had to control myself so I wouldn’t dump another load of cum deep in her pussy. Goddess, she was the sexiest fucking thing that I had ever laid my eyes on. No wonder those assholes of pack members had made fun of her—they were all jealous.

“Dress,” I ordered, lips curling into a smirk. “Unless you want to walk around naked.”

She squealed and wiggled into the shirt before I could get a long look. “Goddess, no.”

“I wouldn’t mind it.” I leaned against the wall and crossed my tattooed arms, watching her fiddle with my shirt. “I’d walk you around my pack and show you off to everyone so they’d fume with jealousy because you’re mine.”

Cheeks flushing, she gawked at me in horror. “Why would you do that? You’re an alpha.”

“And?”

“Alphas are the most possessive and jealous animals by nature,” she said. “Alpha Nurx would kill anyone who even looked at his mate in the wrong way, especially when she got close to heat. Why would you want anyone to look at me? Naked?!”

“Because you’re sexy as fuck,” I growled. “And if any pup wants to challenge me for you because of it, then I will rip out his throat and feed it to his family.” I stepped closer to her, wrapped my hand around her throat, and pinned her to the wall. “You’re mine, Zuri. All mine.”

Her lips trembled, yet an unreadable expression crossed her face. “Y-yours?”

“Until you take your last breath.”

“And what will happen until then? What will you do with me?”

I lifted her chin with my fingers. “Anything you want me to do.”

She paused for a moment and pressed her thighs together, the heat radiating from her tight little cunt.

I growled and dropped my gaze to her legs, my dick throbbing inside my pants.

I needed to breed her, to get her pregnant so she wouldn’t even think about leaving me, about not wanting to be my mate.

“What did you really do to them?” she finally asked. “My pack?”

Honestly, with the way she had reacted earlier and was acting now, I wasn’t sure she really wanted to know. But she was my mate now. She would see the monster I was and accept it whether she wanted to or not.

“They are not your pack anymore,” I declared. “You’re protected by my pack.”

“B-but what d-did you do to them?” she repeated, eyes widening. “D-did you kill them?”

“You really want to know?” I asked.

“Yes.”

My lips curled more into a smile. “Come then. I brought a gift from your ex-pack home with me last night. I’ll show you what happened.”