Page 32 of Pack Kasen, Part 1 (Caught #1)

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AREN

“ F inan.” My voice is faint and I’m breathing hard as I stare after the Jeep disappearing into the distance.

He steps up beside me, touching his shoulder to mine as I sway.

I can’t seem to take my eyes off the gravel road.

“Aren?”

The truth was right there, all along. All I had to do was open my mind to see it. “Please tell me I did not lock my mate in a cage.”

“I prefer not to lie, Alpha.” His voice is gentle, missing the judgement I deserve for being so willfully blind.

All shifters dream of finding their fated mate. Not all do. Most don’t.

I always hoped I would.

And I have.

The mate is the woman I kept in my cage for nearly a week, convinced she was an animal I needed to put down.

But she isn’t an animal. Isn’t a feral at all. She doesn’t have a pack, but she’s a shifter like me.

Kat Meadows is my mate, and I treated her like…

I shake my head when I think of what I did to her. Of how many times I nearly killed her.

My mate .

My wolf is growling at me to go after her—to bring her back—but all I can think about is what if she’d died at my hands?

She looked at me like she wanted to kill me, and she meant it. She fucking meant it. Now she’s gone after saving Leo, one of the youngest and most vulnerable members of my pack. In my car, no less.

And I know what has to happen.

I think I know what needs to happen.

But…

"I will not beg her for forgiveness," I growl.

Finan’s gentle smile warns I won’t like what he will say. "Then you will lose her."

Aren & Kat’s story continues in Pack Kasen: Part 2

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