“Get your hands off me, you disgusting bastard! I’ll rip your eyes out if you don’t let me pass!” Jennifer's shrill scream cut the air and the eardrums of everyone nearby, but even so, Hunter didn't turn in the direction of where Aiden was restraining her and preventing her from getting closer.
“If you do, then I'll have just one more reason to consider you a threat to this pack and expel you from more places than my house, Jennifer.” he grunted, as he ran his eyes over that day's harvest reports, while several wolves continued to put everything in the barn and the grain tower, but not before stopping to mutter something among themselves in light of that scandal “Now, I suggest you get out of here before Felix arrives to give you punishment for disturbing the peace.”
“Stop being so cold to me, Hunter!”
“Greg!” Corinne repeated that nickname several times, full of emotion in her almost choked voice, as she and the newcomer shared the tightest hug Hunter had ever seen in all his life.Well, his hands would certainly have a tighter grip when he placed them around the neck of that son of a bitch who had dared to lay his hands on Corinne.“I miss you so much, Cory!” the bastard said, full of enthusiasm, entwining himself with Corinne to the point of lifting her feet off the ground as he pulled her closer.Hunter, in turn, just wondered if his arms were really as easy to rip off as they looked, so he could use them to beat that damn tiger until he never thought about approaching Calibur's Luna again.“It's so good to see you…” Corin
“And this is the courtyard.” Corinne introduced, with Gregory walking by her side, seeming more interested in her than in her tour itself “I wish you could have arrived a few days earlier. They throw really good parties here…”“Yeah, it's a shame someone didn't even bother to invite his wife's family to a celebration in her honor…” her friend muttered acidly, and, unlike Corinne, who had struggled all morning to ignore it, Gregory raised his head and shamelessly returned the piercing gaze of Hunter, who was in his office, several feet above them, but still staring at them through the window as if he could see their every movement and hear their every word.Corinne knew she shouldn't be taking his behavior personally, as Hunter had already made it clear several times that he still didn't trust other tigers beside
“Your only reason for wanting to keep this alliance and this marriage is to keep the pack safe… Or have you become more attached to the wolves and their Alpha than you should have?” Gregory's eyebrows furrowed until they almost came together, but, as always, instead of judgment or contempt, all that Corinne could feel coming from her friend was a sincere concern.“I… I never forgot my reason for being here.” She swallowed hard, hoping he couldn't tell that it was, in part, a lie "I can't be a hypocrite and say I didn't get attached to this place and most of these wolves, but... I couldn't forget my people or the fact that I am a tigress.” Corinne stated, hoping those words were powerful enough to convince herself, too “So, don't worry. I guarantee that I can maintain my loyalty to our clan and continue the friendships I have gained here… Even when I
“What…?” Corinne took a step back in shock “What are you talking about, Greg? I can't…"“Of course you can!” he insisted, holding her by the shoulders with a sad look “Please, Corinne. For once in your life, think about what you want and not what you think will make you accepted by the pack or what will make people forget it was Seraphina who gave birth to you. I understand you may have tried to see your time here as something positive, to make reality less bitter, but the truth is that you are a hostage to these wolves, Corinne. A part of the Alpha's family that was brought here so they could have someone to torture and even kill if they thought we were plotting against them. Believe me, it has happened other times, with tigers in the past who took the risk of trying to make an alliance with these savages, like us. You receiving the title of wife was nothi
“And that’s a mince pie with potatoes and carrots. It’s one of our traditional dishes!” Cindy introduced proudly, as she placed the glass dish on the table in the garden, in front of Gregory “I hope you like it!”“Sounds delicious, that’s for sure.” Gregory smiled, with a mixture of surprise and delight “You really shouldn't have gone to so much trouble for my house, but I'm very grateful.”“Oh, don’t say that. It's great to have someone from our Luna's family... I mean, our Alpha's wife visiting us. Plus, Corinne said you wanted to try some wolf cuisine, so of course I had to help with that.” she lifted her chin “Besides, the women in my family have been considered some of the best cooks in the pack for generations, you know? It would be absurd if I didn't offer to cook f
“Another attack?” Corinne growled under her breath, with her fangs instinctively starting to grow “Cindy! Gather all the vulnerable wolves you can find on your way and take them to safety! And you, follow her. Someone will get bandages for you.” she instructed the breathless wolf before them “Now, where is the attack taking place?”“Near the butcher shop.” he reported, distraught “I… Me and my friends were patrolling the area near the border with the swans. There's no way they could have gotten in without us noticing, but... They still managed to corner us from inside the pack..."“We’ll work it out, I promise.” Corinne tried to calm him down, although knowing that yet another of these sudden attacks had happened was attacking her intuition in an almost disorienting way “Did an
As the grain tower shook before his eyes, Hunter even considered the idea of leaving where he was, hidden among the trees right behind the man Corinne was strangling without using her hands. That probably made him a shitty Alpha, but his first instinct upon learning of the invasion had been to look for his mate and make sure she was safe, rather than rushing out to face his enemies. It had been a martyrdom to first run to where the invasion had started and make sure that his warriors had control of the situation, before following Corinne's scent there...And find her using magic.Like every other wolf cub, Hunter had grown up hearing horror stories about how sorcerers of the past had made his ancestors slaves, locking them in cages and torturing them for their own amusement using the terrible and sadistic magic many said which had even almost completely disap
Once Corinne was finally in his arms, Hunter could feel her tense, apparently more out of shock than fear, and he hated to think it was because she expected him to attack her right then and there, after finding out she was capable of use magic... Just like her mother, the woman he didn't even know how she looked like, but who Corinne seemed sure was enough to make him hate her with all his strength.“What…? What are you doing?” she gasped through her tears, starting to move to try to get away, but Hunter didn't let go of her for a single second “Let go of me! You… You can’t…!”“I’m not leaving here until you calm down, tigress.” Hunter grumbled, resting his chin against her head as he pretended not to notice that she was still shaking as she cried “So, stop fighting and take a deep breat