Chapter 15

July 18

The medical centre was a large redbrick building set somewhere in the centre of the town. We drove past houses and shops and what looked like offices, all while maintaining a speed that meant it was impossible to take in my surroundings, not that my wolf or I were in a state to do so.

My hands were shaking by the time the SUV pulled to a stop with a screech. My mate was injured. And it didn’t matter that Able and I barely knew each other, he was mine, ours, and the instinct of my wolf was to protect and avenge.

The anger that coursed through me was like nothing I had felt before, it was an instinctual feeling that rose in me, one that my wolf had to explain was partly caused by the mate bond.

By the force of the Goddess we were bound to each other in a way that would change us. Over time, I would become more like Able and Able would become more like me, our temperaments would even each other’s out. That was the point of the bond. Fated mates were the perfect pair, the perfect