Page 19 of Savage Mates

From different prides.

Different worlds.

Yet connected.

If you could call suddenly finding ourselves with the ability to shift into human form connected. The mental tethering had been annoying at first. We were all alpha beasts, dominating kingdoms prior to being captured and caged by men in uniforms.

After dozens of painful experiments, we’d suddenly become who we were today. Monsters.

There were creatures who’d fared much worse. At least we have the strongest abilities of both, easily able to shift when necessary.

Not that I’d wanted to.

However, I was beginning to see a benefit to doing so. Even now, my cock twitched with need, a stronger desire than I’d ever felt.

The yearning was powerful.

She turned around, rubbing her arm before starting to walk away. Yet as we’d done, she stopped, tipping her head over her shoulder. The breeze brought another strong hint of her scent straight to my nostrils. The hunger increased.

This time as she walked away, a slow growl dripped from my muzzle and I dragged my tongue across one side of my jowls to the other.

The noise of the failing engine had caught our attention hours ago, long before the plane had been sighted.

I glanced at Thor, sensing both anger and hunger. He remained perfectly quiet while scanning the dark perimeter. These weren’t like the others on the island, but all three of us had sensed danger.

Two of them were armed.

Just like the men we’d encountered in recent weeks.

Emotions were running high between the three of us. The strange crackle of electricity continuously sweeping through my fur was annoying as fuck. I’d never experienced vibrations so powerful. They’d caught me off guard.

We’d been twenty meters away from the old military compound when her scent had drifted toward us. Hitting us like a concrete block.

We’d been drawn to her as if by a magnet.

We’d encountered humans both on and off the island. None of the vultures had captured our attention like the copper-haired beauty. I could only imagine what her long hair looked like in the sunlight.

Hmm…

My human side was becoming annoying, longing to escape his cage. Not tonight. Although I had to admit that after seeing her, it was the first time I wouldn’t mind shifting into my human form.

“What the hell are they doing here?”Zeus snarled.

“They have equipment,”Thor added.“We need to remain vigilant.”

I certainly understood his caution. We’d been dumped here months before, left to fend for ourselves. While the area provided some food and shelter, both in animal and human form, there was no way off the island, no way to return to our former prides.

Not that Thor had one to go back to given his rise from the dead, his DNA scraped off a corpse and resurrected. While all three of us had a basic understanding of the science used to alter our DNA in the first place, the realization that his kind had been extinct for over two hundred years remained fascinating.

Although he hadn’t taken the news well, almost disemboweling the first human he’d managed to get his claws into.

We were freaks of nature, but we weren’t the only ones.

We were also restless, angry, and forced to remain on edge given the arrival of another group of men with weapons.

Intent on killing us.

They’d brought friends with them, other beasts used for hunting purposes. They’d fared much worse in the devastating experiments performed years before, a failure of nature that had left them bloodthirsty and violent, mutated physically in horrific ways.